Patriots Release Dominique Easley

Triumph said:

Jeremy Hill and Martavis Bryant were drafted after Easley.

Trade down rather than waste the pick.

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Bryant is a ****ty example.

Hill would be nice no idea why Robinson didnt get picked I wonder if OBrein didnt love him.

Deus Irae said:

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.

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Well let's say we took Gronk at pick #26 that year instead of McCourty. Would that change your opinion of it?

JMC00 said:

Bryant is a ****ty example.

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Yeah, 1300 yards and 14 TDs in 2 seasons.

Crazy Patriot Guy said:

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.....

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How do you know that he would have been busted in NE?

Crystal ball?

Deus Irae said:

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.

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No, clearly you don't understand nor have you properly comprehended anything I have written. Even worse, you're misrepresenting my own words to better reflect your position. Even for you, that's pathetic.

It's simple Deus. You can't have it both ways with risk. That's why it's called risk.

Triumph said:

Jeremy Hill and Martavis Bryant were drafted after Easley.

Trade down rather than waste the pick.

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I'm not going to lose sleep over a bust. The team made a decision and it backfired. You want the ledger to favor the better decisions over poor decisions and the Pats appear to make more good decisions than bad but still, if people feel like canning them for taking Easley, they can do so.

Truthfully, I'm more interested in the timing. It has implications for the Patriots, the draft, and a potential rival. Do the Colts take a flier on Easley etc?

ausbacker said:

I'm not going to lose sleep over a bust. The team made a decision and it backfired. You want the ledger to favor the better decisions over poor decisions and the Pats appear to make more good decisions than bad but still, if people feel like canning them for taking Easley, they can do so.

Truthfully, I'm more interested in the timing. It has implications for the Patriots, the draft, and a potential rival. Do the Colts take a flier on Easley etc?

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Time is running out.

Brady hides a lot of ugly draft blunders.

Crazy Patriot Guy said:

Well let's say we took Gronk at pick #26 that year instead of McCourty. Would that change your opinion of it?

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I'm not going to play the "Let's move the goalposts!" game.

And the award for worst pick in the bb/brady era goes to..........

Triumph said:

How do you know that he would have been busted in NE?

Crystal ball?

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The guy is in stage 3 of the NFL's drug program less than 2 calender years since being drafted. I don't think we would have magically kept him clean.

And I'm using the same crystal ball you used to know Bryant would have picked up our offense and been a star here.

old 55 said:

If Denver or another team gets him off waivers, they need to assume his contract. Does that eliminate our cap hit or is there a carryover amount?

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Not sure how much but according Breer the cost is alleviated or less severe. Which I guess means the Pats would take a 1.9 million cap hit instead of 3.6 million.

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... Of course, the cost for New England of cutting Easley is alleviated if he's claimed on waivers. Not expensive for another team to do it.

Jackson 2 said:

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...

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Okay. So lets see. Please show me my threatening demands. They must be really over the top for you to take such offense cupcake.

Saying there better be a good reason isn't what I'd call threatening. In your cupcake world I suppose it may, and if so...well..not much good to say about that.

Lighten up, Sally.

Triumph said:

Time is running out.

Brady hides a lot of ugly draft blunders.

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No doubt. Brady is and has been unbelievable and his brilliance masks a lot of the Patriots flaws but in reality, whilst not attaining the same level of success, I still believe the Patriots would be a decent team.

I feel contempt for myself for ever questioning him leading into that Bengals game in 2014. He sure made an ass out of me.

Deus Irae said:

I'm not going to play the "Let's move the goalposts!" game.

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That's fine. You just won't convince me that had Easley been able to stay relatively healthy, rivaled Watt every season for best defensive player in the league, and had a long career with the team, that you'd be watching his induction speech into the HOF saying "Man, he was such an inherently stupid draft pick."

Let's hope that the Pats learned their lesson and stay away from most players related to Urban Meyer : Cunnigham, Spikes, Hernandez, Easley, Chad Jackson. Not much good stories here...

Ugh its disgusting to see that

If Volin's article is accurate, I love this move. No other team is this league would do it, embrace it. Maybe this will be the Kansas City game in the pre-season.

We took a risk on Easley because we rarely get a chance at top end talent like that. Same with Gronk and Ras-I-Dowling. We always choose late in drafts and that severely limits us in acquiring that special talent.

Easley was a legitimate top 10-15th pick TALENT. Putting the red flags aside for a second, that just doesn't happen often where a player of that talent is available later in the round.

It's up to Bill I figuring out wether the red flags are manageable and if he can help the player grow and mature. Sometimes you end up with Ras I Dowling, Others Gronk... And somewhere in the middle is Easley.

Hindsight is always 20/20...but if we are going to play that game, gimmie Allen Robinson on a re draft. Guys a stud.