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Tuesday Patriots-Jags Tweets of Note

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Made a brief stop by practice in a fan capacity today and found it to be absolutely packed despite some light rain. So I didn’t get much time to watch any of the action. Luckily the dedicated beat staff provided plenty of interesting tweets to keep us in the loop.

Here are the ones that stood out to me from Tuesday’s practice with the Jags, likely the last time we’ll see anything meaningful at a practice until the weekend.

 


Edelman’s quickness is just so unstoppable. I’m falling for his fake and I’m sitting in front of my computer. Imagine being on the field and having to try and keep up with him.


Eric Rowe might be ahead of Jones in the cornerback battle but he’s still very much involved and I can easily see him having a defensive role against a smaller receiver during a specific matchup. He’s come a long way from being an undrafted rookie last season. Had a great special teams year in 2016 and now looks like he’ll be one of those guys who sticks around for a while.


This combination has a chance to be special, but I’m most curious to see how they’re used. In the last few seasons it was Ryan on the big receivers, Butler on the quicker ones. But I’m not sure Gilmore is just swapped into Ryan’s role. If anything I think we could be seeing less matchup coverage and more playing sides. If they’re both that good it’s easier for the defense to just play sides, which has traditionally been the way the Pats defense preferred to play in the past.


Well well well Shea’s out and Rivers is in? Look I’m not going to lie, I’m toying with a blog post about being concerned with the state of the front seven a bit. Yes, things will be different with Hightower and Branch back, but outside of them how many proven tough football players are there up front? Yes, the secondary is badass top to bottom, but I still believe defenses are made by their front sevens and I think this year’s front seven still has a lot to prove to me.

No days off. No. Days. Off.


Whichever receiver got a pass broken up by Freeny probably deserves to be cut. But wowsers on Butler and Gilmore’s days.


Yeah, I’ve seen some reports that Gronk has looked a bit flat lately but all that got put to bed today with a dominant performance. I mean the guy did end the season with back surgery last year. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with cutting him a little slack. What else does he have to prove in training camp?


Seriously, this is such a big problem and it hearkens back to The Ringer’s article about the 2007 team (MUST READ) and how no one could play one high safety against them.