patriots

[mcbogo]

hey, what's wrong with the Patriots, they really play in preseason?!!!!!

[CaptJames05]

who knows man... they're weird lol

[SmackdownV]

Pats suck again.

Look at taking the Unders in most of the games they play again this year.

Just like last year. This aint the old pats.

It's run the clock all the way down to 1 and run it.

They BURNED tons of people last year by a point here and a point there from running a clock offense.

Just some advice for the season.

[mgcolby]

Pats suck again.

Look at taking the Unders in most of the games they play again this year.

Just like last year. This aint the old pats.

It's run the clock all the way down to 1 and run it.

They BURNED tons of people last year by a point here and a point there from running a clock offense.

Just some advice for the season.

You really shouldn't give advice to people about teams that you clearly know nothing about.

The Pats were terrible in the red zone last year, particularly during the first half of the season. They moved the ball at will between the 20's and then would bog down to a halt in the red zone. They definitely run the clock down to 1 or 2 and then run the play, but so don't all of the offenses run by experienced QB's. Its called trying to identify and analyze the defense as well as setting the protection. See Manning, Brees, Rivers etc... they all do it. Running a "clock" offense had nothing to do with them burning people on the spread. It was bad red zone defense and offense, as well as four late game melt downs.

[mgcolby]

Nothing wrong with them, they just have a ton of young guys and several jobs open. Not to mention they have good depth throughout the roster. Brady played two series in week 1 and three series in week 2. I would expect him to play into the 3rd quarter in week 3 and then not play at all in week 4. They have two rookie TE's that are going to be a huge part of the offense and are playing nearly the whole game to get them game reps in the offense. All of the RB's are experienced and have beat up on the backups. They have a solid young backup QB in Hoyer, who has played well for two preseasons now.

And I think throughout the league you see more teams taking less of a "vanilla" approach during preseason games. Especially when it comes to blitzing. Blitzing used to be taboo during the preseason and now you see teams blitzing and attempting to create pressure on the QB as if it were a regular season game.