captain stone
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I was OK with the trade itself, and with the reason for making it... I only wish it had happened a year earlier to help us keep Thuney.Who is “they traded him,” the Patriots or the Bucs? it’s both. His point (or my point, as I hit like on his post) is that folks were up in arms about the 5th round compensation last year, yet that’s what the Bucs got (a bit less since he’s older) this year. Folks were wrong about this last year, it’s clear the Patriots got market value for him just like the Bucs did. We’ll see how long it takes for those posters to admit they were wrong.
Agree, on both counts.Also, they replaced Mason with Onwenu, who was a better player.
Neither Mason or Onwenu were ever going to play LG.
Sure would've been... So too would've been drafting Trey Smith ahead of the Queefs, and not trading even a 7th-rounder to the same ****ing team for Yassir c'mon in Durant. (Packers skipping Creed Humphrey for Josh ****ing Myers didn't help either.)We have so much money now that in retrospect, keeping Thuney mightve been a good idea.
Yep; Left Guard is not at all the same as Right Guard, and so too is Left Tackle vs Right Tackle... The job requirements & the physical profiles needed to fulfill those requirements are different. Some dudes can play more than one position at a league-average starter level; most cannot.Not all the OL spots are interchangeable. I've long realized that what we did with Strange at the LG spot has absolutely nothing to do with the swap of Onwenu and Mason.