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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.More like 5 times.Does anyone else think that Polian is going to try to come up with a rule that "coaches of the Pro Bowl can not sign a player he coaches," just knowing what a cry baby the guy is I sure he is pissed that AD is with the Pats.
God I hope the Pats open up in Indy and Thomas drops Peyton 3 times.
So is his athletic versatility, the kind that would allow a football mind as facile as Belichick's to have a field day using Thomas's skills differently from week to week to create difficult matchups.
Since the Ravens won the Super Bowl six years ago, they have lost a trainload of defensive talent in free agency. None of the players who departed went on to maintain their level of play at their new addresses.
That is true of defensive tackle Sam Adams, linebacker Jamie Sharper, cornerback Duane Starks, safety Kim Herring, cornerback Gary Baxter, defensive linemen Rob Burnett, Keith Washington, and Lionel Dalton, and linebacker Ed Hartwell.
Gee, I wonder what happened between the time Ron posted this to MSNBC Friday and the time he posted his Globe article this morning:
Actually what Borges does is say "I will write an article critical of the Patriots so the local fandom will get all up-in-arms and talk about me, thereby increasing my visibility and advancing me career."This is exactly a case of "I will write a cautionary article on Adalius Thomas. If he succeeds, everyone will forget that I wrote the article. If he fails however, I will now have an article that I can shove at BB's face everytime and I say I TOLD YOU SO, I TOLD YOU SO".
Don't let the tool bother you. Only two days earlier in an article posted on MSNBC.com, Borges himself placed Thomas first on his list of free agents “most likely to deliver value for their services” :
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17392462/page/2/
It must have been quite a challenge for Borges to somehow, some way paint a negative picture of the Pats signing. He rolls out a pretty weak argument doubting Thomas because of his age, his price tag, and the history of defensive players after the leave Baltimore. There are a number of Borgisms in the article, for example the obligatory unnamed NFL personnel man, AFC executive, etc. but my favorite occurs when he proceeds to manipulate Ozzie Newsome’s quotes regarding Thomas, player value and free agency:
"This was not an 11th-hour decision," Newsome said. "We've been facing that since the beginning of training camp [in 2006], knowing that we could have to make that decision. I think it was a fair decision. I think it was fair to the organization and fair for A.D.Sounds good Ron, but you forgot to mention that the last paragraph was actually spoken by Ozzie in direct response to a reporter’s question about Tony Pashos and Jarret Johnson! http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/article.jsp?id=16696
"I had a chance to sit down and talk with him the Monday before I came to the combine and explained our position, gave him an opportunity to talk to me. I think it was the fair thing to do.
"The way we approach it, we come to the threshold of what we think the player's value is in Baltimore. When it goes beyond that, then we don't mind them going out the door. If we lose them, we feel like we can go out and find some more."
Just another example of how Borges’ personal vendetta against Belichick makes him a joke. He might have gotten all of Belichick's quarters in high school, but he wouldn't have even noticed that Bill copped his dollars in the process.
Don't let the tool bother you. Only two days earlier in an article posted on MSNBC.com, Borges himself placed Thomas first on his list of free agents “most likely to deliver value for their services” :
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17392462/page/2/
It must have been quite a challenge for Borges to somehow, some way paint a negative picture of the Pats signing. He rolls out a pretty weak argument doubting Thomas because of his age, his price tag, and the history of defensive players after the leave Baltimore. There are a number of Borgisms in the article, for example the obligatory unnamed NFL personnel man, AFC executive, etc. but my favorite occurs when he proceeds to manipulate Ozzie Newsome’s quotes regarding Thomas, player value and free agency:
"This was not an 11th-hour decision," Newsome said. "We've been facing that since the beginning of training camp [in 2006], knowing that we could have to make that decision. I think it was a fair decision. I think it was fair to the organization and fair for A.D.Sounds good Ron, but you forgot to mention that the last paragraph was actually spoken by Ozzie in direct response to a reporter’s question about Tony Pashos and Jarret Johnson! http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/article.jsp?id=16696
"I had a chance to sit down and talk with him the Monday before I came to the combine and explained our position, gave him an opportunity to talk to me. I think it was the fair thing to do.
"The way we approach it, we come to the threshold of what we think the player's value is in Baltimore. When it goes beyond that, then we don't mind them going out the door. If we lose them, we feel like we can go out and find some more."
Just another example of how Borges’ personal vendetta against Belichick makes him a joke. He might have gotten all of Belichick's quarters in high school, but he wouldn't have even noticed that Bill copped his dollars in the process.
It is amazing isn't it. Borges seems so desperate here. So hopeful this is a bad move he reaches for whatever he can find to make it so. To borrow a line from Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Borges is a rat. His whole family is rats. 200 bucks says he made up or embelished the quotes from the other NFL personnel guy. A 100 more says if he didn't the source was Polian.