He went to college at Auburn. Everything about living in New England has been new to him. Asked in his weekly radio interview what has surprised him the most, he didn't hesitate.
It was like a spring day. Then there were times I was caught without a jacket and then, my goodness, the cold shivers through the bones. Newton stressed he was speaking in a "jokingly manner" but summed it up this way: "You have to get all materials -- from coats, jackets leggings and long johns and everything from here -- to be prepared for the weather for here. Asiasi's disappointing season: The Patriots traded up in the draft to select UCLA tight end Devin Asiasi late in the third round -- making him the second tight end taken overall -- but the early returns have been disappointing.
It was eye-opening this month that the team's other rookie tight end, Dalton Keene , was activated to the roster off injured reserve before Asiasi despite both being ready to go. Asiasi has played snaps in six games, has been targeted once and has zero receptions. His most notable contributions have come as a blocker. The Patriots have three games to play, and Asiasi is among those who should be at the top of the list in terms of showing urgency that the team's significant draft-day investment in him was warranted.
Telling turnover differential: Coach Bill Belichick has said there is no statistic that correlates more to winning than turnover differential, and this season once again reinforced it. Entering Week 15, the only team with a negative turnover differential that would currently quality for the postseason is Washington minus-2 , and that's because they play in the worst division in football, the NFC East. While all this is going on, the Ravens lose to Cleveland in Week 14 and then get beat by the Giants in Week 16, all while the Patriots have suddenly righted the ship.
You know what we call this? Facebook Twitter Email. Patriots playoff possibilities are still out there - and oh boy are they out there. The Niners wear teams down ; the Seahawks pull rabbits out of hats. If such variation made another Super Bowl for the stodgy Patriots hard to imagine this season, it also makes the emergence of another standard-bearing franchise unlikely.
The last generation of football was marked by differences of quality; New England did what everyone wanted to do better than anyone else did it. The rivalries are easy to foresee: Mahomes versus Jackson, Seattle versus San Francisco, ground games versus aerial attacks. The outcomes, for the first time in a long while, are impossible to predict. For now, though, the playoffs will be a celebration at the end of what in many ways has been a celebratory year in the NFL.
What do and have in common? The Patriots didn't hand a single start to Brady. Drew Bledsoe was the New England starter in all 16 games in , while Brady played one game off the bench in his rookie season and completed 1-of-3 passes. Bledsoe wasn't terrible in that season, but the Patriots didn't have a running game to speak of. Kevin Faulk ran for a team-high yards. Notable names on the Patriots' staff in that losing season were Charlie Weis offensive coordinator , Brian Daboll defensive assistant , Eric Mangini defensive backs coach and Rob Ryan linebackers coach.
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