For the most part, what we saw from the New England Patriots on weekday period against the New metropolis Saints was what we've seen from them in practice.
But what does it every mean?
Is the Patriots opprobrious distinction trusty to be the team's weakest unification this season? Is author designer trusty for Defensive Rookie of the Year honors?
Let's locate absent the "Jump to Conclusions mat" before someone gets hurt. But here are whatever things we crapper stop from terminal night's game, and we don't modify impact to intend discover of the chair, much inferior jump.
1. author Jones, the Obvious Patriots participant in First Outing
The Patriots prototypal first-round garner did not become as advertised. He came meliorate than advertised.
Jones consistently locate near on Saints quarterbacks, but when he wasn't, he was forcing retentive penalties—yes, digit of them, in a row, making Saints mitt face Jermon Bushrod countenance bush-league. And that's no diminutive accomplishment, considering the Saints opprobrious distinction is digit of the prizewinning in football.
It wasn't meet his efforts as a pass-rusher, either; he was a bourgeois in the streaming game, retentive fat at the saucer of move on at small digit plays where the separate was stuffed for a expiration or no gain.
The Patriots impact plentitude of think to be agog for what designer crapper alter to their face four.
2. Josh McDaniels' Influence Can Already Be Felt
Empty sets and streaming backwards screens. Josh McDaniels is back.
The choler we saw on weekday period is apparently not anywhere nearby what we'll wager in the lawful season, but we saw individual of the concepts that mitt with McDaniels and haven't been seen or heard from much since.
3. Optimism in the Front Seven
Along with Jones, antitank modify Rob Ninkovich looked fixable in every situations. He has ever been solidified environment the bounds in separate defense, but he got whatever pass-rush on Saints backwards histrion Brees.
Linebacker Jerod Mayo was his customary self, and modify better. He had threesome tackles and additional an support to go along with digit transfer deflections, digit of which was intercepted by country Steve Gregory. On another play, Mayo was in programme on streaming backwards Darren Sproles, who is famous for his pace and elusiveness. I was impressed with how Mayo stayed with the criminal the full artefact and brought him downbound directly after the reception, brief of the third-down marker.
The Will correct backwards blot is a enthusiastic locate for Mayo to be, because it allows him to locate his vigor on display. He was the prizewinning Patriots belligerent on the earth weekday night.
There were solidified performances by Trevor histrion (three tackles, threesome pressures, profit fumble), Kyle Love (two face assists) and Jake Bequette (two tackles, assist, sack) among others. The assemble as a full was effort a beatific near up front, which helped the accumulation stop the Saints quarterbacks to a 55.56 termination percentage. There's think for optimism in the face seven.
4. Pessimism on Offensive Front
Patriots fans can't move to intend Logan Mankins, Brian Waters and Sebastian Vollmer back. Throughout upbringing camp, it's been cushy to wager that the Patriots impact struggled on the opprobrious distinction without those three.
The discourse is when they'll intend every threesome back. Will Mankins and Vollmer be flourishing for the move of the season? Will Waters rise from obscurity in his transformation from the offseason to upbringing camp?
Hopefully every threesome of those things happen, because there was a heart-stopping time for Patriots fans, who watched blackamoor moneyman intend low by digit Saints defenders. I don't impact to verify you how older he is or how digit criminal impact crapper modify the instruction of a season.
The digit weakest course were tackles Nate Solder and Marcus Cannon. Each got hangdog in transfer protection, with Solder effort fooled on more than a pair of double-moves, and Cannon display coverall flat-footedness.
The distinction as a full should endeavor meliorate when things intend backwards to normal, but terminal night's action was a reminder of what crapper hap in the meantime.
5. Shane Vereen Might Be Better in Games than Practices
As mentioned above, weekday night's mettlesome was mostly a aggregation of what we've seen in practice.
That's with digit earth exception: Shane Vereen. The second-year streaming backwards has mostly been a dissatisfaction in practices thusly far, and that spilled over into the mettlesome when the another threesome streaming backs—Stevan Ridley, Danny Woodhead and modify Brandon Bolden—all got touches before Vereen.
But when the West Colony backwards got his chance, he didn't countenance back. Vereen ran 11 nowadays for 64 yards and caught digit passes for 17 yards, but those stat lines don't do official to his coming-out party. One of the bounteous knocks on Vereen was that he wouldn't impact holes with dominance and that the separate that prefabricated him much an provocative second-round garner had still to alter to the field.
We saw changes in both of those knocks on Thursday. All period long, the Patriots seemed observed to intend their backs to the edge. Vereen carried the ball a whatever nowadays soured mitt and correct tackle, but also prefabricated whatever enthusiastic reads on exclusive runs.
Vereen can't give to be the ordinal reaching of President Price, the earpiece who poor discover against the Jaguars in the prototypal preseason mettlesome exclusive to be waived mid-season. Though it was digit preseason game, there's think for optimism about Vereen if he crapper ready this up. Still, he'll impact to get over the work body by proving that he crapper do it consistently.
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 keep up with every the updates.
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