Re: Winter Activities
 

You found them unfulfilling?

Re: Football
 

If Tom Brady were not healthy, the Pats would be quite happy with Cassel as their starting QB.

Re: Winter Activities
 

Somewhat; yes. Does that make me shallow? Or just shallower than you already thought I was?

Re: Football
 

Uh...we're not talking about Cassel.

TM

Re: Football
 

If Tom Brady were not healthy, the Pats would not quite be happy with Vrabel as their starting QB.

Re: Winter Activities
 

No. But coupled with your pooh-poohing of watermelon -- an unassuming fruit that does its very best for us and asks nothing in return -- this post causes me concern. Concern that you're turning away from simple joys and going to a place where neither watermelon, nor snowshoeing (-ing?), nor music with horns, nor oral sex can bring "fulfillment." I know you think Sebby is cool, but he lives a tortured life. Trapped by bars of "fulfillment" he has set too high, he will never know peace and is destined to wander this earth a shrieking wraith, unable to feel joy and bitterly jealous of those still human enough to savor the imperfect. Turn back, I beg you. Before it is too late.

Plus, it is happy hour at Applebee's off Route 46 tonight!

Re: Football
 

But he was a top receiver in goal-line situations.

Vrabel has value, but wasn't worth his cap number.

Why did the packers not want to have Favre, but also insisted on trading him rather than cutting him?

Re: Winter Activities
 

I've now read a report on this walk in two different forums. Are you lying here or lying there?

Re: Football
 

As to you first point (as someone has likely already said), why trade for Vrabel if he is about to be cut?

As to the second, that's what I kept saying about Favre and Green Bay last year, but very few people agree with me.

Re: Football
 

So you're saying Cassel wasn't worth a second round pick straight up? The Patriots couldn't have traded Vrabel to any other team in the league (not already in their division) and received any value for him whatsoever? The simple fact is, KC got a lopsided deal. And if Pioli wasn't there, I don't think the Patriots settle for a second rounder for the package they sent over.

TM

Re: Football
 

Because you don't have to compete against 30 other teams for his services.

Re: Football
 

So you don't have to compete with other teams that want him? Because other teams see value in his last year and are willing to trade for it too? Pose your own question to KC. Why wouldn't they just say?: "We don't want Vrabel. So we'll give you a third round pick for Cassel." And then they could pick up Vrabel after he gets cut for nothing.

TM

Re: Football
 

Assuming that 30 other teams want him. Clearly KC did, but he didn't bring any meaningful additional value to the deal or they would have had to give up more than one pick.

Re: Winter Activities
 

A quality snowshoe excursion is about going where you can't go otherwise. Trapsing through hill and dale, over field and flower, without regard to whether you are trodding on a bog or through the briers, since all that is covered with snow and ice is now open to you. You do not take the path less followed because you do not take the path at all.

To snowshoe into the hills is to explore the usually unknown and unseen. To access the inaccessible. And, once there, to revel in it, and then return.
And know you have been.

Re: Football
 

In KC's case, because NE wouldn't give up Cassel for a third round pick.

It's easy to see why KC would want him as a throw in to their Cassel trade. The hard part is why he had so little marginal value in the deal. The only answer I've got is that the Pats didn't think they could get anything for him.