While being stacked and potent at every position is almost no longer possible given the underlying framework of the NFL system, if a team can achieve a fairly decent level at every positional grouping to go with a top QB and a few top tier skill positions?? IMHO this is about as good as can be expected for off season team building. And, again IMHO, the Patriots have now achieved this level with the exception of TE (I'm more confident in the LT/OL than some). Yet even at TE, while Gronk isn't going to be replaced, ASJ stats suggest he can definitely block and he's hit a 50 catch season on a crappy team (though his yards per catch was anemic). And if Watson has some left in the tank he definitely has proven pure TE ability. So at least TE has tangible hope for decency (we'll see).
Of course this is on paper. How it translates to actual games is TBD and subject to change. Yet I can't remember the last time the pre-camp Patriots had such few very concerning question marks. On the contrary, right now the big question marks are more about what players have to be cut(or traded etc). I'm certainly in favor of these type question marks versus the question marks of some seasons past
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