Man, I wish I could find this shirt. Doubt it would fit. Still, it’s the best.
Do Your Job, Pats! Squish The Fish! Hats ‘n T-Shirts!
https://www.patspropaganda.com/townienews-man-i-wish-i-could-find-this-shirt/
In Bill Belichick’s tenure as Patriots head coach, the team is 121-12 when it has a positive turnover differential, which is one of the reasons Belichick often says that no statistic correlates as closely to wins and losses as turnovers.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/in-bill-belichicks-tenure-as-patriots-head-coach/
A forgotten man in Tennessee, Ayers’ work can’t be ignored in New England | Sports – Patriots | providencejournal.com | The Providence Journa
Great read on Akeem Ayers. No idea how the Titans had no use for this guy. After spending all offseason wondering why the Pats didn’t go out and get a quality third edge player, they found one in-season in Ayers.
Pretty crazy how much success the Pats have had the last two seasons with guys acquired after Week 1. Siliga, Chris Jones, Blount, Wright, Ayers, Casillas is quite a list of impact players.
Of 420 defensive snaps played over the last six games, the Patriots have been in sub packages (which call for at least one extra player in the secondary) a staggering 377 times. That means they were only in their base or goal-line defense on just 43 snaps over the last six games
Quick-hit thoughts around NFL, Patriots – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston
As has been the case since 2010, Sub is the new “base” and why we now call the 34/43 “regular”. Regular is a run-stopping package. So when next summer when the 3-4 vs. 4-3 is a major topic of conversation, ignore the noise. It’s really just the defense that BB teaches from.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/of-420-defensive-snaps-played-over-the-last-six/
With mayo making almost 10 million next year do you see them letting him go to keep other important people since Collins and Hoghtower have played well
This will be one of the big questions of the offseason and it will be an interesting one.
Mayo is an excellent captain and leader, and his dedication to football and Belichick’s appreciation of what he brings to the field has been clear…
BUT…
Hightower looks like a capable replacement as play-caller as Mayo is coming off his second-straight injury-shortened season. Mayo has speed and intangibles, but has never been a pivotal playmaker.
Boiled down to the pure financials of it, Mayo’s cap hits are $10.6 million and $10.4 million the next two seasons. That’s a lot and given the history of the Patriots, it makes him a prime target for restructure.
Mayo seems like the kind of guy who would understand that. He just saw it happen last year with Wilfork.
Have you noticed anything specific with the safety spot next to Mccourty
It’s been pretty defined. Chung is the starting strong safety and plays primarily in the box, but they will drop him in Cover-2 occasionally. He’s had a fairly solid year in coverage, but struggles against big tight ends. Still, he’s been much better in his second stint in New England.
On passing downs they’ll pull Chung for Harmon who has better range on the back end. Sometimes they’ll even play all three of them.
McCourty has done just about everything this year. Usually, he’s the free safety playing Cover-1, but he will come up and man cover tight ends sometimes. He’ll even occasionally blitz.
Tavon Wilson is behind Chung at the strong safety spot, but has picked up some spot duty throughout the season. Not as much as his rookie year in 2012, but definitely more that 2013.
Lots of comments about the run, the interior O-Line, Cannon signing, Solder walking. One part of the puzzle is that next years draft is VERY deep at tackle and VERY shallow at guard. If they want to upgrade Guard they’ probably have to do it through Free agency. If they want to upgrade tackle they can do it through the draft. So paying Solder big $ doesn’t make sense. They need to save that money for a guard and draft at Tackle. Solder will walk. Comments?
Appreciate the insight into this year’s draft class, I don’t touch that stuff until the Pats season is over, so it’s interesting to hear it’s deep on tackles. I’m still fine re-signing Solder, but they have some protection now.
I think they take one or two guards this year regardless of how free agency plays out. Even if it’s a guy like Halapio who gets cut, at least they’re trying to round out their depth.