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Though the Pats have been in a 3-4 the first couple days of camp I don’t really read to much into it. This is always how Belichick teaches his defense from the bottom up. But in the coming weeks I would not be surprised to see more of the 4-3 scheme, especially if players like Tyrone McKenzie and Brandon Spikes continue to impress.
It’s a valid question, but I think they really moved away from it when they had their full secondary healthy. I think “bend-don’t-break” is really more in reference to playing zone and as we saw against the Broncos, you just can’t play zone against the better quarterbacks in the NFL. Belichick is a conservative defensive […]