moosekill

Terrible draft this year, they just suck. I think they should fire BB. I think Mangeni might be available for next year.

DarrylS

Not sure of anything, just a thought... maybe he put it off and it is too late to take care of it..

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DarrylS

This would be a member of the Patriots that is 3rd in points allowed in the AFC... people love a "sexy" pass rush.. just a reminder this is the 6th best D in the NFL right now... and they cannot get close to the QB????? Wah, wah, break out the crying machine..

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pencilneckgeek

Interesting speculation here. We need some sort of virtual currency for sitations like this. Everybody throws in a buck and the first to guess right wins the pot with the caveat that they must spend it on beer for the next game. With 20+pages of guesswork, the lucky guesser could host quite a party. Af for me, I'm guessing that I'm utterly clueless.

As for the pass rush, if we go to a 3-4, we could do worse in passing situations than have AD come off the blindside.

LeVoir may make sense, since our backup tackle is not Connolly or Simmons. However, Belichick did indicate, and I believed him, that he needed to see the PUP players actually practice, to test out their recovery from injury, and for them to get into football shape before hitting the playing field. Even at their young age, neither Tate or LeVoir is Junior Seau.

I don't know the intracacies of the pre-/post-waiver signings, but in the case of Ninkovich, any team that acquired him this year would be able to resign him as a RFA next year, which would make him more appealing than Banta Cain, who is an UFA.

I think that Al Davis has a contageous dementia and that in the process of all the trades with the Raiders over the years, BB has contracted it. This is just the early stages. We can only imagine who's next.

To think that BB or anyone else on the roster-decision-making team knows the interview schedules of his players is silly. Bill has enough of his brain occupied with the details of the salary cap and the Buccaneers.

Lloyd_Christmas

Resigning him to a longer contract is the only thing that makes any sense to me.

1) I don't believe he was cut for lack of production.
2) We didn't save any money by cutting him
3) There were worse players on the roster to cut if we just needed a spot (even at LB... and TBC is a good ST player, so there is no angle there either)

Things that favor this being a procedural move:

1) We can't renegotiate his contract without cutting him first
2) We cut him before the trade deadline to avoid anyone claiming him off waivers
3) His response in the sirius interview makes me believe he already knew about it and was not trying to talk bad about the team or act like he was in on the whole thing and just helping the Pats circumvent the rules.
4) He already tried his hand at making bigger bucks with another team and it didn't work out for him. He is happy in NE and so we can trust him to NOT sign with another team and resign with us.

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