AvengerRam wrote:You’re just cherry-picking one of several points I made.
i (and dieter) responded to your first point, yards per carry, and then i moved on, didn't realize i (we?) were "cherry-picking"? but we could talk about your other points as well.
for example yards per play, which of course is the product of combined pass and run yards, consequently pass/run ratio comes into play... the pats have run the ball 30% more than the rams this season, they haven't needed to pass as much, which has driven down their ypp - if the pats had the same pass/run ratio as the rams through week 6, at their current ypc and ypa averages, they would rank 4th in yards per play.
re brady, the guy's a master, at everything, reading defenses pre and post snap, going through his progressions, i think that's pretty cear, but brady also gets x & o help in the form of rb targets, i.e. high percentage targets, safety/outlet targets... 1 in 3 of his passes have been thrown to a rb this season, his second most targeted guy is a rb (white) - goff? 1 in 10 of his passes have been thrown to a rb, he gets virtually no help underneath.
speaking x's and o's, and speaking of the points you made, i noticed that you didn't seem to include belichick, mcdaniels or scarnecchia?
AvengerRam wrote:Let’s make this simple...play calling aside, do you think our OL is adequate or not?
adequate for what?
adequate enough to keep a defense from holding the offense to 14 net passing yards through 3 quarters of play, at home no less? to keep a defense from holding the offense to 48 net passing yards on the day, to 99 total yards after an opening drive, from negative yards on 5 of 11 drives?
yeah, i think it's adequate enough for that.
as i've mentioned before, blythe and havenstein are playing well below last year's level, and so is whitworth - why? i also mentioned that i didn't think the oline, talent wise, was any great shakes in 2017 and 2018, yet they played well together - why?
me? i think the play-calling has been a much bigger issue than the oline personnel this year, just like i think the play-calling helped the oline personnel tremendously in 2017 and 2018.