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I'm trying to think of the most damning insult possible here -- when you complain about how there's a referee conspiracy to give some other team's great quarterback PI calls, you sound 100% like a Jets fan.

It drives me crazy when people say this. Even if it were true that BB always trades down, which it isn't -- how about Mayo, Seymour, Warren, even Dan Graham as high first round picks? -- it would still be a good thing for the Raiders to lose. The higher the pick, the more value you get trading...

Isn't this whole thread based on a fallacy? The actual trade was Bryant and AJ Edds (the fourth rounder Dallas got from us in the deal and then traded to Miami) for Aaron Hernandez, Taylor Price, and Devin McCourty. I think I like that trade for New England all day long. If Price ends up...

This wasn't the most aesthetically pleasing win. But there were a lot of positives here, especially for a team loaded with young players for whom development is crucial. The kids won a lot of individual battles and they played tough and smart on the road against a good team. To me some of the...

You're right. He was born in December 1972, so I guess he was 30 during the 2003 season.

Kaczur will be 31, Warren will be 30, and Bodden will still be 29 on opening day. These guys are all in their primes and lined up to play with Brady in his last deal. Rodney was 32 before he ever played a down for New England. Law turned 30 in the last Super Bowl season. And those guys were...

Pats fans are amazing. Folks, we consider it a win when a draft pick contributes ANYTHING. If we had a fourth-round pick catch 40 balls this year, we'd all be happy. Branch is a known quantity who played on the outside -- our vacated position -- on championship teams. No one can possibly argue...

Bloodlines seem ro be pretty important to Belichick. He drafts or acquires a relative of an NFL player seemingly once a year or so: Devin McCourty Rob Gronkowski Brandon Spikes Darius Butler Daniel Graham Dan Klecko Matt Slater Bo Ruud Ray Ventrone And Tully Banta-Cain is a...

You're off a little I think. Last year with Chung, Butler, Vollmer, Tate, Pryor, Ingram and Edelman -- to say nothing of Hoyer -- that is shaping up to be a fantastic draft. Vollmer alone makes it a decent draft. And Brace may still pan out.

This team has high-class talent everywhere. Wilfork, Mayo, Spikes, Meriweather, Chung-- thats pretty solid up the middle, a lot of hitting. I think Brace will play and give them size and power up there. Over the past few years, no matter what happened, they were going to be slow and small with...

This defense is ridiculously young, but I like its chances to get better as the year goes on a lot better than I liked the old 2007 or 2008 teams. Youth improves. They have size and speed everywhere, and a great coach. Give them a chance. The doom and gloomers amaze me. You have Tom Brady in...

The big problem I see with the Pats running game is that neither Morris nor Taylor is really an outside running threat. I know they have Faulk, but on first and second down they really need someone to keep the linebackers honest. Maroney at least can get to the edge. I don't understand what's...

So embarrassing as this is to admit, I had enough time on my hands yesterday to go back through the Patriots' Belichick-era drafts and do a little exercise. I went back and scored each draft according to a simple system that numerically measured the contribution of each drafted player. I...

Brace had a good game, but I didn't see him on the nose even once. He was mostly at end all night. I saw him line up in the guard-center gap in a 4-3 a few times -- is that what you mean?

Well, I don't think that's what they need him for. They need someone stout to keep linemen off the linebackers on first and second down. The Pats have plenty of speed and tackling behind the line -- what they really need is some beef across the line. Brace has a nose tackle body for sure, but...

This guy seems pretty clueless. It's nuts to make generalizations just looking at the heights and weights of draftees. At the same time, he takes the one instance in which the Patriots have said openly that they like a specific physical prototype -- the 6'4" long-armed OLB with 4.6 speed -- and...

Nobody would have given up what Oakland gave up for a tagged player. The economics are vastly different; you're trading for an unsigned player with a massive cap hit versus a signed player whose signing bonus has already been paid by another team. I'm going to make a prediction here. The...

They were switching in and out of a two-gap system the whole first half. There was one drive where they were running upfield the whole series and kept getting gashed on the ground (remember that one with the 19 yeard screen to McCoy). Then they stopped and two-gapped the next couple of plays and...

Maroney didn't look good last night, but all of this over 6 carries -- amazing.