The Patriots’ 2019 schedule was released last night, always a nice point in the offseason when we can start making our gameplans for the fall.
Let’s take a dive in and break down the key parts of the slate and how things stack up for the Pats.
Patriots Add Needed Depth with Demaryius Thomas, Seferian-Jenkins
As I wrote last week, I had a feeling there would be some more additions to the roster prior to the draft. The Patriots responded by re-signing Stephen Gostkowski as expected and adding tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins and wide receiver Demaryius Thomas.
Neither Seferian-Jenkins, a 2014 PatsProp Top 50 draft fave, nor Thomas will be handed roster spots, but they give the Patriots at least a baseline option at two positions of glaring need, and that makes them more likely than not to make the team at this point.
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Patriots 2019 Preseason Set
The Patriots got their preseason schedule for the summer and it’s about as Pats-friendly as it could get, with matchups against Matt Patricia’s Lions and Mike Vrabel’s Titans in the first two weeks of the season.
Patriots 2019 preseason:
— Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) April 9, 2019
Week 1: at Lions
Week 2: at Titans
Week 3: vs. Panthers
Week 4: vs. Giants
Specific dates/times TBA. This is ideal for Patriots, as they had made request to work with Matt Patricia/Lions and Mike Vrabel/Titans in games (and likely practices beforehand).
Patriots Need Immediate-Impact 2019 Draft Class
Things can change pretty quick around Foxboro. Today’s malcontent superstar on another team is tomorrow’s Patriots reclamation project.
That’s why the glaring holes on the Patriots roster might be deceiving. But if we’re going off how things look today on April 9th, there’s more pressure than ever for them to get the most out of their team-leading 12 draft picks and sooner rather than later.
Gronk is gone, along with Trey Flowers. They’re starting over at left tackle for the second year in a row after spending 17 seasons with only two different starters. Julian Edelman, Devin McCourty
The cupboards aren’t entirely barren, but if they’re going to squeeze
Pats Posits: Digging on Draft
As I start to really grind on my Top 50 Big Board it slowly becomes an impossible game of need and value while projecting who might be the perfect Patriots picks.
Now, I know the Patriots try to take need out of the equation, but it’s undeniable that there are roster holes to still be filled. And yes, I’m still assuming they can figure things out with Gostkowski who is currently on a USO Tour.
(Though I can’t lie, throwing the former Assumption kicker into the mix is tempting, even if he’d be a severe kickoff downgrade from Gostkowski.)
Updating the Patriots’ biggest needs since I last wrote about them, the tight end spot becomes the biggest priority even more than it already was. As
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But the Patriots rarely, if ever, make the slam dunk moves outside of drafting Joe Cardona. That leaves us with tons of draft capital and a haze of projection picks.
Let’s try to sift through some of it in the Posits.
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Coming on the heels of Rob Gronkowski’s retirement, the abrupt departure of Greg Schiano just six weeks into his tenure as defensive coordinator was a second significant blow to the 2019 Pats process.
With Schiano leaving, speculation is that Belichick will be forced to take a more active role in the defense, something he certainly did early in Matt Patricia’s career.
Brian Flores was DC for just one season, but clearly brought his own unique personality to the defense. Patricia did the same before him, as did Dean Pees and Romeo Crennel before them.
[Read more…] about How Will Belichick Rebuild Defensive Coaching Staff?The Greatest Belichick-Brady Pats Game of All Time Is…
Pats Pulpit put together the perfect offseason activity, a Pats Madness bracket of the best games of the Patriots’ dynasty. It’s no surprise that the final four games are all Super Bowls.
The earlier rounds were tough, choosing between games like the 2006 playoff win in San Diego and the impossible 2013 comeback against the Broncos wasn’t easy.
The whole exercise made me wonder, what makes the truly perfect win? It was the question I had to conquer before making my decision between the final four and narrowing it all down to my pick for the best game of the Belichick-Brady era.
