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Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger
For the folks who want to talk about "choke"..against Dallas we put up THREE points in the second half. Against Green bay we put up ZERO points in the second half. In his first year starting we put up THREE points in the second half against San Fran. The year we won the superbowl in the second half against the Colts we put up THREE POINTS!!. So what happened against the Bengals is actually nothing new..it's happened several times before but this was just on a bigger stage.
In only one of those games (San Fran) did Pat have a top class back (Hunt) who he could hand the ball off to when the passing game was failing.
This is why I'm not blaming Pat at all. He threw ELEVEN touchdowns this post season (which is the joint best record in nfl history btw) and had rushed for another. Brady won a superbowl against the Rams putting up 13 points of which he threw zero TD's..why? Because he had a great defense and a running game that controlled the game and this is what the club owe Pat now moving forward..I'm tired of going into big games worrying about the defense and witnessing team after team laugh at our run game AND DROP EIGHT FECKING PLAYERS deep...enough is enough.
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You make a very good point. Dropping 8 into coverage is mocking our run game. They either didn't respect our run game, or didn't believe that Reid would be able to commit to it. Either way they were right.
Can you imagine the beating that Kareem Hunt would've put on a defense only bringing three?
The Clyde pick was such a **** up. No one respects him, and for good reason. He's slow, lacks vision and is small. Still have no idea what the front office saw in him.
Go get Pat a bigger back with some actual explosiveness and athletic ability and see if teams still want to drop everyone back into coverage.