Patsmaniac
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If I could get a message out to Troy it would be: You are a one Patriots' all-time great players along with being a fan favorite. Don't finish your career wearing another uniform, especially that one. Don't be shortsighted, there are endless possibilities here once your career is over, both with the team possibly as a coach and in the community. If you do sign with the Jets I believe those possibilities will no longer be there.
I think your belief is totally unfounded. Troy has a job with this team for life per Bob Kraft. Jobs on the roster are Bill's decision, and he has apparently told Troy HE IS FREE TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT ELSEWHERE...there are no restrictions. Bill understands better than fans do that playing is everything to these guys, and if they still want to play and he can't reasonably project a roster spot for them (he said he could last year) yet alone playing time he has no issue with where they go. Troy will still retire a Patriot whenever he retires, bank on it. And he will still have a place in the organization if he wants it. If he doesn't end up signing somewhere there is also the possibility he comes back here if a need arises - they simply aren't projecting that need in March (and last March they didn't have to because he was rehabbing) and I don't doubt they would prefer not to be cutting him in September when he likely couldn't catch on easily anywhere else.
Coaches work too many hours for too little money comparatively speaking, so don't keep projecting that on players who can't get on the field here. Troy can make 6-8 times what a coaching assistant makes by playing one more year. He hasn't made a bundle comparatively speaking, but he's made millions and his wife continued working to support the family(she's a chemist) and they invested most of his money over the years in anticipation of the day he could not play. This isn't about money, it's about still wanting to play and believing he can. And in telling him he's free to seek opportunities elsewhere the team is in effect absolving him of any sense of betrayal on either side. Betrayal would be his taking a job elsewhere for a few dollars more or Bill cutting him in September if in fact he still could play somewhere.
The histrionics on this board these days is pathetic. Real loyalty is a two way street, for fans, teams and players. Not the one way ride on the what have you done for me lately and you owe us trains that get driven around here daily.
I think your belief is totally unfounded. Troy has a job with this team for life per Bob Kraft. Jobs on the roster are Bill's decision, and he has apparently told Troy HE IS FREE TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT ELSEWHERE...there are no restrictions. Bill understands better than fans do that playing is everything to these guys, and if they still want to play and he can't reasonably project a roster spot for them (he said he could last year) yet alone playing time he has no issue with where they go. Troy will still retire a Patriot whenever he retires, bank on it. And he will still have a place in the organization if he wants it. If he doesn't end up signing somewhere there is also the possibility he comes back here if a need arises - they simply aren't projecting that need in March (and last March they didn't have to because he was rehabbing) and I don't doubt they would prefer not to be cutting him in September when he likely couldn't catch on easily anywhere else.
Coaches work too many hours for too little money comparatively speaking, so don't keep projecting that on players who can't get on the field here. Troy can make 6-8 times what a coaching assistant makes by playing one more year. He hasn't made a bundle comparatively speaking, but he's made millions and his wife continued working to support the family(she's a chemist) and they invested most of his money over the years in anticipation of the day he could not play. This isn't about money, it's about still wanting to play and believing he can. And in telling him he's free to seek opportunities elsewhere the team is in effect absolving him of any sense of betrayal on either side. Betrayal would be his taking a job elsewhere for a few dollars more or Bill cutting him in September if in fact he still could play somewhere.
The histrionics on this board these days is pathetic. Real loyalty is a two way street, for fans, teams and players. Not the one way ride on the what have you done for me lately and you owe us trains that get driven around here daily.
My issue here is that BB cut Kareem Brown, their 4th round pick in the draft (now with the Jets, ironically) in order to activate Troy Brown off PUP. Now I don't know if Kareem Brown will turn into any kind of player or not, but putting Troy on the field for one game cost us as much as we gave Oakland for Randy Moss.
How do you know that Kareem Brown was waived to make a spot for Troy Brown?? Chad Brown was signed to the 53-man roster on the same day that Troy was activated from PUP.
I believe it would be logical to assume that Chad Brown was signed as a replacement for Colvin, who was placed on IR the same day.
Just another athlete who doesn't know his time is up. He could not make the lineup last year you'd think he would retire gracefully but instead it looks as though the hero will have to be dragged kicking and clawing out of the arena. Never to be heard from again.
I always find it funny when some Joe From Burger King (to paraphrase Josh Beckett) advises an athlete to forego the next million and "retire gracefully".
I believe it would be logical to assume that Chad Brown was signed as a replacement for Colvin, who was placed on IR the same day.
Fair enough.
But that does not explain why the Patriots chose to waive Kareem Brown on that day. They released Eddie Jackson and Rashad Baker a couple of weeks later. If the Patriots thought so much of Kareem, why not release Eddie Jackson instead of Kareem instead??