APOne of the signature players of the Bill Belichick era will be back in a Patriots uniform on Sunday.
New England activated running back Kevin Faulk and defensive lineman Brandon Deaderick off the PUP list on Saturday in advance of their game in Pittsburgh.
In a surprise move, the team placed rookie cornerback Ras-I Dowling on injured reserve with a hip injury. The No. 33 overall pick of the 2011 draft, Dowling started the first two games of the season but hasn’t been since.
This makes the Patriots’ release of Leigh Bodden this week even more surprising. The team knew Dowling was this hurt, but must have been very frustrated with Bodden.
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Love Faulk’s game, but I would rather see more help on D, now that Dowling boarded the train for bustville.
Wahoooooo!!
Greatest Patriot Ever!!!!
Welcome back, Kevin!
Damn, it’s been a good day.
How long has Faulk been playing? Did he play with Babe Parelli and/or Steve Grogan?
Ras-I Dowling is injured? No way!
What in the Sam Adams is going in the secondary?
Still can’t believe they cut bodden. Mike Wallace is about to have a career day.
I tell you, that Belichick sure does make some head-scratching decisions. But somewhere down the road you always seem to come back and say to yourself “Oooh, that’s why he did that.”—– Well, that streak ends today. -_-
Any chance they can get Samuel Assante back?
Why does Belichick do this to us Patriot fans? If the Superbowl matchup is Greenbay Packers vs. New England Patriots there is no way we will be able to cover all of their recievers.
As long as they can hack into Ben’s QB radio, they should be fine.
mempusa says:
Oct 29, 2011 4:20 PM
What in the Sam Adams is going in the secondary?
What secondary ?
think of it this way. the buffalo bills, the BUFFALO BILLS! lit up the new england secondary. far be it from me as a bills fan to talk sxxt but if they had trouble with buffalo i think there are some major chinks in that defences armour.
I’ve had all I can stand of this.
Belichick the GM/talent evaluator is KILLING
Belichick the Coach.
Mr. Kraft, it’s time to take away the talent keys
from Bill.
Hire a GM. PLEASE. He has too much on his
plate.
His talent decisions are killing a potential
Super Bowl team.
It sucks. Brady’s window is closing more and
more each year. He could have won 6 damn
Super bowls by now had the Coach made better
talent decisions.
He is without question the best Coach of all time.
No doubt. But the goal with the draft is to
acquire talent, not more draft picks, and
DEFINITELY not STIFFS. How many stiffs
has he drafted ?@??@!!
He goes on Sirius Satellite a month ago and says
“we are running the 4-3 because we had no
off-season to teach the intricacies of the 3-4″.
So where’s Aldon Smith ? Where’s Jason
Pierre Paul !??! He’s effing killing that franchise.
Those Superbowl wins are getting further and
further away in the rear view mirror Bill…..
Confucius say: If you keep drafting guys with an injury history they are likely to get injured.
Why does Belichick do crap like this all the time? Its like clockwork. He cuts one guy at a position, and then will immediately put another guy at the same position on injured reserve.
Bodden wouldn’t be covering Wallace anyway.
Play Vince Wilfork at corner= success.
Man wtf! Ras-I looked rather promising in the first 2 games. It is what it is. Hopefully he’s healthy by the playoffs.
Watch for Welker, Ocho and/or Branch playing corner!
I mean the Pats have been lacking in corners for a while now…especially since McCourty hasn’t been doing much. So no Bodden and no Dowling is not a good sign
They also cut Butler few weeks ago. He’s not a fine starter on D for Carolina. Can’t really understand what’s going on in their heads? Did they make eye contact with Tom Brady in the hallway? A big no no in Foxboro
I think the type of player Belichick wants at corner doesn’t exist.
yea he does, or did – Ty Law under the old NFL rules
righthereisay says: Oct 29, 2011 4:29 PM
As long as they can hack into Ben’s QB radio, they should be fine.
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Wow the Patriots have somehow placed a mole on the NFL staff which controls that radio communication, the equipment, the frequencies, etc? Or so you think they just TRUST each team to cut off the communication to the QB with 15 sec left on the playclock?
Besides if they did hack in, you should be thrilled because there’s no other QB out there who makes more plays when he doesn’t do what he’s told than Ben. People like you and that foozie guy and 3octave etc who keep harping on this type of stuff (especially stuff that never even happened ) give your fanbase a bad name.
As long as they can hack into Ben’s QB radio, they should be fine.
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Here’s the call Ben, no means no. No audibles.
Ben’s gonna have a career day tomorrow.
beantownbeastoftheeast says:
Oct 29, 2011 4:57 PM
Man wtf! Ras-I looked rather promising in the first 2 games. It is what it is. Hopefully he’s healthy by the playoffs
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He’s on injured reserve. There won’t be any playoffs. He’s out for the year.
id be more than happy to have Leigh Bodden back in Cleveland. him and Haden would make great set of cornerbacks come on Holmgren go get another veteran since you cant get us a a receiver at least get some more defense that we need to keep other offenses off the field
For all the people making comments about how the patriots suck and have no D etc… How is your team doing?? Unless you are a Packers or 49ers fan, shut your mouth because the patriots have a better record than your team. And last I checked records are what get teams into the playoffs.
thenewenglandpatriots12 says:Oct 29, 2011 4:28 PM
Why does Belichick do this to us Patriot fans? If the Superbowl matchup is Greenbay Packers vs. New England Patriots there is no way we will be able to cover all of their recievers.
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Getting a bit ahead of yourself don’t ya think? How about we worry how the Patriots are going to cover the Steelers as a start.
GBay defense is no bargain either, yet everyone is ready to hand them another Lombardi trophy. They’re 31rst in passing D, 27th in total D. 10-6 wildcard team that made playoffs on the last day of the season last year. Let’s see what happens. Tough to repeat.
Despite your all-world offense, Bill Belichick’s defense is a joke and has been for the last six years. All of you pretentious Pats fans can put that in your proverbial pies and smoke it.
unbreakable02215 says:Oct 29, 2011 4:41 PM
I’ve had all I can stand of this.
Belichick the GM/talent evaluator is KILLING
Belichick the Coach.
Mr. Kraft, it’s time to take away the talent keys
from Bill.
Hire a GM. PLEASE. He has too much on his
plate.
His talent decisions are killing a potential
Super Bowl team.
It sucks. Brady’s window is closing more and
more each year. He could have won 6 damn
Super bowls by now had the Coach made better
talent decisions.
He is without question the best Coach of all time.
No doubt. But the goal with the draft is to
acquire talent, not more draft picks, and
DEFINITELY not STIFFS. How many stiffs
has he drafted ?@??@!!
He goes on Sirius Satellite a month ago and says
“we are running the 4-3 because we had no
off-season to teach the intricacies of the 3-4″.
So where’s Aldon Smith ? Where’s Jason
Pierre Paul !??! He’s effing killing that franchise.
Those Superbowl wins are getting further and
further away in the rear view mirror Bill…..
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He’s killing the Franchise by going 14-2 last year and being 5-1 this year all alone with the best record in the AFC? Your logic isn’t sound.
Don’t forget that Troy Brown played corner in 2004 at times. They didn’t exactly have a great secondary that year but they won.
Only one team can with the Super Bowl. No team in history has gone on much of a better run than the Patriots over the last 10 years. You’re right we could have won 6 (or at least 5) Super Bowls, but by that logic we could also have zero Super Bowls.
The 3 Super Bowls weren’t exactly guaranteed victories.
The teams talent is not an issue and Belichick has done a great job.
bout to unveil the new 7-4 “great wall” defense. 7 linemen and 4 linebackers
dowling
mccourty
chung
butler
wheatley
meriweather
six 1st and 2nd round picks in 5 drafts on dbs. three are still on the team. 2 are playing. i love bb but he picks dbs like theo gets shortstops.
Dowling: 6 games into his rookie yr, IR. Jury is way out.
McCourty: AFC def rookie of yr, Pro-Bowl,All-Pro
Chung: By most accounts, outstanding young player.
Meriweather: maybe he didn’t deserve 2 Pro- Bowls, but got 4 decent yrs out of him.
Other 2, busts. What do you expect, 6 Pro Bowlers? It’s the draft. Only 2 of those were mid- late 1rst round picks, the rest 2nd. Pats draft record stacks up favorably with most other teams. So does their roster. That’s why they went 11-5 when Brady went down. Look at the Colts.
Ras-me if you want to be grammatically correct.
Brandon Tate picked over Wallace is the draft discussion that should be taking place here.
I don’t understand how anyone can be considered a bust because they don’t play out their contract before getting traded or waived. This team is consistently at the top of the NFL every year. It’s not due to one person or coach. Whoever they draft, they are always in the Superbowl conversation at the beginning and the end of every season. You think Belichick can’t pick secondary players? He maintains a balanced roster which includes the highest player in the league. I think he does a pretty damn good job of drafting players. I don’t see any of them as busts. They all have contributed in some fashion. Look at the wins and losses. Granted, they haven’t won a superbowl since 2004 but every year 31 teams are losers. To play consistently at the top and compete every year is pretty damn impressive to me.