I am bound and determined to be more optimistic about the New England Patriots going forward.
Which is to say I’m determined.
(I’ll keep my own council about the last time I was bound with anything, thankyouverymuch.)
I’m just that broken.
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
And until we put some distance between it and us, we still have to concern ourselves with it.
Which brings us to the analytics.
And you’d be entirely correct in the assumption.
[Hat tip to MSN.]
Yards: 87, 277th in the league.
Rec %: 38.7, 201st in the league.
OT Demontrey Jacobs, free agent:
PFF Ranking: 81st out of 81 tackles to qualify.
Run blocking ranking: 85th out of 87.
Pass blocking ranking: 83rd out of 87.
Pass blocking snaps: 566.
Sacks: 9, 4th most among tackles.
QB Hits: 7, 10th most.
Hurries: 33, 5th most.
Total pressures: 49, 4th most.
Efficiency: 94.4%, 80th.
Penalties: 11, 13th most.
To be fair to Jacobs, it’s hardly his fault.
He was not the 37th pick.
He was a UDFA in 2023 who never saw the field for Denver.
He took his first 14 career snaps in relief during the Week 3 game against the Jets.
From then on, he played in 14 games, starting 13 of them.
And finished second on the team in offensive snaps behind only Michael Onwenu.
These two are just the most blatant and egregious examples of Wolf’s roster building blunders.
The Wolf himself has already sort of danced around that explanation.
But nevertheless, these are all the guys he scouted, evaluated, drafted, signed, or re-signed.
That’s quite an indictment, no matter how terrible the coaching might have been.
Whatever happens in 2025, they can’t possibly do worse than this.
