So I’m curious, what do we need to be a competitive team again?
And to be clear, I’m not talking about in the AFC East but at the very least the Divisional Round or AFC Championship game. I also get that this will take a few seasons but taking the current roster to let’s say 2025 or 2026 what do we need to acquire or part with at the very least? Here’s my opinion and questions:
QB: I was a Mac guy before this season but we need a number one. Mac can stay if he wants to be a number two or he can leave but he is not the guy.
RB: We’ve lacked options here for a few years now. We can’t just keep using Stevenson, we need another back and Zeke is not our long term option.
WR: Do we need 2, 3 or 4 new receivers? Do we clean house?
TE: Gesicki does nothing for me but Henry offers variety. I think we need another blocker/receiver to compliment Henry.
O-Line: I love Andrews and Onwenu, the rest I’m not so sure. What would you do with Sow, Mafi, Strange? I think Trent has to go, personally. This area of the game I’m admittedly not too knowledgeable about.
D-Line: Keep Wise, Guy (if he’s still plays), Barmore and Godchaux. I like these guys.
DE & LB: I love White and Judon but are we light outside of them? Bentley and ???. Jennings is alright, Tavai I still have questions about but I feel like we have some serious gaps here. Who goes and who stays?
Safety: Peppers & Dugger. I like them but may need a young guy to start stepping up for the years to come.
CB: When fit…I think we are ok but when fit.
Open discussion, let me know what you would do. Don’t think about trades or draft picks, just say what we need and don’t turn this into your dream fantasy team. Just what we need from our current position
Go Pats!
Defense? I don’t think you change much. Good unit. Can keep elite teams to under 21, bad teams to under 10 if everyone’s healthy. Makes it easy.
Offense? I agree with you at QB. Mac is a backup at best.
TE I also agree. Pharaoh Brown looks GOOD though.
WR? You gotta keep Bourne and Douglas. They’re perfectly fine WR2 and 3s, even on a really good team. We could use a solid #1 guy with some height and/or speed. Could also use some depth for sure. If we had an AJ Brown/Rob Gronkowski type of threat who can go up and make holy crap catches against single coverage, meaning you effectively can’t play man to man with no help? That’d make things easier.
O Line? Need a big overhaul. Need to draft a tackle- and high. Need some help at guard too. Owenu and Brown and Andrews are good but that’s not enough depth.
RB? Mondre and Zeke are actually pretty fine. Upgrading at RB is a luxury thing we don’t really need to do yet.