The position I take a little bit of issue with is his rating the RB's 4 out of 5. Bedard states "Thanks to some really nice work by the offensive line, the running backs didn’t have a high degree of difficulty and got what was blocked." Huh? The stats say we rushed 25 times for 115 yards, but take out the Edelman end around and that stat reads 24 for 68 yards (2.84 avg). Go one step further and take out the late 11 yard rush by Ridley and 13 yard rush by Vereen and the stats read 22 rushes for 44 yards. I know you can fit stats to fit any argument but throughout the game (mainly qtrs 1-3) it seemed like every time we tried to run, Ridley got stuffed and either lost a yard or two or had no gain. I know this is more an indictment on the OL (4.5 out of 5 from Bedard) but just dont see what Bedard saw. Before you beat me up, I still love the OL and all our backs, and am thrilled with all aspects of the game Sunday, just didnt see our RB's or OL (in the running game) playing as well as Bedard saw I guess.

I agree with you, Quagmire. I think with Mankins and Conolly out, the run blocking suffered somewhat. So it was a tough day at the office for Ridley and Vereen.

I'm hoping to see either one or both starting guards back on thursday, and a subsequent return to form for the running game.

Thought the pass blocking was first rate, run blocking not so much.  

I will bet in every game if you take out 3 of the longest rushes you end up with similar numbers in most games.

Take away all of their rushes and they would have rushed for 0 yards.  So maybe it was the worst game ever.

The funniest part was the halftime rant by Marino, who said the Colts would come back and upset the Pats at Gillette.

Ten minutes later the spread was 21.

Bedard is a troll

In response to Quagmire3's comment:

Also the Colts gameplanned to stop the run so give credit where its due. This is why Brady chewed them out. Some teams will choose one over the other but as long as you take advantage, whats the big deal??

In response to DanishPastry's comment:

yeah, but we still have OL like Solder and Vollmer, the TE corp to help with blocking. I'm not convinced Mankins and Connolly are a huge part of blocking for RB corp.  It was sort of an off day for the RBs.

In response to anonymis's comment:

last time Logan was out, we had one of our best day running so I concur. This was more of one of those rare times when a team chose to take away the run as opposed to Brady and lets hope that continues because that bodes well. I know our 2 SB losses were directly correlated to the Giants focusing only on # 12 because of our lack of running game. So maybe the production this year will take some pressure off of # 12