The Eagles have signed Cullen Jenkins who had played the last 8 seasons as a five-technique end and three-technique tackle and had 7 sacks in 12 games last season and they are hoping he betters their 31 sacks the Eagles had last season and he will join Trent Cole and Jason Babin who are the pass rush studs in the front 3 as they will be a 34 defense. Jenkins signed a five year and 25 million dollars and because he missed 17 of the 48 games with the Packers over the last three seasons and if it does not work out the Eagles can cut bait after the first season for 4 million dollars and the three coverage studs are Nnamdi Asomugha (cb) as he signed a 5 year and 60 million dollars with 25 guaranteed, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie has 13 interceptions and 4 returned for 6, and Asante Samuel so they will be strong rushing the passer or play straight up on third down.
The Patriots have taken a couple of risks with not so team oriented players and the biggest flyer they took was trading for Albert Haynesworth and the Patriots gave up a fifth round draft pick for the two time all-pro that now is a balloon and Bill Belichick has his challenges as Haynesworth has not been listen to his coaches and not interesting playing football the past two seasons after signing a 100 million dollar deal with the Redskins. So if Belichick can get the most out of Haynesworth it will be the most impressive achievement in his coaching career and if he gets back to his Titans days as he had 271 tackles and 24 sacks in his 90 games over his 6 seasons with the Titans they will be on their way to challenge for another superbowl appearance but if he is like his last two seasons in Washington with 53 tackles and 6.5 sacks in 20 games they will just cut him loose.
They also traded for Chad Ochocinco and gave up a fifth in next years and a sixth in the follow year who got a new three year deal and he had between 87 and 97 catches and he put up between 1274 and 1440 yards between 2003 and 2007 and he will be really hungry to win and be successful and have a chance to win a ring that he will try really hard to be on the same page with Tom Brady and they maybe better than Randy Moss and Tom Brady. I believe that Chad will have some of his more successful seasons with the Patriots than his seasons with the Bengals and this trade will be another one of those Patriots steals.
NFL season just over a month away
Tom Mehegan
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