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Receivers. Branch is done; Welkah will probably test the market, and the Bear Jew is limited. Torey Smith-like ability to get behind the defense is needed.

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I’d agree, but I think finding the proverbial deep threat that is also smart enough to play in the Patriots system will be a tough challenge. Randy Moss was special in that way.

There’s a growing contingent of Pats fans who are okay letting Welker walk, and spending that money on defensive backs and new receivers. I can’t say I’m totally opposed to that. But I think they need at least two new receivers who can play. I’d be fine with just a bigger, physical receiver on the outside even if he’s not a straight up burner like Torey Smith. Smith fits the Ravens, run, then play-action toss deep offense, but the Pats will require more than a one trick pony.

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Former 49ers head coach Bill Walsh’s first book lives on as a Super Bowl road map – ESPN The Magazine – ESPN

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Former 49ers head coach Bill Walsh’s first book lives on as a Super Bowl road map – ESPN The Magazine – ESPN

Great read on what is the greatest book on football ever written. While I don’t own one I did take a copy out from my local library a couple years ago. It’s as dense as they say. I need to go back and take another look…

The book reinforced Belichick’s own belief in detailed planning, which is why he calls it and Jack Welch and the GE Way the two most influential books of his career.

FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Word of Muth: Patriots Exit Exam

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FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Word of Muth: Patriots Exit Exam

Seems like in Muth’s opinion if there was one guy to upgrade on the line it’d probably be Connolly.

Wendell is exactly what you want from the modern center: he’s agile and effective at the second level, he’s solid in pass protection, and he has a real knack for knowing how a defense’s pieces fit together. He does a nice job of noticing when a defensive tackle is rushing at a strange angle or pace (either because he is stunting or there is a blitz coming behind him), and how that affects where other rushers might be coming from. This allows him to get into position to block blitzes before they fully form.

Bill Belichick schools the media on 3-4 vs. 4-3 and why debate is ‘media fabrication’

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Bill Belichick schools the media on 3-4 vs. 4-3 and why debate is ‘media fabrication’

“Honestly, I think that’s something that is a media fabrication. There are a lot of different alignments out there. You see 4-3 teams use odd spacing. You see 3-4 teams use even spacing. You have 11 players, you can put them in various positions. Whether you want to put it on the pre-game depth chart as one thing or another, I think is a little bit overrated.”

Why is it overrated?

“You play different fronts, you play different spacing, and you teach the techniques of your defense,” Belichick explained. “That is what consistent, techniques that are taught in different defensive systems, whether those teams go from three-man line to a four-man line, or a four-man line to an odd spacing line, or overs-to-unders, or unders-to-overs, or over-wides, whatever you want to call it. They will continue to play the same fundamental techniques as they’ve been teaching for the entire year, for the most part. I think that’s what teaching defensive fundamental football is about. It’s about fundamentals. Wherever you put them, you’ve got to people other people in complementary places, however you decide to do that.