There once was a time when a man named John Madden would go on and on about the patriots screen game. He hated it, he hated the throws behind the line , the shifty wide outs and scat backs he wanted nothing to do with it. As a matter of fact so did the Rams, Eagles, and Panthers because the patriots beat those three teams in the super bowl with that very offense style.
Much has been said this year about Tom Brady's apparent "regression" as a pass thrower, but i'm here to tell you that's a complete load.Now i know many people could cite stats like the fact that Brady had something like 11 passes that were incomplete on his own will last game but all i can think is " What happened to the QB getting in rhythm" What happened to the quick throw to the Wide out on the sideline or the bubble screens we ran with welker. I know we don;' have Welker anymore but hell we have his clone in edelman. The main hit on Brady has been his accuracy this year and his apparent skittish attitude in a collapsing pocket, but the screen game can help this! yea some of the wide receivers cant catch, and Vareen is still out with injury but holy crap i could go out their and catch a screen pass from brady. And the thing is, these kids at wide out are OUTRAGEOUSLY athletic compared to last years wide outs. Boyce ran a 4.36 forty and dobson ran in the low to mid 4.4s. Thompkins, although not as standout with his measurable, is terrific at changing direction at the line of scrimmage. now all i'm saying is we lost two games so far this year to teams that had dominant pass rushing d lines and stopped the run. When we threw, the wr either weren't open or didn't catch it.
So whats this all about? i want to beg mcdanials please! bring back a consistant screen game! it will help remedy brady's accuracy issues because he will have easy throws to get in rhythm, the youngsters will get easy catches and it will stop the opposing d line from being able to just sprint down field at brady
