Dolphins Feel Patriots Repeatedly Running Same Play 'Disrespectful'

The New England Patriots ran the ball on 13 out of 16 plays during a 7 minute drive in their win over the Dolphins last Sunday. The repetitive running plays bothered some Dolphins, Brian Biggane of the Palm Beach Post reports. “It was very disappointing,” linebacker Karlos Dansby said Thursday. “Instead of getting two yards they were getting four, and instead of us getting off the field they were getting first downs.” Dansby blamed the inability to force a fourth down on “technique errors.” “Like I might have been a half-step over from where I should have been,” he said. “As a result we weren’t executing. We were just a little out of place.” Six of the 13 runs were in exactly the same hole, over left guard. That didn’t sit well with reserve tackle Tony McDaniel, who was the only lineman to have a tackle in the series. “It really (ticked) me off,” he said. “It was disrespectful to us to run the same play over and over and be successful. “Normally when somebody’s driving down the field you just think, ‘Well, they just had a good run there,’ but you run the same play over and over, as a competitor that (ticks) me off.” “It is disrespectful,” tackle Randy Starks agreed, “but you’ve got to stop it. We never stopped it, so I’d keep running the same play, too.” Source: The Redzone Attached Thumbnails