Here’s the latest including all rookie signings, including some tryout names. Rookies are in yellow and as a rule I put them near the bottom of the depth chart. Players coming off injuries are in italics.
Ty Law voted into Patriots Hall of Fame
Congrats to Ty Law! One of the all-time Patriot greats is definitely deserving. Now we’ll get to see Darrelle Revis, who hails from the same hometown as Law, don the #24 this season. Two elite cornerbacks with elite cornerback looks.
Check out a great Ty Law photo gallery from Patriots.com here.
Congratulations to Ty Law, your 2014 #Patriots Hall of Fame inductee! pic.twitter.com/iBL0c4P2sY
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) May 19, 2014
A closer look at how Tom Brady reacts to being hit | masslive.com
A closer look at how Tom Brady reacts to being hit | masslive.com
What this shows is that Brady gets better over his first two hits and then slowly declines through his sixth hit, though his accuracy percentage remains higher than it is with a clean jersey throughout this span. Brady doesn’t begin to come apart until taking his seventh hit.
Brady shows a pretty remarkable ability to maintain his performance even when he’s getting drilled. An interesting stat to run this against would be how quickly he gets the ball out. Do more hits cause a delay in decision making?
Gronkowski’s knee is … sigh, who knows? Gronk’s health status has become the great existential quandary of the New England area; if Henry David Thoreau were alive today, he would not go journaling transcendentally on some lake, but would devote his time to studying orthopedics and parsing the meaning of Bill Belichick’s mumbles instead. The Patriots did not bother signing a free-agent tight end or pursuing a Jace Amaro-caliber rookie, even as a backup, so they are either satisfied with Gronk’s recovery or have evolved beyond the “defeat you with awesome tight ends” stage in their development into higher beings. Patriots fans can lie sleepless all summer worrying they are halfway in between.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/rob-gronkowski-patriots-knee-injury/
Because veteran players signed after June 1 don’t count against the compensatory pick formula for next year, the Patriots might as well wait another two weeks if they are eyeing a more experienced player.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/because-veteran-players-signed-after-june-1-dont/
What can someone who aspires to be an offensive coordinator take away from the offense the last 3 years
Probably the value of pace and just how quickly offenses can execute. There’s a delicate balance at times with it though, and knowing when to put the peddle down and when to let off is probably one of the biggest challenges to running the no-huddle.
Obviously, you need the personnel with the versatility and smarts to all get on the same page with the quarterback. Garoppolo seems representative of the kind of quarterback a team would look to continue this pace of offense.
Some teams might be moving to more mobile quarterbacks, but what we can read from the Patriots is that they want a smart quarterback who can make the right throws and make them quickly.
The much-maligned “dink-and-dunk” is really an artform and impossible to stop when it’s executed at no-huddle pace.