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I'm with Kontradiction (backup depth for Mayo) and patsox23 (better than Alexander) on this one.
Perhaps we are assuming that just because Alexander got reps on special teams in the last preseason game and McKenzie did not, that McKenzie is incapable of producing on special teams. In my opinion he has far more upside than Alexander or Guyton - remember, he was a third round talent just a year ago. We may be putting too much stock into amount of playing time in one or two preseason games, and jumping to conclusions.
Cutting him after one training camp seems to be a huge over reaction. Unless there is something Belichick knows about that we don't - that his injury was much more severe than we thought it was, or that even after a year and a half of sitting in on meetings he can't grasp the playbook and terminology - then I don't understand why people would want to let McKenzie go so quickly.
As for the 'McKenzie hasn't proven anything, Guyton has' idea, with that reasoning we may as well let Chung, Butler, Brace, and every rookie go as well. Of course McKenzie hasn't 'proven' anything yet; he hasn't played a real NFL game yet.
Perhaps BB is bring McKenzie along slowly due to the injury. Perhaps his playing time has nothing to do with his perceived status on the depth chart - just like BJGE is not the Pats starting RB. I don't know, time will tell, but to me it's far too early to write him off. I will say that I expected him to play a lot of special teams this year; we'll have to wait and see if that will actually happen. I'm not going to assume that he can't or won't do that because of two preseason games.
Perhaps we are assuming that just because Alexander got reps on special teams in the last preseason game and McKenzie did not, that McKenzie is incapable of producing on special teams. In my opinion he has far more upside than Alexander or Guyton - remember, he was a third round talent just a year ago. We may be putting too much stock into amount of playing time in one or two preseason games, and jumping to conclusions.
Cutting him after one training camp seems to be a huge over reaction. Unless there is something Belichick knows about that we don't - that his injury was much more severe than we thought it was, or that even after a year and a half of sitting in on meetings he can't grasp the playbook and terminology - then I don't understand why people would want to let McKenzie go so quickly.
As for the 'McKenzie hasn't proven anything, Guyton has' idea, with that reasoning we may as well let Chung, Butler, Brace, and every rookie go as well. Of course McKenzie hasn't 'proven' anything yet; he hasn't played a real NFL game yet.
Perhaps BB is bring McKenzie along slowly due to the injury. Perhaps his playing time has nothing to do with his perceived status on the depth chart - just like BJGE is not the Pats starting RB. I don't know, time will tell, but to me it's far too early to write him off. I will say that I expected him to play a lot of special teams this year; we'll have to wait and see if that will actually happen. I'm not going to assume that he can't or won't do that because of two preseason games.