2018 Patriots/NFL offseason thread

Well,- he was the first guy to shred apart the Jaguars defense with a bunch of limited receiving options mostly rookies

Edit: I don't have the numbers for the Patriots game but Ramsey gave up 24 completions for 227 yards and 3 touchdowns, and boy they gave up 11 completions for a hundred and forty seven and one touchdown against the Steelers in the playoffs. Maybe Jimmy G gave guys the blueprint to hush up the Jags D

I don’t want to quote that entire post but I’m mostly with you. I’ll add a couple things though.

I think Borges should be fired and anyone who hires him is an idiot. There are enough people out there who write about sports and who want to that would love his job. As mentioned, this isn’t his first or even second time. He’s a disgrace to his profession and until the heads of these news outlets start taking strong stands the “fake news” and sloppy journalism won’t stop. In fact, it will get worse because there are no real consequences.

Where I differ from you is I no longer believe the majority of people are trying to do or get things right. I think they are trying to survive in their profession which has now been set up to require them to be shoddy journalists and not take the proper time to vet things and they have no backbone to walk away or hold a story that they think may be true but don’t have the evidence for it so they’d prefer to throw it against the wall and play the percentages hoping it sticks. A lot of them the plain flat out make stuff up citing “sources close to” or “sources with knowledge”. It’s a bunch of crap. It happens a lot in real news; and i promise you it happens even more in sports news where the consequences don’t really mean anything in the grand scheme of things. And until the Ron Borges of he world get fired, nothing will change.

If he doesn’t, then I will do my best to never read the publication he works for or listen to any stations who put him on the air. There’s a reason i do that with ESPN already.

I can't say that you're wrong. I like to think people have the intent to do things on the up-and-up but it's almost like the world is so damn different these days. It's like reality TV run amok.

It's all about ratings and eye appeal, not nuance and truth, so perhaps you are correct - that the way the system is now rigged accuracy and nuance take a back seat to ratings and grabbing attention, and journalists are set up to fail.

I do believe in Borges case, though, that he is lazy and inept (like a lot of his opinions). He's a miserable guy who doesn't seem to really like sports, and there are a lot of guys like that. I don't expect a journalist to kiss an athlete's butt, but somewhere there should be an appreciation that without that athlete to write about, he (or she) wouldn't have the job they have. And a lot of times I'm noticing more and more how little journals truly enjoy sports.

There are some you read where you can see that joy. I like reading Chad Finn for instance. It's obvious he enjoys sports.

Lauletta is the guy most connected to the Patriots, if the Patriots draft a QB, I think he's it.

Yeah, there's a part of me that would like to see the Patriots use a high pick to draft the next QB of the future, but there's another part of me that wants to load up while Brady is still kicking around.

It's a tough decision. I wouldn't know who to pick. It's honestly a crapshoot. There is a lot of luck in finding the perfect franchise QB. The Browns haven't had luck in almost 2 or 3 decades now, for example.

Bill has picked at least 6 bad QBs in the Tom Brady era and has picked 2 great ones. That's better than most teams, but it's still a crapshoot even with Bill picking the QB.

Yeah Hoyer and Cassel were good finds considering one was undrafted and the other was a starter for a good amount of time.

Still Brisset and Mallet are backups only in this league. You're not winning with them. You aren't going to win with Cassel or Hoyer.

If you draft a QB, you're going to need the franchise type of QB. If not, there's always free agency which could give you a more proven QB if you're willing to pay the freight on a Cousins type (for example).

I almost would rather do that (if you have good talent everywhere but QB) or blow it up after Brady is done. Having this good of a team for this long isn't supposed to happen with the cap in place and that's really the reality. Once Brady is gone, I'll probably barely tune into football to be honest, it won't be as good or interesting to me at least.

Allen is the best QB in the draft. Prior to the combine, I had hope he would fall but that’s not happening now.

The biggest question mark overall is left tackle and Solder. The one thing you can't do is have a bad LT with an old Brady. Solder as the top tackle available most likely gets a crazy offer. Do you resign Flemming and draft an OT? That gives you Cannon, Flemming, Garcia who should now be healthy, draft pick and a depth guy.

Richard Sherman is getting cut per reports... he loves New England... sucks he’s coming off that injury but maybe they get him cheap for a year.

Cooks trade rumors popping up again.