Click the play button below to hear Shalise Manza Young's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: which Patriots team will show up on Sunday? the heavy blitzes that Matt Cassel and J.T. O'Sullivan expect to see, getting Randy Moss more involved in the offense, and welcoming Laurence Maroney back to the backfield.
Here's what Shalise said when I asked whether there would be a concerted effort to get Moss more involved on offense:
"I think there should be, for a variety of reasons. He's just such a threat. Defenses have been rolling over a safety and double teaming him a lot to try to prevent them from getting the ball to him, but we've seen it before. He's 6 foot 4, there are very few defensive backs who are as tall as him or can jump as high as he can, so if you throw it a little bit high, he's probably going to go up and come down with it. It helps keep defenses honest, it keeps them from clogging up those short to intermediate passing lanes. Teams are starting to key on Wes Welker. ... You want to spread the field [and] they need to have a better running game, whether that's the backs not running that well, whether it's the offensive line not opening the right holes. But the offense all around has to be more productive than it has been the last couple games."
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