Their primary focus was to stop the run...they didn't care much what the Rams did in the passing game if they got the run stopped. When you play Belicheck you have to ask yourself what is he going to take away from us? He took away the run with big people on the field....they have 2 separate front line defensive
platoons...a run stopping group that is big, heavy and powerful...when it got into long yardage situations, they brought in the pass rush group and they did a
remarkable job.
No Ram runner, with few exceptions, had a clean hole to run in. Gurley had no place to go....had 2 good runs, and one was called back by a phantom holding call.
The Pats started out stopping the run and ended stopping the run.....with 30 minutes to adjust, the Rams never did....which was amazing to me.
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