Patriots Season Goals Review

Below, I will evaluate how my Pat’s season goals from before the season ended up doing this year.

• At least double their win total (at least 8 games) and contend for playoffs: Blew this out of the water. More than tripled their win total in the regular season and if you include the playoffs, they more than quadrupled their win total from last year. They won the division, made the playoffs as the number 2 seed, and made it to the Super Bowl. No team had more wins than them.
• Drake Maye starts looking like a top 10 QB: Blew this out of the water. Maye was an MVP candidate and is an undisputed top 10, borderline top 5 QB in the league. A franchise QB we can build around.
• Young offensive skill players break out and look like future players we can build on: I would call this a goal achieved. TreVeyon Henderson played great this year. Kayshon Boutte and DeMario Douglas played pretty good as well. The one guy I would have liked to see being used more is Kyle Williams. He looked explosive when used, but only had 10 catches all year.
• Will Campbell looks great and Oline plays well: This is an up and down one. Campbell specifically looked good before he got injured towards the end of the year. Coming back from the injury and playing versus great defenses in the postseason, Campbell really struggled. I think he should get one more year at LT and if that doesn’t work out, then move him inside. However, if they were to have the chance at a star LT, I would say get that star LT now and move Campbell inside to guard. As for the whole offensive line, they were much improved from last year, but still have a long way to go. No one is so bad that they must be replaced, but no one is good enough that they could not be replaced if we find a better player.
• Defense is top 10 in the league: Absolute grand slam. Our defense was great this whole year and played their best in the playoffs.
• Milton Williams lives up to contract while Christian Barmore and Keon White continue to improve giving us a great front 4: This mostly panned out. Milton Williams was a stud and so was Barmore. White ended up getting traded, as he wasn’t being used much. Our front 4 was great overall when Williams was healthy.
• Christian Gonzalez gets into discussion as best CB in league and gets extension after the season: Gonzo was our best defensive player this year and is a top 3 to 5 CB in the league. He absolutely deserves a contract extension that puts him at or near the top of the CB market.