Patriots Player Departure Patriots Release Dominique Easley

[convertedpatsfan]

I disagree. Had he said he was to busy playing and preparing etc.... It would be one thing but he said he had never watched more than two quarters of a football game in his life and usually turned away to "cartoons." He really showed complete disinterest in the sport. And as it turned out he cared so little he went to Vegas instead of going to SB49 and was on record that he didn't even care if the Patriots won or not. Thats someone who truly doesn't give a sh.t.

I read the Globe story on it. First, it's a Globe story, so let's not forget they make **** up. But even if they didn't, the Globe story says he was told to stay away from the team. So he couldn't exactly be at the Super Bowl with his teammates if that's true.

Sure, he could have stayed at home and sulked and used it as motivation to work out all week during the Super Bowl and let that fuel a triumphant return to the team. I'm disappointed (but not surprised) he went to Vegas and partied it up. It's immature. It doesn't mean he doesn't like football. It doesn't mean he does like football. I think people are just reaching their own conclusions, then cherry-picking at evidence to try to justify that conclusion.

Arian Foster is on the record as saying he doesn't watch football. Richard Sherman doesn't either unless it's job-related. Steve Smith joked about thumping a reporter who asked him who he'd be rooting for in the playoffs after being eliminated. He said he doesn't root for anyone but his team and his kid's team and isn't watching anyone else play. I dare anyone to tell Steve Smith (in person) that he doesn't care about football.

I'm not saying Easley loves football. I'm not saying he doesn't either. I think it's hard to draw any decisive conclusions based on the info we've seen. It didn't work out. Sometimes it doesn't work out. But people read way more into things than they should. If Easley had worked out, we'd say the cartoon-watching showed a lighter side of him and how he doesn't get distracted by what others are doing on the field, only focusing on what affects him.

You can twist and turn anything into anything else, as politics has taught us. Athletes visit sick kids, and if you love that athlete, you think he's a saint, and if you hate that athlete, you think he's only doing it for the PR aspect. The action is irrelevant; it's what we read into it that we value.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I read the Globe story on it. First, it's a Globe story, so let's not forget they make **** up. But even if they didn't, the Globe story says he was told to stay away from the team. So he couldn't exactly be at the Super Bowl with his teammates if that's true.

Sure, he could have stayed at home and sulked and used it as motivation to work out all week during the Super Bowl and let that fuel a triumphant return to the team. I'm disappointed (but not surprised) he went to Vegas and partied it up. It's immature. It doesn't mean he doesn't like football. It doesn't mean he does like football. I think people are just reaching their own conclusions, then cherry-picking at evidence to try to justify that conclusion.

Arian Foster is on the record as saying he doesn't watch football. Richard Sherman doesn't either unless it's job-related. Steve Smith joked about thumping a reporter who asked him who he'd be rooting for in the playoffs after being eliminated. He said he doesn't root for anyone but his team and his kid's team and isn't watching anyone else play. I dare anyone to tell Steve Smith (in person) that he doesn't care about football.

I'm not saying Easley loves football. I'm not saying he doesn't either. I think it's hard to draw any decisive conclusions based on the info we've seen. It didn't work out. Sometimes it doesn't work out. But people read way more into things than they should. If Easley had worked out, we'd say the cartoon-watching showed a lighter side of him and how he doesn't get distracted by what others are doing on the field, only focusing on what affects him.

You can twist and turn anything into anything else, as politics has taught us. Athletes visit sick kids, and if you love that athlete, you think he's a saint, and if you hate that athlete, you think he's only doing it for the PR aspect. The action is irrelevant; it's what we read into it that we value.

I actually liked the kid and supported the pick, and expected big things out of him this year I just think that looking back with additional information it's pretty clear he doesn't love football, and if you couple that with two ACLs the pick was a mistake. I didn't know about skipping the SB until the release and didn't know they told him he couldn't go. I can see taking a shot on character and I can see taking s shot on injury but I honestly don't get drafting a player in the first coming off two ACLs unless you know they will do everything possible to overcome it.

 

[captain stone]

Easley, we hardly knew you...

The only consolation is that the players taken after him haven't set the world on fire right?
Rd1
S Jimmie Ward
CB Roby Bradley
QB Ted Bridgewater
Rd2
DE Demarcus Lawrence
DT Rashede Hageman
DE Stephon Tuitt
DT Ego Ferguson
DE Kony Ealy

Personally I was hoping for one of Hageman or Tuitt. But how did they turn out?
2015 Hageman 12 Games Started, 27 tackles, 1 sack
2015 Tuitt 14 games started 54 tackles 6.5 sacks

Hmmm, I guess if we had taken Tuitt, we would have had an impact defensive lineman and only paid a second rounder salary. Hindsight is 20/20, but looks like one of the guys I wanted would have panned out over the undersized, and recently cut Easley.

Oooh shoot, just took a look at Demarcus Lawrence:
13 Games Started 55 tackles 8 sacks

Kony Ealy:
9 starts, 32 tackles, 5 sacks

Looks like that was a signficant swing and a miss, we could have had Lawrence, Tuitt, or Ealy instead of Easley.

You ignored the player who would've been the most valuable to us of all of them: LG Joel Bitonio, aka the
Next Logan Mankins. Drafting Easily instead of Bitonio (and to a lesser but not insignificant degree, drafting Spam Fleming instead of John Urschel, and Sloppo Hilapio instead of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif) cost us a trip to SB 50.

 

[Hercules Rockefeller]

You ignored the player who would've been the most valuable to us of all of them: LG Joel Bitonio, aka the
Next Logan Mankins. Drafting Easily instead of Bitonio (and to a lesser but not insignificant degree, drafting Spam Fleming instead of John Urschel, and Sloppo Hilapio instead of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif) cost us a trip to SB 50.

Definitely a stupid idiot that Belichick is for not nailing that 6th round pick. What a stupid stooge.