Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

There is plenty of room for upgrades. I have 10 OL's, but one will likely give way to a 3rd QB.
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POSITIONS FOR UPGRADE
#4 OT Britt
#4 WR Kight (the need is really for a #1 receiver)
#5 WR Childress/Sullivan/Brown
#4 DE Hill/Thomas
#7 DL Smith
#5 LB Alexander
#6 LB Woods
#3 CB Scott
#4 CB Gay
#4 S Hawkins
#3 ST Baker
#4 ST Spann

This presumes that Samuel and Harrison will available for Game One.

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MARCH 4
53 MAN ROSTER

OFFENSE (25)
QB - 2 Tom Brady, Cassell
RB - 3 Maroney, Morris, Faulk
FB - 1 Evans
C - 3 Koppen, Hochstein, Mruczkowski
G - 3 Neal, Mankins, Yates
OT - 4 Light, Kaczur, O'Callaghan, Britt
WR - 5 Welker, Caldwell, Gaffney, Kight, Childress/Smith/Brown
TE - 4 Watson, Dave Thomas, Mills, Kyle Brady

DEFENSE (25)
DE - 4 Seymour, Warren, Hill/Thomas, Green
DT - 3 Wilfork, Wright, Smith
LB - 6 Vrabel, Colvin, Thomas, Bruschi, Woods, Alexander
CB - 4 Samuel, Hobbs, Scott, Gay
S - 4 Sanders, Wilson, Harrison, Hawkins
ST – 4 Andrews, Mitchell, Baker, Spann

SPECIAL TEAMS (3)
P - 1 Miller
K - 1 Gostkowski
LS - 1 Paxton

PUP (1)
Jackson

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

patrick pass?? he is a FA?

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

Correct...

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

BB and Scott Pioli have always believed in ungrading all 53

roster positions.

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

I completely agree with the premise, but I'm not going to assume that all of last year's developmental rookies are easily upgradeable. Pierre Woods and LeKevin Smith beat out Mincey and Sullivan, and have had a critical year of seasoning at positions--OLB and NT--that are extremely challenging for rookies to pick up. What's more, those are both pretty thin positions in this draft.

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

Odd choice to put all four of those guys on but not Izzo and Davis.

It's probably better to put the ST-oriented guys in with their other positions, as best one can.

And I think some of the upgrades could come from cutting ST specialists and replacing them with serious developmental defenders who happen to also play STs.

Oh yeah -- Thomas is a gunner, isn't he?

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

After Welker, I think this team has made enough Free Agency moves. They should extend either Warren or Wilfork now, if possible, and use the remaining funds on their draft picks.

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

#4 cb Gay - I suppose you could upgrade him, but if healthy he's a significant upgrade over what we were throwing out there last year.

#4 s Hawkins - He is actually a very good fourth safety. He got exposed having to start half the year, but he's a good reserve-depth guy.

#3 cb scott - another guy who played pretty well. I think Gay as the #3 and Scott as the #4 isn't a bad set of corners. Add an upside rook and we're looking pretty sweet.

It's also way to soon to assume Jackson on PUP. Obviously we have positions to upgrade, like somebody else said, BB is looking to upgrade every position.

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

What about Sammy Morris:confused:

Re: Plenty of Room For Upgrades
 

Izzo and Davis are both UFA and aren't on the roster as of now.