Bedard: 3 Up and 3 Down from the Patriots 2024 season
Greg Bedard of BostonSportsJournal.com joined Felger and Mazz on Tuesday and gave his three up and three down from the New England Patriots 2024 season.
3 UP
Keion White
Greg Bedard: He was one of the few bright spots for most of the season. Yeah, he went down a little bit at the at the end of the season, it sounds like there was some issues there with him and the coaches and all that, but I thought that pound for pound, position by position he was the best player on the Patriots this season.
Christian Gonzalez
Greg Bedard: Look, he’s really good. But this outcry about how he didn’t make the AFC Pro Bowl like, look, there’s a lot of good corners in the league and this is what happens when you’re on a crap bag team and your defense is 30th against the pass in DVOA. Now, a lot of that’s because they had no pass rush and all the scheming that Mayo and Covington said that they were going to do this season completely failed, but I thought Trent McDuffie, who was also left off, deserves a spot much more. Gonzalez, his time’s coming. Now was not the time.
Hunter Henry
Greg Bedard: I thought he was really good throughout the year..I could see him really developing a rapport with Maye. That’s really good going forward, but that’s another position where they’re going to have to get younger.
3 DOWN
Chukwuma Okorafor
Greg Bedard: Him bailing, and he was my lowest graded Patriot, even in the time that he played. Yeah, he didn’t play for very long. He was horrible. He quit on the team, left them screwed in at least one tackle spot. That signing, that decision torpedoed this season for having any chance of somewhat success.
Kyle Dugger
Greg Bedard: He was pretty good the first half of the season but the second half of the season he was just absolutely brutal. I think he was responsible for more touchdowns than anybody else on the defense. I know he was playing hurt and all that stuff, and I appreciate the toughness and I’m sure he’s going to have some sort of post season surgery and be better next year, but woof, that was a bad second half of the season.
Sidy Sow
Greg Bedard: This is a guy who at times last year looked like he was going to be the starter and come back and be the starter at left guard. Just completely nothing from him this year. Talk about a regression. I mean, he went from potential look like a starter to he might not even be on this roster by the time they get around to things next year.
