$20 Million Under The Cap Now
 

The excitement builds...for sure.

All that money.. I wonder who is left to spend it on.. I am itching to know what our plan is.. particularly because the plan seems to include letting fan favorite TEAM FIRST players walk. Givens is debateable as far as his team first-ness, but Willie is one of the few consumate Patriots. So with the huge losses we've had I am anxious to see some sort of movement in the other direction. Losing guys like Willie Adam or David certainly are NOT the types that you'd say 'addition by subtraction' to. So now I'm ready to see what the additions will be to replace them.

Maybe Belichick sees Julian Peterson as an upgrade for Willie? Certainly he'll command some coin.

Either that, or it's going to be for Seymour, Branch, Koppen, and Neal.

LET GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!!


Sorry, I lost my head for a moment. Patience! Patience!

We should be doing both. Extending our FAs now should only free up more money for the next couple of years.

Peterson has almost outpriced himself out of the league....

But he would be a good addition. He played for saban in college and is familiar with the system...

Peterson will not be a Pat unless he drops his agent (at least he only has to fire 1 now and now 2 ;)

My hope is that the bulk of the cap space is used to extend Seymour and Branch.

I doubt the people whining about us not doing anything and losing Givens & McG will not be too upset when Seymour and Branch are on the team for the next 5-6 yrs.

Fact is if the Pats gave Givens & McG the $$ they got elsewhere, they would not be able to sign Seymour & Branch. I'd rather have the latter.

There's also talk that the Panthers may release Kris Jenkins.

Do we really need another DL? If we're going 4-3 I would love Jenkins, in the 3-4 I'm not sure we need that type of player.. Am I off base in that thinking?

To clarify, the only player we really need a backup to is the 3-4 NT, which I don't think Jenkins is. If we go to the 4-3 he'd be a great DT and I'd love to have him at a reasonable injury-risk type of price. If we stay in the 3-4 and he's not a backup to Wilfork then I'm not sure how important he'd be to the team.