Recent content by b_btrick

I have to agree with pats and the others saying that beisel cant be judged by this game simply because no one on here has anything more than conjecture about his (beisel's) responsibilities on those plays. arrellbee gives beisel terrible and poor grades for plays where beisel plugged a hole by...

Is it just me ... or did he say 'quarterback Troy Brown' ?

LOL ... yeah ... something like that. Though I was thinking more along the lines of Team A wanting to trade for a player on the Pats and pointing to what was given up for Tucker as a basis for what they will give the Pats for that player.

I think he would change. Its just my opinion, however, one of the key characteristics of Belichick that somehow seems to have been forgotten in everyone's focus on the '3-4' is that he will take a player and adjust his defense (and offense) to what that (those) player(s) can do. Given the...

I agree (while many others wont), I expect them to develop quickly and contribute to the team this year the way both Branch and Givens did their first years though, hopefully more so. They each have the appearance of being great talents and smart enough to learn even the famed Pats system and...

Actually, he was only behind him for one year (2000). He was with baltimore for 4 years the first three were before Lewis got there in 2000. Or was it 2001? It was 2000. Your point is still valid in a round about way though. Even during the first three years befor Lewis, Holmes never...

Might be an interesting way to roll over any extra space from this year. Just tack it on as incentives for one of the guys on the PS. As a PS player they wont be making any incentives and if they are picked up by another team, then again, they wont be making their incentives (at least not with...

Well, all I can say is that I havent seen Maroney play at this level yet so I cant really figure out what kind of running style he will have within the Pats system. He is big enough to be a power back and fast enough to be a shifty back so its anybodys guess what he will be, especially behind...

Ah, I see. Not a 'likely to be used' scenario then (pun intended) since any bonus would likely be reached. Unless, there were some way to establish goals that would not likely be reached, and still call them likely to be reached so that the money carried over. What is the deciding factor in...

One comment and one question: I'm not sure if anyone else has said this yet, however I think it would be a great gesture for the Pats to use some of the space to give 'underpaid' (by Pats standards) players a bonus this year. Specifically Bruschi and Harrison even though both are older and...

I suppose I should preface this by saying that I also think Chad will be a very very good one, perhaps the best the Pats have had since ... well ... at least the best since Kraft took over (again just for emphasis this is only my opinion and hope), and as such I dont really want Moss here to...

omg ... all you old fogies are so full of yourselves its rediculous. I hate to break it to you all but just because you have more posts than someone else doenst mean you are smarter, more informed, or anything else other than more willing to post (perhaps that should be rephrased as less capable...

If this is referring to what Branch is making this year, its a moot point since he signed his contract and it still has one year (this year) left. Though I will agree that it is slightly under what he should make if he is as productive as he was last year, though not so much if he is no better...

Just my .02, but I think a lot of it is the medias fault. They need to have some sort of hero or face for the team and AV was one that they chose. Because of that everytime the media talked about the pats or evaluated the pats, then his name came up. Lazy reporting is a term someone in here used...