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First signing of the new year................Brandon Bolden to a 1 year contract.
 

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You made me click to read that?
 

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typical BB move this time of yr...LOL. Handle to ST guys now and not worry about them later in FA....
 

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You made me click to read that?

In a time that's slow as death, anything any team does is news. BB comes back from 2 weeks on the beach and signs Bolden. He's just getting all of his football shit back together. Do something easy and and then move on to something a bit more significant. Like releasing Dwayne Allen or Re-signing Dion Lewis or letting Josh try his hand at something managerial.
 

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What the hell did Gronk's statement mean?
Any ideas?
 

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What the hell did Gronk's statement mean?
Any ideas?
Nothing I suspect it was the media running with a story, any story just so they have something to wrote about. I suspect if Gronk were hanging up the cleats he would have told the team.
 

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Gronk went to a Chinese restaurant and repeated what he read in his fortune cookie.
 

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Patriots Pre-Free Agency Depth Chart Shows Biggest Areas Of Need
by Doug Kyed on Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:39AM

NFL teams can begin legally tampering with free agents starting Monday at noon. That should give the New England Patriots a better sense of which players they’ll be able to bring back in free agency.

Before the craziness starts, let’s take a look at the Patriots’ depth chart excluding their 13 unrestricted free agents to see how the team looks heading into the offseason.

QUARTERBACK
Starter: Tom Brady
Reserves: Brian Hoyer
The Patriots need a developmental quarterback to serve as Brady’s eventual successor. That player should be drafted in the first three rounds of the 2018 NFL Draft.

RUNNING BACK
Starter: James White
Reserves: Mike Gillislee, Brandon Bolden
Dion Lewis and Rex Burkhead are free agents. The Patriots definitely need to add two or three players to the above group before training camp. Both White, as a passing back, and Gillislee, as a pure runner, are too one-dimensional.

FULLBACK
Starter: James Develin
The Patriots are set at fullback.

WIDE RECEIVER
Starters: Julian Edelman, Brandin Cooks, Chris Hogan
Reserves: Malcolm Mitchell, Phillip Dorsett, Kenny Britt, Riley McCarron, Cody Hollister
The Patriots certainly should look to re-sign free agent Danny Amendola, but even if they can’t, they’re set for 2018 at wide receiver. It wouldn’t be shocking to see the Patriots address this position in the draft, however, with Cooks and Hogan a year away from entering free agency.

TIGHT END
Starter: Rob Gronkowski
Reserves: Dwayne Allen, Jacob Hollister, Will Tye
Allen, who carries a $5 million cap hit, could still be released before free agency. Hollister and Tye carry upside, but given the uncertainty surrounding Gronkowski’s future, the Patriots should look to upgrade at this position.

OFFENSIVE TACKLE
Starters: Marcus Cannon, Cole Croston
Reserves: Antonio Garcia, Andrew Jelks
If the Patriots can’t re-sign free agent Nate Solder, then they likely will have to spend a first-round pick at this position. Cameron Fleming and LaAdrian Waddle also are free agents. The Patriots don’t want to have to count on Croston, Garcia, Jelks, Fleming or Waddle as full-season starters.

GUARD
Starters: Joe Thuney, Shaq Mason
Reserves: Ted Karras, Croston, Jason King, Chase Farris
The Patriots should be set here. Mason is a year away from free agency, however, and he could earn big money on the open market. So, the Patriots could use a draft pick to get out ahead of Mason potentially leaving.

CENTER
Starter: David Andrews
Reserves: Karras, James Ferentz
The Patriots should be all set here.

DEFENSIVE END
Starters: Trey Flowers, Deatrich Wise
Reserves: Derek Rivers, Eric Lee, Keionta Davis, Geneo Grissom
The Patriots also could use defensive tackle Lawrence Guy at defensive end on early downs and linebackers Dont’a Hightower, Kyle Van Noy, Shea McClellin and Harvey Langi as pass rushers. Still, the Patriots should add at least one more traditional defensive end, especially with Flowers set to hit free agency in a year.

DEFENSIVE TACKLE
Starters: Danny Shelton, Malcom Brown
Reserves: Lawrence Guy, Adam Butler, Vincent Valentine
The Patriots are looking good here, though Shelton and Brown would become free agents in a year if New England elects not to pick up their fifth-year options.

LINEBACKER
Starters: Dont’a Hightower, Kyle Van Noy
Reserves: Elandon Roberts, Shea McClellin, Harvey Langi, Nicholas Grigsby, Brandon King
On paper, Hightower and Van Noy are solid starters. Hightower is injury prone, however, and both players are best utilized with versatility as off-the-line linebackers and edge rushers. The Patriots should add a more athletic option into this group to help out in coverage.

CORNERBACK
Starters: Stephon Gilmore, Eric Rowe
Reserves: Jonathan Jones, Cyrus Jones, Ryan Lewis, Jomal Wiltz
The Patriots could do better than Rowe as their No. 2 at this position. He’s better suited as a No. 3. We’ve set up this depth chart in a big nickel with three safeties. Rowe, Jones, Jones and Lewis do still provide some untapped potential.

SAFETY
Starters: Devin McCourty, Patrick Chung, Duron Harmon
Reserves: Jordan Richards, David Jones, Damarius Travis
The Patriots should look to add a better No. 4 safety who can bring some versatility to play either linebacker or slot cornerback in sub packages.

SPECIAL TEAMS
K Stephen Gostkowski, P Ryan Allen, LS Joe Cardona
The Patriots might choose to bring in some competition on special teams, but it’s not necessary.
 

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Dola is signing with the Dolphins.

Thanks for all the clutch catches DA!
 

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It's snowing so hard up here in the northeast that nothing can get done. I was up at 6:30 am this morning. It was cloudy and gray, but clear. It started to spit snow about 7:00 am and here it is, 5:30 pm and we've been blessed with 16" of snow so far and it's a whiteout still coming down diagonally. They're saying we could get another 4' to 6" before it lets up. Almost every airport from Maine to NY has closed. 6000 flights cancelled.

Not the best weather to get free agents to like.

As far as football is concerned, I expect to see every Patriot free agent sign by somebody else for more money than anyone should pay. Why?? Because idiot GMs think that by signing away all of the Patriots players, they'll hurt the Patriots and the Patriots won't sign a better player.
 

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NFL Network says tha Amendola will get a 2 year deal worth $12M with $8.25 guaranteed. Appears that the patriots were not willing to match it. Hey DA restructured his contract three times and gave the Patriots back $10M. Can't blame him for getting a decent payday. Big problem for DA is that he cannot play 3 downs every game for 16 games. He will break down and he will get hurt. He only played about 28% of the Patriots offensive plays last year and that was without Edelman playing a single play all season.

Congrats Danny, we will miss you.
 

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Dola got 2-year - $12M ($8.25M guarantee) with the Fins
 

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Solder signs with Giants. $62M for 4-years. No way Pats pay any linemen QB money.
 

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