New England Patriots Thread Mod Warning Post #253

bruschi wrote: »

try be a bit more condescending next time.

Do I come across to you as condescending to you a lot?

I never mean to sound that way. I'm just saying that I've seen these things so much with the Patriots that it doesn't bother me anymore. How on earth does that come across as condescending?

I remember the bad days when we were a laughing stock, that's before Bob and Bill. I remember Belichick getting rid of Lawyer Milloy, Ty Law, Asante Samuel and Richard Seymour who were all top class, popular and highly respected defensive players with the Patriots. We move on though and it's next man up and most of the time he does just as good a job as the guy he replaces.

At no stage since this began have I said that Collins was a bad player. I've said I was surprised he was traded just not overly so. I went back and looked at the games and he did some stupid things over the last couple of games he played. I wouldn't have ever picked them out as being on purpose or anything like that but now that it's been mentioned you can definitely make a case for it if you want to. I'm still not saying for certain that he was freelancing in a bunch of games but there were plays where he was definitely going for the highlight reel play when staying on his feet looked a more sensible option.

I think people were saying something about the Taylor touchdown on 4th and 3 on Sunday which is ridiculous. He was looking around him before the play for sure and he went on the blitz, whether that was the play that was called or not I don't know but it was strange that they left a big hole up the middle.

Either way though the play should have been called back for a facemask on Collins by Incognito so I don't know how people can go blaming Collins there.

Yes I'm backing Belichick because he doesn't make half-assed decisions. I think there is more to it than just the contract issue but we'll never hear it because keeping it out of the media is the Patriot way.

Also if Collins felt wronged here he could speak to the media but as far as I'm aware he hasn't said anything about it.

Last thing is that this will focus the other players like nothing else. Just imagine being part of a group like this and the next thing one of the stars is traded like it's nothing. You can bet that will light a fire under everybody's ass.

I just done a bit of research on Matt Lengel. He played college ball at eastern Kentucky which is nothing to write home about but he caught few nice passes and looked tough but the biggest thing about him was his run blocking which seemed exceptional.
He had a serous run of bad luck with injuries and he really could turn out to be a nice pick up. I'm just interested to see if he gets snaps to run block over the coming weeks.