This is a remarkable split in the “Defense vs. Types of Receivers” numbers. Patriots are No. 1 against WR1. Then they are 30th vs WR2, 32nd vs WR Other, 29th vs TE, and 24th vs RB. WR1 yds vs. Patriots: Brown PHI 79, Hill MIA 40, Wilson NYJ 48, Lamb DAL 36, Olave NO 12, Adams LV 29.

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  1. It sort of makes sense. Our secondary injuries have been so bad that outside of ensuring the other teams #1 doesn’t beat us we ran out of talent to slow down anyone else.

    Jack Jones hasn’t played, Marcus was injured in game 2 and on IR, Gonzalez was injured in game 4 and on IR, and Jon Jones has missed 3-4 games

    For the 4 games Gonzalez played he locked down the other teams #1.

  2. Feel like this is definitely 1 part “taking away what they do best” and 1 part most of the year having a true CB1 with Gonzo then a huge dropoff to the CB2 and 3 being guys like Bryant and Wade(who FWIW have performed admirably for what they are which is limited depth pieces)

  3. I get that Jake Ferguson and Michael Mayer had 70+ yards against us… but when Goedert puts up a 0, Smythe and Conklin were under 30 yards and Moreau had 6 yds and a touchdown — that’s 29th in the league?

  5. Kinda in line with the absurd run of CB injuries we’ve had so far. I thought our injury luck with cbs in 2021 and 2022 was kinda bad, but this year it has been like everyone lol. Cool to have JC back though

  6. This kind of leaves out the fact that Gonzo was fucking lockdown to start the year and snuffed Brown, Hill, and Wilson out.

  7. I mean, this is how BB has always done it. Scheme away your #1 option and trust that his defensive depth pieces are just better than your offensive depth pieces. The injuries to the secondary just mean that the depth assumption isn’t true anymore

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