Junior Seau's impact

Seau has played very well! Welcome back Junior!

I wouldn't mind if he returned next year.

Undefeated since Junior (and Rosie) returned.

Mike - do you think Bill Belichick looked at the schedule and always planned that in the event we were in a bad way with injuries, the best time to bring Seau back would be for the two road games on the West Coast, then the final two games of the regular season, and have him fresh and hitting his peak during the playoffs? It strikes me as a very canny piece of work, especially given the timing of him joining the team. He had 2 warm weather games to get back into the swing of things before facing the New England winter.

Both of these guys never should have been allowed to leave to begin with. This has been, IMO, a season filled with a lot of bad personnel decisions by Belichick. Who knows where this team might be right now if not for some of those decisions.

But, everyone is entitled to an off season. BB had his this year, IMO.

Mike Allen,
I don't mean to call you out but bad personnel decisions?? With all the injuries that this team has had to deal with and being 10-5 at this point I would say some excellent personnel decisions took place. Also, no team or coach or Player Personnel guy or GM hits on all his decisions. Mayo, Wilhite, Guyton, BJGE and Redd all were rookie contributors. Wheatley and Crable are future contributors. On the FA front re-signing Moss was a priority, Lewis Sanders, Jordan and LeVoir (waivers) have been nice under the radar pick ups that are starting to pay dividends.

You can't splurge every offseason because you have to keep your own guys as well. For ex, Wilfork, Seymour, Hobbs, Faulk, Neal and Watson all coming up for FA in 2010 and you would like to keep as many of those guys as possible rather than going out there and overpaying for other team's veterans that might not fit your system.

On Seau and Colvin you have to consider that Seau could not last an entire season and Colvin had to be released because he counted for over $8 mil on the cap. I think they played those moves perfectly. The Pats also were trying to get faster and younger at LB and figured that those young players (Mayo, Guyton, Woods and Crable) would be playing a lot better at the end of the season with experience than they were initially. On Mayo and Guyton they were right. But when you lose Thomas, Bruschi, Woods, Alexander, Crable and Williams it sets you back depth wise and makes players have to play different roles than you initially envisioned for those players.

In any case I wouldn't make it a habit of second guessing BB and Pioli which you seem to do quite often because more often than not they are correct. It's about building a team and they do it really well.

Ps - The Jets made a big slpash and spent tons of money in FA and there looking up at the Pats at this point and at best can finish with the same record. Offseasons should be judged as a whole not just FA signings.

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I hope Seau comes back next year.

Thank you Nikos, for responsed Mike Allen. Mile Allen, seems like you are not following the football closely.. unless you would not make that comment about Mr. Belichick..

Nikos--extremely impressive post. You know your stuff. Well said.

Thanks Mike, I was wondering about this very topic a couple days ago.

Nikos-- Great post!!! Couldn't have said it better myself.

Seriously, enough with this guy. He's beaten like a redheaded stepchild around the edge every single play. He's a good backup, that's it.

mike allen is a consistant troll. LETS GO JAGS/JETS!

Mike Allen's posts are either A) critical of a decision made that looks bad when hindsight is 20-20 or B) lamenting on and on about Ellis Hobbs. Seriously, Mike, you have yet to have a contributive post and I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing it.

Also, thanks Nikos for making that post conveying all my thoughts.