What are your thoughts on the o-line?

[meatface]

If we want to upgrade CB (or any position for that matter) we may have to part with someone the calibre of Stork. Teams need Oline help, and given the loss of draft picks as a result of deflategate, I am not sure how willing Bill will be to give up any more.

I incredibly doubt it would happen mid season

 

[Fencer]

I've been wondering if he's playing a little chess here. Getting the upcoming teams looking at tape where there is a steady rotation of personnel without any implications on play calling. Then, half way into the season, we see a shift where certain guys are playing more when they are ahead and running the ball, and other guys playing when they are passing it. Then, just when those substitutions start to mean something to the opposition, he switches it back to being completely unpredictable, putting the opposing defense off balance.

Probably reading too much into it...

I don't see how that would work. There would surely be many more plays and series where we were giving the opponents accurate information to set them up than the would be when we successfully deceived them.

 

[Fencer]

Regarding Blount in Game 3:

He was hit at or behind the line of scrimmage on 10-of-18 carries

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/...dion_lewis_legarrette_blount_a_dynamic_duo_in

How worried should we be about stats like that?

 

[BTTA]

Regarding Blount in Game 3:
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/...dion_lewis_legarrette_blount_a_dynamic_duo_in
How worried should we be about stats like that?

If most of them were late game, clock killing carries, then not terribly.

 

[BTTA]

I don't see how that would work. There would surely be many more plays and series where we were giving the opponents accurate information to set them up than the would be when we successfully deceived them.

Perhaps. But if BB can even make the opposing coaches think for a few seconds as a play is being set up about the implications of certain o-linemen being substituted in, he's added a complication and distraction that didn't exist before.

 

[rookBoston]

This may be the best OL we've had in a number of years, all the way back to the set with Light - Mankins - Koppen - Neal - Vollmer... and deeper as a unit that that group since they're 8 or 9 deep. They're still young and inexperienced as a unit. They're sure to get better.

 

[meatface]

I am really loving the fact that they are rotating the offensive lineman so well. It seems to have really shored up the interior line