Long time reader, first time member. No need to be solicitious.
A) I think the Chandler Jones trade is looming huge. Thunney me no Thunney, please. He clearly made Shepherd and we are seeing the effects of his loss. Replacing Jones with a decrepit Chris Long and Brian Boswo-...sorry..Shea McClellin was subtraction by addition.
2) In my head, I can see BB saying to Patriarca, "you know, we got a little cushion, we got a non conference game, lets re-scheme the secondary a bit and see if that'll give us more options." because, he's BB, natch. it's the only thing I can think of to explain away the utter collapse of the secondary last night.
C) I hate bye weeks, even though, and I'm stunned to learn this, the Pats are 19-4 after them since 2003.
4) Sadly, Nink is a shell, putting extra snaps on Long, who doesn't have that much left himself.
5) What ever happened to Chung isolating on the tight end the whole game long? I blame the Owen Daniels catches on that shift. I mean, don't we love how LBs cannot cover Gronk and the unicorn? What makes BB think Donta or roberts can? Isn't White/Lewis main weaponry best unleashed on LBs?
While not jumping off any cliffs, I am looking at the Denver game with close the foreboding I was at the start of the season, after briefly relishing the fact that they no longer had the offense to keep up. This D is going to make Semen look good.