Buffalo Rumblings
With a new yet familiar head coach and offensive coordinator, the Patriots will try to close the gap on the Bills’ divisional stranglehold.
Well Buffalo Bills fans, we’ve arrived at peak hope season on the NFL calendar. The ebbs and flows of the offseason can be meaningful, especially during the main player acquisition phase that runs from March until the end of the April.
If a team hasn’t done anything in the first few hours of the free-agency negotiating window, the murmurs of disapproval begin in the dark corners of the internet. Conversely, if a team makes a widely approved big splash in the NFL Draft with a consensus player, the optimism for the coming year or years isn’t just restored, but amplified. And between these two polar opposite reactions, there are many other inflection points ranging from detached apathy to mild and optimistic curiosity.
Just a few weeks after the NFL Draft, we reach a point where fan bases (overall) have completely bought into their teams’ draft classes. They’ve watched all the hype videos and seen the behind-the-scenes moments of draft night — that clearly prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the players selected by their team were the ideal and most desired picks at every single spot.
People are ready to believe. But it’s not just Bills Mafia that’s ready. The remainder of the AFC East teams made moves to inspire hope in their respective fan bases as well. Over the next few weeks, we’ll take a look at the draft classes from the New England Patriots, New York Jersey Jets, and Miami Dolphins.
Let’s start with the current AFC East basement dwellers, those Patriots who for so many years behind the arm of Tom Brady tormented Buffalo’s faithful fans.
The theme for the Patriots this offseason was always going to be two-fold:
The top of New England’s draft proved that out, providing not just support for their young signal-caller, but also DNA that fits who new head coach Mike Vrabel wants his team to be. Campbell and Henderson are arguably the best pass-blocking players at their respective positions in the draft, with...
