This dude went down the wrong road - he should have grabbed a scouting job . . .

I don't remember this dude playing for the Pats, but he's in deep shit now. He makes Dave Megget's cases look tame. A former UConn runningback, he backed up legendary Pats Pro Bowl linebackers Andre Tippett, Vincent Brown, Johnny Rembert and Larry McGrew . . .

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - A former Patriots [team stats] linebacker and his ex-lover were charged yesterday with killing a wealthy Orange County businessman for financial gain nearly 15 years ago.

Nanette Packard McNeal and Eric Naposki, who played in the late 1980s for theNew England Patriots [team stats] and Indianapolis Colts, were arrested and each charged with one count of murder.

Both had long been suspected in the December 1994 shooting death of multimillionaire William Francis McLaughlin, 55, but were not arrested at the time.

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