| Player | YDS | RTG | TD | INT | COMP % | YPA |
| QB 1: | 238 | 69.3 | 0 | 1 | 64.3 (27/42) | 5.67 |
| QB 2: | 182 | 65.5 | 0 | 1 | 63.6 (21/33) | 5.52 |
You'll find it amazing when QB 1 identified as Peyton Manning yesterday and QB 2 is Chad Pennington on Saturday. The Patriots basically turned Manning into Pennington. Check out their longest completions - Manning's was only for 18 yds where Pennington's was 30 yds.
6 comments:
this is why the pats won 2 of the past 3 superbowls
when did the jets last win a super bowl?
exactly
with these teams running the west coast offense - shut down the screen pass and you can win
look at the pats - who were their defensive backs in that game?
manning should have had a field day
What are you talking about?
I don't understand your post.
what's there not to understand?
the colts and jets run a west coast offense
the pats and steelers shut down the screen play for the colts and jets
this hampered their offense enough (as reflected in the QB performance)
thus victory for pats and steelers
First of all, the Colts do NOT run a West Coast offense.
Secondly, in case you forgot the following teams all used West Coast offenses. West Coast offense is such a broad term, but let's just look at these teams and see what they have in common:
'94 49ers, '96 Packers, '97-98 Broncos, '02 Buccaneers
Then consider these fairly successful teams as well (just off the top of my head):
'02-'04 Philadelphia Eagles, '04 Atlanta Falcons, '02 Raiders, '97 Packers
Random thought: I know the Jets run a West Coast offense, but if your team has the league's leading rusher, can you really say that the success of your offense is the West Coast offense?
This goes for Seattle as well...
This posting has been entirely misinterpreted, I think.
My point was that the Patriots found a way to essentially turn Peyton Manning into Chad Pennington which completely ruins their chances of running their offense well because they rely so heavily on the deep threat (not a Pennington-esque strategy).
The West Coast offense stuff is a total tangential discussion. In current lingo, I think all a West Coast offense means is that you use a specific terminology for your offense, but the principles behind each scheme have varied so much that it's hard to generalize and say all WC offenses are based on short passes, long passes or the running games.
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