NEInsider post on the ESPN message board - Page 3 - New England Patriots Forums

***gomezcat*** · 05-04-2008, 05:17 AM

Yet again, he has said NOTHING that is not in the public domain. As far as I know, he did not wax lyrical about Jerod Mayo prior to the rumour on the Friday before the draft. He did not say anything about Wheatley or O'Connoll prior to the draft, or say what the Pats' priorities were coming into the draft.

He's interesting, but an insider he almost certainly is not.

TheGodInAGreyHoodie · 05-04-2008, 05:35 AM

Whether NEInsider is a fraud or not is irrelevant. It is nothing but one persons opinion, it contains no "inside info."

Could be someone who just like the Pats who has taken all the positive comments from ESPN, SI, rivals.com, etc got rid of all the negitive and posted it.

Could be a reporter. Could be a generic scout. Could be a Patriots scout. Heck it could even be Bob Kraft or Bill Belichick. The last two being the ultimate insiders. But all it says is, in my opinion these guys are going to be good. In fact if the real "insiders" aren't thinking what is posted, they should have made different selections.

However, whether this was written by a 17-year old kid who has never seen a game live or BB himself, it doesn't mean any of it is going to come true.

PatriotsReign · 05-04-2008, 06:49 AM

Godinthegreyhoodie is right.

Once again, a clear case of PatsFans "speculating"...my how some here love to pretend to be experts. The key word here being "pretend" since none of us are experts.

As we bicker amongst ourselves over whether this guy is truly an insider on top of our own "expert" opinions on whether the 2008 Patriots draft was successful, it would be nice if we all stepped down off our high-horse and just admit....

NONE OF KNOW JACK about either of the above.

This board is not for media wanna-be's or self-proclaimed guys "in-the-know". We're just Patriots fans...men & women who love football and our Patriots.

I see so many pontifications by some members attempting to impress the rest of us and I ask myself, "why would anyone do that?"

Can anyone help me answer that question?

***Bella*chick*** · 05-04-2008, 07:03 AM

Who cares if he is a fraud or not. The Patriots aren't going to draft players they don't think highly of anyway, so I'm not surprised to see positive comments. You won't be able to grade this draft or these players for a good few years anyway. What's the big deal.

***unoriginal*** · 05-04-2008, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by gomezcat

Yet again, he has said NOTHING that is not in the public domain. As far as I know, he did not wax lyrical about Jerod Mayo prior to the rumour on the Friday before the draft. He did not say anything about Wheatley or O'Connoll prior to the draft, or say what the Pats' priorities were coming into the draft.

He's interesting, but an insider he almost certainly is not.

I agree. The only piece of information that was new to me was that "Dom Capers loves Wilhite by the way." Even the stuff where he criticizes college coaching staffs was said first by Belichick.

***unoriginal*** · 05-04-2008, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by PatriotsReign

Godinthegreyhoodie is right.

Once again, a clear case of PatsFans "speculating"...my how some here love to pretend to be experts. The key word here being "pretend" since none of us are experts.

As we bicker amongst ourselves over whether this guy is truly an insider on top of our own "expert" opinions on whether the 2008 Patriots draft was successful, it would be nice if we all stepped down off our high-horse and just admit....

NONE OF KNOW JACK about either of the above.

This board is not for media wanna-be's or self-proclaimed guys "in-the-know". We're just Patriots fans...men & women who love football and our Patriots.

I see so many pontifications by some members attempting to impress the rest of us and I ask myself, "why would anyone do that?"

Can anyone help me answer that question?

I'm going to do my impersonation of three posters you'd like:

Patfan007: WOOO GO PATS!!!!!!
Patsfan#1: YEEEAAAAAAAAAH PATS RULE!
unoriginal: WOOOOOOO WOOOOOOO I'M FITTING IN!

since67 · 05-04-2008, 08:36 AM

No inside info? I respectfully disagree.

"Have no clue who NEInsider is but he was right about Slater. In todays minicamp Slater worked exclusively with Capers at DB with up close coaching from Capers.

This person was right about ESPN and the draft before anyone mentioned it in the media. ESPN was missing from Foxboro during draft."

http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb/...2751660&tsn=21

Pats726 · 05-04-2008, 08:38 AM

Maybe he could tell us who the mystery 6 tryout players were??....THAT would be interesting...

PatriotsReign · 05-04-2008, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Pats726

Maybe he could tell us who the mystery 6 tryout players were??....THAT would be interesting...

Well, I'm one of them!

Yup, at 49 years old, I decided to give it one more shot!

SavioKid · 05-04-2008, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by PatriotsReign

Well, I'm one of them!

Yup, at 49 years old, I decided to give it one more shot!

U should of put the cape on like the Iggles fan in 'Invincible' = "Yeah baby, played on Varsity in high school! Starter for 1 year! I'm in the best shape of my life!" (as he chomps another bite of a huge cheesesteak and loks to a 'round' 380 ibs!)..........awesome! Go PatsReign! ..Heck I'll take a job as'spit bucket' boy on the sideline!