You sound as if we had the Lombardi to lose until a week ago now we have to work for it and thats a disaster.
Mg, youve been here a long, long time, and I know this move really has upset you. But we arent out to be media favorites, we are out to win SBs. Keep your perspective. If Bill Beichick felt Seymour was the difference between winning and not winning a SB, he would have given away his own 2011 1 to keep him.
A team is not a collection of talent. A team is a combination of players and each of the 53 add positive and negative influences in ability, reliability, attitude, presence, etc, etc. Seymour is a great player. You do have to recognize that in our scheme it is a defense that plays as a team, and each player truly only is 1/11th of the defense.
We have good players to put in his place.
I cant begin to guess whether there we negatives that Seymour brought in to the organization, but the word is that his mind and conversation was on telling teammates 'I wont be here in the future, they don't want to pay me'. Hard to tell if it was becoming devisive. I do know that if that were the case (pure specualtion) I have always worked in organizations that have believed if you are negative toward the 'team' it doesnt matter how good you are, you bring down the team. In this analogy a salesman on a team of 11 with a terrible attitude can be your top salesman, but his attitude could bring down the other 10 (you know the guy, the guy who always complains about the company and the boss and how he knows other people who get paid better, etc, etc) to have an overall negative impact. Now Im not saying any of these things are part of the reason, but I dont know that they are not. Part of In BB we Trust is that (at least for me) the decisions that he makes that I dont understand usually end up to be better than I expected because of what I did not know, resulting in the belief that he is a good decision maker, and when his decisions look bad there are likely facts I dont know about.
Ive rambled on so long Ive gotten away from the point.
If I believed BB said screw 2009 so I can get an extra pick in 2011, Id be up in arms, depressed and angry just as you appear to be, but I won't go there because I can't imagine that BB would make such a decision without knowledge and information that conflicts with the idea that he wishes to pass on winning a SB this year.