Pats decided to try and widen the gap in the AFC East
Miami has improved, but the Pats are serious about creating a wider gap in the division
The first week of free agency came with a flurry. So far, it appears that Miami had a strategic plan in place to narrow the gap in the division by keeping their own players that were productive, while they added quality players at positions of need. On paper, it appears that the Miami Dolphins have improved their roster. But, they still have holes. So, it’s good that they still have more cap space and the draft to continue to add more pieces.
The Bills and the Jets have done very little, up to this point.
The Jets lost Brandon Marshall, which is great for Miami, because we continuously had issues defending him. The Bills also lost some key pieces on defense.
However, the perennial AFC East and Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, who are often quiet in free agency, decided to actually use their abundant cap space to make their team even better.
Patriots made loads of trades to build a better roster
On offense, the Patriots lost TE Martellus Bennett to Green Bay. However, they quickly replaced him by trading for Tight End Dwayne Allen from the Indianapolis Colts. Allen will fit nicely with Gronk next year. He will provide the Patriots with another lethal 1-2 punch at the tight end position. The Patriots made another trade, which is going to make their offense even more dangerous than last year. Speedster WR Brandin Cooks is young and a home run hitter that caught 78 passes for 1178 yards and 8 touchdowns with the Saints last season. He is going to add even more dangerous vertical element to the Patriots offense, which could make them nearly unstoppable on offense.
Then on Defense, where the Patriots already had one of the best defenses in the league, they went and signed the best cornerback on the free agent market in Stephon Gilmore from the Buffalo Bills. Gilmore had 5 interceptions last season and is going to probably even excel more in the Patriots very stingy secondary. Then the Patriots made another trade with the Carolina Panthers to acquire DE Kony Ealy, who had 14 sacks in the last 3 seasons and resigned their own defensive tackle Alan Branch. These are just more quality signings that will boost their defense. The Patriots still have not resigned LB Dontá Hightower, so if he goes somewhere it will take a little bit of talent away from the Patriots Defense, but you know they will be able to play around the loss.
Miami needs to do a lot more to get to the Patriots level
The Patriots clearly are not just satisfied with winning the last Super Bowl and are looking to make a repeat performance this year. It would be a good bet that Brady and Bill Belichick are still bothered by not completing their undefeated season in 2007. Winning the Super Bowl undefeated is likely still their goal. Free bookie software have Patriots as the number one favorite to win the Super Bowl before the season started last year, at +700. That proved to be a winning bet. The Super Bowl odds for next season have the Patriots an even a bigger favorite to win it all at +500… and then after this week of maneuvers the odds makers have lowered it to +400.
The bottom line is, unless Brady gets injured this 2017-2018, the Patriots looking to be even better than last year’s team that only lost 2 games last season–and only one with Brady. The Dolphins may have gotten better, but as always they are still look at gap between them and the Patriots. Nothing is a forgone conclusion, but the Fins may have to settle for another wild card finish to make the playoffs next year. This isn’t to knock all the good Miami is doing, or to say Miami can’t take the division, but to keep fans sober about the reality of 2017.
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