but logically it would make more sense to line up Edelman on the outside and send him deep a few times, they won't even be expecting it, they might be all over a screen depending on how they execute it, but I guess it wouldn't hurt the run a few screens. Geno with another pick but still has a shot at winning this game.
Did they just run a screen with Edelman? i looked up and it looked like one, and he was tackled by several defenders close to the los.
I want to see a bomb to Edelman for two reasons, to help the Pats score, and to help his ypc, he has 13 catches averaging 6 ypc, thats just very low
You have more football knowledge then me but I think you are wrong on this one. Edelman is returning punts, and doing it well, you don't put a guy without evasiveness returning punts. I think he played the welker (slot) extremely well. That stuff about YAC doesn't apply to a guy that catches balls underneath the linebackers. Plus he was well guarded as they knew that was a Patriot strategy.
When you consider how important the slot guy is to the Patriot offense I think you have to put your best guy there and that was Edelman.
This game was noteworthy in that the hands down best non-QB on the field was a White man. He was returning punts, moving the chains, no other player had the "star" power that he did. In a way the game revolved around him. I do agree that he should have been targeted deep. He was the only weapon the Pats had so they should have sent him deep a few times. I did notice one deep pass to him (badly overthrown) but there should have been more.