Malcolm Mitchell and Chris Hogan: Gronk is out for the year. Edelman has a history of injury challenges. Danny Amendola is likely out until the playoffs. Martellus Bennett and the offensive line have by and large been extremely consistent and effective all year long. Dion Lewis is back and getting his legs underneath him. So, from where can the Patriots get some additional offensive juice? Enter Malcolm Mitchell and Chris Hogan.
Check out the momentum building in the last four games with BOTH Malcolm Mitchell and Chris Hogan:
Malcolm Mitchell:
Niners – 5 targets, 4 catches, 1 TD
Jets – 7 targets, 5 catches, 2 TDs
Rams – 10 targets, 8 catches
Ravens – 5 targets, 4 catches, 1 TD
Chris Hogan:
Niners – DNP
Jets – 5 targets, 4 catches
Rams – 5 targets, 4 catches, 1 TD
Ravens – 7 targets, 5 catches, 1 TD
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The TDs are great and we don’t dispute that but check out those targets. The two WRs combined are getting 10-15 targets per game. This is huge. This shows that QB Tom Brady is trusting them more as time goes on. The TDs will happen as a function of the team and playing with the greatest QB of all time. The momentum we are seeing build with Mitchell and Hogan is extremely significant.
This might be the most important development with the Patriots right now. Certainly it is nice to see the defense improving and making big plays, but at the end of the day they need an explosive offense that can prevail in a shootout in January were it to occur. Any given Sunday as they say. The Patriots look to be building momentum but you never know what can happen against an explosive Pittsburgh offense as an example or a Kansas City Chiefs team that puts up a couple of quick special teams or defensive scores. The killer offense is what keeps you in any and every game in the 4th quarter of a playoff game.
Let’s see how things progress as the Patriots go for that #1 seed. We expect the use of Mitchell and Hogan to at a minimum stay the same if not increase.
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