Blount Signs with Pats (2yr deal)

Some happy memories... Hope the Blount gets fired up this weekend!

Brady'sButtBoy said:

Blount can likely help the team sure, but he quit on his teammates in Pitt and I wish the Pats had just left him out to rot. The 'Patriot Way' takes another kick in the mouth. Blount is a bad seed, he had his shot at redemption and pissed it all away. Can't imagine Big Daddy Kraft likes the way this move will sully the Patriot name in the national view.

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I get where you are coming from about Blount quitting on his teammates in Pitt but I think that the Patriots believe that he will be fine with them or else they would not have resigned him. I really doubt its going to make the Patriots look bad because they signed him

Deus Irae said:

Excellent!

I'd like to thank the Titans for helping NE to stabilize the LBs after Mayo went down, I'd like to thank the Steeler for helping NE to round out their RB corps after the Ridley injury, and I'd like to thank Jack Daniels for helping NE to improve the DT depth after the Siliga injury.

Now, who's going to volunteer to help the Patriots out at DE?

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I'm making a fake Justin Houston twitter account as we speak. Something tells me "he" will be making some very disparaging comments about the Chiefs' owner and his propensity for male companionship soon. Help is on the way!

DaBruinz said:

Haley can be the name of a man or woman. So, by all means, keep spewing your idiocy. It's a laugh riot..

Fact is that you flapped your trapped pretty ridiculously and got called on it. You clearly can't handle it. And now you throw out some chauvenistic crap in a vain attempt to deflect away from the fact that you didn't think through your original post or your follow-up one. .

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If this is how you talk to people when you're not angry, I hope no real men show up and piss you off.

rochrist said:

FWIW, Siliga wasn't at practice today.

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Yep. Once they put him in practice,he counts as a roster spot.

Even after cutting Walker, if they choose to add Siliga to the active roster they still need to release/IR someone.

robertweathers said:

Yep. Once they put him in practice,he counts as a roster spot.

Even after cutting Walker, if they choose to add Siliga to the active roster they still need to release/IR someone.

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Not entirely accurate. He can practice for three weeks without counting, it isn't until NE activates him off of IR that they must make an adjacent roster move.

Brady6 said:

4 solid veteran players added at this point in the season is big.

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Very seldom is Belichick ever been proven to: "Load Up and Go for It". This year would be the obvious counter argument.

However, all the NFL veterans that he has traded for, or signed as FAs, are well below 30, with many years remaining in their careers, yet experienced and proven elsewhere. OTH, he has let older veterans Mankins, Kelly, Anderson, Williams leave.

This a very deep, and young, rising League power, on both Defense and Offense; and even on ST too.

Oswlek said:

Not entirely accurate. He can practice for three weeks without counting, it isn't until NE activates him off of IR that they must make an adjacent roster move.

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Right. I thought that was understood. He was at practice yesterday. The reason I noted he wasn't there today is that it possibly indicates a setback, or at least that they're going exceptionally slow with him.

Galeb said:

If this is how you talk to people when you're not angry, I hope no real men show up and piss you off.

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That is how I talk to a person who is acting stupid and idiotic. It has nothing to do with feelings.. But thanks for your 2 cents..

robertweathers said:

Thats fine but I think teams still do it.

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Can you please provide examples?

Oswlek said:

Not entirely accurate. He can practice for three weeks without counting, it isn't until NE activates him off of IR that they must make an adjacent roster move.

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Yep you are right.

Once a player participates in a practice, it starts the 21-day window to activate that player on the 53-man roster. So, until his activation, the Patriots do not have to make a roster move to make room for Siliga.

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http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-...ealver-siliga-back-at-practice-after-ir-stint

Below is what confused me...

Defensive lineman Sealver Siliga was not spotted at practice. Siliga remains on the team’s injured reserve with a designation to return despite participating in the Patriots’ walkthrough practice on Wednesday. Players on the injured reserve can be at walkthroughs, but until Siliga participates in a practice, the 21-day window to activate him on the 53-man roster does not start.

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http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-england-patriots

So it seems that he can attend walkthroughs - which do not count as practices.

Miguel said:

Can you please provide examples?

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Can't prove it but the circumstances around Jeff Demps were always suspicious..

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...picious-but-dont-count-on-anything-happening/

Oswlek said:

Perhaps, but it is rare. Usually it is something like what NE did with Demps. The injury was legitimate, though probably only a 3-4 week deal with a more necessary player.

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We can question the legitimacy of the Demps injury...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...picious-but-dont-count-on-anything-happening/

My first reactions was F*** yes! What a dynamic running back core we have now. Made my day.

robertweathers said:

Oh I do think its a violation (I stated that before DaBruinz). I just think it's an unwritten understanding that the team has with players. In the end, as long as the player is being paid, their contract is not altered and their league year is accrued, I think some players would be ok with going along with the team's ask for them to go on IR- especially for guys like James White who aren't playing anyway.



Yea thats the thing. I can't prove it. There is the whole Ty Detmer story that may/may not be true.

The advantage is clear- keep players under the team's control so they aren't made available to other teams.

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How much advantage do you have in keeping a player who cannot participate in anything.
Better off to waive him and put him on the practice squad.
If you are at the point of not wanting him on your team sending him away to hope he comes back better seems counterproductive.

DaBruinz said:

What you think and what you can prove are entirely different things. Clearly no one is going to change your mind. And just a point of information. It's been mentioned more than a few times that young players who miss their first year due to IR tend to not develop. This is because, being on the IR, you are limited in what you can do. Article 17.16 (B) specifically states what those players can do. Unless you have specific examples, you seem to be blowing smoke,.

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Not trying to blow smoke. The circumstances around the Jeff Demps IR come to mind.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/31/jeff-demps-goes-from-fine-to-ir-in-just-24-hours/

Haley said:

Really, just add me to your ignore list. I have no interest in ever conversing with you. In my opinion you are nothing but a troll on these forums and how you have escaped banning is mystifying. Be well.

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It's easy to see why you'd be mystified. You can't understand the simple concept that the Patriots signed Blount at the earliest possible moment they could and that it would have no affect on the Lions defensive game plan. You also don't seem to understand that the Lions wouldn't be game-planning for the #3 RB on the opposing team.

As for you thinking I'm a troll, there are a few problems with that. First and foremost, trolls don't use facts to blow up a person's argument. Second, Trolls immediately get self-righteous when they are challenged and claim that the other person didn't understand them.. Kinda like you did. All I've done is use facts to show how your posts didn't make any sense. You clearly got offended that anyone, let alone me, should 2nd guess your "pie in the sky" theory.

BTW, do you understand what "pie in the sky" means? It means far-fetched. Unlikely. So, why you'd be getting all worked up over someone pointing out how the facts don't support it speaks volumes about you.

As for banning. That's easy. I've not done anything that would deserve being banned.

Haley, you are just another in a long line of people who can't admit when they've made a mistake.

AndyJohnson said:

How much advantage do you have in keeping a player who cannot participate in anything.
Better off to waive him and put him on the practice squad.
If you are at the point of not wanting him on your team sending him away to hope he comes back better seems counterproductive.

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The advantage is that they team keeps him under their control and as a result does not hit the waiver wire and thus claimed by another team.

Some players a team is ok with taking that risk. Some aren't.

robertweathers said:

Not trying to blow smoke. The circumstances around the Jeff Demps IR come to mind.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/31/jeff-demps-goes-from-fine-to-ir-in-just-24-hours/

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Jeff Demps had a legitimate knee injury. The Pats IRed him. Using PFT as your source when everyone knows that Florio and his band of nitwits have an axe to grind with the Pats doesn't help your case.

Furthermore, if you don't think that the Commissioner looked into it to make sure that the Pats weren't doing something underhanded, then I have some cheap oceanfront property in New Mexico to sell you.