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I would manage your expectations on those 3. Jules will be a 32 year old coming of an ACL. Hightower is healthy half the time and the draft guides quoted one scout who said Mitchell’s knees are “held together with scotch tape.” We’ve seen nothing in 2 years to suggest that he was wrong or that...

It's like the old saying: players win games, abstract disciplinary rules win championships.

Too bad he got cheap shotted, he had a chance at the Super Bowl high hurdles record

Nope. Thus begins the Curse of Handsome Jimmy

Starting with the worst: SB 42 2006 AFCCG 2005 Divisional Playoff SB 46 SB 52 barely registers, tbh

Against 3 receivers, wouldn’t Chung usually be off the field in Nickel? Here he was in. That makes them stouter, doesn’t it? In Dime, they went 4 safeties/2 CBs , instead of 3/3. That makes them stouter, doesn’t it? I’m really asking seriously. This is the only thing that makes sense to me, if...

Is it possible that the Patriots wanted to be bigger in the back end in nickel and dime because of Ajayi and Blount? Would that solve the riddle?

There is zero evidence it was “discipline.” Less than zero that it was “petty”

Hoping for a front 7 bonanza in the draft.

I think it is more the style of play than the physical matchups. Unless you can shut the run down with your DL, like Seymour-Wilfork-Warren could do, the RPO puts a ton of stress on the backend. Put that together with an aggressive play caller and a confident QB and it’s a lot to deal with...

Go watch the Chiefs games and early against Jax. You will see the same confusion there. Pats don’t have the personnel to deal with a team that can spread them out AND run with power AND playcall aggressively.

Note his comment about having to play inside and with power. I take that to mean that because of the threat of the run, you can’t kick guys like Flowers inside to rush, you can’t play Wise because he isn’t stout enough and you have to use a third safety rather than a fourth corner in dime. A...

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Anyone with a subscription to BSJ? Bedard has a story up about this and he had an earlier story describing how they were becoming tired of his nonsense earlier in the year

Yeah, between PatriotsNumero1Fan and BB, it’s a tough call, but I’m still going BB.

Eagles receivers did little damage after Gilmore put the straps on Jeffrey. Ertz, Clement and the run game were killing them. Unclear how much Butler would have helped given that and Bedard wrote an article a little while ago about how Butler was struggling and blaming his teammates for mistakes...

We have given up 40+ in 3 of the last 4 games against this Andy Reid style offense, including 2014 when we had really good defensive personnel. It is our kryptonite

3 Games to Ignominy will be out in a few months.

I spent 30 minutes looking and I found a bunch, all sparse and barely literate.

Yeah, I mean it will be a business decision made at the time considering all the relevant factors at that time. Anything they are saying now is just for PR or is otherwise uninformed nonsense.