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[oneinchpunch]

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If his toe injury isn't career threatening, maybe the Chargers should bring him in so we can get Fluker to come inside to Guard.

He really does suck though.

[Fleet]

Pass on Oher.

[Bolt-O]

Yeah, you just don't toss a vet out there with the waived/injured tag unless he's not in the plans going forward, unless you are supremely cheap so that he's not on the roster with an injury and having to pay his bonus. Someone will take a flyer on him if he's not too badly hurt, but he's not going to protect anyone's bli........... ugh.

[Boltjolt]

Matthews wouldn't make it in NE even in the dog house. BB probably never would acquired him anyway even if he get cut. Matthews have fumble issue and can't do anything else beside rushing.

Maybe he would, maybe hee wouldnt. You dont know anything about it. He had 50 receptions for us one season so he can catch the ball and he doesnt fumble much anymore and fumbles less than others do.

He make repeat mistakes, especially in QB protection job, which automatically get you in BB's dog house. He has stone hands, drop balls many times. He can't block and protect the QB. He can't run route. All he does is running which is not that great to begin with. Although his vision and patient are improves last season compare to his first couple of years, it's still not that good. So, even if he is durable, I don't think he is anywhere close to start in NE or any team that already loaded at the RB position.

He still has lapses in pass protection. I dont agree with anything else above.

Blount is a better runner with Gray comparable. Blount at worst still a top 10 runner in the AFC. Other RBs in NE doesn't get feature a lot not because they aren't good, it just mean that NE has a bunch of them and their system favors the passing game with Brady, Gronk and Eldeman. McDaniel always a pass-happy guy.

You must be high. Vereen has never had 100 rushes in a season in 4 years. He missed half the year in 2013, missed 3 in 2012 and only played in 5 games as a rookie. Last season was his only 16 game season so he gets hurt often too. Blount is NOT a top 10 RB by any stretch.

Woodhead is a very good football player, NE decided to let him go and kept these RBs.And I would take Woodhead over Matthews any day.

Or maybe he decided to sign with us instead? Lets not guess to make your arguement look better. Some of those guys werent on the team when Woodhead was there and the ones that were did not play ahead of him.
I get it, you dont like Mathews. Cool! Thats fine. Im not banging the drum to keep him but Vereen is not an everydown RB and has injury issues as well. Gray also is not comparible, lol.

[vinabolt]

I like Matthews coming out. I supported Mathews after AJ drafted him. But he has flaws and his development and improvement are very slow. I think you overrate him and underrate the NE's RBs. Blount easily the top 10 backs in the AFC. He is a poor-man Lynch. He almost never when down with 1st and 2nd contacts, always fight for extra yards, has good vision, elusiveness and has a great straight line speed especially for that size.

50 receptions doesn't mean Matthews is a good receiving RBs. Rivers always throw to the RBs underneath. Can he run routes? Does he have sure hands? He fumbles less last year but his overall career resume is not good. You don't think Matthews and "football secured" in the same sentence. He is not a football player that inspire confidence that he won't turn the ball over, he won't drop the balls, that he has good feel for the game, like Woodhead does. Just looks at the way he play, he just doesn't have "it".

He at worst is a glass China doll that on the field always make you expect something bad is going to happen, either to him (injure) or to the team (turnover or drop ball at an important time in the game, at the time that you supposed to be clutch). He at best is a middle of the pack RB (when healthy) who sometime can use his speed to break outside and that is.

Based on BB history of transaction in CLE and NE, BB doesn't have much patient for these types of athlete. So no, he is not a guy that "easily start in NE".

[Mister Hoarse]

The guy I want to replace Matthews is Vereen from NE. Matthews is like a 1 trick pony, beside running he couldn't do well on anything else. Furthermore, he can't stay healthy and it's hurt his value to the team.

Someone may ask why do we want Vereen when we already have Woodhead. The difference is Woodhead is a 3rd down back, passing down back, while Vereen can be an every-down back and he has the size to run inside.

He is not an every down back and doens't run much in NE because they have other good RBs who can run better. But as seen in the SB, he is a good all-around RB who can do many different things well.

He can block, he can run, he is great at getting open and catch the ball. The most unique quality of him is the ability to run route like a receiver! He can run the Go route, the seam, the flat, the comeback, he can do double moves, he can be underneath, he can be a down field threat. He is the best route running RB in the NFL. He is the best receiving RB in the NFL.

The qualities Woodhead has over Vereen is that he is quicker and separate better in a man defense and run better after the catch, more elusives. But Vereen has better size, straight line speed, bigger and softer hands, longer arms and is better at finding soft spot in a zone defense. Plus he is more durable.

The only reason Vereen doesn't have more than 100 catches is because Brady's safety blanket always the slot receiver. In the past it was Troy Brown, Weiker, and now is Edelman.

In SD, Rivers' safety blanket always the RBs. Most of the time he throws to the RBs when he's in trouble. LT, Mike Tolbert, Woodhead all catches lots, lots of passes with Rivers at the helm.

I think this is a perfect fit. I believe NE will have no choice but to let Vereen leaves, they have a lot of high-price guys to re-sign like Revis, McCourty. They probably will let both Vereen and Ridley leaves. They can afford to let them go because they still have Blount, Jonas Gray, Bolden and poor-man Vereen in James White. All of those RBs are quality RBs who can start for many team.

The team needs an all-around RB like Vereen. 1 more deep threat to compliment Floyd and Keenan Allen. An OL that can pass block well and give Rivers time to throw his deep balls. If the Bolts can accomplish that, this offense will be upgrade to a whole different level and joins the elite club of NE, DEN.

Woodhead and Vereen are good players, but they fit better in SD offense than NE offense.

I love this idea. Dump Donald Brown at the same time.

[Boltjolt]

McCoy doesnt lack confidence in Mathews. Just fans who think he fumbles too much. He fumbled five times as a rookie and only twice there after each year. Hardly a fumbler number. Jamal Charles fumbles more and so do other top RBs.

I don't really care if you don't like him but you are stating bullshit that isn't true. You are overating Blount and I've never said Mathews is a top RB but he is a better RB than Blount

[Mister Hoarse]

Matthews wouldn't make it in NE even in the dog house. BB probably never would acquired him anyway even if he get cut. Matthews have fumble issue and can't do anything else beside rushing. He make repeat mistakes, especially in QB protection job, which automatically get you in BB's dog house. He has stone hands, drop balls many times. He can't block and protect the QB. He can't run route. All he does is running which is not that great to begin with. Although his vision and patient are improves last season compare to his first couple of years, it's still not that good. So, even if he is durable, I don't think he is anywhere close to start in NE or any team that already loaded at the RB position.

Blount is a better runner with Gray comparable. Blount at worst still a top 10 runner in the AFC. Other RBs in NE doesn't get feature a lot not because they aren't good, it just mean that NE has a bunch of them and their system favors the passing game with Brady, Gronk and Eldeman. McDaniel always a pass-happy guy.

Woodhead is a very good football player, NE decided to let him go and kept these RBs. And I would take Woodhead over Matthews any day.

Got damn! Welcome to the board.
#stevelikeabilities

You lurkers jump in. We need more posters like this here.

[Panamamike]

I have lost several IQ points reading some of the bullshit being bantered about here. Blount a top 10 RB in the AFC? Gray, he of two good games, is comparable to Mathews???? Oliver maybe......maybe. ....but this is complete nonsense. I'd get more realistic reading in the National Fucking Enquirer. Vereen is a part time back that is more of a China doll than Mathews. Thank god this idiocy has no bearing on who we target in FA. I am not against Vereen on a roster, as he can fill a specific role; but it is the same role Woodhesd does, and Woodhead does it better. We need a lead back not a stable of third down specialists.

[oneinchpunch]

I am not against Vereen on a roster, as he can fill a specific role; but it is the same role Woodhesd does, and Woodhead does it better. We need a lead back not a stable of third down specialists.

Agreed. I dont see a need for Vereen in San Diego with Woodhead on the roster. Mathews would make more sense. Or a guy like Ingram

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

Why not have two or three Woodheads if we are going to run from the shotgun formation? Its like a running game lite... I would love a bellcow, but not if we are going to use him like Woodhead on second and third down last year...

[vinabolt]

I've never said Mathews is a top RB but he is a better RB than Blount

I guess you believe what you want to believe. You blindly said idiotic things like this and being an ass about it. You're not worth my time anymore.