LeftHandSmoke":1dj2yqvn said:
paraphrasing a little of it:
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What happened?
What a mess. Classic illustration example of not protecting the ball. Bounced their way every time. Erin’s accuracy was excellent. We looked like garbage, we didn’t do well anywhere.
Level of concern?
You’ve never seen us look like that, it was a strange game, but good for NE. We have to get our football right, and that’s what we aim to do come Thursday night.
Conditions?
Field was fine, we wore the right cleats, but we did not handle the ball well, and we missed some catches. And RW prepared great but ball wasn’t flying quite right.
Rawls?
Thomas ran well, we were okay running at the LOS. Will try get back to that Thursday.
Pass rush?
We tried to keep Erin in the pocket but he did a good job floating and the Pats did a good job blocking. We obviously need to rush better. We also had to try very hard to be disciplined about not getting caught out jumping off-sides, which can be difficult.
1st TD, after about 5 seconds the route went from a slant-flat to a wheel route.
Attitude?
We are plenty connected. We ran into a bit of a buzz-saw. Honestly? I’m not worried about it, we are ready to go.
The whole thing about the ball is such a big deal to us, and then to have a day like that was a big blow.
Bennett is doing pretty good, messed up some of their plays, got into the backfield, but we couldn’t get enough pressure yesterday.
On the Jimmy INT: Jimmy told me the guy grabbed Jimmy’s hand-warmer and used it to catapult past and get open. Refs didn’t see it.
Defensive play calling was the same with Terrell in the back end.
(then a bunch about Nick Saban)
We know the Rams can play good football, know they are trying hard to turn themselves around, we have to focus on this coming game.
We will be cranked up, ready to go. Wearing green – the whole thing!
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