crownontherocks
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Also I'm not seeing anything about a questionable work ethic if you can pass that link along? You have to coddle him in terms of his body/injuries but every team has guys like that to an extent. You just manage around.
Given that BB just recently said that they are not yet in evaluation mode Coe must have either broken some rules (COVID ?) or been a total wreck in the OTAesque early phase of camp the lat few days.
How we feelin’ about this?
How we feelin’ about this?
Patriots host four players for tryouts on eve of padded training camp practices
"The New England Patriots hosted four players for tryouts Sunday ahead of the first padded training camp practices at Gillette Stadium on Monday. Here's a list of the players who worked out for the Patriots, per the NFL's transaction wire (Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer)"
--G Ben Braden
--TE Paul Butler
--TE Alex Ellis
--DT Greg Gilmore
We sure are...and there's no excuse for it whatsoever.we are scraping the bottom of the player barrel.
Not one of those four (except for maybe Braden) have even a remote chance of making the 53; and because the TC roster's already capped at 80, there is simply no room here for what amounts to nothing more than a bunch of blocking & tackling dummies, especially when we are in serious need of Actual Professional Football Players.
Nothing 1 of our million coveted late round picks won't fix. Lose a 7th rounder, no big deal, we traded down 18 times to get it. We don't need it. Now if it was our yearly 2nd round CB that went down or quit....
They are camp bodies. They are not supposed to have a chance to make the team but are needed to make logistics of camp work especially with respect of the limited time they have (e.g. letting QBs let work in parallel, give Keane and Asiasi breaks..).
Suggesting there is no excuse to bring them in just because you want other starters is pretty disingenuous.
There is no excuse to bring them in with the depth and talent issues they currently have at certain position groups, the remaining proven veteran FAs there are left and the reasonable contracts these types of FAs have been signing for. They are not simply in need of camp fodder or bodies.