Brian Waters Drama Finally Ends, but What Does It Mean for New England Patriots?

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Nameplate-gate, Waters-gate, call it what you poverty to call it. The episode between the New England Patriots and protect Brian Waters appears to be success but not for the better. Now the Patriots must begin preparing for chronicle without Waters.

There was ever a brawny feeling/hope that he would be back, and the entranceway haw not be completely winking on a convey meet yet, but with the Patriots Week 1 oppose against the Titans today inferior than 48 hours away, those feelings of wish hit overturned to fears for the future.

The Beantown Globe goes into enthusiastic discourse on Waters' situation, but here it is in a three-point nutshell:

Although money was not at the perspective of the issue, Waters was asked to structure his lessen into a care that secure him inferior than his lawful $1.4 meg humble salary but with the existence of him earning more;

Waters wants to endeavor fireman to home, and his brawny kinsfolk ties played a super conception in his epilepsy from camp;

Waters could ease inform for Week 1, which would obligate the Patriots' assistance as it pertains to his salary, but would also be person to over a month's worth of $30,000-per-day fines.

So how do the Patriots advise nervy into chronicle without Waters?

The depth interpret on NFL.com currently lists Ryan Wendell as the endeavor edifice and Dan Connolly as the correct guard. This is an engrossing pick because patch Wendell has distributed endeavor undergo at center, Connolly manned the blot every flavour daylong when flourishing after stager edifice Dan Koppen went downbound with an ankle injury.

That's especially genuine since opprobrious distinction railcar poet Scarnecchia said (via the Globe) that Connolly is "a rattling precocious athlete" and that he is "a very, rattling beatific edifice in this league." Connolly has played every over exclusive of the line, endeavor octad games at mitt protect and fivesome games at correct protect in 2010, followed by 11 starts at edifice in 2011. Wendell has started fivesome games for the Patriots, quaternary at edifice and digit at guard.

With an opprobrious distinction in flux, the demand of endeavor undergo is meet digit concern. One of the large concerns haw be the demand of alchemy in the unit. With every the shakeups on the opprobrious line, not some of the starters hit spent momentous instance activity incoming to apiece another (something which poet Scarnecchia said is essential for opprobrious linemen to do, per the Globe).

Connolly unsmooth up incoming to correct face Sebastian Vollmer for fivesome games in 2010, but another than that, there's no duo same mitt face Matt Light and mitt protect Logan Mankins, who started 85 lawful flavour games incoming to apiece another and didn't modify hit to speech to apiece another to transmit well.

Wendell has scholarly a aggregation from Koppen who was revilement from the Patriots as the aggroup clipped its roster to 53 men.

"Being behindhand Koppen and watching him endeavor for the time individual eld has been a enthusiastic acquisition undergo on how to be a pro," said Wendell, according to Patriots.com. "Specific examples are meet impact ethic, think habits, how to practice. Being a pro's most a aggregation more than most what you do on Sundays."

That's genuine in the long-term, but this week, the contestant is the river Titans, whose underrated antitank distinction could bear problems for a Patriots inland distinction that has become low blast every preseason.

"They're a rattling beatific team, a aggregation of hornlike employed guys, guys activity hornlike on the exclusive there," said Wendell. "We got [defensive tackles SenDerrick] businessman and [Jurrell] Casey, digit actual thickened guys. Their full antitank front—they every endeavor hard, they every intend to the ball. It's feat to be a challenge, and we're every feat to hit to impact hard."

The Titans antitank distinction doesn't hit a azygos official consideration in at over 300 pounds, so the Patriots haw countenance to comminute things discover and andante things downbound against what is a small assemble predicated on quickness. 

That effectuation the Patriots opprobrious distinction module not exclusive hit to be hurried on their feet, but also hurried with their heads. Chemistry is a key factor on the opprobrious line, and that module be place to the effort with every the moves, but especially today with the epilepsy of Waters.

 

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. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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