Peter King on Givens/McGinest - New England Patriots Forums - PatsFans.com Patriots Fan Messageboard
NEWS
|
FORUM
|
PHOTOS
|
VIDEOS
|
FULL STATS DATABASE
|
PODCAST
|
RUMOR MILL
Get Social With PatsFans.com
Five Thoughts On Tebow
'13 NFL Previews Are In
Tebow at QB? No Way

Go Back   New England Patriots Forums - PatsFans.com Patriots Fan Messageboard > PatsFans.com Forums > PatsFans.com - Patriots Fan Forum
Forgot Password? Join PatsFans.com!
Register Blogs FAQ Members List Calendar Arcade Mark Forums Read Chat Room

WELCOME TO OUR FORUM HERE AT PATSFANS.COM!
ARE YOU NEW HERE? NOT LOGGED IN? PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO REGISTER FOR AN ACCOUNT AND LOGIN TO REMOVE THIS WINDOW

Welcome to PatsFans.com. Do you have an account? If not - please take a moment to register for our forum and experience a much smoother experience with fewer ads, along with no longer having to see this notification window. Also learn about how you can receive a free Patriots T-Shirt from the Patriots Official ProShop by CLICKING HERE. Please enjoy your stay here, and Go Pats!

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 03-20-2006, 09:54 AM   #1
Patriots Salary Cap Guru
 

Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,472
My Mood: Happy
Default Peter King on Givens/McGinest

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...20/mmqb/3.html
__________________
My youngest sister's best friend is on the board of directors of a food pantry in Malden, Massachusetts that distributed 285,000 meals and meal equivalents in 2005. I am asking that if you have found my salary cap pages useful that if you are able to do so, please make a donation to it. Please contact me for more information.
Miguel is offline   Reply With Quote
FEATURED ADVERTISEMENT
DONATE TO PATSFANS.COM
RECEIVE A FREE PATS T-SHIRT AND SAVE 15% OFF WHEN YOU BUY FROM THE OFFICIAL PROSHOP!

Free T-Shirt & Save 15% Off!
Like Our Site? Please help support our site and server costs by DONATING TO PATSFANS.COM and receive a FREE PATRIOTS T-SHIRT and SAVE 15% off EVERY purchase you make from PatriotsProShop.com. You'll also receive added benefits to your account
including Removing All Ads During Your Experience Here At Our Forum.

NEEDED YEARLY SITE DONATIONS: 345 | CURRENT # OF SUBSCRIBED SUPPORTERS: 98

Updated 07/08/11

Help Us Reach Our Goal!

Old 03-20-2006, 10:07 AM   #2
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
 
holyredeemer's Avatar
 

Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 701
My Mood: Cynical
Default

Peter King quote:
"They were right to dump Drew Bledsoe for Brady, right to dump Antowain Smith for Corey Dillon, right to dump Lawyer Milloy for Rodney Harrison, right to dump Tebucky Jones and Eugene Wilson, and right to dump Ty Law instead of paying him something like $10 million this year."

Made my heart stop there for a minute. A sick joke for Mr. King to play. With the way things have been going, I almost believed it.
holyredeemer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:11 AM   #3
In the Starting Line-up
 
Brownfan80's Avatar
 

Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Discordia, Stuart FL
Posts: 3,305
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by holyredeemer
Peter King quote:
"They were right to dump Drew Bledsoe for Brady, right to dump Antowain Smith for Corey Dillon, right to dump Lawyer Milloy for Rodney Harrison, right to dump Tebucky Jones and Eugene Wilson, and right to dump Ty Law instead of paying him something like $10 million this year."

Made my heart stop there for a minute. A sick joke for Mr. King to play. With the way things have been going, I almost believed it.

"And".. "For"... what's the difference really?

Brownfan80 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:15 AM   #4
Experienced Starter w/First Big Contract
 
dryheat44's Avatar
 

Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: NOVA
Posts: 6,161
Default

Been fixed now. This part I found more interesting. (emphasis mine):

I think I have to hand it to David Givens. The man tells me exactly what most of these suddenly rich free agents should say when they sign at a young age and the finances are significantly different from one place to another: It's about the money. He turned down $17.5 million over five years (with $2.5 million in achievable incentives) with New England to take $24 million in Tennessee. In New England, where he got a hard last-minute sales pitch from Belichick, he knows he'd have caught 50 to 65 balls a year for the foreseeable future and benefited from playing most of his career with Tom Brady. But here's a guy whose signing bonus was $19,000 coming out of college, who'd made $2.3 million in four years in the NFL -- and the Titans offered him $8 million simply to sign a contract. "I'm a single guy with no children, and at this point in my career business is my priority,'' he told me. "Sometimes in the business world, a change has to be made to fulfill personal goals. And I am not afraid of change.'' At that price, I wouldn't be, either. And I'm a guy who would be in mourning to not play with Brady anymore.
__________________
When it's third and 10, you can have the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -- R.I.P. Max McGee
dryheat44 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:27 AM   #5
In the Starting Line-up
 
patsfan55's Avatar
 

Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Boston via Longmeadow
Posts: 2,669
My Mood: Daring
Send a message via AIM to patsfan55
Default

peter king has made the assumption in this article that vrabel will be moving back to outside, im not so sure he should make this assumption considering there are better outside guys available

also, even if vrabel made the move back outside, willie would start over rosie
__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


“My favorite ring? I've always said, you know, I always said the next one. The next one is the best,” Brady says.
patsfan55 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:29 AM   #6
B.O. = Fugazi
 
BelichickFan's Avatar
 

Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 30,560
Send a message via AIM to BelichickFan
Default

Although Vrabel was good inside, his skill set is still better utilized outside. There may be a few better OLB options than ILB but they're also far more costly. Unless we get a Peterson at a reasonable (but still high) price, I fully expect Vrabel to go back outside.
BelichickFan is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:37 AM   #7
In the Starting Line-up
 
patsfan55's Avatar
 

Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Boston via Longmeadow
Posts: 2,669
My Mood: Daring
Send a message via AIM to patsfan55
Default

the thing is, bb trusts younger guys at the outside
so if we move vrabel back outside are options inside are ryan claridge, fa's (jamie sharper is maybe the best avail, but a lot in here think hes done), or a draft pick (like i said i dont think bb will trust a rookie ilb)
__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


“My favorite ring? I've always said, you know, I always said the next one. The next one is the best,” Brady says.
patsfan55 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:38 AM   #8
Practice Squad
 

Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 217
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by BelichickFan
Although Vrabel was good inside, his skill set is still better utilized outside. There may be a few better OLB options than ILB but they're also far more costly. Unless we get a Peterson at a reasonable (but still high) price, I fully expect Vrabel to go back outside.
I personally don't - I expect to see Vrabel play more time at ILB than OLB this year. There aren't many 3-4 ILB FAs, and this year it's looking like there are far more good OLB prospects in the draft than ILB prospects. We'll almost certainly have a FA or rookie OLB coming in - which means Vrabel will spend a lot of time at ILB. IMO.
big mike is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:43 AM   #9
Moderator
 
T-ShirtDynasty's Avatar
 

Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Eating it! (Humble Pie that is)
Posts: 3,562
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by big mike
I personally don't - I expect to see Vrabel play more time at ILB than OLB this year. There aren't many 3-4 ILB FAs, and this year it's looking like there are far more good OLB prospects in the draft than ILB prospects. We'll almost certainly have a FA or rookie OLB coming in - which means Vrabel will spend a lot of time at ILB. IMO.
I'm on the fence but I think I agree with the assessment that it will be easier to replace an OLB than an ILB right now. I was dead-set against moving Vrabes inside, and again I was dead-wrong. I'm done guessing.
T-ShirtDynasty is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2006, 10:48 AM   #10
Practice Squad
 

Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 133
Default

King has Marquise Hill as a bust. He hasn't really show anything yet, but I believe he was the youngest player taken in the draft 2 years ago. He might not even be 22 yet.

I think it is a little to early to write Hill off just yet.
mcdonut16 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Sponsored Links



Thread Tools
Display Modes


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off




All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:09 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2013, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2

© Copyright 2000-2012. PatsFans.com Is a Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties.
The opinions posted in this forum do not necessarily reflect the opinions of our staff at PatsFans.com or USA Today.
We are not affiliated with the New England Patriots™ or the NFL™. The Photo Used In the header was taken by Ian Logue.

This site is owned and operated by I&K Internet Design Enterprises, LLC