The New England Patriots employed a simple game-plan last evening vs the Indianapolis Colts - run the ball down their throats. The new running back, Jonus Gray, a replacement for Stevan Ridley who was lost to season ending IR - rushed an absurd 38 times for 199 yards and 4 touchdowns. The Colts chose to stay in nickel defense to attempt covering Gronk, but it left them exposed in the running game as that left a small defender on Gronk and the Patriots took full advantage pounding the ball over and over.
Gray was a wrecking ball last night - running between the tackles on smash plays again and again like it was instant replay - nearly identical plays over and over. The results looked the same as well - with Gray ripping off yardage against the Colts wilting defense - consistently getting 7 yards or more on a carry - and averaging an insane 5.2 per carry - which is a nightmare for NFL d's against the Patriots, who focus on one Tom Brady.
Tom didn't have his best game last night and made one of his first terrible interceptions of the year - truly a bad throw. The Colts kept playing the pass no matter how many yards the Patriots ran for - so were not lulled when Brady called play-actions -getting blitzers home and causing two first half interceptions - one of which Brady called 'dumb'. However, in the second half - there were no mistakes - or deviation from the plan. He simply turned around and handed it to Jonus Gray - who crushed all hopes of the Colts by running them over.
Gray was a wrecking ball last night - running between the tackles on smash plays again and again like it was instant replay - nearly identical plays over and over. The results looked the same as well - with Gray ripping off yardage against the Colts wilting defense - consistently getting 7 yards or more on a carry - and averaging an insane 5.2 per carry - which is a nightmare for NFL d's against the Patriots, who focus on one Tom Brady.
Tom didn't have his best game last night and made one of his first terrible interceptions of the year - truly a bad throw. The Colts kept playing the pass no matter how many yards the Patriots ran for - so were not lulled when Brady called play-actions -getting blitzers home and causing two first half interceptions - one of which Brady called 'dumb'. However, in the second half - there were no mistakes - or deviation from the plan. He simply turned around and handed it to Jonus Gray - who crushed all hopes of the Colts by running them over.