One could make a strong guess that Solder seems to have more upside potential while Castonzo may be more limited to what you already see - and that's in college ball at that. And, of course, factors like perceived ability to play in a system as opposed to being more of an individual player...
:) Indeed. More bang for the buck, heh. One could guess that Belichick is looking at the 'strength' and value of the current draft board and I think we can surmise that if he trades for next years picks over using picks this year that he figures his odds are at least possibly for better value...
It seems like every year folks forget that only about 1/3 of the first round picks will ever be a really solid starter and even fewer than that will be probowlers. But the commentary invariably seems to regard all first round picks as gold that the Patriots missed. Go back to past drafts...
Indeed, I guess we must have been watching the plays differently. However, one might suspect that the coaches were seeing more of what I was seeing. Cunningham is now starting and in the last 2 games he's taken 53 of 69 and 59 of 77 defensive snaps. And, of course, he's a first year rookie...
I happened to start focusing on Banta-Cain as I watched the game again from DVR.
I was completely taken aback. It looked like he was doing nothing more than going through the motions. On every run near him he simply engaged with the offensive blocker and stayed with him - no attempt...
Well, Vollmer seemed to have had a very strong game against Miami.
He got away from his push type pass protection blocking from the first couple games and had almost all continuous contact blocks. He handled various Miami DEs without trouble and shut down Porter when he blocked him. In the...
This was a much harder game to make a straightforward summary. There were as lot of plays that were not clear-cut where it was harder to give a simple judgment of Vollmer's play.
Even though he had some top plays, in general my impression was that he was not as solid in his execution as he was...
Re: Vollmer - Titans
I don't have any recent analyses. One of my favorite all-time games though was one I went through a complete play-by-play where I watched Light play against Freeney in a Colts play-off game several years ago (Pats won and went on to win SB). The media announcers were...
My strongest dislike is what I perceive as Manning's arrogance and ego. I really detest that. He is undoubtedly one of the games all time best skills quarterbacks. And yet because he is such an intense 'me' player, it is also his downfall - a double-edged sword. He will opt for passing in...
Some details on Vollmer's play in the Titan's game.
It seems to me that what might be the thing that Vollmer has to work on the most would be to hold or pursue his blocks longer. My very uneducated guess would be to wonder if he has progressed quite yet from college play where holding blocks...
In Maroney's TD run, it was similar to your 1st diagram except Vollmer pulled and preceded Maroney - Vollmer completely took out the Mike which was the key to letting Maroney get through. I'm not home where I can run the slo-mo, so I can't comment on what Neal and Kaczur did.
I'm not sure if...
Matt Light has had some shut-down games against Freeney. I'm away from home and don't have my notes as to the specific game, but in one of the playoff games against the Colts several years ago, Matt Light handled Freeney one on one the whole game and never let him get even close to Brady and...
You have to wonder why he is opening his mouth. How much cred does he think he has with his new team ? Not much of a boost to a team that just traded dearly for him. Loser.
I guess the first question is whether the Patriots would even want to trade a 2nd round pick and change for a 1st round pick.
You would have to think the empirical evidence says that they don't see the value in that.
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Evaluating what value you get for the cap dollar in...
Good point. However, they did indeed evaluate the effectiveness of the players taken over many years of the draft by draft position. After all, that is the point of a statistical evaluation of value for cap dollar.
They used 3 factors if I recall correctly. First weighted factor was games...
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