I disagree with Bedard on these items:
Instead of employing a true lead-blocking FB, he suggests using "Fells & Hernandez btwn the 20s,
and Wendell in short-yardage, and be done with it."
I cannot stand seeing OLmen (or DLmen, or LBs) being used as FBs because they have not nearly
the instincts to find the correct gap, engage a tackler & sustain a block capable of springing the RB
for the needed yardage to continue a drive.
Bedard should've written that Bill spend a couple of extra bucks on Vonta Leach or LeRon McClain,
and be done with it.
"Mankins instantly made the OL better, and Vollmer will have the same effect."
How do we know that Mankins, barely 6 months removed from surgery, will be able to perform
at a level commeasurate with his salary for an entire season, and that SeaBass will be able to perform
at all, when he he is still suffering from the same back issues that plagued him throughout college?
Don't worry about the OL? With an increasingly statue-esque Brady at QB, I will always worry
about this OL. BTW, we have no idea in what condition a questionably-motivated Brian Waters will be
when - or if - he graces us with his prescence.
And he didn't state this explicitly, so I'll do it for him: having McCourty & Arrington return KOs
is flat-out stupid.
I do agree with his takes on the Secondary, which is still a huge question mark, and on the near-certainty
of keeping both Hoyer & Mallett.