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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

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ORIGINAL: SoMnFan

When the Patriots have lost the first game of the year to a division opponent, the second time around they are 7-0 with a 28-point differential.
Greatest coach in my lifetime. Not listening to any arguments otherwise.

Brady may now be the greatest QB ever to play as well. I 'll listen about Montana, but Brady takes a back seat to no one.

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

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ORIGINAL: SoMnFan

When the Patriots have lost the first game of the year to a division opponent, the second time around they are 7-0 with a 28-point differential.
Greatest coach in my lifetime. Not listening to any arguments otherwise.

Brady may now be the greatest QB ever to play as well. I 'll listen about Montana, but Brady takes a back seat to no one.

I've always thought Joe Montana was vastly overrated as an all-time QB. Steve Young is the better quarterback because he has a 96.8 QB Rating, whereas Joe Montana only has a 92.3. Steve Young also has fewer career interceptions, more rushing touchdowns, and a higher passing completion rate than Joe Montana. After seeing both players perform, it is clear to me that Steve Young is superior in his athletic capabilities, and his quarterbacking skills.

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ORIGINAL: McMurfy

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

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ORIGINAL: SoMnFan

When the Patriots have lost the first game of the year to a division opponent, the second time around they are 7-0 with a 28-point differential.
Greatest coach in my lifetime. Not listening to any arguments otherwise.

Brady may now be the greatest QB ever to play as well. I 'll listen about Montana, but Brady takes a back seat to no one.

I've always thought Joe Montana was vastly overrated as an all-time QB. Steve Young is the better quarterback because he has a 96.8 QB Rating, whereas Joe Montana only has a 92.3. Steve Young also has fewer career interceptions, more rushing touchdowns, and a higher passing completion rate than Joe Montana. After seeing both players perform, it is clear to me that Steve Young is superior in his athletic capabilities, and his quarterbacking skills.

Except, you're Wrong.
I can't describe it, but Montana was only as good as he needed to be.
And I hate Montana

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ORIGINAL: bstinger

Ugh, we aren't very good. O line is obvious weakness, knew that coming in and didn't do much to address it. Injuries have only compounded that. Defense is looking rather pedestrian too. Nothing special from special teams. No running game to speak of. We suck all of a sudden.

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ORIGINAL: sixthwi

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ORIGINAL: bstinger

Ugh, we aren't very good. O line is obvious weakness, knew that coming in and didn't do much to address it. Injuries have only compounded that. Defense is looking rather pedestrian too. Nothing special from special teams. No running game to speak of. We suck all of a sudden.

Luckily for the Vikings the rest of the division isn't anything special either.

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The offensive line was ignored this offseason - big mistake.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

The O-line is historically bad right now. Boone was brought in to give us stability on the left side and leadership to the unit as a whole. Massive disappointment. Smith was very pedestrian before getting hurt. The move back to the right side has not helped Fusco one bit. He routinely gets pushed into the backfield. I really don't understand the move of Sirles back to the bench when he was actually out performing the people he subbed in for.

At this point there is nobody to get to help. The answers have to come from within and some drastic action is required to turn this around.

Fire Sporano. He took an incredibly mediocre unit and made it putrid.
Insert Easton at center and move Berger to RG. Get Fusco off the field.
I don't what the hell you really do at tackle. Put Sirles where he will play the best and try to figure out something with Long and Clemmings. Maybe Long will actually improve as he knocks off more rust.
Call more max protections. Giving Bradford more than 8 milliseconds to throw is more important than having an extra receiver down field.

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

The biggest issue it the play calling. Everyone on the planet knows our OLine sucks. So what does Norv game plan around? Trying to establish a running game with a very mediocre RB. Brilliant. First play of the game was Asiata to the right for about 1/2 a yard. I looked at my wife and said "yup, we are getting beat tonight".

It's incredibly predictive and any idiot coordinator can figure out exactly what we are going to do. Hell, I can so I know they can.

All the talk, all week, is that our Line is in trouble. He comes out and exploits their weaknesses yet it never seems to get brought up. He gives them know chance to succeed.

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ORIGINAL: McMurfy

Is it just me or does Asiata's acceleration into the line seem as fast as any human?
Then he is stopped after a yard as fast as anyone I've ever seen too.

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

The biggest issue it the play calling. Everyone on the planet knows our OLine sucks. So what does Norv game plan around? Trying to establish a running game with a very mediocre RB. Brilliant. First play of the game was Asiata to the right for about 1/2 a yard. I looked at my wife and said "yup, we are getting beat tonight".

It's incredibly predictive and any idiot coordinator can figure out exactly what we are going to do. Hell, I can so I know they can.

All the talk, all week, is that our Line is in trouble. He comes out and exploits their weaknesses yet it never seems to get brought up. He gives them know chance to succeed.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

The biggest issue it the play calling. Everyone on the planet knows our OLine sucks. So what does Norv game plan around? Trying to establish a running game with a very mediocre RB. Brilliant. First play of the game was Asiata to the right for about 1/2 a yard. I looked at my wife and said "yup, we are getting beat tonight".

It's incredibly predictive and any idiot coordinator can figure out exactly what we are going to do. Hell, I can so I know they can.

All the talk, all week, is that our Line is in trouble. He comes out and exploits their weaknesses yet it never seems to get brought up. He gives them know chance to succeed.

We need to run an offense similar to what we did with Tark back in the 70's. The line then was bad enough that there was no chance of establishing a running game, so they didn't bother trying. Instead they ran a lot of quick short passing routes that chewed up about 4-7 yards. Get the defense to cheat up to cover the short stuff and then stretch it out.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

The biggest issue it the play calling. Everyone on the planet knows our OLine sucks. So what does Norv game plan around? Trying to establish a running game with a very mediocre RB. Brilliant. First play of the game was Asiata to the right for about 1/2 a yard. I looked at my wife and said "yup, we are getting beat tonight".

It's incredibly predictive and any idiot coordinator can figure out exactly what we are going to do. Hell, I can so I know they can.

All the talk, all week, is that our Line is in trouble. He comes out and exploits their weaknesses yet it never seems to get brought up. He gives them know chance to succeed.

We need to run an offense similar to what we did with Tark back in the 70's. The line then was bad enough that there was no chance of establishing a running game, so they didn't bother trying. Instead they ran a lot of quick short passing routes that chewed up about 4-7 yards. Get the defense to cheat up to cover the short stuff and then stretch it out.