Maybe It's Not Just The O-Line

[SUNRA]

Maybe it's just the overall direction the offense has been headed in. First there's an aggressive play here and there on the first drive. No three and out but an overthrown ball or dropped pass which leads to punt. The next drive is run, run pass and three and out. The defense creates a turnover and the offense scores a TD from the redzone. However after halftime, the game plan becomes defense first offense second. The playbook closes and the running game is stopped. If a turnover occurs, we lose the game because not enough points were generated by the offense. In a nutshell, to beat this team, a defense needs to put pressure on Campbell and force a turnover which New England did. 17 points alone was scored from turnovers. Mangini is the pupil of Belicheck and he will certainly send some pressure to Campbell. The question I have is where is the two step drop pass, or the draw play or maybe the shuffle pass? There is no creativity and agggression involved in this offense and the players look dispondent and out of sinc with one another.