resdubwhite
In the Starting Line-Up
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2009
- Messages
- 4,681
- Reaction score
- 2,420
Registered Members experience this forum ad and noise-free.
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.Volin is more plugged into a jets defensive player than any pats player ?It's Volin, so believe what you want:
Ben Volin@BenVolin4m
More
NY Jet defensive player upon hearing of Mankins trade: “I’m not surprised.”
I know im exaggerating but every time i see wendell as our starting center i throw up in my mouth.LOL take a breath, the patriots Oline is not the worst in the league.
second only to Sea in YPG, thats with Vaccoro and Greer missing time. They had some terrible jag play when Greer went down.Did you just say New Orleans had a top secondary last year?
Interior pass protection was the team's major weakness in 2012 and 2013. Naturally, BB responds by trading away the best interior OL (and best OL altogether) on the roster? This, on the surface, appears to be a move that hurts the team needlessly. Not high on the compensation, either. I just don't see the point.
It's Volin, so believe what you want:
Ben Volin@BenVolin4m
More
NY Jet defensive player upon hearing of Mankins trade: “I’m not surprised.”
Yeah, the Jets player probably isn't saying anything about Mankins but rather taking a shot at NE and how BB does business.It's Volin, so believe what you want:
Ben Volin@BenVolin4m
More
NY Jet defensive player upon hearing of Mankins trade: “I’m not surprised.”
Yeah, the Jets player probably isn't saying anything about Mankins but rather taking a shot at NE and how BB does business.
I would be totally fine with this... if we had a proven C and/or RG. Mankins is in the decline, and while he's still very good, he was going to be a cap casualty next year anyway. But making this trade now just makes the weakest unit on the team even worse. Looks like someone out of Halapio/Kline/Devey is going to have to be ready to start right away.
Re: Wright, he was pretty good in Tampa last year, and being a Rutgers guy I'm sure Belichick has been scouting him for the past 5 years. But I have a hard time seeing he alone being worth the kind of upheaval that this is going to create on a key unit of the offense. It only kinda makes sense as a trade-off to me if the pick is a good one (1st or 2nd round, and I can't imagine TB giving up a 1st).
I'll never understand how Belichick can look at Brady--a pure pocket passer if there ever was one--and elect to start three unproven and/or bad interior linemen in front of him. I fully expect this to be the team's achilles heel; it's by far the weakest unit we have.
I'm guessing they looked at the numbers and saw they'd have to release a guy they want to develop...Halapio, maybe?...and knew they wouldn't have him next year anyway.
So they pulled the trigger, got something for him, and cleared cap space.
But not sure I like it.
You're making the assumption that Wendell is on the roster. You're also making assumption that trading Mankins had anything to do with Wendell and not everything to do with the Salary Cap and getting Wright.
To the best of my knowledge, Wendell is still on the roster.
As to your second point, that could certainly be the case. However, in light of recent events the notion that Mankins only looked bad because of Wendell's suckage doesn't appear to have much validity.