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Mike Dussault

Which season that the pats went to the Super Bowl whether they won or lost is your favorite and why

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That’s a tough one but 2007 and 2012 were extra special to me.

Why not a magical Super Bowl-winning season you might ask? Because back then was long before any of this blogging stuff. 2007 was the season I started blogging and for obvious reasons that was just a crazy ride on and off the field.

By 2012 this blog was fully realized so the trip to the Super Bowl with all my fellow fans and readers was extra special.

Nothing can take away the experience as a fan of winning three Super Bowls, but being a blogger and feeling almost a part of it in 2012 was pretty cool too.

Don’t Stop Frontin’: The Mind-Boggling Multiplicity of NFL Defenses « Grantland

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Don’t Stop Frontin’: The Mind-Boggling Multiplicity of NFL Defenses « Grantland

Good read, even if there isn’t a single mention of the Patriots, one the originators of the multiple front defense. As I’ve been saying for years, 3-4 vs. 4-3 is just semantics now, those vanilla defenses are just too easy for modern offenses to pick apart. Now you need a combination of athletes and space-eaters, moving around the front and not giving away their intention. Who’s blitzing? Who’s two-gapping? Who’s dropping? It gives the offense a ton to think about rather than the old straight-up 3-4 where it will be the same thing down after down.

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Third down, honestly, I’m just gonna put it out there, I’d much rather rush or blitz than cover,” the New England Patriots linebacker said. “Zone, man, or whatever. Third down is a fun down whether you’re covering or whatever you’re doing, because you can do different kind of things and come at the quarterback all kind of ways. As long as I’m able to be on the field on third down, or whatever they ask me to do, I’m willing to do it.

Patriots LB Dont’a Hightower would like the opportunity to serve as a pass rusher | masslive.com

I think between Collins, Mayo and Hightower, along with Ninkovich and Chandler, the Pats will have the ability to be extremely creative on passing downs. All are athletic and able to perform in space, but there’s also a wide array of pass rush potential.

Hightower was stuck more in Mayo’s role last season, but as he slides back toward a combination of strongside and middle linebacker, it will free him up to do more attacking. I think he’s at his best at the line of scrimmage where he can use his strength, but he also can use that to get through blocks and after the QB.

Should be fun to watch this defense.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/hightower-patriots/

Which do you think makes teams more cautious about prospects: injury prone or character problems

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I’d go with character problems. I’ve never really believed that “injury prone” is truly a thing. There needs to be a study on it. There are certainly a small percentage of guys that truly are frail, but just because a guy has a couple injuries, even if they’re major, doesn’t necessarily make him injury prone.

The way “injury prone” gets thrown around you’d think 50 percent of the guys in the league are injury prone. Football’s a tough sport, a lot of times you’re just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And there’s certainly an art to avoiding unnecessary contact.

The real injury prone guys are the ones with constant muscle problems -pulled hamstrings, hip flexors, stuff like that. Pretty much what we saw out of Ras-I Dowling.

But contact injuries can happen to anyone. Sometimes it’s just bad luck.