Gee Greg, I guess the Patriots should have cut Hoyer two weeks ago and then have Mallett get hurt in the game Wednesday night, with no backup. How brilliant. Of course you wait until the last minute to release a player and, if he is worth signing, the timing won't matter. Then there's the free agent signings. Did it ever occur to you that Bill's strategy is to sign a number of free agents to provide good competition for the rookies and then sort it out during pre season so that the rookies can play aginst experienced pros every day for evaluation?. Do you talk to other coaches about coaching and preparation? Or do you just, in my opinion, take the Globe line, Ya know: the Red Sox have embarrassed themselves with half a billion dollars of duds, lets take a cheap shot at the Patriots over peanuts and see if it will fly....and then you convulse over about 5 million a year spent by Bill in his objective of finding another Carter, Vrabel, Anderson or Harrison. all who were thought to be washed up when Bill signed them. Is Joe giving you these lame story lines, you seem much too smart to write this drivel yourself.