This game, honestly, was terrible. The defense allowed 17 in the first half. The offense scored NOTHING in the first half. But on the positive side, the second half was penominal. Putting up 27 points and allowing 7. So what can we learn from the game?
1) Even With Bad Reffing, New England Can Win
I know reffing is always a bad excuse, but the reffing was absolutely horrendous in the first half.. Several bad PI calls on the defense, while not calling a couple PI calls on the Miami Offense and Defense. Including the Miami D Interfering on Welker all the first half., as seen in the picture posted at the top of this article. If the Offense and Defense stopped making mistakes early on, the penalties probably wouldn't have killed NE so bad.
2) The New England Defense Needs Better Gap Control
For a lot of the first half, Reggie Bush killed New England. Because New England's lineman and backers didn't stay in their rushing lanes. That consistently allowed Bush to find a hole and hit it hard. If the defense could have contained the run better early on, maybe the first half would have turned out different.
3) When the Offensive Line Is Doing Their Job, Brady Is More Accurate
The first half, Brady was being hit very early in plays and his accuracy was bad because of it, underthrowing Welker a lot. I don't know how you underthrow a 5'9 WR, but he was doing it. But in the second half, Belichick changed who was playing where on the offensive line, and the protection got much better, and Brady got in his groove. And what happened? NE overcame a 21 point defeceit.
4) The Defense Needs To Cover The Deep Ball
The deep ball killed the New England defense all day against the Dolphins. Whether it was to Hartline or Marshall, it ate the New England Defense alive. The defense needs to start double covering these taller recievers because our DBs are very short. So if you single cover any tall WR, the QB will see it and throw it up the tall man.
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