Patriots government vice chairman of participant personnel Eliot Wolf may actually imagine New England has the items it wants to construct a aggressive offensive line.
“We’re enthusiastic about our offensive line group,” Wolf advised reporters at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, per a team-provided video.
However one of many examples Wolf used to quote an “enchancment” is downright delusional.
“… I believe we gave up one sack the opposite night time,” stated Wolf, referencing the Patriots preseason loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. “It was Philly’s twos (second-stringers), but it surely was an enchancment to the apply on Tuesday.”
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That is what we’ll go along with?
The Eagles completely tormented quarterbacks Jacoby Brissett and Drake Maye throughout joint apply final week. Philadelphia’s first and second-string defenses went in opposition to New England’s first and second-string offenses and compiled a dozen (or extra?) sacks. New England’s second group allowed three sacks on Drake Maye’s closing 4 drop backs throughout a two-minute drill that stood no likelihood.
The Patriots received dominated up entrance. A lot in order that Philadelphia clearly noticed sufficient from 2022 first-round defensive sort out Jordan Davis, 2023 first-round defensive sort out Jalen Carter, beginning defensive finish Josh Sweat and others. These three, amongst others, didn’t have to play within the meaningless preseason sport two nights later.
So as an alternative the Patriots’ high offense, together with left sort out Vederian Lowe, left guard Sidy Sow, heart David Andrews, proper guard Mike Onwenu and proper sort out Chukwuma Okorafor, went up in opposition to the Philadelphia backups. They Patriots held their very own in go safety, as evidenced by the one sack allowed by Lowe, however didn’t do a lot of something in entrance of beginning operating again Rhamondre Stevenson. Stevenson averaged 3.0 yards per keep on six makes an attempt, and the clear majority of his floor good points (18 yards) got here after contact.
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It’s disingenuous for Wolf to level to the Patriots second preseason sport for instance of main enchancment for the offensive line. It had much more to do with who they had been going up in opposition to than it did any earth-shattering modifications inside a 48-hour timeframe.
And the Patriots clearly is not going to profit from opponents taking part in their backups as soon as the actual season begins.
