Posted on 01/19/2018 11:30:36 AM PST by Red Badger
I take your point and it's a good one. But, the defensive scheme is only as good as the players trying to execute it. The Jags seem pretty vulnerable to runs up the middle. If White is effective early, they will have to re-think doubling Gronk and that could be the beginning of the end.
Have they determined if the rest of Brady will make an appearance yet?
IF, and I grant you, that is a yuuuuuge IF, the Jags win, Calais Campbell will be the game MVP. And I agree that shutting down White and Lewis early are going to be important for the Jaguars. Belichick is not adverse to grinding out a win playing ole-timey smash mouth football and the if the Jags have a defensive weakness, it is to the running game.
Just so you remember, it took the miracle helmet catch on fourth down, and in the next game the miracle Manningham catch to beat the Pats for those two games. Before the helmet catch, one of the Pats defenders should have made an interception to ice the game. The normally steady Welker dropped a pass that would have iced the second game.
Brady had done enough to win in spite of the good D they played against him.
He got the same kind of luck returned to him in his next two SB wins.
Belichick/Brady is a combo we might never see again in any sport. Good luck to the Jags, they're gonna need it.
So did they deflate his hand?
The only scandal with less evidence than Trump colluding with Russia......
We should alert MSNBC and CNN how they can make money off resuscitating deflategate.
:-)
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