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Getting all the way to the AFC Championship game and coming up short obviously has to be frustrating for a Patriots team who already enjoyed the taste of a Super Bowl just over a year ago.<\/p>\n

As Bill Belichick likes to say, losses like that are tough because the treadmill suddenly comes to a stop, abruptly ending the journey before they were able to reach their final destination. \u00a0All the hard work, the preparation, everything that goes into an NFL season, just like that, is over, concluding a season where their ultimate goal wasn’t achieved. \u00a0It leads to an offseason full of reflection, with another stretch of months to tinker with a roster where the only constant is change as they try to add players who can help them when they step back on that same treadmill in July and put the pads back on, only to do it all over again.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Vollmer has been around for a while now, having joined the Patriots back in 2009 when New England selected him in the second round with the 58th overall pick. \u00a0He knows what it’s like to come up just short of reaching the top of the NFL mountain. \u00a0Having also finally won a title two seasons ago, he’s seen also seen that side of it. But Vollmer knows that no matter how it ends, the same amount of effort still needs to go into it and the experience leads to a lot of reserved emotion, which was apparent as he spoke to reporters on Tuesday. \u00a0Losing in January doesn’t give him\u00a0any extra motivation. \u00a0Winning a Super Bowl is what they’re always trying to\u00a0do here, so right now he’s just ready to get to work.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a new year. I don\u2019t think we need extra motivation for anything,” said Vollmer. \u00a0“I think you come out here and try to better yourself as a player, as a team, as a group, all of that stuff, and putting in these hours and working towards a common goal. Now it\u2019s getting ready for OTA\u2019s next week and then we have training camp coming up so it\u2019s a long road ahead but we\u2019re just doing what we\u2019re told to do and really grinding it out right now.”<\/p>\n

He’s coming off a frustrating season, one that was riddled with injuries that began with a concussion he suffered in November, and later included the scary sight of\u00a0seeing\u00a0him carted off the field with an ankle injury against the Jets the week before the season finale.<\/p>\n

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Vollmer endured a scare right before the end of the season, but came back in the playoffs.<\/strong><\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Fortunately he avoided serious injury and\u00a0was able to return for the playoffs. \u00a0He was asked if he did anything different in preparation for this season, with Vollmer saying he just tried to improve on some things while following the protocol in place.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s different. \u00a0Obviously, you\u2019re kind of told what to do. But I think you learn from year to year,” explained Vollmer. \u00a0“If it\u2019s extra stretching, conditioning, whatever it is you kind of experience what you need, what gets you ready and I think you learn from season to season, \u2018I was in great shape\u2019, or, \u2018I wasn\u2019t in good shape\u2019, or whatever it was and I think you try and take the good things and try to eliminate the bad things.”<\/p>\n

Much of the talk this offseason has centered on the return of Dante Scarnecchia to coaching the offensive line, who Vollmer admitted “gets the best out of you.” \u00a0However, the struggles by their unit last season saw a\u00a0year where they really couldn’t run the football as the injuries piled up, and ended with a disastrous finish in Denver where Tom Brady got hammered to the tune of 17 quarterback hits and 4 sacks. \u00a0That QB hit number dropped slightly after coming out at a staggering 20 initially, but the league has since done as they often do and adjusted the numbers following post-game reviews.<\/p>\n

But either way, it was obviously a key reason they lost that game and something that was likely part of a long discussion at some point by the coaching staff and front office. So much so that it clearly resulted in the unusual move of a Patriots coach losing their job, with Dave Duglielmo coming out on the wrong end of things as New England decided a change in direction was needed.<\/p>\n

Those things are now in the past and Vollmer has no regrets. \u00a0Right now it’s May and it’s the start of the road that leads to a new season ahead. \u00a0So at this point, like his teammates, he’s just\u00a0back at it trying to get ready to have success in 2016.<\/p>\n

“I think every team has the same goal in mind, especially in this phase now. If ultimately your season comes to a crashing end it\u2019s never a good feeling,” said Vollmer. “I think you do a lot of self-evaluations of things you could have done better and like I said earlier, the following year you\u2019re trying to implement the good things and really cut out the bad things.”<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t question anybody\u2019s effort. I think we all gave whatever we could and in the end it wasn\u2019t good enough. It\u2019s onto a new year for us now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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