Patriots 2015 Off-Seaon Free Agency Rumors

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 3m3 minutes ago
CB Bradley Fletcher, who visited the Patriots on Tuesday, is signing with the team. His agent @andysimms confirmed when asked.

Oh boy... This is gonna be a rough few days on Patsfans.com

hornetfb85 said:

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 3m3 minutes ago
CB Bradley Fletcher, who visited the Patriots on Tuesday, is signing with the team. His agent @andysimms confirmed when asked.

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In before, "THIS is our answer at CB???"

hornetfb85 said:

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 3m3 minutes ago
CB Bradley Fletcher, who visited the Patriots on Tuesday, is signing with the team. His agent @andysimms confirmed when asked.

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I can't stand it!
The End Times are nigh.

Bill, get your mind off Linda and back on football!

Agreed that I may hafta avoid Patsfans for a while after this

Rob0729 said:

You are missing one key point, both Welker and Mankins would have stayed if the Pats paid them what they were looking for. The Pats just didn't see the value in paying them. I don't know if Revis would have because I think the Jets would have paid him whatever he wanted and they had the cap flexibility to guarantee far more money than the Pats.

I am not happy that Revis is gone, but I don't know if the Pats could have kept him even if they tried a lot harder to keep him. I think the Jets were intent on signing him no matter the cost and he wanted to go back home.

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That is very possibly the case. Only guy who knows for sure is Revis. The Pats could have at least matched the Jets initial offer (which they could have made room to do) and then we would have a much better idea of what Revis was truly intending. Now that ship has sailed and we can only guess. My guess is that whatever his intentions the money would have to be very close for him to choose either side over the other for less.

But the die is cast so we will just need to do the best we can. On your other points I do think we can say with a lot of confidence Welker/Mankins did want to be here.

Well atleast Bradley Fletcher is good at something being the worst CB in the League. I am postive we are Taking Two CB's early in the upcoming Draft.

NFLTradeRumors.co ‏@nfltrade_rumors 3m3 minutes ago
Bradley Fletcher's One-Year Deal With #Patriots Is Worth A Maximum Of $2.5M Per @caplannfl http://bit.ly/1CvvBja

hornetfb85 said:

NFLTradeRumors.co ‏@nfltrade_rumors 3m3 minutes ago
Bradley Fletcher's One-Year Deal With #Patriots Is Worth A Maximum Of $2.5M Per @caplannfl http://bit.ly/1CvvBja

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I don't know anything about the guy. BB must know him pretty well - they practiced with the Eagles last year, didn't they?

From everything I'm hearing here, I hope most of that is incentive-laden and nothing much is guaranteed.

Proof that I coulda been worth $2M as a CB

From Mike Reiss' piece it sounds like he was a victim of the Eagles system as much as he was a victim on the field. As 50-yard-line noted, they practiced with the Eagles so they likely see something in him that warrants his signing.

This may be proof that measurables don't mean ****. His pro day, 4.44 forty, 40 inch verticle, 10'7" long jump, measured at 6'0" and 200 pounds. You would think he wouldn't be so horrible with those measurables.

Pats fans may not be happy with our CB situation but the good news is every QB in the NFL is.

ensoul said:

Pats fans may not be happy with our CB situation but the good news is every QB in the NFL is.

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Actually, the good news is the Pats don't face many good QBs this season. Only really face Luck, the Mannings (if one or both aren't toast), Roethlisberger, Romo, and Tannehill (depending on which Tannehill shows up).

Rob0729 said:

Actually, the good news is the Pats don't face many good QBs this season. Only really face Luck, the Mannings (if one or both aren't toast), Roethlisberger, Romo, and Tannehill (depending on which Tannehill shows up).

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That don't mean much, too often we've watched scrub qbs look like joe Montana against this defense in the past.

Ryan Fitzpatrick has shredded us in the past.

Hopefully not this year.

slash83 said:

That don't mean much, too often we've watched scrub qbs look like joe Montana against this defense in the past.

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Every time I see a comment like this I ask how many of them beat us, and never get a response.

AndyJohnson said:

Every time I see a comment like this I ask how many of them beat us, and never get a response.

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Here's my response, go look it up. I didn't say anything about winning, winning is the end result but hey if your okay with getting carved up by mediocre qbs then to each his own.

slash83 said:

Here's my response, go look it up. I didn't say anything about winning, winning is the end result but hey if your okay with getting carved up by mediocre qbs then to each his own.

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So you have no response.
I'll respond for you, almost never because while you are crying about passing yards, BB is winning a game.
Why would I care what the other QB does if we win?

AndyJohnson said:

So you have no response.
I'll respond for you, almost never because while you are crying about passing yards, BB is winning a game.
Why would I care what the other QB does if we win?

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Actually I did respond. Nobody is crying about passing yards, it's frustrating win or lose watching crap qbs look like hall of fame players. But I get you and your type I really do, your the type of fan that will walk head on into traffic if BB told you it was good for you.

slash83 said:

That don't mean much, too often we've watched scrub qbs look like joe Montana against this defense in the past.

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You are talking 3-4 years ago to talk about today? Well, we can chock the Giants game as a loss even if they had Revis because the Giants alway beat the Pats no matter who is playing. Revis isn't going to change that. Should deactivate Brady and Gronk for those games. The past for predicting the future is always 100%.

And even if we do look at the past. Some of these scrub QBs got tons of yards in the past, but the Pats still were pretty good in points allowed those years. This past year the Pats were 13th in points allowed with Revis and Browner, they were 15th in 2011 with a horrible secondary, 9th in 2012 and didn't have Talib until midseason (and his play was overrated that year), 8th in points allowed in 2010, and 5th in points allowed in 2009. So even with crappy secondaries, the Pats historically haven't given up a lot of points.