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Not sure if anyone caught this. It was on Patriots.com's Patriot Now program from Friday:
http://www.patriots.com/mediacenter/index.cfm?ac=videonewsdetail&pid=31092&pcid=153&rss=1
Colvin was in Boston on Thursday night, after being cut, with Adalius Thomas, Dan Koppen, and others for an Easter Seals charity basketball game.
Here's what he said to Brian Lowe, who described the event as "Colvin's swan song on the Boston sports scene" and said that Colvin said "he's not in the Patriots' plans for next season":
"It wasn't a surprise. It was a situation where my wife and I had discussed and understood it was a possibility before the season started. So, to have the opportunity to go out and play this past season, unfortunately ending on injured reserve, it was difficult to deal with. The difficult thing is not the football, but the friends. The friendships that I've developed. And just like it was a situation where it was hard to leave Chicago, it's going to be difficult to leave New England."
Here's what Adalius Thomas said of Colvin's departure:
"You know, in this business, you're never surprised by too much, but it just goes to should you have to appreciate every moment. You never know when it's your last time playing with someone. Great guy, great guy we're going to miss on and off the field. I think Boston as a whole will miss him in the community. We'll miss him as a player and as a person."
Here's Colvin's interview with WEEI hours before he was released. Keep in mind WEEI's voice recognition/transcription system sucks, so the transcript there is way off:
http://audio.weei.com/m/19094471/ro...m?col=en-all-pod_weei-ep&q=colvin&match=QUERY
http://www.patriots.com/mediacenter/index.cfm?ac=videonewsdetail&pid=31092&pcid=153&rss=1
Colvin was in Boston on Thursday night, after being cut, with Adalius Thomas, Dan Koppen, and others for an Easter Seals charity basketball game.
Here's what he said to Brian Lowe, who described the event as "Colvin's swan song on the Boston sports scene" and said that Colvin said "he's not in the Patriots' plans for next season":
"It wasn't a surprise. It was a situation where my wife and I had discussed and understood it was a possibility before the season started. So, to have the opportunity to go out and play this past season, unfortunately ending on injured reserve, it was difficult to deal with. The difficult thing is not the football, but the friends. The friendships that I've developed. And just like it was a situation where it was hard to leave Chicago, it's going to be difficult to leave New England."
Here's what Adalius Thomas said of Colvin's departure:
"You know, in this business, you're never surprised by too much, but it just goes to should you have to appreciate every moment. You never know when it's your last time playing with someone. Great guy, great guy we're going to miss on and off the field. I think Boston as a whole will miss him in the community. We'll miss him as a player and as a person."
Here's Colvin's interview with WEEI hours before he was released. Keep in mind WEEI's voice recognition/transcription system sucks, so the transcript there is way off:
http://audio.weei.com/m/19094471/ro...m?col=en-all-pod_weei-ep&q=colvin&match=QUERY