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Nitpick - The defense isn't creating turnovers and Rivera is still playing not to win

GoobyPls

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Not worried about the lack of turnovers. Keep playing well on that side of the ball and they'll come. 

Rivera being conservative with a lead? Unfortunately, it's just who he is. It's not gonna change. More often than not we're going to take our foot off the gas and hope to hang on. It's a chicken poo way to play the game, but it's a typical defensive minded coach approach.

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5 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

We are second to last in turnovers, that needs to improve 

 

And Rivera is lucky his stunt of playing for the FG worked out at the end. Let's not forget the end of the half FG or going soft zone after being up 14

The defense is trying man. It'll come. 

Nothing lucky about playing solid football.

Soft zone? As mad as I was when the opposing teams offense was moving the ball down the field eith ease.... I'm pretty sure that was Brady out there.

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I was absolutely furious when we played for the FG instead of going for the TD. HOWEVER, after reviewing that last drive, Pats still had 3 timeouts. All it would have taken was a Cam spin around sack or a couple of incompletions and then Brady gets the ball back with plenty of time for either a FG or TD. Still hated the decision, but it made sense at the time. I guess Rivera was going to live with either Gano or overtime.

As for the soft zone defense when up by 2 scores or more, yeah that sh*t still pisses me off. Why abandon what is working ALL THE TIME? I can't recall how many times in 2015 we just let teams waltz back into the game after being up big because we went to prevent zone D. We would totally abandon our gameplan. Just makes no sense to me.

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