here's a pats thread for everyone to talk about patritos shit because nobody else cares

wow. really surprising considering bb's long history of letting good defensive backs walk away. i still hope they make a serious play to retain revis, and at this point nothing would surprise me.

i love revis island

i think there's still room to get revis in too. i could have gone either way on this deal but if you're going to take care of a player with a contract like that mccourty is not a bad choice at all.

yeah mccourty is a pretty safe place to stack those chips. i think they are up against or over the cap already so i assumed they could only take one of the two but i guess never discount contract numbers magic. still, i will be surprised, it does look like crazy money is out there for revis if he wants it.

i think there's still room to get revis in too. i could have gone either way on this deal but if you're going to take care of a player with a contract like that mccourty is not a bad choice at all.

I hope so. I just spent an hour trying to make this work, but I realized I don’t understand the NFL cap. At all.

yeah as i understand it it's a matter of being freed up from a couple other commitments (mayo, wilfork, etc.) plus the fact that mccourty's new contract is very likely backloaded and may carry only a 4-5 million hit this year.

i'm normally under the impression that teams can finagle the cap at any point to get any player they want (i.e. the saints being way over the cap last season but somehow signing jairus byrd to the richest contract ever for a safety), it's more of a case of if they want to potentially fuck themselves down the road

right

which is a very un-pats approach but maybe they are going all in for 1-2 season last blowout, tb and bb hit the cigars, peace out mothefuckers

mothfuckers

they've paid plenty of guys at market rates tho, vince got paid, solder got paid, mankins got paid. i guess two in one offseason is a bigger deal.

seems crazy but jerod mayo may be the sacrificial lamb in all of this

i think that's extremely likely

if the pats cuts mayo while the jets' marquee resigning is giving david harris $15m guaranteed for 2 years, that will be a neat encapsulation of the variance between the two organizations

sheard is a pretty nice addition. i don't know the db from oakland, chekwa

chekwa sounds like a die roll but i've read nothing but positives about sheard, sounds perfect for their style of defense

rip revis island

revis island will be reopening in the fall. outlook for next season is a balmy 8-8 degrees

lol

Doug Kyed @DougKyedNESN · 18m 18 minutes ago
Will Belichick be in Madden this year? “I don’t know. You should ask John about that.”

2nd video http://deadspin.com/robert-kraft-takes-stand-in-aaron-hernandez-trial-expl-1694748806

somewhere, shaughnessy and simmons simultaneously write columns about how gronk's retrograde-ass statements are secretly feminist https://twitter.com/bostonglobe/status/583091537107632128

New England Patriots Player Wants Kendrick Lamar To Be Team's Global Ambassador

lol wut

yeah, no

reiss had jordan richards in his preview as a late round target. nfl.com rated him 6-7th round prospect.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NEVER CHANGE PATRITOS

i guess this guy grissom is reputedly a bizarre reach as well...

he has no position so bill loves him:

Grissom briefly moved to tight end in 2012 before shifting back to defensive end. “No, we’re not trying to make him a tight end, but his workout as a tight end is about as good of a tight end workout as we saw all year,” Belichick said. “I mean, this guy can run, he can catch. If you didn’t know he didn’t play tight end, you would look at that workout and say ‘that’s a pretty good tight end.'”

arrington released, reiss hints he may be back. also fred davis signed on 1yr. haven't seen the deal yet but will be surprised if they can't cut him in preseason for free.

Michele Steele @ESPNMichele
Breaking: Grandy Jury indicts Aaron Hernandez for shooting Alexander Bradley, who allegedly witnessed double homicide

all of this is reminding me of when Cheney shot his hunting partner in the face

lol tru

oops!

Adam Schefter ✔@AdamSchefter
Filed to ESPN: Tom Brady suspended four games, Pats lose 1st round pick in 2016 and a 4th in 2017, and team fined $1 million, per source:

fun!

they going to appeal this? such bs imo
absurdly disproportionate (not convinced brady did anything wrong)

whole lot of locals on my twitter suddenly saying they care about how this punishment is unfair compared to the initial ray rice ruling (which is true, the proportions are fucked, NFL's a mess obviously) when there was not a peep to be heard from said locals when the ray rice shit was actually happening

definitely seems disproportionate. I think by now I've accepted that he probably did it but 4 games? that's only one less than Albert Haynesworth got for stomping on a guy's chest, and more than another player got recently for child endangerment.

I'd have been fine with it just being a fine and loss of draft pick for the team. and the Wells report stopped short of full confidence that Brady was implicated.

oh well, helps my team out....but not liking the precedent here. I'm fairly sure if the NFL looked closer for these smaller types of competitive cheats they could find it across the other 31 teams.

i am cool with it if it fuels some scowly brady v world march through the league and to another ring! wld be entertaining and good imo

what a bunch of BS, I hope they appeal

so probable footballs .5 psi under is way more detrimental to the league than any of the guys in domestic violence incidents

is this decision based off the public outrage about the whole #deflategate story - outrage that was generated by leaks from the NFL during the investigation?

sigh

it is inherently a steep punishment (the fine, a pick and maybe one game tops would be the most extreme i'd think of imo, they broke the rule but the rule is relatively minor) and even more when you compare it with rice, but goodell had to in order to make ppl forget for a little bit how long he's been in robert kraft's pocket

I have a Dolphin's fan friend who is mad the suspensions weren't further reaching and steeper and comparing this to Bountygate.

kinda understandable - the bountygate penalties were really steep especially considering how spurious a fair amount of the accusations levied against the saints ended up being

the penalty shd be the pats balls get over inflated all season, an eye for an eye

its too bad the pats didnt win the spygate superbowl wld be cooler if the benefited maximally from their evil deeds

also less emotionally traumatic for me

losing 33% of one's season over deflated balls kinda seems ridic. I mean did the ball deflation also prevent the Colts from playing pass defense ?

of course not the colts sucked