New England Patriots Thread Mod Warning Post #253

paulie21 · 10-03-2017 09:11PM

We've traded for Kony Ealy

Edit: We gave up 2nd round pick and received a third in exchange essentially just dropped 8 spots

JaMarcusHustle · 10-03-2017 10:08PM

Sheard has signed with the Colts.

letowski · 10-03-2017 10:46PM

JaMarcusHustle wrote:

Sheard has signed with the Colts.

Do you think he is a good signing for us for 8mil a year? Looked good for ye guys until he lost his place I think?

JaMarcusHustle · 10-03-2017 11:08PM

letowski wrote:

Do you think he is a good signing for us for 8mil a year? Looked good for ye guys until he lost his place I think?

Depends if you're getting 2015 or 2016 Sheard. 8 million will be a lot for the 2016 Sheard, but a snip for the 2015 Sheard.

gorevs · 10-03-2017 11:56PM

Marty Bennett to the packers

me89 · 11-03-2017 12:46AM

Brandin Cooks

Recognition Scene · 11-03-2017 12:47AM

Just saw on Twitter that Brandin Cooks to Pats is done. Nice!

paulie21 · 11-03-2017 12:50AM

This is unreal. A deep threat for Brady to go with Gronk, Edelman, Hogan and White out of the backfield.

brinty · 11-03-2017 01:01AM

The Pats are signing all the receivers

JaMarcusHustle · 11-03-2017 01:03AM

We didn't even have to give up Butler. I'm absolutely delighted

Hazys · 11-03-2017 02:27AM

Love the Cooks trade.

Give up the 32nd pick of the 1st round where you will pick up a 21/22 year old who will have about 50/50 odds of being a starter in the NFL for a 23rd year old who has 100% chance of being a starter in the NFL (if not a Pro Bowler).

Only difference is Cooks is on a 2 year deal, while the gamble in the draft will be a 4/5 year contract.

paulie21 · 11-03-2017 02:47AM

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

We didn't even have to give up Butler. I'm absolutely delighted

He couldn't be traded because he's not under contract he's on the tender and seemingly Saints are still interested and a trade could be done after he signs a deal

LuckyGent88 · 11-03-2017 03:17AM

Ah lads. Our offense on full health is surely impossible to defend now.

white, Mitchell, hogan, Edelman, Lewis, anendola and now Cooks

Ah I forgot GRONK

j8wk2feszrnpao · 11-03-2017 09:09AM

bruschi wrote: »

I'd still prefer him over Rowe

As would I. But give Rowe another 3yrs (to match the 4yrs Ryan had) and I think he can be a better player.
I'm glad we didn't pay Ryan that much to keep him.

empacher · 11-03-2017 12:48PM

All this unusual spending for the pats. Are they finally doing what Denver did? And give Tom the best offense and defense for his few remaining years.

Shore up the o-line a bit and then even the draft picks are just bonuses at this stage.

Hazys · 11-03-2017 12:52PM

So far so good this free agency and Hightower hasn't signed with anybody else yet, the longer that goes on the better the chance he resigns.

Unfortunately one miss is that we traded for Dwayne Allen (who'll cost $5m a year) thinking Marty Bennett would be too expensive but he just signed for Green Bay for $6m a year. Although I'm sure the Pats knew they could get Marty at that price and choose Allen anyway.

EDIT: reports are saying Marty's contract is actually $7m a year

JaMarcusHustle · 11-03-2017 01:20PM

I wonder how much of that is guaranteed for Bennett.

Having seen how frequently he was injured last year, I can imagine we didn't want to guarantee as much as he wanted which is why we might have let him walk.

I never took to Bennett anyway. I've never liked him or his brother, so I'm glad I don't have to pretend to like him anymore. I thought he was overrated last year - his stats were skewed by a couple of dominant games rather than overall consistency. He never became one of Tom's trusted targets, which is pretty telling considering Gronk went down early.

paulie21 · 11-03-2017 07:38PM

DL Lawrence Guy for 20m over 4 years

eagle eye · 11-03-2017 09:15PM

Is Bill on holidays or something? He'll come back and go nuts when he sees all the FA's we've signed!

Hazys · 11-03-2017 10:39PM

Hightower's visit to the Saints has been cancelled/

Rumours are that its between us and the Titans.

Pros for the Titans: More money and Tennessee is his hometown.

ftse100 · 12-03-2017 11:54AM

I don't see us keeping Hightower, but i really hope we do.. They never seem to pay big for the players we (as fans) want to keep. Based on all the FA signings though it should be another massive year for us.

BaronVon · 12-03-2017 01:18PM

munstermagic11 wrote: »

As would I. But give Rowe another 3yrs (to match the 4yrs Ryan had) and I think he can be a better player.
I'm glad we didn't pay Ryan that much to keep him.

Rowe really improved over the course of the season, much better value than re-signing Ryan.

BizzyC · 13-03-2017 10:34AM

I think with Gilmore, Butler (assuming we keep him on his tender) and Rowe at corner and McCourty, Harmon and Chung at Safety we will have a seriously good secondary next year.
D-Line looks solid with the moves for Ealy and Guy, we really just need to wrap up Hightower and I think we'll have one of the top units in the league.

On offense, all the passing pieces are there. Get big back and some investment on the O-Line and I think we'll have the best overall roster...

j8wk2feszrnpao · 13-03-2017 02:04PM

BizzyC wrote: »

I think we'll have one of the top units in the league.

I think Bill recognized that this year we face a tougher schedule than we did last year. We were the No1 scoring D last year, but played a number of poor QB's to get that position. The D needed to improve from last year to have another shot at the SB.

cosatron · 13-03-2017 02:11PM

eagle eye wrote: »

Is Bill on holidays or something? He'll come back and go nuts when he sees all the FA's we've signed!

out of curiosity, who is the gm. on the patriot website is states the two Kraft and Caserio as player personal. So who makes the decisions on the players.

Hazys · 13-03-2017 02:29PM

cosatron wrote: »

out of curiosity, who is the gm. on the patriot website is states the two Kraft and Caserio as player personal. So who makes the decisions on the players.

Bill does.

Hazys · 13-03-2017 02:42PM

Hightower visiting the Jets today. I'm actually encouraged by this, it shows he has no real suitors for his signature, so its most likely just a bargaining chip to get better than $10m a year from the Pats.

For the Jets to get him they'll have way over pay and if he takes it, he won't change the fortunes of the Jets by himself so it doesn't really make the AFC East anymore competitive and it just shows that the Jets will continue to shot themselves in the foot in overpaying for players.

Rich Cimini:

Not to depress you, but the four New England additions will count only $17.1 million on this year's cap. Let's put that in some perspective, shall we? Gilmore, Allen, Cooks and Ealy combined will cost less than one Wilkerson ($18 million).

I think Hightower knows he has little to lose by stretching out his decision. He knows its highly unlikely the Pats offer of $10m a year will be taken off the table as the Pats are very high on him so why not test the waters and see what else is out there. Either he gets an offer from another team that he can't refuse or he gets the Pats to up the offer from $10m or he just accepts the $10m offer.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 13-03-2017 02:59PM

Hazys wrote: »

Hightower visiting the Jets today. I'm actually encouraged by this, it shows he has no real suitors for his signature, so its most likely just a bargaining chip to get better than $10m a year from the Pats.

For the Jets to get him they'll have way over pay and if he takes it, he won't change the fortunes of the Jets by himself so it doesn't really make the AFC East anymore competitive and it just shows that the Jets will continue to shot themselves in the foot in overpaying for players.

Rich Cimini:

I think Hightower knows he has little to lose by stretching out his decision. He knows its highly unlikely the Pats offer of $10m a year will be taken off the table as the Pats are very high on him so why not test the waters and see what else is out there. Either he gets an offer from another team that he can't refuse or he gets the Pats to up the offer from $10m or he just accepts the $10m offer.

Or if he's trolling the Jets, give him $11m, he'll deserve it.

phatkev · 13-03-2017 03:11PM

Hazys wrote: »

Hightower visiting the Jets today. I'm actually encouraged by this, it shows he has no real suitors for his signature, so its most likely just a bargaining chip to get better than $10m a year from the Pats.

For the Jets to get him they'll have way over pay and if he takes it, he won't change the fortunes of the Jets by himself so it doesn't really make the AFC East anymore competitive and it just shows that the Jets will continue to shot themselves in the foot in overpaying for players.

Rich Cimini:

I think Hightower knows he has little to lose by stretching out his decision. He knows its highly unlikely the Pats offer of $10m a year will be taken off the table as the Pats are very high on him so why not test the waters and see what else is out there. Either he gets an offer from another team that he can't refuse or he gets the Pats to up the offer from $10m or he just accepts the $10m offer.

He was with the jets yesterday, pretty sure he left without a deal. I f twitter is anything to go by he's looking for around $12 million a year. The Jets would have no where near the cap space to finance that unless they cut a couple more players

phatkev · 13-03-2017 03:19PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Or if he's trolling the Jets, give him $11m, he'll deserve it.

I really don't get why they'd give Gilmore the sort of contract he got and then nickel and dime one of your best defensive players

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