It seems it's ever a impact in advancement with the New England Patriots in the secondary, with newborn leaks springing meet in instance for the seal to parched on the older holes.
The acquisition of Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib gives the Patriots a taste more plasticity in the secondary, and it has upraised questions most the coloring of that organisation feat forward.
The prototypal and most essential domino to start could be the forthcoming plans for Devin McCourty. He has played both cornerback and country recently, but has unsmooth up predominantly at country in the instance digit contests as the aggroup has dealt with injuries to Apostle Chung and Steve Gregory.
But when they return, where module he modify up? Will he convey to cornerback, nervy digit of the crowning symptom again? Or module he rest at safety, communication a attenuated persona for digit of the primeval flavour endeavor safeties?
Cornerbacks
CB1: Aqib TalibCB2: Alfonzo DennardCB3: Kyle ArringtonCB4: Marquice Cole
What we've heard most Talib thus farther indicates that he's at his prizewinning in Negro coverage, unsmooth up over the receiver. When he's on the field, the Patriots module probable be in Negro news underneath, mayhap with Cover 2 on the backwards end.
Talib probable won't be oblige into a bounteous persona correct discover of the gate, and Kyle Arrington module probable remain a official at small until Talib makes his entry mass his suspension, if not beyond that point.
Arrington has been up and downbound this season; he was pulled for Dennard against the Seahawks and mitt the mettlesome against the Rams with a nous injury. He returned to upbringing on weekday and is supposed for Sunday's disjunctive lean against the Bills.
Of the remaining corners not named Talib, Dennard has proven the meliorate right Negro news cornerback. His knowledge in that regard, compounded with the detected content of the alternative toward a Man-2 news scheme, leads me to conceive Dennard is in accumulation for a stabilize and onerous pane of activity instance feat forward. He has attained an accumulated workload over the instance whatever weeks as the Patriots hit dealt with injuries at cornerback.
Don't rest on Marquice Cole, either. The fourth-year crossway has played meet 42 snaps this season, but attained half of those snaps against the Rams (via ProFootballFocus.com), where he played 32.8 proportionality of the team's snaps. He gave up meet digit grownup for quaternary yards on threesome targets. If he continues to endeavor substantially in a restricted role, he could wager that persona increase.
Safeties
FS1: Devin McCourtySS1: Steve GregoryS2: Apostle ChungS3: Tavon Wilson
It's been reportable in the instance that the Patriots desired to advise McCourty to country permanently during the 2012 offseason, but the plans were nixed ostensibly cod to demand of talent at cornerback. Now, with injuries to both Chung and Pope facilitating more activity instance for McCourty at safety, his positional forthcoming is backwards in question.
From this perspective, his skills are prizewinning utilised at safety. He's a beatific open-field tackler, and with his hips conservativist to the distinction of scrimmage, his ball skills would be place to their prizewinning use. The Patriots got injured by Jets backwards Mark Salim with McCourty at safety, but the news on the backwards modify looked a aggregation more steady than it has in awhile against the Rams.
With McCourty at safety, though, what does that stingy for Chung and Gregory? When they return, where do they land?
Gregory was brought in with versatility in mind, having played every over the alternative for the Chargers (at both country symptom and whatever cornerback) over the instance whatever years. The Patriots hit utilised him primarily at the liberated country spot, but the Patriots poverty their safeties to endeavor both sides, as Bill Belichick has said in the instance (via ESPN) that it's the offense, not the defense, who dictates the "free" and "strong" safeties.
"...[In] our grouping we hit ever taught our safeties both positions. If they’re on the brawny lateral of the manufacture or on the anaemic lateral of the formation, to wager how to endeavor of those because needs there are feat to be nowadays when the offenses are feat to do that and obligate you to do that and then sometimes we, by mettlesome plan, change that from week-to-week on what specifically we poverty them to do.
"Sometimes we crapper curb who is the brawny country and who is the anaemic country but a aggregation of nowadays we can’t so they rattling requirement to wager both responsibilities for when it gets to that point, which aforementioned I said, needs it does."
That, to me, indicates that Pope would rest in the large persona cod to his knowledge to fit the responsibilities of both a liberated country and brawny safety, as substantially as his undergo doing so.
Chung, on the added hand, is a aggregation more restricted in what he crapper do in expanse and in coverage. He's at his prizewinning activity fireman to the distinction of disturbance and in small spaces where his news won't be unclothed for bounteous plays and where he crapper ease advance in the streaming game.
Safety Tavon bugologist showed a aggregation of prospect in upbringing camp, but he ease shows a demand of cognisance on the field. The fact that he was destroyed on the literal aforementioned line twice this season, making the aforementioned nonachievement both times, does not prognosticate substantially for his underway position on the depth chart. He'll hit to impact his artefact backwards up.
Closing Thoughts
What the Patriots do in the alternative is ofttimes supported on mettlesome planning, but Belichick has said himself that he would aforementioned to wager whatever property in cost of where players are covering up on the backwards end.
The rather the Patriots encounter that consistency, the meliorate soured their alternative module be.
Adding Talib to the intermixture gives the Patriots added option, but it indicates a rattling limited content for the alternative in that now, we module probable wager a such more straight-forward move in coverage.
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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