Which, ironically, is where we could have used Aaron Maybin if we had HAD a role for the situational pass rusher. As it was, we had no pass rush to begin with and so a "situational pass rusher" was a luxury we couldn't afford.
If there was anything that could make me forget today was Monday...this was it! Thanks Kelly for the great laugh.
Best comment (thanks Ross!):
I was listening to Ross Tucker this morning on the Sirius NFL channel. The entire morning conversation was about how horrible the Dolphins situation is and how inept they are. This is what we have been reduced to, a laughingstock.
Posted by: JJ | March 19, 2012 at 07:54 AM
Good god, I hope the Broncos hurry up and trade that guy so we don't have to read this **** anymore.
Which latter is what you'll get if Tebow comes here
Or maybe the agent talked to the club?
Buddy picks up phone.
Agent says "We know your cap room. If you've got $40-50M in guarantees, be here at 4:01 with a plane."
Buddy hangs up phone.
Tampering?
What Kraft overlooks (probably willfully) is that whether we "overpaid" or not, we NEEDED a signing like this in order to make this an attractive destination for other players. New England doesn't need a blockbuster signing right now... but in 1993 they absolutely needed to draft Drew Bledsoe and pay him stupid money in order to start turning things around. It's all about where your franchise is in the development process. A team with a decade of success and stability attracts midlevel free agents like flies. Kraft can look down his nose at how we are doing things but the truth is that it just wasn't possible for us to sign the players who were lining up to go to New England. Now it will be.
Also, he's a dick.
I love Bruce, but Bruce is all about Bruce. We realized that every year when he either held out or creatively scheduled his surgeries so he could skip training camp, and forgave him pretty much instantly every time because he was just so. god. damn. good.
All I can do is point out that we once got Art Still to bookend Bruce. He played pretty well until Leon Seals took over. In the mid-'90s we picked up Jim Jeffcoat to do the same thing and he played pretty well until we drafted Marcellus Wiley. It's not a bad idea.
I could make a snide comment about the real reason for the delay being that they were fighting to prevent him from going on, but I'll hold my tongue. God bless Ralph for making the hires that led to what happened today.
And of course Dwight Howard leads the news on ESPN. Now I kind of know how Rickey Henderson felt when he broke Lou Brock's record only to be upstaged by Nolan Ryan's seventh no-hitter.
But to paraphrase Rickey: Today we are the greatest of all time!