Greetings Pats fans, I've been a bit of a slacker lately on the blog because well, frankly, there hasn't been a whole heck of a lot of NFL news to report on my beloved Patriots and to be honest, in March that's kind of how it should be. But April is here! The draft is just a few weeks away and thank Belichick for that because I was starting to get draft fatigue and we were still over a month away.
So what've we missed since I've been gone? A couple rookie visits (Darren McFadden is nothing but a smokescreen of faux interest to make those salivating over him think it's at least possible that the Pats would take him), the scintillating owners meetings where they're discussing topics ranging from mildly interesting (headsets in defensive players helmets) to snoozeriffic (elimination of the push out rule) and the occasional Arlen Specter Spygate outrage/book tour. The whole no-hair-hanging-over-the-nameplate discussion isn't really worth an entire blog but I'll weigh in with some brief thoughts since I played for a college coach who had a rule that you had to be clean shaven and hair no longer than your collar. He was a really fun-loving guy. I understand what they're going for but if Troy Polamalu doesn't mind getting ripped down by his coif who are the owners to tell him he's got to get a trim? There's a lack of personality in many of the NFL players these days (aside from those way-out-of-date thorn around the upper arm tattoos), if they want to grow long hair I say let them.
