Did Blount and Belichick have a deal in place?

Does a bear **** in the woods?

 

Blount signed here because we offered more money. It was pretty obvious right from the start that he regretted his decision to leave the Patriots.

 

What made it weird was NE lost their RB to injury for the year right? Wasn't it less than a month prior to the Blount incident?

I think they lost Ridley and also Amendola was a little banged up too IIRC????

 

After the Steelers released him, Blount had to to clear waivers. Nearly every team had to pass on him before the Pats could claim him.

This presupposes that it was 'obviious' that the Steelers would release an RB who quit on his team, which they didn't do that with Mendenhall.

and lastly, if LaGarette Blount is the virulent cancer that I'm told he is, why wouldn't Steeler Nation applaud his infection of the Patriots?

I'm sure the tinfoil hat crowd will explain how all this logically holds together.

 

Comparing Blount to Mendenhall is ridiculous. Mendy was a Tomlin 1st rd pick. Blount was a guy with a history who was signed as a #2 RB.

And if another team claimed him, why would he care? He still might have gotten more playing time than here playing behind Bell.

 

The point being made by the conspiricists is that Blount and Darth Hoodie had a handshake deal for his return to the Evil Empire after learning all the secrets of the high powered Todd Haley offense. If that is the case, he'd absolutely care if he got claimed by some other team before he could fulfill his evil destiny.

 

That's some conspiracists. Some of us just think he wanted to go back, and Belichick wanted him back, so Blount forced his way off the team.

If Blount just wanted to get Belichick some info ... they have this thing called email now.

 

How many teams out there , do you think would have picked him up, knowing his past and the fact that he just walked out on his team, ( hint, the anser is 1 )

 

Blount isn't nearly talented enough for Belichek to give one damn about him while he's on someone else's roster. Of all the players in the league, Belichek picked Blount to tamper with? This may as well be UFO's, it's ridiculous. You're stretching just because it's NE.

Blount probably did want to go back. Randy Moss also wanted to go back and said how great of a team NE was and how great Belichek was. He did so when he was on the Vikings and he promptly got himself cut because of his public display of affection towards NE. NE, however; didn't resign him.

 

There's far less talented players out there with character concerns and they are on rosters. Blount would have been signed by someone else if NE hadn't taken him. He wouldn't have gotten much money or a starting gig, but he would have been picked up

 

Why? He's a bum, a bad person, a locker room cancer. Good riddance. and the only fit for him is a SB team?

if the Browns had picked him off waivers the howls of laughter would still be echoing. Typical desperate Clowns.
But he goes back to NE, and suddenly he's valuable. Nefarious means were employed to get him.

Does this line of thought not strike some of you as delusional?

 

Then why didnt they? he cleared waivers, they had there chance to claim him

 

THATS WHAT I JUST SAID MORE OR LESS!!

 

This has nothing to do with trust. Blount isn't particularly talented. He doesn't block well, doesn't catch well and has apparently struggled to understand play books in the past. I highly doubt Belichek wasted 2 seconds of his time worrying about a mediocre player that was on another teams roster. Just because he signed Blount doesn't mean Blount is anything special. Every NE RB looks good, it's been that way for a long time now. They signed Blount because he was available and they were short at the RB position. Ridley was injured and White hasn't panned out at all.

 

Whoa, I never said Belichek is above tampering. I really don't know if he is or not. I'm just saying, this is a very far fetched scenario you're coming up with. Like Afan said, if any other team in the NFL signed him, many on here would be laughing at them for signing our trash, but because it's NE, it's some big conspiracy.

Perhaps Blount told NE players he wanted to come back, but why would Belichek waste 2 seconds telling him he'd welcome him back considering he was on another teams roster? If we didn't give him 0 carries, he doesn't flip out and he never gets cut.

 

Blounts production for the Pats in 2014-15:


Week 12 --- 78 yards 2 TD's
Week 13 --- 58 yards 0 TD's
Week 14 --- 66 yards 0 TD's
Week 15 --- 17 yards 1 TD
Week 16 --- 62 yards 0 TD's
Week 17 --- 1 yard 0 TD's (didn't play starters much)


COLTS --- 148 yards 3TD's


If he is not playing against Indi he is quite average.

 

Gee a Punk Thug and a Cheating Liar.

Sounds like a perfect match.

I was actually very excited when the brought Blount into the organization. So much for that thrill.

 

Yeah but the team that he done well against had been victimized by that Pats line for literally like 5 games in a row with a backs by committee approach. Indy's front and Seattle's front are two vastly different things. I don't look for Blount to have a good game really. I personally think Seattle has the edge because I believe d wins titles. However, any time the Pats have this "us against the world" mentality they seem to play better. So who knows? It's tough for me because I like both qbs that are playing. I think Wilson is a better man but Tom is a better qb. I also like Seattle's hard hitting defense. I just think it is gonna be a good game basically. Still expect Seattle to win though just because of defense. Do you subscribe to the d wins championships theory out of curiosity?

 

Bell strictly running stats.

Week 12 --- 204 yards 1 TD's
Week 13 --- 95 yards 1 TD's
Week 14 --- 185 yards 2 TD's
Week 15 --- 47 yards 2 TD's
Week 16 --- 63 yards 1 TD
Week 17 --- 20 yards 0 TD's

Now if you factor in all purpose yards then you have a point, but that's not Blount's game.

I don't think people are saying he's an all-pro running-back. What they are saying is that he fits a certain mold that teams may have a use for. Also, there was one team out there who could use his particular skill-set after seeing what they had for most of the season....