6:27 PM Sun, Dec 23, 2007 | Permalink
By Jim Donaldson  Email this author | Email this entry |
FOXBORO -- Punting from the back line of the New England end zone, Chris Hanson got off his longest kick of the season -- 64 yards to the Miami 35, where it bounced out of bounds.
The Patriots were backed up deep following a goal line stand in which Miami QB Cleo Lemon threw an incompletion on third down from the 1 and then, on fourth down, just barely failed to get inside the pylon when he scrambled to his right and tried to run for the end zone. The play was reviewed, but the ruling on the field was upheld because Lemon was carrying the ball in his right hand and it clearly never crossed the goal line.
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Of course, the Pats will win this game, and next weeks as well, but that doesn't change the fact that the offensive play calling is absolutely terrible. How many times has Brady gone down this game? 5-6? How many times has he thrown it? I wonder if it ever occurs to the offensive coordinator that if you have to throw 40 times a game, every game, that your arm might get tired? Or that if everytime you line up in the I, you run it,and then go back to the shotgun and throw it, that you make the defense's job immeasurably easier?
I find this incredibly frustrating.
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