Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Locked On Patriots October 16, 2017 - Glorious Victory Sunday

Episode Date: October 15, 2017

The New England Patriots escape with a 24-17 victory over the New York Jets. Mark Schofield has his Great, Good and Bad right after the big win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Talkspace.com slash BOOM. B-O-O-M. Hey, everybody. Mark Schofield from Locked On Patriots. And I just wanted to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by our great friends at mybookie.ag. You are Locked On Patriots, your daily podcast on the New England Patriots, part of the Lock whatever time it is, however you're listening to this, welcome to your glorious victory Sunday evening edition of Locked On Patriots.

Mark Schofield with you here in the big chair and folks, survive in advance. I said that after the Thursday night game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Survive in advance. Divisional game. Patriots escape MetLife Stadium. 24-17 over the New York Jets. Lots to break down here with you. I'm going to do the best I can

as I do five days a week, bringing you Patriots news and analysis. Some instant reaction here. Game just ended. My heart is finally back to normal. Hope yours is as well. Also, as you heard, today's show brought to you by our friends at mybookie.ag. Hope you listened to me on Friday.

I said, take the Jets and the points, nine and a half. Jets cover that. I said, take the under, divisional game. I'm expecting this to be a close defensive game. Hit that as well. Hope you go out over to mybookie.ag. Use the promo code LOCKEDON when you signed up. Also, don't forget,

lockedonpatriots.com. Check that out as well. There will be some articles up probably by the time you're listening to this about snap counts, about some of the plays we saw Sunday afternoon. Lots to dive into.

So lots to dive into here and obviously top line story, Patriots get out of MetLife Stadium with the seven point victory and at the start it didn't look like it was going to be New England's day. As we do for a lot of these games, we're going to do a little great, good, and bad here.

We'll start with the bad, and we'll start with that defense and the way this Patriots defense started this game. This was not a great start for them. Jets take the opening kickoff, go right down the field. 13 plays, 88 yards, take five minutes off the clock. You get a touchdown pass from Josh McCown to Austin Safarian Jenkins, one yard touchdown on that play. Look, linebacker slips in coverage, physically slipped, you know, and that was the issue

there. McCown had time on this play. Austin Safarian Jenkins was wide open because the linebacker just physically slipped. And sometimes that happens. But obviously, we saw early on this drive, Jets went after Malcolm Butler early. You get a third down play. Big play from McCown to Robbie Anderson for the 23 yards

where they go after Butler. Play before that, second down, they go after Butler again. Butler recovers on that play to prevent the completion. But two out of their first three passes, they went after Malcolm Butler. So again, Jets go up early, 7-0. Patriots get the ball. Eight plays, drive stalls at the Jets' 41-yard line.

They're forced to punt. Defense comes back on the field. They force a three and out. So you're thinking, okay, things have settled down. Patriots' next drive. Mike Gilleslie puts it on the turf. After a five-yard run on first down. We're going to talk about New England running on first down in a second.

But Gilleslie puts it on the turf. Patriots give up the ball. Jets get it back. Seven plays, 78 yards. Three minutes off the clock. Another touchdown. 14-0 Jets early in the second quarter. And on that drive again, they went after Butler.

McCown hits Curley on a deep crossing route. Just an easy crossing route against Butler. Touchdown. 14-0 on the road. Not looking good. The defense got off to a bad start. But they locked it down from there. We're going to talk about what this defense did after that second touchdown drive, because you want to talk about a great performance? That was a great performance.

Yeah, there was a controversial call, which we'll dive into a little bit. But Patriots, that defense made the plays that allowed New England to get back into this game. But it was a bad start. And they went after Butler early, but he bounced back along with the rest

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from this Patriots victory and I'm going to start with Ryan Allen. Allen had two pretty big plays in this game. One was early. Didn't really go won't really go noticed here. But on his first punt of the game this is when the Patriots were

stalled on their open and drive at the Jets 41 yard line Belichick decides to punt in that situation you know he downs the Jets inside their own 5 yard line and the defense comes on the field and they force a 3 and 0

and at that point in the game, that was a pretty good play, pretty big play, because it completely flipped field position. You know, the Patriots, after their defense forces that three and out, New England gets the ball back on their own 47-yard line. Amendola fields a punt, loses a yard on the return. But again, you're starting near midfield.

You're starting your second drive of the game down 7-0, but you're at midfield. That's a pretty good situation. Gillis Lee, then, lays the ball on the turf. Obviously something to watch going forward, but Allen's first punt of the day was a big one. He had a punt later in the game. Which was big as well. And that was his last punt of the game. New England's drive stalls. They had a chance to sort of run out the clock.

Jets kick a field goal. Patriots receive the kickoff. Jets opt not to go for the onside kick they kick off they figure they can stop New England and they do so the Patriots face a 4th and 12 with their own 15 Allen comes on to punt and this is after a false start

so they're already backed up five yards. Allen gets off a good punt. It's covered well. We get an illegal block above the waist. Ten-yard penalty against the Jets. So they're forced to take over at their own 27. And that was a big play at that moment too because Jets have a chance now.

They've got two minutes. They've got one timeout. They've got the two-minute warning. They could go down and tie the game. So every yard you make them go, every extra yard you make them go is huge. So big punt, big penalty, that helps New England. Let's talk about Tom Brady for a second. Let's talk about Brady's day because there were some mistakes.

Forced some throws into coverage. That interception that he threw to Hogan on a post route. Forced that throw into double coverage. And did you notice what concept they ran on that play? You might recognize it when I say it if If you've been listening to the show. If you've been reading LockedOnPatriots.com. Yankee concept. It was a Yankee concept.

It was a second and ten. They showed run. Excuse me. Throw was to Philip Dorsett. Excuse me. It was to Dorsett. Not Hogan. He had forced a throw earlier to Hogan in coverage.

This one was to Dorsett, but it was the Yankee concept. Dorsett was running that deep post route that we've talked about. Brandon Cooks was running that shallow crosser that we talked about and watching it live and then on the replay, it sure looked to me like Cooks was open underneath, like he has been a lot this season, like they've hit on a lot this season. But Brady missed that one. Forced it into coverage. Might have been a situation

where, look, you're down 14-7 at that point. Your defense just forced another three and out. Maybe your eyes get a little bit too big in that situation. You force one into coverage. Okay. It's a mistake. But again, Yankee concept. If you've been listening to the show,

you've heard me talk about it. He had Cooks there, I think. There were some other throws that I think he'd like back too. He missed one to Hogan that was a little bit high. Hogan got banged up on that play, came off the field for a bit.

There were some other plays in this game as well where Kony Ealy had a couple of tips off the edge there. you know, there were some other plays in this game as well where, you know, Kony Ealy had a couple of tips off the edge there in some interesting situations. You know, that drive where Gostowski ended up missing a field goal, that was an interesting series of plays where it's 14-7 again. Defense forces another 3-0.

You open the drive you hit Danny Amendola on a post route attacks on a pass interference penalty as well now the Patriots have first and 10 at the Jets 29 yard line they're down 14-7 here and then you go an overthrow to Hogan

on a go route where he misses it incompletion to Gronkowski on a go route where he misses it. Incompletion to Gronkowski on a seam route. Then he tries to throw to Brandon Cooks on an out route and gets tipped by Coney Ealy. It falls incomplete. Patriots have a first and 10 on the 29-yard line. They have to settle for a field goal try and Gronkowski misses it.

So that was a pretty big sequence at that time. I thought at that moment it might come back to bite New England. It doesn't. Things go their way at the end of the game, particularly in the second half. But at that moment, it looked like a big sequence. Brady missed fire on a couple of those throws too. But on the whole, this was another solid performance from Tom Brady.

And what really stood out to me watching Brady today, as somebody that studies quarterbacks, as somebody that watches quarterbacks, his movement in the pocket. Brady finishes 20 of 38, 257, two touchdowns, one interception. But the way he moves in the pocket, the way he slides around in the pocket, even their first possession, they didn't come away with points,

but has a slant route on 36, slides around, moves around well, makes a good throw. The touchdown to Gronkowski, the second one, again, slides around well, buys himself time. So when you watch Brady,

if you haven't noticed, you should watch the way he moves in the pocket because nobody would say that Tom Brady is an incredible athlete. If you're talking about the way quarterbacks can be mobile, like a Deshaun Watson. But watch the way

Brady buys himself time in the pocket. Particularly in a year when they've struggled protecting him, when he's getting beat up, the way he can move around in the pocket is tremendous and it will really help this offense going forward, the way he does that. Rob Gronkowski, big day from him. Obviously he missed last week, comes out.

Six catches for 83 yards on 10 targets, two touchdowns. Catches the first one on sort of a switch smash concept where he's in a wing, runs a flat route, and Kevin Hogan's on the outside. He ducks inside what looks to be like a slant, looks to be like slant flat, which we'll talk about because we talked about slant flat in the Jets.

But then Hogan breaks back to the corner. But Gronkowski's open and he hits him. And the touchdown, it was on a crossing route and looking at it live, it looked like it might've been levels. I'd have to go back and look at the all 22 to verify that, but it looked like it was levels. He's running that intermediate dig route. I told you they'd run that. I'm going to really take a victory lap if I go back and look at the All-22 and that was levels. But I think it was.

So big game from Gronk. Brandon Cooks. You know, he and Brady, you know, there were a couple of plays that they didn't make, a couple of opportunities that were missed maybe. But if

not, if for no other reason, that 42-yard reception near the end of the first half, that was an extraordinary play. The over-the-shoulder catch, the ability to track the football like that, that is a skill, that is a trait that scouts, evaluators, people on draft, Twitter, everybody that studies the wide receiver position, they look for that. The ability to track the ball over your shoulder because it is insanely difficult to do that. And it's even tougher to do that along the sideline when you've got to get both feet down in bounds. Cooks with an incredible individual effort on that play. That was a huge play. Set it up.

Gronkowski's first touchdown. Because again, New England had just missed the field goal. But their defense, as we're going to talk about, got them back into position before the half to tack on one last drive. That was on an interception. Malcolm Butler with a big play there. Gives New England a chance to go down the field late in the first half

and score, and that's exactly what they did. So Brandon Cooks, huge play there, huge play in that spot. Big day for him too. Obviously the 42-yard catch, but six receptions for 93 yards on nine targets. That 42-yarder was a huge one in that spot. Deion Lewis. Big shout-out to Deion Lewis here. 11 carries for 52 yards.

Had the one touchdown run. That was a short run. Did some big things for New England. Did some things in the pass protection realm as well. If you watch this game, you saw Lewis doing some chipping on the edge, helping out Nate Solder. Again, something we talked about. Something I said to look for.

Something I wrote about over at LockedOnPatriots.com. So hats off to Deion Lewis there as well. Big effort from him. Final thing I want to mention. Final thing that I thought was really good from New England in this game and forced me to do some math. I don't like doing math, but I'll do it for my friends

here. New England Patriots on first down run in the football. Did you notice that? Did you notice how generally effective they were running the ball on first downs? I went back, went through my chart, and went through the box score, went through the play-by-play.

And unless my math is wrong, I don't think it is because it wasn't that hard to do this. 16 first down rushing attempts, not counting any kneel downs or anything like that. For 73 yards, one touchdown. We also did get the Mike Yosley fumble that came on a first down rushing attempt. But again, 16 rushing attempts for 73 yards, one touchdown, one fumble. That's an average of 4.56 yards per play. When you're getting your offense into second and five situations, running the football on first down, that's a tremendous job from the entire offense. That's a tremendous job from the

offensive line on down. Because then the entire playbook is open to you on second down. Second and five, almost an ideal situation for an offense if you're going to face a second down. Obviously, second and one would be better, but still. So a tremendous job from this Patriots running game on first downs. I thought that was extremely important for this offense to get back into rhythm, to get back on schedule, to get back into this game.

But if there was anything more important than how they ran the ball on first down in terms of getting back into the game, it was this. It was the defense. And what they did after giving up 14 points, after giving up two touchdowns on New York's open and three possessions. Touchdown, punt, touchdown. What did the Jets do after that offensively?

Well, not much. After that second touchdown, here's what the Jets did on their drives. Punt, punt, punt, interception, kneel down to end the first half. As I was taking notes, as I was watching this game, as I was breaking it all down, it seemed like every time the Patriots offense took the field, I would write down, big drive for offense, defense just forced a punt,

defense just forced a three and out, defense just forced a turnover. Again, after the second touchdown, Patriots defense forces, punt, punt, punt, interception, kneel down to end the first half. Second half, interception on Jets open and drive. The fumble by ASJ, which we'll talk about here in a second. A field goal,

and then they get off the field on downs to end the game. After giving up 14 plays, I mean 14 points, excuse me, over their first three defensive possessions, they give up three over the rest of the game. Now the ASJ fumble, look man, I don't know. I don't know how that got ruled the way it did. It certainly looked like he never lost possession.

It looked like the ball was coming out, and then he secured it again. Matt Chatham, at Chatham58. Follow him on Twitter, former Patriots player, linebacker, and special teamer. Look, he said it looked like the right call to him because it looked like ASJ never fully got control of the football again. That's a tough call. But

look, if you're a Patriots fan, you remember that play when the Patriots played the Broncos, when Champ Bailey picked off Tom Brady in the 2006 playoffs and Ben Watson chased Bailey down the entire length of the field from the other side of the field, as somebody that lost a cell phone when that happened, because said cell phone met a wall

at an extremely high rate of velocity. Okay, maybe it wasn't that high because I don't have that great of an arm anymore. But yes, I fired a cell phone against the wall when that happened. Maybe this was the football gods giving us one back. I don't know. But it got called the way it did. So here we are. And Patriots defense, after those first three drives, man, did they play well.

I mean, you want to look at some of the individual efforts that stand out. There's a lot. The Butler interception was a great play at that moment. The McCourty interception. Again, fourth down in one situation. They run play action, the Jets do. Blitz off the edge.

It doesn't get there, but it pressures Josh McCown. He forces an awkward off-balance throw. Blitz off the edge. It doesn't get there, but it pressures Josh McCown. He forces an awkward off-balance throw. It's off target. McCourty comes down with the interception. You know, that was a big sequence because the Patriots had just taken the lead. You don't want to give them momentum back. Don't want to give up a touchdown

to let them come back into the game. It's their first drive of the second half. Get off the field on fourth down with a turnover. Huge play. Jets second to last possession. It's a third and six on the Patriots' seven-yard line.

Harmon blitzes, gets pressure on McGowan. He's forced to check it down to the running back. They hold the Jets to three rather than giving up a touchdown there. That's a big play at that moment because with the way the game ended with the way the game finished you want to be in a position where

the offense, the opposition has to get a touchdown on their final drive if that's a 24-21 game when the Jets take over for their final possession, who knows what happens on the Jets final drive look, you get individual efforts from Hightower on a sack, Van Noy on a sack. So this defense really sort of stepped it up. And there might be some out there that say, look, the ASJ touchdown could have changed

then, sure. But it is what it is. And this is how things felt. And when it's all said and done, divisional win on the road against the team you were tied with for first place. It was a big win for New England

and a bit of a heart-stopping one. It wasn't an overall dominating performance but it was a big win for the Patriots. And now, look, it's on to Atlanta. Atlanta giving up one late to Miami. So, you know, obviously that's a team that's going to be probably going to be a little hungry come next Sunday night.

We're going to start talking about Atlanta tomorrow or Tuesday, depending on when you're listening to this. We're going to start doing a little tape Tuesday with Atlanta. I'm going to talk about angles, and I know some of you are probably thinking, oh my gosh, again, more math? I know. I'll keep it easy on you.

I'm going to talk about angles in the blocking game from that Atlanta offense. Again, anytime you can have a glorious victory show, it's a good feeling. Hope wherever you were at watching the game, you enjoyed it as well. I hope you enjoyed this little instant analysis and recap for you.

Again, I will be back Tuesday morning for your taped Tuesday edition of Locked On Patriots. Starting to look at the Atlanta Falcons, what they do on offense. Again, remember, mybookie.ag. Check them out as well. Use promo code LOCKEDON when you sign up. 4-2 on to Atlanta. It's been an interesting season so far, but 4-2 is 4-2.

Let's hope they keep it rolling. Until we talk again, keep it locked right here to me, Mark Schofield, and Locked on Patriot. Whatcha doing? Ran out of space on my phone, so I'm deleting some stuff. Bye singing dog. Bye goal.

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