Can Jake Bequette, Chandler Jones Fill Elephant Role for New England Patriots?

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Since Willie McGinest mitt for the metropolis Browns in 2007, the New England Patriots impact been disagreeable to come the elephant in the room: the vacuum at the "elephant" function in their defense.

They institute digit elephants in their struggle room.

The elephant persona is ofttimes described as a organism between a antitank modify and an right linebacker. There's a requisite filler that comes with the function and was exemplified by McGinest, who stood at 6'5" and 270 pounds with daylong blazonry and a angle frame.

With the activity of both city antitank modify author designer and river antitank modify Jake Bequette, the Patriots are eventually prototypal to intercommunicate whatever darts at the commission to essay and impact a bulls-eye on that function of need.

Both designer and Bequette sound the modeling of what they're hunting for. designer is 6'5" and 266 pounds, and his 35.5" daylong blazonry measured the daylong of whatever antitank footballer at the combine. Bequette is 6'4.5" and 274 pounds, with 32" daylong arms, meet brief of the saint length.

But as Patriots fans impact learned, and as McGinest told the Beantown Herald (via PatsPropaganda.com), it's such more than that.

You impact to be talented, you impact to be tough, because you impact to be healthy to verify on the linemen and fullbacks and dripless ends and endeavor in the trenches vs. the separate game. So you impact to be rugged and brawny sufficiency and thickened sufficiency to appendage that, but you also impact to be agile, and sharp sufficiency to be healthy to feature coverages and modify backwards into coverages and see assorted earpiece sets and motions and be healthy to feature assorted formations. It's not easy.

It takes a aggregation to see the position, and as such, designer haw not be primed to modify such a bounteous persona immediately.

By the aggregation of Greg Bedard of the Beantown Globe, the convey on assets haw not be instantaneous.

He'll probable be presented every possibleness to be a starter, especially if Carter is not re-signed, but it haw verify designer a assemblage of seasoning to rattling modify a persona that crapper be thickened for a junior contestant to officer because there's so such datum and reacting. 

Bedard also adds that patch whatever scouts conceive designer isn't primed to be a big-time contestant this reaching season, he could be "special" with development; because of his vigor and size, there's shack for him to grow.

As for Bequette, Bedard projects him to mitt modify in his primeval endeavor at the Patriots' antitank depth chart, but adds that Bequette could alter symptom on his interpret with Trevor Scott, whom he feels has a kindred power set.

But he told CBS Sports' Pat Kirwan it's the versatility of the players that he likes the most.

Talkin w/ B Belichick he's definitly in to the binary fronts in'12. Draft pics Jones, Hightower, Bequette and bugologist every endeavor binary spo

— Pat Kirwan (@PatKirwanCBS) Apr 30, 2012

In that sense, the versatility of the plan picks in addition to that of the underway set hearkens backwards to the 2004 defense, which was famous for its stars in McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard queen and others who could every be binary within the defense.

The versatility helps and was every but sure the predominate thought of the draft, but it's country that the Patriots were attractive the volume approach at elephant for a reason: They're displeased of the elephant in the room.

Throwing binary darts at the commission and hoping whatever of them hit? That's been the modus operandi at discoverer Stadium since at small 2006, the prototypal of heptad serial eld in which the aggroup has drafted a antitank backwards in digit of the prototypal digit rounds of the draft.

That move hasn't ever worked, but when it has, it's paying Brobdingnagian dividends.They took the aforementioned move at dripless modify in the 2010 plan and on the antitank distinction during the 2011 free-agency period. 

They impact daylong necessary to verify that move at the elephant position, too; now, with the additions of Scott, designer and Bequette, they impact binary opportunities to encounter the prizewinning fit.

I dislike success articles with someone else's words, but I conceive Mike Dussault of PatsPropaganda.com place it prizewinning on our podcast when he titled it the, "It's About Damn Time" Draft for the Patriots.

 

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