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You talked about how the patriots went to a two tightend offense was because they had the pieces to do it, what’s your take on teams deliberately trying to force their offense to revolve around two tightends

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On paper it’s really a strong offensive strategy and I can understand why teams try to emulate what the Pats brought to fruition with Gronk and Hernandez in 2011. It’s an offense that can counter whatever personnel the defense rolls out.

But at the same time, Gronkowski and Hernandez in 2011 were a special tandem that isn’t easy replicable. The Pats stumbled upon that duo because Hernandez fell in the draft and, for right or wrong, they took a chance on him.

The Patriots were also incredibly smart with adapting their offense to play to their strengths and of course, a Hall of Fame quarterback who makes everyone look even better.

It’s ironic that the issues that caused both Gronk and Hernando to fall in the draft came back at almost the same time to haunt them.

So yes, plenty of teams will try to run an offense with two versatile tight ends but it’s hard because, as we’ve seen, they’re in the line of fire a lot and it’s hard to keep tight ends who are the center of your offense healthy. Also, not all teams have the quarterback or offensive minds to maximize that kind of offense.

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Great new McCourty art from Alay Patel. Check out his work for all 32 NFL teams here!

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In the new movie “Draft Day,” in which Kevin Costner wheels and deals as general manager of the Browns, one of the methods the Browns used to judge quarterbacks was to give each a playbook and tape a $100 bill to the last page. The quarterbacks were then asked to send the playbooks back, and if the $100 bill was still there, the team knew the prospect didn’t read the entire playbook or had lied about doing so. Ivan Reitman, the movie’s director, appeared on comedian Dennis Miller’s syndicated radio show last week and spoke about how that detail was added to the flick. “Denis [Leary] actually went to Bill Belichick for help,” Reitman said of the movie’s other star, who plays the Browns’ coach. “He told him we had the story — you’ll know it when you see it — of the $100 bill. Belichick said, ‘How’d you know about that?’ “And Belichick said, ‘Look, I invented that.’

– Sports – The Boston Globe

https://www.patspropaganda.com/bill-belichick-100-dolllar-bill/

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So at this point, my feeling is that whatever the club could get in return (projected here as a late-round pick at best) pales in comparison to the value Mallett has on the roster as Tom Brady’s insurance policy. I think the best-case scenario for the team and Mallett at this point is that he lights it up in the preseason, creating some value for himself, and then he can sign elsewhere as an unrestricted free agent next offseason and the Patriots could potentially be rewarded with a high compensatory draft choice.

Quick-hit thoughts around NFL & Pats – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

Ditto. Never bought the “Pats want a 2nd rounder for Mallett” talk. That type of compensation doesn’t come anywhere close to what we’ve seen out of him in the preseason.

Lots of other good stuff in Reiss’ Sunday notes as always…

https://www.patspropaganda.com/so-at-this-point-my-feeling-is-that-whatever-the/

I was hoping you could give a us an insight as to how teams approach the people who were not drafted. Is it a free for all once the draft is over or do teams have a waiting period?

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It’s pretty much a free-for-all after the end of the draft, with teams luring the guys they want most with guaranteed money. Usually this would seem like it invests the team even more in the player but as we saw last year with TJ Moe, it doesn’t buy them much more than a season.

The Pats are masters of having undrafted rookies make their team. It’s worth a longer article to put it into perspective but every year it seems like a number of undrafted guys make the team and that certainly makes it enticing for future players who see they’ll get a fair shot.

As the saying goes, it doesn’t matter how they get to New England, it only matters what they do when they get there.