Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Patriots A to Z Part 2 - Locked On Patriots June 25, 2019

Episode Date: June 25, 2019

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Hey there everybody and welcome on into part two of Patriots A to Z here at Locked On Patriots. Yesterday was the debut part one. We covered A and B and I've already been told there's been a bit of a mishap, a bit of an oversight, which I'm going to rectify here actually a couple of times in this show. Today we're going to do C and D, but before we do anything, it's Mark Schofield here in the big chair. Happy to be here as always, and happy to give you the usual cavalcade of reminders right at the outset. Please follow along the hijinks over at the Twitter machine at Mark Schofield. You can check out the work at a variety of places. Inside the Pylon.com, Pro Football Weekly, Matt Waldman's rookie scouting portfolio. And yes, that trio of SB Nation websites including Big Blue View, Bleeding Green Nation, and of course, Pat's Pulpit.

Let's talk about the oversight. And we're going to talk about this man actually in the third part of this show. But I didn't mention these shows are going to work like players slash people, then plays, then moments, parts one, two, and three of each episode. And I mentioned Bill Belichick in yesterday's show where we covered the letters A and B, but I didn't mention another Patriots coach, Raymond Berry, the head coach of the New England Patriots when they advanced to Super Bowl XX to take on the

Chicago Bears. We'll be talking about that Super Bowl a little bit later, but I did want to at least mention I did not forget Raymond Berry, but I had planned to dive a little bit deeper into Super Bowl XX on this show, which we'll do a little bit later, but did not mention Raymond Berry, Hall of Fame wide receiver, excellent head coach for

the New England Patriots, guided them to Super Bowl, and so of course we mentioned Raymond Berry. But today's show is dedicated, brought to you by, to use the Sesame Street pylon, it's the letters C and D. And let's start off with some of the people, some of the players. And C is a bit of a mixed bag for the New England Patriots throughout history. There is one player to mention that was part of that Super Bowl XX team, punter Rich Camarillo, out of the University of Washington. He played from 1981 through 1987 with the Rams.

I mean, with the Patriots, excuse me, that one season with the Rams, then five seasons with the then Phoenix I mean, with the Patriots, excuse me, that one season with the Rams, then five seasons with the then Phoenix Cardinals, two seasons with Houston, finally entered, ended his career one year, one game with the Oakland Raiders in 1996. So he played a long time in the National Football League. But during his time in New England, he set some career career highs 3,953 net punted yards in that 1985 season where he averaged 43 yards per punt his best average on a per season basis was in 1982 with the Patriots when he averaged 43.7 yards per punt he tied that later in his career actually I take that back I missed one year 50 45.3 yards per punt in 1991 with the Phoenix Cardinals.

But puncher Rich Camarillo, a member of New England Patriots lore. Gino Capoletti, Hall of Fame wide receiver. Started his days with the Boston Patriots. Played his entire career with the Boston Patriots. Caught 42 touchdowns with the New England Patriots. Was also a great punt and kick returner as well. Some other players that you may know from Patriots history. Matt Castle.

Obviously after Tom Brady went down, guided the Patriots to an 11-5 record. Eugene Shun. He was a highly regarded player coming out. Selected by the Patriots. 13th overall in the 1992 draft in the first round. Started just 30 games for the Patriots. 13th overall in the 1992 draft. In the first round. Started just 30 games for the Patriots. Only lasted three seasons. Then was moved on to Jacksonville and then Indianapolis.

Colts played just five years in the league. Raymond Claiborne. Defensive back for the Patriots. Selected in the first round of this 1977 draft. 16th overall. Played a number of years with the Patriots. Was a member and a starting cornerback on their Super Bowl XX team.

Getting a lot of ties to that Super Bowl XX team. Some other Patriots of note throughout history. Tony Collins, a running back on that Super Bowl XX team. In that season, the 1985 season, started all 16 games. 657 yards on 163 carries, three touchdowns. Shared that backfield with Craig James,

who we'll get to a little bit later in this series. But big mention for him. Some more recent Patriots. Brandon Cooks, for example. Part of that Super Bowl 52 team. Obviously, Jamie Collins. Former and current Patriot yet again. Adrian Claiborne played one season for New England, got himself

a Super Bowl reign. Some current Patriots on the roster also include Yanni Kajust, new player from West Virginia. Shalee Calhoun, recently signed. Marcus Cannon, offensive guard slash offensive tackle for this team, Now a starting tackle.

Joe Cardona, the long snapper. Obviously a big member of that battery. Patrick Chun, his second stint, second go-around with the New England Patriots. Obviously suffered the injury, but he should be back and ready to go. He was selected by the Patriots in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft, 34th overall. Big, big player in the back half of that defense. I already mentioned Jamie Collins. Also, Brian Cowart, new member of the Patriots, drafted out of Maryland.

Keon Croston, drafted by this team last year. Cole Croston, reserve offensive tackle for the Patriots. So there are even some current Patriots on the roster. Couldn't get out of the letter C without Sam Cunningham, running back for the New England Patriots. Again, another first-round pick, drafted 11th overall in the 1973 draft, plays entire career

for the New England Patriots. 43 touchdowns, played in 107 games for the Patriots, just started 10 technically, but did see a lot of time. His best season was 1977 when he had over 1,000 yards rushing, 1,015 yards rushing to be exact on 270 rushing attempts. Moving on to the letter D.

Bench is a little thinner when we get to the letter D in Patriots history. Rohan Davey, quarterback for a couple of seasons with the Patriots. Obviously, Lynn Dawson, a tight end for the New England Patriots, who was a part of, yes, that Super Bowl XX team. That 1985 season with the Patriots. Started 13 games. Had 17 receptions, no touchdowns. His best season came the year prior in 1984 when he started 15 games,

appeared in all 16. 39 catches, a career high 427 yards a career high and four receiving touchdowns all of those were career highs the letter d also has some misses throughout patriots history for example we remember aaron dobson out of marshall wide receiver that was drafted in the second round, 59th overall, never really amounted to much. His rookie year in 2013, he had four touchdown catches, but those were the only four touchdown catches he would net in the National Football League.

Some other misses, Ross I. Dowlin, defensive back out of Virginia, again, a second-round pick, 33rd overall in the 2011 draft. Struggled with injuries. Hartley Dykes. Remember when the Patriots drafted him? 16th overall in the 1989 draft. First-round pick. Started 16 games for the Patriots, seven touchdowns,

but only played two seasons in New England. Some other Ds. Tim Dwight. He was brought over in 2005 acquired via trade bounced around the league a ton had one season new england started just one game appeared in all 16 games had three touchdown receptions his one season in new england that 2005 season some current patriots philip dorsett duke dawson wonder what we're going to see from him this year. Keonta Davis, Tennessee Chattanooga product that got some time on the defensive front.

But we cannot get out of the letter D without a player that is near and dear to my heart and I believe near and dear to the hearts of all the listeners to Lockdown Patriots. And that's James Devlin, the fullback for the New England Patriots, who is coming off what is probably a career year for him. Eight starts, a career high. Six rushing attempts, a career high. Just eight yards, though. That is not a career high.

Back in 2013, he had four attempts for 10 yards. 10 yards is career high. But four touchdowns. Four. And his longest run, two runs tied for his longest last year, each of two yards. He also had five first downs last year. But we here at Locked On Patriots, we love, we adore James Devlin. And I'm not getting out of this show without giving James Devlin some love.

So let's give it up for the fullback out of Brown. Up next, we're going to talk about some of the plays with the letters C and D. I'll mention some coverages, but we've got a D series. We've got a lot of stuff to get to. And a little bit later, some moments that are all Patriots history associated with the letters C and D. That's all ahead on this second installment of Patriots A to Z here at Locked on Patriots. Mark Schofield back here with you now and we're going to do some plays with the letters

C and D and easy, look, cover one, cover two, cover three, cover four. I've talked about coverages on this show. The Patriots are primarily a cover one team. That is the coverage of Bill Belichick believes is the best. He loves to play it. Everybody, man, except for a safety in the middle of the field.

That is cover one. But in Superbowl 53, they played a lot of cover four, especially on early downs, his own coverage where you've got four deep players across the board. So that's some defensive stuff. Let's do some offensive stuff. We've got a number of routes we can talk about.

We can talk about the cross route, which is, again, from the Patriots playbook. Usually run by a slot receiver. You start in on a slant to about six yards, then break vertically to 12, then slant again from 12, get into a depth of about 22 yards. Coaching point, do not cheat the second stem. Push vertical! Exclamation point. Very serious about

that. Now, if there are two crossers on the play, the deeper one goes 6 to 15 to 25, while the shallow one goes 6, 12, 22. Make sure you do the right route. There's also the shoot route, which is a middle of the field open or middle of the field closed adjustment. If the middle of the field is closed, the player runs the cross route that we just broke down. But if the middle of the field is open, say against cover four, you run a middle read at the near upright, staying thin and just outside of the nearest hash. It's basically like a skinny post. So that is the shoot. Patriots also have out of the slot the cable route. You run a wheel route.

If the defender is high on you, not sweets on you, like you would hear if you were watching Letterkenny, but high on you, meaning he's staying over the top, you convert it to his stutter route, which is basically you run the wheel, defender's still over the top, and you break down to the outside. Now against cover two, you're running the wheel route no matter what so there you go you get a c route and a c coverage in the same little thing some other routes to get to with the letters c and d you have the comeback and the toga comeback now the comeback we all know you run to about 16 yards

plant your inside foot break downhill to the sideline at a 45 degree angle. The toga comeback is a little bit deeper. 20 yards inside foot, downhill. On both of these, if you get pressed coverage, you're adjusting it to the fade. There's also the curl route, which is the Patriots, they run it at a depth of about 14 yards. Patriots also have what they call the can route, which is a convertible comeback. You can run the comeback route, or if you get press coverage against you or rolled coverage to you, you're going to run an in route instead. That's can for the New England Patriots. Let's talk some D routes. And these are just individual routes. There's one here that I do want to mention before we move on.

And that is diagonal. Because we're going to get to the D series here in a second. Diagonal is basically, it looks to be a flat route. Outside release towards sidelines, looking over the outside shoulder. Versus a zone coverage, you're going to chop it down a little bit. Versus man, you get a little bit deeper. If you do not have the football by the time you're five yards from the sideline, you turn to the quarterback and expect the ball on your upfield

shoulder. That's how you sort of adjust that. Now let's talk about some two-man concepts. And this was going to get us to, as I teased yesterday, the D series. There's D slant, which is a two-man concept where the outside receiver runs a slant and the inside receiver runs that diagonal route we just broke down. These are all diagonal routes from the inside receiver out of the slot there's d fast which is a deeper slant and the diagonal route from the slot receiver there's d pivot which is an adjustable route where you run either a deep curl a deep out or a deep corner based on the coverage and again that diagonal route from the slot receiver. And then finally, D-slim, which is a seven-step post

from the outside receiver and that inside receiver. You're running, again, that diagonal route. Also in the two-man concept series for the New England Patriots, there's delay, which is a variant of Haas. Outside receiver is still running that hitch. Delay, that inside receiver, you were running a flag route, a corner route from the slot. So that's delay, another part of the Patriots playbook here,

a two-man route concept. Patriots also have ditch, which is an under route from the outside receiver, five yards, break across the field. You go up to five yards, and then you break right across, down the line of scrimmage, basically five yards, break across the field. You go up to five yards and then you break right across down the line of scrimmage, basically five yards looking for the football. The inside receiver runs that Viper route, which I can't wait to really break down, but it's a convertible post corner based on what the coverage does. If you get the middle of the field closed, you're going to

run the corner route, middle of the field open, you're going to run the post route. So that's ditch, under, and viper. There's also dragon, which is a very cool route concept. The outside receiver runs basically a seven stop, which is the receiver starts inside on a slant, then breaks vertically, then breaks outside like he's going to break a corner route. So it's, again, diagonally working away. And then you stop and look for the football. It's like a corner that you then curl and then there's the inside stutter which is that cross route we talked about earlier slant to six up to 12 push vertically exclamation point

then you start breaking across and then you either sit down or then break back to the outside that's dragon can't wait to look for that on film next time I'm watching some Patriot stuff. Now, I mentioned yesterday's show that they also have some sort of route concepts that have three receivers involved with them. And so we can look through that for a second and we can find some of the letters C and D that we can break down here. For example, the Patriots have in their playbook, chump, which is a three receiver concept. The outside receiver comes in motion and runs that under route. Basically, get upfield a little bit, then break across. The apex receiver, because this is basically going to end up out of a bunch, runs a deep

out, and that inside receiver, number three receiver, runs a diagonal. That's chump. Patriots also have chump HO, which is the same route for the outside receiver who runs the under. And it's the same thing for that apex or middle receiver who runs the out. But then that third receiver runs an option. So you look like you're going to run a wheel. And then you either sit down, turn in, turn out, run away from coverage. That's chump HO, which is basically chump H option. There's also clown, which is another three-man bunch route concept.

Outside receiver runs a return route, so it's a slant and then you break to the outside. Inside receiver runs that diagonal route. And the middle receiver runs the viper, so that's that convertible post or corner depending on whether the middle of the field is open or the middle receiver runs the viper. So that's that convertible post or corner, depending on whether the middle of the field is open or the middle of the field is closed. Three more route concepts out of the three-man pass package. They have cougar, which is a can route. We mentioned that earlier.

The outside receiver runs either a comeback or a deep dig, depending on the coverage. The middle receiver, this is a three-man concept out of trips, runs an under route at a depth of three yards this time so three yards and break down the line of scrimmage and the inside receiver runs a ghost hook where you run to about a depth of 12 yards then break into the outside back to about eight that's cougar cafe three receiver concept outside receiver runs a curl middle receiver runs a corner route or a flag route. Inside receiver runs that diagonal route, that route to the flat that we've been talking about.

Finally, cave. Curl from the outside. Viper from the middle. Diagonal from the inside receiver. So that's cave. Again, these are three receiver concepts in the Patriots playbook. Patriots also have, in the letter D, divide. Now divide gets drawn up different ways, but for the Patriots, it's out of trips. Outside receiver runs a hitch, middle receiver runs a corner, and the inside receiver runs that shoot route. So this is a good example of how the Patriots build their concepts together because we just talked about shoot as an individual route where it's either that cross if the middle of the field is closed or that corner post route if the middle of the field is open. Well, that number three receiver in divide is run and shoot. So take for example, the Patriots want to play and divide is part of it. If you're the outside

receiver, you run a hitch, which could convert to an under dependent on the coverage. And that inside receiver has the shoot, which again, converts based on coverage. So that one word divide breaks out into three different routes. And two of those routes also convert as well. So when you hear people talk about how for wide receivers, the Patriots playbook is tough to learn. Divide is a pretty good example of that. Let's close this out now. There are a couple that I just didn't get a chance to get to. Celtic, for example, which is basically a sale variation. I'll cover that because this is a sports team that we wouldn't know. Boston Celtics. Outside receiver comes in motion towards the formation to create a bunch. It runs a corner route. Middle receiver, the apex receiver out of this bunch runs a deep out, and then you get a

diagonal. So you get a three man levels concept along one side of the formation. Now I did mention Patriots have that sort of named concept plays. They don't have anything here to break down. For example, like yesterday we talked about Atlanta and Boston. Nothing like that. So we can just put this to bed, but those are some of the plays in the Patriots playbook, offensively and defensively, with the letters C and D. Up next, we're going to talk about some moments.

And while the majority of this show, this series, this offseason part is going to be positive, there are two moments, well, two cities, that have a lot of moments associated with the New England Patriots that we're going to have to talk about. That's ahead here at Locked on Patriots. Mark Schofield back with you now. Going to quickly close out part two of Patriots A to Z. We're covering the letters C and D today.

Tomorrow, E and F. And I tell you, it's a little bit thin. Thin pickings. Tomorrow's show might not run as long. But I mentioned moments, and I teased that some of the stuff's going to be negative. When you get to the letters C&D and you start thinking about Patriots history,

you might want to, at some point, you're going to get to the Chicago Bears, and at some point, you're going to get to the Denver Broncos. Let's talk about Denver specifically, which is a Patriots house of horrors for the most part. Games at Denver have not fared well for the New England Patriots. I mean, they just haven't. And frankly, the Broncos have had the run of play over this rivalry of sorts.

These teams have met 53 times. The Broncos all-time, 30- and 23 4 and 1 in the postseason the broncos had at one point an 11 game win streak over the patriots the patriots longest win streak over these teams over the denver broncos is just four although currently the patriots are working on a two-game win streak and you can think of at least in recent history, Patriots have struggled. Like just in the Tom Brady era, the Bill Belichick era, games at Mile High Stadium, the Patriots have been in or in Vesco Field at Mile High. The Patriots have played 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. They've played 12 of them.

And they have won 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Losing record on the road. And some of these losses were in pretty big games the patriots lost obviously an afc championship game there 26 16 that was in 2014 and another afc championship game 2016 20 to 18 and then of course there's a game that cost me a cell phone. Divisional round game, 27-13 loss. That was the Benjamin Watson game where Tom Brady threw an interception in the end zone. And I still to this day swear that that was knocked out of bounds.

That ball was knocked out of bounds and it was a touchback. But Ben Watson tracked it down from across the field. Somehow got there. I swear he knocked that ball out of bounds, but he didn't. I threw a cell phone when it happened, broke the antenna on it. I'm never going to forget that. I'm never going to forget that. And if you get a chance, you know, you can see it on YouTube where he hits Tom Bailey, Champ Bailey. You can see him track it down from across the field. It's just an incredible effort from him.

So we got Denver to deal with, and yes, we got Chicago. We got Super Bowl XX. And I was reminded in doing the prep for this show, those of you who are younger Patriots fans did not experience, I don't want to say joy, but let's just say the buzz in the build-up to Super Bowl XX. Because, look, the Bears were just steamrolling teams. They had the Super Bowl shuffle.

So the Patriots and Boston V66, an old music television station in the Boston area, they recorded not one, not two, but three different songs and music videos in response to the Super Bowl shuffle. I tweeted this out on Sunday. Somebody on YouTube spliced all three of these together. It's 12 minutes of just 80s excellence.

There's like Ray, Raymond Berry. Yeah, was it Ray Berry? Who was the old mayor of Boston? Why am I blanking on this guy's name? Ray Flynn. There's footage of him in there. There's like Bob Lobel at one point on one of these, like when, when a sax is like Mike Lynch given awkward high fives. It's just find my Twitter account. You'll see the video. I'm just going to play for you now some snippets of three songs. Leader of the Pats, Skin the Bears, and the piece de resistance of this trio.

New England, the Patriots, and we. Say, is that Raymond's team you're playing for? Uh-huh. New England, the Patriots, and we. We found him in the Hall of Fame. The only guy with proof for a name. Get the pun? Oh, man, that's lame. He's Raymond Berry, leader of the Pats. He stood on the sidelines wearing a frown. That's all for trick-or-treating. Raymond Berry does not look happy. Because the Pats couldn't buy a first down

Billy said he'd sell the team Unless he started seeing some green Raymond came to the rescue The leader of the bats this is our year this is our year let's make it clear let's make it clear. Let's make it clear. I'm gonna scare my best. The Pats have got the fever. The fans have got it too. I'm gonna squeeze them teddy bears.

Gonna paint the Super Bowl red, white, and blue. Well, they come to the Sun to dance. Said we couldn't win. But our bad boys from Boston did magic with that pigskin. So have no fear, have no fear, go skin the bears. I just want to say, New England, Holloway. We crushed the Jets and squeezed the fish, now we're going all the way. This is our year, This is our year.

We're going to skin the bears. First they sack marinos. Now we'll make a man his dues. Going to come home with bearskin right in the refrigerator. They're going to blow a fuse. Let's make it clear. Let's make it clear. We're going to skin the bears.

This is our year. This is our year This is our year Go skim the bears They beat the Jets and became contenders And we cheered them on Then they beat those Miami pretenders. And the jinx was gone. Still all the doubters around them said, can we go that far? Just let us stay for the record. There's no stopping this rising star New England The Patriots and me New England

The Patriots and me Rolling on to victory Now it's the Bears The big wind from Chicago The Super Bowl awaits They may be monsters out on the midway But they've got a different date All of the gamblers, they're talents

The Super Bowl can't be won But the Bears are gonna get buried. New England is gonna be number one. New England, the Patriots and me. New England, the Patriots and me. Rolling on to victory New England The Patriots and me

We'll strip a bear, just wait and see New England The Patriots and me The biggest news in the whole country New England The Patriots and me We'll hang the bear from the Liberty. New England, the Patriots and we.

We'll hang the banner from the Liberty Tree. New England, the Patriots and we. Thanks for the oranges, Mayor Bradley. New England, the Patriots and we. They're the champs of the AFC. New England, the Patriots and we They're the champs of the AFC New England The Patriots and we We'll beat the best of the NFC

New England The Patriots and we The Bruins are the only band for me New England The Patriots and we Here's a beat for victory. New England, the Patriots and we. New England, the Patriots and we.

Hogg, Hanley, the men from the three. New England, The Patriots And we We'll beat the best 100 to three New England The Patriots And we

We march proud With Coach Ray Baring Yeah How do you rank those Up against the Super Bowl shuffle? Which, in my opinion, as much as it pains me to say it, it was a pretty well done piece of music for, you know, a football team. But that's what the Pats and V66 responded with.

And it's no wonder that team got steamrolled 46 to 10. So, yeah, the Bears. Chicago. Also a part of Patriots lore. That will do it for today. I will be back tomorrow doing E&F. I hope you're enjoying these. We've got two down.

We've got 11 of these to go. And then, well, Phase 3 of the offseason program here at Locked on Patriots. That will do it for today. I will be back tomorrow. Until next time, keep it locked right here to me, Mark Schofield, and Locked on Patriots.