Patriots: Meet Dwayne Allen. (You'll love this)

[Rusty Coupe]

Giants counting on ex-Jets to get them back to the Super Bowl/nydn

The cold war between the Colts and Patriots ended when Indy GM Ryan Grigson was fired. He’s the one who made the initial complaint about deflated footballs in the 2014 AFC title game, won by the Patriots, 45-14. We know what happened after that. Now that Grigson is gone and replaced by Chris Ballard, formerly of the Bears and Chiefs, they made a trade last week when New England acquired Allen to replace Martellus Bennett opposite Gronk. A couple of days after the Deflategate game, Allen tweeted, “not a story. They could have played with soap for balls and beat us. Simply the better team. We have to continue to build!” That should lead to him being immediately embraced by Patriots Nation…

 

[TinhWoodhead]

I like this guy!

wrong thread

 

[grandpajim]

They could have played with soap for balls and beat us. Simply the better team.

LOVED this quote. Just for the game itself the quote was great, for all the unbelievable crap over the last two years...
Allen is my new binky.

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

Watching the video, the thought occurred to me that although Martellus Bennett seems like a great funny guy, he's also more of a maverick with the potential for bad behavior down the road. That might have been part of the equation in Belichick's thinking too. Just thinking out loud given the money doesn't seem to have been drastically different.

This is exactly the reason I'm not sweating Bennett leaving. He's a ticking time bomb, in my opinion. I appreciate his contributions, but think his speaking his mind would catch up with him. Just don't see him as a Patriot type player