PATRIOTS NEWS Adalius complains to SMY about 2008 arm injury treatment, 2009 role

[Mike the Brit]

I like SMY but you nailed what bothers me about SMY's perspective in this piece. Yes, a reporter's job is to get the behind the scenes story we can't get. And directly antagonizing your source is counterproductive. But the slightest, respectfull counterpoint would have been redeeming in this story. That's the problem.

Absolutely.

I admire SMY and think she does an honest, conscientious job. In the end, she's a reporter, there to tell us what people say. But Curran is absolutely right: Adalius's story has more holes in it than my old Dad's string vest. Curran: AD orders up another round of whine

It's disappointing you didn't probe them more, Shalize.

 

[DaBruinz]

It was a surprise. Actually, Bruschi returning and playing as long as he did was more of a surprise.

Players get old and injured, it happens.

Either way, that was almost 5 full years ago, which makes me wonder why you bothered posting that.

It's called correcting you on the facts.. the WHEN of the retirement was important because, by the time it happened, there weren't any free agents available to correct the situation and the draft was already over. So the Pats really had no way to compensate at that point.

My point is simple. The team put a lot of pressure on two players to completely turn around the LB corps. This is unlike the way they operate at other positions.

You are making assumptions about situations you have only outside information on. There is no way to know WHAT the Pats were planning, who they went after or who they tried to draft at that point.

[By the way, I copy pasted the wrong date. Doesn't change my point. Johnson retired right before camp, which was a surprise. A shock? How long had it been since we expected a healthy Johnson to show up? The previous year was the first complete season since 1997. If anything, Bruschi, Seau and the, post 2006 bad back, Vrabel gave us more snaps than we might have expected.]

It should change your point.. The wrong date makes a difference as to when they could have done stuff that year. You also seem to forget that they had been hoping Phifer would return as well. He wasn't ready until late in the year and he signed with the Giants.

No one knows what the Pats tried to do to rectify the situation. To say, unequivocally that they didn't try to get the situation fixed, would be doing so without even a modicum of the information.

 

[SanAngeloState]

:singing:Can you imagine the bottle of champagne BB will uncork when he finally gets to cut this cancer?

:singing:

 

[captain stone]

You really do wonder what she's thinking... It's shades of Jackie MacMullen doing crossovers like her Asante tome as her print career wound down...

The Jackie Mac comparison is a good one - another bizzare, incoherent, out-the-door rambling.

 

[Ring 6]

Thomas should be apologizing for sucking not whining that it was noticed.
He was told he wasnt good enough and somehow acts like that makes him a victim. He is complaining because HIS POSITION COACH told him he was inactive. So. That is the chain of command.
Now he wants to blame the team 2 years later for the treatment he got, accepted, and followed through with? Why wasn't that an issue when it happened, or any time from then until his play sucked and he needs someone to deflect the blame to?
The truth is, he just isn't any good. Cutting him is no loss, even the survivior of Nincovich/Crable/Davis would be an upgrade.

 

[Sean Pa Patriot]

I have had just about enough of Thomas, sorry he has been a bust.. And its time to move on..

 

[RayClay]

It's called correcting you on the facts.. the WHEN of the retirement was important because, by the time it happened, there weren't any free agents available to correct the situation and the draft was already over. So the Pats really had no way to compensate at that point.

If this was 2005 season you'd have a point. we're starting the 2010 season.

No one knows what the Pats tried to do to rectify the situation. To say, unequivocally that they didn't try to get the situation fixed, would be doing so without even a modicum of the information.

I don't know what they tried to do. I suppose drafting or acquiring under 30 linebackers would have been a sign of trying. Don't think they have a "we thought about it" trophy next to the Lombardi.

 

[Scouse Patriot]

If released/traded I still think he'll be in the east come september.

 

[tanked_as_usual]

he stinks, but the pats won't let him go.......

 

[spacecrime]

SMY usually writes much more clearly than the garbled tale recounted in this piece. In fact, I admire her reporting for the most part, but obviously AT not only hypnotizes her, he makes her stupid because she seems to be uncritically repeating his moronic dictation.

Maybe, maybe not.

We all read her article and after we read it we all came to the conclusion that AD was a whining punk. Maybe that was her goal.

Sometimes when you interview someone with no concpet of reality, you don't need to do anything except give them a platform and let them dig themselves into a hole.