allblackraven

I think we sign a good veteran corner and draft one during first 2 draft days. 2014 was a freak year from the injury perspective but next one will have us relying on too many high risk guys (some of those injuries aren't exactly walk in the park to come back from). Realistically speaking, we were Jimmy Smith away from another SB, I don't think Ozzie will let that happen again. Assuming Daniels and Forsett will be back for relatively cheap, we don't really need much elsewhere on the team. We're going to either keep Torrey or sign similarly priced WR out in FA. However I look at this, I can't find another way of making team immediately better other than using Ngata savings. I agree though that safety is not likely to be high priority.

One of them certainly being our secondary and the need to beef it up with FA vet(s) rather than rookies. For that we'll need money we can only get by cutting Ngata unfortunately. We're just an injury to #22 away from another disastrous season at the back unless we sign proper CB. We might want to spend some on proper FS too, until Brooks is ready.

As much as I'd hate this, I can see scenario where we say good bye to both.

That's not going to be enough, he will get that much from Ravens.

It kind of doesn't but it reopens some serious questions about the NE success over the years. This is not the first time they've been caught and everybody is now entitled to question what they might have done over the years that went through without anybody catching it. It also makes me wonder whether they actually are as good as most people think they are. I mean if they are not confident enough in their own quality as a team and have to resort to all sorts of crap to gain unfair advantage, why would I believe anything different? You need to look at this from the repeated breaking of the rules perspective, not from how trivial or not the advantage might have been in a blowout game vs Colts.

Gase hired by Bears/Fox as their OC: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000461768/article/adam-gase-hired-as-bears-offensive-coordinator

Basically, yes. There is complete rundown on the way the balls are handled here: http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/159490/faq-nfl-investigating-wheter-patriots-deflated-game-balls

Teams use different balls.

I'd rather send Brady to Browns for a 1 year AFC North treatment

It's just a matter of Ravens or Steelers completing the redo of the D, then the other team would be forced to do it and the rest of the North will follow.. I'm glad we look to lead the race here and if it wasn't for our bad luck with injuries in the secondary, I reckon our D would have been as smashmouth as you can get in NFL these days.

Sure but that was one of the most important requirements for the new OC I would think. We were never going to change what was implemented last season to accommodate new coach, it was always going to be other way around. I also believe that Marty was higher on our list than Kyle Shannahan and Gase.

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/deflate-gate-here-we-go-again.1115247/page-110#post-4079426 Makes sense

The other one goes little further, speculating "there is no way they'll have ..... wait for it ........ level playing field in SB with refs that will definitely be biased because of this.

I wish he said "should have went" earlier. I just stop reading every time I see that.

If we all want to be honest - Trestman over Shannahan and especially Gase was probably the easiest hire Ozzie, Steve and Harbs ever did. Just reading through their resumes makes it a no-brainer.

Judging Trestman as an OC on Chicago's last season is unfair. The entire team was abomination, seemed there wasn't lot of people in that locker room talking to each other. Then, there was Cutler, worse than previous year. This will be out of the picture in Baltimore, his responsibilities will be entirely different and his QB is the real deal. There is a lot of talk of his unbalanced offense but the stats from 2013 don't agree: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/2013.htm Obviously having receivers like Jeffrey and Marshall plays a part but they did run decent amount. It's early to tell how will our O turn out but I definitely feel more comfortable with Trestman than Gase.

Graham had pretty decent year with Bills

Heh, I got upset too early and felt the urge to comment. Saw that when I returned to the article but the urge to comment had gone by then

Schefter tweeted that the interview takes place tonight. Or might have been Rapaport

...or one of their receiving guys with Roman emperor sounding names

Says Stokley on Ravens: "...Coming from the 2013 season to the way they played last year offensively..." Last time I checked, he was a part of that offense, too.

This is developing in a way that we could have just swapped OCs and QB/TE coaches with Denver, saving us couple sleepless nights in the process.

Have you ever considered a possibility that Gase might not want to coach at Oakland or wants a change from Fox? Or that he likes future with Flacco better than future with Cuttler/Carr?

Earl Thomas has a dislocated shoulder, MRI confirms elbow sprain on Shermann: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000460372/article/richard-sherman-injures-elbow-earl-thomas-dislocates-shoulder http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000460893/article/richard-sherman-suffered-sprained-elbow-mri-reveals Seattle playing down both injuries while I'm wondering whether NE can get any more luck go their way.

Interesting. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000459232/article/nfl-will-hold-veteran-free-agent-combine-in-march Combine for FA vets in March this year.