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I don't understand your thinking that players who play sufficient man coverage comparable to Talib can be drafted by the Patriots or easily found on the market. You have no understanding of the Patriots history of drafting defensive backs.
We have a legit coverage guy for the first time since Samuel, and he might be better. And there are fans who are ready to flippantly get rid of him. Unbelievable. He's made our defense much, much better. Reiss has a great piece explaining this. Re-sign Talib. He's proving his worth.
First of all, let's try and show some respect. Stating that I "have no understanding of the Patriots history of drafting defensive backs" is really classless, not to mention completely untrue. You have no idea what my knowledge of anything is, and I've never once made any comments that would show any lack of understanding about anything.
Second of all, their drafting woes have improved with the recent additions of McCourty and Dennard, not to mention that the draft is hardly the ONLY way to acquire players. Was Talib drafted here? No. Just because Belichick has had drafting issues with CB's doesn't mean that we're automatically screwed. I never mentioned drafting anyone anyway, so you obviously mis-read the intent of my post. We've had drafting woes at WR, yet have been able to remain very competitive with our scheme, so the thinking was that may be explored with a player of Talib's caliber. I hardly see any strange thinking there.
Stating that it may be a reasonable option to continue our more aggressive man coverage scheme without paying ridiculously overboard amounts at a position that Belichick typically refuses to pay overboard at (there's a little "understanding" for YOU), is hardly stating anything controversial.
The odds of being able to retain Talib on an expensive multi year deal when they went to him with a multi year deal in the offseason probably aren't too good, so my other option is something that you may want to start to get used to thinking about. Belichick could very well bring in another comparable man coverage CB at a lesser cost and still have an effective scheme.
You're talking about a player who has yet to once complete an entire season when the games count most (at the end) in his 6 yr career due to the same two nagging injuries of hip and hamstring issues, coupled with off the field concerns and suspensions. You are a lot closer to the one who lacks sufficient understanding if you think that Bill Belichick is going to fall over himself by attempting to back up the Brinks truck..
FWIW--Ben Volin reports today that there's no way Talib is willing to take a lower than market value, so there's something to keep in mind when you're calling others out for their "lack of understanding."
