Shiancoe signs with the Pats
 

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter

Visanthe Shiancoe signed a one-year deal with the Patriots, as @JasonColeYahoo reported.

What are they gonna run? 5 TE sets.

Teams are designing their defenses to get smaller and faster and playing with more DB's to try and stop all these high powered offenses and their 4-5 WR sets.

Belly is going to counter that with multiple TE sets that will create major missmatches with size and weight.

Best TE core of all time..SHEEEESH!!!!:steamin::steamin::steamin::stea min:

What a genius move by Belichick. This fills that massive hole that they had at TE.

I lol'd

With Fells on PUP and Ballard on IR this moves makes sense.

Gronk, AHern, Shiancoe will do just fine ;)

Yeah okay. Perfect sense to DWC north

lock up another afc east to the patriots

Their offense will be unstoppable...

WR-

Wes Welker-122 catches, 1,569 yards 9 TD

Brandon Lloyd-70 catches 966 yards 5 TD

Jabar Gaffney-68 catches 947 yards 5 TD

Deion Branch-51 catches 702 yards 5 TD

TE-

Rob Gronkowski-90 catches 1,327 yards 18 TD

Aaron Hernandez-79 catches 910 yards 7 TD

Daniel Fells-19 catches 256 yards 3 TD

Visanthe Shiancoe-36 catches 409 yards 3 TD

That looks like 5,500 yards or so without counting...

DWC North my A** :rolleyes:

What's the downside?

last i checked, there is still only 1 ball to go around...

Who does that one ball go to ?

That's the problem for the D to figure out ;)

Simply a Great move by the Pats!!

Now lets punch them in the mouth and take the division!!!

They're countering the Jets 5 qb backfield ;)

That might actually be something to fear if the Pats could send 8 receivers out on a pass play.

This move makes them more deep, not more dangerous. And it does nothing to change the fact that the only way the Jets are going to challenge NE this year is if they get a pass rush.

If Rex's D can apply some serious pressure, the Pats can add 5 more mid-level FA receivers and it won't matter.

Said ESPN.....

#justendtheseason

How can you say that Lloyd and Gaffney are not more of a dangerous threat to catch the ball than Slater and Underwood.

And how do you consider guys that get almost 1000 yds the season before as mid level FA. You realize that both of these guys have out performed Holmes as a jet over the last two years, without Brady throwing them the ball.