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Getting Lewis and Solder back should be huge. Lewis was looking really good before he was lost for the season. It doesn't seem like there are two many key free agents on the defense? This unit is on the up swing overall. Maybe the secondary is the most vulnerable part but they are by no means bad.
I thought it was interesting how many passes James White saw thrown his way in the AFC Championship game. Particularly in the second half. At least three were downfield sideline shots. None completed though.
They could be saving those results for the appeal. Or trying to figure out an explanation around them for the appeal. Regardless, if those test were very damning, it seems the appeal would be dropped. Personally, they should probably just drop the appeal vs bringing all this back up into view... I think both parties come off looking bad either way.
They don't need the results for the appeal, the appeal process has nothing to do with the "crime" that the NFL fabricated at this point, it only hinges on judicial protocol nothing else.
As many have said and I have agreed with from the beginning, if the "study" the NFL has done goes on to show what anyone with a TPM in their car knows already, footballs get soft when the temperature drops then those results will never see the light of day....
Only way the results get released is if they bolster the NFL case not if they embarrass the league further.
Let's look forward to 2016 season. The Pats need to:
- Get everyone back that they want back healthy
- Draft a couple of offensive linemen
- Get a deep threat WR that can hang on to the ball. Other than Randy Moss, Brady has not had a star deep threat WR. With Edelman, Gronk, and someone like that on the field, Brady will even more effective
- Work on the running game. Not as the primary attack mode, but get running plays in there such as the ones Deon Lewis was making in the first half of the season. Also have Steve Jackson or LeGarrette Blount as the big back...
I don't even know that they need to draft much on the offensive line, they need a swing tackle because clearly Cannon is not the answer. Get Solder back and move Vollmer back to the right side where he belongs and that cures a lot of the ills right there, they have good young depth at guard and center.
I agree on the deep threat, Lafell was a disappointment this season after being a very good option last season. What I don't want to see is Belichick drafting a WR, that NEVER works out well, hopefully they can find some free agent help...
Running game is big, Jackson was a short term bandaid and Blount wasn't tearing it up before he got hurt. Lewis is a 3rd down back ideally, I hope to see the Pats go after a lead RB early rounds of the draft.
The OL was terrible in the AFCG but a lot of that comes with being one dimensional, no running game to fear you can tee off on the QB and thats what we saw. Getting a young big back would take more of the pressure off Brady then anything they do to the offensive line.
The NFL is not going to release the data for that game, or any of the other games they tested during the season because it will make them look like even more stupid than they already did after deflategate.
I guess that had something to do with the Deflategate Scandal.
Goodell needs this setup in public to help him when the Deflategate appeal process starts up soon. He thinks it will make him look good. He's a scumbag.
I'm not ready to make any calls yet. If Dante Scarnecchia is guaranteed, I think the O-Line will get a much needed makeover. I believe that was the difference this season, the weak play of the O-Line. Of course who knows exactly what caused the Pats to get only so far, but my observation says the O-Lines percentage of guilt is the highest.
With a healthy Brady, again we can only wait until next year to see how his body is holding up. We've seen nothing the believe he won't come back an elite "old" QB, meaning top 5 in the league elite. So I would think 10 wins is a good bet. If they address the back position that would help. Need a bruiser even if Deon Lewis comes back fine next year.
Without the 1st round draft pick, we'll see how the Pats approach the draft and free agency.
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