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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
I agree.
Patten was much more valuable than we thought.
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Yeah, I knew it was more Brunell than Patten, as the cause of his lack of production. And I'm not making a "Brunell sucks" comment. I'm just saying that it seems as though Brunell has developed the QB/WR trust relationship with Moss, that a quarterback should have with all his receivers, but never developed it with Patten. I didn't believe for a second that the veteran, Super Bowl winning wideout, all of the sudden sucked, when he never had any trouble getting open, and catching balls when he was in New England.
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Originally Posted by Beemnseven
Opponents don't really have any reason to respect it. Even today, with Portis barely cracking the 100-yard mark against the 26th ranked run defense, and with him being responsible for the team's only offensive touchdown, the game was still way too close, and had it not been for that last 7-yard run on third and 6 to close out the game, it could have been a scenario very similar to the Tampa Bay game.
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No reason to respect the running game, huh? I always thought that putting eight in the box to stop the run on better than 50% of your defensive plays meant that you were worried about the run, and didn't fear the passing threat.