Deus Irae

Call me when their record is relevant to whether or not they are desperate about fixing their offensive line this offseason.

Until then, perhaps you should avoid posting. You're just embarrassing yourself. Belichick has made his opinions about his offensive line quite well known by his moves this offseason.

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HEY BRO! WHAT UP?

Reiss finally calls them out. But it doesn't matter how many people call them out because hardly anybody on this board will believe it.

The sad thing is this organization should've won at least 2-3 super bowls in the last 5 years but their FA moves, trades and draft picks prevented that from happening.

The next time they win a super bowl is when their draft picks start becoming reliable and making plays. Oh yeah, and stop giving away talent when they actually do find it.

HEY BRO! WHAT UP?

You should change your name to "super homer".

Nikolai

Meh, most reasonable people were predicting the Pats would be buyers at this point anyway. Because of the cap situation, it was expected that teams would be hanging on to veterans a little while longer, and that a few teams with obvious holes (like ours) would probably be buyers at this point rather than during the draft in April.

Instead, the knee-jerkers are just using this to reinforce their cognitive bias toward pessimism...disguised as objectivity, of course.

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“On a day when they could have had impact players David Terrell or Koren Robinson..they took Georgia defensive tackle Richard Seymour, who had 1 sacks last season in the pass-happy SEC and is too tall to play tackle at 6-6 and too slow to play defensive end. This genius move was followed by trading out of a spot where they could have gotten the last decent receiver in Robert Ferguson and settled for tackle Matt Light, who will not help any time soon.”

RussFrancis

Of course. To a genius like you he has. The rest of us better just hide away in the darkness of our homerism though, hadnt we? Let the all-knowing optimists of the world like yourself handle all the "real" football conversations. Sorry, princess. I'll choose to actually expect winning from my team that's pretty much done nothing but that for the better part of 10 years. You and the clowns that expect a simple Superbowl waltz ever year without adversity can have at it. But bad form, man. Youre just showing bad form. But whatever. Goats cant be turned into giraffes at this stage of our lives, now can they?

Box_O_Rocks

Was it? My team went to the playoffs, again. That's my minimum for a successful season, a great season concludes with confetti, but I don't let others tearful folly spoil my enjoyment of following a competitive team - it's that living the alternative thing.

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Nikolai

That's almost like saying the team with the highest score wins the game...not quite, but almost.

I wonder. Do the pessimists anticipate and celebrate the Pats losing because it vindicates their point of view, or are they pessimistic as a preemptive coping mechanism?

Hmmmm...

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“On a day when they could have had impact players David Terrell or Koren Robinson..they took Georgia defensive tackle Richard Seymour, who had 1 sacks last season in the pass-happy SEC and is too tall to play tackle at 6-6 and too slow to play defensive end. This genius move was followed by trading out of a spot where they could have gotten the last decent receiver in Robert Ferguson and settled for tackle Matt Light, who will not help any time soon.”

jmt57

Reiss uses the trades for Ojinnaka, Page and White as the premise for the idea that these moves are "an ominous sign". Ironically Reiss points out in a separate blog entry that it is difficult (if not impossible) to assess these trades because they are all for undisclosed draft picks. Not sure how we can come to that conclusion when we don't even know what was traded away. For that matter, how about we let these guys play a few games before rushing to judgement?

Trading a 3rd and 5th for a player after free agency and the draft (Derrick Burgess) could be labeled as a move of desperation. I don't know that I would call the trade for Ojinnaka a desperate move; he was brought in as a backup with experience, to replace another player who was slated to be an experienced backup (Kaczur) who could fill in if needed at multiple positions.

As for Page and White, I don't think they are going to be expected to have major roles, so why bring them up? Why the concern over losing what is presumably a late-round pick when so many late round picks never contribute in the NFL? Another consideration is that with so many rookies added to the roster in each of the last two years, there is that much less room for a 6th or 7th round pick to make the team. Perhaps adding a player with some experience makes more sense than counting on another rookie to develop. With the number of draft picks the team had, did anybody really expect every single one of them to make the roster?

If the Pats were trading away first or second round draft picks a week before the start of the season, then I could see how one could call that a desperate move. I don't see how you could say the same because they traded away a late round pick. If the Pats were in the business of making knee jerk desperate moves, they would have made in-season trades for a QB in 2008 and a WR in 2009.

Deus Irae

Yes, it's just me. It's not as if pretty much everyone around has been noting the problems with the lines and the poor play of the players, after all.

Oh, wait.... It's pretty much exactly like that.


By the way, I've got the team winning the division. I'm just not willing to pretend that problems aren't problems. I leave that sort of silliness to the blind homers.

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Keyser Söze

they added special teams help, I'd hardly call that desperate.

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