crowell33

AD is finished. Has been for the past two seasons.

JMarr

Before he broke his arm in 2008 AD was one of the more dominant LBs in the league.

Last year he simply mailed it in--that is a fact. I don't understand why people say that he no longer has value, simply by re-watching 2009 games where he played like crap. It is more likely that the main reason he played so poorly was due to complete lack of motivation/desire as opposed to diminished physical skills.

TomPatriot

Well, he will be 33 when the season starts. Most NFL OLBs have diminished physical skills at 33 due to the nature of the game. Few teams want a player with a complete lack of motivation/desire, particularly one at that level of compensation.

Rob0729

How do you know it is because of lack of motivation? Just because he wasn't happy here doesn't mean he mailed it in on gameday. He is at the age where a lot of players just lose a step.

I also disagree that he was one of the more dominant LBs in the league before he broke his arm. He had his moments like in week two of 2008 where he manhandled Brett Favre, but he was not the peak of consistency. He had 5 sacks and they were against Favre, Damon Huard/Brody Croyle, J.T. O'Sullivan, and Marc Bulger. Not exactly the cream of the NFL QB crop and many of them had horrible o-lines to boot. The Patriots' pass rush even before he went down in 2008 was uneven at best and he played a role in that problem.

Bostonian1962

The game tape doesn't lie. There is always at least one sucker out there though. Just wait.

Bostonian1962

He still may end up with the Jets. My reasoning? He was our head case last year. This offseason, and part of last season the Jets seem to be stock piling other team head cases. Just think of a powerful team of: Braylon "The Stone Hands are Not My Fault" Edwards, LaCrymian Tomlinson, Bart "The Mouth" Scott, SanTokio Holmes, Antonio "I'd Rather Impregnate Than Practice" Chromartie, Calvin "I Eat PEDs Like Candy" Pace, and then add Adalius "I Suck, but It's Everybody Else's Fault" Thomas.

They are building a team of leaders under Rex "I Have A Bigger Mouth Than Bart Scott" Ryan. I still think they want another of that type of player. Can you say IMPLODE?

Blizzzard

BWAAAHHH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!

I spit out my water on that one.

AJY the Jets troll

Jason Taylor>>>Adalius Thomas

zoostation

All this means is the teams that made low offers (or I should say offers he thought were low) will wait for him to realize his worth, and then try to sign him to a 1 year incentive based deal.

livinginthe past

I don't think that Adalius necessarily 'dogged it' last year.

I just think he had little impact and was powerless to turn it around - hence the suicidal head-2-head with Belichick.

Playoff games are mana from heaven for disgruntled players looking for their next big pay-day.

On the biggest day of his season (as well as everyone else's) he didn't show-up.

I don't doubt someone will pick him up - they'll let some time go by so that they'll be holding the advantage in contract negotiations.