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

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

idk feel like its fine for the league to come down hard on cheating what are sports but rules after all makes u think

I think every holding penalty should result in the offender having to ride a little scooter in circles on the sideline for two minutes while the rest of the team plays down a man

just like hockey

lol seems reasonable

speaking as someone who isnt a pats fan really but can appreciate their talent/achievements, this whole thing didn't like offend my sensibilities or anything, it's more like...why bother, aren't you the goddamn patriots, you're one of the 3 or 4 best teams in the NFL, winning games is what y'all /do/

of course if the suspension was any longer or any shorter, then brady's first game back wouldn't be a sunday night game. against the colts. which is a little bit too, um, scripted.

(and i think while the investigation was completely silly, the punishment is fair enough considering everything, including brady's completely remorseless reaction.)

the league shd be giving the patriots an award for putting together one of the alltime great sports heals imho

like im not sure even the steinbrenner yankees were this cartoonishly malicious

should add a 'tom brady hands' unit to stat sheet for measuring total passing distance by a QB so that super cool QBs like me can laugh at tom's tiny hands