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PFF Team of Week 7 | ProFootballFocus.com

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PFF Team of Week 7 | ProFootballFocus.com

Edelman (punt returner), McCourty and Vellano all make the Team of the Week. Here’s Vellano’s blurb:

Defensive Interior – Nose: Joe Vellano, NE ( 4.0) After a slow start Vellano is really starting to find his feet in the NFL. He ended the day with six defensive stops against the run as he tries to minimize the impact of the team losing Vince Wilfork.

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Football is a team game and the quarterback can’t do it all himself. The blocking was atrocious in the third quarter on Sunday, creating a situation that would have made life hard for most quarterbacks. The receivers aren’t getting open consistently. The play-calling, from my view, isn’t giving the running game enough of a chance to get going to ease the burden on the up-and-down passing game. This isn’t to spare Brady accountability, because I think he’d be the first to admit he can play better, but I maintain that if he’s the biggest problem for the team than ultimately it will still be in the championship hunt.

New England Patriots Mailbag – Tide turns for Tom Brady – ESPN Boston

https://www.patspropaganda.com/football-is-a-team-game-and-the-quarterback-cant/

Is a future without Tom Brady finally sinking in?

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I’m not really worried about the future without Tom Brady yet. I’m worried about getting the new offense healthy and up to speed. Seems like people are conveniently forgetting the change and injuries the offense has undergone this year. I know everyone expects 35+ points every game, but that’s just not realistic. It’s not 2007 anymore. Take this season in and of itself and realize it’s a process and it’s about putting together a clutch offense that comes through in January.

Look around the rest of the NFL and the AFC especially. Has there ever been this much parity? The Pats have been in every single game, and granted they’ve all been a grind to the end, but that’s how the best teams are formed in the regular season. Those are the teams that are the hardest to eliminate in the playoffs, because they’ve been through adversity, they’ve kept fighting and really, they have nothing to lose.

I know the rest of the AFC East is not-so-patiently waiting for Brady to completely fall apart, but I think they’ll be waiting another couple seasons for that.

Going into the season I was thought the offensive line would be great, any ideas on why they are not playing to the level we know they can

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Vollmer, Solder, and Mankins have been pretty solid. Granted each has had their hiccups, but overall it’s hard to ask for much more out of them. Connolly and Wendell haven’t been good.

PFF has them as the lowest ranked players on offense, and both have matching -8.1s in pass protection. Connolly has been battling injuries for as long as I can remember now. Wendell was a great run blocker and average pass blocker last year, but he’s seemingly regressed.

I like Wendell’s chances of righting the ship a little better than Connolly’s. With Connolly it feels like he might just be best served as an interior swing guy. Maybe Marcus Cannon gets a shot starting for him again, but there’s not much depth to play with.

It’s way early but look for the interior offensive line to be an offseason priority.

brady’s completion percentage – how much of it is his rookie receiving corp and how much of it is him getting worse with age? i’ve seen him under-throw too many times this season to blame it all on the inexperienced WRs, but at the same time, they may not be running the right routes. thoughts?

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Impossible to measure accurately unless you know the play call and the needed route adjustments against the defensive play. Let’s just call it 50-50 and understand that everything is connected, and that includes the offensive line that certainly was not at their best against a very tough Jets front seven that has always caused a lot of problems.

Tom Brady has to stop with the Interceptions. I heard the “Losing Sucks interview and at the end of the interview one of the guys said Brady is playing like Matt Shaub. Thats scary and overreacting. Your thoughts.

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Let’s take a walk down memory lane. It was 2010 and Tom Brady just turned in the following stat line in the second half against the Jets in New York:

7-of-16 (43.8%) for 69 yards and 2 interceptions.

He had Randy Moss, Wes Welker, Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez in that game, and would go on to win the first ever unanimous NFL MVP award.

Now, there’s no question he needs to be better, as do the rest of the offense and coaches. The Jets also deserve some credit. That’s a very good defense, playing at home in a game they really had to have.

There shouldn’t be any rush to judgement that Brady has suddenly lost it, even though that time will certainly come and this has been a sad preview of how quickly fans will turn against him. 

It’s been an inconsistent start to the season, but there are two big games coming up and really great chances to not only right the ship, but really put the Pats in a strong position divisionally and in the conference.

Gronk is back. Amendola could be back this week. Let’s let the next two games play out, then we’ll get Vereen back and things should start looking a lot better.