Silver [Mod Edit: Jason Cole]: Mallett will never play a meaningful down in NE

[SammyBlueCat]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

In order for Belichick to make money on his 2011 3rd round pick, he'd have to flip it for a 1st (or equivalent value) sometime in the next two years. Otherwise he'd have gotten the same value just by trading the pick forward.

There's more to the investment than just an eye towards a future trade. Mallet will probably be here for at least three years, filling the backup role for two of them.

Exactly! Who knows what will happen in a few years...

 

[Joker]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

Jason Cole?

you mean the clown that wrote hit pieces for over a decade at the Miami Herald??? The "columnist" who never saw a libel he didn't use?

Jason Cole is on a par with Greg Easterbrook when it comes to anything associated with the Patriots....read at your own risk

 

[FCB02062]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

"Growing disconnect" between Patriots and Mallet? Silver can go fooock himself, that whiny, nasally voiced, good for nothing......

 

[TheComeback]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

I can't believe I just wasted my time reading that drivel. I wish I could get paid for re-summarizing the same thing people have been saying for months.

 

[IllegalContact]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

it's pretty silly to think that BB would draft a guy with no intention of ever benefitting by that players presence......brady's no spring chicken and will become more brittle with age.......just a nature of the beast. increasing the quality of the depth at the position is as important as anything else right now.

forget college indiscretions......mallett kind of got screwed at Michigan, so if there were some bumps along the road, he gets a pass.......he didn't beat anyone, did he?

I look at him as our own aaron rodgers.....nice insurance to speculate on ..... what he is costing the pats versus the potential talent there is a great deal for the pats.

people called brady a wasted draft pick (albeit for different reasons, but either can and could be addressed)

Mallett is not another Ryan Leaf........this guys produced at a top level in the best college conference in the country......the issues that caused him to drop have little to do with his ability to play the game....he's a 1st round talent who has the time to focus on fixing every technical flaw he has.....if he's committed to being everything he can be, he will be a starter for the pats some day

 

[patfanken]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

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Mallett is not another Ryan Leaf........this guys produced at a top level in the best college conference in the country......the issues that caused him to drop have little to do with his ability to play the game....he's a 1st round talent who has the time to focus on fixing every technical flaw he has.....if he's committed to being everything he can be, he will be a starter for the pats some day

And who knows what would have happened to Leaf, if a QB with his immaturity and talents had wound up in a a similar situation to what Mallet has fallen into, what HIS career might have been like. It very much like speculating what would have happened to Aaron Rogers if he was the first pick and went to 49ers HIS first year, instead of having the luxury of sitting for 3 years in GB

 

[IllegalContact]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

And who knows what would have happened to Leaf, if a QB with his immaturity and talents had wound up in a a similar situation to what Mallet has fallen into, what HIS career might have been like. It very much like speculating what would have happened to Aaron Rogers if he was the first pick and went to 49ers HIS first year, instead of having the luxury of sitting for 3 years in GB

not sure what your point is....... the pats are a haven for guys who have had 'situations' in the past and are allowed to make good on that.

Mallett paid dearly for dropping to the 3rd round...financially especially..... I think he has taken the situation to heart.....the body english out on the field show me someone who is not going to make the same mistake twice.....

the better perspective regarding leaf could have been that a college situation cased him to drop to the 2nd or 3rd round, the kind of a slap in the face that has you wake up for the first time without any guarantees......but then again, maybe leaf was just a slower version of drew bledsoe

people have a tendency to overlook the things that mallett has actually endured, and I believe his transgressions were over-emphasized......a college student arrested for public intoxication? big freaking whoop......smoked a little weed? big crap......neither of these things questions his football desire.

Mallett can make every throw that brady can make, and probably a couple that brady can't make..........the pats need to see it through with him instead of focusing on turning a 3rd round pick into a 2nd round pick

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

why did I open this??????:ugh:

 

[TheSolderKing]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

No, he won't do that because that would constitute a meaningful down. This team is never better off situationally with anyone not named TFB under center... What he might do if he thinks Mallett has earned it or can handle it is use him late in blowouts or a meaningless week 17 game. But even that's a stretch for BB regular season since his GOAT hates to come out and Hoyer benefits more from those snaps in the present and BB believes that football players play football...

He'll be showcased in pre season games, although it will still depend on what the current team needs to work on situationally. I don't see him getting traded in 2012 unless someone blows Bill out of the water with a #1 and Bill has located another solid developmental QB in the 2012 draft. Hoyer will be the trade bait in 2012 wearing a 2nd round RFA tender and probably available for a 3 or some interesting conditional pick - unless BB isn't pleased with Mallett's development. In which case Hoyer isn't going anywhere in 2012...

 

[letekro]

So this is going to be an ongoing thing, I guess? Those that think Mallett is mere tradebait will post random internet drivel supporting their theory and then the Mallett is the heir apparent supporters will find contrary drivel and then we will all fight about it.

Sounds like fun. Fact is, nobody knows what will happen, it is dependent on a number of factors and bottom line is we have a lot to be happy about as far as our QB situation.

 

[patfanken]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

not sure what your point is....... the pats are a haven for guys who have had 'situations' in the past and are allowed to make good on that.

No, IC, you missed the point (or I didn't articulate well). I often think about how players would have turned out if they had been thrust into other situations. Its not just the Pats. I wonder how Leaf might have turned out if he'd been drafted into a stable situation with an established QB and had the luxury to mature out of the limelight, and learned his profession. Brady, Rivers, and Rogers are just a few elite QBs who had a year or more to sit.

That's not to say the Brady would have been a failure in another situation, but maybe he wouldn't have had the success he had here with the luxury to sit a year and then have 3 more years to evolve into the QB he is now. Conversely, I wonder how Ryan Leaf's life might have been different if his career path had been more like Rogers.

Rogers himself, who is the media's favorite flavor of the month, was considered a complete bust for THREE years. Think about that.

We have good fans here, and a lot of us want to cut loose players like Cunningham after just one year of being "merely" compete. Image how we'd feel about a first round pick who didn't even play his first 3 years

Talent is one thing. Being in the right place at the right time is often more important.

 

[ausbacker]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

I'm glad people post the prudent point in threads thanks to quotes. Saves me clicking the link and giving professional deadbeat gutter trash word spewers the acknowledgement of my web link patronage.

 

[Tunescribe]

Re: Silver: Mallett will never a meaningful down in NE

In order for Belichick to make money on his 2011 3rd round pick, he'd have to flip it for a 1st (or equivalent value) sometime in the next two years. Otherwise he'd have gotten the same value just by trading the pick forward.

There's more to the investment than just an eye towards a future trade. Mallet will probably be here for at least three years, filling the backup role for two of them.

Cool bird. How old is he/she?

 

[RayClay]

This made me laugh.

People close to Belichick think Mallett will never play a meaningful down for the Patriots

Does Bill tell these "close" people inside information?