Asante Samuel is now a former New England Patriot, having agreed to a reported 5-year, $47.2 million deal with the Philadelphia Eagles, with likely at least $25 million of it guaranteed, something the Patriots would not commit to. It's an example of how players are valued differently from team to team; the Patriots were not about to commit that much money to a player, despite his production, came into the league as a mid-round draft choice and feel there are other ball-hawking cornerbacks out there in the draft.

Tedy Bruschi, of course, is back in, along with Kelley Washington, Eric Alexander, Lonnie Paxton and Pierre Woods, and Jabar Gaffney should be soon to follow.

Randy Moss? No word yet, but there is also no word that he is visiting any other teams at this point, either. Expect a deal to be reached soon.

-- TOM KING