Posts Tagged ‘Patrick Chung’

Drafting Defensive Backs: A Patriots Case Study

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Darius Butler Released

Believe it or not, Darius Butler was a prototypical Patriots defensive back draft pick.

NEPD Editor: Doug Kyed

Entering the 2012 NFL Draft, there seems to be one common sentiment among Patriots fans, “We need defensive backs!”

One of the chief reasons why the Patriots need defensive backs is their spotty history in the draft taking corners and safeties.

Throughout the twelve seasons Bill Belichick has been Head Coach, the Patriots have taken 21 defensive backs, four remain with the team.

I put together a spreadsheet containing all of those players vitals, hoping to come up with some patterns to possibly try to determine what the Patriots look for in a DB, and which players in the 2012 class they’ll potentially be looking at. (Thanks to NFLDraftScout.com and the Boston.com Draft Database for all combine results)

Here are some of the most interesting findings:

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Patriots vs Eagles: Grounding the Birds

Friday, November 25th, 2011
Lesean McCoy Patriots

Stop. This. Man. (Photo: ICON SMI)

NEPD Staff Writer: Doug Kyed

Whenever I’ve looked at the Patriots upcoming schedule recently, this is the game that keeps standing out. Would this be the Patriots’ biggest remaining challenge? Who will we actually see play in this game? Will we see a classic Andy Reid mistake? How will the Patriots deal with a scrambling QB?

With Michael Vick, Jeremy Maclin, Desean Jackson, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and now Nnamdi Asomugha all knicked up, this might be the best time for the Patriots to be facing off against Philly.

Here are some things I’ll be looking out for in Sunday’s game:

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Patriots vs Cowboys: Romo Will Fall In One Day

Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Tony Romo Patriots

This please.

NEPD Staff Writer: Doug Kyed

It’s always fun when America’s team comes to town. The fact that the Patriots are wearing their white jerseys at home, forcing the Cowboys to wear their “jinxed” blue jerseys adds even more fun into the mix.

The Patriots are facing a very talented Cowboys team this weekend and here’s some of the things I’ll be watching:

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Patriots vs Raiders: Into the Black Hole

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

NEPD Staff Writer: Doug Kyed

Since 2003, the Patriots have lost consecutive games only twice, I think we’re all hoping that doesn’t become three on Sunday afternoon.

When we looked at the schedule while still entwined in the trials of the lockout, Week 3: @Bills, Week 4: @Raiders looked a lot better than it does today.

The suddenly hot Raiders aren’t quite the cakewalk we had planned as recently as early September. Here are my thoughts heading into Sunday’s match up.

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Patriots vs Bills: Inactives Reaction

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

The Patriots have declared the following players inactive for today’s game against the Buffalo Bills: Albert Haynesworth, Sebastian Vollmer, Patrick Chung, Taylor Price, Ras-I Dowling, Mike Wright, and Aaron Hernandez

All inactives were listed on this week’s injury report.

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Patriots vs Bills: Circle the Wagons

Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Scott Chandler Bills

Antonio Gates - no problem. This guy with no Patrick Chung? We'll see...

NEPD Staff Writer: Doug Kyed

If you missed it, me and Matthew Elder from BuffaloBillsDraft.com covered every angle you could possibly imagine on the Pats-Bills game over in our roundtable discussion. I’ll highlight some of those points we made here with my thoughts heading into Sunday afternoon’s game.

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