Just a few thoughts to start out

[NewEngland05]

Hola everyone! To start my first post I have to say that this site is GREAT!! ;D I'm happy to be sharing my thoughts with you fellow Pat fans. If it wasn't for Mrs. B showing me that I have a spam folder, I prolly would have never figured out how to get my password...lol Thanks Mrs. B! Just a little about me, I have two things I love....The New England Patriots and the band 311... Anyways, I have a few thoughts that I'd like to throw out here and I invite anyone and everyone to share your thoughts(good or bad).

On Big Ted... I'm a little bitter that he is gone after all I heard was that he wanted to stay in New England. Although it might be cuz I'm jealous that he's playing for someone else(RAIDERS=yuck!) I got over it knowing that we have Ty W. and Jarvis G. to pick up the slack and the addition of Bailey means that we have a GOOD and YOUNG D-line.

Ty Law... I'm hurt and offended by what he said and I can only hope that it doesn't hurt our team next season cuz I think he's not going anywhere. With that, I didn't like John Lynch as a Patriot, but I am really hoping that we pick him up...I see that we re-signed Cherry, but I think we need more and Lynch(if the price is right) can be a great pick-up.

Russ H. and a draft pick will do enough for me with the loss of Woody.

Trading up and getting a RB like Jackson will be what I'm hoping for on draft day. Jackson or a good RB and Brady... that will be a deadly O.

I trust in Bill and Scott to put together a great team for another run for the Championship next season.

So... please weigh in..

Last Q... Being over here in Chicago, I don't get the chances to go to these signings. Is there a Public Relations person we can send to get autographs? Since I'm flying out to Boston next season to go to a game, is there a place to wait for the players or ANYTHING?? Thanks in advance for your thoughts.... Getting Tedy's would be a great start since he's my fav. Pat.

[MrsB]

Once again.... Welcome NE5! Glad you finally got the registration thing straightened out!

I too am disappointed about Big Ted but don't feel it's the end of the world. (I think winning all those games without him has something to do with that. ) I'm sure that since he finally got his ring, he wanted to go for the big bucks before he retired. I am annoyed that he signed with the Raiders so soon.... I smell something fishy there.

Like I posted in another thread, I think Ty is coming off looking like the greedy,whiny one here. He should have kept his thoughts out of the media after the first offer.... Hello... that's why they call it Negotiations.... one party comes in low the other high and you meet somewhere in the middle. His being publicly "insulted" and "slapped in the face" caused the Pats to not want to "insult him any further" so they said play out the rest of the contract and that's it. Btw.... Troy Vincent just signed a 6-year 20 million with the Bills... yet Ty's 4-yr 26 mill was "an insult".... go figure!

Woody received a ludicrously huge salary.... Enjoy the 2 rings and never make it there again! This was clearly a money move and nothing else.... Koppen did an excellent job as his replacement and Hochstein did fine too. In fact, our OLine had an outstanding season.

My biggest hope is that my boy, Tedy, re-signs before this season is over so that I can avoid having heart failure when it gets close to the end of his contract! It would KILL me to see him in any other uniform...

As for your autograph question, there is nothing set up like that with the team but there are tons of places to buy autographed pics online. Autographs on game days are tough... they have their own private parking lot so you can't really get them after games like you could at the Fox. Over all... the best place is training camp if you can ever get to a session.

Mrs. B (who doesn't want to go outside and clean the snow off the car...grrrr!)