quick thoughts on this epic battle between afc super bowl contenders

[1965southpaw]

Rick Venturi was on JMV today and gave his analysisand while I hate how much he humble brags I do tend to agree with his analysis......He hit on all of the points others have raised here.....the only thing he mentioned that hasn't been covered here is he would give one of 2 offensive game balls to Chud (the other to Jacoby)......reason being he feels that this was the first game in a few years where we have been able to make teams pay for blitzing on us defensively. In his tape review he said that our offense made 6 huge offensive plays by successfullly dealing with their blitz. My memory is not the best and I'm too lazy to look things up but I do recall some of our ugliest losses have been we can't read and adjust to blitzes (ex last few times we played steelers) so this resonated with me.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by 1965southpaw

Rick Venturi was on JMV today and gave his analysisand while I hate how much he humble brags I do tend to agree with his analysis......He hit on all of the points others have raised here.....the only thing he mentioned that hasn't been covered here is he would give one of 2 offensive game balls to Chud (the other to Jacoby)......reason being he feels that this was the first game in a few years where we have been able to make teams pay for blitzing on us defensively. In his tape review he said that our offense made 6 huge offensive plays by successfullly dealing with their blitz. My memory is not the best and I'm too lazy to look things up but I do recall some of our ugliest losses have been we can't read and adjust to blitzes (ex last few times we played steelers) so this resonated with me.

The first half play calling was excellent, playing to the strengths. I am willing to accept that the second half is probably on Pagano going full prevent. Not a huge Chud fan, but he did a great job in the first half.