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I find it hard to believe they’ll let either of them walk. Not a lot in the pipeline at either position. Vollmer’s had his injury issues, Cannon could be headed to guard. Unless they think Harmon could be a better FS than McCourty there’s no one else there.
The cap does go up next year and with Hernandez’ money potentially coming off the books, the Pats will have the dough to address Solder, McCourty and Revis.
Here’s the latest including all rookie signings, including some tryout names. Rookies are in yellow and as a rule I put them near the bottom of the depth chart. Players coming off injuries are in italics.
Congrats to Ty Law! One of the all-time Patriot greats is definitely deserving. Now we’ll get to see Darrelle Revis, who hails from the same hometown as Law, don the #24 this season. Two elite cornerbacks with elite cornerback looks.
Check out a great Ty Law photo gallery from Patriots.com here.
Congratulations to Ty Law, your 2014 #Patriots Hall of Fame inductee! pic.twitter.com/iBL0c4P2sY
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) May 19, 2014
A closer look at how Tom Brady reacts to being hit | masslive.com
What this shows is that Brady gets better over his first two hits and then slowly declines through his sixth hit, though his accuracy percentage remains higher than it is with a clean jersey throughout this span. Brady doesn’t begin to come apart until taking his seventh hit.
Brady shows a pretty remarkable ability to maintain his performance even when he’s getting drilled. An interesting stat to run this against would be how quickly he gets the ball out. Do more hits cause a delay in decision making?
Gronkowski’s knee is … sigh, who knows? Gronk’s health status has become the great existential quandary of the New England area; if Henry David Thoreau were alive today, he would not go journaling transcendentally on some lake, but would devote his time to studying orthopedics and parsing the meaning of Bill Belichick’s mumbles instead. The Patriots did not bother signing a free-agent tight end or pursuing a Jace Amaro-caliber rookie, even as a backup, so they are either satisfied with Gronk’s recovery or have evolved beyond the “defeat you with awesome tight ends” stage in their development into higher beings. Patriots fans can lie sleepless all summer worrying they are halfway in between.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/rob-gronkowski-patriots-knee-injury/
Because veteran players signed after June 1 don’t count against the compensatory pick formula for next year, the Patriots might as well wait another two weeks if they are eyeing a more experienced player.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/because-veteran-players-signed-after-june-1-dont/
