JoeSixPat

Seems to me that just having Seau with the team in the Locker Room could have a very dramatic and positive impact for the team.

Quite frankly, this team has lost a good amount of leadership in the past few months. Frankly I'm not sure they truly believe in themselves just right now.

I can see Seau offering a strong voice of reason and inspiration to bring the team together given the immense respect I expect all have for him.

He might truly have only 6 games in him physically but I think he can contribute more off the field with this team than on it.

BelichickFan

FWIW, Curran was saying tonight that the locker room seems less mature than in the past with some of the "controllers of the room" gone. Seau may help change that some.

Patjew

Patrick Chung was 3 when Seau made his NFL debut. Wow.

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tajapandu

while i agree with the concept of what you're saying, I dont think Seau brings that to this team as much as bringing back Tedy, Rodney, Vrabel, etc. would (the real core). Although, on the field, i dont think any of them add much.

BradyFTW!

Interesting perspective- I guess the question becomes whose job is it to step up and provide veteran presence on defense? Adalius Thomas, age-wise, is an obvious choice, and he's the players' union rep, isn't he? I dunno, though, he doesn't strike me as the type, given his comments on a potential 18-game season. Springs has the age, but he's new here, and right or wrong he just rubs me the wrong way anyways. Other than that, it looks like Warren and Wilfork are the guys, and they're both pretty young still. Glad Seau's stepping up to fill in that void.

102 Pat

From what I've read, he has given some amazing pre-game speeches and his presence will be more than welcome in my opinion. Maybe in a instance like last weeks game, he can pull the defence together for a huddle before OT started, tell everybody to not to lose focus, do your job, etc...

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This offseason, it's almost like Belichick is saying, "I'm never going to let that happen again."

Mike Reiss 7/19/12

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As well as post game speeches.

"And now we have a chance.... a CHANCE to be part of....................EVER!"

PatsGAgirl

Watching Junior's press conference....I love this guy

mgteich

Sometimes, I think we overestimate the need for players to be mentors and locker room leaders. Perhaps the lack of such leadership from the coaches except for bill and dante is the real issue.

brady and moss are certainly locker room leaders. I would think that Aiken is a leader also.

We have a bit of a problem if there is a lack of leadership on the defense. We have Wilfork, Warren, Green, Mayo, Thomas and Springs. Surely, one or two should be capable of leading some.

I would hope that Seau was brought back to be a force ON the field, not off the field.

MoLewisrocks

None of the defensive guys you mention have what Bill considers veteran leadership skills = 8 years in the league as a starter seeing just about everything at the position with the exception of Springs, and he's new to the system. Some were backups and ST'ers for years. Bill needs an experienced leader on as well as off the field for a young fast defense in transition. Linemen don't call defenses. Neither do corners. LB's and safeties do (and Sanders was out). And if they don't have much of a foundation in that role they can't get the others into position in critical situations. TJ was saying yesterday that using Orton in the wild horse forced the Patriots to check out of a lot of blitzes only to have him slide back under center and face a vanilla D because they lacked the experience and confidence to quickly check back. And Josh knew that would be the case just by assessing this D and knowing Bill's reluctance to ask new or young players to do more than he thoroughly comfortable they are ready to do that that would be the case.