They are 18-0 at home when Brady and Moss have played together .. and that's as long as I've been following the team.
They had a lead in every road game this year - and a halftime lead in 4 of the 5 defeats this year.
Think of them as like that race horse that goes out totally winging and runs huge pace figures but stops in deep stretch.
This is season #12 for Moss ... and he's smoked an awful lot of weed over the years. The lungs aren't as good - especially when they travel and are on the road.
They need to run the football a little more and ration things out a little better. If you pass almost every down - and have Moss streaking down the field so he takes the safety with him and opens up huge space for the underneath passing game - that's great .. but he's going to have an empty tank late in the game.
No other player in the leauge is asked to do that much running.
The defense isn't as terrible as you think. The Saints game was in a brutal place to play, against a great offensive unit, and was a road game on Thanksgiving week when all kinds of distractions were present.
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