Notable cuts: Hochstein, Alexander, T. Williams, Ventrone, Slater.
Keeps: BJGE, Walter, All 4 TE's.
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Keeps: BJGE, Walter, All 4 TE's.
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Notable cuts: Hochstein
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Reiss is falling in love with new and shiny and forgetting the nuts and bolts.Hold the phone...only three tackles? No LeVoir?
Reiss is falling in love with new and shiny and forgetting the nuts and bolts.
-- TE is nice, but you can't justify four.
-- If you can't keep four TEs, it's hard to keep five RBs.
-- Eight OL would make sense if one was a veteran T/G combo, but I'd not be trusting Brady to Vollmer if one of Light or Kac goes out, and Hochstein/Orhnberger are not subbing at T in anything but an absolute emergency. And while he was admiring Orhnberger, did he see the guys who weren't daydreaming on that play? O most likely got a 'wake-up kid, this is the NFL,' from Dante during the tape review.
-- How is Ingram the lock? Hodel took the day off so they could focus those half dozen reps on Ingram.
-- Mike keeps one Special Teams Ace, BB may surprise us, but I don't think he goes that far from his roster template.
He also looks at his balance of forces and doesn't let greed for one position overwelm common sense. This is the most stacked preseason roster of BB's tenure, however many TEs he likes, he also has to have minimum numbers at the other roster spots, and there's some good talent in all areas.The Pats have gone into the season with 4 TE's before, and that was back when they kept a true FB or two on the roster. Now that we're not even bothering with fullbacks, it makes a ton of sense to go heavy on TE and RB.
Any anyway, with Belichick, you really can't assume we're going to go with the traditional numbers of players at each position: he lets the dispersal of talent around the roster determine how many slots a position gets.
Projected players not on 2008 roster....
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Taylor,
Baker, Smith
Galloway, Edelman®, Lewis, Vollmer®, Ohrnberger, ®
Brace®, Pryor®,
Burgess, Banta-Cain
Springs, Bodden, , Butler,®
Chung®, McGowan
Ingram(R)
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Assuming McKenzie and Tate on IR/PUP
That's brutal and sad for him. It shows how important it is to stay on the field. That injury proved to me more than just a minor setback for the kid.
Good work as usual by Mike.
I agree with 51 of the 53.
My guess is that Reiss expects LeVoir to be on the PUP list; otherwise only 3 OT's is pretty crazy. I still would have kept four, keeping Britt.
I would keep another linebacker; but perhaps Lenon isn't cutting it. Even with more 53, I'd rather be prepared for Bruschi not having a major role.
MY BOTTOM LINE
Britt or Levoir instead of Smith.
Lenon instead of BJGE.
You're correct. He shows good hustle and aggressiveness-the 2nd was an improvement....I know he is a good player (we wouldn't have taken him in the 2nd)Wheatley was rusty to finish the first half, but he shook it off and played well the second half.