{"id":7552,"date":"2016-08-23T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T11:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2016-08-23T07:27:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T11:27:03","slug":"despite-cannons-strong-summer-patriots-addressed-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/despite-cannons-strong-summer-patriots-addressed-tackle\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Spotlight is Now On Cannon, Scarnecchia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Cannon has been a lightning rod for criticism the past few years from Patriots fans and members of the media. The 2016 season won&#8217;t be any different. Whether you\u2019re talking about his contract or that awful AFC Championship Game in Denver, folks tend to expect the worst when it comes to the 6<sup>th<\/sup> year tackle from TCU. And one of the things the team should have addressed this spring was finding a right tackle of the future. But they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>With the news that Sebastian Vollmer is going to go on IR for a myriad of shoulder and hip issues, shouldn\u2019t be surprising. Vollmer is a good, tough right tackle who has been banged up with a variety of back and knee woes for quite a while now. And at age 32, those don\u2019t get better with big interior linemen. The writing was on the wall with Seabass and now with him being a free agent in 2017, he\u2019s probably going to be moving on next year regardless if he\u2019s able to come back this season or not.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Marcus-Cannon.jpg\" alt=\"Marcus-Cannon\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not going to go overboard and jump on Bill Belichick and Nick Caserio the way some do around the Boston area and with good reason. Show me another team that consistently fields a team that wins double-digit games every season in the NFL and every season takes a team deep into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t exist outside of Foxboro and the two guys at the helm always seem to find a great mix of players that buy in, work hard, and invariably get the job done. It is always easy to sit up in the cheap seats and point out flaws in what went wrong after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is one of those times that they should have perhaps taken a look at where they\u2019ve addressed their offensive line in the past few years and perhaps moved their focus to the outside. In the past three years, the team added centers, Bryan Stork and David Andrews. At guard, a year ago, they drafted Shaq Mason and Tre\u2019 Jackson. This season, the Patriots traded for guard Jonathan Cooper then drafted guards Joe Thuney and Ted Karras.<\/p>\n<p>So we get that the offensive line\u00a0was beaten up last year and that former coach Dave DeGuglielmo may not have been able to reach the players that Dante Scarnecchia had. That\u2019s why Scar was brought back into the fold and was tasked with re-energizing this unit in 2016 so that we don\u2019t witness a retake of the debacle that Tom Brady\u2019s protection was down the stretch a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scarnecchia and Belichick have always loved Cannon, seeing the potential that many of us don\u2019t see on a day-to-day basis. Belichick in his Monday press conference went into detail praising Cannon\u2019s work in the Chicago preseason game. To his credit, Cannon has been good this summer. Especially in the running game where he\u2019s been able to get a consistent push up front and has pancaked quite a few would-be tacklers.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s moved better as well in pass protection, part of it Cannon credits to slimming down, eating right and working on his quickness. When he was drafted by the team in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> round of the 2011 draft, he tipped the scales at 358 pounds. He\u2019s now listed at 335. Also a year ago, he was dealing with a toe issue which definitely would affect his mobility. But given the injury situation to the team a year ago, anyone that could walk was going to play.<\/p>\n<p>Cannon\u2019s biggest knock has been consistency. He\u2019s played well in stretches but hasn\u2019t been able to put anything together for any length of time. Scarnecchia, who has always been in his corner will go about trying to change that aspect of his game. With Vollmer out, for perhaps the entire season, the job is his now as it has been since Day 1 of spring OTAs and minicamp.<\/p>\n<p>Scarnecchia\u00a0can bring out the best on anyone, that\u2019s why he\u2019s been in the league for so long. He\u2019ll bring out the good in Cannon. Because Cannon can be a good tackle in the NFL. But the Patriots, who have been on top of the heap for more than a decade don\u2019t deal in \u201cgood\u201d when protecting the best QB in the game.<\/p>\n<p>They should have been looking for better than good this spring. Ultimately, we\u2019ll learn how they fare once the games begin in earnest. 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