SunnyDenmark

re: are you through yet?

Complaint:
1) Patriots should have been more active first week in free agency (which is not BB / FO usual MO (modus operandi) - historically prefer to wait til later weeks when dollars drop - especially in this weak FA crop.
Fact: 2010 - NEP one of the most active teams during 1st week FA : signing 5 players and extending a Pro-Bowler. Plus tendering very high their RFA's

Reply : yes, uhm - but that doesn't really count as they were mostly all their own players from last year. Should anyway have NOT waited til first week of FA but extended them /re-signed them much earlier.
Fact: league was still under the salary cap (see Joey Porter) PLUS it actually does take TWO people to sign a contract. There is only one franchaise tag and so besides this (only) one way to lock up a player - both parties have to want to sign a contract. Some players prefer to not resign until FA starts to see not only the demand for their services, but also see what other players getting.

Complaint: Yes but if they would have offered them big $$ during the season - then NEP could have used FA to sign other teams players.
Fact: Again their are salary cap issues plus NEP in 2009 season did NOT know the rules (uncapped or not) for 2010 season until March 5. Therefore making advance contracts when extremely important rules about the next few years would be difficult if not unwise. Even then, NEP did make a few minor extensions during the season: Alexander, Kazur, Ninckovich, tried with TBC. (But according to some fans, this doesn't count as it is again their OWN players -see FA argument above - it is obviously not possible to improve as a team by keeping your own players! WTF kind of reasoning is that!.

Complaint: Ok so Pats were more 'busy' than usual in the first stages of FA, but they are NOT improving as a team.
Fact: There is no game this coming Sunday. FA is still long from being over, plus NEP have more early round picks than any of the other 31 teams. NEP have one of the top 3 QB in the league, a good FO and a great owner who doesn't play team building by simulating Madden Franchaise mode.

OPINION: People need to chill..........Seriously...........it is only a game.
Your lives would be infinately better if you spent more quality time and energy with your significant others - than bee-aching about all the failings, blindness and idiot-cracy of the NEP offseason. Or go to class instead.........leave the team building of the NEP - to the professionals and one of the top 3 HC of ALL time.

P.S. Yes, ideas and comments and constructive criticisms of players/ draft strategy etc are welcome on the forums. But this non-stop *****ing about all of the above and more......are you pre-menstral or pre-pubescent or missing your pre-front lobal or what?

supafly

Nice post, but if I'm the first person to view the thread--how did it receive 5 stars already?

LOL, next time you may wanna wait until at least several people have viewed your thread before you rate it yourself

emoney_33

I rated it

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PATSYLICIOUS

I will not be satisfied until we have pro bowlers at each position and some backup spots.

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patsinthesnow

It was a good post,but don't insult the community by telling us to leave the pc and stop "biaching".

BostonPatriot

What a shocker!? So what you think 16-0 this year?

As for the op, yet another homer who won't admit that some of the "chicken littles" are making sense. You'd think this team is primed for a superbowl run by listening to some of these people.

Btw, how ironic that the op is telling others to step away from the pc (because it's just a game) at the end of a 400 word meltdown. ha-ha. It ain't that serious....I'll prove it by typing 400 words on the subject!!!!

spacecrime

You may be the first to reply, but you weren't the first person to view it lol

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BB on his draft philosophy, April 2010

spacecrime

And not old pro bowlers, either. Pro bowlers in their PRIME.

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“When we look at the board, based on everything we want in a football player at that particular time, we evaluate them and take the player that fits best for our football team. That’s what we always do, and I think the last nine years we’ve put a pretty competitive team out there on the field every year. I think that’s how you do it – you get good football players. Sometimes they are not always at the No. 1 position, but I don’t think you pass up good football players to get the guys who aren’t as good just because they’re at a position that somebody feels you need.”
BB on his draft philosophy, April 2010

ausbacker

Why does it make you a homer if you keep what you already have, given you could have lost it? Plenty of other playoff teams haven't been spending stupidly for the sake of it.

What a stupid thing to say.

spacecrime

The community isn't insulted, only the biatchers, whiners and carpers.

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“When we look at the board, based on everything we want in a football player at that particular time, we evaluate them and take the player that fits best for our football team. That’s what we always do, and I think the last nine years we’ve put a pretty competitive team out there on the field every year. I think that’s how you do it – you get good football players. Sometimes they are not always at the No. 1 position, but I don’t think you pass up good football players to get the guys who aren’t as good just because they’re at a position that somebody feels you need.”
BB on his draft philosophy, April 2010