What's your least favorite transaction of the BB era?

The 47th time he cut Ventrone was stupid.

Great thread idea

Two transactions that had me scratching my head
1) Blount. I considered him the slowest RB in the NFL and was perplexed why BB brought him in. Having Blount return kick offs caused me more consternation. Chalk this one up in the WTF do I know category
2) Ocho Stinko. At the time of his signing....I considered him washed up and a zipperhead to boot. Factor in his huge salary......WTF was BB thinking

Two transactions I loved
1) Mount Washington.....the man fit the need perfectly
2) Clock Killing Corey Dillon.....Resurrection and Deliverance.....another BB home run (in year 1....but later...not so much)

Mankins would have stopped that Denver pass rush? I don't think I've seen a star player get burned so consistently in big games. Both NYG Super Bowls, Jets, Ravens, all those games he was complete toast. I know he had some big injuries, so I'm not saying I don't respect his toughness. For a huge money offensive guard, though, I wouldn't expect him to be a liability so often.

Letting Brady drop all the way to 199 before drafting him. If Tuna had listened to his chief scout shouting at him across their War Room conference table, the Jetes would have taken him at 179 and the rest, as they say, would not have been history.

More conventionally, Fat Albert.

Ignoring the drafted Aaron Hernandez elephant in the room I would go with signing free agent Adalius Thomas.

To me, this is obvious. There's no doubt in my mind that trading Deon Branch cost them the 2006 Super Bowl.

Branch was a perfect fit in the Pats offense and the eventual return on the deal was the enigmatic Brandon Merriweather.

varjao said:

Trading Moss.

He has been in training camps with the Patriots after retirement, has a good friendship with Brady, and even that year he exchanged hugs with Tom and BB after the game with the Vikings so the impression is that there was no bad blood at all so BB could have handled that situation internally I think. The Pats spent years suffering trying to find a replacement and never worked out, actually the hope is that Brandin Cooks can be that guy who can stretch the field.

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Moss quit on the team. He had to go.

It would have been trading Malcolm Butler

Cutting Tebow.

Patjew said:

Cutting Tebow.

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That was a double edged sword. We lost Christian Cat also.

Trading Deion Branch. The Lombardi count is likely at 6 were it not for that move.

Vatahala said:

Ignoring the drafted Aaron Hernandez elephant in the room

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Drafting Hernandez was OK in the 4th round. Signing him to the extension . . . not so much.

Agree with others on Branch. Don't agree on Mankins, while we could have still gotten Flowers the reality is that's who we got with the Mankins pick so that's a win.

Was going to say moving up for Chad Jackson but I changed my mind. Going with dealing Branch. Pats don't give away the playoff game in Indy if they had Branch.

Donald Hayes, Steve Martin and Monty Beisel. Good times...

slash83 said:

Releasing L.Milloy, even though it worked out great with R.Harrison.

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I still don't fully understand why this happened, why didn't they let him play out the season? Was he going to be a malcontent without a new contract?

I also hated the Milloy thing when it happened and then that game in Buffalo where not only we lost 31-0 but everyone was piling on.

They hate their coach (tm).

Bledsoe had a couple things to say and even Sam Gash was talking about how disrespectful the Patriots organization was like he still had some beef with the team 6 years after he left.

#FakeNews before it became a thing.

I'm not going to go down the road some are starting to veer towards in this thread regarding Mankins, and bash his play in big games. He was the consummate professional and our best OLineman for many years.

But it's hard to look at that move now and think it was a bad move. We won the super bowl that same year, and using the pick drafted a player that was a big part of winning another one two years later. You say we could have had him at 97, but that's not how the draft works. If they had (at the time) thought Flowers was better than Grissom, they would have drafted him first. The extra pick allowed them that second kick at the can, and it paid off.

Sad as it is that Mankins didn't get one with us, I have a hard time bashing the move in hindsight.

Sicilian said:

Sad as it is that Mankins didn't get one with us, I have a hard time bashing the move in hindsight.

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What's really sad is we won the Super Bowl the year before Mankins, won the Super Bowl the year after Mankins and never won it the entire time in between when he was here. Not suggesting a causal relationship but I wish he'd been there for one of those so he could have won it once.

sb1 said:

Donald Hayes, Steve Martin and Monty Beisel. Good times...

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02's offseason was a rough one for moves.

Froob said:

I still don't fully understand why this happened, why didn't they let him play out the season? Was he going to be a malcontent without a new contract?

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What I wonder is was this the original Jamie Collins situation, where BB feared Milloy possibly souring the team chemistry?