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I don’t really have any expectations for any rookie players. We just coach them from the day they get here. We try to get every player to improve and just get better and learn our system and become a better football player in the NFL. That’s a process. Some guys go at different rates, I’ve learned that through a lot of experience. Some players start quickly and fizzle out. Some players start slowly and come on strong. Some players are more steady than others. You really don’t know that until their rookie season is over, what the rate is or how it’s all going to turn out. You just take it day-to-day, get better on a daily basis and teach them all the things that you can teach them, get them the practice time you can practice them with, correct all the mistakes and keep moving forward. That’s what being a rookie is in the National Football League. It’s a great learning experience every day, every week and hopefully at the end of that rookie season, the player has accumulated a lot of knowledge and experience and is able to use that as a good springboard the rest of his career.

Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

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First off: love the blog and your insight to all things Pats. Now: while the offense was beyond sloppy last night I do think there were positives. Brady seemed determined to push the ball downfield and KT and Dobson seemed to get behind jets coverage pretty well. And Brady did target them often because he knows he has to get them acclimated. You agree? I’m surprised they haven’t tried using Boyce on some of the screen passes considering his speed.

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Thank you! Getting a lot of these kind of questions today, let’s hit on Boyce first because even I expected he’d get more snaps than he did. What can we say? Clearly the Pats don’t think he’s ready yet based on what he’s shown in practice and we haven’t seen.

The fact that Dobson and Thompkins were getting open downfield is huge. Again, they just need to catch the ball. And that Brady keeps going to them is a good sign. He has no choice really, and I continue to believe that in the long run, it will make things that much better.

Dare I say it, but we might’ve found a couple DEEEEEEEP THREATS!

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“…I think the mental mistakes are things that you always get frustrated with because those are really things that are totally in your control. The physical mistakes are football. Yeah, you don’t want them to happen, but they’re going to happen. You’re not going to make every jump shot, you know? It’s just the way it is. You’ve got to be in the right spot, you’ve got to be doing the right thing, you’ve got to be doing it with the right amount of effort. You’ve got to be playing smart, you’ve got to be playing disciplined, and then try to limit your physical mistakes. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s no use just screaming at someone and saying, ‘Well, you have to, you know…’ They know, we know what we have to do. It’s just, we have to do a better job of it.”

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Memories….

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Picked-up pieces after first-half review – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

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Picked-up pieces after first-half review – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

The Patriots’ secondary has tackled well through the first two weeks of the season. It’s been strong fundamental work, with cornerback Kyle Arrington’s open-field tackle for no gain on receiver Stephen Hill on third-and-1 the play that sparked that thought. That’s the type of play that Patriots strength coaches might look to as an example of their program providing solid results. In the matchup of Arrington (5-10, 190) vs. Hill (6-4, 215), the strength and technique of Arrington was the victor. Later, on a play that could fall into a similar category, safety Steve Gregory (5-11, 200) had a decisive takedown on tight end Kellen Winslow (6-4, 240).

Why do u think that the patriots more then anybody get better as the season progresses, obliviously most teams get better as the season progress but the patriots seem to really do it

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It’s an interesting question and one I’m not sure I can answer to the level I’d like to be able to. Here’s what we know, Belichick always seems to really keep thing simple schematically early on, at least on defense. As the season progresses we see more and more wrinkles, different personnel groupings, more exotic blitzes, etc.

My educated guess relates to BB being, in essence, a coach who believes in execution over scheming to produce results. It’s about sound defense, with everyone on the same page, and each “doing their job” and focusing on winning their matchups. 

So it’s about simplicity but also with disguise. You hear a lot about how the Pats’ defense is a full of adjustments for every shift and motion the offense does. That was a weakness Mangini tried to expose when he was coaching, specifically with the Browns. When the Pats defense was young and inexperienced in 2009/2010, it was easy to throw a bunch of shifts and them, then expose their mis-adjustments.

So this is why I put a lot of stock into having continuity on defense. There is so much communication that goes on for them, the more experience they have doing that, the better and quicker they can be, and you’ll notice now that everyone quickly adjusts when Mayo calls out checks.