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Are you still abounding from Approbation and not attractive to adventurous the crowds of Black Friday? Again this mailbag is for you. Let’s get into it.
The pats seems to be beneath accomplished in the barter / FA bazaar abnormally aback absolution Hicks go. Do you accept any accurate assumption as to why?— @Samu3lAy97I absolutely don’t apperceive if I accede with this. Let’s go through notable players the New England Patriots accept acquired aback the 2016 offseason and characterization the hits and misses.
G Jonathan Cooper: missWR Chris Hogan: hitDE Chris Long: hitRB Donald Brown: missLB Shea McClellin: absence (so far)DT Terrance Knighton: missDT Markus Kuhn: missLB Barkevious Mingo: missTE Martellus Bennett: hitCB Eric Rowe: hitLB Kyle Van Noy: hitWR Michael Floyd: missCB Stephon Gilmore: ambivalent (though aptitude appear hit)DT Lawrence Guy: hitRB Rex Burkhead: hitRB Mike Gillislee: absence (so far)LB David Harris: about in betweenQB Brian Hoyer: undecidedDT Ricky Jean Francois: hit (so far)DE Eric Lee: undecidedTE Dwayne Allen: absence (though he’s improving)DE Kony Ealy: missWR Brandin Cooks: hitTE James O’Shaughnessy: missLB Marquis Flowers: hitCB Johnson Bademosi: hitWR Phillip Dorsett: absence (so far)DE Cassius Marsh: miss
So, that’s 13 misses, 11 hits and four in between. And some of those misses, like Cooper, Brown, Kuhn, Knighton and Floyd were acutely low-risk acquisitions. And Gillislee is alive for two years and could still acknowledgment to the gameday agenda and accomplish an appulse afore he’s gone.
Plus, the Patriots won a Super Bowl absolutely aftermost division and are 8-2 this season.
The Patriots didn’t accept a abundant offseason of moves but still acquired a starting cornerback, starting arresting tackle, able alive back, brilliant advanced receiver and two appropriate teamers who can accord at cornerback and linebacker. That ain’t bad.
We can accompanying point out bad moves (like the Marsh trade) while additionally acknowledging Bill Belichick and Nick Caserio are appealing abuse acceptable at this accomplished team-building thing.
Have you heard annihilation about Malcom Mitchell authoritative a acknowledgment it sounds like he’s alive to appear aback this year is it a achievability now?— @DANTEVDHis Instagram column seemed to announce he will be returning.
The Patriots absolutely could use him. Dorsett hasn’t emerged as a reliable No. 2 wideout with Hogan out. Mitchell would be a affection addition for the playoffs.
It’s affectionate of alarming to anticipate the Patriots’ breach could get alike bigger as they move adjoin the playoffs.
#maildoug What’s the approaching authority for Gillislee IYO?— @rickmballI anticipate he’ll absolutely be on the aggregation until abutting year’s training camp. Whether he sticks abutting summer will depend on if the Patriots accept to extend Burkhead and Lewis, and if they adjudge to abstract or assurance addition alive aback abutting offseason.
I get the activity Gillislee is abeyant because of numbers rather than carefully performance. It wasn’t acceptable for the Patriots to accumulate activating bristles alive backs on the alive roster, and Gillislee was the atomic able of Burkhead, Lewis, James White and Brandon Bolden.
Gillislee absolutely didn’t alive up to the hype, but he additionally wasn’t bad in his eight amateur on the gameday roster.
I was a little aboriginal on this take. The acknowledgment was Nov. 12.
Have the patriots assuredly begin a mix they like at LB and DE or will they still be tinkering?— @ChefdDds89Well, they added Eric Lee off the Buffalo Bills’ convenance squad, so I’d apprehend some added tinkering.
I’m not abiding if Lee will comedy Sunday adjoin the Miami Dolphins — I haven’t alike apparent the guy yet — but he’ll be acclimated at some point. Because the Patriots alive Lee off the Bills’ convenance squad, he has to be on the 53-man agenda for at atomic three weeks. At 260 pounds, he adds some much-needed admeasurement to the Patriots’ bend depth.
Belichick, uh, didn’t accept abundant to say about the guy Wednesday.
When Eric Rowe comes back, do you see him demography snaps from any of the accepted cornerbacks?— @ClevertrevvI assumption it depends on the Patriots’ matchup, but I wouldn’t comedy him over Malcolm Butler, Stephon Gilmore, Jonathan Jones or Patrick Chung (who’s arena a amalgam safety/linebacker/cornerback/slot role) at this point. Gilmore is arena his best football of the season, Jones has been the Patriots’ best constant cornerback, and Butler is Butler, for bigger or worse.
If the Patriots acquisition themselves arena three massive receivers and they don’t appetite Jones, who’s abandoned 5-foot-10, accoutrement one of them, again maybe you bandy Rowe out there. But what the Patriots are accomplishing at cornerback is alive appropriate now.
Hi Doug, consistently adore account your posts. There has been a lot of chat about the Pats’ mid-season turnaround defensively. How accept their arresting schemes changed? I feel like CBs (esp Gilmore) accept been added frequently assigned a WR to hunt about than before?— @kotaweaverThe Patriots absolutely are analogous up their cornerbacks added than they usually would in the past, and that’s because it’s a backbone of Gilmore’s. And they ability as able-bodied accumulate accomplishing it as continued as its working.
We’ll see how the Patriots bout up adjoin the Dolphins this weekend. It would accomplish faculty to put Butler on Jarvis Landry, Gilmore on DeVante Parker and Jones on Kenny Stills. Stills will be a boxy antagonism for Jones and will put his bendability to the test.
#maildoug Seems crazy they couldn’t amount a way to use Marsh but Jordan Richards is demography up a agenda spot. What gives?— @MrQuindazziRichards absolutely hasn’t been bad in his amalgam safety/linebacker atom recently. He doesn’t comedy actual often, but he’s attached the mistakes back he’s on the field.
Marsh was aloof way too angular to comedy on the end of the band like the Patriots were assured him to do. And I’m not abiding if he was able-bodied abundant to comedy as a authentic off-the-line linebacker. He additionally wasn’t accepting afterwards the passer abundant to be acclimated abandoned as a third-down rusher. It aloof wasn’t a abundant arrangement fit for the Patriots, and that’s the accident of accepting a amateur via barter appropriate afore the division and aggravating to bung him in.
Let’s go accelerated fire.
What was your admired bowl in Mexico City? 🇲🇽 🌮 🥘— @Tav2realCarnitas tacos on Saturday night at El BajÃo.
For some reason, I had French onion soup at Au Pied de Cochon on Sunday night. That was appealing acceptable too but affectionate of a awe-inspiring best by me in Mexico City.
What are your best notable adventures from the weekend in Mexico City?— @f_julijIt was an agreeable weekend in Mexico City, but the best notable acquaintance was candidly aggravating to get to the acreage at Estadio Azteca for a pregame hit. I got to the amphitheater about three hours afore the bold and spent the abutting hour actuality led about the amphitheater by a actual nice aegis guard, who was aggravating to advice me get to the field. There was a able accent barrier, because I can’t allege Spanish.
At one point, I was led up stairs to boilerplate and burst my arch adjoin a accurate ceiling. It was a absolute experience.
Since I was at elevation, I was so agog by the end of this cruise about and about the stadium, I drank two absolute bottles of baptize and two Gatorades. I anguish up walking about seven afar and went up 42 floors that day, according to my iPhone.
Other than that, it was great.
Did you see annihilation air-conditioned in Colorado Springs?— @JeremyCorbett1Yeah! I saw a bobcat.
I approved to break out of my auberge as abundant as accessible to accomplish the anniversary go by quickly, so one night we collection into the backwoods and saw a fox, a bobcat and two to four deer. That was the aforementioned day the Air Force let us pet one of their four falcons. One of the deer we saw barked at us abreast the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame.
It was absolutely a day of wildlife.
We additionally collection up to Pike’s Peak, saw Garden of the Gods, The Broadmoor Auberge and city Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs was a air-conditioned abode to absorb a week. And we saw a bobcat! It ran in advanced of my car in Mueller State Park and into a paved clearing, so I approved to hunt it bottomward to get a picture. The mission was unsuccessful. It was a huge bobcat, though.
Thoughts on revis to chiefs?— @ChefdDds89Definitely unexpected.
Did addition at the presser absolutely ask Bill about endzone celebrations? Accept they run out of questions?— @RonStewart207Yeah. It wasn’t me, but who cares? Football is declared to be fun. Why not ask a asinine catechism every already in a while? Addition abroad asked Belichick about attic pie. That was fun too.
Thoughts on signing Lewis to a addendum ?— @jburke616For it.
Which Patriots amateur would be the best at actual abandoned in the wilderness?— @ByKevinDillonNot Brandon Bolden.
Maybe Nate Solder? He advised activity to Air Force and grew up in the mountains.
Hypothetical: If we were beneath 500 and absent the playoffs this year. Would Goat Bill be on the hot bench with all those absent trades in the offseason.(Marsh, Ealy, Cooks and trading abroad Jimmy G)— @BrycenPappNah.
#maildoug arise rushmore of approbation ancillary dishes don’t get it wrong— @thisryanjacksonGreen bean casserole, mashed potatoes, capacity and cranberry sauce. Does gravy count? If so, again gravy over cranberry sauce.
What patriot would you appetite to go beyond the country with to get to your ancestors afore thanksgiving? Planes trains and automobiles style.— @DANTEVDTom Brady, because he’d apparently aloof get a clandestine jet.
Sup? What are you attractive advanced to the best this Thanksgiving? Also, back can we apprehend to see home abandoned references in aggregate you write? #MailDoug— @June__NYCJust accomplished watching “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” Not abandoned calmly the best Approbation movie, but additionally one of the best movies anytime made.
I’m best attractive advanced to bistro adorable food. (I’m autograph this Wednesday night.) (Checking in Thursday night here. It was delicious.)
And how about now, ya begrimed animal?
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