When Chad Ochocinco arrived in New England to play for the Patriots he had one word to describe it “Heaven” he said from the stadium, to the locker room and all the way to the food, it was heaven. Chad had previously spent his entire career playing wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. Chad had always stated that he had always wanted to play for coach Bill Belichick and finally in the 2011 season, Paul Brown granted his wish and traded him to the Patriots for a 6th round pick. Chad was brought here a week into training camp with much to learn. Tom Brady said once in an interview that there is close to 3600 plays in the Patriots offensive playbook so there is much to understand in four weeks of preseason football. Chad started week one in Miami and his production was small with just one catch. People started criticizing him publically. Former Patriot Tedy Bruschi called Chad out telling him to get off of Twitter and into your playbook. Chad handled it the right way not talking to the media and when the media outlets would stand by his locker he would say he’s not talking and just point to his playbook stating that he would not talk until he knew the playbook completely. Tom Brady was being interviewed on WEEI this past Monday and stated that whoever has a problem with Chad has no idea what they are talking about what is going on inside that locker room. Chad has been a big part of this team and he is a great teammate Tom Brady stated. This past Sunday Ochocinco has more of an impact with two big catches, one pass from Brady that got the team out of its own end zone and the other catch was caught even though the defender struck him early which caused a pass interference penalty. I personally love the fact that Chad is on this team. Chad has always been one of my favorite all time players in the league and I feel that he can bring some valued experience to this team once he is completely involved in the offense.
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I totally agree, Chad has been so shortchanged with the lockout and not having mini-camp, and OTAs, and all that other stuff that normally you would have in a season. I'm willing to bet within 4-6 weeks he will be a much different contributor than he is now. Psyched he is on the Pats.
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