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  1. Agreed. I think honestly every team should always be drafting at minimum one QB every 2 years. If you can spend a 4th round pick on a backup guard, you can spend a 4th round pick on productive D2 QB and see what you can get out of him. There is no reason to recycle has-been or never-was veteran QBs unless you are specifically keeping them around for their role as extra coaches. A guy Brian Hoyer may be great helping your rookie QB learn the system, but and maybe even covering for 1 or 2 games on short notice for an injury, but he will never be a long term solution if your top guy sucks or retires. You should pretty much always have at least one young guy on the roster that you don't know about yet. or at least on the PS.
  2. Seems likely to me that a family member just picked the jersey. Probably his newest one, or one he wore most recently. I doubt he had it in his will or anything.
  3. Pats fan perspective: I think the Jets win a close one, like 24-20 or something like that. But really I think the guy farther up the thread who said week 1 can be wonky has it correct.
  4. Lance was always going to be a huge project. When the initial rumors of 9ers taking Mac Jones started floating, I was getting in discussions with Pats fans about whether Bill would draft an athletic project QB in the first round and try to build on the Cam Newton experiment, or if we'd all have to trick ourselves into thinking which ever of Mond/Trask/Mills Bill picked is who we all really wanted in the first place. This is just one possible outcome of drafting the physical phenom high ceiling-low floor guys. Nothing is guaranteed.
  5. I'm a Pats fan, and not here to start a fight, but OP's points remind me of some I've been making with regards to the Pats and their season / the AFC East as a whole. I think fans of every team in the AFC East have things they can be optimistic about, but most of the teams also have some very real flaws or at least question marks. It would not surprise me to see the worst team in the division still win 8+ games. They could also win 5 or 6. The best team in the division might win 15 games. But they might also win only 11. I think all the teams in the AFC East are a lot closer together than talking heads want to give people credit for. Even the vaunted Bills still needed two kick returns for TDs last year to beat a dysfunctional Patriots team in what otherwise was a one score game for most of it. Should be make for an exciting season (assuming nothing crazy like another Tua concussion), but I agree with OP: a lot of people who are buying hype are going to get really annoyed with how things turn out.
  6. He has been forgettable. Had some issues with speed rushers, but the the inconsistency and injuries we've had at the OT position this season, "forgettable" is almost an upgrade. There is a reason we had to poach someone else's PS tackle in the first place.
  7. Because them coming to any other conclusion would be an admission that Ross committed a felony under both Florida and Federal criminal law, as well as tarnish the "INTEGRITY!!!!!!111" brand that the league is trying to maintain, while they also cozy up with sportsbetting interests.
  8. The defense on that play was... confusing. Somehow the only defender was a LB in a short zone having to pick up a crosser with zero help behind him. Basically any WR with decent speed would have had the same result. I can't say for certain it was a blown coverage elsewhere, but if it wasn't, it was a catastrophically bad/unlucky defensive choice, given what the offense chose to run.
  9. Are you pretending that baseball umpires haven't been a thing for well over a century?
  10. I'm mostly just annoyed with how reasonable you're being. I was expecting backlash.
  11. I get what you mean, but how can you know whether the QB is any good if the coaching staff or supporting cast is any good? Trey Lance aside, since he isn't playing, of the Jets/Jags/Bears/Pats, which coaching staff do you trust to develop a rookie QB? Hypothetically, if Mac and Trevor (or Zach) switched teams, which do you think would be more successful? It is admittedly weird for me as a Pats fan to be intentionally underselling one of my team's players, but rookies don't look good unless they are in good situations. Mac got a team with maybe no solid stud #1 WR, but a bunch of serviceable #2s, two solid TEs, a good OL, and a good crop of RBs. He is on a team with a solid defense. On top of that he has an all time great at HC with a very good Xs and Os OC (Josh's HC bonafides notwithstanding). All he was asked to do was not **** it. That is a very different situation that Trevor or Zach.
  12. I am in super agreement that OL is massively impacted by coaching. THAT BEING SAID, the Pats OL didn't look nearly as good the first few weeks of this season when they had Herron and Durant at RT, waiting for Trent Brown to get healthy. Once they moved Onwenu from LG back to RT (which is where they played him last year) and replaced Onwenu with Karras at LG (Karras isn't amazing, but he is an experienced interior lineman with starter experience), the OL looked significantly better. OL is tough. One weak spot can absolutely make the entire unit look terrible. But also good coaching and good schemes can make an average unit look exceptional. It is absolutely a place that teams should invest, but honestly outside of spending money on good coaching, I don't know that I would overpay for top of the first round tackles.
  13. I mean the premise of this thread isn't crazy. The Patriots have definitely decided to not "throw the rookie to the wolves" so to speak. They are taking a methodical approach to bringing Jones along. The question I think should be more "Why haven't teams like the Jets/Jags/Bears taken a similar route?"
  14. I don't know how many younger millennials / older Gen-Z's you hang out with regularly, but apparently higher waists and wider jeans are back "in" again.
  15. I agree with the above posters who said it will likely be a close game. Other than the fumbles against the Dolphins, I think the Patriots showed everyone what they want to do on offense. Run a lot, accurate short/medium passes, with the occasional deep in sort of play action pass. Jones definitely showed some rookie jitters, but he is playing within what the coaches asked of him. A couple mistakes either way by any of the rookies, or inopportune fumbles/injuries, will swing this game. I think it is unlikely that either team wins by 10+.
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