Patriots 2025-26 Season

[Csfan1984]

Really not understanding why the Pats cut Peppers the other day. They don?t have much depth at safety.

Woodson looked to be the same player but younger, cheaper and no off the field baggage.

[Vermont Green]

Really not understanding why the Pats cut Peppers the other day. They don't have much depth at safety.

Woodson looked to be the same player but younger, cheaper and no off the field baggage.

Our projected starting safeties are Craig Woodson (rookie) and Jaylinn Hawkins (ranked 109th out of 171 safeties in PFF's "Regular" grading metric for 2024), with Duggar I guess as the first off the bench.  I was looking forward to Duggar and Peppers being kind of veteran anchors on defense.  They are both really good, established safeties (albeit Duggar coming back from injury).

I have no idea if Woodson or Hawkins are going to be as good, sure hope Vrabel knows what he is doing letting these veterans go (Strange, Epps, Peppers, Bourne, Bentley, etc) and going with younger players.  If it works out, great, better for the rebuild.  But I have some doubts the team is better for all of this right away.

[Goldstar88]

Really not understanding why the Pats cut Peppers the other day. They don't have much depth at safety.

Woodson looked to be the same player but younger, cheaper and no off the field baggage.

Our projected starting safeties are Craig Woodson (rookie) and Jaylinn Hawkins (ranked 109th out of 171 safeties in PFF's "Regular" grading metric for 2024), with Duggar I guess as the first off the bench.  I was looking forward to Duggar and Peppers being kind of veteran anchors on defense.  They are both really good, established safeties (albeit Duggar coming back from injury).

I have no idea if Woodson or Hawkins are going to be as good, sure hope Vrabel knows what he is doing letting these veterans go (Strange, Epps, Peppers, Bourne, Bentley, etc) and going with younger players.  If it works out, great, better for the rebuild.  But I have some doubts the team is better for all of this right away.

My thoughts as well.

[Neurotic Guy]

Last season was such a wasted and lost season. I?m trying to get my mindset adjusted to the idea that this season really is the first post-Bill year.  If the Pats look more like a pro football team and win 6-8 games - improving as the year progresses, and Maye looking like we hope, I?ll be satisfied.  9 or 10 wins would be fools gold though it would be fun to be in the hunt for a playoff spot. 

The fall of 2026 could be a lot of fun with the Patriots in the mix and Tatum back and ready.