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Wow...based on those comments from Coughlin, I guess it really does just come down to "boy were the Giants stupid."
You simply do not waive any player you think has a future with your team while the roster limit is at 90! For heavens sake, that's a big part of what the new expanded off-season roster is about.
Absolutely.
If Gronk's ankle was bad enough to cause him to miss the season, can anyone imagine BB waving him when the roster limit was at 90?
Or even at 53 for that matter?
An uncharacteristic mistake by the Giants who are normally a well-run franchise.
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The Patriots did the same thing to McDaniels when he was coaching in Denver, so I don't really see the issue here. Frankly, the ability to carry 90 in the camps makes the Giants' move seem foolish to me.
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Wow...based on those comments from Coughlin, I guess it really does just come down to "boy were the Giants stupid."
You simply do not waive any player you think has a future with your team while the roster limit is at 90! For heavens sake, that's a big part of what the new expanded off-season roster is about.
Yup....... They did something really dumb, and got nailed for it......... and they have the nerve to be pissed us? Srsly.....
Gee, lets dangle a really talented TE out on the open market and risk anyone picking him up......... WHAT...... someone took him? Those jerks.
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Yup....... They did something really dumb, and got nailed for it......... and they have the nerve to be pissed us? Srsly.....
Gee, lets dangle a really talented TE out on the open market and risk anyone picking him up......... WHAT...... someone took him? Those jerks.
To be fair, Coughlin didn't say a word against the Patriots...more like kicking himself, or whoever in the Giants organization pulled the trigger on the "calculated risk."
To be fair, Coughlin didn't say a word against the Patriots...more like kicking himself, or whoever in the Giants organization pulled the trigger on the "calculated risk."
Even better is that I was reading a thread on JI yesterday where someone mentioned that Ballard had been waived and was wondering if the Rats should put in a claim. No one else picked up on that thought at all.
So now fast forward to today, and we find out that the Pats, who probably have the top TE group in the NFL, are the ONLY team to put in a claim on Ballard, while lesser teams, like the Rats, just sat their on their mangy, flea-bitten haunches, gnawing on moldy cheese, and allowing the far superior Pats to get even more superior.
Imagine the gnashing of little rodent teeth now in the fetid swamps of New Jersey.
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What I don't like is that Florio is doing his best to INFER that Coughlin is mad at the Pats for breaking some "unwritten rule", when clearly what Coughlin is mad about is the mistake made by his own FO. ESPN is also trying to create the impression that somehow the Pats have done something untoward in claiming Ballard. Ridiculous effort to paint the Pats as the "evil empire" in the minds of the national audience. Ridiculous....and mean.
What I don't like is that Florio is doing his best to INFER that Coughlin is mad at the Pats for breaking some "unwritten rule", when clearly what Coughlin is mad about is the mistake made by his own FO. ESPN is also trying to create the impression that somehow the Pats have done something untoward in claiming Ballard. Ridiculous effort to paint the Pats as the "evil empire" in the minds of the national audience. Ridiculous....and mean.
Ballardgate?
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What I don't like is that Florio is doing his best to INFER that Coughlin is mad at the Pats for breaking some "unwritten rule", when clearly what Coughlin is mad about is the mistake made by his own FO. ESPN is also trying to create the impression that somehow the Pats have done something untoward in claiming Ballard. Ridiculous effort to paint the Pats as the "evil empire" in the minds of the national audience. Ridiculous....and mean.
Like how they intimated that the Pats had something to do with a scoreboard malfunction in the AFCC game to cause the Ravens to miss a FG, or for hiring Josh McDaniel after Bill O'Brien committed to Penn State.
Par for the course for these media clowns.
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place! - Anonymous internet poster
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
What I don't like is that Florio is doing his best to INFER that Coughlin is mad at the Pats for breaking some "unwritten rule", when clearly what Coughlin is mad about is the mistake made by his own FO. ESPN is also trying to create the impression that somehow the Pats have done something untoward in claiming Ballard. Ridiculous effort to paint the Pats as the "evil empire" in the minds of the national audience. Ridiculous....and mean.
People just assume the Patriots are doing underhanded thing, largely because of the ESPN coverage. I just had to correct someone who said the Patriots must have broken an unwritten rule because all the other teams passed and I said "wait, so in your scenario the other owners and GMs are guilty of collusion and Belichick is in the wrong?"
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