Love it. Here goes:
1) Biggest Suprise – few options here, but let’s take one from each side of the ball. On offense, I have to go with Brandon LaFell. What a perfect fit and signing at half the cost of Emmanuel Sanders. He brings size and physicality to a wide receiver corps that badly needed it. On defense it’s Patrick Chung. He was an old favorite of the blog and I thought he’d be strictly a role player, but as he proved against the Broncos he can be an every-down player and is a great tool to have on defense.
2) Biggest Flop – Probably Aaron Dobson, but it’s pretty easy to see why the Pats like LaFell over him. I haven’t written him off completely yet, but it’s scary how his career is following a similar trajectory to Chad Jackson. I’m just not sure of a single trait Dobson does better than anyone else. You can’t say that for the rest of the wide receivers.
3) Best 2014 Draft Pick So Far – Bryan Stork. Going to take a closer look at the offensive All 22 today but with him at center and Connolly/Wendell at guard the Pats offensive line has looked strong down the middle. Most impressive was seeing him handle Terrance Knighton, the guy who blew up our gameplan in last year’s AFCCG. Malcolm Butler is probably second at this point even though he wasn’t drafted. Still giving Easley a pass, my hopes remain high on him, we just need some patience until all his explosion comes back, hopefully by the playoffs.
4) Funniest Pats Moment: All of them revolve around Edelman – from his Dunkin Donuts shorts to him and Brady tossing the ball back and forth to see who spikes it, he’s brought a lot of character to the team.
5) Biggest Wow Moment: There’s been a few but Gronk’s catch against the Broncos was a huge head-shaker. Just a ridiculous catch. But in the big picture, the blowouts of the Bengals and Broncos were “Wow’s” that left e shaking my head for days after the game.