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I've never understood this speculation about Welker being phased out....
Against the Titans, Welker was targeted 5 times. Too low? Well Gronk only got 6 targets. Were they trying to phase him out too?
Aganist the Cards, Welker was targeted 11 times. Problem was he only caught 5 of them. That's not on the coaches, that's on him. It was a bad game for him. It happens. The following week he looked fine.
I couldn't stand all the manufactured speculation. It was all due to jerk media personalities, like Michael Felger, who are constantly looking for topics to harp on about.
I've never understood this speculation about Welker being phased out....
Against the Titans, Welker was targeted 5 times. Too low? Well Gronk only got 6 targets. Were they trying to phase him out too?
Aganist the Cards, Welker was targeted 11 times. Problem was he only caught 5 of them. That's not on the coaches, that's on him. It was a bad game for him. It happens. The following week he looked fine.
I couldn't stand all the manufactured speculation. It was all due to jerk media personalities, like Michael Felger, who are constantly looking for topics to harp on about.
It wasn't manufactured. McDaniels acknowledged it. That's well worn territory.
What it IS, is just another mediot creating a story from pure conjecture. Based on the stats that Shock provided the evidence just doesn't match the claim.
I imagine that I could take the fact of Welker's limited play in the pre-season and reduced snaps in the first game as "clear" evidence that there was something physically wrong with Welker early in the season. The fact I have absolutely no evidence that that was the case, doesn't make my conjecture and less valid than Gasper.
But what is clear is that Gasper will benefit from it, just like the CHB did with his piece of drivel. Who knows, its only Saturday. By tomorrow, the story could go national, and CBS will give Gasper some face time before the big game.
They were obviously taking a look at Edelman, the snaps had to come from somewhere. They have contract and personnel issues. Edelman seemed to benefit from the extra work and Welker seemed to get an extra chip on his shoulder.
There will always be these issues and hurt feelings, but the Pats seem to handle them well IMO. Other teams avoid issues of players getting older or expensive and end up making huge mistakes. I hope the pats decided Welker is really different and worth at least two years (on top of that franchise money from this year).
I hope they get it done. There really haven't been any signs of him slowing down like it was with Moss and even now with the duo TEs he is still the most consistent player on the offense.
I've never understood this speculation about Welker being phased out....
Against the Titans, Welker was targeted 5 times. Too low? Well Gronk only got 6 targets. Were they trying to phase him out too?
Aganist the Cards, Welker was targeted 11 times. Problem was he only caught 5 of them. That's not on the coaches, that's on him. It was a bad game for him. It happens. The following week he looked fine.
I couldn't stand all the manufactured speculation. It was all due to jerk media personalities, like Michael Felger, who are constantly looking for topics to harp on about.
McDaniels admitted to trying to phase out Welker?
You got a link to back that up?
More like you are taking an innocent quote and reading way too much into it.
Feel free to go look it up in the early Welker threads. The cutting of Welker's playing time was deliberate. However, what I was asking about in this thread was regarding specific comments made today by Gasper about Brady going to bad for Welker at halftime of the Cardinals game.