SMY is my new favorite Pats reporter
 

Some of her comments during today's chat at Boston.com:

"I'm one of the ones who feels there is a big hole at receiver."

"...I'm not sure if the locker room is strong enough right now to absorb a player like [WR Dez Bryant]..."

"...I've never been a Kaczur fan."

"Plus, the Pats haven't had great success with receivers they've picked in the 2nd round."
To be honest, they did draft Branch in the 2nd round, too.

"Players who can get to the QB is def. a major problem for NE..."

"The Pats need playmakers...they've hit on nearly all of their 1st-round picks (Maroney & Watson the exceptions)."

"...I think even I've lost faith [Maroney] will develop into a top back."

"...[Brady] has taken some big hits (and lots of them) over the years."

"...I think the bloom is off the rose with Moss here..."

"...as this team stands right now - notice, I said right now - I do think we're looking at an 8-8 season or so. There are a lot of holes..."

"Truly all of the above [OLB, ILB, DE, TE, WR, OL] are needs."

"The 2006, 07 & 08 drafts were quite poor."

"ILB is a need because Guyton isn't strong against the run."

SMY, like many Pats fans, seems honest in her assessments without having an agenda, which in the case of Breer is his NY-love & aspirations for going Broadway, thus his constant & annoying name-dropping; and in the cases of Bogus, TonAss, Cafardo, Ryan, Spazz & the CHB, is their pathological hatred of Bill.

Providence's loss is indeed Boston's gain.

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Really liked her at the Pro Jo, she seems to get a lot of stuff and does some very nice reporting.. you will really enjoy her, and sometimes she even posts on this board.. SMY, I believe, is her name here.

She reminds me of Tom Curran when he was good..

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She is right, too many holes at Wr , a lack of a pass rush, and a oline that is in question.. and you have a 8-8 team right now... As she said RIGHT NOW...

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I like SMY the reporter but disagree with several of her opinions, although I do understand her hatred of the Scourge of the Great White North, the Damn Canadians, SMY quote... "...I've never been a Kaczur fan."

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She better watch out! Emoney and the rest of the homer brigade put out a contract on her after reading her comments. How dare she not talk about how the Pats are going to go 13-3 this year.

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How DARE she say the Pats COULD be an 8-8 team and are not better than the Jets or Dolphins right now!!

She should know better like our fellow homersapiens in here and knowitalls with 12,000 glorious meaningful professional football experts posts at Patsfans.com that as long as BB and Brady are here it does not matter who the other 40+ players are,hell they could be mostly guys off the streets but regardless of that this team will NEVER be anywhere near .500,its not possible and the Jets will NEVER and I mean NEVER win an AFC east title again as long as we all shall live !!!..

How dare she say Maroney is finally considered worthless and a waste as a first rounder after 4 awesome pro bowl bound years with all those BIG games that he won for us and I can't count how many of those games he had that were so spectacular,How dare she!!!!:cool:.

An immediate one star thread for an impossible 8-8 prediction,she should know better!!,Shame on your SMY for those irrational predictions!,We all know its impossible to beat the New England Patriots unless the refs are paid off :rolleyes:

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She didn't say "could" she said "I do think we're looking at an 8-8 season or so" and I think she's nuts on that one. I guess we'll see, not only do we have a lot of picks this year but we have a lot of picks from last year coming back for their second year and we should see real strong contributions there.

And what's with her defending Adalius Thomas ? SMY, I like you but you need to wake up on that one.

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Since it seems like the Patriots aren't going to be making any significant moves in free agency, I'm guessing the holes will have to be filled through the draft. If this is so, I think we are in for a long season. Relying on rookies is a bad, bad idea in the NFL.

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We have the same team returning from last year except :

Watson gone
Green gone
Thomas gone
Welker out early on

and to make up for that we have a good number of guys who were rookies who are now second year players.

Of the list above only Welker is an issue. Watson wasn't used a lot as a receiver and wasn't a good blocker, Green didn't do much and we all know about Thomas. In fact other than the Welker issue, I think we're coming back stronger than we left last year. Of course, the Welker issue could be big depending how long it takes.

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Do you also disapprove of relying on 2nd-year players? Anything they give is an improvement, right, since rookies are worthless?