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So Kevin, again, it’s been an honor to coach you. Congratulations on a wonderful career. I’ll never forget the many, many accomplishments you had on the field to help make our team successful, and more importantly, what I’ll really remember is all the things you did on the practice field, in the meeting room, in the locker room, as really one of the most important members of our team, with the leadership and example that you set – not just for the other players, but for every one of us who was on that team. Congratulations.

Bill Belichick, uncut, on Kevin Faulk – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

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Notes on PFF’s Patriots grades: Week 5 Broncos

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The ProFootballFocus.com Patriots grades are in for the Broncos game and here are the numbers that stood out to me.

Best Offensive Grade: Mankins 6.0 – dominant effort in all aspects, this is a very positive development considering he didn’t even play last weekend.

Worst Offensive Grade: Wendell -3.3 – just can’t quite wrap my head around Wendell.  His grades have been generally solid until this week.

Best Defensive Grade: Chandler Jones 2.9, 2 QB hits, 3 QB hurries – Jones didn’t stand out to me as the best player on the defense, that would be Ninkovich who came in 3rd on defense with a 1.4.

Worst Defensive Grade: Jermaine Cunningham -2.1 – I didn’t think Cunningham was the worst defender on the field, but the graders didn’t think highly of his pass rush, scoring him just a -1.8.

We suspected it was the first bad week of the season for Vollmer and these scorers agreed giving him a -1.5.

Might be a tough week to read too much into Spikes’ -1.4 (-1.9 pass coverage). Clearly he can still be exploited in the passing game. He was targeted 6 times and gave up 5 catches for 53 yards, including 39 yards in YAC.

Secondary Coverage Rankings:

  1. Dennard 2.4
  2. McCourty 0.4
  3. Dowling 0.2
  4. Arrington -0.1
  5. Wilson -0.3
  6. Chung -1.2

Tom Brady didn’t attempt a pass in the 10-19 yard range. He was 1-for-5 on 20+ yarders, the other 24 attempts were either behind the LOS or 0-9 yards.

The running game was dominant running behind Mankins (4.8) and Solder (3.2). Off left tackle was good too (2.3).

Von Miller scored the highest rating I can remember ever seeing, a 12.3!?!?!

Great day for Jerod Mayo. 3 stops, a sack and a hurry, plus a 1.5 pass rush rating. BB needs to send him more I think.

I never read too much into these ratings but Vince Wilfork is having a down year by their scorers. His five game scores: 2.3, -1.2, -1.7, -0.2, -1.1. His -2.1 pass rush was the worst on the team against the Broncos.

See all our PFF notes here. And for all our written Pats analysis click here.