FrontSeven

Have you ever seen more hot air and wishful-thinking than the popular theory that our LBs are too old to last a full season? I've never seen more wishful thinking on the part of lame fans and mediots. Right from the beginning of the year they projected that Junior and Tedy would keel over into their walkers and wheelchairs at about week 12. Well, how wrong were they? WRONG.

And now those poor, old, fumbling-bumbling LBs have a week off while the young guys are running around getting all tired in other time zones. What a freaking shame. How bloody unfair that the Patriots seem to milk a guy's experience to advantage while other teams haven't figured that out.

I think these lame-o fans and mediots forgot who was evaluating the talent for this team. Going against his judgment is a risky operation at best. They did though. Stupid, stupid, stupid,

ctpatsfan77

(A) The way to stop Randy Moss is to just keep jamming him at the line. (If that works so well, why isn't every damn DC doing it?)
(B) The Pats can't run the ball.

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MrBigglesWorth

IMO what did the Pats in last year in the AFCCG was the overall health of the defense and they couldn't play a full 60 minutes.

We also had zero to no depth in the secondary and the team this year has alot of depth in Gay, Wilson, Merriweather.

I don't think the lb's will be an issue like you say because the Pats will have their nickle package in quite a bit. and they can also rotate their d-linemen and even go to a 4 man front giving a lb a breather.

I'm sure BB will have them ready to go and the defense was vanilla last week and didn't decide to blitz until the 2nd half.

when they need to make plays they elevate to an entire other level.

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newton_tom_cat

whatever duude, it was in last year's post -season that our LBs let us down. lets just draft this guy in 1st round and make like we never had a disagreement
http://collegefootball.rivals.com/cv...p?Player=52943

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FrontSeven

I think you'd better read what I wrote!

No, I don't think they're over-the-hill, not for one second. I had doubts early in the year but I settled the doubts this way: If the talent evaluators on this team want those guys out there, that settles it for me. End of doubts.

PonyExpress

Seau and Bruschi were better as part time players prior to Colvin's injury, than as full time players since. They were both once probowl caliber players, but are no longer because they are both past their prime. There is no sin in admitting the obvious.

MrBigglesWorth

I don't think they're over the hill but you better rotate them and keep them fresh. that is the key to the pats.... teams try to slug it out with them but can only do so for 2 and a half quarters then the pats start to wear them down in the 3rd then the 4th quarters.

you talk about talent evaluation.... didn't BB evaluate last year?

it's not a matter of evaluation... it's realizing what you have and putting your players in position to win.

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homerpatsfan

cant hurt to bring in some new talent at that position.

oldskool138

I'm a big Bruschi fan but I admit, he's getting a little long in the tooth to be playing the position. They need to either draft or sign a young LB to learn the system before Tedy retires. Nothing they can do about it now...

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Jimke

While it is true that our linebackers have done a good job this year, it is

also unrealistic that they can go on much longer. Junior Seau will be

39 on January 19th and Tedy Bruschi will be 35 when training camp starts.

I can see Tedy returning for one more year but in a reserve role. I

would like to see BB draft and groom a young linebacker but would not be

surprised if he did not draft any linebackers at all in the early rounds.

With regard to our defensive backs, I have watched Jay Feely and

Kyle Boller complete too many passes to state that we have good

depth in our defensive backfield. We need another good cornerback.

If Samuel leaves, we need two good cornerbacks. I'd like to see the

Pats draft two cornerbacks as they did in 2003 (Wilson and Samuel).