Haven't blogged in a coons age. Shaking off the rust. Lets do it.
- Defense was super solid in the first half. They were getting after Eli and getting off the field on third downs. The offense on the other hand was grossusting. Hate to say it but Tom just didn't play well in that first half. Was off target on a few throws and it was clear the pressure was getting to him.
- Not sure why they don't just give BJGE the bulk of the carries. I like getting Woodhead in there for third downs and 2 minute situations but theres no reason Ridley should be seeing the field. 12 carries is not even close to enough for the Law-Firm. Edelman touched the ball more times and he got arrested last week.
- The second half was a completely different ball game. Tom was reading the blitz a little better, getting the ball out faster. His receivers were getting through the jams quicker, mainly Wes Welker. Not much more you can say about 83. He's the best. That's all I got.
- I'm sick and tired of people saying Ochocinco doesn't know the offense. First of all like Troy Aikman said the Patriots receivers have a lot of flexibility with these routes. A lot of them are OPTION routes. Sometimes Ocho is choosing a different option than the one Tom chose. That's a miscommunication. It means their chemistry isn't there yet. But people like Bill Simmons just saying that Ochocinco is in the running for "Worst Patriot Ever" are just plain ignorant. If you look at Chris Forsbergs breakdown of the five times Ocho was targeted only 2 of them were his fault. And even those 2 could be chalked up to miscommunication or just plain bad luck. These two are going to get it together, I swear. Don't hop back on the Ocho bandwagon then. And yeah I don't have a problem with the Kyle Arrington tweet either. There is an abundance of fake fans out there. We need another plague.
- Late third quarter and into the fourth the offense really started to look familiar again. Wes Welker rattled off 27 and 28 yard receptions, pushing himself well over the century mark for the day.
- If we swap that fourth quarter field goal for a touchdown this game would have gone to overtime. And if you go even further back and Gostkowski makes that first half field goal, then I'm probably not even blogging right now, I'd be out in the real world.
- The Patriots real, last, SHOULD-HAVE-BEEN the game-winning drive, just didn't use up enough clock. They got the ball with 2:58 on the clock and Gronk caught the touchdown right around the 1:40 mark. That's stupid fast. Really impressive, but they could have benefited from running a little more time, just like they did on that winning drive against the Cowboys where they eventually scored with 20 something seconds left. Again, just had some bad luck. On their last set of downs it went like this: 1st down Complete pass to Woodhead, who got out of bounds and was injured. He stayed down, costing us a timeout. Clock stopped. 2nd down touchdown goes right through Gronks hands on a pass up the middle. Seen that so many times. Clock stopped. 3rd down incomplete pass on a fade route to Gronk. Clock stopped. So the last three plays drained only about 6 seconds off the clock. Left plenty of time for Eli to drive the ball down the field.
- I'm not getting into comparisons to the Super Bowl. There's no reason or substance behind that. I don't work for Fox. My only question is why did Bill use our last two timeouts during the Giants drive? Was that really necessary? Was their some sort of defensive adjustment that needed to be made that badly that you couldn't just wait for a Giants timeout? What, did you see some error that would have resulted in them scoring even quicker? Bummer.
- Overall the last 5 minutes of this game felt like getting open heart surgery without being put to sleep, and then having the doc just tear it out and step on it. But whatever. That's sports.
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