My ... people come and go so quickly here. It's that time of the year. Training camps are opening up all around the NFL this week and players will be added, dropped, added, dropped. I call it the "Ross Ventrone period" of the football year after the scrappy Pats defensive back who was dropped and re-signed more times last year than Ocho caught passes.
Today the Pats dropped veteran running back Joseph Addai and added veteran tight end Visanthe Shiancoe. I guess Belichick figures the Pats can never have enough good tight ends. Shiancoe -- if he doesn't get cut by the end of the week -- can play the Alge Crumpler mentor role to Gronk and Hernandez. And he has good hands. I thought Addai was going to play the mentor role to young running backs Ridley and Vereen but you have to make it through your conditioning test first.
So for the record ... Here are the veteran fee agents signed over the past few seasons that I was certain would help the team who never even made it to Week 1. Tory Holt. Anthony Gonzalez. Joseph Addai. And those are just the three I care to remember. Oh, and Shaun Ellis. He was a big disappointment. But he at least made the team. Belichick can't be right every time.
Here's hoping Gallery, Carpenter, Fanene, and Gregory aren't next on that last.
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