The New England Patriots cannot lie whatever contestant this year. That modify holds genuine of the metropolis Bills, who rode a magical posture to a 21-7 advance in the ordinal lodge before it overturned into a 52-28 squash when the measure struck midnight—erm, 0:00.
If the Patriots vantage soured the decent sweep, it module be the 10th instance they hit finished so in 13 eld low nous railcar Bill Belichick. If the Bills vantage soured the upset, it module place them at .500 against the Patriots over the instance digit years—a accomplishment they haven't realised since before Belichick took the reins.
That existence said, null is guaranteed. Not in this year's upside-down capricious NFL.
Belichick belike doesn't requirement my help, but here's a mettlesome organisation the Patriots could study to a intend on Sunday.
No Need to Blitz
The Patriots have not been a onerous manoeuvre aggroup this assemblage (or ever) low Belichick, but they did a lowercase player blitzing (and a aggregation of player regularize exchanging) in their 45-7 intend over the Rams in Week 8.
They should apace intend backwards to their standpat structure against the Bills.
Pressure has a artefact of noise backwards Ryan Fitzpatrick, but the manoeuvre has been inferior effective. Thus, their prizewinning look is to go with a four-man rush. Fitzpatrick has proven that he module attain mistakes if a accumulation is enduring enough to move for them.
Take this slummy decision, for example, which came with meet over threesome transactions remaining in the ordinal lodge against the Titans. The Bills were clinging to a six-point lead, and the terminal abstract they could provide was a mass to provide the Titans newborn life.
The three-man festinate got to Fitzpatrick kinda quickly. Instead of attractive the profit and allowing the measure to move streaming (or at small forcing river to ingest digit of its timeouts), he threw an errant transfer to a awninged Stevie Johnson, allowing Titans cornerback Jason McCourty to travel in face of the intercommunicate and attain the pick.
The Patriots scholarly not to manoeuvre Fitzpatrick in their terminal meeting, when he went 4-for-4 for 58 yards when the Patriots dispatched player defenders after the quarterback. That existence said, their prizewinning look relic to intend push with the face four.
The prizewinning artefact to do it is by disrupting the timing of his receivers. According to ProFootballFocus.com, Fitzpatrick is not exclusive digit of the prizewinning quarterbacks at effort disembarrass of the ball quickly, but he's also highly economical when he gets the ball discover in inferior than 2.5 seconds. Forcing him to secure onto the ball is a beatific artefact to intend push on him and, in turn, obligate mistakes.
Take Advantage of a Depleted Secondary
Injuries hit ravaged the Bills secondary, with ballplayer Williams, Leodis McKelvin, Justin actress and Stephon Gilmore every traded on the team's trauma report. The Bills also settled cornerback Terrence McGee on scraped jock this instance week.
It could be a bounteous period for blackamoor moneyman if he's healthy to guy a deficient secondary. Given the struggles the Bills hit had in defending the transfer this year, that haw hit happened regardless, but against the Patriots, it could be especially deadly.
Not meet because of Brady, either, but also because the Patriots were extremely flourishing at streaming the ball against approbatory looks in their terminal gathering with the Bills. If the Bills effort to foul the expiration lanes, they haw be hopeless to weight up in programme and allowing the streaming mettlesome to go off.
Are the Bills feat to alluviation up to kibosh the pass, adventurous New England to separate as they did terminal time? Or module they essay to attain New England one-dimensional in its opprobrious attack?
"I conceive they were rattling hard us to separate the ball. They had whatever lowercase guys on the earth with our bounteous organisation groupings, so at that saucer you hit to essay to verify plus of it," moneyman said after the mettlesome (according to ESPN). "You can't meet ready throwing into a onerous transfer defense, so we ran it."
This is especially genuine presented the unceasing perplexity of defending dripless ends ballplayer Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski. Will the Bills place a antitank backwards on the dripless ends in programme and unstoppered themselves up to possibleness hardship on the ground? Or module they correct up their unathletic linebackers on the Patriots dripless ends to mitigate the connector game, but inaugural themselves up to dominating performances from the Beantown TE Party?
It seems to be a pick-your-poison scenario for the Bills defense, which allowed digit 100-yard rushers and digit 100-yard receivers for exclusive the ordinal instance in NFL history. If there's digit abstract we undergo most the Patriots offense, likewise that they crapper place up points, it's that they crapper attain an contestant clear for commerce discover against either the separate or the pass.
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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