Chandler Jones and Jordan Devey stand out as worst players for Patriots

In case you were wondering, this is a foul, evidently (photo via patspulpit.com)

It pains me so much to write that title. Jordan Devey seems like a cool enough guy but all my pain comes from writing “Chandler Jones” and “the worst” in the same sentence. Damn you Matt Patricia! You see what you’ve made me do!?

Obviously Sunday’s game was nothing short of an apocalyptic disaster which destroyed the Patriots hype train and sent it into a horrible fiery crash that no one could look away from. The Patriots’ O-line and D-line were the lowest points of the game and, as one would expect, the stats back that up.

According to ProFootball Focus’ rating system (which I’m still not entirely sure how it’s done) Devey and Jones stand out as the worst performers for the Patriots. Makes sense.

Devey allowed 5 QB hurries and was beaten at least twice. He was kindly awarded an overall score of -3.7. Chandler Jones — easily my favorite person on the Patriots and possibly in the NFL (hence the pain from writing the title) — was awarded a league worst -5.3 for all 3-4 DE. He had no QB sacks, since simply touching Ryan Tannehill got a fouled called and sacking someone without touching them is close to impossible, along with zero QB hits (see previous statement) and zero QB hurries.



It is also interesting to note that in the top 6 worst 34 DE (according to PFF’s rating system), there stand three Patriots D-linemen: Jones (#1 with -5.3 rating), Joe Vellano (#2 with -3.7 rating) and Dominique Easley (#6 with -2.0 rating). This to me begs the question why in the blue blazes did we run a 34 defense all last game? But that is for another time. (Seriously Matt Patricia, are you trying to kill me?)

All in all, just a cherry on top of the icing that is on top of the shit cake that was week one for every Patriots’ fan. Oh, and did I mention we are currently the worst team in the AFC East? Wonder what the Vegas odds for that were.

- Pete Rogers
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