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I like the devil's advocate role as much as anyone else, but if you're trying to say that you don't think our safeties would have been better with one or more of those 4 names---I'm sorry, but I just don't believe you.
If we were getting the 2009 versions of Sanders and Meriweather, then yeah. Probably even the 2010 versions. But during the preseason, there were a few hints that both of these players were disappointing. Meriweather was benched. Sanders missed a lot of practice. There were reports that Belichick was "desperate" for a free safety. Obviously neither of the two were cutting it.
Now, it could be a situation where Belichick went with the unknown because he decided that the known wasn't good enough. But it's not like both of these players were cut out of nowhere. There were definitely a few signs that said that these guys weren't playing up to expectations.