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Vollmer is coming off a broken leg/ankle sustained Oct. 27 in a game against the Miami Dolphins. “He looks good right now, too. I don’t know his whole update right now, but he looks good and I know he’s working hard,” he said. “There’s good promise there.”
https://www.patspropaganda.com/vollmer-is-coming-off-a-broken-legankle-sustained/
Very good question. I think the place I would start is their pickiness about their edge players whether you want to call them defensive ends or outside linebackers. Last year it seemed like it was a log jam at defensive end heading into camp and before you know it, they have no depth there.
I think they need to embrace designated pass rushers a little more, even if they can’t drop into coverage or maybe aren’t the best edge setter.
I also think they didn’t do enough at defensive tackle in the draft especially. They tried in free agency but they never replaced Mike Wright and Jarvis Green and I think that really hurt them, not only in the pass rush department, but by also forcing them to overuse Wilfork.
Of course, if Albert Haynesworth, Ron Brace, Kyle Love or Brandon Deaderick somehow worked out we might not be saying the same thing.
They might’ve shown a little more patience with some of the wide receivers as well. Felt like they might’ve been a little quick to give up on guys like Brandon Tate and some others. They did see a lot more of those guys in practice so they were probably justified in moving on, but the receiver situation never should’ve gotten to where it was last offseason.
Finally, I think this is the issue now, they need for reinforce the middle of the line. They need to find at least one more impact interior OL whether it’s at guard or center, or preferably both.
They’re trying to become a team that is not so reliant and tentative and accepting defensively as opposed to attacking,” Curran said. “In 2007 and 2011 the Giants won Super Bowls because they were an attacking front. This past year, Seattle won the Super Bowl because they attack at the wide receiver position and disrupted timing. You have more players coming out of college who are quick release, grown up on seven-on-seven schemes, you have to be able to get up field and disrupt. You can’t disrupt Peyton Manning with a pass rush because he gets it out too quick, you have to disrupt his receivers. The Patriots didn’t do it in the AFC Championship, Seattle did in the Super Bowl- and there’s your result.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/theyre-trying-to-become-a-team-that-is-not-so/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQLKQ9WYtac
Willie McGinest, Christian Fauria, Shane Vereen and Stevan Ridley talk New England’s dynasty (by Cathy Bridges)
https://www.patspropaganda.com/willie-mcginest-christian-fauria-shane-vereen/
I would have loved to start and finish my career with the Patriots. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. But if I had to do it all over again, I would have made more effort to stay a Patriot.
Patriots Want Impact Wide Receiver?
Expanded thoughts on the Patriots taking a wide receiver in this years draft over at Sportsblog.
The way he practices, by playing with him for the year that I did, to be so talented but to practice so hard, you don’t see a lot of young guys that have so much talent take the job that seriously because they’re so talented. That’s what I think separates Darrelle. He’s not taking his talent and his abilities for granted. He still wants to go out there and prove that he’s the absolute best week in and week out. He’s not taking that for granted. He wants to be the best for a long time, and I have never seen anyone as competitive as Darrelle Revis, and that’s the honest to God truth. He made me as a veteran pick my game up in practice. … He motivated me at the end of my career.
The Patriots were running a no-huddle drill at the end of practice, and Wilfork — in a jersey so soaked in sweat that the navy blue appeared black from the adjacent hill — participated in every snap, hurrying back to the line even as the offense hurried to beat the defense to the punch. All […]