1. I’ve said before that the Patriots have the best pair of tight ends in the NFL. Let me just add that one of them is the best tight end in the NFL. Rob Gronkowski was a beast, breaking tackles en route to career high in receiving yards in a game (160) and set a new standard for touchdowns in a season by a tight end. He broke the record with his 14th TD grab then extended it when QB Tom Brady quickly tossed a pass over a blitz to Gronk. The Big Gronkowski did the rest, breaking a LB Ryan Kerrigan tackle then racing to the endzone and to the arms of a waiting Pats fan to celebrate.
Donte' Stallworth
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31 December 2008
Also joining him was WR Donte' Stallworth, RB Sammy Morris, and two trades for receivers that played beyond the price paid, Wes Welker and Randy Moss.
2006 was another visit to the bargain bin that yielded just WR Jabar Gaffney and a out of retirement LB Junior Seau.
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18 July 2008
the following off-season the Patriots re-made the receiving corps by signing Donte' Stallworth and trading for Wes Welker. The draft-day trade for Moss completed the transformation.
There's also the other part of the trade: The player has to want to go to the new team. All reports at the time had Moss not interested in playing for the Packers. We may never know why, but my guess would be he wanted to join a team with a chance to win a championship (which at the time Green Bay didn't look like one of those teams because of the 8-8 record in '06). That and he might not had been fond of the Green Bay faithful. The panta-moon best captures how he felt about the Packers fans. Brett could beg all he wants for Moss, but if Randy doesn't want to go then that deal won't happen, and it didn't.
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