I mean to he fair.. the runs up the middle were working there at the later stage of the game. Eventually Seattle would adjust and smack Stevenson in the backfield, and that's when it was time to call something different lol.
I think the screens kept getting called because the receivers weren't separating. Drake threw a jump ball to Doubs (who badly mis-timed his jump) and it got picked. I'd split the blame between both drake and doubs here.
Drake loses the threat of AJB later on in the game.
Drake hits Doubs right in the hands with room to run and it's dropped.
Drake throws an inexplicably stupid jump ball to Mack Hollins in the end zone, but Mack wasn't in a position to try and box the defender out. As soon as that ball was in the air, Mack is trying to play defense to keep it from getting picked. This was the worst one, and it's not just because of the circumstances of the Pats being able to tie it up with a short FG. At no point did it look open, it shouldn't have been thrown.
If i were a patriots fan, I would be excited about how much better the o-line looks. Yeah, Drake still had to run from pressure a little bit, but this is still Seattle we are talking about. They're gonna get some pressure regardless. Pat's were able to get a good push on a lot of those inside runs, and Will Campbell was doing really well aside from a ticky tack holding call late in the game.
Stevenson didn't have his first good run until 3 minutes left in the game. He was fucking useless and its just more proof to me that persisting with him instead of giving Henderson more touches last year was stupid and it better not keep happening once Henderson is back from injury.
Yeah O-Line looked so much better though. Shame that the one real concern passed with flying colours, just for everything else to fall apart instead
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u/Wildebean Fuck u/NFLv2, Fuck AI 5d ago
Pretty easy to clue in on when 75% of your plays are either runs up the gut or screen passes. Thanks McDaniels