PatsPropaganda

I agree that his contract extension, in the midst of his worst season, was very surprising. But I just don’t see him ending up at guard. It’s really been the great debate through the early parts of his career – Does Cannon fit at guard? 

He was never getting a better chance to do it than he was this year, when the door at RG was WIDE open, and he stunk. He even regressed a bit as a swing tackle, after what I thought was his best season filling in at RT for Vollmer in 2013.

My only explanation is that with Vollmer’s age and injury history they could see a future for him at that position and wanted to make sure they were protected after Solder also had a down year.

Some even think Cannon’s deal gives them some leverage over Solder heading into this contract year. I am not sure about that since I don’t think Cannon is a long-term solution to LT, though he could fill in there in a pinch.

The presence of Cameron Fleming adds a twist on it as well, since I see him as a similar player to Cannon.

It will be interesting to see who’s lining up where this summer.

Here they are GIF’ed. Not including post season obviously.

Not to play coy, but they just started playing better. Here are my All-22 reviews of the offense and defense. 

I don’t know why the Chiefs game is all that different than some of the other ugly early season losses we’ve seen almost every year. 2012 at home to the Cardinals (their only road win of the season), 2011 to a 6-10 Bills team, the list goes on and on.

Each year Patriots fans have collective amnesia, they’re never that dominant or awesome in September. They’re experimenting, trying random guys in random spots, trying to find who can do what. Throw in the new lack of tackling rules in training camp and things look even sloppier. 

But every year, they find their stride about 4-6 games into the season and then they often don’t lose again.