The Patriots showed the world the caliber of team they are on Sunday night when they dismantled the San Diego Chargers. Where do you begin with the suprelatives? The O-line was fantastic, Brady was very good (he's competing a whopping 80% of his passes), the running game was very good, the receivers were awesome. The D-line was dominating, the linebackers won the game, and the secondary was good especially in run support. The Pats coaches were playing chess and San Diego's coaches were playing checkers. That was the bigest mismatch of the night. The first drive of the game the Pats were in 4 and 5 WR sets. The Bolts stayed in a base 3-4 defense and never substituted extra DB's. HELLO? Even I know it's a mismatch to cover Moss and Welker with a line backer.
Speaking of line backers, how FAST is Adalius Thomas!?!!?
Moss watch:
Randy had 8 catches for 105 yds and 2 TD's. That brings his total to 17 catches, 288 yds and 3 TDs. He is on pace to break LEAGUE RECORD's in catches with 136, yds with 2300 and TD's with 24. Of course that's getting a little caried away, but you get the point. Sooner or later someone's going to try to cover him and that's when he'll have a huge impact. Did you see the first TD on Sunday, the one to Watson all by himself? Watch the replay. Moss was the outside receiver on that side and he ran an "in" route along the goal line. The CB, LB and Safety all followed Moss accross the middle while Watson slipped into the right side of end zone for the TD. IMPACT.
Short Bus:
It would be nice if the special teams were better. Gostkowski missed again and was inconstent with his kickoffs. I also saw a few missed tackles on kickoff coverage. Then there was the Hobbs fumble. There seems to be a lot of room for improvement on special teams. Personallly I'd rather not see Hobbs return kicks, secondary depth is a concern as it is.
Speaking of secondary, anyone seen Asante Samuel?
The Pats seem poised to be undefeated going into Indy on November 4th. Circle your calendars, it should be two 8-0 teams and it could be for homefield throughout the playoffs. What do you think, Pats 100 Colts 77?
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Thomas was AMAZINGLY fast considering his size. I thought he was going to need a serious block to keep SD from catching up with him on that pick return.
Any comments on Maroney? Thank god for Morris and Faulk. Both of those guys are looking FANTASTIC. I want to see some more Heath Evans too.
What about that juke Welker through down? My ankles hurt just from watching that.
Samuel who? I think I heard his name once.
I'm disappointed in Maroney. I thought he'd be better than he's been. But you also have to take into consideration that it's only 2 games and they've been a pass oriented offense for the most part. I'm sure that sooner or later the gameplan will be to run and then run and then run some more. I think Maroney's the kind of back that will have a 20or 40 yard run once every 15 to 20 carries. The other carries might only be for 2,3 or 4 yards though. But you've got to like the potential he has to score on any carry.
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