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Cooper-USA TODAY SportsThe New England Patriots’ tight end position is in the middle of a major transformation process, with the retirement of future Hall of Famer Rob Gronkowski as the biggest but not the only move made this offseason. Besides Gronkowski’s decision to step away from the game, the Patriots also decided to release Dwayne Allen and trade Jacob Hollister to the Seattle Seahawks. In between, some new faces were added to help pick up the slack.The Patriots added three tight ends in free agency in Matt LaCosse, Austin Seferian-Jenkins and Benjamin Watson. And despite two more players returning from last year — Ryan Izzo and Stephen Anderson — Watson is actually the most experienced tight end in New England’s system considering that he was with the club from 2004 to 2009. To be fair, however, there is another player basically on the position’s depth chart that has even more experience under his belt.He’s just no pure tight end.Since joining the Patriots as a practice squad signing in 2012, James Develin has developed into a core member of New England’s offensive attack as a fullback/tight end hybrid. As such, he has not only won three championships with the Patriots and appeared in a combined 95 regular season and playoff games for the club (compared to Watson’s 80), he also acquired a vast amount of knowledge about the team’s system and its use of the tight end position.“I wouldn’t say there’s much uniqueness [to the position],” Develin told reporters earlier this week when breaking down the position within the framework of New England’s offense. “I just think that you really have to understand the whole play as a tight end because it’s not just what you’re route is in a pass play or what your blocking assignment is, you have to truly understand what the guy next to you has, what you have to look for in the defense.”“It’s a pretty broad knowledge that you need to have at tight end because you have to look for a lot of things and you’re involved in the running game, pass protection — pretty much everything that goes on http://www.patriotslockerroom.com/authentic-danny-shelton-jersey ,” the one-time Pro Bowler, who is entering his eighth season with the Patriots, continued. “So you have to fully conceptualize every play or else you just kind of get lost in it all.”Rob Gronkowski was, of course, a master when it came to acquiring this knowledge of New England’s offense, and to subsequently applying it in practice and during games. But even with the NFL’s prototypical modern tight end no longer a part of the equation, Develin seems comfortable in the current post-Gronk personnel — both on and off the field — to find success moving forward.“Our coach, Nick Caley, does a really, really good job preparing us and getting us ready to go. [...] These guys have stepped up to the challenge and they’re making really good strides,” said Develin about the tight ends currently under contract with the world champions. This sounds encouraging, but only time will tell whether or not this confidence will be reflected on the field; and how the tight end position in itself will be featured in the offense in 2019.Develin again projects to be a part of it due to his versatility and experience — at least one (de facto) tight end who can be considered a lock to make the team. The other six, meanwhile, will have to fight for their spots on the 53-man roster come September. The ones who best learn the offense and apply their understanding will emerge victoriously. The New England Patriots may not have played a particularly inspiring game against the Buffalo Bills Derek Rivers Jersey , but they were still able to earn a 19-point road victory. As opposed to the last few games, the defense came up big in this one: not only did it keep Buffalo out of the end zone, it also produced two takeaways. The second of which — an 84-yard interception return touchdown by Devin McCourty — effectively iced the game in New England’s favor.Let’s take a look at the film to find out how McCourty was able to score against the Bills and thus give the Patriots their first defensive touchdown since December 2015.3-15-NE 30 (6:09) (Shotgun) D.Anderson pass short right intended for C.Clay INTERCEPTED by D.McCourty at NE 16. D.McCourty for 84 yards, TOUCHDOWN.After the Patriots had just scored the game’s first touchdown to go up 18-6 in the fourth quarter, the Bills were able to drive all the way to New England’s 25-yard line. However, a series of negative plays — two incomplete passes and a false start penalty — forced the team into a 3rd and 15.The home team approaches the clear passing situation with an 11-personnel group aligned in a 1x3 formation with quarterback Derek Anderson (#3) in the shotgun:NFL Game PassNew England counters the Bills’ look with a rather standard two-deep safety package. The Patriots actually have a dime personnel group on the field, though, with three safeties and three cornerbacks playing man-to-man coverage across the board. At first glance, the alignment hints at either cover 2 or cover 4 — schemes in which safeties Devin McCourty (#32) and Duron Harmon (#21) would have responsibilities covering parts of the deep field.However, McCourty does not sit back in his zone. Instead, he essentially plays a cover 3-like robber role in the middle of the field and patrols the underneath area:NFL Game PassAnderson originally looks left but the Bills’ quarterback quickly starts looking at tight end Charles Clay (#85), who originally aligned just on the outside of the right tackle. New England’s third safety — Patrick Chung (#23) — is in coverage of Clay and at the snap gives up inside leverage before playing a trail technique behind him. With the tight end a step ahead of the defensive back, Anderson takes his chance and fires a pass down the field.The football, however Womens Cordarrelle Patterson Jersey , never reaches the intended target as McCourty comes up from the weak-side safety spot and undercuts the route to pick off the pass. With little else but 84 yards of green Buffalo turf in front of him, the speedster is able to take the interception to the house for six points:NFL Game PassMcCourty plays the down perfectly. Not only does he give the initial impression of playing a deep-field role, he also quickly reacts to Anderson’s decision and uses his straight-line speed to make a play on the football. All in all, the 30-year old displays all of the traits that made him one of the league’s best safeties, even though he is having a comparatively rough year in 2018: instincts, intelligence, and athleticism.While McCourty obviously deserves praise for the play, the rest of the defense cannot go unmentioned either. Anderson taking his chance with a pass to Clay would not have happened if the rest of the defense didn’t cover tightly: across the board, New England’s defenders were able to stick closely to their assignments. This would have made life hard for the quarterback even if he had not picked Clay as his target.This level of execution in the secondary allowed the Patriots to not only get a stop on third down at a crucial moment in the game — even despite the pass rush not producing immediate pressure —, but also to turn it into points. The best case scenario.

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