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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Pats need someone to permanently step in for Seymour. Green may not be coming back. They also need oline and an OLB. I'll be furious if we don't get an OLB in this offseason again.
.We NEED one player...
SUH!!!
There has been talk of the bills' player schoebel, the de who obliterates matt light regularly, will retire. Maybe the pats could trade a 4th or something for him (if we had one, we don't) if he were willing to not retire.
I think he would be good as a pass rusher. Or maybe they will non IR crable, who would be a heck of a pass rusher, even if he cna't do some other things.
Spiller is going to be a great back in the NFL, he has amazing speed and will be deadly out of the backfield in the passing game. He has scored at least one touchdown in each of his last 14 games. Spiller will be gone by the time the Pats pick in the first rd comes.
No need to trade for Peppers, with him making the Pro-Bowl his salary this year jumps anopther 1.3 million meaning that IF the Panthers were to franchise tag him again next year, his salary would be OVER 21 Mil, and they just wouldn't/can't afford that. Peppers will be a Unrestricted Free Agent, sign him!
I think the Pats will more than likely stay put in the 1sr rd and grab the guard Ippiti from Idaho, he is a Mankins clone. Not a sexy pick, but it would make alot of sense.
Sign Wilfork
Sign Mankins
Trade/Release Thomas
Let Watson go
2010 NFL draft needs to focus on DL & OL.
Good Prospects:
Brandon Spikes, ILB
Brandon Graham, DE
Jerry Hughes, DE
Arthur Jones, DT
Von Miller, DE/OLB
Mike Iupati, OT/OG
CJ Spiller, RB
Jermaine Gresham, TE
Jonathan Dwyer, RB
I agree that the draft needs to focus on the DL and the OL. It would therefore make sense to re-sign Watson and keep Thomas.
Are you willing to pay $10M a year for Wilfork. $11M? The question is whether we would be willing to sign what another team might offer him.
I'd swap a number one and a player (Kaczur? We still have LeVoir BB seems high on) for Jackson. Dillon was a little older and they still gave a 2 to Cincy. Corey was a bargain for his return. Jackson's only 27. Ist round seem to not have the value for the Pats than to other NFL teams and Jackson has BB type experience. He would be a supplement rather than expected to carry the franchise like he does now. The Rams have way too many needs.remember Stephen Jackson was suppose to go high and fell to 22 a few years back
I'd swap a number one and a player (Kaczur? We still have LeVoir BB seems high on) for Jackson. Dillon was a little older and they still gave a 2 to Cincy. Corey was a bargain for his return. Jackson's only 27. Ist round seem to not have the value for the Pats than to other NFL teams and Jackson has BB type experience. He would be a supplement rather than expected to carry the franchise like he does now. The Rams have way too many needs.
Although last years draft was a success, a few I had hoped them go for (you call them "binkies") seem to have blossomed.
Would you do this now in retrospect? Take Brace (even though he was #40 and Butler #41)and 3rd rounder Tate and swap them back even for Clay Matthews from the Packers trade. Swap Ohmberger(???????) for Austin Collie (huge Pats gaff!!) . My way you would have solved #3 WR and starting OLB (with ten sacks)? Instead we have a DL with an "INC" (he could be stil O.K. but it looks like Prior was the better pick) , a "what were they thinking" OG who probably doesn't make the team in 2010, and finally a pot head WR with injuries.
It just goes to show that we as fans are capable of understanding the Draft even if we don't have all of the information that each Team gets. It shows that the Draft is a very incomplete science and the instincts of the fans and the knowledge available to us today by net and media makes the picks we would choose very rational and in some cases better.
Someone should make a Thread over the last three or four years in the Draft with what our favorite picks (Binkies) were (not management) and see how much better the 2009 Pats could have been.
DW Toys
I'd swap a number one and a player (Kaczur? We still have LeVoir BB seems high on) for Jackson. Dillon was a little older and they still gave a 2 to Cincy. Corey was a bargain for his return. Jackson's only 27. Ist round seem to not have the value for the Pats than to other NFL teams and Jackson has BB type experience. He would be a supplement rather than expected to carry the franchise like he does now. The Rams have way too many needs.
Although last years draft was a success, a few I had hoped them go for (you call them "binkies") seem to have blossomed.
Would you do this now in retrospect? Take Brace (even though he was #40 and Butler #41)and 3rd rounder Tate and swap them back even for Clay Matthews from the Packers trade. Swap Ohmberger(???????) for Austin Collie (huge Pats gaff!!) . My way you would have solved #3 WR and starting OLB (with ten sacks)? Instead we have a DL with an "INC" (he could be stil O.K. but it looks like Prior was the better pick) , a "what were they thinking" OG who probably doesn't make the team in 2010, and finally a pot head WR with injuries.
It just goes to show that we as fans are capable of understanding the Draft even if we don't have all of the information that each Team gets. It shows that the Draft is a very incomplete science and the instincts of the fans and the knowledge available to us today by net and media makes the picks we would choose very rational and in some cases better.
Someone should make a Thread over the last three or four years in the Draft with what our favorite picks (Binkies) were (not management) and see how much better the 2009 Pats could have been.
DW Toys
I wouldn't give a 1st for Jackson. I loved him coming out in 2004 (he went #24, BTW, not 22), but now he has a lot of mileage on him in spite of being only 27, and his running style takes a pounding. The shelf life of RB's is not that long.
pretty good at rushing the passer too. Those guys aren't first round picks though.
I don't know about Spiller, the pats OL is so weak at blocking up the middle, what is a 195 pound guy going to do with no holes at all?
Spiller is built a lot more like Barry Sanders than Reggie Bush. I don't think Durability will be an issue, assuming he's used like he was in college - 15-20 touches, mostly outside, plus KO returns. He was the best player on the field in every game he played in this year. He would be a great pick but I expect him to go top 15.
Spiller is the most dynamic back in the draft and would bring instant value as a kick returner. I think we are 31st in ave starting position, so Spiller will help that immediately.
Peppers makes no send to me whatsoever. Maybe if he were 26 or 27, I could see signing him, but not now.
When looking at potential O Line and D line candidates please remember to keep in mind what schemes the Pats run and what schemes the draftees school runs. With Idaho running a man blocking scheme, the chances of BB taking this kid early; is not likely.