MontanaHawk05
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1. Great win against an underrated team, a hostile referee crew, and a drop epidemic. Any two of those could usually combine to beat a team.
2. Geno's best quality today was taking what the defense gave him. There were dumpoffs, short crossers, slants, outs out of trips...Grubb is well aware of this OL's weakness and wrote up a plan to avoid relying on it, while Geno did his part and played within it. Took the checkdowns when he needed. Did everything.
3. That said, Smith made some big boy throws, particularly in JSN's direction, which is an encouraging sign of chemistry. The third-down completion after halftime was a doubled-covered inbreaking route, but you can make those if you've got the timing and the sheer zip (and the prerequisite pocket space), and Geno did. Team effort there, but that's a very nice sit-up-and-notice 3rd-and-long jailbreaker.
4. Fire Anthony Bradford.
5. Charbs ain't it as an RB1, but I like him. He had great value as a receiving target and Geno trusts him. Expect Grubb to keep using him there. You also have to give him credit for seeking out contact and hitting hard, and he's good for a comical stiffarm once per game and an epic blitz pickup twice per game. I was a little harsh on him earlier so I wanted to say this.
6. Like Metcalf on the short crossers.
7. New England is well coached on offense. Hunter Henry's stat line wasn't so much gameplanned as much as just he and Brissett playing out of their minds, with several improv connections (though in the end, Brissett's patented 3rd-down whimper throws killed them). At one point, Mafe and Spoon(?) both let Henry go to stop Brissett rushing...on a 1st and 10. Young-guy stuff. Plus New England is great at screen execution.
8. Mafe was awful close to bringing Brissett down multiple times, including on the 1-yard line. Needs to close. We don't need the Earl Thomas of Sacks.
9. Says a ton about the team character (and about Mac) that Mafe, Williams, and Love combined on consecutive plays to slam the door on New England's closer. Lesser teams would have been demoralized by that 45-yard gallop (which Mafe also whiffed on). That felt like the end to me, but the D wasn't having it. Hall and Dodson had nice contributions on their overtime drive.
10. There's still nobody in the league better at drawing PI calls than one His Excellency Tyler Lockett. And I love that at 57 years old or whatever, he's still out there blocking his ass off for DK.
11. Tyrice Knight getting lots of snaps!
12. Murphy's first sack: thing of beauty. Drives his guy back three yards, swims past, and nails Brissett. Williams contributes by physically requesting a piggyback ride.
13. Back to Geno: he's still got GREAT wheels. Is anyone else noticing how fast the dude still is and how much hay he's making with it?
14. Y'all can kiss my ass on Jason Myers, he hasn't missed yet.
15. You were not wrong in thinking that the Patriots were holding the entire game.
16. Love, love, love the drive right before halftime. Mac got aggressive and gave Geno something he could execute where Pete would have idly muttered "just kneel" within his face in a mostly empty Double Bubble bucket.
17. Pharoah Brown needs to get healthy.
2. Geno's best quality today was taking what the defense gave him. There were dumpoffs, short crossers, slants, outs out of trips...Grubb is well aware of this OL's weakness and wrote up a plan to avoid relying on it, while Geno did his part and played within it. Took the checkdowns when he needed. Did everything.
3. That said, Smith made some big boy throws, particularly in JSN's direction, which is an encouraging sign of chemistry. The third-down completion after halftime was a doubled-covered inbreaking route, but you can make those if you've got the timing and the sheer zip (and the prerequisite pocket space), and Geno did. Team effort there, but that's a very nice sit-up-and-notice 3rd-and-long jailbreaker.
4. Fire Anthony Bradford.
5. Charbs ain't it as an RB1, but I like him. He had great value as a receiving target and Geno trusts him. Expect Grubb to keep using him there. You also have to give him credit for seeking out contact and hitting hard, and he's good for a comical stiffarm once per game and an epic blitz pickup twice per game. I was a little harsh on him earlier so I wanted to say this.
6. Like Metcalf on the short crossers.
7. New England is well coached on offense. Hunter Henry's stat line wasn't so much gameplanned as much as just he and Brissett playing out of their minds, with several improv connections (though in the end, Brissett's patented 3rd-down whimper throws killed them). At one point, Mafe and Spoon(?) both let Henry go to stop Brissett rushing...on a 1st and 10. Young-guy stuff. Plus New England is great at screen execution.
8. Mafe was awful close to bringing Brissett down multiple times, including on the 1-yard line. Needs to close. We don't need the Earl Thomas of Sacks.
9. Says a ton about the team character (and about Mac) that Mafe, Williams, and Love combined on consecutive plays to slam the door on New England's closer. Lesser teams would have been demoralized by that 45-yard gallop (which Mafe also whiffed on). That felt like the end to me, but the D wasn't having it. Hall and Dodson had nice contributions on their overtime drive.
10. There's still nobody in the league better at drawing PI calls than one His Excellency Tyler Lockett. And I love that at 57 years old or whatever, he's still out there blocking his ass off for DK.
11. Tyrice Knight getting lots of snaps!
12. Murphy's first sack: thing of beauty. Drives his guy back three yards, swims past, and nails Brissett. Williams contributes by physically requesting a piggyback ride.
13. Back to Geno: he's still got GREAT wheels. Is anyone else noticing how fast the dude still is and how much hay he's making with it?
14. Y'all can kiss my ass on Jason Myers, he hasn't missed yet.
15. You were not wrong in thinking that the Patriots were holding the entire game.
16. Love, love, love the drive right before halftime. Mac got aggressive and gave Geno something he could execute where Pete would have idly muttered "just kneel" within his face in a mostly empty Double Bubble bucket.
17. Pharoah Brown needs to get healthy.