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On paper Infant Joejuan Williams Jersey , the New England Patriots should have few problems against the New York Jets tonight: the team is 6-0 and entered Week 7 ranking first in the NFL in scoring on both offense and defense. The Jets, meanwhile, are just 1-4 heading into the Monday night showdown and have had some major struggles on both sides of the ball. Furthermore, the Patriots won the first meeting with a final score of 30-14.Football, however, is not played on paper and the Jets do present a formidable challenge despite their record and the accompanying statistics — and not just because they field a different quarterback this time around. After all, the team’s defense is also returning to full strength with linebacker C.J. Mosley and first-round defensive tackle Quinnen Williams expected to play after missing the Week 3 game against New England.Mosley and Williams are projected to see considerable action as two cornerstone players in the defense of coordinator Gregg Williams. The veteran coach, meanwhile, will incorporate them into one of the most aggressive schemes in the entire league: whether it is blitzes or disguised coverages, Williams like to challenge opposing offenses on a down-to-down basis and keep them off balance from the first to the last snap of the game.The Patriots experienced this during their first game against the Jets. They did score 30 points, yes, but New England’s passing game did have some problems going up against the coverage looks Williams and his unit threw at them — particularly after wide receiver Julian Edelman left the game in the late second quarter because of a chest injury. Just take a look at the Jets’ very first defensive snap of the game as an example:NFL Game PassUsing a 21-personnel package (two tight ends, one tight end, two wide receivers), New England saw plenty of motion on the other side of the line of scrimmage before the snap. The defense ultimately aligned in what looked like a single-high scheme like Cover 1 or Cover 3, but did move its weak-side perimeter cornerback — Nate Hairston (#21) — towards the middle of the field once the play got underway to show a different coverage: Cover 2.In its essence Joejuan Williams Jersey Draft , Cover 2 is a zone defense with the two safeties splitting the deep responsibilities. Just like every other coverage it does have its weaknesses, though, and the Patriots actually were in a position to exploit one of them: the aforementioned Julian Edelman (#11) originally aligned in the right-side slot and ran up the seam into the bubble created by the two safeties splitting wide to patrol their respective sides of the field.Quarterback Tom Brady (#12), however, is looking at the play differently: he is expecting a single-high look that would give tight end Ryan Izzo (#85) and his out-cutting route an opening on the left side of the field. With the Jets playing an inverted Cover 2, however, this portion of the field was crowded and Brady had to dump the football off to running back Brandon Bolden (#38) for what turned into a modest gain of 11 yards.Had Brady anticipated the post-snap switch or would have had more time in the pocket, however, he likely would have gone to Edelman over the top against the two-safety look. Alas, it was not meant to be as the Jets were able to lock down his initial read and force a short pass underneath — not the only time that da that the Jets were able to throw the Patriots off balance with their disguised Cover 2 looks.“The Jets played a lot of Cover 2, but they had two or three different ways of the way they played it and it kind of looks the same,” said Patriots head coach Bill Belichick after the first game against New York. “It’s not the same, and it really can affect the receivers’ rules and their adjustments because it just, it looks differently. Experience and understanding concepts and understanding route concepts and route coverages, that’s a big area of growth for the passing game.”This disguise-heavy look, as Belichick pointed out Joejuan Williams NFL Jersey , challenges a player’s schematic understanding of the defense he sees — a vital part of the Patriots’ offense as routes oftentimes develop differently against coverages. Edelman, for example, ran an appropriate route against the Jets’ Cover 2 on the play above, but Brady was not on the same page initially and had to go elsewhere against what initially looked like a single-high coverage.Tonight, the Patriots will likely face similar concepts as the Jets and Gregg Williams love to challenge a quarterback’s chemistry with his receiving corps. And with Josh Gordon and Rex Burkhead out because of injury, Brady and company will have to be on point in this area. Experienced options like Edelman, Phillip Dorsett and James White certainly help, but a youngster like Jakobi Meyers also needs to show strides and prove that he can earn his quarterback’s trust. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Ben Watson is at the point of his career in which he doesn’t want to take anything for granted.Not the 15 years the tight end has already played in the NFL with four teams. Not the Super Bowl he won with the Patriots as a rookie in 2004. And certainly not the opportunity to postpone his retirement to return to New England — the franchise that drafted him — despite facing a four-game suspension to begin the 2019 season for testing positive for a banned substance.But after the 38-year-old completed the first day of the Patriots three-day mandatory minicamp on Tuesday, he said he wants to make the most of this latest chance to prolong his career.“You never know the road you’re gonna take,” Watson said. “My wife always says ‘Enjoy the journey.’ That’s something I’ve tried to do, although I’m very intense. I don’t enjoy it all the time as much as I should. But there really is a journey to life as well as to the NFL in general. I’m happy my journey brought me back here.”Watson, who spent last season with the Saints, announced in December that he would retire at the end of the 2018 season after dealing with years of injuries, including a torn Achilles tendon that sidelined him for the entire 2016 season when he was with the Ravens.He said in a Facebook post last week that in the aftermath of his decision to retire he was prescribed a testosterone supplement by his doctors to help his body begin to heal from the years of football.Before he could officially file his retirement papers, he said he was randomly drug tested following the end of last season. He was notified of a positive test Joejuan Williams NFL Draft , but cast it aside because he had no plans to return to football.That changed in late April when teams, including the Patriots, began to make overtures for him to return. While mulling over the offers, he said he was open about the positive drug test to his potential suitors.It didn’t deter the Patriots, who wound up signing him to a one-year, $3 million deal last month as they continue to look to fill their void created at the position following the retirement of Rob Gronkowski.It’s a new start for Watson, who is entering his second stint in New England after stops in Cleveland, New Orleans and Baltimore.Despite the impending suspension, he will have a realistic chance to make New England’s roster. He began the Patriots’ offseason workouts as one of only three veteran tight ends on the roster, joining Austin Seferian-Jenkins, 26-year-old Matt LaCosse and a handful of rookies.That group thinned out a little more after the team released Seferian-Jenkins on Tuesday.But Watson said he’s not approaching his second stint in New England with thoughts about being Gronk’s successor.“None whatsoever. Every year is a new team, whether a same player in in the same position or not, there’s always turnover in the NFL,” he said. “So, my biggest thing is always learning what to do and perform to the best of my abilities.”Still, the Patriots are going to need to find somebody at the position that 41-year-old quarterback Tom Brady trusts and is comfortable throwing to in the offense.Watson is four years removed from his 2015 season with New Orleans in which he caught 74 passes for 825 yards and six touchdowns — all career highs. He appeared in all 16 games for the Saints last season Joejuan Williams Buffalo Bills Jersey , catching 35 passes for 400 yards and two touchdowns.He said finding chemistry with Brady is something he will have to rediscover, but that the comfort is certainly there for the two vets.“There’s very few guys I can step on the field with and say, ‘Man, I look up to that guy.’ I played with one in New Orleans in Drew Brees, a guy that’s been in the league a few more years than me,” Watson said.“Obviously coming in as a rookie and walking into a locker room where Tom Brady who was a young Tom Brady then, just four or so years in the league, but he was very accomplished.“For him to still be on the field is very cool for me. In that I’m still an older guy, but there’s still somebody for me to sort of pattern myself after as well.”Notes: The Patriots signed third-round pick and defensive lineman Chase Winovich. The 6-foot-3, 255-pounder was a four-year letter winner at Michigan, playing in 45 games with 26 starts and totaled 185 tackles, 18 sacks and three forced fumbles.