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Archives for July 31, 2012

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Belichick on Brandon Bolden:

“It seems like he’s done a decent job in the areas we’ve asked him to work in, special teams,” Belichick said. “He can catch the ball, has some skill in the passing game, and he had some production in the running game in college. We’ve only seen that in drills, we haven’t seen that in live competition yet, but based on college, it looked like he could run the ball. Pretty smart guy who can catch, play in the kicking game.”

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://www.patspropaganda.com/belichick-on-brandon-bolden-it-seems-like-hes/

Tom Brady was among league’s worst in ‘bad passes’ last season | masslive.com

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Tom Brady was among league’s worst in ‘bad passes’ last season | masslive.com

Wow, some really interesting numbers in here, that aren’t necessarily all that positive for TFB which of course is rare. He was just .4 percent better than Mark Sanchez. Crazy huh?

Brady completely missed his mark – short, long or wide – on more than 17 percent of his passes last season, according to numbers compiled by Stats, Inc.


Here’s the only explanation I can come up with, an incompletion is better than an interception, right? I don’t think there’s any question that when a play is not there Brady will not try to force the pass.

It’s also worth pointing out, as the article does, how much the Pats didn’t have much success on passes more than 20 yards down the field last year either.

Put it all together and it’s still hard to see how it exactly comes out this way, but it’s something to monitor this year. However it does make me think that he was absolutely surgical in the middle of the field. Wish we could see how many, if any, of those passes were bad.

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and-the-distance:

Top 100 NFL Players of all time ( according to NFL.com)

49 – Mike Haynes – July 1, 1953

Defensive Back – New England Patriots, Los Angeles Raiders

https://www.patspropaganda.com/and-the-distance-top-100-nfl-players-of-all/

New England Patriots training camp ups and downs – ESPN Boston

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New England Patriots training camp ups and downs – ESPN Boston

Good recap of who the ESPN Boston crew thinks are up and down so far in practice. One of my old favorites that hasn’t gotten much love here lately is Dane Fletcher, who they had as an “up”.

Fletcher is one of three players who have appeared on the first team of the Patriots’ core four special-teams units. A prominent special-teams role can be enough to earn a player a spot on a team by itself, but Fletcher has shown up as a linebacker, too. He displayed both power and shiftiness in a blitz pickup drill on Sunday, held down run fits during live 11-on-11 action, and hasn’t shied from contact. The Patriots have developed some depth in the linebacking core, but 2011 starter Brandon Spikes remains extremely limited in practice. That has opened the door for Fletcher to receive increased reps, and he’s answered the bell.

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Lloyd shredded non-contact OTAs and minicamps, and his head-turning performances filled with highlight-reel receptions have translated to the live practice field. Brady confirmed that Lloyd has a stranglehold on New England’s offense, seeing as he spent two and a half of the past three years in Josh McDaniels’ system. Fantasy fanatics concerned with “mouths to feed” should fear not. McDaniels will run a more vertical-oriented attack than outgoing OC Bill O’Brien’s, and Lloyd is the Patriots’ new vertical weapon. He’s also McDaniels’ boy. McD will scheme to get Lloyd the rock.

Jumping off the Page – Football Daily Dose – Rotoworld.com

https://www.patspropaganda.com/lloyd-shredded-non-contact-otas-and-minicamps-and/