Patriots re-sign Danny Shelton

This makes sense.
There's Pennell at 6-4 332 and a bunch of 3-4-5 technique types in Guy (6-4 305), Butler (6-4 293), and Cowart (6-3 298).
Another big body who can play nose. Has a year of experience in this system.
If Pennell misses a game or two, it's hard to field a short-yardage defense.

robertweathers said:

$75k signing bonus.

If he's cut tomorrow oh well.

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Talk about getting something for nothing I hope Shelton is playing with a chip of his shoulders.

SBLIII said:

The matter of fact is that in the 3 games Shelton was inactive last year

our opponents averaged 7.3, 6.3 and 9 yards per carry.

In the 13 games Shelton played, opponents averaged 4.5 yards per carry.

This signing was necessary.

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DarrylS said:

On paper this is one of the strongest teams that I can remember, they are loaded at just about every position.

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They're loaded with 90ish players for camps. That's how they're loaded. They're not loaded with awesome talent across the board. It's business as usual, and some will shine while some disappoint.

Hell, according to Reiss, the team is already losing one of the OTs.

Veteran OT Jared Veldheer has informed the Patriots that he plans to retire, per a source

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IllegalContact said:

actually, you had Garcia penciled in as your best case LT a year ago.......in your perpetual negativity, you're moving your own goalposts now.....we were just as unsure about LT at this time last year.

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If you prefer, consider then the supposition that we had more options at LT last year than we do this year, which seems to be either a recovering-from-an-Achilles-tear Wynn or a breaking-down Veldheer whom we hope to catch during one of his fewer & fewer healthy stretches, or Yawndy Cachoo, who's already on his way to becoming an IR Body, same as Boney Tony (who was released one year ago May 11th).

........as of 05/10/2018..........................as of 05/20/2019
Plan A: a healthy Isaiah Wynn.........a recovering Isaiah Wynn
Plan B: an unknown Trent Brown....a breaking-down Veldheer
Plan C: Boney Tony Garcia...............a recovering Yawndy Cachoo
Plan D: Adrian Waddle.....................Croston
Plan E: Croston.................................the tackling dummy-ship of Skipper, St Louis & Lang

Deus Irae said:

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Uh-oh.

captain stone said:

If you prefer, consider then the supposition that we had more options at LT last year than we do this year, which seems to be either a recovering-from-an-Achilles-tear Wynn or a breaking-down Veldheer whom we hope to catch during one of his fewer & fewer healthy stretches, or Yawndy Cachoo, who's already on his way to becoming an IR Body, same as Boney Tony (who was released one year ago May 11th).

........as of 05/10/2018..........................as of 05/20/2019
Plan A: a healthy Isaiah Wynn.........a recovering Isaiah Wynn
Plan B: an unknown Trent Brown....a breaking-down Veldheer
Plan C: Boney Tony Garcia...............a recovering Yawndy Cachoo
Plan D: Adrian Waddle.....................Croston
Plan E: Croston.................................the tackling dummy-ship of Skipper, St Louis & Lang

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again........the position is equally unsettled this year as last.....try to avoid using your 20/20 hindsight

IllegalContact said:

again........the position is equally unsettled this year as last.....try to avoid using your 20/20 hindsight

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The position is Not equally unsettled this year as last; it's More unsettled this year than it was last year, especially now that Veldheer has retired.

And I have no idea what "20/20 hindsight" crap you're talking about. It was unsettled last year, but at least there were more options available to us then than there are now, as I had previously stated. Why is that so hard to understand?

Deus Irae said:

They're loaded with 90ish players for camps. That's how they're loaded. They're not loaded with awesome talent across the board. It's business as usual, and some will shine while some disappoint.
Hell, according to Reiss, the team is already losing one of the OTs.

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Opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one.. in mine this team looks deeper with mucho schematic flexibility that I have seen in a while..

We will know more come January 2020....

captain stone said:

The position is Not equally unsettled this year as last; it's More unsettled this year than it was last year, especially now that Veldheer has retired.

And I have no idea what "20/20 hindsight" crap you're talking about. It was unsettled last year, but at least there were more options available to us then than there are now, as I had previously stated. Why is that so hard to understand?

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more options does not make it less unsettled......it makes it more unsettled.....we know who our LT is......that is settled....you may not like it, but you don't like anything.

DarrylS said:

Opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one.. in mine this team looks deeper with mucho schematic flexibility that I have seen in a while..

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We get that same line, in one form or another, from people every year. Every year, the homers tell us that this team is, like, the bestest in, like, forever. Every year save one, they've been wrong.

Deus Irae said:

We get that same line, in one form or another, from people every year. Every year, the homers tell us that this team is, like, the bestest in, like, forever. Every year save one, they've been wrong.

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They've been to 4 of the last 5 Super Bowls and won 3. They're pretty good . . .

Deus Irae said:

We get that same line, in one form or another, from people every year. Every year, the homers tell us that this team is, like, the bestest in, like, forever. Every year save one, they've been wrong.

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As long as it's the best team in football this year and not all time I'm happy

BelichickFan said:

They've been to 4 of the last 5 Super Bowls and won 3. They're pretty good . . .

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Yes, but that's a different issue.

SBLIII said:

As long as it's the best team in football this year and not all time I'm happy

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Absolutely

Deus Irae said:

Yes, but that's a different issue.

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That is the issue, making it to and winning the "Tournament"... Compare to other teams that have "won" the offseason or have an incredibly talented roster (Cleveland comes to mind), I prefer the way our team is built and right now this team looks very good, considering what we have lost.

In consecutive seasons the Pats have let two LT's walk and last year let their best edge player go and somehow (on paper) seemed to have recover from those losses.. not many teams, if any, can do that.

He was a healthy scratch for most of the year, then made that great play in the Super Bowl and reminded everyone he was still around. Good depth, but surprising they signed him after an overall disappointing year.

However, Gerald McCoy would be a nice add.

TheFlyingWedge said:

He was a healthy scratch for most of the year, then made that great play in the Super Bowl and reminded everyone he was still around. Good depth, but surprising they signed him after an overall disappointing year.

However, Gerald McCoy would be a nice add.

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He was a healthy scratch for 4 of 19 games

Deus Irae said:

Yes, but that's a different issue.

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there is only 1 issue.....unless you're part of the felger underwear brigade

DarrylS said:

That is the issue

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No, it's not the issue. Go back and re-read the post chain.