Great Article on Exactly How Young Pats Roster Is

[shmessy]

Incredible. They are well set up. The Joker in the deck is Brady - - but as some comment in that section - - Flacco, Dilfer, Eli Manning and Brad Johnson have all QB'ed SB teams this millenia.

Examining the New England Patriots' Youth Movement | Bleacher Report

 

[DarrylS]

Validates a contention that I have made for a while now, that this team is being rebuilt before our eyes, and many or the d/d backfield problems are due to inexperience..

And we have not missed a beat.. marks of a great front office and great coaching..

 

[dreamchaser526]

I found this awesome chart breaking down how the 2013 patriots roster was assembled. We currently have 61 of our 90 players that are from the draft or college free agents and we have only acquired two players from trade.
2013 How Assembled Charts

 

[DarrylS]

I found this awesome chart breaking down how the 2013 patriots roster was assembled. We currently have 61 of our 90 players that are from the draft or college free agents and we have only acquired two players from trade.
2013 How Assembled Charts

Really good graphic..

 

[TruthSeeker]

Incredible. They are well set up. The Joker in the deck is Brady - - but as some comment in that section - - Flacco, Dilfer, Eli Manning and Brad Johnson have all QB'ed SB teams this millenia.

Examining the New England Patriots' Youth Movement | Bleacher Report

I wouldn't bunch Eli Manning and Joe Flaco with Brad Johnson and Trent Dilfer. Johnson and Dilfer were Jags playing for teams with good/great defenses. Eli manning is a 2 time SB MVP (unfortunately) and Flaco is a damned good QB.

 

[shmessy]

I wouldn't bunch Eli Manning and Joe Flaco with Brad Johnson and Trent Dilfer. Johnson and Dilfer were Jags playing for teams with good/great defenses. Eli manning is a 2 time SB MVP (unfortunately) and Flaco is a damned good QB.

Respectfully disagree.

I see Eli as a B to B+ QB. The 2 SB's?:

42: 19 of 34 for 255 2TD 1 INT
46: 30 of 40 for 296 1 TD 0 INT

B+ stuff on the two best days of his life.

I'm sorry but Flacco is God-awful. He had a remarkable stable of tall receivers who won every jump ball he threw up last year. If you watched any Ravens last year you know the drill - - Flacco goes back, without looking throws a flyball as high as high can.

He should give those guys half his new contract.

 

[patriotsdynasty12189]

Respectfully disagree.

I see Eli as a B to B+ QB. The 2 SB's?:

42: 19 of 34 for 255 2TD 1 INT
46: 30 of 40 for 296 1 TD 0 INT

B+ stuff on the two best days of his life.

I'm sorry but Flacco is God-awful. He had a remarkable stable of tall receivers who won every jump ball he threw up last year. If you watched any Ravens last year you know the drill - - Flacco goes back, without looking throws a flyball as high as high can.

He should give those guys half his new contract.

I watched the last 3 Ravens games where Flacco has carved us up.

 

[Wheelman]

I watched the last 3 Ravens games where Flacco has carved us up.

I saw three things I remember in the last 3 games where the Flacco carved the pats defense. First as Shmessy said, Jump balls. Especially in the AFC championship game. Flacco throws it up hoping for pass interference call. Our linebackers can't cover any tight ends. Let's see how good flacco does when he has midget receivers who have a hard time creating seperation against good defenses. Flacco is overrated. Heck even his throw to Jacoby Jones was a bad throw on that play Rahim Moore botched.

Like Shmessy said, Flacco should give half his contract to his receivers.

 

[Spiral]

When calculating the age of a roster, it seems to me that median would be more informative than mean. One or two old timers can affect the average quite a bit.

 

[shmessy]

I watched the last 3 Ravens games where Flacco has carved us up.

As Wheelman said, perhaps you missed who actually made the plays.

 

[shmessy]

When calculating the age of a roster, it seems to me that median would be more informative than mean. One or two old timers can affect the average quite a bit.

All you had to do was read what was in the link that was provided:

"....While the figures are currently a little skewed due to the 90-man roster, the team’s average age is 25 years old. So, in essence, 2010 first-round pick Devin McCourty is the median."

 

[Joey007]

Interesting NFL.com article on Patriots youth movement.

New England Patriots want young leaders to take control of team - NFL.com

I know not everyone has the best feelings about Breer, but I thought he wrote up a pretty good article.