Gay marches to the Saints

Will be on the Saints injury report by week 4.

Good for Randall. I'm happy for him....

Now if only the Patriots would just open up the check book for Moss.... what a slap in the face to all season ticket holders if they don't sign him after that disgraceful loss and gutsy ticket price increase....

This makes 2 of our top 3 corners (arguably Top 2) gone. Leaving us with the "sorriest corner in the NFL."

This is getting a bit absurd.

(Bob Kraft Voice) Jonathon. Jonathon. Oh Joooonnnathan.

In B&B we trust, but who will play in secondary?

"That is way too much money"

- Asante Samuel

Looks like a pretty affordable contract actually. And it sounds like Gay would have selected New England if they merely matched it (or maybe even offered less). I wonder what the strategy is here. Maybe they have their sights set on a 1st round corner? Maybe they think highly of Richardson? Maybe there's a yet-to-be-released free agent they're targeting?

Well, let's see.... Gay, Brady, Samuel, Lua, Colvin and Stallworth all gone, and Moss, Harrison and Seau good possibilities to depart, do I smell a stretch of 8-6 seasons in the rebuilding mode? Tom will be throwing to Welker, and Gafney, maybe, with no deep threat again. How happy will he be?

Whatever, it's gonna be interesting!

Earthwind Moreland... eat your heart out.

He wasnt that hot of a corner back anyway.

Lets get some height and lock the WR's down.

Great, Benson didn't want to foot the bill for Samuel, so — instead of looking anywhere else — they assume Samuel's backup's backup will do the job.

The way the Bucs are going, the Saints have no chance of winning that division next year. None. Our only hope is that Vilma is both healthy and spends whatever bonus he got on rocket boots so he can play in the secondary.

Go blue!

There will still be deep threat(is not moss but)Chad Jackson that we still haven't seen go through a full tranning camp with brady i think he will replace stallworth.

I think Gay will go out for the season in week 6 while at New Orleans. Chad Jackson will go out in week 4--if he makes it through training camp.

It's looking like we saw the perfect alignment this past season, and now the eclipse is over and we're all getting blinded by reality.

Chad Jackson is a living M*A*S*H unit ... the guy has not suited up yet for 2 consecutive games. How in the heck can anyone expect he'll contribute this year?

Does anyone else sense this thing is unraveling some ....? What could the strategy possibly be to keep Randy Moss uncommitted? If they lose him like they did Deion Branch, we are going to see some serious consternation in Patriot Nation. I, for maybe only one, have lost some confidence in the supposedly infallible "system" that BB & Pioli employ.

Had we won the SB, of course, this is all just conversation ...

BobC, you've hit the regrettable nail on the proverbial head!

The planets align just once as they did this past season for the Pats ... how else do you explain not only the undefeated season but the utter lack of injuries (other than Colvin's) to a single truly integral player on either side of ball?

Had we won the SB, I firmly believe Brushi, Seau, possibly even R. Harrison would have ridden off into sunset retirement. Now we're trying to cobble together a tired team for another go, while some key talent is bleeding out the back door.

I am in full panic mode now.
Not over this particular development, but over the whole pattern of events in the past 3 days.

March always sucks for us Patriots fans, doesn't it? I think I would have been more heartbroken to see Asante go if he had caught that (albeit nearly impossible) interception in the Super Bowl. However, I think I hated seeing Ty Law go even more--and don't get me started on Adam Vinatieri. However, I can't believe that the Pats will let Moss go. Reche Caldwell is a nice enough guy, but can you imagine telling Tom Brady that he's going to be throwing to someone like that again next year? "Gee, Tom. We had to let Randy, Donte, and Jab go. However, Foxboro High has a few players we can get and still be under the salary cap. Funny that Indy franchised Clarke. I guess we should have done that to Randy, huh? Oh well. Go get 'em, son." I keep seeing that scene from the Longest Yard where Burt Reynolds let's that LB catch a hard fast ball between the legs until he's unconscious. The front office had better stay off the practice field if Moss gets away.

Are the Pats going to keep anyone? Trust in Bill, but 2008 ain't gonna be a good season for the Pats. Let's not kid ourselves. 2009 might be a better year.

Anyone catch how TB was mad at not getting the opening coin toss at the SB? Spoiled brat. Like that was gonna throw off the entire gameplan. And then they panicked at the end. They kept a lid on the arrogance up until the two weeks leading up to the game, and then we saw glimmers of what would be their downfall.

The massive overhaul going on right now is long overdue. It's just more bitter because it's not in the wake of victory. I for one am not excited about next season. Still trying to stanch the disappointment from this one. Still bewildered at the team's seeming nonchalance at their loss. Big money somewhere else is always good compensation, as we saw after the loss against the Broncos two years ago.

I'd say the Pats deserved what they got this year, but last year's b.s. calls in the AFC Championship against the Colts--the last legitimate old-school Pats run--rankles in my memory.

At least this has solidfied my resolve to take that overseas trip I've been putting off.

Gay was a sub, a nickel-back, who was never going to be a starting corner and yet he got $17 million and $6.4 guaranteed? It's lunacy.

The Saints are the same people who gave big bucks to Jason David, probably the worst CB in the league last year. They haven't learned much at all

Let them go. Other players will come along. I maintain that Philadelphia will rue the day that they paid all those dollars for Samuel. Where was he this season? Until the latter part, he did little. In the Super Bowl, he couldn't do what he needed to do. Based on a season and a half, he is now a millionaire. Good for him and see you later. Best of luck to Gay, too. We will have other players who will perform at similar levels. Trust me.

Panic city in here!....we don't have much cap space....if Moss wants to handicap us with a big contract, then it's smarter to let him go and look for an alternative plan. Of course we all want him to stay. The guy had an unbelievable season, but if he wants to stay he's gonna have to take less than he wants IMO. Poor fella might have to live with only several million on top of the several million he already has.

The thing that I don't get is that he claims he wanted to win last year so he took a paycut to come here. And all of a sudden this year it's a different story? C'mon Randy....take the 7mill a year and go put your 13 mill guaranteed in the bank and give yourself a good chance to win a Super Bowl.

Haha, everyone is in panic mode cause Randal Gay signed for some obscene, over priced contract with another team? Haha... Some people should look at statistics before posting knee jerk comments.

No one that has walked yet, other than Samuel, warranted a new contract with the Patriots based on their play on the field. And even Samual could be argued that he's not worthy of the hype and contract he received. Good player, no doubt..

Best blog headline ever!

"Gay Marches To The Saints"

I think Pat Robertson would be enraged.

the saints are bowl bound