tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23140411.post115696895743703100..comments2024-03-28T02:23:44.367-05:00Comments on Pacifist Viking: Derrida and the New England PatriotsPacifist Vikinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630996018868040440noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23140411.post-1156974892708500582006-08-30T16:54:00.000-05:002006-08-30T16:54:00.000-05:00having an identity as a team doesn't mean one dime...having an identity as a team doesn't mean one dimensional. it means being confident in what you can do. the patriots are able to do a number of different things and do them well but primarily on offense they are very conservative (but not passive. the bears play passive conservative. the patriots are always looking to set up a big play and this is what seattle does)-- they use their backs and their tight ends and wr screens and play action. when they go deep its always on play action. if they throw the ball 45 times in a game, and they do well, then its screens and play action and ball control stuff. they work their diversity to fit an opponent ... when they lack the running game to run the power game. if the patriots have their way they are a power run team that uses play action for passes. they know brady isn't dan marino and they don't try to make him carry the team as a passer. even when he throws 40 times in a game they make certain the game isn't on his shoulders. the exception, of course, is at the end of the game. <BR/>a team lacking an identity doesn't know what they can do or can't do. they don't to play to the personel. that's how the packers defense was a few years ago. zone one game, blitz the next, and it never worked because they didn't know what they were doing or what they were supposed to do.Robert Klosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09365699937486632768noreply@blogger.com