Possible WRs if No Givens - Page 2 - New England Patriots Forums

***BelichickFan*** · 03-13-2006, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by bucky

TO, baby! It's coming.

LMAO . . . can you imagine the upside and the downside if that happened

***BelichickFan*** · 03-13-2006, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by SeanBruschi54

Very true but Patten was very reliable at #2 when he was here. Not saying he would be JUST as reliable but reliable none the less. I dont think the skins will play him all that money to be the 4th!!!!!! WR on that team behind. Moss, Randel-El, and Lloyd. All with new contracts (minus Moss).

I think they cut him somehow.

This is what I found on Patten :

"The Redskins are expected to pair Moss with former New England Patriots wideout David Patten, who was signed in March to a five-year, $13 million deal that included a $3.5 million bonus."

If the $3.5M was a signing bonus, that's $700K acceleration per year with $700K gone . . . it would cost them $2.8M to cut and they'd save his $1M salary so it would cost them close to $2M to dump. Not undoable but they're better off keeping him at a cap hit of $1.7M than dumping him at a cost of $1.8M. IMO, anyway.

bucky · 03-13-2006, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by BelichickFan

This is what I found on Patten :

"The Redskins are expected to pair Moss with former New England Patriots wideout David Patten, who was signed in March to a five-year, $13 million deal that included a $3.5 million bonus."

If the $3.5M was a signing bonus, that's $700K acceleration per year with $700K gone . . . it would cost them $2.8M to cut and they'd save his $1M salary so it would cost them close to $2M to dump. Not undoable but they're better off keeping him at a cap hit of $1.7M than dumping him at a cost of $1.8M. IMO, anyway.

If they cut him after 6/1, they would take a $700K cap hit this year and the other $2.1 mil next year. But I agree that they're better off keeping him. I'm not sure Lloyd and Randle El are that much better WRs than Patten.