Patriots Player Departure LG Michael Jordan released

[Ian]

Huh? Strange isn’t off pup yet. They filled the roster spot with a waiver wire guy.
Why would you cut your starter and keep the players who were sitting behind him?

Practiced last week, and will practice again this week. There's also a bye coming up after this week (mercifully). I'm assuming they have a plan, but it's Tuesday. Not going to get an answer on a Tuesday night.

 

[Ian]

They didn’t cut him to activate Strange, they cut him to claim a waiver wire guy.
They claimed the other Robinson off waivers and he wasn’t good enough to be active but we kept him and signed a guy who got 60 snaps in Miami and cut the guy we put out there for every single snap he was healthy for.

I don't know what they're doing. I'll have to sit back like everyone else and wait and see what they're doing tomorrow.

 

[maust]

He was still our 2ND-BEST offensive Lineman. Fact.

Guessing he was one of the guys yucking it up after the Miami loss or something along those lines. Cutting a regular rather than just demoting him is message sending

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

I get that he shouldn’t be starting but weird choice out of everyone you could release. As a backup hes fine hence playing ok for some time until he just couldn’t hold up anymore effectively. Thats what a backup is! Maybe theres more to this

 

[Ring 6]

Practiced last week, and will practice again this week. There's also a bye coming up after this week (mercifully). I'm assuming they have a plan, but it's Tuesday. Not going to get an answer on a Tuesday night.

The answer is dysfunction. There really isn’t anything that would explain playing a guy 96% of the snaps then cutting him to claim a waiver wire guy and keeping all the guys who weren’t good enough to be playing ahead of him.

It’s like saying instead of demoting Jon Jones for playing poorly we will claim a 29 year old journeyman and cut jones and keep all the guys who have been sitting behind him.

 

[Ian]

I get that he shouldn’t be starting but weird choice out of everyone you could release. As a backup hes fine hence playing ok for some time until he just couldn’t hold up anymore effectively. Thats what a backup is! Maybe theres more to this

There's too much mediocre on this roster to get overly attached to anyone other than guys who are truly contributors and guys who are good enough to set themselves apart.

Have to look at it this way: (and I mean this in a general sense) If we wouldn't want them next year, we shouldn't care about what happens to them now. Especially with just five games left on the schedule.

 

[Ian]

The answer is dysfunction. There really isn’t anything that would explain playing a guy 96% of the snaps then cutting him to claim a waiver wire guy and keeping all the guys who weren’t good enough to be playing ahead of him.

It’s like saying instead of demoting Jon Jones for playing poorly we will claim a 29 year old journeyman and cut jones and keep all the guys who have been sitting behind him.

Same reason they didn't bench Lowe after he committed all those penalties on Sunday. They didn't have another viable option. You don't cut off your nose to spite your face and get your rookie QB any more beat up than necessary.

 

[Ian]

Same reason they didn't bench Lowe after he committed all those penalties on Sunday. They didn't have another viable option. You don't cut off your nose to spite your face and get your rookie QB any more beat up than necessary.

I will say that Lowe isn't alone in terms of a ridiculous amount of penalties. Trent Brown had 9 of his own (same amount Lowe has now) in 2022:

2022 Patriots Penalties

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Isaiah Wynn had 8.

 

[Ring 6]

Same reason they didn't bench Lowe after he committed all those penalties on Sunday. They didn't have another viable option. You don't cut off your nose to spite your face and get your rookie QB any more beat up than necessary.

Huh? They played Jordan because he is there best player at the position but cut him and kept players they were afraid to play instead of him?

Honestly, you don’t think the front office and coaching staff aren’t do a pathetically terrible job, do you?
Because you seem to have an excuse every time assessing them comes up.

 

[Ian]

Huh? They played Jordan because he is there best player at the position but cut him and kept players they were afraid to play instead of him?

Honestly, you don’t think the front office and coaching staff aren’t do a pathetically terrible job, do you?
Because you seem to have an excuse every time assessing them comes up.

I'll say this again: There's too much mediocre on this roster to get overly attached to anyone other than guys who are truly contributors and guys who are good enough to set themselves apart.

As I said, if we wouldn't want them next year, we shouldn't care about what happens to them now. Especially with just five games left on the schedule. He wouldn't be here next year anyway.

 

[Ring 6]

There's too much mediocre on this roster to get overly attached to anyone other than guys who are truly contributors and guys who are good enough to set themselves apart.

Have to look at it this way: (and I mean this in a general sense) If we wouldn't want them next year, we shouldn't care about what happens to them now. Especially with just five games left on the schedule.

So if Sidy Sow, Tyrese (waiver wire) Robinson, Lecitus (waiver wire) Smith weren’t good enough to play and Micheal Jordan beat them out and played every snap he was healthy for, why are we cutting the guy we have said is the best of the bunch to claim another waiver wire guy?

 

[PWRxWLF]

Guessing he was one of the guys yucking it up after the Miami loss. Cutting a regular rather than just demoting him is message sending

This. Has to have been something like this, right? You dont develop a player all season long just to cut him for a dude off the street. You at least keep him as a backup.

 

[maust]

I get that he shouldn’t be starting but weird choice out of everyone you could release. As a backup hes fine hence playing ok for some time until he just couldn’t hold up anymore effectively. Thats what a backup is! Maybe theres more to this

I believe there's def more to this, there's the yukfest that went on in the locker room after the Miami loss for instance. Maybe it's a straight up message meant for the rest of the team

 

[Mack Herron]

Released by Bengals, Panthers, Packers, now Pats. Maybe it’s the player?

 

[Ian]

So if Sidy Sow, Tyrese (waiver wire) Robinson, Lecitus (waiver wire) Smith weren’t good enough to play and Micheal Jordan beat them out and played every snap he was healthy for, why are we cutting the guy we have said is the best of the bunch to claim another waiver wire guy?

Rather than drive myself crazy, I'll wait to see what the real reason is tomorrow. But I'm not lamenting Jordan's departure. I'm going to go on living my life and work on fixing formulas involving tie-breakers, which I'm trying to write out, and that's far more interesting to me than Jordan no longer being here.

 

[maust]

This. Has to have been something like this, right? You dont develop a player all season long just to cut him for a dude off the street. You at least keep him as a backup.

That's my read of it Certainly it's more plausible than 'BECAUSE THIS FRONT OFFICE SUCKS!'

 

[Ring 6]

I'll say this again: There's too much mediocre on this roster to get overly attached to anyone other than guys who are truly contributors and guys who are good enough to set themselves apart.

As I said, if we wouldn't want them next year, we shouldn't care about what happens to them now. Especially with just five games left on the schedule. He wouldn't be here next year anyway.

You are missing the point.

The decision makers have said all year long that Jordan is the best LG in the team and those backups shouldn’t be on the field.

All of a sudden they are all better than him.

How do you reconcile that? Were they wrong all year?

 

[Ian]

You are missing the point.

The decision makers have said all year long that Jordan is the best LG in the team and those backups shouldn’t be on the field.

All of a sudden they are all better than him.

How do you reconcile that? Were they wrong all year?

Rather than be wrong, I'll wait to see what those same decision-makers were thinking tomorrow. That will then lead to another thread where we'll at least have a decision to give us some context to wonder what they're doing. Right now, we have no idea what they're thinking.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

That's my read of it Certainly it's more plausible than 'BECAUSE THIS FRONT OFFICE SUCKS!'

Posting "the front office sucks" is fun though. Fire Mayo. Wolf and Groh have to go. See, I told you, lots of fun.

 

[dliverey44]

I am surprised by this move based on the amount of snaps played, but I get it because he was not that good. Hopefully someone has passed him on the depth chart because of their recent practices. We'll see.