Patriots 2020 season thread

Well I think Robinson is also a legit deep threat. At the deadline I have no problem if we look good trading for him. If it's the normal 3rd round pick to be free agents usually get. I don't like him complaining about a new deal though, he's the 15th highest paid WR and paid about what he should be.

Trade for OBJ for what? The Browns traded a mid first rounder, a second and a guy they picked in the first a year before. I'm sure they can easily trade him, they can't easily trade him for a massive package and I'm not trading a massive package for a guy with his attitude issues. They want to cut bait and take a low level package I'm all for it. I don't think that is the case though.

Yeh, an RPO is a run pass option. The run option is more typically on a running back handoff, not a qb keeper.

No, I cannot recall many rpo’s with Brady at all. Think rpo’s like what Philadelphia used to shred New England in the Super Bowl or Baker Mayfield at Oklahoma or Joe Burrow at LSU.

James White's father was involved in a car accident and did not survive. White, obviously, is inactive tonight.

Made the huge play to get the games first break. Sea looks strong and they will be tough to stop in the 2h. Even if Pats keep pace I worry the kicking game won't be there and i'm not talking about 51 yarders (missed). This looks like a very tough one ... Bill knows this or he wouldn't have gone 4th and 6 early.

That first huge play was a gift from Seattle. The defense hasn’t been very good all night. Our Dline has been run over by a not very good offensive line.

There are no good losses, but there’s a lot to be encouraged about after that one.

Gotta patch up some defensive issues, but this could be a fun season.

That last play call had zero receivers and no backs in the backfield. Way too easy to defend. Great fight by this Patriots team though.

That was a nice performance by Cam last night. Would have been perfect if he didn’t overthrow, ever so slightly, Jules in the end zone on the 3rd to last play. It was a tough throw so this was meant to highlight him not diminish him. I am more encouraged for this team offensively after last night, Cam does give the receivers, who aren’t very good, a chance to get open, both by extending plays and keeping linebackers in check.

The defense however worries me. They basically have no linebackers outside I’d Bentley right now and he’s not that good. At least not yet.

Bentley isn't an every down player, yet I think we didn't take into account the how big of an issue a short camp with no preseason games and no joint practices really was. Across the board very few rookies doing anything on this team. Uche hasn't even been active yet and Jennings just played like three snaps. Overall I think that's a good thing as it gives you upside as the year goes along.

I don't get the they have no LBs outside of Bentley though, all they play are LBers. They played seven of them last game and had Phillips act like a LB also. Are we being confused because they put so many of them on the line and then drop them back? Like Bentley and Phillips were the only two who spent much of the game in typical LB spots, yet that's the D and it changes weekly. The one thing this team has is tons of LBers, heck I'd argue they have too many and need more DL before saying they don't have enough LBers. Bentley has the most experience which is likely why he's playing so much, as times goes by I'd assume he plays less and less.

Things look good, Miami just gave the Bills everything they could handle and it took a late 4th quarter drive to get the win. Shows you how good Williams was on there TE because he was big in that game. Yet then also didn't play much last night because the Seahawks don't have good TEs.

Wise is not a LB, he's DL one of the few we have. I'm not a big fan of trying to determine roles because the Patriots will do a bunch of things with these guys and it changes weekly.

Yet call them ILB or Move, which for last game looked like Bentley, Copeland and Phillips. They gave you 16 tackles and the only big play was that call the announcers said they almost never do with Carson for a TD. What was the issues with them?

Our DL only had seven tackles total, isn't that a bigger issue? The fact they always allow a RB to get to the second level? You don't have your MLB or move guys close to the line with Wilson expecting runs, you worry about him throwing it. We got good pressure, heck if it was Brady we'd have had like 6 sacks.

Yet if you are playing one, two, or three DL guys with zero massive 350 beasts you're in trouble no? It's then 300 plus pound OL guys going against our 250 pound LBers. Even with all our LBers last year and Shelton we'd get run on because Bill played one, two and three DL, with three not happening a good amount of the time.

What am I missing? Last night sure looked like our CBs got beat by a great QB, who avoided sacks all night long, with a bunch of great play calls they basically never used before. Along with the lack of DL allowing the RB to always get to the second level. Yet seems like the plan, they wanted the Seahawks to run it and not throw.