Today In Patriots History May 12, 2022: Jarrett Stidham traded to Raiders

May 12, 2022:
Patriots trade QB Jarrett Stidham and a 2023 7th round pick to Las Vegas for a 6th round pick





At the time, anybody that stated that Stid the Kid would be starting against the Patriots in the AFCCG in three years would have been considered insane.

Trade
Send Stidham + 7th
Receive 6th + AFC Championship game win 3 years later

W

Cleveland wanted to offer a first but Bill turned them down.

May 12, 2022:
Mr. Patriot, Gino Cappelletti, passes away at the age of 88

Bill wanted Stiddy to start, but he wasn't up to the task.
Picked up Cam in Filene's basement, starting the dynasty downfall.
very poor planning for post Brady

Happy 47th birthday to Andre Carter
Born May 12, 1979 in Denver; hometown San Jose, California
Patriot defensive end, 2011, 2013; uniform #93, #96
Signed as a veteran free agent on August 11, 2011
Re-signed on October 22, 2013
Pats résumé: two seasons, 23 games (14 starts), plus two postseason games;
12 sacks, 56 tackles, 15 TFL, 30 QB hits, 3 pass deflections, 2 forced fumbles;
franchise record (tied) for most sacks in a single game (4, vs Jets in 2011);
2011 Pro Bowl


The 7th overall pick of the 2001 draft spent five years each with San Francisco and Washington, before catching on with the Patriots at the age of 32. Rubin Andre Carter showed he was not yet over the hill, registering ten sacks in 2011 (before missing the final two games with a torn quadriceps tendon), and was named to his first (and only) Pro Bowl. Andre signed with Oakland in 2012, then was cut at the end of their training camp the following year. After season-ending injuries to Jerod Mayo and Vince Wilfork, the Pats re-signed Carter for the last nine games of the 2013 season. Overall he had 12 sacks and 55 tackles for the Patriots, playing in 23 games with 14 starts, plus two playoff games. On November 13, 2011 Carter tied a franchise single game record with four sacks on Mark Sanchez in a 37-16 victory in New Jersey against the Jets. He was named NFL Defensive Player of the Week for that effort.

Overall Andre Carter worked out to be an excellent veteran defensive addition for the Patriots - though I hoped/expected he would have stayed in New England longer, without the one season in Oakland.




Andre Carter finished his NFL career with 184 games played over 13 seasons, with 517 tackles (387 solo). He accumulated 80½ sacks, 115 tackles for a loss, 121 quarterback hits and 28 pass deflections. Carter also registered 18 forced fumbles, 4 fumble recoveries and a safety. He also had 12 tackles and 3 tackles for a loss in six playoff games. In February of 2017 Carter was hired as an assistant defensive line coach by Miami, a position he remained in for two years. In February of 2019 Adam Gase - who had been head coach in Miami - hired Carter to be his defensive line coach with the New York Jets. In 2021 LSU hired Andre Carter to become their defensive line coach, and in 2024 he was the pass rush specialist coach with the Las Vegas Raiders.

rkarp1 said:

Bill wanted Stiddy to start, but he wasn't up to the task.
Picked up Cam in Filene's basement, starting the dynasty downfall.
very poor planning for post Brady

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I think he had a plan (Jimmy G), but then Brady kept on playing at high level much longer than anybody could have realistically expected. It was botched, with neither one remaining on the team. The team would have bottomed out with Stidham, but at least the Patriots would have had a better draft spot rather than #15.

To me the biggest issue with the downfall was not bringing in or retaining a quality staff. Think of all the people that left - Scott Pioli, Jason Licht, Thomas Dimitroff, Nick Caserio, Larry Cook, Bucko Kilroy, Bob Quinn, Ernie Adams, Dave Ziegler - plus all the coaches. Belichick's circle of people he knew or trusted kept growing smaller and smaller, and as the years passed he did not effectively replace them. In some cases (Kilroy, Adams) nobody was going to be at that same level, but by then end, the quality in the personnel department and executive staff had eroded tremendously - and along with it, the product on the field.

rkarp1 said:

Bill wanted Stiddy to start, but he wasn't up to the task.
Picked up Cam in Filene's basement, starting the dynasty downfall.
very poor planning for post Brady

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Coming off four Super Bowl appearances in five years, entering the 2020 off-season with the third most dead cap in the NFL, half your starters aged or priced out and picking at the end of the draft.

Tell us you don’t understand team building without actually telling us.

jmt57 said:

I think he had a plan (Jimmy G), but then Brady kept on playing at high level much longer than anybody could have realistically expected. It was botched, with neither one remaining on the team. The team would have bottomed out with Stidham, but at least the Patriots would have had a better draft spot rather than #15.

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Jimmy also wussied out and didn’t play with injury when he was cleared to play during Tom’s suspension. I’m pretty sure that’s when BB decided Jimmy wasn’t the answer going forward.

Brady signed a 1 year deal which included a no franchise tag clause.
the Pats knew he was leaving and had 12+ months to come up with a plan.
that plan ended up as Stiddy, Cam and the famous "anyone can play QB" comment from a staff member.
and that my fellow posters, was the end of a dynasty, that really did not have to end

May 12, 1972:
Pats sign their fifth round draft pick, Ron Bolton

The 6'2 cornerback from Norfolk State played in all but one game (55), with 45 starts for the Pats from 1972 to 1975. Bolton had 18 interceptions during that time before being traded to the Cleveland Browns for OT Bob McKay. Bolton played for seven more NFL seasons, while McKay lasted three years in New England, and only one as a starter.

Ron then went on to have a lengthy football coaching career, primarily in the MEAC.












May 12, 1977:
Allen Gallaher, a Pats 4th round draft pick from USC in 1973, passes away at the age of 26.

The 6'3, 257 lb offensive tackle played in 14 games for the Patriots in 1974. He then played for the British Columbia Lions in the CFL in 1975-76. Gallaher died from a heart attack at the very young age of 26.

Heart attack strikes down Lion import Allen Gallaher







May 12, 1978:
The Patriots sign 26-year old free agent J.J. Jennings

The Holyoke native was a fullback/tailback and possibly the first Patriot from Rutgers. Jennings was drafted by the Chiefs in 1974, but instead signed with Memphis in the World Football League, where he was the WFL Rookie of the Year and All-WFL, rushing for 1,524 yards and scoring 94 points. Jennings was then traded to Philadelphia, as the WFL hoped that his being somewhat local (Rutgers) would spur interest and attendance, but the league folded in 1975. Jennings spent time with the Chiefs but was slowed down by injuries (1975-77), and later signed with the Giants (1977) and Patriots (1978) - but never got on the field in a regular season NFL game. In his post-football life he became an executive with Xerox.





College Football Hall of Fame - James Jennings

World Football League Interview - JJ Jennings

Csonka Ready; Giants Sign J. J. Jennings - New York Times, Aug 16, 1977







May 12, 1982:
RB Robert Weathers signs his rookie contract



Robert Weathers played four seasons in New England, but was never the same after suffering an ankle injury in a car accident during the 1986 preseason. He spent 1987 on PUP and was released at the start of the 1988 training camp, after playing in 44 regular season games with four touchdowns.

In the 1985 AFC championship Squish the Fish Game Weathers ran for 87 yards on 16 carries (5.4 ypc), and caught a third quarter touchdown pass from Tony Eason that put the Patriots up 24-7.

May 12, 2000:
New England signs free agent Kareem Anderson

Anderson would be waived May 25, and never heard from again. Anderson had averaged 40.5 yards and 41.3 yards per punt in 1998 and 199 at Washington State.





May 12, 2005:
Patriots sign guard Victor Leyva

Leyva was a fifth round pick out of Arizona State by the Bengals in 2001. He was waived by the Pats as part of final roster cuts in September, then played one more season of pro football in the Arena Football League before retiring.


Sun Devils Bio: Victor Leyva






May 12, 2007:
Patriots All Access wins its second New England Emmy, having also previously won the award in 1999






May 12, 2008:
Matt Walsh prepares for meeting the following day with Roger Goodell, and then Arlen Specter two days after that

May 12, 2018:
Homer Ervin "Billy" Brewer passes away at the age of 83

Brewer was a safety from Mississippi that the Pats selected in the initial 1960 AFL draft, but he instead signed with Washington. He only played 11 games in the NFL, but then went on to have a twenty-plus year career as a college coach, compiling a 125-94-6 record with Southeastern Louisiana, Louisiana Tech, and Ole Miss.

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May 12, 2025:
Pats sign DT Isaiah Iton, G Mehki Butler, DT Wilfried Pene; cut OT Cole Birdow

Pene had been a bit of a mystery: initially reported as part of the first wave of undrafted rookie signings, then not. Turns out that since he was born in France, he qualifies as a roster exemption under the NFL's International Player Pathway program, designed to help international athletes earn roster spots.

A few here in the forum were high on Birdow; apparently the coaching staff disagreed, letting him go so quickly after just signing him April 26, and only seeing him in the rookie minicamp May 9-11.







May 12, 2026:

Happy 78th birthday to Bob Olson
Born May 12, 1948 in Superior, Wisconsin
Patriot linebacker, 1970-1971 offseasons
Pats 5th round (107th overall) selection of the 1970 draft, from Notre Dame
Pats résumé: two offseasons, training camps and preseasons; zero games played in the NFL


Bob Olson was a middle linebacker who led Notre Dame in tackles for three straight seasons. He was a two-time captain for the Irish, and MVP in the Cotton Bowl game in 1970. Olson ranks fourth in Notre Dame career history for most career tackles by a linebacker, behind Bob Crable, Bob Golic and Steve Heimkreiter.

Olson was waived by the Pats as part of final roster cuts in 1970. He was re-signed the following offseason - and was cut at the end of camp again. Olson played for the Hartford Knights of the Atlantic Coast Football league in 1971, but that was the extent of his pro football career. He later returned to Indiana to become a long time football coach at St Joseph's High School in South Bend.

Other pro football players with New England connections born on this date:

Bruce Nelson, 47 (5/12/79);
Draft Pick Trade
On April 26, 2003 the Patriots traded up, sending Carolina their 2nd round pick (50th overall) and 4th (120th overall in order to move up five spots, for the Panthers 2nd round pick (45th overall)
- The Patriots used 2.45 on WR Bethel Johnson
- Carolina used that 2.50 on G Bruce Nelson

Bethel Johnson may not have done much, but Bruce Nelson did even less. He lasted only one season in the NFL, playing in 15 games with one start.




Chris Hovan, 47 (5/12/78);
Boston College, class of 1999
An All-American at BC, the DT spent ten years in the NFL with the Vikings and Bucs. He has since worked as a strength and conditioning coach for the University of South Florida, defensive line coach for the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League, and defensive coordinator at a Tampa area high school.








Tim Walker, 68 (5/12/58);
Born in Hartford
The linebacker played all 16 games for Seattle in 1980 before a neck injury forced him to retire.




Don McCauley, 72 (5/12/76);
Born in Worcester
RB was a 1st round pick by the Colts in 1971 and scored 57 touchdowns over 11 seasons.





Fred Dugan (5/12/1933-3/3/2018);
Born and raised in Stamford CT
TE/SE had 153 receptions and 13 TD from 1958-63.

May 12, 1974:
The Boston Celtics defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 102-87 to win the NBA championship, four games to three.

It was the Celtics 12th NBA title, and first since the Bill Russell era.


Dave Cowens led the Celtics with 28 points and 14 rebounds while John Havlicek (who was named NBA Finals MVP) finished with 16 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 steals. Point guard Jo Jo White scored 16 points with 5 assists, and power forward Paul Silas had 14 points, 9 rebounds - and 4 steals.

This marked Boston’s first title in the post-Bill Russell era, and the first for Tommy Heinsohn as a coach, who stated "we were the David, and they were the Goliath," as 6'9 Cowens was tasked with defending 7'2 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The Celtics decided to abandon their man-to-man defense, and double and triple team Jabbar - who still scored 26 points.

For Milwaukee, it was the Bucks' last appearance in the NBA Finals until 2021, when they finally won their second title, and first in 50 years. Jabbar, who grew up in New York City, did not care for Milwaukee, and forced the Bucks to trade him to either the Knicks or Lakers.

The Celtics returned to the finals two years later, winning their 13th title. This would be the last time the Celtics won a Game 7 on the road until 2022, a span of 48 years. This was also the great Oscar Robertson’s final game of his career. Counting players, coaches, and officials, the series featured a dozen future Hall of Famers.

May 12, 1972:
The Rolling Stones released Exile on Main Street on their self-titled label. Writing and recording began during the London sessions for their previous LP, Sticky Fingers, and continued through mid-1971 in the South of France. Featuring the singles “Happy” (with extremely rare lead vocals on the studio version from Keith Richards), and “Tumbling Dice,” the band’s 10th album topped the charts in six countries, including the UK and US. According to Mick Jagger, the band felt the cover artwork reflected “runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world.”

From 1969 to 1972 the Stones were at their very best, with 1969's Let It Bleed, 1970's live Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, 1971's Sticky Fingers, and then Exile on Main Street. After that the band was bland, in my opinion, until coming out of their drug overdosed-hibernation for one last call in the late seventies and early eighties.

Why the Stones continue to tour is beyond my comprehension; they certainly don't need any money. What reason anybody in 2026 would want to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to listen to octogenarians is beyond me. Robert Plant was correct in assessing the fact that touring at a certain age would be nothing but a letdown for fans, and they would be far better off remembering and listening to a band at its peak.

That being said, back in their day the Stones were great.








May 12, 1963:
Bob Dylan walks out on Ed Sullivan due to censorship

A young and unknown Bob Dylan walked off the set of "The Ed Sullivan Show," the country’s highest-rated variety TV show, after network censors rejected the song he planned on performing.

By the end of that summer, Bob Dylan would be known to millions who watched or witnessed his performances at the March on Washington, and millions more who did not know Dylan himself would know and love his music thanks to Peter, Paul and Mary’s smash-hit cover version of Blowin’ In The Wind. But back in May, Dylan was still just another aspiring musician with a passionate niche following but no national profile whatsoever. His second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, had not yet been released, but he had secured what would surely be his big break with an invitation to perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show." That appearance never happened.


The song that caused the flap was Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues, a satirical talking-blues number skewering the ultra-conservative John Birch Society and its tendency to see covert members of an international Communist conspiracy behind every tree. Dylan had auditioned “John Birch” days earlier and had run through it for Ed Sullivan himself without any concern being raised. But during dress rehearsal on the day of the show, an executive from the CBS Standards and Practices department informed the show’s producers that they could not allow Dylan to go forward singing “John Birch.” While many of the song’s lyrics about hunting down “reds” were merely humorous - ”Looked up my chimney hole/Looked down deep inside my toilet bowl/They got away!“ - others raised the fear of a defamation lawsuit in the minds of CBS’s lawyers. Rather than choose a new number to perform or change his song’s lyrics, Dylan stormed off the set in angry protest.


The story got widespread media attention in the days that followed, causing Ed Sullivan himself to denounce the network’s decision in published interviews. In the end, the free publicity Dylan received may have done more for his career than his abortive national-television appearance scheduled for this day in 1963 ever could have.

May 12, 1896:
New York City passes the nation's first anti-spitting law in an attempt combat tuberculosis, imposing fines and jail time. By 1910, more than 2,500 arrests are made - despite backlash from protesters who, unsurprisingly, spit on anti-spitting signs.




May 12, 1932:
The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh’s baby is found, more than two months after he was kidnapped from his family’s Hopewell, New Jersey, mansion.

Lindbergh had become the first worldwide celebrity five years earlier when he flew The Spirit of St. Louis the custom-built, single-engine monoplane used for the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927. Departing New York on May 20, Lindbergh flew 3,610 miles in 33½ hours, landing in Paris to become an international hero.

He and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh discovered a ransom note in their 20-month-old child’s empty room on March 1. The kidnapper had used a ladder to climb up to the open second-floor window and had left muddy footprints in the room. In barely legible English, the ransom note demanded $50,000, equivalent to about $1.2 million today.

The crime captured the attention of the entire nation. The Lindbergh family was inundated by offers of assistance and false clues. Even Al Capone offered his help from prison - though surprise, surprise, it of course was conditioned on his release. For three days, investigators had found nothing and there was no further word from the kidnappers. Then, a new letter showed up, this time demanding $70,000.

It wasn’t until a month later, on April 2 that the kidnappers gave instructions for dropping off the money. When the money was finally delivered, the kidnappers indicated that little baby Charles was on a boat called Nelly off the coast of Massachusetts, near Buzzards Bay, between Horseneck Beach and Elizabeth Island. However, after an exhaustive search of every port, there was no sign of either the boat or the child.


On May 12, a renewed search of the area near the Lindbergh mansion turned up the baby’s body. He had been killed back on the night of the kidnapping, and was found less than a mile from the home. The heartbroken couple ended up donating the home to charity and moved away.

For two years the kidnapping looked like it would go unsolved, until September 1934, when a marked bill from the ransom turned up. Suspicious of the driver who had given it to him, a gas station attendant who had accepted the bill wrote down his license plate number. It was tracked back to a German immigrant named Bruno Hauptmann. When his home was searched, detectives found $13,000 of Lindbergh ransom money.

Hauptmann claimed that a friend had given him the money to hold, and that he had no connection to the crime. The resulting trial again was a national sensation, with famous writers covering the trial. The prosecution’s case was not particularly strong. The main evidence, apart from the money, was testimony from handwriting experts that the ransom note had been written by Hauptmann and his connection with the type of wood that was used to make the ladder.

Still, the evidence and intense public pressure was enough to convict Hauptmann, and in April 1936 he was executed in the electric chair. As a result of the scrutiny in this case, kidnapping was made a federal crime.




May 12, 1937:
George Carlin was born in Manhattan







May 12, 1780:
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina.

With the victory, the British captured more than 3,000 Patriots and a great quantity of munitions and equipment, losing only 250 killed and wounded in the process. Confident of British control in the South, Lieutenant General Clinton sailed north to New York after the victory, having learned of an impending French expedition to the British-occupied northern state. He left General Charles Cornwallis in command of 8,300 British forces in the South.

South Carolina was a deeply divided state, and the British presence let loose the full violence of a civil war upon the population. First, the British used Loyalists to pacify the Patriot population; the Patriots returned the violence in kind. The guerrilla warfare strategies employed by Patriots Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter and Nathanael Greene throughout the Carolina campaign of 1780-81 eventually chased the far more numerous British force into Virginia, where they eventually surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.

Having suffered the humiliation of surrendering to the British at Charleston, Major General Lincoln was able to turn the tables and accept Cornwallis’ ceremonial surrender to General George Washington at Yorktown on October 20.





May 12, 1820:
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy)

The British nurse revolutionized nursing during the Crimean War, establishing hygiene and patient care practices that are still in use today. International Nursing Day is celebrated on her birthday.





May 12, 1846:
The ill-fated Donner party left Independence, Missouri, for California. Months later the group became trapped in the Sierra Nevada, and some members resorted to cannibalism when the food ran out. Out of the original 87 members of the Donner party, 47 people survived the ordeal and 42 died. Five of the group died before reaching the mountain camps in the Sierra Nevada, 34 at the camps or on the mountains while attempting to cross, and one just after reaching the settlements. Two men who had joined the party at Donner Lake also died.





May 12, 1898:
Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters. The law only permitted men to register to vote if they, their father, or their grandfather had the right to vote on or before January 1, 1867. Applicants had to claim this exemption before September 1, 1898, or face strict literacy/property tests. Designed to establish white supremacy, this clause effectively exempted illiterate or poor white citizens from strict literacy and property requirements, while disenfranchising black men, who could not legally vote in Louisiana before 1867. The result was a drastic reduction of black voters: from 130,344 in 1896 to 1,342 by 1904. The US Supreme Court declared the grandfather clause unconstitutional in 1915, but by then it had already achieved its purpose.




May 12, 1907:
Katherine Hepburn is born in Hartford, Connecticut.

The daughter of New England intellectuals who stressed rigorous exercise and independent thinking, Hepburn studied at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and went on to become a stage actress. Critics and fans alike immediately took note of the young actress, with her unconventional beauty and upper-crust New England accent, as a fresh presence on screen.

For Morning Glory (1933), only her third movie, Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress. It was the first of 12 Oscar nominations she would garner over the course of her career, a record that would stand until 2003, when Meryl Streep received her 13th nomination. Hepburn would win three more Oscars - for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), A Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981) - but never attended the ceremony to collect any of them.





May 12, 1908:
Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by farmer/electrician Nathan B. Stubblefield

rkarp1 said:

Brady signed a 1 year deal which included a no franchise tag clause.
the Pats knew he was leaving and had 12+ months to come up with a plan.
that plan ended up as Stiddy, Cam and the famous "anyone can play QB" comment from a staff member.
and that my fellow posters, was the end of a dynasty, that really did not have to end

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They entered the 2020 season with the least amount of cap space in the NFL and had to replace roughly 12 starters, including the QB position… the most expensive position in football. Oh yeah, and they were picking at the end of the draft.

Cam got paid 200K guaranteed.. because they were flat broke.

That’s why after accepting a down year in 2020 to clear all the dead cap off the books, they became one of the highest cash spending teams in the league in 2021 and went back to the playoffs with a jag QB.

Since you don’t understand how the salary cap or team building works, this is a mystery to you.