Buffalo Bills made it to the knockout round three years in a row and was a wild post-season loss for the Kansas City Captains having failed to win a consecutive conference championship. The Miami Dolphins have had two consecutive winning seasons, are one of the hottest teams in the second half of the 2021 campaign, and have a big season with the addition of Tyreek Hill.
While expectations for the New York Jets are still high at the bottom, it’s fair to wonder where the New England Patriots will end up in the AFC East standings in 2022. Though the Patriots are back after one season disappointing 2020 (their first time without Tom Brady) to qualify for the knockout stages under the guidance of then rookie defender Mac Jones, the team had a relatively difficult season in terms of agency and freelancing, with DeVante Parker widely arguably their biggest addition.
With the final cuts to NFL rosters coming in the next 24 hours, The Athletic’s Chad Graff reviewed his “expected 53-man 2.0 squad” for New England on Monday. Graff has some interesting things to say about the team’s prospects, especially as Jones is about to enter this second season.
“The questions here are not about the depth chart or who will form the team – it’s about what Jones will look like in Miami in Week 1,” Graff wrote, regarding his quarterback projection. “There’s reason to believe he wasn’t fully prepared for Year 2. His new de facto offensive coordinator has never coordinated on that side of the ball, his offensive line is very mixed. mess and he had little or no play during last season. Perhaps that explains the struggles for offense that began in training camp, but it’s also not entirely fair to forgive Jones He delivered a terrible intercept against the Raiders right at a waiting guard There’s still plenty of time for Jones to turn the ball around and deliver a great season, but it’s far from it. compared to last season that he and the team had hoped for.”
