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2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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Ivan dude(being friendly no pun intended) Everybody knows by now I want patriot players dominate! Not just play well, but savage our opponents! I hope Easley Buchanan Moore,Collins are terrorizing passrush forces and Jones takes another stride. I want Dobson and the hard working Thompkins (especially kenbrell)to step up in Hightower want us to field our most dominant OLineman I think Halapio can be a great center and Fleming/Cannon compete to be our athletic powerful RG. Most of all I want to acquire the vastly underrated destructive Carl Nicks. I don't want to hope we can pull off a Superbowl run, I want to know we will savagely dominate every team on route to a Superbowl trophy. I was hoping Hightower was as explosive as elite LBs like Willis/Bowman but packaged in his 270lb body. However its just not the case.
According to reports in OTAs Hightower was playing the SAM LB spot closer to the line.Hightower should be more comfortable at MLB and his play could take another step forward now that his responsibilities seemingly align with his skill-set (unlike last year).
According to reports in OTAs Hightower was playing the SAM LB spot closer to the line.
Same thing I have been wondering
According to reports in OTAs Hightower was playing the SAM LB spot closer to the line.
I am not sure if this is a smug question where you ask a question to attempt to insinuate that what happens in OTAs does not mean anything, or a legitimate question. I will answer it as if it is the later.Does that mean whoever played the middle is going to during the season?
I am not sure if this is a smug question where you ask a question to attempt to insinuate that what happens in OTAs does not mean anything, or a legitimate question. I will answer it as if it is the later.
I would assume that if they were practicing like that, that would be the intentions. Also Hightower has played OLB throughout his time here, so I see nothing to indicate he is going to play MLB. I would suspect Mayo whose original position with the team was MLB where he was a first team All-Pro in 2010 would move back to MLB.
This would have the 265lb Hightower playing the SOLB, and the extremely athletic, good in coverage Jamie Collins at WOLB, which in my opinion is the best alignment and based on OTAs Belichick also feels that way.
The linebackers were a very active group throughout the OTA workout. The first observation was that
Jerod Mayo spent a good deal of time in the middle. There had been some assumption that Mayo might return to the outside linebacker spot he played the last couple seasons before he was lost to injury, with Dont’a Hightower replacing free agent departure Brandon Spikes in the middle. While all three linebackers, including Jamie Collins, saw reps in the middle of the defense on Thursday, it certainly looks like Hightower and Collins might be destined for the outside with Mayo returning to the middle.