Will Ty Law Return To The Patriots?

[Tyler Faith]

Will Ty Lay return to the Patriots?

An older, bruised up Law is still better then most of our younger, potential starting DBs.

Pay the money, bring him back!

 

[Ring 6]

One team's misguided pride is another team's philosophy that has worked very well so far.

Thats just my point. It is MISGUIDED pride from FANS, who want to project that belief on the team. Its just not true. We have paid top dollar for all our FAs, we pay it for draft picks, we pay it to retain players.
To think that BBs philosophy is "Anyone who accepts the highest offer they get will never play for me" is ignorant and misguided.

He pays VALUE. In some cases he feels the value is lower than what someone else does, and in some cases he feels its higher.

BB is NO DIFFERENT than any other team in this regard. Everyone pays their opinion of value. Why is BB different? The characteristics he values appear different than the consensus of the NFL. He has enough talent here that the value of an addition, IN MANY CASES, BUT NOT ALL, has less additive value than it would to another team. In other words, with many FAs the alternative to not signing them isnt as bad for him as it is for other teams.

Somehow, we have taken a guy who took over a cap nightmare and signed players for cheap, simply because he had no other choice, built a winner where the success causes everyones value to rise. To retain his own players costs more than it does for unsuccessful teams. Therefore he is cautious in FA because A) he does not have much cap room (This is the first year he has really had room) and B) as his good players contracts expire, the cost of resigning his players is higher than for another team.
The reality is that BB pays for players just like anyone else. The reality is that since 2000, he has had overall a lower budget to do so under the cap---after resigning his own---than other teams.

To say we win because BB refuses to sign any player who is concerned about getting the best offer is ludicrous.

 

[JoeSixPat]

I'm sorry man, but an INT is an INT. I don't care if people threw on him all last yr. He was just coming back from a serious foot injury and was overweight. Why wouldn't they try and pick on him? He's far better STILL, then any CB on our roster.
10 picks is 10 times the offense got the ball back, now imagine if ANY of our guys couldve been ball hawks like that for us last yr. The biggest ? is, would Ty Law improve this team? That answer is yes. So, if the money is right, bring 'em on back home, and lets get another trophy already, d%#*!@t!

Well I'd say that pass interference penalities are DEFINATELY is a quanitfiable stat. What's the net benefit if you grab an INT, have your offense crap out and then give the ball to the other team on the goal line thanks to pass interference in the next possession?

Stats can be decieving so you can't go by that alone... that being said I still think Ty offers plenty of value to this team, and with him being another year healthier, and leaner I'd hope he'd cut down on any contact issues, which usually result when a guy gets beat on coverage.

If Ty's willing to look to converting to safety in a few years if and when we need him there (and should his skills erode) all the better

So as AJ and so many others said its a value issue... BB would assess value and would take into account INTs as well as PI calls etc... decide what he was worth... I tend to think that value won't be top dollar, which is why I don't expect Ty to be back with us

 

[sarge]

You say you don't see them signing Branch, and therefore see it unlikely they would then sign Law. So I'm just curious, where do you think all there money is going to go?

Dude, understand this is not what I want to see. I want more then anything to be wrong. And historically, I am more often wrong then not when it comes to this.

Just think of it as a little reverse mojo!

 

[abejarano12]

I been watching mulling over this Ty Law thing for awhile and I think that Law might return. I think that he should get a okay payday but nothing that woulkd say that he is the best DB in the NFL. He may have lost a step but I think that he can do a good job. But something that has come to mind Law has played what 11 years now. I think that he knows that the end is near and he would like to end his career with the team that drafted him. That's just what I think anyways.