Hollywood Donahoe

Classy.

The only figures I've heard so far are $7.5 mill per year and $17.5 million guaranteed. But those are not confirmed.

It's ESPN. They have the attention span of Roberto Benigni with Adult ADD. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. The Bills or any team could sign ten solid linemen, and Trey Wingo would still lead off NFL Live by saying (in his sarcastic "I'm making a point about how good this player is" tone) "This just in - Brett Favre is pretty good."

By 11PM, arguably the two best FAs on the market (Clements and Thomas) had signed. They had become the big NFL free agency news.

Looks to be all but done: http://patriots.bostonherald.com/patriots/...rticleid=186089

PaidtheBills = RJ

Winning a Super Bowl and SB MVP, hosting SNL... ...before long, Manning will be carrying a man purse and fathering children out of wedlock. On a serious note, I imagine he will be a good host. As sick as I am of his commercial overexposure, he has a damn good comedic delivery.

It's just speculation at this point. It does sound like the Pats are really making a run at him, though.

Obsess much?

Is Henry a FA? If so, he's in a position to demand the money and carries of a #1 back. No way he'll get either from New England with Maroney already there.

Let us recall, then, what the point was: The original question wasn't whether or not the Patriots had recently outbid EVERY team in the league for an UFA. It was whether or not they had recently given out a big contract to an UFA. $25 million is pretty big, regardless of what Detroit offered.

I'm sure he's not the first to have taken less money to stay the hell away from that organization. Plus there's the connection with his old coach Nolan.

2003, Rosevelt Colvin. A LB, interestingly. I'd love to see Thomas end up a Patriot, but I have a feeling San Francisco or Green Bay will throw more money at him than the Pats are willing to.

I never said the Patriots would win the Super Bow every year. Nice try, though.

I guess this means that Maroney will rush for 1,500 yards next season. Thank you for your service, O Human reverse Barometer.

Boston Globe reporter Mike Reiss recently blogged on what he saw as the Pats' order of needs. It shook out like this: 1. LB 2. CB 3. WR 4. S 5. RB 6. P 7. TE's 8. OL 9. DL I generally agree, although I might switch CB and S, since Harrison and Eugene Wilson seem to get injured every other snap. OL is definitely not a high priotoriy - all spots are filled, and Belichick and Pioli find solid depth in the middle rounds seemingly at will. The most pressing needs, as GWB21 mentioned, are on defense, in the LB corps and secondary specifically. Both those units are old, fragile, thin, or some combination thereof. Depth and youth need to be added. WR is an interesting situation. Brady has consistently been able to do good things with whatever WRs are given to him (see Reche Caldwell and Jabar Gaffney, and previously, David Patten and David Givens), so the front office may be tempted to search the WR scrap heap once again; but at the same time, they are spending a bunch of money on one of the best QBs in the game, and have never supplied him with top supporting talent. Perhaps they'll be tempted to finally see what Brady would do with a top WR talent. Maybe they thought Jackson could be that type of talent, but that appears to be on hold for the time being. I'm also not sure about RB. Dillon could be back, or he could retire. Maroney had a solid rookie campaign, and should carry the load next year, but I could see the Pats going for a Brian Leonard type to increase backfield versatility. I'd guess they'll go heavy on defense. Seeing their slow ILBs and 3rd string safeties running behind Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark while Manning did whatever he wanted over the middle could not have left a good taste in their mouths. Belichick will want to fix it.

Not Reagan and Goldwater specifically, mind you. I simply used those two names because they were the last notables of the mainstream tradition. You'd have to delve into the obscurity of the Libertarian party to find a true neoclassical liberal these days. No argument here. It's why I voted a predominantly third party ticket in '06. One would hope so. But power has a way of escaping check, doesn't it? In any event, environmentalism has already been co-opted by the anti-corporate left as a means of crippling industry. I'm not sure there's any turning back to what it was meant to be. I'm not so sure about that. I think I might classify him more as a Christian socialist.

Who is going to enforce this "vigilant environmentalism" if not a powerful authority? In fairness, though, contemporary American "conservatives" (the Reagan/Goldwater sect, anyway) are largely neoclassical liberals who had the descriptor "liberal" hijacked from them by social welfare liberals (FDR et al.). It seems, then, that neoclassical liberals are, by dirtying the word "liberal," trying to get back at social welfare liberals for stealing their ideological label.

Mencia might be one of the least funny people in the world.

If you're waiting for a pat on the back for correctly predicting two years in a row that one of the 31 teams who aren't the Patriots would win the Super Bowl, it's going to be a long wait. Especially when you were wrong two years in a row before you were right two years in a row.

http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?s=&am...st&p=906365 And lest people think this was an isolated incident: http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showt...mp;#entry897085 MDB, are you EVER right?

Does that make this guy Hitler?

You buy every line of Pats-related BS the media tosses your way, don't you? Next you'll be telling us that the Patriots "hate their coach." Tom Jackson said it on TV, so it must be true.