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We’ll look at kind of what we have left, what our challenges are going to be, just taking a general look at the schedule. Obviously Carolina is next, but we’ll be able to take a little bit of a view of what the next seven games look like, what things we know we’re going to need. We may make some modifications. We may do some things based on how we’ve done and look at what our production’s been and if we feel like we need to change them or modify them a little bit or maybe eliminate them. I think there could be some of that too.

Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

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ReFo: Steelers @ Patriots, Week 9 | ProFootballFocus.com

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This is disconcerting…

A troubling trend is developing at left guard for the Patriots. Logan Mankins has earned three significant negative grades as a pass blocker in his last four games – a stretch unlike we’ve seen from him in the five-plus years we’ve been grading his play. His Pass Blocking Efficiency rating is dropping (now 95.5, 36th among guards) and, when combined with center Ryan Wendell’s known weakness in that aspect, is working to widen the danger area for potential problems, not something Brady will like to see given his history with pressure up the middle. With 13 total pressures allowed in the three games (sandwiched around a clean sheet against the Jets) compared to the seven pressures he gave up in the season’s first five weeks, there’s hope that is an extended blip. The Patriots will hope that’s the case and not a downturn of longer hold.