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Wonder how BB is gonna feel about Dmac basically telling the media he doesn't wanna play CB. Really uncharacteristic of him. 

I didn't get a chance to catch much of the game but I really liked what I saw from Jimmy Guwop 
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yeah i thought those comments sounded strange. wonder if it's a tone thing since i didn't see actual video...but definitely not something you'd expect to hear from one of our guys, let alone dmac
 
I remember him saying something similar during the offseason not long after we lost BB and Revis. Like he's up for most of what the team asks from him but he really doesn't want to play corner anymore,don't really blame him after playing safety for a few years now. He must feel more than comfortable there and probably wants to stay at that position.
 
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Per @caplannfl and me: #Patriots rookie CB Darryl Roberts (7th round, Marshall) has significant wrist injury that could threaten his season.
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I was thinking it might be something serious since everybody had been REALLY quiet about it.

Has anybody seen anything on Flowers injury yet?
 
I thought the Flowers injury was not serious but who knows with this team :smh:

Reggie Wayne coming over to the dark side? Didnt really want dude initially but with all the injuries we've had, im all for it :pimp:
 
That week 6 game is going to be Super Bowl level hyped

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I need Reggie to snag one in that game. Make it happen Tom
 
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Two major takeaways from practice:

1. Flowers' return is huge. He looks legit.

2. With Wendell's return, game on for the OL competition.
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also: Edelman, Chandler, Dobson, Cadet all back at practice in some capacity
 
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Glad Flowers injury wasn't serious

Nice to see guys returning to practice, hopefully Lafell is back soon
 
Cool bit on Butler...

read these bottom to top:

Mike Loyko ‏@NEPD_Loyko 59s60 seconds ago
So Butler is a lot faster than his listed 4.60 time.

Mike Loyko ‏@NEPD_Loyko 2m2 minutes ago
Butler up to NE for a workout and he ran a 4.4 forty, so they signed him to a UDFA contract. Amazing story.

Mike Loyko ‏@NEPD_Loyko 2m2 minutes ago
the draft. The only call Butler got was from Josh Boyer (Pats DB Coach) and they had to fib and say other teams were interested. Pats flew

Mike Loyko ‏@NEPD_Loyko 3m3 minutes ago
On Butler's journey: After he ran his 4.6 he didn't receiver a single call, text, e-mail from anyone in the league. No calls during or after
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@DeadsetAce  good looks on catching those Loyko tweets about Butler. I went to his Twitter and saw that he tweeted the link to the blog where he read the story. 

Really is an amazing story, I want this dude to win so damn bad.

Full story from his agent, if anybody wants to read it:
“I had developed a relationship with a guy named Johnny Jackson, and Jackson has a workout facility in Tuscaloosa called JDPI sports. Jackson had played at West Alabama, and I had a cousin who worked there, and Johnny had called my cousin and asked if there were any good agents he could refer a player to, so Johnny calls me and we hit it off, and I go to Tuscaloosa and meet him, and I had a couple players I had already signed for the draft (Alabama’s Tana Patrick and North Alabama’s Tavarious Wilson, the DII player of the year), and I would go to the gym and talk with them.

“Malcolm was working out at the gym, and he contacted me and said, ‘I just really liked the way you talk to Tana and Travarious, and you have a great reputation, and can you represent me?’ I did my homework, and he was a great player flying well below the radar. He had played in the Medal of Honor Bowl in Charleston, and I was not his agent, but he had an interception in that game and a really good week of practice, so when I got involved, I said, ‘I gotta get you into Alabama’s pro day – that will be like getting you in the combine.’ And two years ago, ‘Bama had dominated the draft, so I knew there would be an enormous amount of scouts there. And (Alabama head coach Nick) Saban had said that if you can get these DII guys in here, that’s great, because the more the better. So I got no pushback. I think Saban is so accommodating, from what I understand, that even if players don’t go there, he wants to give everyone an opportunity. The one thing I learned was the worst thing they can say is no, so we had nothing to lose.

“I didn’t have any contacts, but the strength and conditioning coaches run those pro days, and I spoke to (strength coach) Scott Cochran there, and I told him, ‘you don’t know me, but my name is Derek Simpson, and I represent Malcolm Butler. Malcolm was in the Medal of Honor Bowl. Is there any way we can get him into Alabama’s pro day?’ I had no idea what he was gonna say, either yes, no, or don’t call me again, but he checked on it, and he called me back, and he said, ‘he needs to be here at this certain time, ready to go.’ If there was a graph of Malcolm’s draft journey, it was on the uptick. We started by getting no phone calls and no texts from anybody, which was right when I got involved, and then about 3-4 weeks before pro day, some teams knew he had had a good Medal of Honor Bowl and was a good player, but he’s a Division II player. Are we gonna take a risk on somebody like him? So he had everything for a DII player going for him. Not only did he have the pick in the bowl game, but he had great credentials.

“So we started getting some emails, texts, and phone calls from scouts, and it just started going up, and I said, ‘wow, this is exciting because usually I’m trying to get scouts on the phone,’ so it was really nice that they were calling and leaving me messages.

“So the ‘draft graph’ topped out at pro day. Everybody is waiting to see how he does at the pro day. He goes to pro day and calls me and says, ‘I ran a 4.6.’ I said, ‘Malcolm, I could run a 4.6 in my church shoes. That’s not going to get us anywhere.’ So the graph was at its top, and right when he ran a 4.6, it went straight down to nothing. No texts, phone calls, no emails, no returned phone calls. And it was like we had fallen off the face of the earth. It was brutal.

“I told Malcolm, ‘I don’t know what to tell you. You have to be uncommon to be in the NFL, and a 4.6 is common.’ So we go through the whole draft and don’t get any phone calls, which I expected. Then afterwards, we get all the undrafted free agents calls, and I get some calls on my other clients, but I’m sitting there and (defensive backs coach) Josh Boyer from the Patriots calls, and said, ‘is Malcolm still available?’ We hadn’t had any calls in weeks, so I had to play a little poker, and I said, ‘right now he is,’ and Boyer said, ‘I think he’s faster than a 4.6, and I believe in Malcolm, and I think he can play at this level. All I can offer him is a tryout and he can sign a release and we’ll fly him out for the weekend, and if we decide to keep him, then we’ll offer him a undrafted free agent contract.’ And I called Malcolm and I said, ‘this is all we have.’

“So they fly him from Jackson, Miss., to New England, and he’s not off the plane an hour and they have him running a 40. They told him, ‘go put on your cleats and run a 40,’ and he ran a 4.4, and they kept him. So he went from a tryout to an undrafted free agent, and it’s been a whirlwind since that moment. (During camp), I’m reading everything I can get my hands on to see how he did in practice, and the articles said, ‘he picked off Brady,’ or ‘he broke up a pass,’ and it went from one word in a story to one sentence to a paragraph, and I said, ‘maybe you’ll make the practice squad,’ and then he made the 53. There were some weeks he was active, and some he wasn’t active, and he worked, worked, worked.”
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^good read, man. and how cool is Saban to let dudes from other smaller schools attend the Bama pro day to get some exposure. had no idea Saban was that type of dude

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Such a great story,really rooting for him to succeed,glad to have someone so hungry back in the secondary. Even after making arguably the greatest defensive play in DB history he still want's get better and contribute a lot more to the team 
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