Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Locked On Patriots September 6, 2017 - Wednesday Mailbag
Episode Date: September 6, 2017As I will each week, I turn the microphone over to you and address your Patriots questions. We cover the addition of Dorsett, the questions about the pass rush, the running back spot, and an historica...l comp for Dorsett as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcript
Discussion (0)
That's for my crazy day.
My packed commute.
All those unread emails in my inbox.
But I'm getting stronger, faster, and pushing myself further every day.
I don't care if I'm not like everyone else.
This punching bag is the best way to end my day.
Fearless is knowing yoga isn't your style.
That's the power of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Federal Employee Program.
Learn more about our healthy benefits at fepblue.org slash getmore.
This is Mark Schofield from Locked On Patriots.
This episode is brought to you by our great friends at bus.com.
You're Locked On Patriots, your daily podcast on the New England Patriots,
part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
Welcome into Locked On Patriots for Wednesday, September 6th.
Mark Schofield in the host chair, as always, with you.
What we're going to be doing today is something I really look to do on every Wednesday,
and that's basically turning the show over to you because I'm here for you.
I'm here to cover the Patriots and give you the information you need to follow your team
and get you ready for the upcoming slate of games.
And so each week I'm going to be answering some of your questions.
You can hit me up on Twitter at Mark Schofield.
Follow me on Facebook as well.
You can ask me questions on there.
I want to address what your concerns are, what you're thinking,
what you're feeling about your New England Patriots.
And so this is going to be the first installment of this.
Obviously the Patriots open their season tomorrow night, hosting the Kansas City Chiefs.
Hopefully, you've got somebody taking care of you for that game, and that's our friends at Bust.com.
Again, more on them in a bit, but definitely check them out, Bust.com.
Let's get into it right now.
Got a lot of good questions via Twitter that came in.
Really excited to get to those.
Our first is from my friend Chuck Zotta,
kicking a fishie in auto, kicking guru.
You can follow him at ITP underscore Chuck Z.
His question is,
is this the most versatile group of skill players
New England has ever had?
And I think Chuck at first blush, it is.
When you look at the guys that they have added,
both at the wide receiver spot,
obviously the addition of a Brandon Cooks who brings a nice little skill set in the vertical that they have added, both at the wide receiver spot, obviously the addition of a Brandon Cooks,
who brings a nice little skill set in the vertical downfield passing game,
speed to burn, but also can do some stuff along the boundary,
can give you routes over the middle, crossing routes, dig routes,
things like that.
You look at the recent trade for Philip Dorsett.
I know he hasn't panned out the way Colts fans might have wanted him to
out in Indianapolis, but I think he brings another sort of nice skill set
that New England maybe hasn't really had in the past couple of seasons.
Another downfield burner type,
but can do some stuff working out of the slot,
can work on routes out to the boundary.
So he adds a nice little piece.
Obviously that falls into the mix with guys like Amendola,
Chris Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell.
We've seen what they can do for New England.
And then you look at the running back room.
James White obviously had a huge role for this team
in that Super Bowl win over Atlanta.
Deion Lewis, very shifty guy, can cut on a dime,
can be dangerous as a weapon out of the backfield,
whether running the football or in the pass and attack.
Get Gronkowski back, which is a nice piece,
and Mike Gillisley and Rex Burkett as well
two other pieces of the running back spot so look across the field this is a very diverse
skill position group and I think Josh McDaniels Tom Brady they're going to find a variety of ways
that they can attack defenses they can give you different looks from week to week they can go
vertical some weeks they can go spread you out and go sort of the horizontal passing game that we've seen from them
in years past. And so I think that just opens up the playbook. It opens up a lot of options for
them. And so I do think it's the most sort of diverse skill group they've had. And I think it's
going to be a very good thing for their offense going forward. Similar question from our friend Justin 12,
at Justin1278, give him a follow on Twitter.
He's wondering about that offensive backfield.
Although the Patriots' backfield appears to be a committee backfield,
can anyone stand out from the pack?
If so, who?
And that's an interesting question,
particularly when you think about how New England has handled
the running back position in years past.
Obviously, with LeGarrette Blount the past couple of seasons, they kind of used him as
sort of the batter and ram, used him to sort of pound the ball in between the tackles.
But then you got guys like White and Lewis who you'd use at the edges as well.
I think we're going to see again, like Justin says, that running back by committee look.
They're going to basically play the hot hand or the guy that gives them the best sort of
matchups from week to week.
I always get fascinated by the idea of tempo.
And we've seen New England use it in the past.
I'd anticipate seeing a lot of it this year where they go out, they start a drive,
whether it's 11 personnel with three receivers, Gronkowski and a running back,
or even sometimes 12, two receivers, two tight ends, add Allen into the mix and a running back
and force the defense to declare at the start of the drive,
this is the package we're going to use, whether it's base, whether it's nickel,
whether it's big nickel, whatever it is.
And then try to exploit the matchup the best way they can using tempo.
So if they go 12 personnel with a guy like Deion Lewis as the running back,
defense decides they're going to stay in base expecting the run game,
then they go tempo and go 5 wide and get Lewis into the passing game that way and try
to take advantage of matchups.
Conversely, if they come out with a package like that and the defense decides to go nickel,
then maybe they try to pound the ball a little bit, work the running game and see if they
can take advantage of matchups that way.
And so I think we're going to see sort of that week-to-week matchup based
game plan from the New England Patriots a guy that has the potential to sort of
step her out and separate himself from the group is Lewis I think because of
the varied skill set the change of direction ability the ability to make
defenders miss in space for an offense that's predicated on getting guys the
ball quickly getting the ball to them in space and making defenders miss and
picking up yardage after the catch.
That's a big component of what New England likes to do.
And so Deion Lewis has got to sort of keep an eye on there.
Next set of questions, sort of a two-part question from the great John Ledyard.
You can follow John at LedyardNFLDraft.
Does him work with locked on?
He does locked on Steelers as well as locked on nfl draft with
trevis akama um he's going to ask a question here about philip dorsett he has a piece on philip
dorsett that you can check out as well um his john's question is philip dorsett more of an
outside receiver than a slot in your opinion how do you see patriots wide receiver group breaking
down in terms of slot xz i know that offense versatility matters a ton to New England but interested to hear where
each wide receiver works the best and to start off with John's point slot X Z those are your
three sort of standard receiver positions when you think of 11 personnel one tight end three
wide receivers those are the three wide receivers you've got your X you've got your Z and you've
got your slot and the best way to think of those for those of you that might be a little unfamiliar with those terms think of
the new york giants and how they're currently constructed you've got an x in brandon marshall
who sort of fits that outside boundary type mold can give you stuff down the field a little bit
can give you those contested catches those deep comeback routes he's the guy that kind of lines
up sort of outside,
usually to the single side of the receiver, single side of the formation,
sometimes matched up against their best defensive back.
But on the Giants, it's a little different because then you've got Odell Beckham Jr. who sort of fits the mold as a Zeke.
He can give you stuff down the field, but can also give you routes at all levels.
He can give you those dig routes, those crossers.
He can give you shallow stuff as well, the more versatile type of receiver.
And then the slot, Sterling Shepard fits that piece for the Giants guy
that works inside.
He's best when he's not facing tight jams of the line of scrimmage,
gets a little bit of a free release.
You can use him on motion and things like that.
Those are sort of your x x z and slot
for new england i think you're looking at a combination of hogan and mitchell as your x
type guys those are your more boundary guys guys that can give you some stuff down the field that
can give you those comeback routes along the boundary when you think of the super bowl malcolm
mitchell had some huge catches on third down situations on those curl routes those hitch
routes that you're going to need to hit to keep drives moving to move the chains pick up third
downs and stay on the field when you look at Brandon Cooks and I think Philip Dorsett they
slot in more as Z types although they can both run routes out of the slot Dorsett specifically
I think does his best work when he's in the slot, when he gets the free release. I talked about this on an earlier podcast this week, when
he's got that free release, when he can work to the inside of the field and then break
to the outside on that corner route, that kiddie route concept. I think Cooks does some
really good work there, but I think Cooks and Dorsett are going to be looked at to do
more Z-type stuff. And then Amendola right now is kind of slotted in as your slot receiver type,
the guy that is going to probably fill that role, at least positionally speaking,
vacated by the loss of Julian Edelman to his season-ending knee injury.
So that's kind of how I see it shaking out.
But again, like John alludes to, there's versatility here.
It's not going to be set in stone.
We're going to see guys line up at different spots for New England,
try to get them the best matchup from a one-on-one situation
or it's a zone coverage situation.
But that's kind of, at least on paper, how I envision it shaking out.
Next question from Tom Mead.
Follow him on Twitter, at THMead, M-E-A-D, 3.
Three of their top four sack leaders are gone.
Who will bring the pressure and you know tom
that's arguably the big question facing this team in this defense uh as we get forward look forward
into the 2017 season i mean people have been expecting them to address pass rush for the past
couple of seasons and they tried to do that. They draft Derek Rivers.
He gets hurt.
Obviously, they lose Rob Ninkovich, lose him to retirement.
So, you know, that's going to be a question mark for them.
I think what they're going to try to do, I talked a little bit about the guys from Locked On Chiefs,
is they're going to rely on their secondary.
They're going to rely on getting some coverage snacks.
And they're going to rely on some blitzes as well.
And you think about what New England was able to do in the Super Bowl.
You think about some of the blitz looks they were able to take advantage of
when they were able to, for example, get a high tower off the edge,
that big strip sack in the Super Bowl,
which was a huge play for New England and their chances to win.
You're going to have to see some blitz looks.
They're going to have to dial up some exotic stuff up front
and count on the secondary, which I think is arguably the strength
of this defense, to stay in coverage, to stay on defenders as long as necessary,
and to play sort of those cover one looks or even some cover zero stuff
when New England really needs to dial up pressure to attack the quarterback
that way and to attack the pocket that way. And so I think we're going to see pressure. We're going to see stuff like that coming from New England really needs to dial up pressure to attack the quarterback that way and to attack the pocket that way.
And so I think we're going to see pressure.
We're going to see stuff like that coming from New England.
It's not going to be a situation where you can just rely on one guy to get pressure
and one guy to sort of bend the edge and run the arc like, say, a Miles Garrett
or something like that.
It's going to be sort of a team effort.
You're going to need guys in the interior as well to occupy some blockers.
I mean, that puts an onus on guys
like Alan Branch and Malcolm Brown to occupy
sort of the interior of the line,
maybe get guys isolated in one-on-one
situations. Maybe you can get a situation
where a Trey Flowers or an Eldon Roberts
can beat a guy one-on-one
on the edge, but I think
primarily it's going to have to come from
blitz looks and things
like that.
And, you know, picking up the coverage sacks here and there, that's where they're going
to get the bulk of their pass rush.
Next question, we got back-to-back questions from my friends, my friend Michael Kist.
The first from Michael is, what position are you looking for for New England to address potentially in the
upcoming draft? And what positions do you have in mind that Patriots fans should be keeping an eye
out for? And as a quarterback guy, I'm always looking at the quarterbacks to begin with.
And I know that they have Tom Brady on the roster. I know that they have Jimmy Garoppolo,
and they've held on to Jimmy for a long time.
New England has traditionally selected a quarterback every other season,
sometimes even more than that.
And so I think the best way to look at this is they're always going to address the quarterback spot.
They're always going to look to add in another guy.
And I'm firmly in the camp that teams should look to address quarterback
every other season, even if you've got a starter that's a franchise type guy. Because if you think
about how teams are constructed, how rosters are constructed, you have your 53-man roster.
Sit down sometime and rank each position in terms of importance you might start with quarterback
and sort of go from there how quickly do you get to backup quarterback because my argument here is
this backup quarterback is an extremely important position on a football team because we've seen in
the past look at the Dallas Cowboys a few seasons ago. That was a team that was potentially a playoff team.
Romo goes down.
They don't have an answer, a quarterback too.
And they lose an entire season.
They end up picking fourth overall.
They get Ezekiel Elliott.
They get Dak Prescott later in the draft.
They lose Romo again.
But because they drafted that quarterback,
they were able to finally address the quarterback position.
So backup quarterback is an important season because you can't suffer a lost season in
the NFL, particularly if you're a coach on the bubble, on the hot seat.
And sometimes one lost season can turn into sort of that quarterback purgatory where you
just don't have an answer.
And so I think that drafting a quarterback every year, every other year makes sense because
even if all it does is
upgrade you at that backup spot, it's like insurance. You don't need it until you need it.
And when you need it, you're going to want to make sure you've got good stuff there,
whether it's from an insurance perspective or a backup quarterback perspective. So,
you know, given the trade of Brissette, given the age of Tom Brady, I know he wants to play
forever, but who knows how long he's really going to stick around.
I'm looking to New England to, again, address the quarterback position.
And this is going to be a very interesting quarterback class.
And there's a name I'm going to throw out there for Patriots fans to sort of keep an eye on, and that's Matt Linehan,
who's a senior quarterback at the University of Idaho.
You probably haven't heard his name before,
but I'm telling you to keep an eye on this kid
because he runs an offense that's an Ern Perkins-based offense.
He's got a Petrino as his offensive coordinator.
Comes from that school of thought.
Comes from that offensive scheme, coaching tree.
Obviously, his brother's the head coach at Louisville,
and they run sort of some Ern Perkins stuff.
Linehan runs concepts like Haas, which is a hitch and a seam rail
from an inside receiver.
That's something that Winkin has in their playbook it runs a ton lennon runs concepts now at idaho
that new england's going to be running starting thursday night against the kansas city chiefs and
so lennon is a guy that i would keep an eye on if you're a new england fan i anticipate getting a
chance to see him up close in person doubt in mobile at the senior bowl i expect he'll get an
invite i know he's on their watch list and so I'm still going to keep an eye on the
quarterbacks because I anticipate that's a position that I'll address. Looking to upgrade
it back up and then potentially down the road, a guy that can step into the starting job eventually,
depending on how the roster shakes out, what they do with Garoppolo. And again, pass rush.
Another position I think they'll need to address.
I think that they're going to have to bolster that in some way.
They'll get Derek Rivers back next year, and that might help.
But I think pass rush is another spot to sort of keep an eye on for the Patriots.
Next question from Michael Kist.
Again, follow my friend at Michael J. Kist.
Kist is a history buff.
He has gotten on me time and time and time again that, look, Mark, I know you like history.
Dan Carlin, you know, his history podcast.
You've got to listen to that.
You've got to listen to that stuff.
And they're incredible.
I could not recommend them enough. They're like, Carlin dives into history.
You know, he'll do a six hour episode on Rome
and how they faced off against the Gauls.
And it's incredible stuff.
But Michael's question here is an interesting one.
He always asks sort of these historical comp questions.
And this one is,
which historical arsonist best compares to Philip Dorsett?
And Michael, I had to do some research here.
Not really up on my historical arsonist, to tell you the truth. I'm guessing, Michael,
you probably just listened to Darren Conlin's episode on historical arsonists because he does
get into this. And so I did a little bit of research and a name I came up with was John
Pillopiro Orr. And I'm mostly bringing them up because I think that's an
incredible nickname to give to an arsonist. But John Orr hoped to be a police officer in LA,
did not make the cut. Instead, he joined the Glendale Fire Department as an arson investigator.
And then he became an arsonist himself. And so the comp there is a guy where he wanted to do one thing.
It didn't pan out.
And then he joined another organization.
And that's Philip Dorsett.
It didn't pan out for him in Indianapolis.
Now he's with the Patriots.
Hopefully he doesn't become an arsonist.
We certainly don't want that.
But we'd like to see him light it up on the field.
And that's what Patriots fans are hoping for.
And so that's my historical arsonist comp for Philip Dorsett.
Now, folks, I want to remind you about our great friends at Bust.com.
We are just hours now from the start of the NFL season
and that Thursday night opener against Kansas City down at Gillette.
I know you want to be there for the opening night festivities.
I want to be there.
So do you.
Don't be stuck on the train at kickoff.
Don't be sitting in traffic on Route 1 when the pregame ceremonies are underway.
Let our friends at Bust.com take care of you.
They are launching a shuttle service from downtown Boston right to Gillette Stadium.
This includes a $5 round-t trip introductory week one rate. That is an
incredible deal. You'll get on an air conditioned coach ride, bathrooms on board. They'll take you
down right to Gillette Stadium. The train down to the game folks, it's often overcrowded. Parking
at Gillette can be a drag and you don't want to be stuck behind the wheel trying to get out of
there late after that game. So let our friends at bus.com take care of all the driving for you.
Plus, it's going to be a fun time on open at night.
Who wants to be the designated driver?
So check out their website, bus.com, where you can even request a new route or stop.
Or you can check out their app, which puts you in touch with other riders as well as
their support team.
Fans, let bus.com take care of your transportation down to Gillette and tell
them Mark Schofield from Locked On
Patriots sent you.
A couple more questions that we can get to
before we wrap this up. One
from Matty Brown,
another colleague of mine over at Inside the Pile, and you can
follow him at Matty F. Brown.
With the additions of Speedy Brandon Cooks
and Phillip Dorsett, are the Pats moving
to more of a downfield attack,
or are they aren't Perkins chameleons still?
Matt, sort of getting into what we talked to earlier this week,
sort of the offensive schemes
and those three sort of offensive schematic play styles.
We have the Eric Correal type offense,
which is that downfield passing game.
Think of Bruce Arians, West Coast, Bill Walsh, that school of thought where you're getting the ball out quickly, attacking short,
relying on yardage after the catch. And then, Aaron Perkins, which is what the Patriots have
traditionally run, where it's establish the run, use play action, time and routes, attack the
middle of the field. That's what New England has traditionally relied upon. And to Matty's point,
I don't think the Patriots truly change a lot of what they're going to look to do offensively.
I think they're still going to run their offense, still sort of attack on timing routes in the middle of the field,
try to get the ball out of Brady's hands quickly.
But I think like with most teams, there are going to be some elements to the playbook
that bred in sort of the downfield type pass and attack.
And something I'd think as they move Dorsett into the lineup a
concept that I think Patriots fans should be on the watch for is the divide concept or a scissors
concept which is a two-man route concept New England does have it in the playbook you get a
post route from the outside receiver and a deep corner route from the inside or slot receiver
and it basically stresses say it's a cover three look where you've got a cornerback to that side of the field.
You're basically bracketing that guy.
And you're relying upon the quarterback to maybe move the safety to the other side of the field, which opens up that post route.
Or maybe the cornerback sort of sits on that post route, carries that a bit, and doesn't get out to that corner route in time.
And so I think you could see some combinations drawn up using Dorsett and Cooks on that type of route concept so they'll look to get downfield a little bit but I think you know they're going
to stick to what they do and that's run that Aaron Perkins type offense focus on that attack the
middle of the field and get the ball out of Brady's hands pretty quickly next question from
Nick Folletto also from inside the pylon follow Nick at Nickolletto, F-A-L-A-T-O.
Nick asked a bunch of questions.
I wish I could answer them all, but I'm going to address this one.
Do you envision Josh McDaniels sticking around after this season
if an enticing job opens up?
And, you know, Nick, that's sort of the million-dollar question
with respect to this coaching staff.
They've got two great coordinators in McDaniels and Matt matt patricia who people thought maybe we're going to leave last offseason both of
them stuck around they're still with new england i think both of those guys have kind of learned
from sort of recent success or lack thereof of patriot assistant coaches moving on obviously
charlie weiss had some struggles his agent certainly didn't have some struggles as charlie
weiss is still getting paid by i I believe, both Kansas and Notre Dame,
or maybe it's just Notre Dame right now.
So good for Charlie and his agent.
Romeo Cornell had some struggles when he moved to the head coaching ranks.
Obviously, the McDaniels, how it ended for him in Denver didn't end well.
Part of that, obviously, drafting Tim Tebow in the first round.
McDaniels thought he could turn him into an NFL quarterback.
That didn't pan out.
And so I think both of these guys are somewhat hesitant to leave because they want
to make sure when they go, they get into the right spot, particularly for McDaniels.
You get one or two cracks at this as a head coach. With McDaniels now, he's had his one crack. It
didn't go well. He'll certainly get another opportunity, but is it going to be his final
one if it doesn't pan out?
So he wants to make sure that it's going to be the most ideal landing spot.
And when you start to look around at some potential jobs that might open up,
obviously I think New York Jets,
that's a job that people probably think is going to open up at the end of the season.
It looks like they're sort of in rebuilding mode.
Do you want to go to the Jets?
That's a team that doesn't have the quarterback situation figured out.
They're probably going to get a top quarterback pick.
Do you trust a guy like a Sam Donald or a Josh Allen
to be good enough to rebuild that team right away.
You might get some leeway, but maybe not a ton.
And so, you know, that Jets job might be opening up.
You know, Marvin Lewis has been in Cincinnati for years now.
There was some speculation that maybe it wouldn't quite end up that he'd come back.
He is back.
That's a team that has some talent.
Maybe if that job comes open, you'd look there.
Some other jobs that you might consider if you're a Josh McDaniels,
Chuck Pagano is seemingly on the hot seat for a while
to get the chance to sort of step into Indy
and coach Andrew Luck would be a good opportunity for McDaniels.
But I think for McDaniels and to Nick's point,
it would have to be the good opportunity for McDaniels. But I think for McDaniels and to Nick's point, it would have to be the ideal situation for McDaniels
to sort of step away from New England
and take that next crack at a head coaching gig.
Next question from my friend Daryl Seng
at Cinnapore Sox fan.
Follow him.
Shout out to Daryl and his son.
Daryl's son started first grade on Tuesday.
So shout out to Daryl and his son.
I know that's a tough day for daddy as well. I just went through it myself. But Darrell asks, this is the fastest set of
receivers Brady has had in a long time. How will McDaniels use them? And you touched a little bit
on this with the question for Matty Brown. Again, I think that they're going to run their offense
that are Perkins style of offensive play, but they'll work in some more downfield
concepts as well because even if they don't hit those and there's been a question about Brady's
ability to throw the deep ball for years now now he's got some vertical threats in Cook's indoor
set even if Brady doesn't hit those you stretch the defense vertically as well you know when you
think about attacking a defense and a lot of things that we've seen,
at least in the college game with the run pass option stuff, is the ability to attack a defense both horizontally from sideline to sideline as well as vertically. You think of a typical RPO
style play where the quarterback puts the football in the belly of his running back who's
attacking the inside of the middle of the line of scrimmage on an inside run type look,
but then you've got guys released into the flat,
that's potential passing options.
That's attacking the defense both vertically and horizontally.
Now look at New England, what they can do in the passing game.
You can have a guy like Cooks or a guy like Dorsett,
even both of them on the field,
sort of stretching the defense vertically on deeper stuff,
but then you've got maybe a guy out of the backfield like Deion Lewis
to one flat, maybe a Chris Hogan the backfield like Dion Lewis to one flat maybe a
Chris Hogan on an option route to the other flat and then Gronkowski patrolling the middle of the
field as well so you can stretch the defense at all levels with what they've got and so I think
that's again what we're going to see from New England attacking the defense at all levels
using these guys like Cooks and Dorsett who are speedy guys who scare defensive coordinators
about their ability to sort of take the top off of a defense.
And even if New England doesn't hit those,
they can use those guys to open up the rest of the passing game
and the rest of the field.
We'll close this out with another question from Tom Meade.
Again, follow Tom at THMeade3.
I thought this was a fascinating question
and one to sort of think about.
Is Steven Gostowski the best fourth-round pick the Patriots have made in the Belichick era?
And there's certainly a case to be made for that.
When you step back and look at some of the selections that the Patriots have made in that fourth round,
Gostowski is certainly up there.
Other guys I would consider maybe Brian Stork.
I know he played for a limited time with the Patriots,
but played a big role for them, getting them to a Super Bowl victory.
And so I think Stork is a guy for consideration as well.
Another name that you would have to consider is Andrew Hernandez.
Aaron Hernandez, excuse me.
He was a fourth round pick. And obviously,
the off the field stuff is a horrific situation. And, you know, Aaron Hernandez's time as a Patriot
ended poorly because of the decisions he made off the field. On the field, Hernandez was
a weapon for that offense. And when you think about, you know, I've talked about how the
Patriots could go tempo. That was sort of a catalyst for these discussions when they were
able to have a package out there, a 12 personnel package where you've got two receivers, you've
got Gronkowski and Hernandez and Danny Woodhead, and you could use Hernandez as an extra running
back as well. I mean, that was a sort of dangerous group from a defensive standpoint to defend. So,
you know, Hernandez gets some
consideration there. But the name that I will throw out there is I think the best
fourth round selection in the Belichick era. And the guy that just beats out Gustavski is
Asante Samuel. We know he, you know, didn't have that interception to close out that Giants game,
but he was a lockdown corner for this team for a while. And I think, you know, Samuel was probably
the best fourth round pick of the Bill Belichick era.
And so that would do it for the first
sort of question and answer Wednesday
that we're going to be doing each week.
Again, hit me up each week with questions.
You can find me on Facebook
and you can follow me on Twitter at Mark Schofield.
I'll try to get to all of them.
If I don't answer your question,
remind me on Twitter and I'll get to it on there as well.
I'd love to hear from all of you.
Again, I'm sort of a vessel for you guys.
I'm a vessel for your show and your team.
And so what you want to hear covered, let me know about it.
If I'm missing something, if you want to hear me address something, ask me questions on
Twitter.
I'll get to them either during our show on Wednesdays or throughout the week as well.
Big week.
Kicking it off Thursday night against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Let our friends at bus.com take care of the transportation for you, okay?
Let them know that Mark Scofield from Locked On Patriots sent you.
So that will do it for today's show.
We will be back tomorrow with Henry McKenna getting ready for opening night.
And then, again, on Friday, I will have instant reaction from the opening night game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
So until then, keep it locked right here on Locked on P.
What you doing?
Running out of space on my phone, so I'm deleting some stuff.
Bye, singing dog. Bye singing dog.
Bye goal.
Bye wedding ceremony.
Stop. At MetroPCS, you get two free phones with twice as much memory.
Really?
Don't say bye to your memories.
Switch to MetroPCS and get two free LG K20 Plus phones with 32 gigs when you switch two lines.
MetroPCS. Wireless. Figured out.
Coverage not available in some areas.
Sales tax not included in phone price.
Excludes numbers on the T-Mobile network.
See store for details and terms and conditions.