All great links with one exception: Glen Farley complaining about the 'free agent failures'. Jonathan Fanene was a unique situation which has been much discussed, and the end of that story has yet to be written. But for Farley to lump Joseph Addai, Anthony Gonzalez, Will Allen and Bo Scaife together with Fanene and categorize them together, implying that they are all monumental errors in judgement by the Patriots' staff ("the Patriots could have flipped a coin and had better luck in free agency") is ridiculous.
Memo to Farley: at bare minimum 37 players that were in training camp will not make the 53-man roster. Consider the NFL draft consists of just seven rounds, the many of those will be free agents that were signed this off season. Or perhaps you would prefer they all made the roster and instead players who were on the roster last year were cut - so you could write a column complaining about previous drafts, poor coaching, or whatever.
With the exception of Fanene these players were signed to relatively modest signing bonuses and guaranteed money. So if the Patriots had signed players whose name you don't recognize and cut them that would be okay, but signing and cutting recognizable names is a "free-agent failure"?
Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense.
