jemea thomas cut

I'm disappointed cuz we share the same first name...Jemea

lucky for him his last name is Thomas...unfortunately I'm stuck with Moron.

Jemea Thomas is interesting, and you can look at him as a wasted pick/potential if you'd like, but none of us (including the coaching staff) knew he would have no chance to make the roster because of Swanson, Butler and an injury. I'll take a coach who strikes twice on two UDFA camp bodies, but misses on a 6th round pick. The difference in a 6th rounder and an UDFA isn't much, is it?

Brady6 said:

You need to open your eyes because if you are not disappointed in anything you have not been paying attention. Not to sound like a **** but I would be willing to bet I have forgot more about the 2014 draft than you ever knew, so you telling me about expectations and what players would have or should have been selected where is rich.

Easley, Garopollo, Fleming, and Moore were solid or even good choices, anyone who invested even 60 minutes into the scouting and mocking process of this past draft would have told you that Stork, Halapio, and Thomas were poor choices.

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What exactly is the scouting and mocking process?

Thomas was a late round pick who got little chance to show the staff because of injury, which is exactly the type of player that I would expect to see on the practice squad. I would be surprised not to see him there.

The Scrizz said:

Thomas was a late round pick who got little chance to show the staff because of injury, which is exactly the type of player that I would expect to see on the practice squad. I would be surprised not to see him there.

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He's already been claimed by the DAL Cowboys.

As I said, if the Patriots were serious about Thomas being a PS candidate, there's no way they'd have cut him on Tuesday and exposed him to the rest of the NFL all week long. It's much more likely that they would've cut him during final cuts on Saturday, and only had to expose him to waivers for less than 24 hrs; particularly when there were many more players cut that day that he could've blended in with.

It would seem that by cutting him early, they did not see him as much of a PS candidate. DAL does, due to their poor secondary situation.

The Scrizz said:

What exactly is the scouting and mocking process?

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In this case, it means scouting for posts that you disagree with, then mocking those who posted them.

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Since the smiley apparently didn't make it obvious, the above statement was a joke.

supafly said:

He's already been claimed by the DAL Cowboys.

As I said, if the Patriots were serious about Thomas being a PS candidate, there's no way they'd have cut him on Tuesday and exposed him to the rest of the NFL all week long. It's much more likely that they would've cut him during final cuts on Saturday, and only had to expose him to waivers for less than 24 hrs; particularly when there were many more players cut that day that he could've blended in with.

It would seem that by cutting him early, they did not see him as much of a PS candidate. DAL does, due to their poor secondary situation.

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Just because Dallas picked him up does not mean he will end up on Dallas. They could cut him by the end of the week and he still could end up on the Patriots PS.

This year's draft? Wasn't expecting much, honestly. We had crappy picks, and not many of them, to boot. And for all the talk about the "deep" draft, as the final scouting reports came out on the positions of need (TE, LB and DE), I wasn't very impressed.

Brady6, what did you expect?

Keep some things in mind before you answer that. The Patriots WERE deeper this year than in year's past because of the injuries last year and the draft last year. Siliga, Jones and Vellano were not going to be upgraded by a low-round pick. And we weren't going high for another receiver when Dobson and Thompkins flashed so well last year, and with Boyce's potential. Add in Collins, Harmon and Ryan, and we had eight or NINE players who got a baptism under fire last year and proved out pretty solidly.

And you can never look at a draft in a vacuum. Since the end of the year last year, the injury-riddled 2013 Pat's lost (not cut or traded) Blount, Talib and Spikes. Anyone else of note I"m missing here?

Look at what they added - two starting top corners and a solid NFL receiver. This team is deeper than any Pats team I can remember. Revis+Browner are a huge upgrade over Talib, and Jamie Collins > Branson Spikes in today's NFL.

As for the OL picks, they shotgunned it, like with WR last year. Add Kline, Cave, Barker, Martin and Devey to the 3 picks, all trying to fit in around the four starters and Cannon from last year...8 first or second-year guys competing for 3-4 spots.

Honestly, I don't know who they missed in the draft who would have been better than who they took (which still doesn't make it a great draft, i admit!).

Nunchucks said:

Just because Dallas picked him up does not mean he will end up on Dallas. They could cut him by the end of the week and he still could end up on the Patriots PS.

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Anything's possible, Nunchucks--but I'm just pointing to the fact that they normally cut their PS targets/candidates during final cutdowns for a couple/few different reasons. That didn't happen in this case, which makes it seem like they didn't view him as much of a candidate at that particular time.

The leading theory here with trading Justin Green to the Dallas Cowboys is that the Pats were keeping him away from the Jets.

Rather than the possibility that the Pats had already soured on him to the extent he wasn't worth a looksee in the 4th preseason game, perhaps the Pats decided to waive Thomas early because they knew the Cowboys would claim him, 2 spots ahead of the Jets?

Bill and Jason Garrett were at the Galley Beach restaurant on Nantucket in early July. Pretty sure they coordinated this whole Jemea Thomas waivergate thing.

I love Nantucket subterfuge.

The guy I wanted at 206, WR Jeff Janis, is still with GB. Let's see if he makes the final cut.

If Bill wanted a DB at 206, however, the better choices would've been SS Ahmad Dixon or DB
Jonathan Dowling.