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Originally Posted by tk13
The problem is we had these exact same discussions last year when the offense was struggling a bit. That's why teams play this way. It's why Belichick has done it for years. Most teams honestly just aren't good enough to avoid shooting themselves in the foot a few times a game. So you always feel like if you'd just made a couple extra plays you'd win, but you never do because it's just hard for any offense to pull off 12-15 play drives over and over. Guys drop passes or a RB misses the hole or the QB misses an open guy or there's a penalty and the drive gets stalled.
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Yeah, the consistent efficiency of '18-20 was pretty damn remarkable.... get to 3rd and short, convert 3rd down, and sometimes connect for 50 yards plus. And it's such a fine line, as you said... on any given drive, it's one holding call or one dropped pass or one dumb playcall up the gut on 2nd and 9 to make it 3rd and long.
And people last year acted like the offense hadn't been good at those long drives before, but they were actually
really good... they just weren't having to do it each and every possession.