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Mike, last year you were spot on with Easley. You clearly had a draft crush on him, and I was extremely excited they took him. With the combine going on, who’s your early favorite for the Patriots in round one (assuming they stay at 32). I’m starting to really like SC guard AJ Cann. Seems tough, smart, and a good leader, plus at a position of need. Who you got?

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Seems like Cann is where most Patriots fans are starting out with their draft binkies and he makes a lot of sense. I’ve just started to wade into the draft a bit, and yes, guards will be a heavy area of focus, but I think the important thing to remember is that they really shouldn’t have any glaring holes heading into the draft. So really no position should be off the table.

I think the entire defensive front seven should be of some interest because we’ve got to keep 2016 in mind with this draft as well. Mayo/Hightower/Chandler, even Ninkovich to an extent could be players who depart or decline. It’s a constant battle to keep the gun fully loaded.

I didn’t truly lock in on Easley until a lot of the early free agency (Wilfork especially) pieces were figured out. It will be the same this year.

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Best of Chandler Jones & Dont’a Hightower | 2012 First Round Picks

Things will be interesting with both these guys entering the final years of their rookie deals this year. It would be a Sophie’s Choice to only pick one of them. An edge player like Jones is so hard to find, but a versatile and physical linebacker like Hightower is as well. Might as well just lock both of them up with extensions.

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https://www.patspropaganda.com/best-of-chandler-jones-donta-hightower-2012/

NFL Integrity Takes Another Hit — Boston Sports Media Watch

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NFL Integrity Takes Another Hit — Boston Sports Media Watch

This thing just keeps on getting worse and worse for the NFL. I’m just glad the Patriots won the Super Bowl. Imagine how you’d feel if they’d lost and then get cleared of any wrongdoing after the full two weeks of outrage leading up to the Super Bowl?

My only hope now is that the “us against the world” feeling carries into next season and keeps the fire lit under a Patriots team facing an underwhelming schedule.

More Deflategate Leaks Point To Patriots Innocence

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In case you missed it, Deflategate was back in the news last night thanks to this piece from ESPN. There’s more contradictory nonsense in it, but what was most interesting to me is that the big “reveal” of this one is that a Patriots worker was caught trying to put a “K” ball, or the balls the kickers use, into play.

If true, this totally undercuts the entire deflategate nontroversy. Why? All the uproar was because the Patriots were allegedly trying to cheat by using balls that were underinflated, thus easier to catch in cold weather. Nevermind that the difference from a legal ball and an illegal ball is imperceptible and literally has no real effect making things easier to execute on offense.

But if it was a K ball that’s something completely different. K balls are essentially brand new, and often inflated to the higher end of the the spectrum. Tom Brady would’ve known instantly if he gripped a K ball because he would’ve never had a chance to break it in and rough it up to his liking.

So this means using a K ball would be a DISADVANTAGE if it were to be put into play. Not only would it be harder but it wouldn’t be broken in AT ALL.

The report goes on to say that the NFL’s Mike Kensil then went and tested the rest of the Patriots’ balls and found them to be “1-2 pounds” underinflated, much different than Chris Mortensen’s report that 11 of the 12 balls were two pounds underinflated. These new numbers would seem to support the Patriots’ story that they filled them near the low end of the legal spectrum and they simply lost pressure over the course of the first half.

So the NFL continues to handle this whole thing horribly as we’ve become accustomed to. If this latest report is accurate, it’s looking more and more like a mistake by a part time employee started this whole thing and it’s spun out of control thanks to the NFL.