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lolpats:

For shame on those who ever doubted the Hoodie… #Patriots

https://www.patspropaganda.com/lolpats-for-shame-on-those-who-ever-doubted-the/

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vanillacts:

Chandler Jones with the sack, strip and recovery of the football.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/vanillacts-chandler-jones-with-the-sack-strip/

I am, like you, a completely biased, card-carrying Belichickian, but the Fox broadcast was complete garbage on the Mayo injury front. They immediately cut away from the play where Mayo got hurt to the live shot of the new Bills owner and continue chatting away at length and then then casually mention that the captain of the Pats defense is injured before throwing it to commercial. That’s irresponsible.

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You mean you can’t tell that Jerod Mayo just had a season-ending injury from this:

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Two questions with the injury to Ridley: 1) Does the team look to make a trade for a starting RB? 2) Who gets the lead role now? I suspect Bill will make it a three man rotation with Vareen, Boulden, and White. But if I was coaching I’d leave Vareen in his current role, and give White the start. See what the rookie can do, with Boulden spelling him. The effectiveness (or lack thereof) of #2 may determine if #1 happens.

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I really don’t know what the answer is, there’s just a lot of factors to sort out. The problem is that White seems closer to Vereen than he does to Ridley. And while it could make sense to use White on early downs to minimize the amount he’s in pass protection, I just don’t know if he is ready for that kind of pounding yet.

Of course the easy answer is just roll with Bolden on some early downs but make Vereen the go-to guy on most of the other downs. This might be the best solution because I just don’t think Bolden has what it takes to get the hard yards. But who does?

Who do you run now on the goalline when you have to have a TD? Develin? Jonas Grey certainly has some size. He could make sense there too, but who knows if he’s really more ready than Bolden.  Although it does make sense to keep Bolden in his special teams/back up role and just let Grey focus on 1st and 2nd down.

As for trades I have no idea. Trades always come out of nowhere. Projecting them is just such a stretch I don’t even want to attempt to speculate. But I think they stay in house. 

The answer is somewhere in here, I’m just not exactly sure how it will all come together and I’m not sure the Pats do either. It’s important to just get through the Jets, hopefully with a W, and then regroup on all of this.