If they had given Julian Edelman #83 instead of #11, I doubt anyone would have known that Welker missed the game. It kind of makes me wonder if ANY slot WR in THAT offense, with THAT QB couldn't grab 100 balls a season.
Don't sell Welker & Edelman too short, pardon the pun, but I smell what you're cooking; the 2006 Reche Caldwell, though not a slot WR, still is the classic Chicken Salad example.
Stilll waiting for Joey Galloway to do something that makes me go WOW....or even go Nice.
For our sake, I hope we don't have to wait longer than next week.
I know people will talk about Baker's 2 TD passes, but what impressed me most was a running play where Thomas made a decent block screening the contain man, but Baker blew his man 5 yds off the ball. If there was a Jet fan watching that game, he's probably doing his best Bob Lobel impression and saying, "Why can't the Jets get guys like that".
Chris Baker might be the TE for whom Bill has been looking all these years. Too bad he'll be 30 in November.
My biggest disappointment was when the Pats failed twice on 3rd and one.
This is where not having a true Lead Blocker is going to hurt them.
Yes Martha, that was a 4-3. BB in his presser mentioned that they used it most of the time. They wanted to see some things in live action. To me it looked like they got decent pressure with it, but the run defense wasn't as strong.
I'm not sure if the weak run defense was due more to the 4-3, or more to the simple fact that their tackling was piss-poor.
Is it just me or does Derrick Burgess look small...ish.
He might not be Willie Mac big, or even Vrabel big; as long as he hurts QBs, then I'll settle for Rosie big.
Vince showed he can get up field from the 4-3 DT, except he whiffed on McNab on one rush.
I remember that play. Hey, it's hard to break down when all that weight is moving so quickly.
Brandon Merriweather is ready to take it to the next level.
James Sanders is not.
Welcome to the club, PFK.
Will someone explain to me how Wilhite was picked in the 4th round while Weatley was picked in the 2nd. Clearly you couldn't tell by their relative performances.
Let's not fit Wilhite for a bust in Canton just yet. He was drafted no later than where he warrented. Wheatley, OTOH, was drafted at least one round too soon.
I saw a couple of comments here that Blasted Moroney. Well I didn't see anything that he did poorly. Nothing that made me go OOOOHHH either, but I guess he's going to be the board punching bag no matter what he does.
LaMa still needs to work on the Vision Thing.
I get the feeling that Alex Smith is losing in the TE battle.
To Baker, naturally; but Thomas needs more performances like last night. Bumblin' Bennie is 4th, as far as I'm concerned...at best.
Funny how a good play like the punt return for a TD, can skew stats. Because of it Philly had a huge time of possession edge in the first half.
Philly had a huge TOP advantage in the 1st half, also because our defense couldn't stop them until they entered the RZ.
I think we'll see Brady play less in game 2
Agreed.
Jay Feely is NOT a bad QB, which makes me wonder why the Eagles took on Vick. Don't they have their QB of the future in Kevin Kolb, and Feely as #3 is better than a lot of team's #2. Where does Vick fit in? I'd rather have Feely than Walter.
Kolb is hurt; McPuke & Feely were the Eagles' only healthy QBs last night.
McNab can't complain about not having any WRs anymore. It looks like the Eages have some good ones now.
Their depth at WR is better than our top-heavy depth at WR. Greg Lewis would be 8th there, maybe even 9th.
The Pats tackling wasn't good overall, though Merriweather made some very good form tackles. I think BB will make note of that.