The Patriots know how to draft and it saves them money but right now you are without a a stud DE. Brace is promising but unproven, Burgess has never been that impressive IMO.

We’ve signed FA guard Kendall Simmons, bringing us back to 53 players.

We did get good compensation for giving him up but I wish we could get something in return that would help us for this year… Also I hope that it’s not a protected pick.

I like Seymour a lot but it’s a good trade. His production has clearly been on the decline in recent years—he’s still good, very good…but he is not elite anymore. I didn’t have the sense we were going to be able to re-sign him after this year anyways, so instead of him walking and us getting nothing in return, we get a 1st round draft pick in what will very, very likely be the first draft in NFL history with a fixed wage scale for rookies in place.

And even if there isn’t a rookie wage scale, it’s still a 1st round pick from a pretty bad team that is showing no signs of being able to turn the ship around anytime soon.

But this is a crazy news. Getting a firstround pick is excellent but whoever it may be will probably not help much until 2012. Seymour could really have made a difference over those three next seasons. I trust Brady will be at the top that long, but he isn’t getting younger, and shouldn’t we be going all out for a superbowl while he is at the top?

Further, the defensive line was supposed to be the strength of the defense this year. Will that still be the case?

I don’t like it at all. You only have so many standouts in life to have on your team. Everything cannot be measured in tackles and sacks, etc. Everything should be measured in Championships. First off, I have been watching this team since I was 7. That would be 39 years ago. I know a little about a losing team with losing mental abilities on the field. Rodney was my second favorite player over the last 5 years, than came Tedy, then Vrabel, then Seymour. So, last check we’ve lost the core of mental abilities and replaced them to some degree with young, not proven mental and physical abilites. Tommy has been #1, and yet he seems fragile now. I don’t get it. MFM P.S. You know another thing I don’t get, I used to sit on those POS bleacher seats for years and even though I live all the way down in NC, I have made it back for a couple of games at the stadium by Kraft, WTF is the deal with the fans. I’m not a loud person at all and I found myself trying to inject life into my section. I know the costs of the tickets adds to the more refined fans or read differently…the less passionate fans but that was a joke to experience.

He’s only got one year left…so if he becomes a FA, couldn’t he sign with the Pats in the 2010 offseason (unless he signs an extension that is…)?

I moved away from MA when I was all of 23 after graduating from UMASS. I worked at Kodak for a decade and the most fun I can remember were those Sunday’s (once per year) when “the guys” all met a “Rays” house early and we got into his van (usually 5-6 of us) and made the 1hour trek to Orchard Park so that I could see my Patriots play everyone else’s Bills. We didn’t win many of those games as those were the Bills of the 90’s. You know, the ones that went to 4 SB’s and came up shy each and every time (I at least could point that out to them when they gave me crap at the one game we all went to). But, for the tailgating and throwing the football around to being the designated driver as I was the only non-drinker amongst us, I wouldn’t have traded it for the world. They were all my new friends from work and the brothers I never had growing up. Sad to say, Ray was driving that very same Van when he was struck head on by a 18 wheeler (I had moved to Milwaukee 5 months earlier). I flew back to Rochester, NY for the wake. It was tough to see everyone, but it made me remember how many good times we shared with our friend, Ray.

You must have forgotten the late 70’s….We had Mike Haynes, We had Russ Francis, we had the team of the decade and it got taken a part right in front of us……Not to mention the worst officiated game in the history of sports (Oakland Playoff Game in 1977) that started the ball rolling…That game was definitely worse than the Basketball US-Soviet game in 1972 everyone remembers to be worse for some reason. What did Rozelle do the next day? He issued an apology to the Patriots organization. He didn’t allow any of those refs in that game to officiate another Patriots game for what I think turned out to be 15-18 years. O yeah, I almost forgot the great silver and black and Al Davis got their first SB win handed to them by the league. They might let this stuff go on for another 20 years. We can only hope.

You’re offering me a #1 in 2011 and it very likely could be a top 10 pick (if not a top 5) for a guy that held out on me when he had a year left on his rookie contract, and is a free agent at the end of this year? And he hasn’t made the Pro Bowl in 2 years or All-Pro in 3?

YES!!!! Give me a pen before whatever drugs you are on wear off!

I’m glad Seymour is gone, and especially glad Oakland threw in the kitchen sink for his greedy a$$. The purgatory of the Raiders couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

You might have guessed he isn’t one of my favorites.

I’m glad Seymour is gone, and especially glad Oakland threw in the kitchen sink for his greedy a$$. The purgatory of the Raiders couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
I agree let him play head games with Davis. I felt he put out only when he needed to.