So where is the team better? Please provide a list.
Also, keep coming here man. It REALLY is nice that we have a Pats fan willing to come on here and defend them. I know that sounds stupid. But the only other fan base we seem to attract is the ****ing Jets.
Last year, without Talib, we were the #9 top defense in the league for points allowed, and #1 in turn overs with a mind blowing +25 turn over ratio. Talib completely transforms our secondary and we also got two new defensive backs, tall guys, good guys, forget their names but they appear to be really solid (don't remember every new players name yet, could google but lazy)
So we already had a top 10 defense last year in the stats that matter, and were #1 in getting the ball. +25 turn overs was leagues beyond anyone else in the NFL. Nobody was even close.
Now on top of that, we have our secondary problem solved. Chandler Jones is going to be a monster going into his second year, Hightower is going to be a monster going into his second year, and with all of our pass rushers beginning to come into their own, with Vince Wilfork collapsing every pocket he sees, our defense is finally back into championship form.
Amendola is an upgrade over Welker. We aren't going to miss him at all. The people who had nothing to talk about in the off season, so decided to talk about how we are finished because we lost Welker, are delusional.
The truth is, we were pretty sick of him coming up real small in big games. Welker is like the Peyton Manning of wide receivers; great regular seasons, invisible when it matters most. He also lead the league in drops, and a lot of those drops were in the clutch when we needed him most. Amendola is younger, faster, and can do more. We have a new 6'7 Gronk clone making waves in our training camp named Zac Sudfeld, we have Aaron Dobson who has a Randy Moss like college highlight reel, and just an all around awesome looking group of young receivers that are tall and fast and can finally stretch the field and make plays.
We have Tom Brady who looks sharper than ever.... again.
And our running backs look incredible. We might not have the best running back in the league, but we have the best RB squad in the league.
We had an awesome running game last season and now we have Blount on top of Ridley, Vareen and Bolden. Our rushing attack is going to be the terror of the league this year, which isn't fun for defenses when they can't play against it unless they want to be torched by Tom Brady.
Last season we were the 3rd highest scoring offense in the history of the NFL, and came only like 4 or so points shy of the 2010 Packers which is #2 (2007 Pats #1), setting the record for most 1st downs in league history (and some other stuff).
We did this without Hernandez the first half of the season, and without Gronk the second half of the season. Believe me, we aren't going to miss Welker, and come post season time, we're going to be glad he's gone.
Speaking of losing Hernandez, last year when we lost him to injury, we averaged 43 points a game in the games that he missed, and went 5-1, with the 1 loss coming from a replacement ref game that was so atrocious, Collinsworth was apologizing for it all through the 3rd and 4th quarter.
This is going to be the scariest Patriot team in recent memory. Probably the best since our 2004 team in all honest.
Be afraid.
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