Pats sign David Harris
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Yeah but what if it has a player opt-o... um... nevermind.
I'm viewing this as Hightower injury insurance. Someone intelligent enough to be trusted by BB to run the defense, even if he doesn't have the wheels to make plays quite as dramatically or as often anymore.
Shermanesque.
In the context of Trader Danny's perplexing off season, and seeing John Farrell botch yet another game yesterday, the David Harris signing was especially sweet.
Need LB depth? Check.
Need a finger in the eye of a franchise/fanbase that deserves a fist in the eye? Check.
But now I'm getting a little piggy. I need the Pats need to once again demonstrate their intellectual superiority over all others in the NFL and the other Boston sports franchises by picking up Nick Mangold for OL depth. He's out there, available and he'd probably take some sort of discount for the chance to play for a ring and shove it up the Jets' ass. Do this.
Need LB depth? Check.
Need a finger in the eye of a franchise/fanbase that deserves a fist in the eye? Check.
But now I'm getting a little piggy. I need the Pats need to once again demonstrate their intellectual superiority over all others in the NFL and the other Boston sports franchises by picking up Nick Mangold for OL depth. He's out there, available and he'd probably take some sort of discount for the chance to play for a ring and shove it up the Jets' ass. Do this.
The funniest recurring theme is to point out how Harris is getting so old and so slow and so hurt that he's going to be an embarrassment and a sieve on D for the Pats all season long. It's as if the Pats are building their entire D around him, and have no alternative than to play him every down of every game, in addition to his contract handcuffing them capwise for years to come.
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For totally non-Jets, and purely for football, reasons, signing Mangold makes a ton of sense. The Jets piece would just make it sweeter.
Mangold won't sign unless he has a good chance to start. That won't happen in NE unless there is an injury.
Cimini "...it's so perfect, so Jets": http://www.espn.com/blog/new-york-jets/post/_/id/69509/ex-jet-david-harris-gets-the-last-laugh-signs-with-super-bowl-champs
Here's the Victor Green's TD he mentions in the article:
Here's the Victor Green's TD he mentions in the article:
...and this paragraph, which speaks to the move, Belichick, and the GG grousing:Cimini "...it's so perfect, so Jets": http://www.espn.com/blog/new-york-jets/post/_/id/69509/ex-jet-david-harris-gets-the-last-laugh-signs-with-super-bowl-champs
Here's the Victor Green's TD he mentions in the article:
Some will say this is Belichick sticking it to the Jets, but let me tell you something about Belichick: His idea of sticking it to the Jets is beating them, over and over, and he does that by adding useful players to his roster. Obviously, he believes Harris, 33, can help him win a sixth Super Bowl title.
Is there any history of Belichick doing something specifically to mess with or spite a particular opponent, rather than what was best for his football team in the abstract? Other than trick plays and goofiness like Testaverde's drop-kick FG of course. Revis, Browner, even acquisition of Welker seemed simply opportunistic rather than driven by the team he was hurting in the process.
The best part about SoSH is I'm scrolling down reading posts about an hour old and I just KNEW someone would make this correction before I had the chance to do so. It took 2 minutes, for the record.
The corollary to this best part is knowing we've all been on both sides of that situation
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My favorite, in response to the supposition that the Pats signed Harris so as to pick his brain regarding the Jets playbook:
Pats should have been banned, Jets should have been relegated, but here we are.
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If the other woman was Emily Ratajkowski this slob would would run over his ex wife on the way to Emily's bedroom.
These two comments were after the Jets lost in heartbreaking fashion Week 17 two seasons ago. It was a loss that kept them out of the playoffs. Sorry for the re-post but since we're quoting TGG...
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The user name "Bill Belidouche" is a nice added touch as well.If the other woman was Emily Ratajkowski this slob would would run over his ex wife on the way to Emily's bedroom.
These two comments were after the Jets lost in heartbreaking fashion Week 17 two seasons ago. It was a loss that kept them out of the playoffs. Sorry for the re-post but it since we're quoting TGG...
That seems strange to me. I mean, as a Jet, he was a starter, right? I wonder if he is hurt and they are hiding him, or if he just sucks and they are hiding him. Obviously since he is still on the roster, they are expecting him to be on the field.
First two opponents weren't exactly good matchups for him. I could see more of him vs. both Houston and Carolina.
From a running game perspective, I think I agree that Houston and Carolina would be better match-ups. But they both have mobile QBs, and in particular I think BB is going to want to spy Watson and make him beat them with his arm. Harris doesn't seem to have the speed to either cover guys or spy a QB like Watson.
Lack of speed means severely limited match-up potential these days. The fact that Roberts is getting so much more burn might just mean he's at the bottom of the depth chart regardless of match-up.
True, good point on the mobile QBs. I think Van Noy has played every snap so far this season. Need Shea back at some point.
