Well.....let's see
Football is an inherent game of of adjustments. Offenses become innovative and defenses catch up to offenses. If this wasn't true, players would still be wearing leather and the forward pass would look alien.
Well, like so many of your counter arguments, this point is completely irrelevant to the question I asked you. Here's a couple of reasons...
1. This offense, even without a deep threat, really has not been caught up to.
2. This offense, like the league, also depends on adjustments. They depend on adjustments pre-snap and post-snap. Much of that requires a Vulcan mind lock with Brady. Is there anybody on the team that shares a brain with Brady more than Welker?
3. Much of this offense's success over the last two seasons, post Moss, can be directly attributed to Welker.
The Patriots wouldn't rank 32nd in many ways but if a "do what we do" measure was ever instituted, they would be at the bottom.
Can anybody decipher this for me? Unfortunately, I am not fluent in inbred.
Ask Randy Moss about the idea of the Patriots evolving an offense......and if that has any factor in contract proceedings.
It had absolutely no factor in the contract proceedings. The fact that Moss aged, lost a step, and was becoming a distraction by talking openly to the press about his displeasure over not receiving a new contract before the old one was up had more to do with it. If what you're saying was the case, Moss would have been gone in the 2010 offseason.
Anyone somewhat awake the past 12 years would have noticed that this franchise does tend to change.
What's happened in a year on offense?
Two high draft pick RB's vs two mainstay UDFA RB's
Two all world TE's starting to peak.
Substantial overhaul of the WR corps.
1. Welker has a better connection with Brady when it comes to route adjustments than any of the above.
2. The RB's were drafted due to significant turnover at the position and not some made up notion that the offense is evolving in such a way that we're pushing out one of The Franchise's closest friends and the best slot receiver in the game.
3. None of these reasons address the question. They're essentially a best guess.
Does this usually happen because things will be exactly as they were before?
Even though you clearly can't answer the first one, I'll raise you another question: If the Pats offense is evolving in the way you're grasping at straws at to describe, then why have the Pats even bothered offering Welker a contract already?
How about seeing what TC and preseason holds and then figuring out why management and player are apart on their interpretation?
The problem with this argument is twofold. One, we already know what we have in Welker so it's fundementally unnecessary to wait until TC. Second, if we do that, we lose the ability to negotiate with him until 2013, which would make the notion that we're "screwing" with him that much more likely.