2014-2015 New England Patriots Highlights
Great watch, thanks to @PatriotsSB49 for the link.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/2014-2015-new-england-patriots-highlights-great/
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Tom Brady runs 40-yard dash at 2000 NFL Scouting Combine
He ran the 40-yd Dash in 5.28 seconds.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/mzilly123-tom-brady-runs-40-yard-dash-at-2000-nfl/
I know that over the last 14 years we’ve been spoiled and each year the Patriots are in the hunt to win a title. That being said, with the uncertainty of the game (injuries, free agency, player development) my feeling is that the Patriots have maybe two more legitimate shots at a title with Brady. It would be an amazing end to his career if he could win 3 Super Bowls at the start and 3 at the end.
Sounds about right, at least with Brady. I think a lot of people are too quick to write off the Patriots’ Super Bowl hopes immediately after Brady retires, especially if Garoppolo continues to develop. This was the youngest team ever to win a Super Bowl, and when Brady retires they’ll have a defense in its prime. All they’ll need is a quarterback who can make the right plays and not the killer mistakes and they’ll be in contention just like the ‘01 Pats or the ’13 Seahawks.
Leading up to that game, Josh [McDaniels] was like ‘We’re not going to be like how everybody else played them.’ We’re going to be in attack mode. We’re not going to sit back and let them dictate the style of football we want to play. We’re going to go out there, attack those guys, keep those guys on their heels. Make those d-linemen, instead of playing 40 snaps a game, we want them to play 60 snaps. Over the course of the game, we got down 10 points, everybody was calm. We knew they couldn’t stop us.
Brandon LaFell
In 2014, the Patriots were the worst team in the league in Power Success, allowing opposing offenses to convert 22 of 27 runs (81 percent) in important short-yardage situations (third or fourth down with two yards or less to go and first- or second-and-goal from the two-yard-line or closer). Even the Patriots’ few stops came against the league’s worst running teams. Teams not ranking in the bottom quarter of the league in Football Outsiders’ rushing DVOA ratings converted 16 of 17 chances (94 percent) against the Patriots’ run defense.
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | Four Downs: AFC East
Struggling to understand how they were this bad, because the run defense was generally pretty solid in the second half of the season. Something to look closer at because at just 27 plays, it is a pretty small sample set.
If you have to choose as to who stays— Vereen or Ridley?
Vereen. No question.
And I think what a lot of people are forgetting is that 2014 was the first healthy season of Vereen’s career. He played just 8 games in 2013. So it will be a bit of buyer beware if a team wants to give him a huge contract based on what he did in the Super Bowl.
I don’t think the Pats are ready to hand the reigns to James White and the passing-down back is a huge role in the Patriots offense. It will be interesting to see how it plays out, because I don’t think they’ll be willing to spend much on him. They really can’t.
As for Ridley, the one-year prove it deal coming off the injury makes sense, but I could also see them rolling with Blount/Gray/Gaffney and maybe taking an early-down back in the draft. I think they’re in okay shape regardless.