Jones & Keefe: Who will the Patriots miss more, Milton Williams or Will Campbell?

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00:00Who do you think they're going to miss more in the next couple of weeks

00:03to games against Buffalo and Baltimore?

00:05Is it going to be Milton Williams defensively or Will Campbell?

00:09I think it's going to be Milton Williams because I think the fall off is so steep.

00:14Now, obviously, Will Campbell and Vidarian Lowe are in very different tiers,

00:18but Will Campbell is still a rookie, right?

00:20So there's still things he's learning.

00:21He wasn't perfect, but he was still a good player.

00:24And Vidarian Lowe is a solid spot starter who I think can survive in this offense

00:28without being a glaring weakness,

00:30especially Mark Daniels did a great job reporting that Vidarian Lowe

00:33actually had a torn labrum in his right shoulder,

00:36and he told me that that kind of led to some difficulty with inside pass rush moves,

00:40which you can kind of see if you look back at his tape.

00:42But on the other side of the ball, I mean, Milton Williams,

00:45his ability to get in the backfield versus both run and pass

00:48was such an asset for this defensive line.

00:51Helped out Christian Barmore.

00:53Helped out Harold Landry.

00:54Like, it had a ripple effect throughout the defensive front.

00:58And I do think you missed that.

00:59As good as Corey Gurdon's been, he's not the explosive athlete that Milton Williams is.

01:04And Christian Barmore is still a very good player,

01:06but he can't be as good as he was before

01:09because he doesn't have Milton Williams drawing some of that attention

01:12and also complimenting him.

01:13So I think Milton Williams is definitely going to be the one they missed down the stretch,

01:17especially considering, like you said, they're playing the Ravens and the Bills.

01:20So, you know, you want your defense in tip-top shape.

01:23So we'll see how that goes moving forward.