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To: Hermann the Cherusker
notice Patten was unable to make a single reception all game from that first hit knocking him up

This is really sad, what you have to cling to.

You do realize that Tom Brady and Deion Branch were torching your precious secondary 5-25 yards at a time with 70% accuracy? That's the result of playing zone 'cause they couldn't cover 1-on-1 and giving too big a cushion 'cause they weren't fast enough to keep up if Branch et al went deep. You gave up over 4 yards per rush and allowed Brady to complete over 70% of his passes with no INTs. And you're PROUD OF THAT???!?!?

193 posted on 02/07/2005 2:03:46 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now." - Clint Eastwood)
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To: JohnnyZ
You do realize that Tom Brady and Deion Branch were torching your precious secondary 5-25 yards at a time with 70% accuracy? That's the result of playing zone 'cause they couldn't cover 1-on-1 and giving too big a cushion 'cause they weren't fast enough to keep up if Branch et al went deep. You gave up over 4 yards per rush and allowed Brady to complete over 70% of his passes with no INTs. And you're PROUD OF THAT???!?!?

When almost every pass you throw is less than 10 yards from the line of scrimmage, you should complete 70 percent of them. McNabb normally completes around 75% of his short passes to the tight ends and running backs. It has nothing to do with secondary coverage, because when you face quick passes like that no secondary is going to be able to force many incompletions.

The Eagles secondary was more than capable of 1-1 coverage. As I pointed out, they gave up no deep passes where a wideout was racing a cornerback down the field when Brady attempted a couple.

219 posted on 02/08/2005 7:33:40 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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