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Patriots Look Back and Look Forward – Defense

With Training Camp steadily approaching, here’s a look at how things went on defense for the Patriots in 2019.

Let’s start with what went right. Through the 1st half of the season the Patriots defense was on a record-setting pace as one of the all-time great defenses in NFL History. The players bought into it with T-shirts and all the Boogeyman hype. They were playing inferior competition and the easiest schedule ever assembled. I called their opponents the Little Sisters of the Poor (my apologies to that religious order), they were atrocious. When it came to playing real NFL teams, the Defense got exposed and the offense couldn’t keep pace.