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Clare Cooper

Have the Patriots lost their identity?

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Patriots fans saw a season without Gronk, then one without Gronk and Brady. Well now there will be one without Gronk, Brady and Edelman. Three of arguably the best Patriots of the last decade. 

As a tight end enthusiast, losing Rob Gronkowski was harsh for me but Tom Brady was our leader, our quarterback, he drove the team. And now Patriots fans, now maybe it’s the heart…

Julian Edelman is small and tough, focused and driven… He is passionate. A passionate Patriot, there’s not much better. 

He wasn’t THE best wide receiver in the league if you go by statistics. But who cares about statistics right now? This guy is fearless. He is simply put… Awesome. 

And now Patriots fans, have we lost our identity? 

Who remains from the Patriots way? 

WE DO!!

Sure, we’ve loved and lost. We will never forget those that fought passionately. Gave themselves on the field. Six Super Bowls baby!!

We have bore witness to greatness, over and over again. And it’s difficult sometimes to not look at the past, the future is so unknown. 

Now it’s fair to say the stock of passionate Patriots isn’t fully depleted. There’s plenty of love for the defence, the offensive line and the secondary. David Andrews, Matthew Slater and James White to just kick off the list. 

But! Players will come and go. We will cry, we will cheer, we will be here. We are Patriots Nation and we will go on! 

Fandom – A love affair with passion

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Patriots fans are passionate, opinionated, smart and a multitude of things mixed together. Whoever they may be, we are all one, we are all Patriots. 

Free agency is really only a few days of action and we are whipped up into a frenzy of excitement, of what ifs and trepidation, of musings, of mock line ups of who will fit the Patriots way… 

Temperatures rise, minds race and tears flow… and as fans we have a love affair with our team. We agonise, we desire, we hate… the torrent of emotions that we have to go through is crazy, so why do we do it to ourselves?

PASSION

We get attached to a player, only for them to leave or get traded and we holler, we get angry, we shed tears. And the sheer variety of fans opinions of players makes it even worse sometimes.

You adore a guy, he’s your favourite… another fan thinks he’s trash.. HOW DARE THEY?! 

PASSION

We spend hours tolling over lists of college kids, mock draft after mock draft of who we think our team should chose, who we want our team to pick. 

Taking on board piles and piles of information, of statistics, opinion pieces, podcasts, columns, social media posts, we drink it all in unable to quench the flames of curiosity that burn.

PASSION

At the end of the day we all want the same thing; we want our team to win. The team we love.

They suit up in the colours we wear, the jerseys we buy and they take to that field and they fight for us with passion.

It binds us together as a community, we argue with each other, we disagree but we support and we are together, as one, as Patriots fans. We believe, we insist and most of all we never, ever give up.

Stay Passionate Patriots Nation!

Dancing through free agency – Are the Patriots taking too many steps back in moving forwards?

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The signing of Jonnu Smith and Hunter Henry had the world of Patriots fans spinning (not all, granted but I’m thinking a lot.) Whilst this is obviously not a step backwards, the tight endage for 2019 and 2020 had been classed as kinda sketchy, the taking of two seriously productive, almost ‘star’ tight ends ventures back to those days of Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez. Now, no one (well I hope no one) is saying that the recent tight end signings of the New England Patriots are the same as the two aforementioned tight ends but Smith and Henry do give the option of a heavily talented two tight end match up. Back to how they once were… maybe?

Now the signings at wide receiver have some people mildly puzzled, whilst dropping a reasonable amount of cap space on Kendrick Bourne and Nelson Agholor, Coach left some serious names out there like Kenny Golladay and JuJu Smith-Schuster, just to throw around a few names. But, but… is this the way of the Patriots? The last time they picked up a Mr Super Star Wide Receiver may be back in 2007 when they traded for Randy Moss (so not a technical free agency signing) and we possibly have to head all the way back to 2002 in the drafting of Deion Branch to really feel any wide receiver appreciation trembling!

So, conclusion on the current receiver signings, same as usual I guess, dancing on the spot. Besides, they signed two serious tight ends… it’s all groovy baby!

A few familiar names will remain in the locker room Deatrich Wise, Carl Davis, Cody Davis… defensive spots kept there.

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Diagnosis: Free Agency Fever

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With five guys on the defensive line hitting free agency, as well as let’s count, two quarterbacks, two running backs, two wide receivers, four pieces of offensive line a couple of linebackers, two cornerbacks, two safeties and a kicker (phew!) it’s no wonder we are starting to panic a little on how the Patriots are going to quell the bleeding this 2021 season. 

Sure it would seem that free agency is starting to heat up all over the NFL at the moment, with many teams struggling for cap space, there are some big cap casualties that are going to be hitting the market.

Of course not all gashes left in free agency need to be bandaged with a current NFL player, with just (at the time of writing this) 8 weeks from the draft, interest in the fresh young college talent is reaching fever pitch too.

Speculation is rife around the Patriots, and we all know a lot of that hinges on the fact that no one (well hopefully not NO ONE) knows who will be the starter at quarterback. If you go on simply signed at the moment the guy who throws the ball will either be Jarrett Stidham or Jake Dolegala……… and a lot of fans feel that’s a total flat line. Personally, my perspective is without giving him plenty of starting games, the true picture on Stid the Kid isn’t fully developed, but I know many disagree and that the very reasonable argument is if they thought he was good he would have played more…. that’s fair, still subject to argument that Cam Newton was an opportunity they just didn’t want to pass up. Ifs buts and candy and nuts I guess.

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