Our game plan looked excellent to me and, except for butterfingers, was well executed.
We turned Gronk into Heath Miller. We challenged the small receivers and offered Brady little more than deep stuff to them. He actually simply chucked the ball down the middle of the field more than once while being hit. We turned them over what, twice? In light of the fact that our offense did NOTHING, the defense was pretty darn good. Yeah, they ran on us, but not roughshod. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had stacked the box and dared them to throw?
On offense we showed a lot of two-tight-end early and burned them repeatedly by throwing against their base defense ... except that we didn't burn them ... solely due to butterfingers. We gashed them on our FIRST PLAY with Garcon streaking across the middle having split defenders. The ball was perfectly thrown ... and stone cold dropped. Huge play down the drain. Later we run a play to Carrier no one (not even Belicheat) had seen on tape, Kirk hit him in the bread basket behind McCourty, and again ... stone cold drop.
me !But for 8 drops (some say 7), Kirk was 28 for 40 = 70%. If we catch these balls and actually burn their base while in two-tight-end sets, they might move to nickel and then, guess what ... we can run !
We probably were not going to win almost no matter what but the plan was good and so was the execution ... but for butterfingers. I really counted only 3 bad balls by Kirk. He missed an in, an out, and a flag pattern to DJax who was behind two guys. Probably good for 30 ... if he holds on to it.
