Blount Signs with Pats (2yr deal)

I love the depth and cold weather experience that Blount brings. If his head is on straight, his could be a productive situation.

fnordcircle said:

Kliff Kingsbury told a local paper that he was informed of his injury by Belichick.

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Yeah, that article is hopelessly buried (thanks to him being a successful coach). I believe he was making a public appearance and said it before a crowd.
Andy hart said undisclosed, but Wiki said arm injury. I guess that's safe for a QB, I think Brady won at least two super bowls while being on the injury report with asn arm injury.

LeGarrette Blount @LG_Blount · 2h2 hours ago
We baaaaaack!!!!! #PatsNation

Miguel said:

Placing Kingsbury on IR happened before the regular season. I am asking for teams placing a player with no previous reports of injury on IR during the regular season. There were posts that suggested that the Patriots could/should place James White on IR.

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Sorry, but what difference does it make?

LeGarrette Blount @LG_Blount · 2h2 hours ago
I would like to thank the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, Mr Rooney, Kevin Colbert, Coach Tomlin and Coach Sax for the opportunity and exp
LeGarrette Blount @LG_Blount · 2h2 hours ago
erience they provided me. I would also like to apologize to them and my Teammates and fans for how things ended. I made a poor decision
LeGarrette Blount @LG_Blount · 2h2 hours ago
that I will definitely grow from. I wish the Steelers, my former teammates and Steeler Nation nothing but the best.

patfanken said:

So the mystery that is Lagarrette Blount still remains. Will the team get the battering ram we saw the 2nd half of the season, or the underperforming, inconsistent, feast or famine, RB that he's been his whole career, EXCEPT for that short 8 game stretch last season. The answer is, "who knows". I doubt BB knows either, but he obviously he thinks its worth the risk.

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Don't discount the light of a new contract flipping that switch by game eight last year. I wouldn't have signed him to a two year deal, but just the remainder of this one with incentives to keep that motivation aspect.

Awesome news- I get why they let him go for the money Pittsburgh was offering, but he's a real asset here. He'll probably never have any use in the passing game, but he's a great compliment to Vereen as a situational player.

Really curious to see the terms of the deal here, though. I can't imagine that he had much leverage in this negotiation, so it should be possible for the Pats to have signed him for peanuts.

PScottman said:

Don't discount the light of a new contract flipping that switch by game eight last year. I wouldn't have signed him to a two year deal, but just the remainder of this one with incentives to keep that motivation aspect.

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Honestly, I get the sense that he's just someone who needs a ton of accountability in the locker room, and some real coaching form his coaches. As this season went on, I watched him revert from the good habits that he learned in New England back to the sloppy crap that defined his career previously. Last year, a reporter asked him about how he'd finally started running low (for him), absorbing contact, and running through tacklers--all the things you would want a guy of his size to do. He basically said "nobody ever coached me to do this stuff until now". I buy it. He's still a guy who needs a lot of coaching, and since my humble opinion is that Mike Tomlin and Todd Haley are awful coaches, I think he just wasn't getting the coaching that he needed there.

I fully expect that within a few weeks Fears will have him back to last year's late-season form.

BradyFTW! said:

Awesome news- I get why they let him go for the money Pittsburgh was offering, but he's a real asset here. He'll probably never have any use in the passing game, but he's a great compliment to Vereen as a situational player.

Really curious to see the terms of the deal here, though. I can't imagine that he had much leverage in this negotiation, so it should be possible for the Pats to have signed him for peanuts.

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As fast as he signed, I don't imagine there were lots of issues either way.

Deus Irae said:

As fast as he signed, I don't imagine there were lots of issues either way.

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BB had seen Blount up close and personal, and didn't have to satisfy himself about Blount. Plus I think BB chose to strike while the iron was hot, precluding any teams that had to go more slowly to answer questions.

In that sense, BB's signing him quickly was a personnel coup, of the first order.

Haley said:

What a hilarious thing to say to someone with the name Haley. Has it never occurred to you that there are female members of this board? By all means, keep spewing testosterone. It is a laugh riot!

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I literally lol'd.

Nice depth signing, wasn't a huge fan of Blount but I feel better with him getting the carries than Bolden or White if need be. Works out great for us as we probably got him a little cheaper than we would have in the offseason, with a greater need for him now.

KontradictioN said:

@fnordcircle has 999 posts on that forum without being banned. That's a modern miracle.

EDIT: I'm also tickled that David Lo Pan posts on there. "This is a nice knife. Goodbye, Mr. Burton".

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I love that movie.
Kim was SO hot back then.

Ran into Kurt Russell once when he & Goldie were filming in Concord MA.

DaBruinz said:

Clearly you don't know what you are talking about. I have no axe to grind. I was pointing out the ridiculousness of your post. There was nothing trolling about my post and you sure as hell didn't make me angry. You aren't man enough to do that.

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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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DaBruinz said:

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..

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DaBruinz said:

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

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Some Holiday Season reading recommendations:

I was disappointed this went down the way it did. Blount can obviously be a good football player when his head is on straight.

That said, he was struggling with Pittsburgh. Outside of a big day week 3 (when he pounded a dispirited CAR defense--this is what we had in mind when we signed him), I don't think he had another game where he averaged over 4 ypc. And as many of you have noted he's just not the short yardage/RZ back you'd expect for someone his size...this predates Pitt (or NE for that matter).

You guys obviously have a great organization and a great locker room, and seem to do really well with guys with 'character concerns' (even AH, for all his horrific off-the-field craziness, seemed to keep it together on the football field). But I think Blount's meltdown with Pitt had a simpler explanation than something wrong with the Pitt locker room or coaching staff. Blount came to Pitt with the expectation of some sort of timeshare at RB only to see a younger, more talented player emerge and dominate snaps, and he doesn't seem like a mature enough guy to handle that. 5 teams in 5 years seems to support that argument.

FWIW walking off the field early and then leaving the locker room fully dressed when guys were just walking in was just the final nail in the coffin for him. (I don't think it was lost on Pitt that walked out not just on his team but on Bell -- his supposed best friend on the team -- during his career night). In isolation something like this raises eyebrows but is hardly an insurmountable issue. But since the release there have been reports that this is something that has been building for a month or more. The speed of the release and the reaction of the players themselves suggests the 'walkoff' isn't the only problem with Blount...just the final one.

I saw the Reiss article where he suggests LB plays best with his back to the wall, when 'he needs the team more than the team needs him'...so I think you'll get very good production out of him.

robertweathers said:

Good question. Demps claims to have felt a "tweak" in his leg and he and medical staff agreed that an MRI was a good next step to determine the severity of the "tweak".



Going from "Questionable" to IR would be terribly suspicious. Against the rules? I am not aware of what he the NFL's protocol is for investigating potentially erroneous IR designations but we do know that they left the Demps situation alone. While I am not a lawyer by trade, the NFL's policy on this matter seems squishy. It would seem logical to me that if the player has chosen not to file a grievance with the NFLPA, the league would stand down.



It is a conspiracy theory to say the least.

I think that Demps was so far behind in the playbook that the team had a honest conversation with him about what his standing was with the team and how it impacted the roster and suggested that the IR designation was essentially a "red-shirt" in NFL speak. Keep in mind he signed a 3-year deal so cutting him wasn't the preferred option. Seeing that he would still be paid, he was comfortable enough to agree to the IR designation.

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None of that has anything to do with claiming the patriots violated the ir rules. It simply states that you are reading unable to pal and acting as if it says unable to play for a long time which it doesn't.
There would be nothing at all suspicious about going from questionable to ir. Questionable is 50% can't play. If you can't play you got the definition of IR.
It seems you misunderstand that it doesn't have to be a long term injury to qualify for IR.

robertweathers said:

Yes. He had some kind of leg tweak. But if the MRI came back negative, to me, it means that he does not have any significant damage and could have returned to action in a reasonable amount of time. That's a big assumption obviously...

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Again, can't play today is enough to justify IR. Reasonable amount of time is nota consideration.

robertweathers said:

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.

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I see virtually no advantage. If you don't want the guy today sending him home and hoping he gets better is a waste of time.
If you have high hopes for the development
Of the player then you need hkm at leash in the practice field.

robertweathers said:

I wasn't looking for any help with my case.

I think you are going overboard with the PFT vs NEP angle. They report the same stuff others do.

The MRI was negative. No investigation was done.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...cious-but-dont-count-on-anything-happening/Ok how about different sources.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...-place-olympian-jeff-demps-on-injured-reserve

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How do you know that no investigation was done? It's not like the Commissioner's office announces every investigation they do? Clearly you didn't read the rules provided to you because the Commissioner's office is required to review every case of a player being put on the IR..

BTW, it doesn't matter how badly injured a player is, they can be put on IR. The Demps example doesn't help you at all.. You thinking it does shows your own bias..

robertweathers said:

Here is another one.
http://www.sbnation.com/fantasy/201...ots-vs-cowboys-fantasy-football-running-backs

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SBNation is a group of bloggers who just regurgitate what's already out there. That's not proof..