Gregory was very disappointing. a skinny guy who has to take a wide circle around the OT in order to get to the QB. gotta put on muscle this off-season.
Was listening to Dennis and Friedman and they commented that year after year the Patriots make great draft picks. I don't buy that theory at all. The Patriots develop, mold and train players to be functional and reliable playmakers. Gregory was supposed to bulk up in order to be effective, but they didn't set him up for success. He was still undersized and expected to play a role reserved for defensive ends who are 260-280 lbs. This is the nature of the Jason years. Plug any player into a system requiring a very specific skillset and then get confused why it's not working well. I think the Pats would have moved Gregory back to a blitzing OLB for this year while he bulked.
The best example is Devin Streets who even Jerry said needed to improve his strength and his bulk in order to play. Did they wait for that? No. They said he could run all the routes, so put him in. The problem was that he will never be ready for the speed that the route need and he is far too thin to be able to get through press coverage or physically manage how to fight through a defender who knows your route better than you do.
There is no development. That is why none of this is surprising that when Romo was injured and when Callahan/Murray left and when Dez went down, the remaining depth was just a thin layer of cellophane left over that was transparent, easily punctured and snapped, and could not be trusted as a replacement.
