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Brandon Spikes

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

Nugget on Spikes below and not entirely unexpected, we pondered if Hightower was headed to more MLB time all offseason.

One line of thinking was that Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes stayed away from the team’s voluntary offseason program to give himself the best chance to become a three-down linebacker in the team’s system. But through eight training camp practices, it doesn’t seem like that is where things are decisively headed. More often than not, Spikes has been coming off the field in sub packages, and in some cases, top draft pick Jamie Collins (second round, 52nd overall) is coming on to add more speed and athleticism. It’s still early, but if anything, it looks like second-year linebacker Dont’a Hightower, not Spikes, might be primed to stay on the field more in passing situations.

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Quick-hit thoughts on NFL, Patriots – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

The absence of Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes from voluntary offseason workouts might prove to be a forgotten storyline in 2013, especially if Spikes brings his trademark physical style of play and improves his work in pass coverage. But when it comes to considering a contract extension for Spikes for 2014 and beyond, I don’t think Bill Belichick will forget that he was the only player not to show up, before Spikes explained his absence this way: “I do things a little different from everybody else. Honestly, if everybody in this world was a [conformist], it would be one boring place.” Safe to say that’s not the message Belichick wants his younger players – especially 2013 top pick Jamie Collins (working at linebacker) – to hear. It’s hard for me to imagine Belichick rewarding that mindset and approach with a contract extension, in part because of the message it would send to others.

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Brandon Spikes spent the early half of practice working out in the bubble and was held to the sideline when he returned. He didn’t get onto the field for team drills until the last set of 11-on-11s.

The Blitz with Jeff Howe & Karen Guregian | Boston Herald

Tough to read too much into this. We’ll see how it plays out in the next couple days.

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Bommarito said Spikes has been impressive in the last couple months of his camp. “Just the way he moves,” Bommarito told the Herald. “Everybody in the NFL is going to move well, obviously, at that level. But when you see a guy that size with that type of power, that type of movement skills, it’s very unique. You’re always going to have different guys that are that size that can move that well, but in addition to that – and I’m not trying to cross over into the football coaching side – you can see it’s evident on tape that he is a complete player. "He moves well. He has all the instincts you’re looking for. It’s just very rare that a guy who has that type of size and can have that type of combination of speed and power. I’m not talking about 40-yard dash speed. I’m just talking about his movement in space of what his position as a linebacker requires. It’s very, very unique. Sometimes, our staff just looks at each other and shakes our head in terms of his ability to produce that much speed. It’s very, very unique.”

The Blitz with Jeff Howe & Karen Guregian | Boston Herald

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