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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.trading for a good player on a rookie deal is pretty nice though. If you can find a good young OL on rookie deal even better thoughWould rather trade for an O-lineman or TE.
From what I read on reddit, the impression I got with M. Fitzpatrick was that they may have overloaded him with like 5-6 different -roles- on defense immediately... he's been covering slot, CB, FS, SS, and some LB roles.
If redditor comments are anything to go by (big if), his strengths are being misused at SS, where he's being primarily used, instead of letting him be more FS/CB. (And I got the impression he really didn't like SS.)
In other words, it sounds like they're trying to use him as Pat Chung instead of Devin McCourty.
During the game against the Ravens, Flores played him at 4 different positions DURING THE SAME GAME.
It would be a pipe dream, but the Bucs have 4 TE and were not using a lot of OJ Howard last night, manly as a blocking TE..Would rather trade for an O-lineman or TE.
I’m not sure that I follow. He had a strong rookie year and at the beginning of the off-season was thought to be one of their building blocks for the future. It sounds as though Flores and the coaching staff perhaps put too much on his plate. And when you say that his deficiencies are “now are more regularly exposed” are you talking about week 1 of this season, because it does not sound like he was exposed regularly during his rookie year?
The Flores designed defense just gave up 59 points, 325 yards passing and 5 passing TDs to a team led by a quarterback who averaged fewer than 180 yards passing per game last year during his 7 games as a starter. During those seven games, Jackson threw a total of six passing TDs. How do we know that Belichick did not hide a lot of Flores’ deficiencies, which were exposed week 1? That is not fair to Flores but it is similarly unfair to seemingly dismiss Fitzpatrick as a first round mistake based upon one horrific game playing in a new system for a team that is a dumpster fire right now. It is very possible that Belichick would handle Fitzpatrick very differently.
For a lot of reasons it likely won’t happen but talking about at a minimum serves as a brief diversion from the Antonio Brown.
This dude is more insane than Antonio Brown if he thinks he was drafted 11th overall to play slot CB.He doesnt want to be versatile and he doesn't want to be a safety. He wants to be strictly a slot CB. Which the Pats just signed their slot CB to an extension
He’s shooting his way off of a team coached by an individual from BB coaching tree in part because he does not like the idea of having multiple assignments/jobs/responsibilities. Yes or no - does he sound like a fit for the New England Patriots to you?Belichick’s multiple coaching tree failures say hi. After the Dolphins week 1 debacle, I think it is fair to wonder whether Flores really played a major role in the improvement of the patriots defense late in the year and in the playoffs, or whether it was all/mostly Belichick. I remember reading an article about the Amoeba defense and one of the defensive players commented about how involved BB was with strategy and game planning, compared with prior years.
We won’t know the answer about Flores for another two years but regardless, the fact that Flores may not be high on Fitzpatrick does not mean that he is utilizing him correctly or utilizing him in the same manner that the Hoodie would. On the other hand they almost certainly watched Dolphins film together last year and if BB was raving about Fitzpatrick and his potential, that probably would have made an impact on Flores.
PS. Based upon all the stories that I have read, BB was not upset at Flores for signing on with a division “rival” and taking some of his assistants with him.
Maybe he felt that Flores was ready and this was an opportunity that he could not pass up.
Alternatively, he may have told Flores that he was not ready but Flores felt that this was an opportunity that he could not pass up, especially financially, for family security.
Or maybe, just maybe, BB thought that Flores was not ready and was confident that he would fail and still encouraged him to take the job ( or at least did not discourage him). That would be an obvious win for the Patriots on the field for the next 2+ years but Flores would still have the same financial security and would find himself employed once again in the league, possibly as a DC, after being fired in Miami. Or maybe I’m just projecting because that is something that I would do in BB’s position.
DMac is a FA next year and will be very expensive.
not a big one. If we want to extend I think we could get Dmac at a reduced price.What do you think is the market for a (then) 33yr old FS ?
I also expect that Belichick may talk directly to Flores about Fitzpatrick, to figure out why Flores is so willing to let him go in the first place. If he's not Flores' kind of guy, he may well not be Belichick's either.