Belichick is seeing secondary gains

Things are starting to settle down a bit in the Patriots secondary for sure, but let’s see how they do against Houston and the 49ers before we get too excited.

The Patriots have cycled through a slew of defensive backs this season. Injuries, ineffectiveness and skipping on from ineffective combinations have forced their hand into moving guys around. But it now seems the intangible and invaluable attributes of confidence, aggressiveness and trust are starting to emerge. “You know how quickly it moves and how fast the game is, especially at that position,” said Belichick. “Just a split-second of anticipation or of saved reaction time can make the difference between making a play and giving up a play and those split-seconds are very hard to measure but the difference can be the difference in a game. So if you think that it’s improving, I think it should continue to improve, it needs to continue to improve. We’ve gotta really work hard at it. That’s everybody.”