NAOS
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C'mon, YB, this is a bullsh&$ post and you know it.
Why every Jazz fan should be a Patriots fan
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C'mon, YB, this is a bullsh&$ post and you know it.
C l u t c H 385
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Spot. On.
NAOS
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the Yankees and the Lakers are notorious for buying talent, for going out and signing away another team's best player. Please provide an instance of the Pats doing this. Please. The Pats take unwanted players like Welker and Woodhead and make them look like Pro-Bowlers.
My point is that you're telling us who we should root for and I'd root for any other team in the NFL before I rooted for the Patriots. They're the Yankees/Lakers of the NFL for me.
If you're going to ask me to name players the Pats have gone out and signed, ala the Yankees, I'll ask you to name any NFL team who has signed away another team's best player. The Pats have signed the Adalius Thomas', Correy Dillons, and Rodney Harrisons of the league: excellent players who were too expensive for their former team to retain. Then there is Randy Moss, who quit on the Raiders and suddenly became the best receiver in the game once again. I give them credit for that, but he was a low risk/high reward gamble.
If you're going to ask me to name players the Pats have gone out and signed, ala the Yankees, I'll ask you to name any NFL team who has signed away another team's best player. The Pats have signed the Adalius Thomas', Correy Dillons, and Rodney Harrisons of the league: excellent players who were too expensive for their former team to retain. Then there is Randy Moss, who quit on the Raiders and suddenly became the best receiver in the game once again. I give them credit for that, but he was a low risk/high reward gamble.
C l u t c H 385
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Wes Welker was bought from the Dolphins.
How do the Lakers buy talent like the Yankees do? MLB has no cap. The NBA has CBA rules limiting this from happening. If anything, players come running to LA when asked to do so (i.e. Shaq).
NAOS
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So, what your saying is: I've got nothin'.
EDIT: in all fairness, the Patriots did play the bidding game with Thomas, but all of the players you mentioned wanted to play for the Patriots. They didn't blow them away with $... they don't do that for anybody except Tom Brady with this last contract. Moss benefited because they don't play the circus side shows in NE.
NAOS
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fixed.
NAOS
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the laker's tax this year is over $26Million... by far the highest in the league. Why the F&$# doesn't Milwaukee follow the same model???
fatchipper
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I ****ing HATE THE PATRIOTS!! I will never, EVAAAARRRRRR root for them.
Boondocksaint27
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How about that story of the Jets TE that was signed long enough for Belichick to learn their plays and trends and then cut him. Or of course, Spygate and reports that the Pats sabotage the headsets. No thank you.
They have to do this within the CBA rules. Maybe signing Shaq to a ridiculous contract--something like $27 mil, or almost half the cap--and signing Kobe + everyone else at the perfect time allows them to go so far over the cap. I don't know and is why I ask. What I do know is they they cannot go all Steinbrenner on the league. They also draw guys like Matt ****ing Barnes and Ron ****ing Artest, who likely sign for way less than they would if cap space wasn't an issue.
To add, LA gets something like $100 million per in advertising revenue alone. Compare that to the Jazz' $10 million per. Yeah, they can afford to sign a $27mm/yr. contract and deal with it if it doesn't work out.