Patriots trade Laurence Maroney to Denver

[HarlemHeat37]

Good trade..

Buckhalter looked slow and always has major injury concerns, so getting Maroney is strictly a depth move, and swapping a 4th for a 6th isn't a significant loss IMO..Maroney is an underachiever and isn't that great in general, but he still has some untapped talent, hopefully a change of scenery helps..

[monosylab1k]

Maroney was not really put in situation to succeed.

Are you ing re ed?

He was given chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance AND HE STILL ED IT UP.

Belichick DID EVERYTHING HE POSSIBLY COULD to get Maroney to take over the starting job and keep it. HE HELD PRIVATE ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS WITH HIM EVERY SINGLE ING DAY LAST SEASON. What head coach in the NFL does that with any player? But when Maroney then fumbles going into the end zone not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES in the final half of last year, that ABSOLUTELY should have been the last straw.

I hate letting him go simply because he's shown flashes of absolute brilliance. But don't act like his gazillion ups each season never existed. The guy is a complete moron who never took advantage of the opportunities in front of him. BELICHICK DID NOTHING BUT PUT HIM IN POSITION TO SUCCEED AND MARONEY WAS TOO GODDAMN STUPID TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

[monosylab1k]

That I'll agree with. The criticism he got for "spending too much time looking for holes" was bull . The reason he spent so much time looking for holes is because the offensive line never opened up any holes.

Sammy Morris was off to a terrific season in 07 before getting hurt. Same with Fred Taylor last season. Even BJGE has had success in limited playing time.

The run blocking is bad but not so bad that a guy as talented as Laurence Maroney can't find the same holes that ing BenJarvis Green Ellis can.

The bottom line is that Maroney is a tremendous talent but probably the single dumbest football player on the planet.

[Blake]

Denver is trying to catch Al Davis for worst general managing.

New England just doing what they do.....getting rid of waste and stockpiling picks.

[Steve Kerr]

Sammy Morris was off to a terrific season in 07 before getting hurt. Same with Fred Taylor last season. Even BJGE has had success in limited playing time.

The run blocking is bad but not so bad that a guy as talented as Laurence Maroney can't find the same holes that ing BenJarvis Green Ellis can.

The bottom line is that Maroney is a tremendous talent but probably the single dumbest football player on the planet.

In 07 the run blocking was great, hence why Maroney averaged 4.5 YPC that season. Since then it's been absolute .

And as dumb as Maroney is, Antonio Cromartie is dumber

[monosylab1k]

In 07 the run blocking was great, hence why Maroney averaged 4.5 YPC that season. Since then it's been absolute .

And as dumb as Maroney is, Antonio Cromartie is dumber

His decent YPC that season basically came from one game where he curbstomped the incredibly stout defense of the 1-15 Miami Dolphins.

Other than that the majority of the year he was in the 3.5 range.

[Steve Kerr]

His decent YPC that season basically came from one game where he curbstomped the incredibly stout defense of the 1-15 Miami Dolphins.

Other than that the majority of the year he was in the 3.5 range.

Except for the great playoff run he had. A lot of it had to do with how much teams geared their defenses towards stopping the pass, but he was a good RB in 2007.

I've always had the theory that if you don't run the ball enough, your offensive line loses its ability to run block over time (hence Minnesota last year), so this is something I largely blame on Josh McDaniels for just completely abandoning the run in 2007 when he had absolutely no reason to.

[san antonio spurs]

Are you ing re ed?

He was given chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance AND HE STILL ED IT UP.

Belichick DID EVERYTHING HE POSSIBLY COULD to get Maroney to take over the starting job and keep it. HE HELD PRIVATE ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS WITH HIM EVERY SINGLE ING DAY LAST SEASON. What head coach in the NFL does that with any player? But when Maroney then fumbles going into the end zone not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES in the final half of last year, that ABSOLUTELY should have been the last straw.

I hate letting him go simply because he's shown flashes of absolute brilliance. But don't act like his gazillion ups each season never existed. The guy is a complete moron who never took advantage of the opportunities in front of him. BELICHICK DID NOTHING BUT PUT HIM IN POSITION TO SUCCEED AND MARONEY WAS TOO GODDAMN STUPID TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

First of all, as adults lets stop with the name calling, it's so highschool like and quite frankly...well re ed
Now on the subject, Maroney was constantly in Belichik's doghouse as much as Malik was with Pop. When I say to put him in a situation to succeed, it's not making him the starter. It's being committed to the run, calling run plays and teaching the O-Line how to block constantly.
Maroney was in Belichik's doghouse because he saw a back in him that he was not. He saw a Corey Dillon in him, a south-north kind of back, which he's not. This explains why Sammy Morris had more success in this system.
My point is that I understand Belichik not wanting to change his run schemes to suit Maroney' style, RB are easy to replace hence saying he did not put him in a situation to succeed.
The same thing can be said for other players, who struggle on one team and flourish on another.