So i was watching the 2001 rewind of the pats season with my buddy a couple months ago and i could not be more surprised at all the names. Yea i remembered Bruschi and tom and troy but man the names i forgot. People like roman phifer ( forgive me if my spelling sucks) and larry izzo. these players were such integral parts to the patriots and all had huge parts in the super bowl. but im here to talk about hope! with this years team and a possible championship!
Now what the hell does David givens have to do with this years championship hopes? if my memory serves me right im pretty sure he had something like 40-50 catches, not a huge amount (Lloyd had more then that last year ), but he was a guy that caught several key passes including touchdown catches on the pats road to glory. Fast forward to today and who does that sound like? to me that could be either kembrell Tompkins or aaron dobson. thompkins already has that memorable catch vs the saints in the corner of the endzone and that ridiculous catch vs the falcon. Dobsons got the size and length, he had that one impact catch a couple weeks ago that went for like 50 yards and he looks increasingly comfortable working outside near the sidelines on comeback routes, beating his man 1v1, and is expanding his route tree. I am not here to tell you that these two guys are going to be like a healthy julio jones and roddy white, they will still let the ball get into their body on short routes and drop the occasionall slant, but they can make a huge impact. With gronk back and edelman being a pretty big part of the offense these guys have the opportunity to get a little more space and make some really big catches if brady is willing to spread it out. These sort of role players are a big deal and are necessary if the pats are to make a championship run.
