2018 Signings & Roster Moves

[SDGuy73]

Browns trade Jason McCourty and a 2018 7th round pick to the Pats. Browns get thePats 2018 6th round pick. NFLN reports.

Pats are collecting twins.

 

[nefansince75]

Browns trade Jason McCourty and a 2018 7th round pick to the Pats. Browns get thePats 2018 6th round pick. NFLN reports.

Pats are collecting twins.

So they dropped two drafting spots and picked up McCourty. Sounds like he cost about the same as a bag of chips. A draft value of .8?

 

[Yankee Traveler]

ESPN Boston had a story that maybe some of BB's former employees may have been waiting for the release as well and would have driven the cost up.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

It's a 14 spot drop actually...there's 12 comp picks at the end of the 6th. Still a dirt cheap price at that point for the cost certainty of acquiring him.

 

[BigKen]

Right now Butler and Solder look like 3rd round compensatory picks. Dion Lewis could be a 4th most likely a 5th.
Amendola might be a 7th. Won't know for sure until the league mathematicians beat the crap out of their abacuses.

 

[SDGuy73]

Right now Butler and Solder look like 3rd round compensatory picks. Dion Lewis could be a 4th most likely a 5th.
Amendola might be a 7th. Won't know for sure until the league mathematicians beat the crap out of their abacuses.

Best of all...comp picks can be traded now.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

Right now Butler and Solder look like 3rd round compensatory picks. Dion Lewis could be a 4th most likely a 5th.
Amendola might be a 7th. Won't know for sure until the league mathematicians beat the crap out of their abacuses.

Darius Butler??
I thought he was cut a long time ago...?

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

@AdamSchefter
7m7 minutes ago

Former Patriots' special teams standout Johnson Bademosi reached agreement with the Texans on a two-year, $6.25 million contract, per source.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

That's a lot of scratch for a ST guy...between this and Ebner's new deal Matthew Slater should be a pretty happy dude right now.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

Jeremy Hill, Matt Tobin, and Adrian Clayborn are all Pats.

 

[SDGuy73]

Jeremy Hill, Matt Tobin, and Adrian Clayborn are all Pats.

Former Atlanta Falcons defensive end Adrian Clayborn agreed to a two-year deal worth a maximum value of $12.5 million, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Ex-Cincinnati Bengals running back Jeremy Hill also came to an agreement with the team, a source told ESPN's Field Yates. And former Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle Matt Tobin reached a one-year deal with the Patriots, a source told ESPN's Mike Reiss.

 

[CreepCreep2014]

Curious the $$ for Hill. I'm kind of iffy on it, but lets see the money and what happens to Gills.

 

[Southieinnc]

No one in the Boston media wants to do anything that would piss off BB or the Krafts and letting out info like this a year before Butler either signed or left could be a problem. I wrote in several threads last year that he was offered a decent contract but I never had the numbers. Tom Curran of NBCSB hinted that MB was offered a really good contract but he was pissed that he didn't get Gilmore's money. The big difference is that MB played great after his SB heroics for one year. He wanted to renegotiate his rookie contract and BB told him that he'd have his chance after that contract expired and that the Patriots would pay him fair.

Malcolm Butler started burning his bridges two years ago. He was pissed that the Pats would not renegotiate the contract in his third year and he worse this past year getting $4.1M instead of Gilmore's $14M even though he had one year left. Now we find out that the money was excellent. $11M instead of $4M. No matter how much he makes, he'll never ever make up that $7M he turned down. That tells me that he and his agent are stupid.

Ranking the NFL's Worst Early Free-Agency Moves

1. 
   "Cornerback Malcolm Butler scored a jaw-dropping five-year deal for more than $61 million and $30 million guaranteed, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. The Titans also snagged running back Dion Lewis on a much more reasonable contract ($20 million, with $3 million in incentives, per NFL Network's Mike Garafolo). Similar to the value Logan Ryan got last year from the Titans (three years, $30 million), Butler's contract is a vast overpay for an average cornerback.
   
   Butler allowed 54 percent of targets thrown his way to be completed in man coverage for 510 yards, five touchdowns and three penalties in 2017. That's the NFL's fifth-most yards allowed, and he'll be across from Adoree' Jackson, who also gave up similar totals in man assignments. This cornerback group has a lot invested in it, but it's an average unit talent-wise—unless Jackson takes a massive year-two leap."
   

 

[Yankee Traveler]

Malcolm Brown and Danny Shelton, on the defensive line, along with Dorsett, all first round picks from 2015.

WR's Dorsett, Cooks and Britt, from '15, '14 and '09 first round picks.
Gilmore from '12.
Hightower from '12
McCourty from '10

That is a lot of first round talent.

Adrian Clayborn, the 20th pick in 2011.
Robert Ayers is free too. 18th pick from 2009.
Sign him Bill, your on a roll. Deepest DE roster in the league.

 

[YankeeRebel]

Well thus far I don't feel like the signings vs losses have made this team better.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

I wholeheartedly agree.

I think the OL took a step backwards, but defensively, things look much better.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

Ranking the NFL's Worst Early Free-Agency Moves

1. 
   "Cornerback Malcolm Butler scored a jaw-dropping five-year deal for more than $61 million and $30 million guaranteed, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. The Titans also snagged running back Dion Lewis on a much more reasonable contract ($20 million, with $3 million in incentives, per NFL Network's Mike Garafolo). Similar to the value Logan Ryan got last year from the Titans (three years, $30 million), Butler's contract is a vast overpay for an average cornerback.
   
   Butler allowed 54 percent of targets thrown his way to be completed in man coverage for 510 yards, five touchdowns and three penalties in 2017. That's the NFL's fifth-most yards allowed, and he'll be across from Adoree' Jackson, who also gave up similar totals in man assignments. This cornerback group has a lot invested in it, but it's an average unit talent-wise—unless Jackson takes a massive year-two leap."

I don't know what people were seeing in Butler? Combine that with his attitude since the SB victory, I won't miss him.

 

[SDGuy73]

Source: Pats trading for Raiders WR Patterson

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

I'll happily take a guy that averages 30 yards on kick returns. Massive upgrade over any other options left on this roster now that Lewis is gone.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

Any time NE doesn't have a starter fielding KOs or punts I'm happy,