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Cam's New Arm

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Smithers Grand Master

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It would piss me off beyond measure to know that this coaching staff treated this game as a preseason game, putting our QB and other players in harm's way against a team who was fighting for their postseason lives.  

If you want to lay an egg, fine.  Just don't do it with the starters in there knowing we have a playoff run to make.  

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TheCasillas Grand Master

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4 minutes ago, Smithers said:

It would piss me off beyond measure to know that this coaching staff treated this game as a preseason game, putting our QB and other players in harm's way against a team who was fighting for their postseason lives.  

If you want to lay an egg, fine.  Just don't do it with the starters in there knowing we have a playoff run to make.  

Not having a game plan is different than not trying as a team. They most likely had a gameplan, but it was an extreme conservative approach as opposed to an aggressive approach in the past. 

 

Billy B. does this constantly in the late weeks for the Pats.

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Smithers Grand Master

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Just now, TheCasillas said:

Not having a game plan is different than not trying as a team. They most likely had a gameplan, but it was an extreme conservative approach as opposed to an aggressive approach in the past. 

 

Billy B. does this constantly in the late weeks for the Pats.

But if you do not gameplan around another teams weaknesses, you are exposing your QB to unnecessary hits.  I understand playing it conservative...but to not account for the strengths of another team while your WR's run basic routes that result in them not getting open (which means the QB holds the ball longer or has to scramble, exposing him to more hits) is stupid.  

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1 minute ago, TheCasillas said:

Not having a game plan is different than not trying as a team. They most likely had a gameplan, but it was an extreme conservative approach as opposed to an aggressive approach in the past. 

 

Billy B. does this constantly in the late weeks for the Pats.

The Pats have enjoyed the leisure of playing in a terrible division for years. When you have the division locked up you can afford such luxuries. When you're potentially playing to host a playoff game and avoid facing a division rival who has had your number this year in their stadium no less, you can't afford to do it.

As maddening as it would be, I truly hope that's what we did Sunday because if not then we just plain suck.

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4 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

Not having a game plan is different than not trying as a team. They most likely had a gameplan, but it was an extreme conservative approach as opposed to an aggressive approach in the past. 

 

Billy B. does this constantly in the late weeks for the Pats.

I can see this theory somewhat. There were a lot of plays and personnel groupings that weren't used/not called that we had used most of the season with some vanilla stuff thrown in. Especially the protections but that may have been because Turner was out. The miscues between Greg and Cam could point this way though. 

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