Who Surprised You The Most This Season? - New England Patriots Forums

**Ian** · 01-17-2011, 01:25 PM

To try and lighten the mood this afternoon, which player surprised you the most this season, and give us some examples of why you feel that way.

italian pat patriot · 01-17-2011, 01:37 PM

Mc Courty - when we drafted him i was skeptical...

what a playier he has been ! great, awesome

***patsinthesnow*** · 01-17-2011, 01:38 PM

BJGE.

Go back to the threads in August.

TriplecHamp · 01-17-2011, 01:39 PM

Woodhead. Think about it, the guy was collected off the trash heap and he played like a second round draft pick. Who really expected him to contribute at all let alone become a big weapon in our offense?

Keyser Söze · 01-17-2011, 01:42 PM

14-2

and McCourty

BlueString94 · 01-17-2011, 01:44 PM

Randy Moss.

niknarayanan · 01-17-2011, 01:45 PM

Hands down The Law Firm... If you had told me in September that he would be a 1000 yr rusher, i would have said you're bonkers... But man was he good!

coolguy · 01-17-2011, 01:45 PM

Bill by coaching a 28th rank defense

Ron Sellers · 01-17-2011, 01:49 PM

Really tough to limit it to one answer. While many will point to McCourty, I would say the emergence of BJGE and Woodhead would have to be right up there. McCourty was expected to at least get some playing time; many didn't think BJGE would make the roster out of camp, and nobody expected anything from Woodhead when he was signed.

As far as what surprised me the most, I would say two things: the absolute transformation of the offense post-Moss; doing that on the fly in mid-season was amazing. The other was the defense, which for the first time in years was able to take over games by forcing turnovers while the outcome of the game was still in doubt. Absolutely did not see either of those things coming back in August.

Patriots2001 · 01-17-2011, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by coolguy

Bill by coaching a 28th rank defense

Imagine how good this team could be if they had a top 5 defense ???