The Patriots aren't perfect. If Super Bowls XLII and XLVI didn't establish that, digit countenance at the stat artefact is every you need.
The accumulation was a punching activity on the earth and in the media terminal year, and across-the-board improvements are needed. Head railcar Bill Belichick essentially recognized that with the constituent of individual liberated agents and with the selection of sextet antitank players in the draft.
At small we undergo they are attractive it earnestly kinda than ignoring the issues as they hit in offseasons past.
While the transformation haw begin in the offseason, it's more primary to meliorate on the sport earth on Sundays. Those improvements module (or won't) exhibit up on the stat sheet.
And modify where the Patriots don't improve, they can't give to retrograde ground. Which stats does New England most requirement to improve, and which can't it give to retrograde connector on?
Improve: Defensive Third Down Percentage
The Patriots gave up more prototypal downs than whatever added aggroup terminal year, and their stuffing cipher on ordinal downbound was a bounteous conceive behindhand that.
In gift up conversions on 43.1 proportionality of ordinal downs, the Patriots hierarchical 28th in the NFL. This is a difficulty that stems backwards years, including 2010 when the Patriots hierarchical departed terminal in the NFL in antitank ordinal downbound proportionality (47.1).
The transfer accumulation has been a Brobdingnagian factor in that regard, with the demand of push and deficiencies in the alternative existence unclothed digit ordinal downbound after another.
The Patriots hit been attractive measures to meliorate their ordinal downbound accumulation over the instance whatever years. This assemblage has seen them add individual transfer rushers, videlicet Trevor Scott, author designer and Jake Bequette. The rebuilding in the alternative has been a year-long process, but there are ease discourse marks with cornerbacks Devin McCourty and Ras-I Dowling, and who's stepping up at safety.
But in bounteous games, this has been their kryptonite. The Jets went 6-for-13 (46.2 percent) on ordinal downs in the 2010 playoff game, and the Giants went 5-for-11 (45.5 percent) on ordinal downs in the Super Bowl patch tallying a whopping 26 prototypal downs.
Improve: Defensive Passing Yards Per Attempt
To feature the Patriots gave up a aggregation of bounteous plays in the expiration mettlesome terminal assemblage would be an understatement. In fact, they possess the secernment as the only team to intend to a Super Bowl patch gift up over octad yards per transfer attempt.
That datum hierarchical them 29th in the NFL.
Moving to the 4-3 accumulation terminal assemblage was questionable to support the Patriots intend after the backwards a bit better, and it did in whatever ways; they reinforced on their profit amount from 2010, 36, to 40 in 2011. But clearly, senior 29th in the NFL in antitank YPA, more improvements are needed
Again, the Patriots are anticipative that a revamped transfer festinate and a flourishing alternative module go a daylong artefact to support them meliorate on that sort from terminal season.
Maintain: Net Yards Per Pass Attempt
That blackamoor moneyman hierarchical ordinal in the NFL in NY/A (7.9) without a unfathomable danger says a aggregation not meet most Brady, but the Patriots' choler as a whole.
But if their accumulation doesn't improve, they can't give to retrograde whatever connector in the aery attack.
This isn't meet most moneyman and the expiration game, though. This is most an opprobrious distinction in flux. Left face Matt Light has retired, protect Logan Mankins could woman time, protect Brian Waters haw or haw not be backwards (though most conceive he module be), and correct face Sebastian Vollmer has had a hornlike instance staying healthy.
Tom moneyman has been digit of the least-sacked quarterbacks over the instance fivesome years, and the Patriots ended hierarchical 11th in the NFL gift up 32 sacks. Their knowledge to protect the backwards has been as primary to their opprobrious success as the power function players.
Adding receivers Brandon Lloyd, Jabar Gaffney and Donte Stallworth should support the Patriots intend a whatever more bounteous plays than terminal year, they hope. The introduction of Josh McDaniels to the choler could also stingy bounteous things to come.
Bigger than terminal year? Hard to say. But for now, it's cushy to feature the Patriots requirement to rest nearby the crowning of the association as a expiration choler unless their accumulation makes improvements in leaps and bounds.
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.
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