I said last night after the game that I couldn\u2019t wait to see the Offensive Line grades that came out today.\u00a0 Pro Football Focus produces weekly and yearly grades for all players and it\u2019s the only site a fan can see what the rankings are.\u00a0 Several scribes don\u2019t agree with the rankings that PFF produces but without anything to compare it to, they are the one independent source you can see. \u00a0\u00a0PFF posts how they arrive at the grades.<\/p>\n
Last night I reported that this was the 7th<\/sup> different Starting Offensive Line combination the Patriots started their 7 games.\u00a0 I was incorrect, it was the 6th<\/sup> different line combination as they used the Brown LT, Mafi LG, D. Andrews C, Owenu RG, and Lowe at RT starting lineup in consecutive weeks against Dallas and New Orleans in blowout losses in weeks 4 and 5.\u00a0 Per PFF, Lowe is ranked 72 of 75 Offensive Tackles.\u00a0 Put this in perspective there are 32 teams with 2 starters.\u00a0 Lowe is not a starter!<\/p>\n In week 7, Trent Brown was rated as the #1 Tackle with an 87.9 rating.\u00a0 The much-maligned rookie Sidy Sow was ranked as the #2 Guard with an 86.4 rating.\u00a0 According to the Boston Herald\u2019s Doug Kyed, Sow\u2019s rating was the highest ranking this year of any rookie Offensive lineman.\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Owenu was given a #5 ranking with a 74.5 rating.\u00a0 This ranking was listed under the OG position when Owenu actually played RT.\u00a0 Chris Price wrote in the Globe today asking, \u201cIs Mike Onwenu at right tackle the final piece of the puzzle for the Patriots\u2019 beleaguered offensive line?\u201d\u00a0 Bill Belichick\u00a0<\/strong>said, \u201cI had a good conversation with Mike after the Raider game and ultimately I think everyone thought that was the best thing for us to do at this time,\u201d Belichick said in his Monday press conference. \u201cSo, we went with it. He had a good week, and thought he did a good job for us.\u00a0 \u201cMike played [right tackle] his rookie year. He\u2019s a smart kid \u2014 understands probably all the different positions on the offensive line. Pretty good fundamental player, and obviously has got good strength.\u201d\u00a0 Onwenu said he was \u201cindifferent\u201d to where he ended up.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve played the position before,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it\u2019s just about adjusting and going week to week against the team we\u2019re playing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t choose where I play. We\u2019ll just see where that happens to be.\u201d<\/p>\n Trent Brown went out of the lineup for a brief time and Vedarian Lowe replaced him for a few plays, but a few plays by Lowe was enough to see him turn into a turnstile.\u00a0 Brown was back in the lineup for the game winning series.<\/p>\n Sidy Sow took his lumps during the Pre-season when he was asked to play Right Tackle, a position he hadn\u2019t played since his freshman year in college 5 years earlier.\u00a0 Sow got beat up in the Pre-season.\u00a0 The 4th<\/sup> Round selection (#117) from Eastern Michigan learned some valuable lessons.\u00a0 Usually, rookie Offensive Lineman gets to sit and learn for at least a season.\u00a0 He was taking 1st<\/sup> team reps all Pre-Season out of position.\u00a0 He applied what he had learned, and he also got to play between veterans David Andrews and Michael Owenu on Sunday.\u00a0 Hopefully the injury to Trent Brown is not significant and this unit can play together for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n Mac Jones playing behind a good Offensive Line<\/strong><\/p>\n Amazing what Mac Jones can do when he has a solid line playing in front of him.\u00a0 All he did was complete 25 of 30 passes for an 83.3% completion %.\u00a0 That was good for the #1 position amongst QBs this week.\u00a0 His 73.5 rating by PFF was his highest for the season.\u00a0 I think this rating is low because they gave him a low fumble rating when he didn\u2019t fumble.\u00a0 That play was ruled an incomplete pass when Pop Douglas made a rookie mistake and didn\u2019t stay in the soft spot of the zone.\u00a0 \u00a0Jones tried to pull the pass back, but it slipped out of his hands and was ruled an incomplete pass. \u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t ever want to see Mac Jones try a QB sneak again.\u00a0 He is not a runner period.\u00a0\u00a0 Bring in Malik Cunningham, which means Cunningham has to be active.<\/p>\n Controversial Plays and Officiating \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bills fans and media were apoplectic about the two calls that went against the Bills.\u00a0 Latavious Murray had a blatant pick play that left Dawson Knox wide open for a TD at the end of the 1st<\/sup> quarter.\u00a0 The nullified TD resulted in a Field Goal.\u00a0 The official call was for Offensive Pass Interference as Murray was blocking like an offensive lineman while the ball was in the air.\u00a0 The media tried to claim that the Patriots DB ran into Murray.<\/p>\n The big controversary was the Illegal Man Downfield flag that would have nullified Rhamondre Stevenson\u2019s 34-yard catch and run on the opening play of the game winning drive from the Patriots 25- yard line.\u00a0 David Andrews was singled out by the broadcasting crew of Ian Eagle and Charles Davis as the offending player.\u00a0 I have reviewed that play 10 times and Andrews and another O-lineman are no more than 3-yards off the line of scrimmage when the ball is released by Mac Jones.\u00a0 The flag was correctly picked up and the big play counted.\u00a0 \u00a0That call in the last two minutes had to come from New York as a booth review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I said last night after the game that I couldn\u2019t wait to see the Offensive Line grades that came out today.\u00a0 Pro Football Focus produces weekly and yearly grades for all players and it\u2019s the only site a fan can see what the rankings are.\u00a0 Several scribes don\u2019t agree with the rankings that PFF produces but without anything to compare it to, they are the one independent source you can see. \u00a0\u00a0PFF posts how they arrive at the grades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":48935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots-news"],"yoast_head":"\n