Mankins should be Niners top FA priority | Page 5

Jan 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM

TexasNiner
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Originally posted by Gavintech:
Originally posted by TexasNiner:
Would love him in theory, but this shouldn't happen for one very important reason:

Don't make deals with Belichik

This isn't a "deal" per se, but it's a Pats cast off. A seemingly "great" one.

That never works. When he trades/cuts a guy, it pretty much never works out for the team that ends up with him.

No thanks. If the Pats don't want you, we don't want you.

Learn from experience.

Who said the Pats don't want him?

Well, the Pats if presumably the don't pay him and he becomes a FA.

And I'm not saying NO ONE has ever had a good year or two post Belichick-era Pats, but they make the right call WAY more than not.

(See Randy Moss as the most recent example)

I'm not taking the chance that THIS is the time that their front office is wrong and ours is right.

Both have tracks records of success (or lack thereof) that prove differently.

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Jan 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM

#62

SonocoNinerFan
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Originally posted by TexasNiner:
Originally posted by Gavintech:
Originally posted by TexasNiner:
Would love him in theory, but this shouldn't happen for one very important reason:

Don't make deals with Belichik

This isn't a "deal" per se, but it's a Pats cast off. A seemingly "great" one.

That never works. When he trades/cuts a guy, it pretty much never works out for the team that ends up with him.

No thanks. If the Pats don't want you, we don't want you.

Learn from experience.

Who said the Pats don't want him?

Well, the Pats if presumably the don't pay him and he becomes a FA.

And I'm not saying NO ONE has ever had a good year or two post Belichick-era Pats, but they make the right call WAY more than not.

(See Randy Moss as the most recent example)

I'm not taking the chance that THIS is the time that their front office is wrong and ours is right.

Both have tracks records of success (or lack thereof) that prove differently.

I can appreciate the hesitation, but Mankins has never missed a start (except for his hold-out), and he's been a Pro-Bowler 3 out of the last four seasons, including 2010. I can't see his level of play declining simply because he left the Patriots.

Jan 21, 2011 at 2:55 PM

#63

49ERFANb4Uwas
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how old is mankins? does anybody know?

Jan 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM

#64

Gavintech
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Originally posted by 49ERFANb4Uwas:
how old is mankins? does anybody know?

It would have taken you as long to look it up as it did to ask this question in bold.

Jan 21, 2011 at 3:08 PM

#65

Gavintech
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Originally posted by TexasNiner:
Originally posted by Gavintech:
Originally posted by TexasNiner:
Would love him in theory, but this shouldn't happen for one very important reason:

Don't make deals with Belichik

This isn't a "deal" per se, but it's a Pats cast off. A seemingly "great" one.

That never works. When he trades/cuts a guy, it pretty much never works out for the team that ends up with him.

No thanks. If the Pats don't want you, we don't want you.

Learn from experience.

Who said the Pats don't want him?

Well, the Pats if presumably the don't pay him and he becomes a FA.

And I'm not saying NO ONE has ever had a good year or two post Belichick-era Pats, but they make the right call WAY more than not.

(See Randy Moss as the most recent example)

I'm not taking the chance that THIS is the time that their front office is wrong and ours is right.

Both have tracks records of success (or lack thereof) that prove differently.

Just because they don't pay him the most (if that is what happens) and he goes to another team doesn't mean they don't want him. We know they want him, badly. But when one of your players enters free agency and becomes one of the highest paid players (for his position) in the NFL you don't always break the bank to retain him, no matter how much you might want to.

Bottom line, it makes no sense to claim the Patriots don't want Mankins, even if they don't resign him.