The Patriots have allowed 5 rushing touchdowns on the year and 0 since week 8. Tied for second fewest in the league
Week 1 Kareem Hunt Charcandrick West Week 4 Cam Newton Week 5 Doug Martin Week 8 Melvin Gordon
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/2017.htm http://www.espn.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/rushing/sort/rushingTouchdowns/position/defense
Posted Dec 6, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC
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PaTrIoTs RuN DeFeNsE Is In TrOuBlE
You do realize that we're about to face the best RB in the league in less than 2 weeks right?
But we already played Alvin Kamara?
^^^I'm ^^^joking ^^^but ^^^I ^^^really ^^^love ^^^AK
And I fondly remember the last time we faced him. They’re other back was better against us if I remember. Not worried.
Bell didn't even finish the 1st quarter in that game due to injury, don't mix that up with D'Angelo Williams being better. Bell is the best RB alive. C'mon man.
Doesn't even know who Williams is, clearly following old reddit narrative, "not worried" about one of the best offensive weapons in the game. Well-informed this one is...
Yes Bell was injured, but he was having no success. His style of slow-start running doesn’t work so well if the line can sure up in that time.
I think for the most part we've been playing ahead a lot and have sold out to stop big pass plays which allows our opponents to run for 5-6 yards and keeps clock running. This stat tells me we are able to put the clamps down when needed. I think our scheme is going to limit Bell extensively. Unless the Steelers play exponentially better than they have been we will stomp them
It is. Did you watch the Bills game?
I'm not really concerned about giving up chunk yardage to one of the best RBs in the league when you're also watching for the threat of an extremely mobile QB, and you still aren't giving up many points. Teams won't be able to beat us from purely running the ball and they haven't had success in the air. I'm not concerned.
I'm not worried about losing games either, but you can't deny the Patriots have been bad on run defense.
So what about all the other games that the run D has been poor?
Nobodies overly concerned about winning the rest of the games on the schedule but the run defense is still very much a weakness