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In what can be seen as a somewhat shocking news, ProFootballTalk.com is reporting that the New England Patriots have released Pro Bowl safety Brandon Meriweather:

Two straight Pro Bowls and 64 appearances in 64 career games ultimately wasn't enough to save safety Brandon Meriweather. The Patriots have parted ways with the first-round pick from the 2007 draft, according to a league source.

Meriweather's status had been the subject of rumor and speculation. He recently downplayed to our good buddy Tom Curran of CSNNE.com the fact that coach Bill Belichick had Meriweather playing during garbage time of the preseason finale.

Meriweather really struggled at times last year, and hadn't looked particularly special during training camp or the preseason.  However, most, including myself, figured that when the Patriots released James Sanders last week, that it was likely an indication that Meriweather's status on the roster was safe considering the lack of depth at the the position and his relatively cheap salary.  Apparently not.

The question now becomes, what does this mean for the Patriots roster?  The top option at strong safety is still Patrick Chung.  Barring some sort of disaster, he is a stud who will starting for the Patriots.  After Chung, the Patriots have Josh Barrett, Sergio Brown, and James Ihedigbo.  All three of those players now look like locks to make the team.  The Patriots may also look to bring in outside help.  Earlier in the month, the Patriots worked out a handful of safeties, including Darren Sharper, who could be a viable option as a "center field" safety.  And hey, Lawyer Milloy's a free agent as well.

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BIGGEST SHOCK OF THE DAY

especially after they let go of Sanders

they could have just let him go next year

by prioris on Sep 3, 2011 3:27 PM EDT reply actions  

Shock to whom?

I think most people have predicted this one way or the other for the last couple of years.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

fuck it, you can't stop me

cross the plane, TD.

13.

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by Wiedmann on Sep 5, 2011 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions  

I LOVE the move to cut Meriweather

But don’t understand why we didn’t keep Sanders since this was apparently written all over the wall since training camp.

by CarpCarter on Sep 3, 2011 3:29 PM EDT reply actions  

$$$$

Sanders was a big chunk of change – twice what Meriweather was making.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

I agree that this is pretty shocking.

Especially after the release of Sanders. I also thought if they were to part ways with him they could have at least gotten a late rounder for him.

Oh well. We’ll be fine without him.

by UtopianAverage on Sep 3, 2011 3:29 PM EDT reply actions  

i think they tried

but no one wanted him for a draft pick

Trevor Bauer: 14-4, 2.00 ERA, 162 IP, 246 K in UCLA, Visalia (Hi-A), and Mobile (AA)

by freeland1787 on Sep 3, 2011 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

just remember that nobody's roster spot is safe when BB is the coach

that’s why he is awesome

Trevor Bauer: 14-4, 2.00 ERA, 162 IP, 246 K in UCLA, Visalia (Hi-A), and Mobile (AA)

by freeland1787 on Sep 3, 2011 3:30 PM EDT reply actions  

How many times in NFL history has someone been cut after being chosen for 2 Pro Bowls

by prioris on Sep 3, 2011 3:32 PM EDT reply actions  

not often- but has happened before

Trevor Bauer: 14-4, 2.00 ERA, 162 IP, 246 K in UCLA, Visalia (Hi-A), and Mobile (AA)

by freeland1787 on Sep 3, 2011 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Are we forgetting Belichick's Lawyer Milloy thing already?

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

I find this interesting and a nod on how well someone else maybe playing. Then again maybe more is going on than what we know. Brandon is at the end of his contract. Instead of going through that ritual, they went on ahead and let him go now instead of later.

by Patriots12 on Sep 3, 2011 3:33 PM EDT reply actions  

Who else gets booted

you can put Brace, Faulk, and Deaderick on PUP

Trevor Bauer: 14-4, 2.00 ERA, 162 IP, 246 K in UCLA, Visalia (Hi-A), and Mobile (AA)

by freeland1787 on Sep 3, 2011 3:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Lee smith cut too

Yeatman is on the roster since he is the only TE not named Gronk or Hernandez on the roster

Trevor Bauer: 14-4, 2.00 ERA, 162 IP, 246 K in UCLA, Visalia (Hi-A), and Mobile (AA)

by freeland1787 on Sep 3, 2011 3:37 PM EDT reply actions  

Hope he makes it onto the PS.

by OneOpinion on Sep 3, 2011 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

they must really like Sergio

1st round, 2nd round or nobel prize doesn’t matter to hoodie

by sweetjesusihatethejets on Sep 3, 2011 3:40 PM EDT reply actions  

Awful, IMO

The safety position on this team is probably the worst group of safeties in the league. Meriweather may not have been that good, but he is much better than the three we are likely going to keep instead of him now (Barrett, Brown, Ihedigbo).

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by totheights on Sep 3, 2011 3:42 PM EDT reply actions  

Was he though?

For every big hit or INT he’d have in a game, he’d get burned being way out of position even more. How many times did team score on big plays because he was out of position, took the wrong angle etc.

The kid had promise, but he seems overconfident, like he knew better than the coaches.

Pity they got nothing in return, I was hoping they could liquidate him like they did with Seymour and Cassel before their contracts expired.

by Cro-mags on Sep 3, 2011 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

He is absolutely better than Barrett, Brown and Ihedigbo.

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by totheights on Sep 3, 2011 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

At what?

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

down to 60 players now

Trevor Bauer: 14-4, 2.00 ERA, 162 IP, 246 K in UCLA, Visalia (Hi-A), and Mobile (AA)

by freeland1787 on Sep 3, 2011 3:46 PM EDT reply actions  

2007 Draft Class - What a waste

Down to 60 players now. We’ll probably cut a few more than 7 though. We’ll be making a few signings. I’m sure.

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by B.H.Talbot on Sep 3, 2011 3:48 PM EDT reply actions  

Eh

Remember, that was the team that went 18-1. Pretty hard for a rookie to crack that, especially since only one of them was drafted earlier than the 4th round. No 4th round rookie is going to displace Randy Moss or Wes Welker or Tedy Bruschi or Adalius Thomas or Matt Light or Tom Brady.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

With sanders already gone this move

Surprised me. But in bill I trust !

by brady12mvp3 on Sep 3, 2011 3:53 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

in Bill We Trust

Is getting a little bit tired. This will be the third of rebuilding the defense and it doesn’t really feel any more set than it did two years ago.

I wish the guy would go the conventional route sometimes.

"We're going to win this game."

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by MVPKiller12 on Sep 3, 2011 4:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Hey Tom

Great to see you!

Keep the faith!

by Marima on Sep 3, 2011 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

That's what people said when Milloy went away...

People promptly forgot when Harrison came in.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

Don't know how much this team will hate their coach over Meriweather's release.

"Perhaps it was the Noid who should have avoided me." Mayor Adam West

by ISN on Sep 3, 2011 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not much but he was very well liked by his peers. No question.

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by PatNation85 on Sep 3, 2011 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

McCourty said something a while back.

No points for missing the Lawyer Milloy cutting Tom Jackson comment.

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by ISN on Sep 3, 2011 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hey, I caught it

I made exactly the same point one thread over.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

I CAN GUARANTEE YOU NOW, THE PATRIOTS HATE THEIR COACH

/I’m with stupid.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

I PICKED THE PATS TO MOTIVATE THE JETS

If that’s not enough to get someone fired, nothing is.

"Perhaps it was the Noid who should have avoided me." Mayor Adam West

by ISN on Sep 4, 2011 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions  

I don't recall ever writing that he was more liked than anyone else. Not sure what you saw that no one else

did in the above sentence. But okay.

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by PatNation85 on Sep 4, 2011 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

Really?

Sanders’ cut was shocking, but the thought was that his salary was too large for him to play backup. Well, now they cut the starter. And was Meriweather really that bad?

by bloppy_ploppy on Sep 3, 2011 4:12 PM EDT reply actions  

No. Him and Chung were the best Patriot safety’s.

Letting so many safety’s go made no sense. Meriweather was also just a 1.5 million hit.

by prioris on Sep 3, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

you might say...

it was unsafe

Keep the faith!

by Marima on Sep 3, 2011 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yes.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Patriots had one of the best Safety depth in NFL last year but they shredded most of the top safety’s

McGowan, Page, Sanders, Merriweather … all dust in the wind now

by prioris on Sep 3, 2011 4:14 PM EDT reply actions  

Not a big fan of BM

But this move is kind of baffling given the lack of depth at this position. It makes you wonder who they’re going to bring in, it also makes you wonder how long until we here about his inevitable visit with the Jets.

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by MVPKiller12 on Sep 3, 2011 4:19 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

visit to the jets was what i was thinking about when he was cut

by prioris on Sep 3, 2011 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

Is Ras I Dowling a safety in the making?
Even if he is, can they win with the four that they kept?

by OneOpinion on Sep 3, 2011 4:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Is Ras I Dowling a safety in the making?
Even if he is, can they win with the four that they kept?

I hope he is still our CB instead of a safety. Cause if not there goes our so called solid 1-3 CB depth. Not to mention Dowling like Bodden seems injury prone. And as great as Mcc was last year, he is still only a second year guy. I have a hard time believing, a guy like Digs, who is porous in his coverage skills (though nice in run stoppage), Barrett who is still an unknown just like Brown (though i do like him a lot for some reason), are better than Meriweather.

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Life is about who makes it, not who makes it the fastest! Drive slow homie.

by PatNation85 on Sep 3, 2011 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Arrington

Move him to safety and keep Dowling at CB.

by maestro787 on Sep 4, 2011 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

WTF?

Seriously? This guy is coming off a pro-bowl season.. I don’t care if you get rid of him but at least get something in return..

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by New Century Silver on Sep 3, 2011 4:57 PM EDT reply actions  

I agree with the last part. They may have tried, but i guess no dice. Though i have a hard time believing that. Our perceived

strength (Safeties) back in June-July is now imho a severe unknown. Just like our CB’s with the injured Bodden and questionable Dowling.

Lewis Hamilton~ 2011 F1 Champion!!!
Life is about who makes it, not who makes it the fastest! Drive slow homie.

by PatNation85 on Sep 3, 2011 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

They have got something in return

A slightly safer Devin McCourty.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

You need to stop with these jokes.

by maestro787 on Sep 4, 2011 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

they're no jokes...

"Perhaps it was the Noid who should have avoided me." Mayor Adam West

by ISN on Sep 4, 2011 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm seriously not kidding.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 5, 2011 3:25 AM EDT up reply actions  

If we’re cutting Sammy Morris, why couldn’t we keep four TEs?

by quadruple option on Sep 3, 2011 5:20 PM EDT reply actions  

Kraft needs to have a word with BB seriously WTF!!!

Kool-aid apart lets look at this from a business perspective. How has the value of the Patriots increased from this happening? (cause if it hasnt like the title alludes to, Kraft has every right to be pissed at this).

In order for this to make sense this needs to be true…

The negative effects of keeping Meriwether (which can only be from a team perspective how disruptive he is to the rest of the team) outweigh…

Pro bowl safety play (and even if you don’t like him, you don’t get that accolade without playing well)
+
3rd round draft choice you would get from not playing him for the year and losing him to FA
-
The 53rd man on the roster that you would have to drop to keep him (like Yeatman…seriously?!?)

Before someone misreads what I am saying, I am glad BB is the coach, and think he is the best in the league, but that doesn’t mean everything he does is rationale/justifiable.

And to the people saying in BB we trust…nothing he does to fill the hole is relevant to this decision, because it could have been done with or without dropping Meriwether, so you can take this in isolation and judge the actions just on what has been done, and as I’ve outlined, in order for this to make sense, you have to believe Meriwether is one subvertive MF…

This reminds me of the Randy Moss trade as well, but seriously, we got a 3rd for Randy…dropping him for nothing…!!!

The icing on the cake will be the Jets signing him…you watch…

by buachz on Sep 3, 2011 5:26 PM EDT reply actions  

DeAngelo Hall went to the Pro Bowl

It’s a complete joke, you CAN go even if you’re terrible. It’s all about the name.

by 108 on Sep 3, 2011 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

and how many INTs Jay Cutler throws to you.

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by Wiedmann on Sep 5, 2011 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

Not every move Bill makes works out. Granted.

But he’s done enough, I would think, that I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt until such a time he’s proven wrong.

Also don’t assume we’d get a 3rd rounder for him, he’d have to get a huuuge deal somewhere else (like $50M). Only two 3rd rounders given out last year, Peppers and one other.

I’m going to assume that Bill knows what’s up better than we do because he has more information and a bigger brain. I’ll only call this a bad move if we see A) bad safety play from the guys we keep and B) Merriweather play well somewhere else.

by 108 on Sep 3, 2011 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think there is a great possibility of both A and B happening.

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by PatNation85 on Sep 3, 2011 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

A would have been a great possibility if they kept Meriweather, too.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

>I’ll only call this a bad move if we see A) bad safety play from the guys we keep and B) Merriweather play well somewhere else.

pretty much
the decision may come back and haunt the patriot fans

just don’t want him to play for an afc east team especially rex ryan

it could be worse. you could be a fan of a team that really in desperate need for a qb who passed on mallet. you wouldn’t want to watch. you might even become a fan of boston’s professional soccer team

by prioris on Sep 3, 2011 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

Respectfully you are missing the point

there’s no way to prove whether it was a good decision or not as there are too many other moving parts to isolate whether just the Meriwether move made sense, but on a simple level, if they beat 14-2 without Meriwether I am perfectly happy to eat my socks!

I’ll say this, I don’t think you can justify the move when looking at the impact to the franchise this year, Meriwethers talent outweighs the cost to the team of keeping him, however if you listened to Sanders when he was cut he said about Meriwether ‘you can say what you want about him, but he turns it on on the field’ or to read between the lines…Meriwether was a lazy practicer…and BB didnt want that rubbing off on the young players for the next few years…but surely he knew that before now…

by buachz on Sep 3, 2011 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

Cf: Lawyer Milloy

That worked out fine, too. Shrug.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 8:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Cmon Kiwi, you are better than that!

When they ditched Milloy they had Harrison to take up the slack, now we have….Ihedigbo

Meriwether could clearly play, he wouldnt have lasted this long if he was untalented.

Problem I think was he was just playing for the highlight reel given his upcoming free agency, not the team. That’s understandable, Seymour could do much more than asked but he subdued his strengths – cause he got paid. But they knew he was going into his last contract and wouldnt take the discount again (and had stopped killing it). Meriwethers no difference, that’s life.

I don’t think Meriwether was an AD type locker room cancer either – if he was he wouldn’t have lasted this long, but he clearly was out for his own glory so that he could get his payday next year and BB got tired of that. My point however is…why did they not do something till now? They could easily have got a 3rd for him…makes no sense. Getting nothing is bad bad business, and destroys the Patriots franchise value.

Also, if they knew they were going to do this why would they get rid of Sanders as well…that wasn’t to do with the money, $2-3m seriously.

They are not going to get an adequate replacement now either. They will either get desperate and overpay for a lemon (Derrick Burgess) or think they can go on without adequately addressing it (last year post Bodden). Sure they win cause it’s a talented roster, but 1) they didnt win the SB, and 2) they didnt need to put themselves in this position.

shrug

by buachz on Sep 3, 2011 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

Same diff

Just that they’ve shown aggressiveness in getting players if/when necessary, and they’ll happily cut a vet if necessary, too.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 10:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

I don't like the move either, we are now extremely questionable at safety. Wish our squad the best though.

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by PatNation85 on Sep 3, 2011 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Who cares? He's an average safety.

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by ISN on Sep 3, 2011 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

I hope the Jets sign him

I think he’s better than Brodney Pool, and we rotate oru safeties so much it could be ideal for someone whose solid but middle of the pack like BM, of course that’s just personal opinion.

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by Bro Namath on Sep 3, 2011 5:40 PM EDT reply actions  

I would never be too critical of BB of releasing any player as long as he has a plan to maintain enough talent at the position

by prioris on Sep 3, 2011 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

I hope the Jets sign him too

I really, really hope the Jets sign him.

by CarpCarter on Sep 3, 2011 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Just think

Start of offseason we had Page, McGowan, Meriweather, Chung, Sanders, and Brown
We thought it was a position of strength
I wish we had kept at last one of Page/McG/Meri/Sanders

by quadruple option on Sep 3, 2011 5:50 PM EDT reply actions  

Out of those guys, I only really wanted Page.

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by Comedic.Sans on Sep 3, 2011 9:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

Page

Was the best and had the most potential out of that group (other than sanders)

by maestro787 on Sep 4, 2011 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

Molden and Tarpinian shouldnt get comfortable

as now we need a G (Gurode), and Crumpler is coming back…

by buachz on Sep 3, 2011 7:22 PM EDT reply actions  

Barrett over meriweather? really bill?

by BostonBeasts on Sep 3, 2011 8:49 PM EDT reply actions  

He looked very good in the last preseason game. IN terms of technique and they didnt pass it to his area the whole game.

I liked what i saw.

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by Jack'sAxe on Sep 4, 2011 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

Against the 3rd and 4th stringers.

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by PatNation85 on Sep 4, 2011 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

no, against 1st and second stringers. Remember, he started.

And I took note on his tackling technique and awareness.

I’ll take 11 players with heart on the field over 11 guys with just talent. Talent is fleeting, it goes away over time. Heart is what drives you to be better. To push yourself beyond what you think your capabilities are. To show us that when you strive, all things are possible.- SMP

by Jack'sAxe on Sep 4, 2011 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Will miss having Merriweather around

He seemed to bring a nastiness to the backfield that we’ve lacked since Rodney Harrison retired. In the Superbowl days, receivers on the other team knew that even if they made the catch there would be consequences – a hit you could hear up in the stands. Merriweather made tackles like that sometimes. Hopefully Chung can step it up.

by PatsFan13 on Sep 4, 2011 10:10 AM EDT reply actions  

McCourty

He sure is aware of that nastiness.

by maestro787 on Sep 4, 2011 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

Per PFT

It looks like the Bears picked Brandon Meriweather up. Thank God he didn’t run off to an AFC East rival; even better, he’s out of the AFC all together.

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by MVPKiller12 on Sep 4, 2011 12:08 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

Can't lie

It almost made me wonder what people where complaining about. So no AFC team wants him but he’s supposedly the Kendrick Perkins of our defense, as PatsFan13 more or less referred him to?

I hate evaluating players like that, to be perfectly honest, but I do think it deserves consideration. I mean, I may have actually wondered about this if the Jets got him. Oh well.

by Tai on Sep 4, 2011 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

No way.

He is not and cannot be the Kendrick Perkins of the defense. He will not improve greatly, I doubt he’ll be overpaid, and the Pats hopefully will not regret this, but I will agree, both are overrated.

by maestro787 on Sep 4, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

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