--WR Troy Brown played just one game in his 15th season after starting the year on PUP. He may retire, but if he doesn't the team told him that he's not in its plans moving forward.
--S Mel Mitchell played in 10 games and is a core special teams-type guy. He might choose to go elsewhere as New England only has room for so many one-dimensional special teamers.
--CB Chad Scott didn't make it through training camp and has been hurt often. He's a solid veteran backup and could be back with the team in the market for corner depth.
--LB Junior Seau was expected to get his first Super Bowl ring and retire. The Giants messed that little story up. He was healthy all year and made plays. If he doesn't retire after his 18th season, the only place he'll be playing is in New England.
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--LB Eric Alexander is a decent though injury prone special teamer although he's yet to show anything on defense, other than of course his still inexplicable start in the 2006 AFC title loss in Indianapolis.
This thread is for all random predictions of things you suspect will happen to the Patriots this season. Hunches, player production, and injury predictions are welcome. Ok now that the perameters are set here are mine.
The 2008/2009 NFL season is one I think Colts and Patriots fans would just like to forget about. Both of our teams were plagued by injuries. The Colts finished 2nd in their division behind the Titans while the Patri
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I just read Pete Prisco's article and even though I don't think much of his overall NFL analysis (except his current power ranking of course), I thought the subject was quite interesting. Before I read who he had for the Patriots, I thought to myself who I thought was the most overrated and underrated players to see if we matched. We d
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I heard on Saturday past that Bill Belichek has released the training camp schedule and Week 1 will certainly separate the wheat from the chaff.....
The first seven days will be two a days......The practices will also be longer than previous camps. 3-1/2 hour sessions vs 2-1/2 hours. Is Belichek going over the edge or is he really going to make sure that the IR this year is not going to
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Was hoping you Patriot fans would like to give us some insight as to what you noticed about Matt Cassell last year? Can he throw deep? Do you thi
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Pete Prisco put out his NFL Top 50 Players and the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was #2 behind Payton Manning. I started a firestorm when someone posted a thread and stated that Brady didn't even belong in the top 50 let alone number 2. Needless to say there ha
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In honor of the birthday of our country, NFL Network put together a list of the top ten Patriots players of all-time. It's a very impressive list (considering the lack of success prior to this decade), all things considered. What do you guys think
10) Ben Coates, TE. 5x Pro Bowler, 2nd most TD's in franchise hi
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OK, ladies and gentlemen. I think this is a great opportunity to start a thread where all Patriots' fans can come and share their thoughts on the latest happenings with their favorite team' the Patriots!
Or you can vent about a bad day, leave a message for a fellow buddy, leave a ransom note, a joke of the day&nb
NE's previous offense (which was record setting) used 4 wideouts to spread out the defense horizontally, creating holes in the defense that Brady had to read and throw through.
Many have argued that this is too easy (Colts fans...) and that Brady would never survive in the
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I always enjoy stuff like the 10 Best Players, 10 Best Plays and the 10 Best games......but no one ever remembers the ten Worst anythings.........So I thought I'd try to shake up some horrible memories and bring back some of those nauseating feelings from the Patriots past. The 10 worst Patriot players that come to my mind...in no part
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Last season we had a great fantasy league of Jets fans against Patriots fans in fantasy football, the enire season went off withouot any problems or disrespect shown by any of the participants. Dawnie Brat was the team leader of the Pats league and I led the Jets. I'm very interested
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just curious, is your NT Vince Wilfork available for trade options from what you guys are hearing? my understanding is that you don't want to pay wilfork a big-ticket and drafting Ron Brace in the 2nd round kin
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