Dear Patriots, you do know it's the off-season?

The Miami Dolphins have agreed to send a 2010 and 2011 2nd round pick to the Denver Broncos to acquire WR Brandon Marshall. It's the second big move in two days by an AFC East team looking to dethrone the New England Patriots as best team in the AFC East. Yesterday, the New York Jets acquired former Super Bowl MVP, WR Santonio Holmes from the Pittsburgh Steelers for a 2010 5th rounder pick.

Great move by the Miami Dolphins. Although they still lack a deep threat the Dolphins acquired one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. Hands down. Aside from Wes Welker, Marshall is the only active WR to record three straight 100+ reception seasons.

Okay, so yet again New England wakes up to absolute horrible news. After last night's NHL Draft Lottery and the Bruins solidifying their chances at Taylor Hall or Tyler Seguin we wake and get this. Great. Fucking great. Like seriously, what the hell is going on the Foxboro? It seems that every move made in the NFL off-season is a move the New England Patriots should have, but didn't or failed to make.

The Jets and Dolphins have been very active in the off-season acquiring positions of need when the New England Patriots have been sitting there resigning their own players that got them to 10-6 like a bunch of clowns. The AFC East is going to be an absolute bloodbath next year and by the looks of it I think the New England Patriots are going to come out of it bruised, battered, bloody and very very disappointed with the results. Unless the get their act together....and fast.

Just like we said yesterday after the Jets acquired Santonio Holmes, lets hope Bill Belichick and company have something planned for the NFL draft next week because right now they need a lot of help. Not only do they need a WR to replace Wes Welker, a pass rushing LB or defensive end to get to the quarterback, a tough physical running back for the red zone, but corner back now becomes a serious need no matter how you slice it if we're going to be facing Braylon Edwards, Santonio Holmes, and Brandon Marshall 4x a year this year.

Anyone else want to see the Patriots go get Terrell Owens to pair opposite Randy Moss for a year? I mean, it couldn't hurt.

We've now had an off-season where we could have acquired: Anquan Boldin, Brandon Marshall, Santonio Holmes, LaDanian Tomlinson, Antonio Cromartie, Willie Parker, Larry Johnson, and many more talented players, but have settled to resign current players and bring in an overweight, past his prime Alge Crumpler for blocking purposes. Awesome.

So here's a message to Foxboro, In Bill we don't trust anymore. Do something. Show us you care. Make a move. I don't care what it is, but christ DO SOMETHING before it's too late and nothing is available for them to do.

Really? This is the chick?

As we all have heard, Ben Rothlesberger has been accused of rape -- again. It's not surprising that a NFL superstar quarterback would be accused of rape, especially one who looks as good as Big Ben. What is surprising, however, is that this chick apparently didn't want to have sex with him. A girl that looks like that should be forcing the issue, not the other way around.

I mean it's pretty sad that Big Ben has to stoop this low. She's not bad, but clearly she is nothing special. He should be able to pull much more tail then that with 2 super bowl victories.

Pro Bowl to be played before Super Bowl in 2011

HONOLULU -- The Pro Bowl will be played before the Super Bowl when it returns to Honolulu next year. 

The Hawaii Tourism Authority and the NFL announced Tuesday that the game will be at Aloha Stadium on Jan. 30, the Sunday before the Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas.

The Pro Bowl had historically been played in Honolulu the week after the Super Bowl, but was changed when the all-star game moved to Miami this year.

Frank Supovitz, the NFL's senior vice president of events, said playing the Pro Bowl before the big game generated more excitement and interest and was a good kick off to Super Bowl week.

Ratings were up for the AFC-NFC matchup that was televised on ESPN. It was watched by an average of 12.3 million viewers, the most since 2000. That's up 40 percent from the 2009 Pro Bowl on NBC, which drew 8.8 million viewers when the event was held after the Super Bowl.

This year's game was in a later time slot, when more people watch TV, and competed against the Grammys on CBS, which attracted 25.8 million viewers, the most since 2004.

However, one drawback of playing the Pro Bowl first is not having any Super Bowl players.

About 40 percent of those originally selected didn't play in Miami. That included seven Indianapolis Colts and seven New Orleans Saints because they were preparing for the title game.

Paging the NFL. Paging the NFL. Terrible idea. Absolutely terrible idea.

Even though ratings were up 40% from the previous years Pro Bowl, and drew 12.3 million viewers. It was still a disaster for an event. A total waste of time. Every single player that most fans wanted to see did not play. Nothing exactly exciting happened in the game. It was a total waste of time for the league, the players, and fans to participate again.

We have a much better solution for you. Do a combine. Take the 3 or 4 best QBs and have them compete in an accuracy competition, then see who can throw the football the furthest. How fun would that be? Brady, Manning, Rivers, and Brees proving who has the best arm (Manning) and who is the most accurate (Brady)

Take Chris Johnson, Maurice Jones-Drew, and Reggie Bush. Have them race. Who wouldn't want to see that?

Take Sebastian Janikowski, Jeff Reed, and Neil Rackers have them kick 40 yarders, 50 yarders, 60 yarders until the last person is standing.

And more importantly, who wouldn't want to participate in that? You can't tell me these guys wouldn't want to compete against each other. They never get the chance to go head to head against each other. It may seem crazy but fans would watch and players would compete, for at least a few years.

Something needs to happen with these types of games, because clearly they have gotten way to watered down. Players are afraid to get hurt in all sports. Leagues need to do something to try to spice it up and I think this would be a pretty good solution for the NFL.

I mean, just pull the ratings from the combine. If there's interest in watching future draft selections run a 40 yard dash there most certainly will be interest in the top players from each position, currently, competing against one another.