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It’s the Wells Deflategate Report!

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It’s the Wells Deflategate Report!

If you feel like reading it, here it is in its entire 250-page glory. How perfect that it comes out right after the draft when the dead period of the NFL offseason begins!

I was about to whip up this whole long post about it after trudging through it, but I realized what does it matter? Everyone is already in their corners, falling somewhere between “Suspend Tom Brady” to “The Pats were framed!”.

The truth is somewhere in the middle, and while I do think Jim McNally did let some air out of the balls after they were measured, I just can’t get by how ridiculous this whole thing is. We’re talking about an undetectable amount of pressure in a football.

Why is there an acceptable range? It’s not like underinflated balls are magically better. Easier to grip? Yes. Harder to throw with velocity? That too. It’s a tradeoff and as everyone can agree: HAD NO EFFECT ON THE AFC CHAMPIONSHIP.

So yeah, that’s what this is ultimately all about… less than a pound of PSI in footballs. 

This is a football blog. I like football. I don’t like pouring through investigative reports and then trying to defend or condemn the football team I write about.

Now I don’t think it’s out of the question Brady gets suspended a game and personally I would kind of welcome it. Give Garoppolo a start while Brady stews watching the Pats raise the Super Bowl banner.

That has another revenge tour ala 2007 written all over it, whether it’s what Brady truly deserves or not.

Otherwise I’m just ready to put this whole episode behind us and move on to 2015.

I always felt that safety was a temporary gig for dmac and i find myself hoping that he can come back down to corner and let harmon or richards take over for him. having an updated version of the corner dmac was in 2010 should give the new front 7 a bit more time to wreck havoc no?

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Jeff Howe tweeted yesterday that the plan is currently to leave McCourty at safety and while I think that makes sense, I wouldn’t totally rule out him moving back to corner at some point due to injuries or poor performance.

The advantage of McCourty at safety is that he can help get everyone lined up and on the same page. If he’s isolated as a corner you’re going to lose that. 

If everything checks out with La’el Collins with the police should/would they give him a shot

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Obviously the Pats have to walk a fine line here after the whole Hernandez thing, but in terms of the player Collins is, I think he could possibly be a day one starter at left guard. His aggressive playing temperament is certainly a perfect fit for what they want (and need) out of that spot. 

I don’t know how much Shaq and Jackson will bring to the party. One of them will hopefully take the right guard spot immediately. But I am not sure I see a real good left guard option on the roster outside of bringing back Connolly…which would be fine.

But putting Collins in the mix would really make for an incredibly promising young trio of inside linemen, something they need more than anything else on offense.

PatsPosits: Fonzie (Dennard) has jumped the roster

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The short and somewhat tumultuous Patriots career of Alfonzo Dennard came to an end today as the team released him. It’s somewhat of a surprise given Dennard had started his fair share of games as an outside corner in 2012 and 2013 and the Pats don’t really have any other proven outside starting corner on the roster, at least that has experience in the system.

Dennard’s first two years were marred with legal trouble but even though those were cleared up this season he ended up buried on the depth chart and unable to transition to the slot, a place he might picked up some more playing time.

It seems impossible to know where the line between performance, attitude and injuries was for Dennard, but some details are now coming to light.

Reportedly Dennard didn’t always have the commitment necessary in Foxboro, so it would seem the writing was on the wall for a while now. With multiple rookie free agents being signed, cutting Dennard not only opened up a roster spot but also freed up nearly $1 million in cap space.

Not much changes as far as the cornerbacks go, it’s going to be an open competition and the best three guys will win the starting roles out of camp. While Dennard had some good man coverage abilities and was a feisty corner, he was undersized and useless in the 2013 AFC Championship when forced to cover Demaryius Thomas. 

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Flowers was a second-team All-SEC selection in 2014, racking up 13.5 tackles for loss, five sacks and three forced fumbles, but he fell to the fourth round because he’s a bit of a tweener at 6’2" and 266 pounds. Flowers shows surprisingly good field speed in coverage for a player his size, but he’s not always explosive off the snap and he tends to wrestle more than he pursues at times. Still, Bill Belichick saw him as a good value with the 101st pick.

2015 NFL draft: Division champs’ best late-round picks – NFL – SI.com

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