WinstonSmith
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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The whole "But all those opt outs!" theory/excuse for last year has crashed and burned.
It depends on what you mean by "But all those opt outs!" as an excuse. Before the opt outs the Pats were looking at a down year and not every opt out would have helped the team, but Chung, Hightower, and Cannon would've helped, and with the state of the TEs and WRs LaCosse and Lee at the very least had high utility value in positions of need and may have at least improved their respective groups.
If there were no opt outs the Pats may have won an additional game or 2, but it pales in comparison to the production/games lost due to what the 49ers suffered through.