Completely hysterical to think about Jerod Mayo running to Kraft to tattle on Bill. And the analogy about Lloyd calling is great, too, except wasn't the A-Gon reach-out a text message?! Even more comical. Soooo glad football is back around here.

Jeez Dan you can't even write about the Patriots season opener without your Sox obsession bleeding in. Are you that bothered that you've been cut out of the "loop" by Lucchino and Co?? Heck I'll bet Dr. Charles was scolded after he leaked to you about Adrian Gonzalez being the one who dropped the dime to management and now even Charles isn't giving you info or the time of day. Bummer!!!

This canard that the paranoid Nixon like baseball media people continue to assert that football players who don't perform can get cut, while baseball players cannot, in an attempt to rationalize the ineptness of Sox management doesn't fly. Here's why. The key Patriot contributors all have contracts that are front loaded with large bonuses. To cut them, early on, would destroy the team's salary structure as the bonuses and guarunteed money would be rolled into ONE YEAR, restricting the team for a number of years. To avoid this, we have Bill and Nick and a scouting staff, in lieu of Carmine, that interviews and then selects players who fit the Patriot Way (they have also picked some duds like Adalius Thomas) that understand that practice is demanding, that distractions are not tolerated, that individual statistics are not a subject of focus. It's choosing the right type of people you pay big money to, Dan, leaders, not complainers, who then set the tone in the lockeroom that seperates the Sox from the Patriots.