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The Patriots have announced the release of defensive back Willie Andrews, a day after the news broke that he had been arrested for the second time this off-season.
The team offered no explanation for the decision to cut Andrews loose, but it was obvious that he wasn’t going to be invited to training camp. Some players are talented enough to keep their jobs despite multiple off-season arrests, but Andrews isn’t one of them.
Andrews faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm after his fiancee said he pointed a gun at her. He was arrested in February on a marijuana possession charge.
The Patriots also announced that they have signed sixth-round draft pick Bo Ruud, a linebacker from Nebraska.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:43 pm
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WTF are you talking about? Name the last player that the Eagles took with charges pending? And why would they go after a CB again? Do the names Lito, Asante, and Sheldon mean anything to you?
On a different note were the Pats counting on this guy as a starter or was he like their 3rd or 4th corner? If he was a projected starter they might have some problems with their secondary seeing as they lost their 2 starting corners in free agency (right?).
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July 1st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Too many of these foolish acts on too many teams in the NFL (and to some extent the NBA which has fewer players, so therefore, fewer incidents).
How can you convince a young player with a 6 or 7 figure income and the opportunity of a lifetime not to act foolishly and blow it with sex, drugs, weapons, gambling and violence?
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July 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
That Jimmy Smith was a classy player, getting the drug suspension and all.
Find the nearest noose and hang yourself.
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July 1st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Monger….are you really such a simpleton to not understand that a persons long term high performance and consistant track record in their profession buys them professional “equity”?
Brady is a legend based on his professional track record and performance. If he slipped and did something turdish the equity he’s built up would allow the powers that be to “cut him some slack”…..considerable slack.
Willie Andrews, on the other hand, just CONFIRMED that he’s a card carrying turd when he was already on probation. He has never aquired any such professional “equity” whatsoever.
These judgements calls are made in the business world every day. It’s called professional discretion. You can even call it descrimination if you’ld like…..but the fact is we all discriminate every day and we’re all the better for it. For example, I used discrimination earlier tonight when I decided not to put my hand on the red-hot stove burner….but I had no problem touching the non-red-hot burner. I guess I discriminated against the red-hot burner.
It’s really a very simple concept….. even for a simpleton.
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July 1st, 2008 at 8:41 pm
The irony of a guy with the screen name “JimmySmith” talking about mug shots of a drug user…
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July 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Monger.everyone on this site realizes that you are an idiot .But in fairness, to answer your question, Tom Brady is a high quality indiviual who many on this site would have to agree.I highly doubt TB would get caught up in a situation like this.
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July 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I want to thank all of the Pats fans who have gone out of their way to prove my points beyond all doubt.
You value winning over decency. Your moral compass is broken beyond excuse or repair. You’ll support a coach who willingly and intentionally attempted to undermine the integrity of the game, and you support a cheater as long as he’s a winner. On the other hand, you won’t give the benefit of the doubt to someone who is merely accused of something whether that accusation is true or not, and the reason you won’t give him the benefit of the doubt is because he’s not a star on the team.
You’re the most sickening kind of hypocrites. You could raise your voices against the disease infesting your team and be a voice for change, but instead you applaud it. As long as Belichick is the coach of the Patriots the Patriots are cheaters and a blight on the entire league and you condone and encourage it.
How you people can look at yourselves in the mirror is beyond my comprehension. How you can look into the eyes of your children and teach them right from wrong is also beyond my comprehension. Again, thank you for proving my points beyond all doubt.
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July 1st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Tyler is right…..your jealousy is not only ugly it’s evident.
We feel bad for you. Not.
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:03 pm
monger(loid),
I’m a Pats fan…..one thing I taught my children is that the Patriots are a sports franchise….and merely a sports franchise. We don’t let dalliances in fantasy and entertainment dictate or determine our personal direction. Sports is a diversion, not a religion (although close!!)…..only an idiot would suggest that a fans team loyalty is a reflection of the person’s character. Personally, I volunteer 20-30 hours a week to the local food pantry and to the youth athletic programs in my community. It is this aspect of my life that my kids picked up on and have emulated, not the conduct, good or bad, of my pro teams coaches. But then, MY kids aren’t idiots…thus I never had to worry about that. YOUR kids, on the other hand likely ARE idiots…given that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!@!!
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Monger -
You really need to check your priorities when you compare threatening the life of the mother of your children with the breaking a rule in a game.
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Monger,
I want to know one thing just for future reference:
What team are you a fan of?
Knowing this will allow me to throw every single bad article regarding your team back in your face. And believe me every team at some point in time has a turd now and again. If you refuse to answer this question you are a COWARD. And you can then SHUT THE HELL UP!
If I had to guess I would narrow my choices down to the following:
Jets (#1 choice), Steelers, Chargers, Colts, Raiders (still pissed about that Snow Bowl game perhaps) or Eagles.
Your jealousy is so evident that it is almost laughable, you make it a point to post on every Patriots article good or bad. What example does that set for your children? That you would rather be obsessed with posting on a Football rumor site rather than play with your own kids! Get a life and get lost!
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Monger, you’re so transparent that it is F’ing LAUGHABLE. If Tom Brady did something stupid, Pats fans would react the same way Atlanta fans did with Michael Vick: supportive, confused and then hurt and disappointed. Wait for it, WAIT FOR IT…. JUST LIKE ANY OTHER CITY IN THE NFL.
You are an absolute twit. Yes, a TWIT. I’m going old school on your candy ass. You are the master of the obvious. No way, fans of a team might possibly support their super star player. WHO F#CKING KNEW?!?!?!
Your stupid premise is so interchangeable that it’s not funny. You’re not proving ANYTHING. Take the words Patriots and Tom Brady out of that first idiotic post and fill in any team and their star player and you get the same reaction every time. EVERY TIME.
Yeah, we stand by a coach that broke rules. WHO CARES? Denver fans stand by a coach that cheated on the salary cap. Philadelphia fans stand by a coach that has two of the biggest criminals in the entire city as kids. Hell, I heard John Gruden tell a few bad “yo momma” jokes and Bucs fans still stand by him.
Grow up. You are pathetic.
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July 1st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Where am I going to buy my weed? Frigann Wille screwed me again….
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July 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 am
monger,
I have to agree with you there about decency over cheating.
Look at the Cowboys. They have added Adam “formerly Pacman” Jones not because they are ignoring character for winning, but Jerry Jones would rather miss out on the playoffs and the Super Bowl to help give Adam another chance to redeem himself. Cowboys fans can see that and wisely defend Jones against those baseless allegations.
Or how about Chargers fans who were wise enough to see that Shawne Merriman was clearly set up and no player should ever be expected to know what chemicals he is putting in his body.
And let’s not forget Bengals fans who forgave Chris Henry and Odell Thurman for all those youthful indisgressions that were way overblown by the media.
Or can we forget Falcons fans who clearly knew killing a few dogs was well worth the price to educate youths on commerce issues like illegal gambling? Can you really put a price on such a valuable education.
Thank you for proving my point that many Patriots haters aren’t very intelligent.
Every team’s fans defend their players and coaches until the point of no return. There are still plenty of Falcons fans who will defend Vick, most Cowboys fans will defend Pacman Jones, virtually every Charger fan will defend Merriman, and even a few Bengals fans will defend Henry and Thurman. Barry Bonds was loved in San Francisco while despised in the rest of the country. That is how sports goes.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 am
BTW, monger I am sorry that the Patriots “cheated” your Eagles, Raiders, Panthers, Chargers, or Rams out of a Super Bowl win. It is quite clear you haven’t gotten over it since your irrational obsession with the team and its fans is clearly unhealthy.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 am
It’s so nice to root for a winning team. Ahhhh
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July 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 am
After reading the comments by all the Patriots fans, there is a pronounced tendency toward excuse making on one hand and hollow accusations of jealousy on the other.
The jealousy part I really don’t understand. If my favorite sports team was caught cheating, pull the low class move of printing tickets with a 56-3 score as a 7th grade gesture of denigration against a divisional opponent, had the head coach leave the football field before the Superbowl game even ended, I would be supremely embarrassed. Instead, the Patriot fans reveal in this as it were a badge of honor.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 8:22 am
How exactly is printing the franchise’s largest margin of victory ever as one of the ten best MOMENTS in the franchise history low class? I guess if I was a fan of one of the only teams in the NFL who has never even been to a Super Bowl, I would try to tear down a team that has been to six and won three too.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Leave out the Spygate stuff. Pats haters should at least acknowledge that, when one of their players was accused/arrested for a violent crime, the Pats dumped him IMMEDIATELY. You can argue all day about how this is a second tier player etc., but it’s a clear fact that New England is sick for DB’s right now and can hardly afford to lose a veteran. And you can argue all you want about Spygate and Belichick but as another poster mentioned, there’s a clear difference between breaking an NFL rule and committing a violent felony.
Say what you want, but the Pats have a clear and consistent track record in this regard. Florio, I presume the Turd Watch rules provide for amelioration in the event of an immediate termination?
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July 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 am
“On a different note were the Pats counting on this guy as a starter or was he like their 3rd or 4th corner? If he was a projected starter they might have some problems with their secondary seeing as they lost their 2 starting corners in free agency (right?). ”
Neither Andrews nor Gay were starters, nor were either contending to be.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 am
True Patriots fans should revel in the fact the Patriots are taking shots at other teams. For years we were the laughing stock of the league and ran in contention with the Bucs for media pin cushion of each decade! As for the Pats not being a “classy” franchise..I guess standing behind a repeat offender is class? How about a Raider player decking our owner after a game? How about teams refusing to play in Schaeffer stadium? How about Shannon Sharpe’s berating of fans from Patriots sidelines? F**K the other teams, I’m a Pats fan, if you are not..you should hate the Pats, I hate your team and wish bad things on them. The whole deal is settled on the field not in blogs or media hypes, so come on Pats haters, do you honestly think you can beat us?
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July 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 am
As a transplanted pats fan I say…..
Embrace the hate in 08.
Not sure why people get piossed at Pats haters, I like being the bad guy.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
If it was Tom Brady… oh wait… he’s intelligent… nope, it would never be Tom Brady… or Peyton Manning… or Eli… or Romo, because they aren’t morons.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Let’s not be so fast to say Willie MJ Andrews wasn’t a fine player and that the Patriots canned him because he was third or fourth tier. He ran back as many kickoffs for touchdowns as Bethel Johnson and the Patriots kept Bethel around for 4 years!
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July 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Hey monger, probably the same way the Colts fans have treated Harrison since the incident someone was shot in his club. I can’t really add to what blackglass3 said, but seriously you’re an idiot if you think cheating in a football game is the equivalent of being a drug dealing woman abusing thug.
Most Pats fans wanted him gone back in Feb. Not to mention if Brady did this he would get the heat also, just like he does for having a child with Bridge and basically taking off to go to Gisele. But even that is not the equivalent of what Andrews did. Nice try to make Pats fans look like hypocrites though, now go back out to your sandbox and play.
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