Seriously. Soooo much talent on a team he coached to 4 freaking wins. Enough Bill.
Miss him much, do you? His comments read as mildly critical to me, and kind of milquetoast. And terrible look for him seems way over the top.
Yeah, of course it would have been ideal to get a pick 2 rounds higher. What are we doing here?
Word.
In what world is trading Josh Uche evidence of a "teardown"? Any trade that results in 6th coming back is never evidence of a teardown. Sweet Jesus.
Sadly, Uche is probably in the top 50% of the players talent-wise on the Pats roster, so I guess it could be seen as kind of a tear down move.
Bill's is a smart guy. He serves warmed-over shit critical of the Patriots because the audience for the "guy-in-an-undershirt show" is people who like to eat warmed over shit critical of the Patriots. It's not rocket surgery and he knows it.
Explosive but unproductive though. Just doesn't impact the game enough. And he's in his walk year.
Don't take the below as picking on your post, I'm just using it as a jumping off point on the larger theme of 'how should we expect BB to talk about the Pats?'
Uche is a free agent after this season and is obviously not a candidate to be tagged. There is zero chance this deal does lasting harm to the Pats. The front office, appropriately, doesn’t share SoSH’s desire not to help the Chiefs even if doing so helps the Patriots.
I dunno. I feel like I make this trade if it's for a first-rounder. That seems ideal to me.
He was a healthy scratch likely because they had this deal nearly in place and didn't want to risk him getting hurt.
Hi SJH, nice to see you here after a Pats win instead of only when they lose. All that grievance posting cannot be healthy. Glad you are working an expectation balance.
When they say it’s not rocket surgery…
You weren't in the game thread yesterday, bub.Hi SJH, nice to see you here after a Pats win instead of only when they lose. All that grievance posting cannot be healthy. Glad you are working an expectation balance.
Gamethread=during game.
You should be happy, I'm allowing others to emote joy. I just take up the slack when there's sadness.
Kraft treated him like shit and has been dragging him publicly since he fired him.
This likely just comes down to the Pats trading away a player he likes. Like you, I can't blame him for speaking his mind.
He can rip on them for plenty of valid reasons to rip. This isn't that.
He liked him enough to play 33% of the snaps last year. This year, before yesterday, he was at 35%.
BB's job is to do exactly this now. He doesn't like the trade and I can't blame him for doing the job he is paid to do. I also don't think his focus is Patriot centric, he has trashed a ton of other teams' moves, plays, players.
As time goes by, that trade (or was he allowed to walk) will likely be looked at as the biggest mistake of BB's Pats career. Really started the downfall of the offense.
That's some high-level insight right there from Coach Belichick.
Left as free agent.
If I were the most accomplished, successful and celebrated person to ever have my job? Absolutely. At worst I'd have Michael Lombardi and the rest of my media flunkies put the hit jobs out. Oh, and funny how all of a sudden he won't comment on the mess that are the Falcons, huh. That sure was a topic after week one.
They're paying him for his opinion and by golly they are going to get his opinion. I can respect that.
I agree and I've made that point on here several times. God forbid you over pay a guard that money. The Pats couldn't have absorbed those huge cap hits of $4.5m, $8m and $14m this year. There's $52m backloaded they'd have to deal with in a similar deal.
I'm sure the thinking was that he thought he could get 90% of Thuney's production for 50% of the cost, but boy that sure didn't work out at all.
Is that Stidham's Music????
Keion White has more sacks and is tied for as many qb hits as anyone on the Chiefs and nearly every time Uche was on the field White was as well. And with Barmore playing all of last year and having a career year Uche put up a grand total of 3 sacks.
I dunno. BB tended to guess right far more often than not when trading away players or letting them leave via free agency. And that included some big name players. Getting Mitchell and Thuney for Chandler Jones (when he was getting ready to be expensive) was a good move. Seymour netted them Nate Solder. Could find many other examples.
Why does this keep coming up 5 years later?
