yes as noted 2 games which was televised nationally.You are happy to pay a guy who shows up for nationally televised games ONLY. He has been dogging it for than 50% of the season. You telling his team mates think he is a dog as he was playing hurt?.
He played great near the entire second half of the season, not just televised games. The guy also still had 10.5 sacks.
Again , i am looking at 11 million a below market rate not the 13 million a tope level guy will get.
So you would rather tank next year grooming a OLB for 2011? You do realize that most DEs/OLBs don't have great rookie years.
Besides, if there is no cap and the Pats can get him to sign a three year deal that will allow them to get out of it in two years with minimal cap hit, what do you care what they spend? It is Bob Kraft's money.
Also, I expect salaries to decrease with the odds of the new CBA either stalling cap growth or decreasing the cap very likely.
Missing the point seymour game does not involve the first quick muscle twitch step which is key for a pass rushing end. With age you slow down and if injured forget him for 2 yrs. Look at AD he hit the wall and lost that first step and now he is less effective.
Seymour is a DE and both Peppers and Thomas are OLB (at least in the Pats' system). Besides, Peppers is not all speed. He is very good at making the angles and getting leverage against the opposing tackles. Besides, comparing Thomas who has had several injuries to Peppers isn't neccessarily the case.
You win your division first and that you do by shutting down the offenses in your division.Stopping the run is so key and running the ball. instead of paying him use the money to get vince and mankins. will probabily cost the same.Also, what would you do if you have to play the ravens in the playoff again or Jacksonville?
You win your division by winning the most games. That means you build your team to beat any team in the league not just your division foes.
Besides, who said that getting Peppers would stop the Pats from having a good run defense. They had a pretty good one this year. Adding Peppers wouldn't stop them from being good again. Mankins is irrelevant to this conversation.
I concur but its kinda embrassing to watch them run up and down lol.
So now the Pats should build a team not to win, but win without being embarrassing? The Bills had 105 yards rushing the last time they played the Patriots. Not all that bad, but certainly not embarrassing to the Pats. In the first game of the season, the Bills rushed for 90 yards vs. the Pats. Last year in the first meeting, the Bills rushed for 60 yards (although they rushed for 161 yards the second time, but the Pats still blew them out 13-0).