Richard Seymour: ‘I could have helped" - New England Patriots Forums

***IcyPatriot*** · 12-09-2009, 11:18 PM

Richard Seymour: ‘I could have helped’ - BostonHerald.com

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“I have a lot of friends there. I know what’s been going on; the troubles they’re having. When I’m on the inside rushing, (opponents) ain’t going to put just a guard on me one-on-one. I would have freed up room for Tully (Banta-Cain) or (Derrick) Burgess to be one-on-one on the outside. Tully and I talked about that all through training camp -- what we would do rushing together from the same side.

***IcyPatriot*** · 12-09-2009, 11:20 PM

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“You can’t just have great coaching and no talent. You’ve got to have both. Bill (Belichick) is an extremely smart coach. Extremely (smart) ... but he thinks it’s his schemes all the time. He had players like ’Hot Rod’ -Rodney Harrison myself, Ty (Law), Willie (McGinest), (Tedy) Bruschi and (Mike) Vrabel in that system to make it look good.

................. Oh Richard ... you could have taken a discount.

***ausbacker*** · 12-09-2009, 11:26 PM

It's actually a reasonable article (for a change) when you take away the jilted lover mentality Seymour has to the Patriots for the manner in which he was dealt to Oakland.

***pats1*** · 12-09-2009, 11:28 PM

Move on, Sey.

SVN · 12-09-2009, 11:28 PM

typical boston media...the herald goes over to ask seymour about his old team when they are down. i didnt click the article but is it written by seymour's buddy borges ?

Patriot_in_NY · 12-10-2009, 12:03 AM

Had he given us a clue that he was remotely interested in re-signing and not chasing the almighty buck, he probably still would be. We maximized a return on a player we knew we weren't gonna have next year.

I'm still okay on this deal

eagle eye · 12-10-2009, 12:08 AM

Its the biggest **** up that BB has ever made imo. It might work out long term but just look at our D this year.

Why is the adult name for a domestic male chicken banned?

***mgteich*** · 12-10-2009, 12:09 AM

We should have a rule against reading any statements by ex-patriots.

Seymour is telling the truth. We all know it. Most here were fine with getting a 2011 draft choice for Seymour, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't be better off with Seymour playing.

THE QUESTION IS
Would be better off with Seymour getting the reps that Burgess gets, and more? If you don't think we'd be better off with Seymour, than all I can say is that I strongly disagree.

***Deus Irae*** · 12-10-2009, 12:13 AM

Excellent points made by Seymour.

***BradyFTW!*** · 12-10-2009, 12:15 AM

He's right about pretty much everything he says in that article. I don't quite like that he said it; would rather he kept his mouth shut and just let the glaringly obvious on-the-field results tell the story for him, but oh well. Doesn't change the fact that the Pats are much worse off without him, and everyone in the locker room knows it.