I am replaying the game, and on the Edelman TD catch early in the 2nd quarter, Fuller slides over to cover him as he releases from the LOS, and Fuller is basically standing flat footed as Edelman runs by him, and he weakly tries to reach out and grab his arm to hold him. In the highlight you can see Fuller so off balance that he is almost falling face first into the turf as he stares at Edelman catching the TD pass. Edelman ran past him so fast that he kinda spun Fuller around as he blew by.

The LOS is the 17, and Fuller is standing on the 12, so Edelman has a full five yards to accelerate, and it seems that Fuller must think that Edelman is going to sit down in the zone in front of him, and is caught off guard when Edelman blows by him.

So, Fuller was basically playing slot corner and got toasted.

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Ragland must really be hurt. He played well against the run last year. The only change has been to NT and his "swollen knees." Otherwise his decline doesn't really make much sense.

Do you even watch the games Clay?

He’s almost always inside.

Yeah, my bad, but when he is outside it is a total mismatch, especially on deep routes.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a leader on defense that demanded accountability, and made sure everyone is in the right position to make plays?

Oh, wait......

Hmmm ... maybe it's the combination of Brady, Edelman, Gronk and Hoyer (as well as the crazy drug addict guy) that made us look so ... defenseless. Oh ... and the japanese appliance french chick isn't too bad either, actually.

(Probably not worth mentioning that we had about half the defense on IR or listed as half-dead in the injury report.)

This is interesting to me; since the beginning of the season, knowledgeable NFL observers have been saying, "The Patriots often start the season slow and use the first few games as an extended pre-season as they refine their schemes." I suppose I'm wondering why that would apply to the Belicheats, but not to other teams ... like us, for example.

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Christ, this defense is never going to be decent.

He's been outside on about 1/4th of his snaps.

Not all the time, but significant enough to be a problem apparently.

Fuller was moving inside all game against the patriots in sub formations. HE only played outside in the base defense.

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Neither is Peters.:shrug:

Bounce back week!

He's good now!!!!!

Peters?!?!?!?! Bwahahaha