Gronkowski123
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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.Agreed. This is one of the great myths of Patriot football. Images sometimes coalesce into facts, especially in this market. For years the Pats have been quite public in that they DON'T flop their safeties from strong side to weak, yet for all of those years, the mediots and fans have parrotted the image that Chung was a "strong safety".Chung = Don Davis
He's basically his own position. The Patriots, for the most part, no longer use a real strong safety.
Agreed. This is one of the great myths of Patriot football. Images sometimes coalesce into facts, especially in this market. For years the Pats have been quite public in that they DON'T flop their safeties from strong side to weak, yet for all of those years, the mediots and fans have parrotted the image that Chung was a "strong safety".
The thing is, the good Captain Stone has been amazingly prescient wrt draft picks.umm...if you bet against every pick in the draft you would make good money...the odds are vastly in your favor...your comment is useless
start calling the correct picks and then we can talk
The thing is, the good Captain Stone has been amazingly prescient wrt draft picks.
Man people thought he was a great pick up and a better prospect more sure thing than Mason.
It makes sense.
IOL
Developmental OT (In other words, this probably waits until next year, and becomes the need for a starter level OT)
DL
LB
Slot CB
That's really all they need to focus on, unless I'm blanking on something/someone
To be fair, Chung's initial stint saw him playing a more traditional SS role, although they were also trying to force coverage roles on him. It took until he was gone for the team to figure the best way to use him.
It's pretty cool, because we can use Chung as a combination:
2nd round cautionary/failure tale
BB misused a player example
BB figures out how to use other team's failures example
Redemption tale
Come to NE and win a SB example
Do we demand a hockey player score on every shot? No.
Do we demand a baseball batter to hit a home run every at bat? No.
Do we demand a pitcher to throw a shutout every start? No.
Do we demand a quarterback to throw a TD every pass? No.
Do we demand the defense to create a turnover every possession? No.
My, what versatility!
Yeah, but there has been 3 played, if only BB would listen to Captain stone he'd have 3 instead of 2.Seems to me that the Pats have won two Super Bowls since Jackson was picked. Must be doing something right
Tre Jackson was not good value in the 4th round, or in any round. He was a fat-ass, unathletic, injury-prone stiff from Florida State, the same school that produced the injury-prone Bryan (If Bill Wanted a Center Then He Should've Drafted Russell Jethroe Bodine) Stork. Another waste of a draft pick, again. And once again, those who warned that Jackson was a bad pick were proven correct, again, and Bill was proven wrong, again.
This is unreal. The Pats just won the first Super Bowl ever to go to OT. The 11 players that took the field on offense to start the overtime consisted of a 3rd rounder, three 4ths, a 5th, a 6th, a 7th and three UDFA's and Captain Stone thinks he could draft better than Bill "proven wrong again" Belichick. Can you imagine how many Superbowls we would have won with someone as competant as Captain Stone doing the drafting?
Regarding that draft thread I don't recall for sure.Who did? I thought the consensus was that Mason had the higher upside if he could learn the pro style offense and pass blocking coming from the triple option.
The FACT is that those stock labels just don't exits. Most of the Pats DB's have multiple skill sets. Chung was a CB in college and has often lined up in what is normally concidered a "CB" position in the slot or elsewhere, simply because Patricia determined that THAT was the match up he wanted in that situation.