Luke Skywalker vs The Evil Empire: Patriots vs Falcons Super Bowl 51 Thread

Who Will Win Super Bowl 51

  • Patriots

    Votes: 81 39.5%

  • Falcons

    Votes: 124 60.5%
  • Total voters
    205
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calh45 said:
This is basically what it comes down to. Can Beli disrupt Matty enough to stop the train? People see Julio as the catalyst because of the big numbers, but Matt Ryan makes it harder to defend because he spreads the ball around a ton. The last time he played a record breaking offense he just decided to knock the fukk outta Marshall the entire game.

The Falcons D have gotten better, but it's Brady in the Super Bowl and he'll take 4 yard completions down the field if he needs to and Edelman is the best at getting open on intermediate routes.
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Beli himself acknowledged today that we look faster than any team we've played later against. How do you coach against speed? We're so much faster than NE on both sides of the ball...how are they gonna account for that? The only response i get is because it's the Pats and Beli is just gonna magically put a game plan together. It's not like NE has an elite front 7 either. Tell these Pats fans these ain't the Jets theyre facing in 2 weeks
 
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AVXL said:
Beli himself acknowledged today that we look faster than any team we've played later against. How do you coach against speed? We're so much faster than NE on both sides of the ball...how are they gonna account for that? The only response i get is because it's the Pats and Beli is just gonna magically put a game plan together. It's not like NE has an elite front 7 either. Tell these Pats fans these ain't the Jets theyre facing in 2 weeks
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You make speed think. They're fast, but young and once you make them start 2nd guessing it gets a lot easier to attack them. Those 4.4's and 4.5's start playing like 4.7's and 4.8's. Lots of misdirection and changes of tendencies in the beginning on offense. Not just PA pass. They can recover from a play fake and NE doesn't have the speed on offense to make them pay without Gronk. Start with out of character formations. Lining up Edelman in the back field. Two back sets with Blount and Lewis. Splitting Martellus out one side with a quad set on the other side. From there it's about fake screens or double screens for the first few drives and the fear of being caught slipping will takeover. (Hogan didn't do anything special. The Steelers secondary just let him run wide ass open and weren't reading their keys)

On defense it's basically the same thing except they're going to be playing the tricks on Matty. The point for them won't be to negate the speed of the WR/mismatches that ATL has with their RBs with NE's LB's. The point is to make Matt move his eyes from downfield to wherever he thinks the rush is coming from. All of those weapons are nice, but they're all reliant on Matt to be the point man of it all. While he's been good this year we don't know how he'll react in a game this big if they're not scoring like he's used to the past 9 weeks.

The margin for error for NE is a lot slimmer, but they're smart enough to know how to find cracks and apply pressure. It'll need to be all about jedi mind tricks to cause hesitation because if the Falcons get up two scores and gain that confidence it's gonna be bad if NE gets one dimensional and Brady needs to throw the ball down the field.
 
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