Fixxxer

Correct, good teams build from the inside out. Once they have a solid foundation they can focus on the difference makers on the outside. We have drafted very talented DBs with our 1st round picks, but guys that would have been a lot better if they had better help up front. Last year our CB situation was good, not great, good, McKelvin is a talented player that ended the year on high note, but the depth on the OL was pathetic. Brandon Albert would have been a very good pick instead of McKelvin. And that is something that bothers me, they draft talented CBs. but they don't let them show it on the field.

because he'll get paid a sum of money that he never dreamt of getting when he entered the league as a UFDA. He's in a good place, with great fanbase, but a so-so franchise, doing what he does best and leaving his long life dream. Maybe that is it for him, who knows?

Now or next year? IIRC, he never tested FA waters, he signed an extension and a good one for both parties. If you move him to FS now, when he becomes FA, you can adjust his salary to the position.

If we had drafted Brandon Albert last year, the notion of possibly trading Peter would be at least reasonable. Without a solid back-up plan, this is a dumb idea. And no, Chambers or a rookie LOT are not viewed as solid back-up plans.

If McGee is willing to move to FS (he played there in college), I'd try to resign Greer. This way you don't have find depth for the secondary in the draft, instead you focus that needed depth on the lines.

So the prospect of Stroud being just one on one against an OL instead of two or three is not a good reason to be excited? He did a great job and so did Kyle Williams but if McCargo is cut we need another body. I'm a big fan of Kyle Williams but he would be better suited to be a rotational guy only. Taking Raji at 11# is what this team needs.

If I'm not mistaken he followed John Butler and AJ Smith to San Diego. This is a good hire. IMO.

I don't see NE going after him but I could see Bellichick trying to sign Ray Ray in FA. And that would suck.

I !@#$ing hate the Coward2, I always liked the 3-4 defense.

wow, you may be right! It's scary.

I'm with you, unless there's a good prospect DT in the 3rd. We have only three capable DTs on the roster right now. McCargo I assume will be cut or dealt.

I'd try to trade both Kelsay and Denney. Kelsay will be much tougher to trade because he simply isn't good enough and he carries a high salary, so I wouldn't be opposed to just cut him. Denney, IMO, a better player than Kelsay could attract some team running a 3-4 defense, I don't know what compensantion we could get, my guess is not higher than a 4th.

Easy, Doug Flutie.

He's playing forward instead of backwards. He's attacking now instead of waiting. He's a very smart player with a big heart. He doesn't have great measurables but he does know what to do. He looked bad with us because after the opposing guard took on the LB he only had to tackle a RB with a head full of steam. Not an easy task and not a very good way to look good on a football field.

I don't have any problem with a team drafting WRs, CBs, Ss in the first round. But the way you improve your teams is from the inside out. We have drafted great players in the first round, like Evans, Lynch, Withner (good player not great), McKelvin, but without a solid foundation their abilities are sometimes misused/underused because of the constant inability to do what a team have to do to win games in this league, run the football and rush the passer. Look at NE, they brought Seymour one year (2001), the year after they took Ben Graham, with the Bledsoe pick, they drafted Ty Warren, followed by yet another TE in Ben Watson after they won the SB. After that they drafted Logan Mankins. In the way the Patriots use their TEs (in line blocking) you could argue that they often use them as extra OL. After that those lucky bastards landed Vince Wilfork. Once they addressed the big boys up front they focused on improving the safety position and the LB position. Inside out. Yes they have great coaching but the coach can call a certain gameplan because he has the talent to go and execute it. I know everybody hates the coulda/shoulda/woulda, but don't tell me this team wouldn't be better if we would have followed this pattern 2003: Steinbach instead of McGahee 2004: Tommy Harris instead of Lee Evans 2005: Traded to Dallas, but imagine we didn't, Chris Spencer or Luis Castillo instead of Losman 2006: Ngata instead of Whitner 2007: Lynch, I'm ok with 2008: Ryan Clady or Branden Albert instead of McKelvin Obviously it's a difficult or just impossible to predict because I believe that with our first two drafts the later doesn't happen because the team would have been better than it did. Build the foundation of the team first and the rest will come a hell of a lot easier. Let us hope we start this year.

No more shiny objects, bring some ugly, fat and athetlic bastards to shore up the DL and the OL. Include a LB or a TE in the mix if you will.

What about Jeff Saturday? Is he coming back with the Colts? He'll be 34 this next season and Birk will be 33. I would be glad with either of the two since that would mean that we would be improving the position, but I think I'd prefer Saturday over Birk.

I'd probably be excited by the FA period and the draft, I will be like a child on Christmast Eve the first Sunday of September and I will crash down to reality in that very same day. Then I would stop watching.

On Cutler's second TD, Pozlousny wasn't in position to prevent the TD but he was in good position to put a hurt on him. He only put his hands on his back on route to the TD. I'm not saying hurt the guy intentionally but at least do something so the next time, he thinks twice on scoring on a QB sweep. On defense you have to put fear on the opposing players, specially QBs.

Voted Reed, very reliable when you need a big play.

Look, was deserving his call to the pro bowl? maybe not. Was he horrible this year like many wants us to believe? hardly. Guys like Jake Long and Ryan Clady had great years and either of the two could have replaced him. Are these two known comodities yet? certainly not, maybe if they keep playing like they did this year and Jason has another year (not as dominant as 2007) like he had they could go. At one point Jake Long was leading the fan polls of who should have went to the pro bowl, so maybe the coaches and peers helped Jason to be where he is right now. We all saw and know what Peters is capable of doing and we most certainly know that one day he was going to get paid, hopefully by us. did it helped this selection to keep him on the cheap? obviously not but it's way better to pay this freak of nature than to overpaid a lesser talent (think John Fina) to protect your QB.

Yep, it was Johnson. Somehow they missed it, but I'm not suprised.

That's the spirit

Agree, if we run the ball but don't convert, we're conservative or afraid to go to jugular. Once we do it but don't execute a damn simple play they're crazy. I'm in no way defending this coaching staff, because they deserve to go away, with the exception of April of course, but sometimes players have to be held accountable.

Then don't start him, put Hamdan in, or someone with half a brain.