Well you just say silly things like Xoxo, When we drafted Easly we knew he was a project. No one expected Vince to recover as quickly and be back to normal like he did.
While he's on IR and it's saying "knee injury" it's most likely we're shutting him down for the season/playoffs and opening up some more depth where we really need it.

The Pats will never draft a RB high, no team with a good front office would ever do something that stupid.
Vince is only getting older and Easly is hopefully going to be his replacement, no reason to not rest him at this point.
With the return of Chandler Jones and Siliga from IR, plus the mid season acquisitions of Ayers, Branch, and Casillas alot of people saw this coming.



This post was edited by Ritchey9 on Dec 17 2014 03:02pm

love how my name keeps coming out your mouth

Maybe you willl read the posts and learn something.

Well we picked up Alan branch and imo appears to be playing as good or better than easly in a similar role (he looks like vince wilorks twin out there he's a beast) and I'd wish they would have drafted a wr from this wr rich draft class since we drafted a bunch of bum WRs prior (Boyce and dobson also Thompsons udfa) I liked the Garoppolo pick tho.

I agree that we needed a WR but I think we're sick of drafting them and being unable to develop them. We've wasted so many picks on WR that just don't work.
I mean Dobson has really screwed us hard.

its easy to say that now, looking back in hindsight.

but if you guys drafted another bust wr, you might be saying how stupid it was to do the same thing over and over.

had me dying haha

On my phone so too lazy to quote the last page but here are my thoughts:

I do believe it was wise drafting Easley. The media overplays knee injuries and they are not always career ending. They can also be completely different from person to person, so I'm sure the team doctors gave Easley the OK to the front office. DT was much needed, with Wilfork aging. Young talent resting and learning will only benefit a team more in the future.

I agree that drafting a RB early in the draft is a serious risk. Nobody can really tell how they will transition into the NFL. Ridley was drafted to be a work horse (in a Patriots style team, nothing like Murray) and Vereen filled the 3DRB void that Kevin Faulk left. We have tremendous depth at RB now so I don't see it as a priority in this years draft.

WR can be similar to RB in drafts, a little safer though imo. This years class is one of the greatest all time, but I believe we tried to get already established talent such as Amendola, and his price tag stopped us from drafting WR. Dobson has been meh, and it doesn't matter that I thought Thompkins was better because he's gone now. With Edelman and LaFell performing, it makes me wonder. We could use a solid young talent to go get the deep ball.

From what I've seen this year, I think DL is still an area of concern. Pass rush... OL has transformed greatly but I wouldn't be surprised to see an early pick there. LB has been torched by injuries but we picked up some great FAs to manage. Maybe a LB or Safety will be drafted. Not that McCourty is bad but he will want big money. Chung is moreso where I see competition for the position starting. We have a solid team and if we stay healthy, it can only be strengthened by draft picks, as opposed to needed picks to fill in vacancies.

my .02

We have been missing a deep threat for a while.. one thing our offense has been lacking for a long time since moss/deion branch have been gone. Brandon Lloyd had some moments but that didn't work out and ever since then we've had no deep threats at all. Almost every time Brady unloads a bomb now u can almost guarantee an incompletion.. for some reason Brady can't get on the same page with the new WRs. That why I'd like to see them draft a wr high instead of waiting a few rounds just to draft the next bust like dobson.. just imo of course drafting a player an injury risk like easly in the first round just didn't seem wise imo. I could understand if it was like 3rd of 4th or sumthing but whatever



Both weekday games, chiefs and jets (did get to see the blocked FG at the end live tho that was epic) I missed but heard bits and pieces on t HD Radio (@ work)

buying my second annual playoff tickets tonight (through relatives who are season ticket holders, public sale is tomorrow)

saw the colts last year, it was awesome! can't wait for this year

Edelgod, Blount and Arrington ruled out for today's game.