Patriots Training Camp Day 17 8/25- Joint Practice with Giants

[KDPPatsfan85]

Patriots: Did the Mac Jones Era begin on Wednesday? – New England Football Journal®

 

[RobertWeathers]

The claims were to get him on the 80 man roster. 53 is another story

The thing that makes final cutdown day so crazy is Bill typically adds a couple of players to the 53 that aren't in camp or we didn't suspect were possibilities.

 

[Mack Herron]

Yep. Cam starting tomorrow is no real indicator of the competition.

What we do know is by Cam's absence, Mac certainly hasn't lost ground.

Even if they would consider staring Mac in game 1, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were no indication of it before game day. But the situation is fluid and everything counts.

 

[KDPPatsfan85]

 

[DaBruinz]

Agreed - I said in the Sony thread that I was pretty sure Bolden would be a cutdown casualty due to the glut of backs, but with the trade happening, Bolden should be pretty secure now. Good depth guy and it makes special teams better.

The problem with this assumption is that it's unlikely the Pats are going to carry 5 RBs AND a FB. Bolden isn't half the lead blocker that Johnson is. The running game last year was night and day with and without Johnson in the game.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Didn’t Bedard just say this hours earlier?

 

[mike_usagisan]

The problem with this assumption is that it's unlikely the Pats are going to carry 5 RBs AND a FB. Bolden isn't half the lead blocker that Johnson is. The running game last year was night and day with and without Johnson in the game.

Can they do it if they cut a QB?

 

[reflexblue]

All say this about the compition between Cam and Mac. When Jones takes the hand off i feel confident that hes not going to make a stupid mistake, hes made great decisions so far. When cam takes the hand off anything can happen. He can make a great play or make some bone head mistake.

 

[Mack Herron]

I think it would be tough to find anyone who disagrees. “We’ll do what’s best for the team.”

 

[PScottman]

With the data starting to mount on Mac...very curious if/when he does get a start what the gameplan will be against him.

Given he's shown tendency simply to take what the defense is giving him/the open receiver:

1) Will it be similar to the middle Oughts with Brady and clog the middle/short and hope to get quick pressure?

Or 2) Typical rookie - multiple coverages/lots of switching of coverages right before the snap?

Or 3) lots of cover-2 to make the QB have to mount 8-10 play drives - test a rookie's patience?

I'm going to make a guess on option #1 - with his tendency toward simply reacting to the defense, I'd think they'll want to speed up his clock as much as possible - maybe with a little of option #2 thrown in. I think #3 plays right into his style.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Didn’t Bedard just say this hours earlier?

These guys have convictions like a leaf in the wind.

 

[PScottman]

These guys have convictions like a leaf in the wind.

Edit: Heard you Ashley re: copyright (man, I have a lot of work to do) - "Serenity", Universal Pictures, Joss Whedon.

 

[VectorPrime]

If anybody is interested, Felger and Mazz are breaking down the five Mac misses from 2-6.

Felger and Mazz have been rooting for Mac to start over Cam for months and are positively giddy over him since the last preseason game FYI

Always fun when people on this forum accuse the 98.5 radio hosts of saying the exact opposite of what they are.

 

[Ring 6]

You need brass balls to sell real estate

Says all the 60 year old women realtors.

 

[Ring 6]

Can they do it if they cut a QB?

Bolden is a special teamer. He counts as a rb barely more than slater counts as a wr.

 

[Patjew]

Felger and Mazz have been rooting for Mac to start over Cam for months and are positively giddy over him since the last preseason game FYI

Always fun when people on this forum accuse the 98.5 radio hosts of saying the exact opposite of what they are.

As soon as Mac wins the job, those trolls will be eviscerating him.

 

[Sicilian]

Felger and Mazz have been rooting for Mac to start over Cam for months and are positively giddy over him since the last preseason game FYI

Always fun when people on this forum accuse the 98.5 radio hosts of saying the exact opposite of what they are.

Poor Felger and Mazz, those beacons of truth and objectivity always being persecuted so unjustly.

 

[mgcolby]

The problem with this assumption is that it's unlikely the Pats are going to carry 5 RBs AND a FB. Bolden isn't half the lead blocker that Johnson is. The running game last year was night and day with and without Johnson in the game.

I ass-u-me-d all along Sony was probably gone to keep Boldin. Sony was redundant with the rook playing the way he has and Boldin being a key special team guy plus a capable fill in back.

To me it just makes too much sense to not have it play out this way.

 

[Midship]

Poor Felger and Mazz, those beacons of truth and objectivity always being persecuted so unjustly.

Poor adults crying about a radio show they can easily just ignore/not listen to

 

[amfootball]

I think the QB competition is officially over. I don't know how Bill can go with Cam for week one after the Covid debacle and Mac shining this week vs the Giants.