I heard they were talking to Robert Horry about picking him up before the season only to run him out on a few plays... you know to guarentee they win a championship

Lewis Sanders bitches!!! YYEEE-HHAA!!! this is going to be the greatest secondary in the history of the league!!!

big ":arrow:" for this post, but seriously, Electro, whatta ya got on this guy? besides what's already in this update: http://www.boston.com/sports/football/p ... ss_pieces/ ... i'm expecting combine/senior bowl type reporting here E-man.

Electro knows his players. I hope he gets a better grade than Webster.

They're gonna have a camp full of DBs.

Offense
Wide Receiver 83 Wes Welker 10 Jabar Gaffney 17 Chad Jackson
Left Tackle 72 Matt Light 65 Wesley Britt
Left Guard 70 Logan Mankins 71 Russ Hochstein 74 Billy Yates
Center 67 Dan Koppen 71 Russ Hochstein
Right Guard 61 Stephen Neal 71 Russ Hochstein 74 Billy Yates
Right Tackle 77 Nick Kaczur 68 Ryan O'Callaghan
Tight End 84 Benjamin Watson 86 David Thomas 82 Stephen Spach
Wide Receiver 81 Randy Moss 15 Kelley Washington Sam Aiken
19 C.J. Jones
Quarterback 12 Tom Brady 16 Matt Cassel 7 Matt Gutierrez
Running Back 39 Laurence Maroney 34 Sammy Morris 33 Kevin Faulk
Fullback 44 Heath Evans 38 Kyle Eckel
Defense
Left Defensive End 94 Ty Warren 90 Le Kevin Smith 92 Santonio Thomas
Nose Tackle 75 Vince Wilfork 95 Rashad Moore
Right Defensive End 93 Richard Seymour 97 Jarvis Green
Outside Linebacker 50 Mike Vrabel 58 Pierre Woods
Inside Linebacker 52 Eric Alexander
Inside Linebacker 54 Tedy Bruschi 53 Larry Izzo
Outside Linebacker 96 Adalius Thomas T.J. Slaughter
Left Cornerback Jason Webster Lewis Sanders 25 Tim Mixon
35 Mike Richardson
Right Cornerback 27 Ellis Hobbs 31 Brandon Meriweather 28 Antwain Spann
Strong Safety 37 Rodney Harrison 23 Willie Andrews Tank Williams
41 Ray Ventrone
Free Safety 36 James Sanders 31 Brandon Meriweather

Patriots agree to one-year deal with Bryant

The Patriots, down two cornerbacks because of free agency hits, reached agreement with another veteran, Fernando Bryant, to give them a competitive stable of coverage players.

Bryant, who turns 31 next week, reached agreement on a one-year deal with the Patriots on Thursday morning. Bryant joins Jason Webster and Lewis Sanders as players who signed one-year deals to compete for a starting job with a Super Bowl contender.

The Patriots lost cornerbacks Asante Samuel to the Eagles and Randall Gay to the Saints. They also lost Eugene Wilson to Tampa Bay. Wilson was drafted as a cornerback but finished his Patriots career as a safety.

Bryant was a first-round pick of the Jaguars in 1999 and he goes to the Patriots with plenty of experience. The 5-foot-11, 175-pounder had 109 career starts for the Jaguars and Lions. He spent the last four years in Detroit, starting 38 games. He was released at the start of free agency.

Lewis Sanders bitches!!! YYEEE-HHAA!!! this is going to be the greatest secondary in the history of the league!!!

big ":arrow:" for this post, but seriously, Electro, whatta ya got on this guy? besides what's already in this update: http://www.boston.com/sports/football/p ... ss_pieces/ ... i'm expecting combine/senior bowl type reporting here E-man.

Start the betting pool on when J Web gets an injury now.

Looks like the Pats might have some interest in Pacman

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2008/05/18/with_belichick_the_cover_up_is_most_revealing/?page=full

he's the only writer at the globe i can stand to read.

Kaczur was accused of buying OxyContin; Secretly helped DEA in indicting supplier

Starting New England Patriots offensive lineman Nicholas Kaczur was arrested in April on a charge of illegal possession of prescription painkillers and then secretly cooperated with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in a sting operation that resulted in the indictment of his alleged drug supplier, according to a lawyer and two people briefed on the investigation.

Kaczur - a 28-year-old, 315-pound offensive tackle - wore a hidden recording device during three different drug transactions in May at gas stations in Foxborough and North Attleborough and a supermarket parking lot in Sharon, according to the lawyer, the two people, and federal court documents. At each of the three transactions, Kaczur paid $3,900 in cash to buy 100 OxyContin pills, a potent prescription pain reliever.

Federal agents arrested the alleged dealer, Daniel Ekasala, moments after the third transaction with Kaczur, said Ekasala's lawyer. He was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on three counts of possession of oxycodone (the main ingredient in the prescription drug OxyContin) with intent to distribute. He is due to be arraigned today in federal court.

Kaczur, approached yesterday afternoon by a Globe reporter as he stood on the front porch of his Attleboro home, denied participating in a DEA investigation or buying drugs. He also said he was not familiar with Ekasala.

"I don't know what you're talking about, bro," Kaczur said repeatedly, in response to questions about the investigation. "I don't know where this is coming from. I don't know what you are talking about."

When asked if he was still playing for the Patriots, Kaczur, whose salary is listed at just under than $1.4 million this year, said, "Yeah."

The sting operation is detailed in a six-page affidavit filed by a DEA special agent in US District Court in Boston. That document makes constant reference to an unnamed cooperating witness, a buyer who was reaching out to the alleged dealer by text message, then meeting with the dealer to exchange cash for drugs.

After Ekasala was indicted yesterday morning, Ekasala's lawyer, Bernard Grossberg of Boston, acknowledged that Kaczur was the cooperating witness in the case. Two other people briefed on the investigation, speaking on the condition of anonymity, also verified that Kaczur was the cooperating witness in the DEA's case. If the case proceeds to trial, Kaczur would probably be required to testify.

Ekasala, Grossberg said yesterday, has himself been asked to cooperate by federal agents, but he has repeatedly rejected their proposal. "He is not cooperating," Grossberg said.

The attorney added that Ekasala was "an extremely reluctant participant and was somewhat enamored of being friendly with or having contact with a professional athlete."

Grossberg said that, according to DEA documents presented to him before the indictment, Kaczur said he had begun buying OxyContin in November 2007 and purchased 100 pills every few days, paying tens of thousands of dollars over time.

"My client was always sympathetic to Mr. Kaczur and suggested to him many times, as the text messages will show, that Kaczur ought not to be doing what he was doing," Grossberg said. "Professional athletes in this country are treated like royalty, and royalty sometimes abuses the people they come in contact with, and I think that's what happened to Ekasala."

Kaczur's previously unreported arrest on drug possession charges, and his role in a DEA investigation, will mark the latest controversy to be faced by the New England Patriots, who suffered an upset defeat in Super Bowl XLII this year, ruining the team's bid for a perfect and unprecedented 19-0 record. The team was penalized at the beginning of the 2007 season for illegally taping hand signals of opponents' defensive coaches. In addition, defensive star Rodney Harrison was suspended for four games during the season for using human growth hormone.

A Patriots spokesman, Stacey James, declined to comment on Kaczur yesterday, saying, "We're deferring all questions on this matter to the appropriate law enforcement officials." His brief remark left it unclear whether the Patriots were aware of Kaczur's arrest and his role in a federal drug case.

He said Kaczur remains a member of the team.

The Patriots added another offensive lineman to the team Monday, free agent Oliver Ross, who is expected to play right tackle, Kaczur's position.

Vance Malinovic, Kaczur's agent, said last night that he was not prepared to talk about Kaczur's situation. "Right now, I have no comment," he said.

An NFL spokesman, Greg Aiello, said last night that misusing prescription drugs is a violation of the league's substance-abuse policies and that players face escalating sanctions for repeated violations.

Aiello declined to speak directly to the case involving Kaczur. "It's a law enforcement matter, and any questions should be directed to the appropriate law enforcement agencies," he said.

Assistant US Attorney Brian T. Kelly declined to comment yesterday on the investigation or Kaczur's role as a cooperating witness, but reacted to Grossberg's suggestion that Kaczur's star power pulled a reluctant Ekasala into the drug business.

"The crazy fan defense doesn't seem real plausible, but it will be up to a jury to decide," Kelly said.

Kaczur, who was drafted by the Patriots in the third round in 2005 and started 15 games last year, began cooperating shortly after he was arrested the morning of April 27 in New York by State Police who stopped him for speeding and found a small amount of oxycodone in his car, authorities said.

Kaczur was driving 76 miles an hour in a 65-mile-per-hour zone on the New York State Thruway in Whitestown when police pulled him over and discovered a "small amount of controlled substance for which he did not have a prescription," according to New York State Police Sergeant Kern Swoboda. The trooper identified the substance as oxycodone and said Kaczur was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, which is a misdemeanor.

According to the records filed in federal court, the first transaction that the DEA orchestrated between Kaczur and Ekasala occurred May 1. It was for 100 OxyContin pills, at a cost of $3,900. That was followed by another transaction on May 6 for the same number of pills and then the final one on May 13.

Unbeknownst to Ekasala, the affidavits said, Kaczur was wearing a recording device, and their words and movements were monitored by DEA agents.

Kaczur has told authorities that he had been buying oxycodone from Ekasala every few days in batches of a hundred since November 2007, the middle of the Patriots season, according to Grossberg, who said that information is contained in DEA reports. That time frame would include the Patriots' playoff run and their 2008 Super Bowl appearance.

But, Grossberg accused Kaczur of "puffery," insisting he was inflating the amount of drugs he bought to make it seem as if he had more to offer authorities and get himself out of any legal trouble. Grossberg described his client as a young, middle-class father of twins.

Kaczur - a native of Brantford, Ontario - worked construction for two years after high school and in 2001 earned a scholarship to the University of Toledo, where he became the first four-time, All-Mid American Conference player in school history.

Dr. Alex Stalcup, a Lafayette, Calif., doctor who says he is treating current and former NFL players for chronic pain issues, said that using powerful pain-killers can help players get through one more Sunday, but at a terrible risk to themselves and their futures.

"If your pain is so great you just can't move your muscles and you're just absolutely in agony and you have to play today, you can take an opiate that will prevent the pain." he said in a phone interview. ". . . But you will pay a high price for it."

Typical Bitch Ass Boston move.