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Brady laughingly laments Giselle’s Super Bowl defense

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Brady laughingly laments Giselle’s Super Bowl defense

At least he can laugh about it now? I guess? I can’t. I haven’t and will never watch G’s comments because why would I want to do that to myself?

“Just before she goes to bed, she says, ‘Yeah, people were following me and I just said something I shouldn’t have said,’ ” Brady recalled. He answered, “’I don’t care really what you said. Just go to bed.’ ” Bundchen had ripped Wes Welker. “I woke up the next morning, I tapped her on the shoulder [and asked], ‘Why did you say that?’ She was talking about the best player on our team, Wes Welker, yeah. That was my most recent memory.”

Shining a spotlight on edge rushers – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

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Shining a spotlight on edge rushers – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

Is there room for Andre Carter here amongst this group? I think and hope so. Justin Francis gets some love here as well. He could be really useful if he can slide inside. Interior rushers are still a major question mark to me with Pryor and Fanene both still nursing injuries.

Justin Francis – The Rutgers product has seen his name pop up during OTAs and minicamp, and would appear to have the early edge on being the ‘annual’ undrafted rookie to emerge during the preseason. Francis appears to be slightly bulkier than his counterparts, and might have the ability to slide inside as an interior sub rusher.

Ras-I Dowling aiming for a rebound season with Patriots – The Boston Globe

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Ras-I Dowling aiming for a rebound season with Patriots – The Boston Globe

There’s been some confusion over the past year as to just what Ras-I’s injury history has been, with Reiss saying he had no issues until his senior year of college. Bedard however sheds some light that it’s been a little more than that.

As a high school junior, he broke his hand. As a senior, he battled a knee injury. In his freshman year in college, Dowling missed a showdown against Southern Cal with a hamstring injury and left the North Carolina game with a back ailment.

New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick is the ultimate master of team building – ESPN Boston

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New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick is the ultimate master of team building – ESPN Boston

Interesting on why the Pats have had no jerseys with numbers this off-season.

“They want us to learn each other’s names and communicate better,” one player said. Added another player: “With 90 guys on the roster, that’s a lot. The idea is to get away from saying, ‘Hey, number 95’ or ‘number 99,’ and call each person by their name. Our goal the whole camp was to communicate, and just know who you’re speaking to and what to say. We feel communication is a big thing in football, and that’s what we’re working on.”

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We’ll see how it goes in training camp. We have three guys that kind of have some degree of fullback experience, a little bit of tight end experience, a little bit of running back experience, so there may be some crossover there. All three of those players have some value in the kicking game [and] we’ll see how all that plays out,” he said. “I think that’s a possibility [to carry a traditional fullback]. That’s why they’re here. They’re here to compete for that role on offense and that role in the kicking game. How that compares to what other players do, we’ll just have to see. We’ll have competition from that spot relative to linebacker, tight end, possibly running back and in the kicking game.

Insight on ‘the return of the fullback’ – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

BB throws cold water on all us football evolutionists that thought the team’s decision to bring in so many fullbacks signified another evolution. It’s not as interesting as we wish it was but sometimes they just bring in guys they like without some big picture schematic vision in their head of how they’re going to attack the opposition differently.

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Bill Belichick, Vince Wilfork, and the New England Patriots defense – Grantland

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Bill Belichick, Vince Wilfork, and the New England Patriots defense – Grantland

In case you missed this article from Chris Brown it’s a dandy. The scary thing to think about though is how reliant the Patriots seem on Wilfork to give them their scheme versatility. I don’t want to ever have to see what they’d do without him anchoring the middle, but it certainly makes you wonder what they’d have to throw together. Hopefully that’s a question for after his retirement.

By combining these techniques into one defense, Belichick achieves what seems most important to him these days — versatility. He’s able to plug different guys into different spots while knowing he has Wilfork anchoring the middle. As NFL offenses have become more and more spread, Belichick’s defenses have become more versatile. With one or two players 2-gapping on a given play, the outside linebackers in particular are free to blitz, drop into coverage, and attack running backs all over the field. Belichick rarely lets his scheme turn into a true 4-3; more often, he’ll use the same assignments for each defender but use 3-4 personnel. The variations are endless. And it all works because Wilfork is in the middle, dominating his gaps and putting his blocker on skates.