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TheRainMaker
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I've been pumping up the Pats for 2025 as a surprise team, but I can't go that far as them being the last team standing in Feburary. A lot of things have to take place, including Williams being for real. I do think the team is good enough for them to get at least 9 wins and a playoff birth, so the pressure falls back on Maye. No more one throw and run a game. He'll be expected to stack scoring drives and not 3 and outs.
TheRainMaker
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@captain stone It seems like there's a lot of fans that don't watch the games. Bedard talks about the Williams signing and says stuff that will trigger people. Also ESPN released their report of rankings from execs and the 3rd highest paid DT isn't even on the radar of the top 20 DT's in the league. WOW! This was like Owenu last year when execs didn't care for him and Pats fans got triggered. He's also not in the top 20 for G's this season as well.
www.espn.com
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-9WZuMtmQ&t=79s&ab_channel=PatriotsPressPass
Who are the NFL's best DTs? Execs, coaches and scouts help rank 2025's top 10
Execs, coaches and scouts from around the league ranked their top 10 DTs in our annual summer series.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-9WZuMtmQ&t=79s&ab_channel=PatriotsPressPass
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@captain stone It seems like there's a lot of fans that don't watch the games. Bedard talks about the Williams signing and says stuff that will trigger people. Also ESPN released their report of rankings from execs and the 3rd highest paid DT isn't even on the radar of the top 20 DT's in the league. WOW! This was like Owenu last year when execs didn't care for him and Pats fans got triggered. He's also not in the top 20 for G's this season as well.
Who are the NFL's best DTs? Execs, coaches and scouts help rank 2025's top 10
Execs, coaches and scouts from around the league ranked their top 10 DTs in our annual summer series.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-9WZuMtmQ&t=79s&ab_channel=PatriotsPressPass
Onwenu showed up fat and out-of-shape, and he never got fully on track after that. This year will be his do or die season with the team.
captain stone
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@captain stone It seems like there's a lot of fans that don't watch the games. Bedard talks about the Williams signing and says stuff that will trigger people. Also ESPN released their report of rankings from execs and the 3rd highest paid DT isn't even on the radar of the top 20 DT's in the league. WOW! This was like Owenu last year when execs didn't care for him and Pats fans got triggered. He's also not in the top 20 for G's this season as well.
Who are the NFL's best DTs? Execs, coaches and scouts help rank 2025's top 10
Execs, coaches and scouts from around the league ranked their top 10 DTs in our annual summer series.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-9WZuMtmQ&t=79s&ab_channel=PatriotsPressPass
Yep; our newest expensive 3-Tech interior rusher (or our original one, for that matter) didn't receive one vote from anyone anywhere. Neither did Stevenson the Fumbler. Nor Onemenu. Uncle Dugg finished 18th; so we have that going for us, which is nice...
Down team years usually leads to analysts marking individual players down, and that drop is often more than it's sensible to claim (See 2013 Patriots, and the blown analysis by both the media and his own head coach).
New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs is hard at work studying the new playbook under offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, as he prepares for his first season with the organization.
Diggs was a limited participant at mandatory minicamp. He is still rehabbing from the ACL injury he suffered with the Houston Texans last year. So that has limited his physical work ahead of the season.
However, he is doing everything he can to ensure that he's on top of the playbook in hopes of making his transition in New England easier when he's finally ready to step back on the field.
“I'm studying, but it's really the route concepts, like basically, if you hear a word, you need to be able to know the word immediately, know the concept," Diggs said in his latest YouTube video upload. "...I don’t need to know exactly just what I got, I need to know what somebody to the right or to the left of me got—so what everybody got around me, how I'm going to get open or how I'm going to get somebody else open.”
View: https://x.com/LosTalksPats/status/1942641776361365924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1942641776361365924%7Ctwgr%5E4c2bfe3f9bb71106c11d844b9109410a813b4a9c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpart-mass-pike-boston-closed-124016206.html
Diggs is expected to be the No. 1 wide receiver for a young Patriots receiving corps with unproven talent. Rookie third-round draft pick Kyle Williams and third-year wide receivers Demario Douglas and Kayshon Boutte are expected to play major roles on the roster.
It puts Diggs in a role where he'll be needed to contribute and serve as a locker room leader for his younger teammates. So far, so good for the former four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver.
Diggs was a limited participant at mandatory minicamp. He is still rehabbing from the ACL injury he suffered with the Houston Texans last year. So that has limited his physical work ahead of the season.
However, he is doing everything he can to ensure that he's on top of the playbook in hopes of making his transition in New England easier when he's finally ready to step back on the field.
“I'm studying, but it's really the route concepts, like basically, if you hear a word, you need to be able to know the word immediately, know the concept," Diggs said in his latest YouTube video upload. "...I don’t need to know exactly just what I got, I need to know what somebody to the right or to the left of me got—so what everybody got around me, how I'm going to get open or how I'm going to get somebody else open.”
View: https://x.com/LosTalksPats/status/1942641776361365924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1942641776361365924%7Ctwgr%5E4c2bfe3f9bb71106c11d844b9109410a813b4a9c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpart-mass-pike-boston-closed-124016206.html
Diggs is expected to be the No. 1 wide receiver for a young Patriots receiving corps with unproven talent. Rookie third-round draft pick Kyle Williams and third-year wide receivers Demario Douglas and Kayshon Boutte are expected to play major roles on the roster.
It puts Diggs in a role where he'll be needed to contribute and serve as a locker room leader for his younger teammates. So far, so good for the former four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver.
TheRainMaker
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Analysts are wrong all the time and overrate players which there are on their lists. But when a players sign big contracts like Williams just did and Owenu/Dugger previously, you'd expect they'd be on the execs radar.
I was actually surprised Dugger was even considered given he's been horrible the last two years.
captain stone
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Not sure if this was posted elsewhere but it's pretty cool. Maye just had his pass catchers in NC for workouts. To me Diggs looks ready to go, he's doing everything out there and looking explosive. Pop looks like his abs have abs. Williams getting props from his teammates and looking good out there. I like Bourne but I think he's less than 50/50 to make the team unless there's an injury.
View: https://youtu.be/D-MAzEgqrE4?si=RCcdhNVC3QADkcKw
View: https://youtu.be/D-MAzEgqrE4?si=RCcdhNVC3QADkcKw
4 "Locks":
Diggs
Williams
Douglas (Unless Chism really wows in training camp and the exhibitions)
Hollins
After that, it's going to depend on how many get carried:
Bourne
Boutte
Polk
Chism
Baker
Jiles
Webb
Blankumsee
I have Bourne at #5, but I could see any of those top 3 making the team, depending upon postional need (i.e. "x"/"y") and stubbornness about a 2nd round pick from last year already getting cut, and Chism might just be the story of the offseason, player-wise.
I think Chism makes it as a rotational slot player/Pop insurance. They had to pay him bigly for a UDFA so he either makes the team or he's getting snatched up after being cut. Plus he has the looks of a McDaniels guy. I also would wager that somebody is getting traded before the cutdowns. They have too many guys, and even those bottom ones like Polk/Boutte and possibly Baker could fetch a mid-late rounder.
Roster stuff would be easier for us right now, if we knew how many ST-only players Vrabel was willing to keep around.
TheRainMaker
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I have no idea why he's still around. I didn't like him when Bill brought him in and got playing time for no reason and especially after his comments to fans.
