Originally Posted by belichickaholic

Nice list, I agree with most of it except I would remove Alexander's name from #10, and instead add Sanders. It's early but I'm not impressed with Alexander so far.

Originally Posted by PonyExpress

In no particular order...

Positives:
1. Maroney seems to have a dream attitude for a 1st rd pick.
2. Thomas looks like a steal.
3. Corey is showing his true colors: an all-time great.
4. Gostkowski seems to be stepping up to a furious challenge from the Hamburgler
5. Willie Andrews so far seems solid as a return man
6. Britt has impressed the staff enough to take reps at LT with the 1st team This is a negative since he only did it for a couple practices, then Gorin started filling in behind Light while Britt and O'Callaghan split reps at right tackle - I can live with Gorin at RT if I have to, LT is scary.
7. Caldwell seems like a man on a mission.
8. Le Kevin Smith showing real motivation.
9. Matt Light on the rebound.
10. E. Alexander emerging, finally. Curran likes him, most of the rest of the reports indicate Gardner is well ahead of him.

Negatives
1. Tom Brady downright mediocre to poor in TC. A surprise.
2. Watson still has questionable hands. They seem to be a little better than last year, certainly Tommy is happy with him.
3. Neither Hobbs nor Samuel looking like shut-down material. Note: I still like them both as starting CBs, not slot men. A big fan of Asante here. Way too early, lets see how they do when the pass rush doesn't have to stop and stare hard at the QB.
4. Injuries: Koppen, Kaczur, C. Jackson, Bruschi, Graham, Rodney, Blue G-y, J. Green.
5. Deion (I think he's going to cave in soon)
6. No one stepping up at reserve OLB (TBC, C. Brown, etc.)
7. J. Sullivan slow start
8. ? Depth at LT as noted above.
9. ? Practice Squad is still 8 men, there are some good kids that could use some more time.
10. Lurking presence of Borges QB/WR timing, not even reassigning Borges to covering Mideast camel races would make that encouraging.