Winston T. Boogie
Senior HTF Member
Here's what is fairly horrible to consider about the Chargers loss to the Patriots, the Chargers coaching staff appeared to be asleep at the wheel. These numbers are ridiculous...
Tom Brady threw 44 passes in the game. Of those 44, 30 of them were at only two players. Edelman and RB James White. At pretty much no time did the Chargers coaches seem to notice this. They allowed the Patriots to use two receivers to utterly destroy them and never made an adjustment. So, the Patriots did the same thing over and over and over again and the Chargers coaches watched it happen.
Second shameful stat that shows the Chargers coaches were as much good to the team as you and I watching on the couch at home, the Patriots tipped their hand on what they were doing on just about every offensive snap. Any time the Patriots had Sony Michel on the field they called a running play. Any time they had James White on the field it was a pass. This was not 100% but basically about 96% of the time.
So, not only were the Patriots basically throwing to the same two guys over and over, they were just handing the ball to Michel whenever he ran out on the field.
So, there was literally no surprise in what the Patriots did...NONE. You know who would have adjusted to that, Bill Belichick. You know who didn't? Anybody on the Chargers coaching staff. Gus Bradley could have just taken a nap during the game.
OK, final stat that pretty much tells the tale of this game...
On 70% of the offensive passing plays for the Chargers, and there were a lot Rivers dropped to throw 51 times, Rivers was pressured. 70%! And just as on defense nobody made an adjustment...nothing was done to address that. Is there any wonder why Rivers was screaming at people on his team throughout the game? By game's end you could actually hear it sounded like Rivers had lost his voice.
Lynn did say after the game that they did make a couple adjustments but they were too late making them. I think that is a massive understatement. If they made them it must have been late in the second half at which point the Patriots really could not have cared less what they tried.
The Charger O-line often just looked utterly confused and backs that should have been blocking on passing plays looked like they had no clue. Rivers several times ripped into people that missed blocks or acted as if they had no idea they were supposed to be blocking on a play. I watched one Charger O-linemen on a play turn to his right, look right at a rushing Patriots linemen, and then quickly turned to his left where there was NOBODY and stand there staring into space as Rivers got sacked.
Needless to say, Rivers got up off the turf and screamed at the guy.
When the coaching is that inept and players look that confused and then you throw in a giant special teams mistake like King's fumble...well...against the Patriots and Belichick, that spells blow-out.
Tom Brady threw 44 passes in the game. Of those 44, 30 of them were at only two players. Edelman and RB James White. At pretty much no time did the Chargers coaches seem to notice this. They allowed the Patriots to use two receivers to utterly destroy them and never made an adjustment. So, the Patriots did the same thing over and over and over again and the Chargers coaches watched it happen.
Second shameful stat that shows the Chargers coaches were as much good to the team as you and I watching on the couch at home, the Patriots tipped their hand on what they were doing on just about every offensive snap. Any time the Patriots had Sony Michel on the field they called a running play. Any time they had James White on the field it was a pass. This was not 100% but basically about 96% of the time.
So, not only were the Patriots basically throwing to the same two guys over and over, they were just handing the ball to Michel whenever he ran out on the field.
So, there was literally no surprise in what the Patriots did...NONE. You know who would have adjusted to that, Bill Belichick. You know who didn't? Anybody on the Chargers coaching staff. Gus Bradley could have just taken a nap during the game.
OK, final stat that pretty much tells the tale of this game...
On 70% of the offensive passing plays for the Chargers, and there were a lot Rivers dropped to throw 51 times, Rivers was pressured. 70%! And just as on defense nobody made an adjustment...nothing was done to address that. Is there any wonder why Rivers was screaming at people on his team throughout the game? By game's end you could actually hear it sounded like Rivers had lost his voice.
Lynn did say after the game that they did make a couple adjustments but they were too late making them. I think that is a massive understatement. If they made them it must have been late in the second half at which point the Patriots really could not have cared less what they tried.
The Charger O-line often just looked utterly confused and backs that should have been blocking on passing plays looked like they had no clue. Rivers several times ripped into people that missed blocks or acted as if they had no idea they were supposed to be blocking on a play. I watched one Charger O-linemen on a play turn to his right, look right at a rushing Patriots linemen, and then quickly turned to his left where there was NOBODY and stand there staring into space as Rivers got sacked.
Needless to say, Rivers got up off the turf and screamed at the guy.
When the coaching is that inept and players look that confused and then you throw in a giant special teams mistake like King's fumble...well...against the Patriots and Belichick, that spells blow-out.
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