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patsox23 said:THE PATRIOTS ARE BETTER AT:
QB - Brady not playing with a hernia, Cassel with a full year under his belt
RB - Corey healthy, Faulk healthy, Maroney added.
OL - Light healthy, Koppen (eventually) healthy, Mankins and Kaczur have been through a full year now.
TE - Graham healthy (and OL healthy so he doesn't have to babysit), Watson took a big leap last year, Dave Thomas better/younger/faster than Fauria.
DL - A full year of Seymour, better back-up possibilities for Wilfork
DB - Starks and Poole GONE, Hobbs a full-time starter (with a year under his belt), Geno and Asante played better 2nd half of last year, Scott healthy, James Sanders reported to have taken a leap, Tebucky Jones better than the scrubs we threw against the wall last year.
THE PATRIOTS ARE WORSE AT:
K - AV gone, replaced with rookie. 'nuff said.
WR - Givens gone, Caldwell injury-prone, Chad Jackson dynamic but unproven, That said, by mid-season if Caldwell doesn't get hurt and Jackson is as good as people think, the WR's could be very solid.
THE PATRIOTS ARE ABOUT EVEN AT:
LB (lose Willie, gain a full year of Tedy, Beisel would have to be better and, from all accounts, was like "night and day" by the end of 2006) - could end up improving, but hard to count on Claridge (essentially a rookie), Gardner's a JAG scrub, all others (Roach, Mincey, Woods) are unknown development types, Banta-Cain hasn't shown much (especially in 2005, when IMO he regressed).
There is one important person that you left out of DB's. RODNEY!
He will make it back, win comeback player of the year, make the Prop Bowl, and add another SB championship ring on his finger.
Rodney is the glue to the entire DB.