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August 14, 2011
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
There's a rumour circulating that the Pats are going to cut both Haynesworth and Ochocinco. Haynesworth, I can understand if he's not performing, but Ocho seems like exactly the kind of receiver the Pats needed last year and didn't have.
Colour me confused if this ends up being true.
posted by dfleming at 07:13 PM on August 14, 2011
Holy Keegan Bradley.
posted by boredom_08 at 08:21 PM on August 14, 2011
Colour me confused if this ends up being true.
I think this is the case of a misleading headline. Admittedly, I just skimmed it, but I didn't see anything new: the contracts allow the Pats to cut these guys with little or no pain if they don't work out, basically. So, yeah, they could not be long for the Pats, but that's not news. It's not like they've got one foot out the door and the other on a vaselined trout: clearly the Pats would like them both to work out, and so far there haven't been any major indications that that isn't going to happen.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:34 PM on August 14, 2011
That article is even worse than the one it's based on. The National Football Post quotes an unnamed source, but the Yahoo article makes it sound like Mike Reiss is suggesting the same when that's not true at all. I haven't seen a single local writer suggest this is true and there was a good piece by Tom E. Curran suggesting Haynesworth's absence is part of a regular knee maintenance program he's on.
It all could be true, but so far it's just one smoke signal.
posted by yerfatma at 09:34 AM on August 15, 2011
Will Power is unimpressed with IndyCar race officials.