Lots of things floating around in this thread. Just a few I wanted to address.

1. The whole cheating thing. Yeah there’s been some “smoke” but when it comes down it to it, Brady and Belichick have had a run that merits respect. I don’t imagine theyeve succeeded only because of “cheating” and that’s playing devils advocate and assuming that the “smoke” is true. So I see no need to harp on that.

2. Brady can throw the deep ball if he has a threat, but I feel his bread and butter is the precise throws in the underneath and intermediate areas. That is what this defense will have to guard against. Especially with Gronkowski. As someone said earlier it may have to be a bend don’t break approach. Give up some yards but lock down in the red zone and hopefully draw some field goals.

3. Yes Coughlin knows this team. And it makes sense now why he built a team on defense that doesn’t blitz often, but instead relies on rushing only 4 to get home. Brady will make you pay for blitzing as often he can read the defense, know where it’s coming from and target that weak spot. If we blitz we better make it disguised and hope it gets home.

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(01-16-2018, 12:12 PM)JNev Wrote: Just when you thought you couldn’t hate Pats fans more... They can’t be content to be superior and just be humble about it. They have to come onto other team’s message boards with their spin doctor takes on obvious cheating and the talent on their roster. I lol’ed so much at the notion that their Defense is the best in the NFL because since an arbitrary point in the season they have done blah blah blah. Gtfoh

There’s bad apples in every bunch. I’ve met some nice and humble ones who know that eventually the run will have to end.

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