Pats releasing Chad Ochocinco

[Mage]

He just got cut from the Indoor Football league team because he refused to play road games.

He's washed up.

Which only further proves my point. It is his character that is the issue, not his talent. He didn't get cut for being washed up. He got cut for being stubborn.

[Guest Bwood]

There's a segment on Cam coming up on NFL32.

[footballisasport]

I still don't get why Terrell and Ocho needed to be "humbled;" while Carson could act like ish, pout about not playing for the Bengals and wanting to be traded and no one judged him as being cocky and arrogant. Who gets to define these players and their attitude?

[4Corners]

Would love to see Chad catching balls from Cam. Chad made going to the Bengals games bearable for many years.

Lol

[CRA]

Why would anyone want a receiver that has Brady as a qb and never gets open. Hell He throws people open, this guy is done. And who takes any man serious that changes his last name to a damn number

Chad was neve on the field....couldn't learn the offense.

[CRA]

Not every good WR could learn and mesh in the NE offense....with no offseason. NE offense makes the WRs read the defense more heavily than most. There routes are often determined by the D more than most offenses.

[Darth Biscuit]

Owens isn't washed up, he's a head case... Chad is no TO either athletically or mentally... Don't want TO, don't need Chad... Pretty simple.

[Mr. Scot]

Put me down as a "no" vote

[KillerKat]

Those saying he couldn't get open with Brady have no idea what they are talking about. The Patriots ask a lot out of their receivers. According to Brushci, they change their playbook daily and have to be able to learn on the fly. He still has talent and can contribute. The Patriots are just complex.

[pantherclaw]

He played with Smith in college. Whatever the relevance that has 12 years later. Oh, it doesn't.

I also don't care thay he's an out going person.

His production the last two years says we'd be wasting our time, and Richardson's money.

I'd rather watch our young receivers grow with Cam.

[pantherclaw]

Receivers that leave the Pats, never do as well.

But cause Chad failed there, it's cause the system is to complex.

I don't buy that poo.

[top dawg]

chad johnson is the next T.O....basically washed up.

I don't believe 85 is washed up in any shape fashion or form. People began saying T.O. was washed up before he actually was. In fact, it really took an injury (along with his attitude) to take him out the game. T.O. was even productive his last year if you admit the truth. More productive than any other WR we have other than Smith last year. Speaking of Smith, people had the audacity to insinuate that 89 was washed up before Cam exposed that lie for what it was.

Call me naive, but I just don't think 85 fit the Patriot Way profile. He wasn't one of Brady and the Hoody's pets, and I think that it says more about the Patriots than 85's ability to play WR. A person of 85's past stature doesn't just fall off the cliff that fast in his early thirties. He probably has 1-3 productive years in the tank.

Competition is key, and it's not like our WRs can't use some real competition to push the whole unit towards excellence.

[Pimpdaddy]

The dude is all dried up, prolly has dirt under his finger nails... hell no.

[Mr. Scot]

Chad was neve on the field....couldn't learn the offense.

Chudzinski's playbook is 900 plus pages and features multiple formations, motion, varied routes and blocking assignments, etc.