AzPatsFan
Veteran Starter w/Big Long Term Deal
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Mg teich,1) A team is never finished rebuilding. There are always contacts that expire and players to replace.
2) Your presumption that the goal is to have everyone under 30 make me think that you are in high school. Our SB bowl teams had lots of veterans, some as starters and some as backups. The problem with this team is the LACK of seasoned veterans not that we have the burden of six players older than 30. I suspect that if it were up to you we wouldn't have just signed Taylor, Hanson and Hochstein. As you note, you already are ready to ship out Bruschi and Hanson. Surely if we draft an OG, the old man Hochstein would be gone.
My suspicion is that you would really like us to get down to only AD and Taylor as the over 30 players and you're not so sure of them.
Not me. I think any team needs a leavening of experience. Early thirties is prime time for most positions and fine with me.
As far as I am concerned, only Tedy and (Larry Okie) are displaying any symptoms of Over-the-Hill-itis. Larry is pretty much gone, as Sam Akins was brought in last year to head up the STs. Besides Pierre Woods is the ST guru now. The LBs are now overflowing with youth, as is the Defensive backfield, and more young talent will likely join in this year's draft. The D_Line is just entering its Prime, IMHO.
I just question whether BB will be able to find positional room for Tedy, other than on the Shadow Roster.
If anything, y'all are the ones with the long knives for the O linemen. Neal and Light are good for another 3 or 4 years as far as I am concerned. Good linemen, and these are two of the best, play into their mid thirties, as I have said.
I 'm prepared for another three years of Superbowl appearances like 2001-2005. :snob: