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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.If our offense, defense, and special teams play well we will win a lot of games.
My biggest concern is Brady, not because he's going to fail, but because he's by far our biggest single point-of-failure. A healthy year from Brady makes us instant Superbowl contenders. If something goes wrong we're rolling the dice on people Brady would almost rather die than let them have any real world playing experience and our chances of final success plummet accordingly.
Did I call for any action to be taken? No. So you can kindly stop putting words into my mouth.So we should give JG meaningful snaps to get him experience even though it greatly lessens the chance of the Pats winning but that is ok because if Brady ever got injured or something JG would be better/more experienced than now?
Does that about cover it?
On an unrelated note, our team for the last few years or so has done an extremely good job at staying young.
Some games he was invisible.
Long only started 7 games and had 22 tackles according to FB Reference.
First of all, "starts" is probably the most useless stat in football for gauging a player's value at a rotational position, especially with the Pats' commitment to opponent-specific game plans.
Long: 7 starts ... 677 snaps
Flowers: 8 starts ... 563
Sheard: 8 starts ... 579
Blount: 8 starts ... 527 snaps
White: 4 starts ... 426 snaps
It's difficult for me to imagine that the coaching staff that was responsible for bringing home another ring would have had Long on the field for 100 more snaps than any other DE on the roster if he wasn't doing his job (like setting the edge to turn the play toward other defenders).
Second, simple, raw productions stats never tell the whole story, and the "invisibility" of a player is largely determined by the guys in the broadcast booth and the video director. For example, the cornerback who gets targeted the least (who's on camera the least and whose number is mentioned the least) ... is he therefore the least successful CB or the most successful?
Long is a JAG.
Jamie Collins has made more of an impact then Long ever did. 15 snaps in the Super Bowl is all Long had. 32 years old with a season or two left makes Long replaceable. Im ready for some youth on the Defense.I am not concerned about his 4 sacks in 2016.
My biggest concern is that I will eventually get bored of the massive blowouts week in and week out.