Post by DC-Fan on Apr 15, 2017 17:42:09 GMT
This is what the Patriot Way is: draft known thugs and then cheat and lie to win. The Patriots are a disgrace not only to the NFL but to professional sports.
www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-patriots-knew-aaron-hernandez-had-issues-20150417-story.html
Patriots knew Aaron Hernandez had issues
Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had behavioral issues New England knew about long before the team ever drafted the future murderer.
In an interview with MMQB.com, former NFL general manager Floyd Reese, who was a senior advisor for the Patriots from 2009 to 2012, said former Florida coach Urban Meyer helped convince Patriots Coach Bill Belichick to draft Hernandez in 2010.
"We knew he had some issues prior," Reese said.
To combat potential problems with Hernandez's conduct, the Patriots structured his contract so that he could forfeit up to 75% of his pay if he got into trouble, which kept him in line for the duration of his original contract, according to Reese. When he signed a $40-million contract with New England in 2012, things changed.
"When he was at Florida, he had some issues there too, there were some things that went on. We all knew about it," Reese said. "It was just from our standpoint, we were getting a first-round talent in the fourth round under a contract that was going to keep him in line or it wasn’t going to cost us a penny
