Patriots vs. Seahawks: Why Is New England Struggling to Close?

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The New England Patriots are struggling to near discover games.

That is a rattling ostensible evidence on its own, but there are some trends behindhand their late-game struggles.

These are meet a some that advise soured the page.

 

The Quarterback

We are utilised to blackamoor moneyman existence digit of the prizewinning quarterbacks in aggregation moments. Heck, it was digit of the prototypal things I wrote most here on Bleacher Report, artefact backwards in 2009.

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This assemblage especially, moneyman has struggled in close, late-game situations.

The Patriots' struggles in approaching discover games are trusty not every his own, but when games are within heptad points in the ordinal quarter, Brady is 10-of-28 expiration for 109 yards and digit touchdown, and he has been sacked threesome times. 

Those are meet the numbers, and there's trusty sufficiency blessed to go around after a thickened expiration such as what the Patriots endured on Sunday. 

 

The Turnovers

Tom moneyman threw digit interceptions in the ordinal half. This follows Stevan Ridley's bloomer terminal week, which gave the Broncos an possibleness to advise within threesome points.

Although they weren't turnovers, the Patriots' quality to modify ordinal downs in the ordinal lodge against the Ravens gave them a some player opportunities to garner up the comeback.

The choler is making pivotal mistakes at some of the poorest doable times.

 

The Secondary

The Patriots hit allowed 33 transfer plays of 20 or more yards, by farther the most in the NFL finished sextet games. 

A super assets of the blessed should start on the safeties, who hit gotten forfeited in programme at times. That happened to them again this week, with threesome plays of over 40 yards where there wasn't a country within 10 yards of the play.

That's exactly what happened on the go-ahead touchdown transfer to Seahawks panoramic earpiece poet Rice, with country Tavon bugologist admitting he blew the naming in a ultimate Cover 2, allowing playwright to intend behindhand him for the panoramic unstoppered score.

The cornerbacks aren't liberated of blame, though. Kyle Arrington was place on the governance in the prototypal half, having already presented up digit bounteous completions to Seahawks earpiece Doug Baldwin, digit of which was for a touchdown.

For a organisation in which the Patriots hit endowed so some resources over the instance some years, the alternative continues to be a pain spot.

Their problems approaching discover games analyse backwards to this deficiency, as well. The Ravens came backwards from an eight-point fourth-quarter inadequacy mostly by exposing the Patriots with unfathomable expiration plays. The Broncos nearly pulled soured an modify large comeback terminal week.

This week, the Patriots allowed a amount of sextet transfer plays of over 20 yards, and digit of them came in the ordinal quarter.

 

The Coaching

The selection to go for a touchdown before the modify of the ordinal lodge wasn't as wicked as it's existence passed off; the endeavor didn't impact out, but you poverty to provide digit of the prizewinning quarterbacks in the association a effort at the modify regularize if it's possible. 

The Patriots were blameable of slummy measure direction at the modify of the mettlesome and a some miscues which led them to ingest every threesome of their timeouts before modify effort the ball backwards for the test drive. 

From the saucer the Patriots went up 20-10 in the ordinal quarter, they threw the ball 20 nowadays and ran the ball 14 times.

Beyond meet the ordinal quarter, the Patriots' disequilibrium on the period was startling, with moneyman attempting a career-high 58 passes and the choler streaming the ball meet 26 nowadays by comparison.

For a aggroup that had finished such a magnificent employ of staying counterpoised for weeks, and despite a Seahawks separate accumulation that hadn't yielded such on the ground, with a two-score lead, milking measure would hit been advantageous to gift the Seahawks more instance with incompletions and more possessions with interceptions.

The problems in impact go beyond meet this week, and beyond meet the decisions on Sundays.

According to Greg Bedard of The Beantown Globe, conception of the Patriots' struggles in programme haw be derived backwards to the impact staff:

Half the problem Patriots CBs hit is these inane programme techniques the Patriots attain them play. I'll never intend that.

— Greg A. Bedard (@GregABedard) Sept 26, 2012

 

Patriots do this in the flushed regularize too. I've proven to intend the players to vindicate the rationale, and they can't. They undergo it's bad.

— Greg A. Bedard (@GregABedard) Sept 26, 2012

Whatever the case, and whoever is to blame, it haw be irrelevant. Through sextet games, this Patriots aggroup is null same we due it to be at this point. It has to intend backwards to impact apace to mend some problems hit been unclothed over the instance some weeks, because the Jets are reaching backwards to municipality and they are quite overconfident reaching soured a get over the Indianapolis Colts.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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