Stephanie Stradley’s Texans-Patriots Q&A with Evan Lazar

This week's game preview is with Evan Lazar (@EZLazar). He writes for the Boston Herald and Pats Pulpit, and you can find his Naked Bootleg Podcast with Adam Kurkjian here.

Evan does a nice job of writing things that you might not already know, and if he thinks something, he gives reasons for it. That is always appreciated.

Our Q&A:

Stephanie Stradley: Explain key ways the 2017 Patriots are different/same as previous years?

Evan Lazar: The Patriots system, especially offensively, has not changed since Bill Belichick arrived in New England 18 seasons ago. The system is mainly based on players associating route concepts with one-word associations, and cutting off routes in certain directions…