Pats67
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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Not at all. Belichick gets a hoot out of so called media professionals who feel they are equipped to do this in season. I bet he'd be on the floor over the concept of collated impressions message board grading. LOL
We don't know what these guys are being asked to do, or with whom, or to what end. Gaffney has looked like Tom's #2 go to guy - in the absence of Stallworth. If he weren't absent we'd likely be hearing that Gaffney should be cut. If Moss misses time this week, old bug eyes may start making Gaffney look like chopped liver. Cassel has been unimpressive with the second team but looked pretty sharp with the first team in a lone half day appearance with that unit...go figure.
Belichick and Brady seem to be smiling as we approach the end of week 1 of TC. In my book that's an A- overall camp grade, which is the only grade that matters. This is about teaching and timing and getting or staying on the field. If I were grading on a curve the loss of Scott coupled with the continued absence of Asante, and now Randy's tweeked hammy coupled with the continued absence of Stallworth might knock that down to a B, but the depth that exists and the liklihood all but Scott will be back sooner rather than later would bump that back up to a solid B++. This time last year camp was probably charitably a C-.
It's funny but one of the things that 3 Lombardi's has brought us is a football media and fanbase of hypercritical nitpickers.
Frankly, I question any six-day camp grade that doesn't factor in regular practice field time lost due to threatening skies. It seems to me there ought to be a curve or something. And that's before we even get to humidity and dew point average. I would have hoped to see a little better modeling of the six-day camp grading pro forma, considering how critical the six-day camp grade is to the team's overall success.