What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

We've all said it before and I even hate to even read him again but I read his article figuring maybe he'd have to at least back-pedal from the "Pats are cheap" mantra today. Now he seems to be saying the Pats overspent and took a big risk. That said, with Borges' track record Thomas will probably end up being Defensive Player of the Year.

http://www.boston.com/sports/footbal...e_same/?page=1


On a similar note: Hey Mikey, does this mean they ARE trying to put weapons on the team for Brady now? Or haven't they signed 12 WRs so they are still cheap?

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

What I love is that the best example he could come up with is a game where Graham destroyed Thomas.

Yeah, like the Pats didn't properly take that set of issues into consideration ...

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

It is amazing isn't it. Borges seems so desperate here. So hopeful this is a bad move he reaches for whatever he can find to make it so. To borrow a line from Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Borges is a rat. His whole family is rats. 200 bucks says he made up or embelished the quotes from the other NFL personnel guy. A 100 more says if he didn't the source was Polian.

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

I was going to post that under the caption, "Borges is skeptical so this Thomas must be a great signing"... this from the guy who wanted Terrell Davis over Richard Seymour... who criticized the hiring of BB. What a freaking tool, his venom for BB clouds any objectivity he could ever have for this team.

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

Hall of Fame malcontent Ron Borges.

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

Borges is still trying to recover from his prediction of the Rams and Pats SB :)

Billicheck and Pioli have an eye for talent, especially when it comes to the defense..

Plus Graham crushed a lot of LBer's.. So I'm not worried. He'll be a beast

He's a walking talking advertisement for seratonin medications
 

It must be awful to be that depressed all the time.

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

I hate Borges more than anyone, but I have to admit, I'm a little nervous about this signing. You really never know with Ravens players. A lot of them turned out to be not that special when they were let go. The one thing that Borges doesn't take into consideration here is that even if Thomas doesn't turn out to be Lawrence Taylor, he's still clearly a better than average player, and we were short of the Super Bowl by about one better-than-average player on defense this year. Is he worth 10 million a year? Maybe not in a vacuum, but in this case, maybe he is.

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

Me thinks you mean David Terrell - wr - Michigan. All-time bust.
Not Terrell Davis - RB - Denver. Hall of famer.

Re: What a surprise, here comes Borges with the negative spin.
 

Borges quotes an annonymous AFC North "Executive" who says Belichick fell in love with AD at the Pro Bowl.

Right. Like Belichick never saw enough film from Adalius before to properly gauge his value but determined he was terrific by the way he was stretching in Honolulu.

This so-called "Executive" is probably a Vice-President of Paper Clips and Stamps.