"Patriots starting to act like,well everybody else"

[JaredOfNazareth]

Good and Evil? WTF is that? This is the National Football League. A very successful business. The Patriots are value oriented and the FA they aquired met their requirements. Will all FA be successful? No! Just like all draft picks aren't successful. But if your process is efficient then over the long haul the team will stay competitive.
That's why the FO is changing gears in Free Agency, not to repair their image of being cheap.

All teams in the league will be $7,000,000 better in 2007. That's a lot of draft picks that either get cut or go to the practice squad this year.

 

[VT_NY_Patsfan]

I for one think it's great that this thread is about negative press in an out of town paper and not the Boston Globe.

 

[Fixit]

It seems to me that the Pats will give a player who has screwed up with another team a chance, provided they feel he can behave himself and help the team. Screwing up once he's on the Pats is a much different story, and that's what separates them from teams like the Bengals, Vikings, Raiders...

 

[Michigan Dave]

1. Have a lot of money to spend.

2. Have things that you need.

3. Find things that you need, at reasonable prices.

4. Purchase those things.

Not a tough concept, chief. You can still sign players at need positions under the Patriot model of business. It's signing big names and overpriced past-their-prime players that the Pats won't do. Why do people find this so difficult to interpret? Spending money isn't bad. Spending money the wrong way on the other hand...

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Look at the end of the article. He just plain hates the NFL.

What do you expect, he lives in the city when each day is a remake of The Longest Yard??

As for his comment, "who grated on everyone's nerves in New Orleans and Philadelphia and then got busted by the NFL. "

He got on few people's nerves here inPhilly and they wanted him back badly...if the price was right

 

[PatsFanSince74]

While we might have spent more than in recent years, Peter King put it in perspective this morning when he observed that Piolichick did it all for $14.2 million in 2007 cap dollars. That covers Evans, Thomas, Brady (K.), Morris, Welker, Izzo, Yates and, yes, Stallworth. If everybody else were that smart we'd be in trouble.