pdangle

This has to be the youngest team I've ever seen the Patriots plan to routinely put on the field together to start a season.

Experience to start 2010:

Wilfork 6yrs
Brace 1yr
Pryor 1yr / Wright 5yrs

Mayo 2yrs
Spikes 0yr / Guyton 1yr

Cain 7yrs
Cunningham 0yr

McCourty 0yr
Butler 1yr
Chung 1yr
Meriweather 3yrs

Median Experience : 1 yr! ONE FREAKIN' YEAR! Makes me think we should expect to hit a few bumps on the road this season. If not, it would be have to be a football miracle. But on the flip side, we should be set on this side of the ball for quite a while though. C'mon BB work your magic...

Mogamedogz

Not in the Belichick era.

Elijah

Not that it's a huge difference, but Guyton's been around for 2 years.

SirApropos

I'm pretty sure Cunningham is not the starter at OLB since he's been injured for several weeks now. Burgess is a 9 yr vet. Not that it adds all that much in terms of years.

Satchboogie3

He said median, not mean. The median is the middle number (13 players ranging from 0-7 years experience, the middle guy is the 7th guy, who has 1 year experience) and in this case 1 year. The mean is the average, which is 2.15 as you said.

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pdangle

I could have sworn Guyton was 2nd year. The only one I didn't double check. My bad.

Oh, and lest we forget. The man who's gonna set up the field position battles.

Zoltan 0yrs.

Also, I know some of the lineups will be older, but some will also be younger. Anyway, I just took a typical cross section of what our D might look like this year. I used MEDIAN age, not average, to get a less skewed average and better reflect each individual's age. Anyway just an observation, not a formal study or nuthin.

This defensive youth movement is actually one of the more interesting plot lines for me this year. At least we're not hearing how old the Pats are this year. Well... not as much anyway.

RayClay

I imagine Parcells ended up with a fairly young defense sometime while he was drafting the core of our SB winning Ds.

Waiting for incoming.

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AndyJohnson

Bobby Grier thanks you for the complement.
Never understood how Parcells gets credit for the players that were drafted when he quit because he wasn't allowed to make the draft picks.

KontradictioN

When I did the average age for the starters on defense, it was around 26-27, IIRC. That was before cuts took place too.

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1996 was the only defense I can think of that even comes close.

Milloy, Bru were rookies
Law, TJ had 1 year experience
Slade, McGinnest had 3 years
Big play Clay, Otis, Todd Collins, Mike Jones and the rest of the regulars either had 4 or 5 years max

Too lazy to do the math but even that is not quite as young as this one.

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