This video of the Patriots after the 2019 AFC Championship in KC is incredible.
We’ll never see a leader like Tom Brady again. Goes up to every single person in the locker room. Belichick looks so happy. Gronk is awesome. Edelman saying “I wanna play to make you great” is so cool to see. This was peak Patriots football. This is what made the dynasty so great.
Yesterday was Drake Maye's first three-INT game in nearly eight years.
He never threw more than two in any of his first 34 NFL games and 30 college appearances, and he had two *total* in his final high school season.
Last time with three: Oct. 5, 2018, as a Myers Park HS sophomore vs. Butler.
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Much has been made of the Patriots’ mysterious “Pink Stripes.” How about yellow ones?
I went through more than a decade of TV broadcasts and uncovered a diabolically clever piece of Patriots gamesmanship.
When opposing kickers lined up at Gillette Stadium, the video board displayed a reverse view of the kick, placing a second, offset set of yellow uprights directly behind the real ones.
In windy conditions, even the orange streamers on the video board appeared to point in the opposite direction from those atop the physical uprights, making the illusion even more disorienting.
I found dozens of examples. In the same games, I reviewed 52 Patriots field goal attempts.
The illusion appeared on Patriots kicks exactly zero times.
We actually tried copying the idea when I was in Philadelphia, but the location of the video boards at Lincoln Financial Field made it nearly useless.
It is the perfect encapsulation of the Patriots dynasty. No detail was too small, and no possible edge was left unexplored.
We talked about this tactic and more on tonight’s episode of the Paganetti and Underhill show, out now on Youtube
The Brady-Belichick Patriots weren’t merely an outlier. They were operating on a different planet.
From 2012 to 2019, on 1st downs outside the red zone with 3:30 to 1:40 left before halftime:
• New England posted a 68.1% run rate, 89% higher than the average of the other 31 teams (36.1%).
• The Patriots ran 77 times versus a 41.2 average for the other 31 teams.
In that same situation across 1st and 2nd downs, they attempted only three total passes of 20+ air yards (80% fewer than the average of the other 31 teams).
This is what playing keep away looks like: drain the clock and reduce the opponent’s opportunity to answer before halftime.
This strategy helped set up one of the Patriots dynasty’s signature advantages: securing the final possession before halftime and creating opportunities to score on both sides of the break.
Just look at the separation on this chart.
We explain the entire strategy in much greater detail in the video below. 👇
@11Marcc@Julian_BO4@ChrisMc_LII Finde nicht, dass man das vergleichen kann - er hat mit 33 seine letzte Chance auf eine WM verpasst - wofür er nochmals alles gegeben hat, was sein großes Ziel war und er mehrfach betonte für jede Rolle im Kader offen zu sein. Da kann ich die Reaktion/den Frust verstehen.
@Julian_BO4@11Marcc@ChrisMc_LII Kann ich für Hummels nicht beantworten - bei Harry kann ich mir das nach seinen Aussagen zuletzt nicht vorstellen. Selbst wenn man Guehi+Konsa als gesetzt ansieht ist er der perfekte dritte Mann - kann du bei knappen Spielen immer reinwerfen und wie gesagt auch guter 11-Schütze