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Check my thread on the Draft Board, there's serious question about whether Merriweather is the bad guy some make him out to be.
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Check my thread on the Draft Board, there's serious question about whether Merriweather is the bad guy some make him out to be.
This is the biggest offseason in recent years because (1) there are few high quality free agents, (2) most teams are well under the cap and will resign their own quality players, (3) we don't have many upper echelon players to resign, and (4) we have no obvious openings where a rookie can step in and contribute, and the back end of the roster has gotten a lot younger.
Hawkins is 30 years old, Chad Scott is 32 years old, Tebucky Jones is 32 years old. Mel Mitchell is a special teams player and James Sanders will be ahead of him on the depth chart next year at strong safety. There is no guarantee that Tebucky Jones or Mel Mitchell will be on the roster next year.
Sorry man, I just think its going to be a quiet, quiet offseason coming up.
Do you deny the leg stomping incident by Meriweather in the Miami - Florida International brawl? Do you deny that he was suspended for one game by the university for his participation in the aforementioned brawl? Do you deny the shooting incident in which Meriweather concealed a weapon in his pants? Way too many red flags for the New England Patriots organization.
Check the thread on the draft board. It's not clear that he's a bad guy. Maybe he is but it's not as clear cut as you're trying to make it out to be.
Oh Please! You are rationalizing his behavior due to your own personal biases. Fortunately, that's not how the New England Patriots front office works. It's time to take off those orange colored Hurricane glasses and look elsewhere for a potential free safety in the 2007 NFL draft.
No, I just asked the question. I don't want jerks on the team but I don't want to blindly cross guys off for mistakes if they're unlikely to be repeated.
Here is the bottom line:
Don't you think that Pioli and Belichick learned their lesson dealing with the antics of Terry Glenn during the 2001 NFL season, none of which dealt with fire arms or on-the-field violence?
Antoine Womack, Cedric Cobbs, PK Sam, Christian Morton, Le Kevin Smith...
Everyone's different. Glenn's problems were doing what he was told and responding to authorities (namely the coaches). There's nothing to suggest Merriweather has those issues.
How many of those players made the police blotter?
Merriweather wasn't charged with anything in the gun situation. He legally owned it and used it for self defense. The melee, he should have shown better restraint but it's still a 22 year old getting caught up in a dumb moment.
Coming out "they" said he was lazy and undisciplined. Those are character issues. The Pats still drafted him.
A shooting incident is a far more egregious act in the public eye than a four game drug suspension. A leg stomping incident shown on the ESPN highlights over and over and over again is a far more egregious act in the public eye than a four game drug suspension.
