Mack Herron
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I'm not jealous of the Ravens, but I do think they give us a bit of cause for optimism, if only because they show how quickly an OL can be turned around once it's acknowledged as a problem. What did it take them to go from horrible last year to looking pretty damn good so far? They traded for Eugene Monroe and signed Jeremy Zuttah. That just about covered it.
Bottom line: the Pats need their own Zuttah. Maybe Stork's the guy, or maybe a FA will have to be. But this OL is about 1-2 players away from potentially being really good again. I have more faith in the team's ability to fix it once they decide to than I have in its ability to recognize the problem in the first place.
I'm not jealous of the Ravens, but I do think they give us a bit of cause for optimism, if only because they show how quickly an OL can be turned around once it's acknowledged as a problem. What did it take them to go from horrible last year to looking pretty damn good so far? They traded for Eugene Monroe and signed Jeremy Zuttah. That just about covered it.
Bottom line: the Pats need their own Zuttah. Maybe Stork's the guy, or maybe a FA will have to be. But this OL is about 1-2 players away from potentially being really good again. I have more faith in the team's ability to fix it once they decide to than I have in its ability to recognize the problem in the first place.
To a lot of us, it's been clear that the interior of the line needs a talent infusion ever since Ryan Wendell stepped foot on the field. And while I couldn't really blame them in 2012, since they expected Waters back and seemed to have been kinda blindsided by that, they've now had two full offseasons where they've chosen to run the same old guys back out there.
Eventually, Belichick will realize that he's trying to get water out of a stone with some of these guys, and when he does I expect to see a pretty quick turnaround. At this point, I would be both not shocked and very happy if we made an in-season trade for an impact guard, kinda like what Belichick did with Talib a couple of years ago.