Patriots Shuffle Roster, Release Price

[Paul_Newman]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

This obviously means the Pats are planning to draft a receiver. They have to now.

You can't go into next year with Branch, and.... Ochocinco won't be back.

Michael Floyd is someone I think the Patriots should look into with one of their first round draft picks. It might be gamble to not go defense with both first picks, but Floyd would look GREAT in this system.

He's a big target, that's strong, and runs good routes. Exactly what the Pats lack at the receiver position.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Right along this line it's interesting and personally surprising to me that BB did NOT value Price's upside higher than seemingly useless aging Ocho or Carrie "flailing arms" Underwood who goes all Cobra-Kai on approaching balls. Think about that for a minute. One likely scenario is that Price was simply not putting in the effort to learn the system or was blatently incapable of grasping the obvious while in contrast aging #85 was working diligently at it and making more progress.

Years ago I was castigated for calling early Patsfan fav (how soon we forget or revise history) Chad Jackson a bust here early on but my simple indicator was my personal on site observations of Brady's obvious visible disgust with Chad's repeated miss-ques all during training camp. If you're on TFB's you-know-what list, you're history. It's obvious to me that somehow old #81 got onto that list early in 2010 too and got his butt traded outa town.

Yup. How quickly folks forget (well some weren't patsfans until recently) that Chad and Bethel had their defenders too. Thing with Brady is you have to be a real jackass to get on his ****list. He's always believed he can get the best out of his guys. That's what got his old college WR a shot here, that guy Borges wanted Bill to draft instead of Seymour. But Tom found out some guys can't be salvaged at this level... I remember a while ago, perhaps during the 2009 season, he commented on the difference in kids entering the league these days. Even the ones who work hard when they are in don't necessarily work hard when they aren't. And it's not just the newly acquired excess disposable cash. Lots of Madden and video game addicts. Tom said the only video he ever watches is game film... Too many of these kids got where the did based on talent and the lack of it competitively in college and the goal became to arrive in the NFL rather than to succeed in it. I guess they assumed that would just naturally follow as it did in college. There is a reason he is all over his new young TE's... He doesn't want to lose them to the NFL experience. I think it was better for them that they came in unheralded for reasons unrelated to talent and had to prove themselves. He's not letting them off the hook despite their early success. He's demanding focus and concentration and making them more aware of him and consequence in hopes that will avert their natural instinct to kick back and live the dream...

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

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Kinky PATRIOTSFANINPA is Kinky

Funny you said that,I was going to use KINKY as My Mood for today but Ian has not put that emotion as a selection yet :snob:

 

[juny]

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wow over 100 posts in 2 hours on the weekend.

sigh...another WR bust. really really hope chad can get it together, because deion is getting old and not much else there at WR.

 

[D-Money]

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I dont know what Belichick saw in Brandon Tate.All he was in college was a special teams specialist.He wasnt even any good as a wr in college.Plz dont draft anymore!!

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

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Yup. How quickly folks forget (well some weren't patsfans until recently) that Chad and Bethel had their defenders too. Thing with Brady is you have to be a real jackass to get on his ****list. He's always believed he can get the best out of his guys. That's what got his old college WR a shot here, that guy Borges wanted Bill to draft instead of Seymour. But Tom found out some guys can't be salvaged at this level... I remember a while ago, perhaps during the 2009 season, he commented on the difference in kids entering the league these days. Even the ones who work hard when they are in don't necessarily work hard when they aren't.

PWP: Don't understand what you're saying here. Syntax?

And it's not just the newly acquired excess disposable cash. Lots of Madden and video game addicts. Tom said the only video he ever watches is game film... Too many of these kids got where the did based on talent and the lack of it competitively in college and the goal became to arrive in the NFL rather than to succeed in it. I guess they assumed that would just naturally follow as it did in college. There is a reason he is all over his new young TE's... He doesn't want to lose them to the NFL experience. I think it was better for them that they came in unheralded for reasons unrelated to talent and had to prove themselves. He's not letting them off the hook despite their early success. He's demanding focus and concentration and making them more aware of him and consequence in hopes that will avert their natural instinct to kick back and live the dream...

I SO agree with this. TFB gets a bit more desperate and unforgiving each year as he approaches the end of his career. In 2007 he had the time and energy for Moss maintenance and he was amply rewarded. After 2009, early on in 2010 Tom lost interest or no longer had the time and energy to put into tedious Moss maintenance, something he thought mistakenly that he'd already addressed years ago. Randy regressed to form and let his obsession with a new contract and lack of same affect his week by week concentration. Gone. Traded. NEVER to return. Deal with it posters.

 

[Dutchmaster617]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Great, guess my mocking of the weekly Price praise was right. Pre-season meant nothing.

 

[D-Money]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Age is a problem in the wr position.They are old.It would have been nice if one of these wrs had panned out.They wont go after a big time wr in the off-season.Probably go after one of these old wrs.

 

[Run DMC]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Goodbye Taylor, old boy, we hardly knew ye.

 

[NEPatriot]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

We're going to be very thin at WR next year.

 

[alvinnf]

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Peace out!

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Great, guess my mocking of the weekly Price praise was right. Pre-season meant nothing.

Some people never learn about preseason games

If Preseason was a big indication how a young player will perform in REAL games,then Bam Childress would be a lock for the Pats HOF

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Next year will be ineteresting. Wonder if this means 85 will be back.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Next year will be ineteresting. Wonder if this means 85 will be back on Twitter all day and full time since he won't have a job.

Fixed it for you

NO Chance Mr. Worthless,Mr. Hollywood is coming back

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Fixed it for you

NO Chance Mr. Worthless,Mr. Hollywood is coming back

I say you're wrong. I admit the odds are with you at this instant.

 

[PittPatriot]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

By the way, over the last decade, the league-wide hit rate on 3rd round WRs is around 30%.

I am curious if you have a citation for that statistic; regardless, that means that we are in the lower 70% almost 100% of the time.
We have sucked-arse on 3rd picks in general (Deus's post made my jaw drop).

 

[Bombdog]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

So long TP alas we hardly knew you. Seriously the writing was on the wall. When a UDFA AKA Underwood comes in and gets more snaps then you.Your days are numbered. I think his biggest problem was he was immature and was not a good practice player .

 

[Patspsycho]

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I think Price still has PS eligibility. Let's see if they give him another chance there.

If not, then I'm really disappointed- he was my binky. I liked his fearlessness when going over the middle.

 

[Sciz]

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I am curious if you have a citation for that statistic; regardless, that means that we are in the lower 70% almost 100% of the time.
We have sucked-arse on 3rd picks in general (Deus's post made my jaw drop).

Stole it from a post of somebody on another forum. There have been 50 WRs drafted in the 3rd since 2001, and here's his list of "hits." 13/50 is 26%, so 30% gives leeway for any two other guys anybody wants to argue should be in the hit category.

Brandon LaFell, Emmanuel Sanders, Jordan Shipley, Mike Wallace, Earl Bennett, Early Doucet, Mario Manningham, Andre Caldwell, James Jones, Chris Henry, Bernard Berrian, Nate Burleson, Steve Smith (Carolina)

 

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Taylor Price Waived

Well ... wow. My thoughts:
— I'm disappointed. The guy flashed some intriguing talent but obviously never put it together. Too bad. Maybe he'll put it together somewhere else; I have no doubt some team will take a chance on him.
— I'm a bit surprised at the animosity on this board toward people who rooted and held hope for Price to the end. He had some of the markings of a classic Belichick pick success: Little heard of before the draft; small school; bit of an underdog because of the style of offense he played in college. Why wouldn't you root and hold out hope for the guy as long as you could? Nothing we saw on the field screamed "can't play" and, really, none of us knows what go on off the field (that goes for the closest beat reporters too). Yes, the critics were proven right; so we shouldn't hold out hope for yet-unproven players in the future?
— That said: Have any relatively high BB-era draft picks ever recovered from an early visit to the dog house to develop and become significant contributors? I can't think of any.
— BB's credo is once again clear: I don't care when you were drafted. It's what you do here that counts.
— Yeah, it must be a very difficult offense to grasp, and it's clear now that intuitive smarts are what counts. Veterans and draft picks galore have failed here. Isn't there some way the Pats can test for this better?
— Part of what some of us have seen in Tate and Price is the hope for a Moss heir. But maybe the whole Moss experience skewed our concept of a deep passing game. Heck, no one ever complained that the '01-05 teams "lacked a deep threat" because they lacked the prototype. Those teams, and Welker-Branch this year, have shown that guile and smarts can play a role in making the deep play happen. I know this isn't an original perception on my part, but there it is.
— Your move, Tiquan.