Jaworski: Rex Ryan has Tom Brady's Number

A feel good story coming from a football analyst I actually like…

The media has me feeling that the Jets have no chance

and one of their analyst-Brian Baldinger stated that Bill Belichick was trying to rebuild his offense in order to best beat the Jets.

Brady is probably throwing it as well as he’s ever thrown it," Baldinger told the Herald in a phone interview Friday. "But they’ve eliminated a lot of the low-percentage type throws, those 40-yard streaks down the sidelines. So it’s really (playing) to Tom’s strength right now, just point and shoot and get the ball out of his hands quickly. Since the Cleveland game, that offense has been awfully sharp. It’s a good-looking offense right now."

It’s Baldinger’s belief that teams that employ a passing attack more reliant on short and intermediate routes than the deep ball have greater success against the Jets defense, which blitzes a lot and goes all out to pressure the quarterback. With Moss running his standard fly patterns against Gang Green, Brady rarely had the time to get him the ball, essentially eliminating one of his options.

With Branch, who serves as that short-to-intermediate route runner, complementing Wes Welker in the slot, along with tight ends Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski proving viable targets, the offense has gotten into the kind of flow Baldinger believes Belichick was looking for with an eye toward the Jets. While second-year wideout Brandon Tate occasionally stretches the field, the offense is still of the quick-strike variety. Running back Danny Woodhead has added another layer, as he’s been a more-than-capable third-down back, both catching passes out of the backfield and running out of the shotgun formation, in the absence of injured Kevin Faulk

So far the new offense sluggishly beat the Ravens and beat the Steelers…ultimate test is the your team.

Here is the 2nd article link ….(can’t find the first org article that interviewed Brian Baldinger-its archived and i have to pay money to access it)
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/football/patriots/view/20101128pats_now_running_on_jet_engine/

http://deadspin.com/5705231/nine+year+old-jets-fan-envisions-tom-brady-bleeding-to-death-on-the-field-monday-night

…I’ve been pulling mine out by the handful and the kickoff isn’t for another three days and 8 some-odd hours away.

On another note, Ron Jaworski was a guest on WEEI this morning and talked glowingly about the Patriots and how Brady never gets rattled. I respect Jaws but he knows his audience and plays it up like a campaigning politician.

Trent Dilfer is quickly becoming the best analysis on TV…And his backing up Sanchez when nobody else would doesn’t hurt his stock, either!

Living in Boston for school, I get more than a healthy level of Pats radiation from friends and WEEI. One feature of the Pats offense that has gone overlooked and yet I hear talked about is how lethal they are on YAC (yard after carry). A healthy Welker is one of the best in the league in YAC, and their Hernandez/Branch/Gronkowski/Woodhead hydra usually has the Pats at the league’s best in YAC. Having Brady hit his wily WR/TEs on the slant, in the middle, etc., allows him to react to blitz packages and compensate for his now-crappy O line, poor footwork, and subpar RBs (although they’ve improved in recent weeks and will be much better w/ BJGR and Woodhead than in Week 2). The WR/TEs essentially become a secondary RB corps, scrambling after leapfrogging their opponents’ D line and blitzers. And these guys block well, to boot, creating good space if the opponent throws an uneven blitz package.

Right now, there’s no doubt that Welker’s back to 100%, Hernandez has improved, Brady-to-Branch has improved (he’s running more than long routes), and BJGR and Woodhead are performing as RBs better than the old men were earlier in the year.

I’m just concerned that even if Revis cuts off Branch as the vertical threat (my guess on the coverage) and Cro and the safeties guard against the large strike, and we blitz hard, Brady could continue to dink in quick 2 yd passes over the blitzers and have the receiver stretch that into 6 or 8 all day. Then, we’ll pull in the secondary, and then he’ll go deep. If we can pencil a +3 turnover ratio, I’d rest a little easier.

I’m still very confident (perhaps overconfident) that Rex and the Jets can pull this out, but Brady could still complicate things and he has more tools than he did when we last met.