ESPN First Take: Is the Patriots defense good enough to win a Super Bowl

It might shock a lot of people that I’m actually linking to an ESPN First Take segment but I found what Eric Mangini said in this clip to be very interesting. You can ignore Skip and Parker, unless you want to hear Skip actually argue for the Pats D, but we’ll sum up what Mangini had to say.

In a nutshell it’s that unlike most NFL teams the Patriots defense will continue to evolve over the course of the season. They will not keep doing things that are not working so it’s hard to really make a definitive judgement about them at this juncture. Wouldn’t be prudent (little Dana Carvey George HW Bush there for you). He also attributed the switch to the 4-3 as being part of the problem.

I can’t believe I’m about to type this but I LOVE HEARING MANGINI’S INSIGHT INTO THE PATRIOTS.