Patriots Release Dominique Easley

ViperGTS said:

Chandler Jones gone. Easley gone.

Two of the best pass rushers this team had.

So pardon me for wanting to know a good reason for Easley being let go when the Dline guys they picked up are on one year deals and you have enough FAs to deal with next year. The '17 team will be vastly different than this one.

Lighten up, Sally.

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LMFAO at you suggesting that someone else lighten up. We'd all like an explanation. However, you're the only one looking like a jackass by issuing threatening demands. I'll repeat my question in another form: what are you going to do when it becomes clear that BB isn't going to provide an explanation? "Sally"...what a dink...

Deus Irae said:

Ok, you apparently didn't bother to read what was written, despite it having been you who wrote it.


Sheesh!

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No, I read it, I just don't agree with your overall position. Risk by nature is risk. The Pats took a major risk and it backfired. It happens and you move on.

Still should of got a fourth or player in exchange

ausbacker said:

No, I read it, I just don't agree with your overall position. Risk by nature is risk. The Pats took a major risk and it backfired. It happens and you move on.

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No, you're trying to use a circular argument to insulate your position from the criticism it so obviously deserves.

You say that you can't have it both ways, as a way of trying to dismiss criticism, yet you point to criticism in an attempt to defend a later post.

Nobody has to be on board with every risk taken, so to claim that people "can't have it both ways" is garbage.

And you know that.

ChrisR2223 said:

Still should of got a fourth or player in exchange

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Should have traded him for Josh Gordon!!!

Deus Irae said:

Sure, but it's the GM's job to 'ignore' that when appropriate.



but in the context of what you'd posted:



When you're taking this level of risk, especially in round 1, you do it knowing you deserve to get slammed if it doesn't pan out, because it's an inherently stupid thing to do, whether it works out or not. Again, even a site that slants homer as much as this one does showed a huge split about taking the guy. The idea that people can't say that the pick shouldn't have been made because people are trying to have it both ways is silly.

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So you would say that drafting Gronk at pick #42 was an inherently stupid thing to do, even though it worked out? We're talking about 13 spots in the draft.

Hammer of Thor said:

Should have traded him for Josh Gordon!!!

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Atleast somebody around here is thinking, too bad BB wouldn't listen...

Not a good year to be on the Patriots 2016 calendar, Chandler Jones (January), LaFell (March) and now Easley (April). I do think next month (Butler) will be ok...

Teammates calling him a cancer. Not sure I have ever heard that come from a Pats player about another player before. If true glad they cut bait. Cancer and couldn't stay healthy..later

Still wish they found this out earlier or kept hicks..ugh. maybe they did know earlier?

Bill Lee said:

Note that the Globe article says former Patriots teammate which seems more ambiguous than just saying Patriots teammate. No idea if this is from a player currently on the roster or not.

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Everyone currently on the Patriots is Easley's former teammate, so it may be that the Globe was just trying to be more precise.

ausbacker said:

No, I read it, I just don't agree with your overall position. Risk by nature is risk. The Pats took a major risk and it backfired. It happens and you move on.

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Jeremy Hill and Martavis Bryant were drafted after Easley.

Trade down rather than waste the pick.

robertweathers said:

The question is...........when did the team start to consider cutting Easley?

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Yeah..not sure we will know..but if teammates were calling him a cancer...they must have know for a bit now.

ashley1992 said:

Wow, some pretty nice names on that list. All would have looked pretty good in a Pat uniform!!!

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Sure, but that seems to be hindsight. Which one would you have moved ahead of DE back then?

50-yard-line said:

There has to be something more. Teams don't just eat extra cap costs over nothing.

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Volin's piece amplifies Curran's comments that there are lot of smaller things that seem to have added up to a sum that makes the whole situation untenable.

Hammer of Thor said:

They spent a 1st rounder on a player who wasn't all-in in what Belichick values (football junkie and team player first and foremost).

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Yet if you read the BSPN piece from Mike Reiss that this site had on its scroll bar earlier ( BSPN: Dominique Easley goes from 'all-in' to the outside looking in with Patriots ) there are several quotes from 2014 showing that BB felt he was all in.

TBR said:

Another team has to step in and claim him

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I presume so.

BelichickFan said:

Not that he doesn't make mistakes.

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No one bats 1.000.

Mack Herron said:

Draft always a crap shoot and winners are rare. BB seems to gamble more than most (injuries, attitude). Sometimes he wins (Gronk) and more often he loses (Easley). But not usually with a first round pick.

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All first round picks are not created equally. Picking 31st in a fairly weak draft class makes it more of a challenge. There's definitely a lot of swings for the fences in BB's drafts. There's also a lot of effort to hoard picks and scrub the UDFA class because there's a realization that some times all it takes is another swing of the bat.

Triumph said:

Thankfully, this draft is deep in DE/DT. Just get it right this time.

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It seems that no one here can get their undies in a knot saying they reached in the first round, sigh...

102 Pat said:

Not a good year to be on the Patriots 2016 calendar, Chandler Jones (January), LaFell (March) and now Easley (April). I do think next month (Butler) will be ok...

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Theyre dropping like flies.

I notice Almendola stuff marked down on the Pats Pro Shop. Thats not a good sign either.

Triumph said:

Jeremy Hill and Martavis Bryant were drafted after Easley.

Trade down rather than waste the pick.

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umm, bryant's looking like kind of a waste, too, you know.

Triumph said:

Jeremy Hill and Martavis Bryant were drafted after Easley.

Trade down rather than waste the pick.

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Just imagine. If we had traded back instead of taking Easley, we could have a very talented WR out for the season!!

What could have been.....

Brady_to_Moss said:

Teammates calling him a cancer. Not sure I have ever heard that come from a Pats player about another player before. If true glad they cut bait. Cancer and couldn't stay healthy..later

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Matt Light said basically as much about Aaron Hernandez.

realtime said:

Everyone currently on the Patriots is Easley's former teammate, so it may be that the Globe was just trying to be more precise.

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Yes, of course everyone is currently a former teammate, so did Volin talk to someone not currently on the Pats roster who might feel pretty free to open up, or someone currently on the Pats roster who is taking more of a risk talking about DE?

Crazy Patriot Guy said:

So you would say that drafting Gronk at pick #42 was an inherently stupid thing to do, even though it worked out? We're talking about 13 spots in the draft.

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Gronk was a second round pick (Smaller money, fewer years) who was taken after they'd already made their 'safe' pick in round one. He wasn't the huge gamble with the first round pick, to be followed by a backup QB you hope will never play, outside of kneel downs and blowouts, during the duration of his rookie contract. Go take a look at BB's first round draft history, and find the huge known injury/character gambles not named Easley.

BB historically saves his gambles for round 2. This time (2014), he made a huge gamble in round one and then drafted a no-help player in round 2.

Who cares what the reasons are?

Dudes gone ..... He sucks