Can silga push the pocket? Cause quite frankly, if he can, this is depth at D tackle we need to be a top 5 defense. Has Vrabel made any comments about the kids coming out of OHIO state? Last year, reporters raved about Cannon at guard, now its ” he’s a tackle”.. what gives?

I’d like to do an extensive study of Siliga because he’s got a lot of buzz around him with knowledgeable Pats fans this offseason. 

With Chris Jones and potentially Armstead and Tommy Kelly, I’m not as concerned with how well he pushes the pocket. If Wilfork comes back and we have Siliga too, it gives us five diverse defensive tackles that can rotate and mix and match to execute any gameplan.

Siliga is most promising because he’ll be able to either spell or at least try to replace Wilfork. Let’s say Wilfork comes back, I’d vote for a 60-40 rotation with him and Siliga. This also doesn’t include heavy passing games where those two might play just 40 percent of the overall snaps.

The days of playing Wilfork 80-90 percent of the game are over regardless. It will be a “by committee” approach now and I think that is for the best.