Watson and Meriweather
 

I know, I know, it's only the first game of the season. However, I believe game one was the best game in the careers of Watson and Merriweather respectively.

Yes, Watson had the one play where he started running before putting the ball away, and so dropped the pass. Yet, he played great, catching six rockets from Brady, and even looking really solid blocking on a couple of key runs. Of course, catching the last two TDs was huge as well. It could be argued it was his best game as a Patriot.

Not only was Merriweather all over the field, but he was wrapping up on his tackles unlike last year, and several of his tackles were of the jarring variety. Ofcourse, he was there on the key Bills kickoff ripping at the ball as well. Props to him, because he looked like a stud out there for game one.

P.S. - In the preseason and through game one, Bodden looks tremendous! That was his best game as a Patriot too. :)

Re: Watson and Meriweather
 

Meriweather is a flat out stud. He is always, always around the football making plays with bone-jarring hits. Now if we can replace his invisible partner, Mr James "Where are you" Sanders with Patrick Chung, and do this early so Chung has time to develop, then our safety tandem will be intact heading into the post season.

Re: Watson and Meriweather
 

i think both had a very good game and i would add Banta Cain on that

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I'd love to re-sign him and have Bodden, Wilhite and Butler going forward with Wheatley still around too. The others are cheap so we could afford Bodden if we chose to. These guys should be a good group going forward this year along with Springs.

Re: Watson and Meriweather
 

Man after last night, I take back all the Benjamin Dropson jokes I made....

Re: Watson and Meriweather
 

Actually Sanders quietly had a good game last night.

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Did he ? In what way ?

You mean the 4 tackles made after the damage had already been done ?

He's a 3rd safety, a role player, never, ever around the football until serious yardage has already been gained. No picks, no forced fumbles, nothing ?

The position needs a serious upgrade, Chung can't come up to speed fast enough.

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Agreed. Bodden looked really great last night, both in his coverage and his tackling. I kept thinking "Damn, sucks that he turned that 4/18 offer from us down this off-season, because I think he's going to get a lot more than that after this year".

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are you serious!! what about the player in front who let a RB in a Screen or Off tackle run him...so you logic is just because the DL and LB blew it you want to upgrade sanders.

you really want a safety who can play at the LOS as the DL and LB are horrible....ask the bengals if they would like to have a Safety deep who can clean the mess up front and tackle in the last 5 minutes of the game 1.

Sanders stays back and plugs the hole when lb/dl is blocked and a rb enters the backfield. His job is to stop a big play first and last. From your post you would think the bills gainned huge chunks of yards .

So tell me about
Vince and Ty they were being push to one side by 3-4 OL ...so they need to be upgraded
Green /Banta and Bugress cannot block and push a 320lb tackle -
green was the worst player in the defence. they ran at him ,screens were very effective. Ty and Vince were sealed and green cannot win a 1 on 1 battle.