Patriotic Fervor
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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So..he had to rush into a deal so he could sign James Sanders ASAP? There's too much smoke about first round offers out there for them not to have some fire to them. Waiting hours or a day wouldn't have made a difference to signing FA's(weak class anyway) or their own players. Unless you know of some players that have been scooped out from underneath the Pats over the weekend. Some fans can't face the fact that BB can screw the pooch and did.
And apparently some fans can't understand the intricacies of sports trades, market value, and it's dynamics.
This first round brouhaha surrounding Cassel is totally bogus, especially the Tampa Bay angle.
Tampa had no interest in Cassel. Let me repeat that - Tampa had NO interest in Cassel.
The first/third scenario was for Cutler. If they're so hot and bothered about Cassel to expend a first and third on him, there's nothing stopping them from making an offer to KC, who I'm quite certain would jump at the chance to do it.
Detroit's "first round offer" is even more obscure and nebulous, and seems to have even less foundation that Tampa Bay's.
The Patriots were talking to these teams as late as last week, and they evinced no interest from these teams (or any other, for that matter) involving a first rounder for Cassel. Then, out of the blue, and most assuredly too late to make a difference, everyone and his grandmother (seemingly) wants to unload their first and a third for Mr. Cassel, who's all of a sudden viewed as the reincarnation of Sammy Baugh.
Uh-huh....
As for your absurd and preposterous view that the Pats can't dictate to the Chiefs what to do with a player (or pick, for that matter), it happens - probably a lot more than you suspect.
Back in the early '70s, for example, the Boston Bruins were in a tight jam at goal, and couldn't seem to find the right man to plug the holes in the position. However, in that year's draft, a bright, promising goalie named John Davidson was available, even at the Bruins' draft spot, and looked like the man they'd been seeking all along.
However, on draft day, the Montreal Canadians, who were well set in goal with Dryden and Vachon, and had the pick right before the Bruins, traded the pick to St. Louis, with the proviso they select Davidson, and never trade the man to the Bruins!
It's all very legal. It's called contract law. And the New England Patriots seem to know how to work these things.
There's nothing inherently evil about it - it's just the way the world works.
We all thought you'd know that.