http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pvIcpnxmZo
Anyone feel like a 9-minute Wes Welker highlight video spanning his career from high school to the Pats? It’s Friiiii-day!
Wes Welker Chronology (by 11Prodigy)
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Patriots Notebook: Chandler Jones gaining confidence – CBSSports.com
Patriots Notebook: Chandler Jones gaining confidence – CBSSports.com
As Jones fielded questions Friday, he stood at his locker without a shirt on. Sensing an opportunity to dig into the rookie, Tom Brady shot across the room and let him have it. “Jeez, Chandler. Put a shirt on,” Brady shouted. “Seriously, you’re going to get (strength coach) Harold (Nash) fired.” Brady was clearly joking, but Jones immediately became frantic and asked everyone around him if Brady was talking to him. When he finished taking inquiries, Jones, his tail between his legs, meandered over to Brady to apologize. “Tom, I’m sorry,” Jones said. “I didn’t have a chance to put a shirt on. They rushed me.”
Did we see enough from the Pat’s D to get this excited for the season?
I certainly did. After training camp, preseason and now one regular season game it’s safe to say that Chandler Jones and Dont’a Hightower are legit and will help the Patriots where they needed it most. I’m sure we’ll see some growing pains and moments of inconsistency, but top to bottom this is the best the defense has looked from a talent standpoint since probably 2007. They have experience at the right spots, and physicality at the right spots. I’m excited to see how they improve over the course of the year.
How big of an affect do you think the Ravens/Pats game will have on the AFC playoff picture? Whether the Pats win or lose.
You never want to make too much out of one game, especially in week three, but it would be hard to argue that after week one the Pats and Ravens look like the two best teams in the AFC. The Pats don’t have an exactly killer schedule this year so I wouldn’t say that homefield advantage hangs in the balance but neither team should lose more than four games so there could definitely be some implications down the road.
In simplest terms this game could determine where the rematch is.
On behalf of the team, players, myself, we want to pass along our best wishes to Chuck Fairbanks. Chuck is headed into some surgery today. I just want to pass along our best wishes to Chuck and his family. Chuck has been a good friend for a long time and he’s meant a lot to this organization. Really, at the time he came here, he did a great job in turning the Patriots around, making them into one of the top teams in the AFC. Also, some of the things he brought to the Patriots and the league in the ‘70s were things that stood the test of time and have been a big principle of this league for many, many years and the disciples and the people that were with him, such as the 3-4 defense, the way he organized the draft, personnel meetings, things like that and some of the great coaches that were here under Chuck.
Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript
Fairbanks-Bullough 3-4!!
Indeed if you look at the snaps that Welker missed because Edelman was preferred to him it works out at 16% of offensive snaps. Welker averaged 11% of snaps off the field in 2011, and well over 20% in both 2009 and 2010. Edelman might be the player picking up the snaps that Welker is spending off the field, but there is nothing to suggest that spending those snaps off the field is unusual for him.