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New England Patriots enter another offseason seeking offensive weapons | masslive.com
Let’s face it, during the primary team-building portion of last offseason, the Pats were essentially counting on Gronk and Hernandez to be big parts of their offense. They won’t be under that illusion this offseason.
PatsPropaganda & Frenz Podcast: 2013 Patriots Season Wrap Today at 11am EST
Join Frenz and I as we put a final bow on the 2013 season and look forward to the 2014 offseason and what the Patriots will need to do to get back to and thru the AFC Championship.
Broncos were far better than the Patriots across the board – Sports – The Boston Globe
Cold, hard breakdown if you’re into reading this kind of thing yet…
Here are a collection of some of my favorite stats, mostly Football Outsiders’ DVOA rankings, with the final 2013 values in.
Some dropoff on offense, but considering the changes, they barely registered a blip. Pats offense was still elite.
The defense saw it’s best pass defense since 2007, but the regression in run defense is huge as to be expected without their two two tackles and top two tacklers.
Pats played their most sub defense in four seasons this year, that tends to happen when you essentially run out of defensive linemen. Even with better pass defense and more defensive backs, they regressed on 3rd down. They need to solve that problem and until they do they will never be an elite defense.
Nothing exciting about these numbers either, except that they finally did a good job covering tight ends after two-straight seasons of futility. Maybe Jamie Collins helped play into that a bit. The drop at #2 WR is likely due in part to Talib locking down WR #1 and not many passes going that way.
Not much to remember from this one but here’s a few nice plays. Too few too late, but nothing can hurt the memory of the 2013 Patriots in my mind.
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