You can't bitch that they get nothing from their 1st round picks and then ignore the solid year of production they got from their 1st round pick that led to a SB win.
I don't think it would really add on much time. Review everything and call down when you see something. You have an extra ref upstairs watching in real time and quick replays. But that would cost money because you need someone watching every game.
And Wynn was fairly terrible too. Really tough to overcome that type of stuff from 3 first round picks in the last 2 drafts.
Just an amazing non-call. The beaten DB was just trying to prevent a TD there, there was no subtlety or guile involved in wrapping up the receiver.
I think if he fights back toward the ball more he gets the call. It looked like he thought it was going to hit him in the chest but the ball actually landed behind him. There's mounting evidence that Dorsett has the proverbial ten cent head.
Really? Yikes that seems a bit premature.
Your sarcasm is not needed. It is so unseemly.
Seriously? The CB was bear hugging him. He did fight back for the ball as much as he could.
It's clear Sony isn't a great back and it does appear they picked the wrong guy from GA.
White runs against much lighter boxes which is why he has better rushing stats. The irony in all of this is that Michel was primarily the passing down back at Georgia, he only faced an 8 man box 11% of the time. Chubb was the bellcow on 1/2 down consistently running against 8 man boxes. So NE had a great passing down back and desperately needed to draft a 1/2 down back and opted instead to draft a passing down back and convert him into a 1/2 down back.
Probably true, I suppose, but he the way he leaps forward on a ball that's clearly behind him looks off to me. Looks like if he puts on the brakes he gets the call easily. (100% agree on it being a brutal no call either way)
The line judge has sideline responsibility and the field judge covers goal line. The field judge should always be looking to the line judge before indicating a score to make sure the play is inbounds. Looks to me like the line judge didn't keep the sideline (for whatever reason) and was asking for help, and maybe didn't get any. Nobody else has a view to rule so they made a call and it was the wrong one. They can't just not have a ruling, and they have to rely on replay if its ruled incorrectly. It would be the line judges ruling on the forward spot as well.
I think it's fair to say:
This is absolutely true. Yes, it's clearly PI but he had overrun the ball before contact was even made. He needed to put on the brakes not just to get the call but to make the catch in the first place.
Agreed, I still think Boger missed the spot on the first challenge though, and the Harry call was simply forgivable. However, Boger easily could have called forward progress on Kelce (wrongly, but could have called it) which would have justified the whistle.
Boger wasn't involved in either play. Replay rulings come directly from New York. Forward progress is the responsibility from the DJ or LJ.
Sure, but, to my mind, I don't know if us potentially going ahead with 3 minutes left would have been a good thing...
One can argue about missed calls forever. We've been doing it since professional sports was invented, and we'll be doing it for decades hence if not longer.
Agreed. They need to find a way to get him the ball. I was hoping for later career Dez Bryant out of Harry as a ceiling. Obviously hasn’t happened yet but his YAC skills really are special in that same vain. Really need to find ways to get him the ball.
I really don't know what folks expect of Sony in the running game. This is a Josh issue more than anything. Sony played 9 snaps yesterday. 9. He got 6 touches on those 9 snaps. Basically, whenever he is on the field, the defense knows he's getting the ball. He was taking handoffs yesterday and looking at a wall of defenders in front of him because they know he's getting the ball, and the offensive line sucks balls. On one of the snaps where he didn't get a touch, he whiffed on a pass rusher, and Brady either got sacked or had to throw it away, and I'm pretty sure we never saw him again.
If I'm remembering the same play, I believe it was a PA pass and there was basically a free rusher up the gut right on top of Sony at the moment of the fake, and I think a second rusher coming off one of the edges. I remember thinking there was just no time for the play to develop rather than being his fault.
Because they basically only run James White against super light defensive fronts.
Ok to all of this. But this is so weird. Are people defending Michel this year? He's low ranked in yards after contact and Sony Michel's yards per carry puts him 95th in the league for RBs with at least 5 attempts per game this year.
Michel's performance sucks this year and that's indisputable. I'm not sure how to break up the responsibility between Michel, the guys blocking for him, and the play calling; all three seem bad but the numebr of times he's just running into a wall is unbelievable.
I'll say this, the one dimensional aspect of Michel's game is back breaking. One of the reason's why the Ravens are crushing it is because you just don't know what they are going to do. When Michel is in, everyone knows what is going to happen.
On a team without Andrews, Gronk, and Develin it really is. Last year we could telegraph our plays without much issue because the blocking was so good. This year, it sucks so we need a more dynamic RB and not a BJGE clone.
For sure. The weird thing is he caught the ball ok at Georgia and he's a pretty athletic dude overall; he's had so few chances with the pats that I don't know if it's that he can't catch at this level or that they just don't want to bother for whatever the reason.
It's back breaking for this team, perhaps, although he's far from the first Pats halfback to be essentially run-only. LeGarette Blount caught 7 passes in 2016, while carrying the ball 299 times. Guys like Stevan Ridley and BenJarvus Green-Ellis rarely were used in the passing game.
