CB Robert McClain signing with Pats; UConn alum was w/ Falcons last 3 years

Robert McClain signing with Pats


@bobbymac36: Thankful to have the opportunity to continue my career with the @Patriots

Unleash the JAG CBs!

@bobbymac36: Thankful to have the opportunity to continue my career with the @Patriots

Unleash the JAG CBs!

Patriots sign CB Robert McClain?

Now this signing I hate. This trash better not make the team.

and some people said we couldn't replace Revis and Browner.

LOL, this feels like a total swerve move by Belichick. Like its WWE wrestling and he's turning heel to intetionally make fans angry hahaha

(((Cue the NWO Patriots Belichick shirts)))

I can't stand it so I'm trying to find Jets Insider to join up

Cue the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

so the plan is to sign every suck-ass CB in the name of hoping one of them is not really suck-ass

SeanBruschi54 said:

LOL, this feels like a total swerve move by Belichick. Like its WWE wrestling and he's turning heel to intetionally make fans angry hahaha

(((Cue the NWO Patriots Belichick shirts)))

Click to expand...

I was just thinking this. It's hilarious to me that they brought in three guys (after Newman), and the one guy that most people said is the one they'd take out of the trio is the one they don't sign. I'm starting to get amused by the outrage now. It's sustaining me through the second worst sports month of the year (July takes top spot).

2015 Defensive Player of the Year runner-up (behind Bradley Fletcher)

IllegalContact said:

so the plan is to sign every suck-ass CB in the name of hoping one of them is not really suck-ass

Click to expand...

It was either McClain, Tarell Brown or nobody at all.

JackBauer said:

Cue the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Click to expand...

Good point. Fletcher/McClain is a significant upgrade over Revis/Browner, and only crazy people would be disappointed in these two signings...

All the rational people are currently popping the corks on bottles of champagne, as these signings have guaranteed a SB win in the upcoming season.

Brady and Jimmy G are going to tear apart TC.

Don't know as much about McClain as I did about Fletcher. Any details? I know he's not particularly exciting.

Deus Irae said:

Good point. Fletcher/McClain is a significant upgrade over Revis/Browner, and only crazy people would be disappointed in these two signings...

All the rational people are currently popping the corks on bottles of champagne, as these signings have guaranteed a SB win in the upcoming season.

Click to expand...

Hello straw man my old friend.

I see he's only 26... Hopefully a case of the Patriots seeing a guy with some talent who has just had a rough start to his career and thinking they may be able to coach him up.

Well at this point the plan for CB is either...

1. Keep the CBs we have signed and they all fight for the starting spots in TC
2. Draft 1 or 2 CBs and hope natural ability/coaching them up in their first offseason pays off
3. Make a trade for a solid veteran CB.

This defense is going to return to it's historically bad 3rd down rate baring some major changes here soon.

JackBauer said:

Hello straw man my old friend.

Click to expand...

Glad I could be there.

When the Patriots make a signing people like, it gets pimped up.

When the Patriots make a signing people don't like, it gets criticized.

That's the way it is. That's the way it should be. That's what message boards are for. Tossing out the "wailing and gnashing" line after a suspect signing is a ridiculous response and merits a ridiculous answer in kind.