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Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"johnny smith" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"Code CLS 50 that CLN S 5 zero to get the bonus and get into the action. Bet online where the game starts. So there was this play that Johnny Smith had against tight coverage. It was sort of an over route to the sideline and Mac just laid it out there and John Smith completely laid out leaped into the air full extension caught it brought it down. I forget who was, oh, it was Kyle Duggar. Johnny Smith immediately got up, pumped his fist like a big yell, all the guys were excited. It was something that I hadn't seen out of Johnny Smith before. You know, you could trust that to last year where you could basically see him thinking through the entire season from training camp on. Right. And if this is representative of, you know, I don't want to go overboard, you know, some reporters might say like, if this is any indication of what he can do this year, he's going to be like, look, it was one mini camp play. In June. But if this could be, you're hoping, if you're a patriots fan, you're hoping this is an indication that he has turned a corner and that he will be the 12 and a half $1 million tight end that they expected last year one year delayed. I think it's rather obvious that Belichick, one of his main priorities, this off season was to figure out John who. Because I think people look at him and he has all the intangibles and he has a lot of natural gifts on the field. And it did look like he was thinking it through way too much, way too often last year. We talked about it a lot on this podcast that he was kind of just thinking about everything. And again, when you think about what the Patriots are doing, right? They're getting rid of the full back position for all intents and purposes..
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"johnny smith" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"What you see specifically, what you see from Mac throwing down field today. Yeah, I thought overall it was much of the same. I think in 7 on 7s, when he wasn't checking it down or taking quick passes, which you do in this offense, it's not a criticism. He was hitting some deep passes again. He had, again, it was the same play to train Nixon that they ran yesterday, sort of like a fake the post go to the corner coverage. Jonathan Jones was in coverage again. He knew it was going to happen again. You could hear one of the players like, say, from the sidelines, again. And Jonathan Jones was like, I'm not getting beat this time, grabbed tree Nixon's shirt to keep him close, and guess what? Trey Nixon still made the catch one handed with his outside arm, the throw was on point again. So he had, he had another like three or four really nice, deep throws. Johnny Smith, he had one, two. I think maybe Nelson Aguilar. And I think there was one more. So that was, that was really nice to see. I do think, again, for the second straight day, I think once they got to 11 on 11s and you had rushers, you know, offensive lineman defensive lineman pass rushers in front of Mac Jones and the other quarterbacks, it got a lot more uneven, but on air, 7 on 7s. Good stuff again for the second straight day. Now Greg, we know that Mac worked with Tom house during the off season. Early on, do you see any discernible difference when we talk arm strength when we talk maybe zip on the football? Or does it still look like Mac Jones from last year? Maybe a little bit, I think the thing that I've noticed more is that he has tightened up his release a little bit. In terms of he used to, he used to, if you're watching the video, he used to lay the ball off, like he would come almost like a baseball like, you know, get the ball out, ball pointed backwards, where now.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"johnny smith" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"For BS. 'cause he was so good. And it'll be very interesting to see what happens at the wide receiver position, which leads us into the topic of discussion today. Yep, we'll get into the details as far as wide receiver. I just want to make one note, you know, Aguilar is one of those guys, one of those second year guys with this team. And the philosophy it seems like is Belichick is banking on those guys. He brought in last year to take that next step in Aguilar could be one of them, right? We look at John who, we look at hunter Henry, hunter had a pretty good freshman season, so to speak, especially with a freshman quarterback, so these second year guys. Are they going to take that step to make this team inherently better? And maybe that kind of justifies a lot of the other stuff that they have or haven't done this off season the jury is still out. Let's look at the America. I do think that's a good point. And it's worth sort of flushing out a little bit because we talked about it in the off season before free agency started. And I wrote a column, but basically said, what if the Patriots just basically stand pat? And basically I wrote, if you're Bill Belichick and you think you signed the right people last year. And I think for the most part they did, then maybe not all of them hit, Johnny Smith, I think we could put in the category of, I would say he has the highest percentage of he's not going to work out. But he could. But if your Bill Belichick and you add all that money, you studied, you were strategic in who you signed like going after Nelson Aguilar, not some of the big ticket items at wide receiver. Signing Johnny Smith first at tight end and then saying, you know what? No one's jumping a hunter Henry. We're going to give him the same offer and we're going to double up at tight end. Credit to Belichick. But if you're below check and you do that, have confidence in your evaluations that, you know, hey, this is not free agency is not a one year hit. It's not a one year cure. It's normally the second year after you sign free agents where everything sort of melts. And that's what Nelson Aguilar was talking about. And I think it was, I think it was wise on Belichick's part and good, bet on yourself. Say, no, we made the writer valuations. We're going to give it a second year, and then we'll see how it looks..
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"In line position. So that's the way I think that they look at that at least as of right now because they haven't added anybody. They haven't signed a UDF a. They haven't signed a free agent at tight end. They've done absolutely nothing at tight end. Absolutely nothing. So they obviously feel good about hunter Henry and Johnny Smith, but I think on the depth behind it, it might speak more to the fact that they have those bigger receivers and Parker and Harry on the roster. You want to talk about this monster offensive line group right now. They've got depth. 16 guys on the roster. That is 18% of the roster. 18% of the roster is the big boys of the 90 man. So it's probably closer to 20 because they don't have the full 90 guys. Yeah, they only have 87. So 16 of their 80s 7 players on the roster right now are often 18 and a half percent. Yeah, they usually carry ten, maybe 9, some years, but 9 or ten is right around the range that they like to keep it at. I think some of these guys certainly have some practice squad value or potential that they could sneak them through to the practice squad. Coal strange right at the top of the list, obviously not going anywhere. Isaiah wind I think was the one out of that yellow group that I hesitated with, but I just think that they had, they haven't added enough. They didn't draft a tackle in the first round. They didn't trade or sign a veteran tackle. I find it hard to believe that Isaiah wins anywhere but New England in the fall because they really don't have any other options for this year, at least. Unless they want to get tricky with it, move Trent Brown back to left tackle, move win on wenu to right tackle. And then play somebody else inside. Other than on Wednesday I guess they could go that direction, but I think that they would like to keep Trent Brown on the right side and I think wins on this team. I just think that they think they get one more year out of them here. Yeah, I mean, they would have to get a pretty significant trade package..
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"I like the idea of Johnny Smith in that hybrid H back type of role because the tape that we saw of him last year. The two biggest problems that he had were blocking in line with his hand in the dirt. He didn't have the play strength and didn't have the physicality to survive in line, right? He got pushed back. He was a stalemate blocker at best in that position, basically a speed bump, if you will. When he was able to move when he was able to get some momentum and be on the move and block with his momentum moving forward and getting some speed, he was more effective. So it's different, obviously, blocking from the backfield and versus blocking from inline or blocking from flexed out off the tight end or off the shoulder of the tackle. It's different from going straight into the backfield. But what I saw from John who is that as a traditional inline blocker, he just doesn't have the chops to hold up inside consistently in this system. And this take on power, kick guys out, kick ends and outside linebackers out. I don't know if he's got that in him. So being able to put him in more of like a full back age back role where he can get some momentum, get some speed behind his pads and then come through with the contact. I think that that would make him a more effective blocker. The other thing that you had concerns about is he's not a route runner. So he doesn't get open at the top and the route. He doesn't run technically savvy or detailed routes. So if you put them in that full back roll, you can run screens out of the backfield with them. You can run them into the flats is checked down options or underneath options. You can get them up on linebackers and have them run past people just with his speed coming out of the backfield..
Almost Shameless
"johnny smith" Discussed on Almost Shameless
"So if we build an offense for Mac that wasn't built for Cam Newton, because this offense was built for Cam Newton. Two tight end sets, power run game. This offense was built for Cam Newton and they gave it to Mac and he did the best he could with it. But if, so if Bill Belichick bites the bullet, does some 2007 shit and brings in some real weapons can Mack thrive next year. We don't have the evidence to say he can't. All we saw this year was a steady decent performance from Mac. So we don't have the evidence to say he can't. It's just a matter of how big that leap is. You know, I joked on Twitter about what if they traded Mac Jones for Russell Wilson, you know, throwback Johnson picks at the Seattle Seahawks bringing Russell Wilson, Bill Belichick's not getting any younger, you know, screw it Colin kauer talked about it this week. He got roasted for it. But I thought it was kind of like a fun experiment to think about. The reality is I don't think that they need to do that. I think it would be crazy and fun and I think it would put them in a position to be successful immediately to be in playoff convention again immediately versus on developing Mac Jones obviously, but I'm not against, I'm not rooting for it, per se. I'm happy for them to continue to see what they have in Mac to build an offense catered to Mac and see what happens. The thing is, that's going to require Bill Belichick to go outside his comfort zone and start really investing in talent at the wide receiver position. I'm not worried about their ability to find running backs to work with Mac. I'm not worried about their ability to find tight ends. I like hunter Henry and Johnny Smith, and I think that they're actually a really good fit complimentary pieces to an offense that features some more speed at the wide receiver position. Mac has to get better, but it's pretty clear that Jacoby Myers and Nelson Aguilar aren't going to cut it. For someone like Mac, who just needs some more explosive talent to help him get to the promised land..
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Everybody else is going to be dedicated to the run. You can be run heavy, but you can't be run heavy if defenses are allowed to have that mentality. That is my point. Your point is. Right. So that's what I'm saying. So that would you disagree with that? I don't disagree with that. But that's all I'm saying. You can't be so run heavy if there's no threat to the defense to play you 5 on 5 and coverage. That's the problem. They need guys who force the defense to dedicate more than the 5 necessary players to coverage as long as they can do that. They can keep the bully ball elements in their offense. They just need a counter to it so they're not one dimensional. That's that's my point. Whether it's deep crossers or throwing into single high or whatever like that's kind of I know it's not as simple as not including that stuff, but I'm just talking from a big picture point of view. They need that second, they need a reason that teams can't just stack the box, blitz their linebackers and coverage 5 on 5. They need a reason why defenses think twice about that. And they don't necessarily have that right now. It flashed at times. Like, we thought Johnny Smith was going to be a big part of that, right? For how much of a mismatch he was. He didn't prove to be that guy. We thought Nelson Aguilar might be that with his speed. Teams kind of stopped respecting his speed late in the year because the pagers weren't throwing to him. If you go back and compare the numbers to mere bird, actually had better numbers last year than aguilera did this year because he was just a clear out guy. There was no threat. It was all smoke and mirrors. They need a legitimate threat or threats where defenses don't feel comfortable covering everybody one on one. That's right. I totally hear volleyball. I totally hear you. I totally agree with you. If they're gonna stay with this path, I totally agree with you. My concern with all of this, right?.
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"I made this joke after the game, but Frank right now has two trick plays against the Patriots and his play calling days, right? The Philly special and what did he call it? The Patriots special in these special. The indie special or whatever it was and I am Heinz, where's the mcdaniel special? Where's the where's the McDaniels trickery? Where's the McDaniels creativity? Because it's certainly not they don't have players that could be used in that vein, right? They do have some ball carriers, Johnny Smith, even Nikhil Harry, I think, or Kendrick Bourne who's been really good on reverses and sweeps and stuff like that this year. I think that those things need to come as well. So red zone creativity obviously fire the third down tossed into the sun. And that's really my two biggest gripes with Josh mcdaniel, other than that. I don't really think it was a whole a terrible Josh McDaniels game. Outside of those two things. So I think and by the way, shout out to the guy in the chat telling me nobody cares about points and then in the same breath telling me I need to learn football. Scoreboard baby scoreboard. I think that, you know, my biggest issue with McDaniels and maybe this kind of leads into the next topic, which is the field goal decision, right? Yeah. That was my biggest issue, not the decision to kick the field goal. I actually bought bills, explanation for that passes. I think that's legitimate. Yeah. I think he defended that well. And he ultimately would have ended up being right, right? If they stopped Jonathan Taylor, all of a sudden, you only probably need 30 or 40 yards instead of 70 to at least force over time you're in a good spot. So yeah, again, I actually, the field goal decision is annoying as it was the bigger issue to me is what they did on third down. Because it's third and 7, you go in, you should go in assuming that's fourth down territory. I don't think they went in. And if they did, this is a failure in the coaching staff. I can't imagine they went in and said, we're going to take an end zone shot on third and then we're going to kick the field goal on fourth. I think it should have been, we have two plays to score. And if that's the case, what you want to do, you don't try to gain 7 yards twice. Essentially, they did. They run everybody to the end zone. They're protection breaks down. Mac has nowhere to go with the ball. He throws it away..
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"And they're allowed to board to still run at full speed. And I think one of the things that you look at too on that play action bootleg, I think this is a great example of it as well. He hits Johnny Smith right on the money and allows Johnny Smith to turn up field and pick up another 8 or 9 yards after the catch. And the ball placement that he throws with consistently allows him to make these playmakers pick up yards after the catch. And we talk about this all the time with Brady. Brady, we always used to talk about this, how his ball placement would benefit his receivers and how receivers weren't fighting for the football. They weren't trying to contort their bodies or going low and diving to make catches and, you know, they weren't everything was on the frame, right? And I think a lot of times it was so many of max throws that timing in the ball placement is always benefiting them after the catch in terms of the receivers. And I think that that's a really important element of this game as well. So that's just going to say that's something he did incredibly well at Alabama. That was a huge part of Alabama's offense so it's not a surprise to see that. Yeah. I think it's ball placement spent a big part of it and you say you don't want to give Mac too much credit I will. Even when he misses, he's missing in the right spots. Like he missed hunter Henry, but he missed long, right? If he misses that ball short, it's picked off. Yeah. So you don't want to miss, obviously. But if you're going to miss, throw where nobody can catch it instead where the defender can catch it. It feels like what he's missed. He's like he's missed like he's not letting the defenders make a chance. Make a play on it. Yeah, it's really important I would say as well, just the ball placement is just it's impeccable sometimes. How easy it is to catch his ball, but also just how effortless it is for the receivers to then transition into yards after the catch. And I don't mean to bring this all back to Cam Newton. I hate doing that. But last year, we talked about this in the inverse a lot, right? Where we said, wait a second. That throws a little bit behind. That throws a little bit over his head. That throws a little bit over here. That throws a little bit over there. And it was torpedoing the offense, right? Because they weren't being able to pick up and run with the football afterwards. Mac does that. I remember a coaching clinic with Steve sarkesian and he was talking to a bunch of coaches and he was saying that at Alabama, their scheme is designed to throw to receivers that are moving, right? He didn't want to throw to stagnant receivers as he called it. He didn't want to throw the button hooks..
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"You know, can you blame him after the saints game? Yeah. And I think that biggest owners to me though, maybe it is, I think that's a good point. And I only Mac and he's not gonna come out if we ask him, Mack, do you not trust Johnny Smith? He's not gonna come out and say no, I don't trust him. I'm not throwing the ball, right? So only Matt can answer that question. But if I'm the Patriots and I'm Josh McDaniels in particular, I'm sitting there and saying, we have got to figure out a way to get John to involve and asking John to run her out. It's like he's hunter Henry and get up the field and make a move at the top of the route and get open. That's not the type of guy that he is. So the way that you have the manufacturer touches for Johnny Smith is different from the way that you would just allow hunter Henry to go out there in a pattern and make a move at the top of the rat and beat man coverage. Hunter Henry is a natural fit for that type of offense. It's just going to throw the ball to the open guy because he gets open. Johnny Smith doesn't get open like that. So they're gonna have to figure out ways again the football. Whether it's throwing it behind the line of scrim, whether it's screen passes, whether it's reverses, backfield plays, all that kind of stuff. And the one package that I'm still waiting to see and I don't know if it's ever gonna come out is the three wide receiver two tight end set. Take the running backs off the field. No offense to remind ray Stevenson and Brandon Bolden. But those 5 guys, it's Aguilar Myers born, hunter Henry and Johnny Smith. Those are the 5 most dynamic receivers on the Patriots roster. Right? Those are the 5 most explosive guys in the most dynamic guys on this patriots roster. And at some point in time, I would love to see McDaniels try to put all 5 of them out there at once and see what they can do out of that package. Because it just feels like that's the best possible combination and maybe and that package. Johnny Smith is more of a backfield player. He's more of a running back HVAC type of player instead of somebody that's going out there and running a traditional route tree. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we've been calling for it since they signed him in March. None of this is craning cam. It's a broken record. I'm gonna audible and talk about cannabis specifically, Massachusetts premiere cannabis dispensaries insa. SA. They are the premiere because the founders patent Pete re-engineered the cannabis model from what they sell to how they sell it while never forgetting it's for everyone. And so dispensaries are inviting and.
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Tons of throws to Kyle Pitts. He had a huge game pits did. So we'll see. This jets defense doesn't scare me outside of Franklin Myers a whole lot, but it's a sound scheme. They know what they're doing defensively in terms of what their assignments are or now into week 6 of the season. So maybe the Jets have a better feel for what they're going to do out there. They did a pretty good job. The first time around against the Patriots, what do you feel about this tight end duo? Because I've talked about this a little bit this week. I think it's really important to talk about how Johnny Smith currently is being used in this patriots offense because to me, out of all the things wrong with the Patriots offense in the past and all these types of things that we've talked about with play calling and McDaniels and fork down decisions. One of the more head scratching things is the lack of Johnny smith's involvement in the passing game. This season so far, Johnny Smith has only run a pass route on 38% of the Patriots passing place. So essentially he is a glorified blocking tight end right now for New England. And that's not what they paid him $13 million in $30 million guaranteed to be. They thought this guy was going to come in and make plays in the passing game. Yeah, I mean, you know, to go to the extreme comparison, it's not quite this. They basically turned him into Dwayne out. Yeah, he's a better way now. I actually ran Allen right now. And I thought Dwayne Allen played an important role for this team. He was an excellent run blocker. He was a key part of that that run in 2018. He certainly was. But that's not what John Smith should be. Now, you can look at this in two ways. Is that just how they're going to use it? Remember, we talked about this when we signed him. And it's something I talk about all the time. It's one of my core beliefs in evaluating football, talent can only go so far, usage is a big part of it. If you ask a guy to do things he can't do or you don't have a player play to his strengths, he's not going to look his talents as he ultimately it is not going to look as talented as he ultimately as I call it, didn't kill Harry paradox. So is this their plan for John Smith? We've seen the misused players before. I don't think so. That would be such a monumental miss. I mean, it would be a miss on a like exponential level compared to what they've done. The other way I look at it is, will the offensive line sucked? The offensive line is sucked in I would agree with this one of the most I would agree with what you're about to say. If they were using Johnny Smith to block and passing situations more than they are. Last week against Dallas, Johnny Smith only had one rep as a pass blocker. So if you're saying, okay, they're just leaving him in their blocking with 6 instead of 5 guys, then I would understand where you're going with that, but they're not doing that. That frequently. Well, I think it applies to both, right? It's not like the offensive line has been great to see against the run either, especially the tackles. Sure. So it may be that, you know, they feel like they need to compensate for poor tackle play. And this is just the best way they can do it. Now, they kept the uncle Johnson on the roster. Nothing against Jakob Johnson..
Boston Sports Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Boston Sports Beat
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Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"johnny smith" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"Of hand, including there was one play where, oh, it was and I'm sure we'll talk about this. Because there's a lot of questions about the coaching. The infamous Bolden run Bolden run Johnny Smith checked down in the red. I did not understand why he checked it down. It was three man rush. He checked it down very quickly to John who he had plenty of time. He should have probably tried for a touchdown. He had stuff maybe coming open in the end zone would have pushed the envelope there. But so overall, Mac, I would say that, you know, I think I gave him like an a minus in the first game. I gave him a C minus in the second game. I would say today it's more turning to a D in this game. And so but this is what pressure does Nick. This is why the first thing they got to do is they got to figure out the protection and how to protect this kid. Because they can not leave him exposed like this. This is like it's not there yet, but if it keeps going this way, it's like David Carr and like Houston. Like if you keep letting this kid get shelled back there without any help with Nelson Aguilar looking around with his palms up all the time and Johnny Smith dropping passes like it's trending in a poor direction. They need to figure it out. They need to hopefully this is a wake-up call for everybody, the coaches, the players, where they need a reckoning and they need to figure out how to get things back on track because it's going in a bad direction. I'm not going to kill Mac Jones. Look, I think a lot of the stuff that has happened with him over the past couple of weeks, especially this past week. It's not on him. Now I don't want to excuse everything and say, oh, he's playing unbelievably well. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is it's really difficult to judge and evaluate a rookie quarterback when pretty much everything around him sucks in on Sunday. Everything around him sucked in the office line has been a huge, huge disappointment. I don't know what's going on, but I'm getting tired of watching the quarterback get drilled. I'm just getting tired of it. We thought this offensive line was going to be top three in the league. You can explain some of it with the Trent Brown absence. But the rest of these guys, you got four out of 5 of your starting offensive line out there. They need to be better. It's as simple as that. And until that happens until this young man is protected until we have receivers catching the damn football, then I'm not going to sit here and kill the guy. Let's see what happens if you had some freaking help. Stretch up something else. We've talked about team speed for a while, Greg, especially on the defensive.
Boston Sports Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Boston Sports Beat
"Is there a design for what they want to do with Aguilar or Johnny Smith or is it just, are they not doing it? Is it a performance issue? Is it a scheme issue? It's really hard to pinpoint right now. Why everyone looks like why they look like a dead average across the board team? I think it's a different answer for just about everybody. Every Johnny Smith, he's had opportunities. He just drops them. I mean, he had three drops on Sunday, he couldn't block either. He's had other issues in other games. Agile, I think, is more about protection for, you know, I think Kendrick Bourne had did a really nice job on Sunday. But I mean, I think offensively, everything starts with the protection of the quarterback. When Mac Jones is kept clean, he's really, really good. And he's fine under duress too. And we know he's going to be under duress. But it just was not good enough. The protection for him, especially in the first half as things got away from this team. It just has not good enough on Sunday. And until they clean that up until they clean the ability to have a really good running game. Like we talked about. Before the season, about protecting the quarterback and allowing him to find these new weapons, you know, all of us all the rest is moot, John. I mean, they're just, they're not doing the basic things that we thought they would like have dominating offensive line play. And from there, it's just been a trickle down effect. Yeah, that's the killer for sure Greg. I think you nailed it. What was probably the one you can book it, count on its strength of the team was offensive line and you're right. The trickle down effect from there right now is a total collapse of the offense. So you're right. You don't have the one thing you thought you could count on. It's keeping them from being able to do virtually everything else. So it definitely starts there. We'll see if you will see if Trent Brown is healthy enough to play this week. It'll make a difference for everyone else has to step up their game, too. As Greg mentioned, a lot of good stuff over at Boston sports journal, please head over there, subscribe.
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"I'm Evan Lazar alongside me as always is Alex barth and Alex. We are actually going to talk about the game this weekend. I know that that's a big shock to a lot of people that have been covering the team this week or following the theme, I should say. But the Patriots have a game this Sunday against the New Orleans Saints and on this show, we are going to focus on previewing that matchup and I have a few big picture thoughts here on this matchup and on this patriots offense in general. Let's start with the Patriots offense in general and then we can get into the matchup. The first thing I want to say is we spoke to Johnny Smith hunter Henry and Nelson Aguilar on Thursday, Alex, dad at Gillette. And all three of them had glowing. I mean glowing remarks for offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. Aguilar called him a very, very, very special coach. I think there were three varies in there. And Johnny Smith said, hey, this is not my offense. I'm coming in here and trusting this coaching staff to use me properly and use the pieces at our disposal properly. Hunter Henry said a similar thing. My point that I'm getting to here is something that I've been driving home for a while now and that is the onus is on Josh McDaniels here to make this thing work, right? Because they have four pass catchers that they've brought in and free agency. Those three that I just mentioned and Kendrick born that last season produced in their last stops. They produced in 2020 for different teams. Nelson Aguilar had nearly 900 receiving yards and 9 touchdowns or 8 touchdowns for the Raiders last year..
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Throw it. Right. They are built to stop that, right? The conventional pop back passing game is feeding right into Flores's hands. So to me, you come out, you go under center. You put the two tight ends out there. Maybe even the full back if you want to go 21 instead of 12, whatever way you want to do it, right? And you line up like you are going to run it down their throats. And then you make a decision based off of the defensive personnel and how Florida wants to match it. And you go from there, that I think is going to dictate a lot of questions in the chat. How much is Mac Jones going to throw? How much are they going to put up in the past in game? The defense is kind of going to dictate that. Because if the patrons get nickel or even if they get 6 DB, which is potentially the case with this Miami team, they're going to run it right down their throats. And they're going to run it successfully. Now, Eric Rowe is a good coverage safety on tight ends. We know he's a converted cornerback from his patriots days early on in his career, played a ton of corner. Now he's playing more in the middle of the field for Miami kind of in like a Patrick Chung type of role. But that's only one guy, right? Who's the other guy that's they have two tight ends, right? So who's gonna cover the other one? That is maybe where you can hunt some of those matchups, get some of those good favorable spots, I think for God like Johnny Smith, like you said, Alex, motion him, bring him into the formation, bring him out of the formation. I think there are going to be opportunities all over the field against linebackers against some of their depth corners and safeties. And you have a 6 foot four, 255 pound Johnny Smith, trying to get tackled by a 220 pound DB. That's going to be advantaged patriots. And I think you can kind of play playoffs play action off that too. At this point, was brought up to me by Joe.
Patriots Beat
"johnny smith" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Okay, so I guess I could see that in theory because not every single team that uses a fullback, right? So there's only ten to 12 teams maybe that roster, a fullback, but a lot of those teams already have a fullback in-house that they really like. So they would have to put that guy and bring in yakub Johnson. To me, the other element of it too I believe in the language is kind of weird, but I believe if another team was about to offer him the Patriots could swoop in and protect him with the international pathway designation. So he wouldn't be eligible to play this year, but they wouldn't lose them. Like, I think that there's a way that no matter what happens, they don't lose them. It might turn into he can't play this here, but they can keep him around no matter what. So the tough part that I have with Jakob Johnson cutting Jakob Johnson is we've talked so much about how important the full back position is, and he's a good lead blocker. He's a solid he does. He's not James Devlin, but he's very good at what he does, exactly. And with life without hunter Henry this summer has hit with the Patriots, especially if it's going to be Cam Newton at quarterback 21 personnel is going to be a part of this offense, right? They're going to need a fullback in this offense. If they're not going to be able to go full 12 all the time because Johnny was nicked up or hunter Henry's nicked up and those guys are gonna miss games. When those guys miss games and they only have one true tight end that they want to use regularly, whether it's Johnny or hunter Henry, they're going to go 21 days. That's going to be first quarter first drive opening drive. It's going to be Jakob Johnson and Damien Harris down your throats. And they lose that entire element if they go that direction, could Devin osteo or Johnny Smith or 6th offensive lineman, recreate the fullback position. We've talked about linebackers, potentially playing fullback or whatever the case may be, right? Right. They could technically recreate it, but he's really good at what he does. Jakob Johnson. And we've seen with cam last night, tons of 21 personnel, right? Fullback lead, fullback draw, all these types of plays with the Jacob involved. So I find it hard to believe that they're going to walk away from the full back because it's just too it's too consistent of an offense for them. And then you have to put into that also that hunter Henry and Johnny Smith might need to be managed and I don't know. All the snaps being 12 personnel might not be as much of a thing as we thought it was a couple of weeks ago or a couple of months ago. Look, I didn't love leaving Jakob Johnson off. He was my 54th guy. I could be convinced that did he stay..
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
Is Cam Newton Ready to be Patriots Quarterback?
"The biggest question of all and of course, I'm talking about Cam Newton Cam Newton ready to be the quarterback for this team or false pause, as of today. It's false and I wrote a column this weekend for Boston Sports Journal, that basically laid out and I'm talking to different people both around the team and also around the league about where Cam is and there's three things that need to go on Nick and it needs to go on now and it needs to go on every day off of the day until the season kicks off and number one. It's cam has to lose weight. He can't he can't play a 250 anymore. He's not a young buck. We saw dead. You know, I thought this but it was confirmed by a couple of NFL people that I I talked to and I trust they said that cams legs got heavier as the season went on and off and run as much he wasn't as a as Elusive and the big thing is not only that but your legs are everything when you throw the ball, if you don't have your legs which you did earlier in the season, they threw the ball a little bit better. If you don't have your legs then you have nothing as far as power and things like that and also just accuracy if you don't have your legs then you have to compensate upper body and things just get all out of whack and that's what happened. When cam last year. So in cam I will give him credit on the I am athlete podcast. He did say, I think he was trying to lose ten pounds. I'd go less. I think he needs to get to 3235. I think that gives them a better chance to be sustainable. He doesn't he doesn't need to be 2:50 to run over linebackers anymore. There aren't that many linebackers that are 2:50 a.m. Should be in a business and his age are going to be 32 a plow on those guys over. So there's that there is he has to get into he he has a he has to get with her own coach. I hope he's working with one but he better be working on one that works on his mechanics all the time every day. Get back to where he was at the beginning of last season get it out of her system because he needs to learn how to just be able to flick the ball. Ten yards instead of making a whole body convulsion just to get the ball out in the last thing is the biggest thing Nick and we've talked about it. I thought is he needs he needs Express 24-hour premium tutoring on the Patriots Playbook and what goes on as far as all right. If the defense does this then I can change to this and what's my audible what's my check because I know everybody's all excited about Johnny Smith and Hunter Henry and you know, we you can also factor in The athletic fullbacks that they've wanted to have for two years. Dan Vitality is coming back supposedly and also they dropped adult and Keen to play that position because there's a choice that they want to be more like the 49ers with use checked. And so it's all nice and dandy that they have two tight ends and athletic fullback and people are absolutely right to say that benefit of that is you get match up issues where all right, if it's safety then we're just going to run over them if their linebackers then we're just going to run past them. We're going to throw the ball. That is great and all but it doesn't mean Jack if you don't have a quarterback who can't see the defense see what's going on check to the right play and take advantage of the defense and last year cam wasn't even close to that. So unless all those things happen and he's not there at this point. He is not ready to be the starting quarterback for the for the Patriots. Do I think he can get there and be better? Yeah, but we'll have to see.
Strong Opinion Sports
Top 10 players signed by Patriots
"Talk about the Patriots. The the Patriots grabbed everybody's attention by making move after move after move after move. Like we're watching it over agency going off. How many people are going to bring in its kind of unbelievable how many starters they've added? And so I count they added ten players that I think are very very significant to their team next year. In fact, I would say pretty clearly the Patriots are back and a lot of people saw this coming, you know, but they are going to be a force in the NFL next year here is my list my nerdy list of the ten players the top players. They added that are very significant to their roster next year. The first two are massive. It will reshape the entire Patriots offense. They added two tight ends Johnny Smith and Ed Hunter Henry. To Johnny Smith signed from Tennessee. He signed a four year deal worth up to fifty million dollars. That's Thirty one point two five million dollars guaranteed and he's only twenty-four years old. So that's Monday. That's a really gigantic Marquis franchise player. He cited the reason why it came to New England is cuz he loves Bill Belichick. He's got great respect for him. And I want to point out of all the everybody I'm about to talk about these shows to be in New England Bill Belichick got his kind of guys who sought out New England wanted to be there and wanted to work hard and win a Superbowl. I think it matters. It's very very exciting. These are not with Josh Gordon's or what's the other example Phillip Dorsett who they made a move for and they're not really like that. You think they fit they don't work out know. These are guys who all chose to be in New England who wanted to win a Superbowl. I really want to win a Superbowl. These guys went out of their way to be New England now the other tight and they brought in With twenty-six-year-old tight end Hunter Henry from the LA Chargers got a three-year deal twenty-five million dollars guaranteed. It's worth up to thirty seven point five million dollars total if he meets all those incentives. They also added two wide receivers the Patriots brought in Nelson agholor to a you got a two year twenty six million dollar contract East twelve years old. Now a lot of people do not like this move and I I get it Nelson agholor is not the most flashy player in the NFL but I think if it's very well with Cam Newton, he's good at he's not going up and getting the ball. He's got good hands did some stuff of the Raiders that I think deserves your attention go watch what he did with the Raiders and I just I'm like, huh a lot of good plays. Okay. I understand. I see the potential Bill Belichick and the Patriots would see and Nelson agholor go will give the guy a good contract, especially considering the Patriots have like our desolate at wide receiver. They need help. They got home. Who is awesome but he can't do everything by himself from the slot. They have n'keal Harry who n'keal Harry. I I think he's going to pop. I think he's going to progress and keep getting better. But she's not a number one right now. So on top of the page where it's also added Kendrick Bourne guy from my local area actually went to Eastern Washington University 25 years old. He's coming from the San Francisco 49ers. He got a three year deal worth twenty two point five million dollars. Now another thing the Patriots did they also added they signed Center Ted carriages and they traded for tackle Trent Brown. So this is the new Patriots offense right now. They've receivers Nelson agholor, Julian Edelman Kendrick born and kill hair is its own nuclear Aguilera. I'm doing my best. It's a hard game to say. They also have Sony Michelle running backs for any receivers Sony Michelle at running back and improved offensive line. Cam Newton at quarterback who I get why people doubt Cam? He's a former NFL MVP and with when you put cams Talent with a lot of weapons including two outstanding tight ends Hunter Henry Smith, right man. I'll tell you what I look at the Patriots offense and think two things immediately number one. Everything is going to run through their brand new Titans. Their entire offense now is probably going to drive down the seams of the field right up the middle. They're going to use our tents heavily lot of play-action again. I am scheme wise things will look a lot like the page words did back in the day when they had drunk and Aaron Hernandez together to start tight ends. Now number two. I feel very very confident with Cam Newton as the Patriots quarterback and it surprised me but I want to remind you that two years ago. Tom Brady was the page word starting quarterback and did basically nothing and the reason was there were no weapons there. He kept running into the same brick wall. His receivers weren't good enough. So, how can I think you and I would both agree. I like Cam Newton Tom Brady's a better quarterback than Cam Newton. So my point is if Tom Brady couldn't make it work with New England's roster. How was Cam Newton supposed to succeed? He was set up to fail will now Cam Newton's being given weapons is being set up to do. Well, I'm excited man. He's a former NFL MVP, he's hungry. I I personally believe Cam Newton's going to have an awesome year and it really is going to make extended one-year deal with like it was like three and a half million dollars with a bunch of incentives. I honestly think we're gonna look back at his contract at the end of next year and go. Can you believe the deal they got on Camden he played so well for no money. I really think he's he's a guy who can didn't play well enough wage. Last year to earn a new gigantic contract. So he's going to have to show what he can do this year and maybe earn more money next year but I think cam is poised to do very very well and make a lot of money and win a lot of games in New England
Fantasy Football Today Podcast
Free Agency 2021: Biggest Winners and Losers From Day One
"Who's the biggest winner from day. One the biggest winner from day one already told you it was. It was a my intro. You're listening great question. Jonnu smith out. It's cam newton. Well that depends kenyans a starter for sixteen games. That's right that's true. It's yeah okay. Potentially find jonah smith. Donald smith big contract with the patriots They invest heavily in him. You like this for him i do. I think you know Obviously the quarterback is the concern. But this is the scenario especially with the move that they made that we look for in fantasy as tight end could be the leader of the pack in terms of targets and opportunities and so look cam was not good in twenty twenty. If cam does start sixteen games in two thousand twenty. One greg olsen. During a five year stretch was pretty awesome of the top tier tight ends of the guys that we did. We talk about what he was in the next group you know. And so from twenty two thousand twenty sixteen. Greg olsen averaged a hundred eighteen targets a season seventy seven catches Decide one thousand yards and five times. Johnny could do that. One season estimate put them right around a top five tight end. Greg olsen was great and not only was he great but we also saw from cam newton in that stretch that he could give you greg olsen. Who could finish as a top eight tight in five straight seasons and give you a number to wide receiver in four of those five seasons three or four of those five seasons whether it was. Steve smith or kelvin. Benjamin and even ted ginn one year. So that's interesting. I'll afforded talking about that on the show tomorrow on the tuesday morning show and then of course we'll have a whole bunch of more news items to react to. Hopefully we'll get some kenny golladay news at some point on tuesday or maybe it'll happen later on monday night as record this at about nine fifteen eastern. Who's the biggest loser from day. One the biggest loser from day one on asking these questions before. I told you that we were starting with these egypt's before the show The biggest guys they ryan tannehill johnny smith and Us down smith and corey davis They're going to have to struggle to replace those guys Davis probably more. So the jonah just from the standpoint of what he was last year with his production number two receiver sixty five catches nine hundred plus yards and five touchdowns. So we'll see what they do in in in that in that regard but i think Tannehill you know. I had him as the number eleven quarterback. I dropped in the thirteen after today. Just because i think it was close between in my mind. Joe burrow and tom brady put them behind both those guys. Okay how 'bout jameis winston ryan tannehill right now. It's soom jameis winston as the starter. I still go. i think it'd be messy. You know. I can't situation we're taking those not blaming So i was hoping james would go someplace else and tastes hill. Would still be the guy with maybe a rookie or somebody. Young that they could groom continued. Just gonna to get you know too much of the mill package of james as the starter and if as milton starter. Davis is gonna play very much so it just feels like it be messy situation oil. Who do you like better. Corey davis with the jets nelson agholor with the patriots. I think adler is going to be bad. I don't trust the situation. You know i mean he. He had so many big. Plays for the raiders last year and he was so good for derek carr but he did that on eighty two targets. I don't think he gets eighty two targets with the patriots. He's going to do the same thing. So with what cam does running the ball with what jonah smith brings to the table with. What the rest of the receiving corps will look like if julian edelman on the team if he's healthy Nagla is going to be A guy that's not on many fantasy rosters middle of the season whereas corey davis could be the best receiver for the jets. I don't know if that's going to be the case. But i would take davis by far over niagara.
Around the NFL
Rested Bills melt down with mistakes in 42-16 loss to Titans
"Did you see this common? Did you see the titans rolling up a forty? Burger. On the bills who look they look like the team that had a cove nineteen nightmare with layoffs and close facilities and long stretches without play not the titans. I. Didn't see it coming. I mean I think that if you're someone that just observers football. How much do we know whether or not practice time? Is. A key indicator of success I? Mean I'm saying you never practiced but I think the bills having to split attention I'm talking like deep staff members, players studying tape between the titans and chiefs might have been a bigger factor. But when the game started tonight I mean this game to me is about mistakes by Josh Allen that we haven't really seen up to this point. They came home to roost tonight. The first interception was not on him. That was a deflected ball the second one though was and Ryan Tannehill? Kind of another notch in the belt of Sane for all of us on I'm included in that the question whether the off season and into this season would have been a path that showed us that Ryan Tannehill. Last year was an aberration from the rest of his career. He's not going to reach those typical heights, but he really fits in this offense. He is a tough minded quarterback and we see it with this runs. Tonight we see with him blasting for a first down that it didn't seal the game further sealed the game late late on his pinpoint passes play action attack under Arthur Smith you probably. Generated About Fifteen head coaching interviews during this game because it was on national TV because for some reason, Arthur Smith is still a little under the radar and I think it's about. The Smith the Arthur Smith. I mean you'll see that the future of offense I know it feels like. Like a paint company I get that it's not it's not something that sticks out but the bills defense. Week I. Think we came into the year thinking the titans defense might be the part of that team that kind of lax identity. Well, tonight, they really they put forward a great performance and caused havoc for the bills were the bills defense up the Middle Johnny Smith other guys just being victimized. I'd be real concerned about Buffalo's defense because teams are going to look at this and say, we're going to attack them this way.
Fantasy Feast: 'Eatin
Colts face different Titans' threat with Ryan Tannehill at QB
"Sunday. It is the titans and Ryan Tannehill. Dan Hill really happy for him. By the way at the Indianapolis Colts Starwood Tannahill and the November December Munster known as Derrick Henry. Well here's the thing with tannehill now barring the complete face plan the question is just how many guaranteed years does he get from the titans because because he's GonNa be the quarterback next year. They're really the running an efficient effective offense. I think he's up around fifteen yards of completion over his last two games. The problem is with Tennessee. Hennessy is. He isn't throwing the ball a whole lot so we had eighteen. Pass attempts against Jacksonville last week. Now of course two rushing touchdowns in two passing touchdowns so he he wants somebody a lot of money in DFS. But it's it's one of those things where decided Lamar Jackson. You really don't think that that's tenable. Because he's a good Ron. Everybody's not an explosive one but then he had the nineteen pass attempts against Kansas City. A couple of weeks ago. This is how they WANNA play. So I think Tannahill the hill is a streamer streamer the quarterback the problem is i. Don't trust any of his wide receivers because AJ Brown had the big game and Jacksonville but two weeks exco. He had the terrible game just one catch against Kansas City. So I'm not really trusting any of that. I think Corey Davis is flat out droppable right now because I have a tough time saying to myself. When am I going to play Corey Davis in any of my line at this point and so I think he's droppable? Ryan Tannehill has accounted for for over nineteen fantasy points and multiple touchdowns in each of his five starts his nine point two yards per attempt is leading the NFL. He's playing really well. And I think the colts are a gettable matchup even if it's not a pristine one but the guy you always trust here is Derrick Henry. You had a third touchdown last week wiped out because of a screen pass. The the colts are really struggling to score points right now and we heard this week. That t y Hilton so far isn't sure he's going to be ready to go on Sunday. This projects to be a lower scoring game in Indianapolis and that means all systems go for Derrick Henry locked in rb one locked in court. DFS play tight end for the titans writings. Nobody worthwhile nobody useful Delaney Walker. Could be back. Johnny Smith didn't even have a target last week. He had a carry their they got one in target for Michael Pruitt. Firkh sir. Didn't have a target Dennis Kelly the backup. Tackle got a touchdown. The tight ends and Tennessee are useless. It's really Tannehill and Henry Henry at this point of the season the only two guys that I can consider with any sort of confidence.