You and my definition of cheap are different so we will never agree on that point.
Your definition of cheap and the English defintion of cheap are different.
I don't buy that they are getting Dummervil he's too short for their system. If they do I'll eat my crow.
They are actively pursuing him. You seem to not undertstand that you cannot just decide to sign someone when there are 31 other teams competing. There is every reason to believe they are pusuing a top pass rusher.
Last year they moved up in the draft to get one.
The year before they signed the 2 most productive pass rushing FAs
Prior to that they signed the most expensive OLB on the market in 2007 to team with Vrabel. They drafted Crabel in round 3, Bequette in round 3. They signed Colvin as the top FA on the market before that.
It is insane to say the Patriots haven't make appropriate efforts to bolster there pass rush consistently since BB has been here.
My meaning was that they could have gotten another corner besides Talib to have 2 competent ones for 5 million each.
They drafted Dennard last year, and he will start. They signed a ncikle corner for 4 mill a year. Why would you waste 5 mill on another corner? They wouldn't be able to afford a pass rusher if you did that. 14 mill on 3 corners when you have 25 mill to spend when you have no WRs no RT and no pass rushers besides Jones is ridiculous.
As someone said to you earlier, a budget is simple. You can't say I want this without saying what you will sacrifice for it.
I am saying that it is stupid to think a prime FA would take 1 year deal,
Probably true.
I read it on NFL.com the article has since been taken down or moved I can't find it I tried.
But you know as well as I do that they wouldn't have wasted their time offering that to a guy looking for a 7 year break the bank deal. To think so it to be out of touch with the real world.
]My post about getting 2 guys for the price of 10 million was a compromise between this teams desire to get a lot of players instead of putting all their eggs in one basket.
That makes no sense. Amendola got 5/28 for a first year hit of 3.5. Arrington 4/16 for a 1st year hit of 2.625. In other words the first year hit is about 60% of the AAV normally.
Why would you sign a guy for 1/5 when the only way to do that is for someone with issues who cant get a long term deal when instead you could sign a guy for 5/40?
You just have a huge mixed up idea of how free agency works.
The Patriots use the bulk of their money on young players or players in their prime, favoiring keeping their own. Then they supplement that by getting a good price on an aging player trying to get more short term value out of the money to go along with the long term value.
Everythoing you post sounds like you are talking about a different team.
This was a year where you could do that. I have no hatred
Your posts spew it.
I used to be really optimistic about this team and still am except when it comes to wr, cb, and pass rush this team has a lot of trouble drafting those positions and does not "value" them enough in FA to get top quality players at those positions.
They have spent heavily in picks and/or contracts on those spots. We have had some of the best WR seasons in NFL history from Moss and Welker. Brady just had the 2nd highest passing total in NFL history 2 years ago, and you are saying the team doesn't value recievers? They just signed 2 TEs to 2 of the biggest TE contracts ever.
The draft choices at corner are voluminous. In the 4 years they have spend a 1, 2 2s on corners. They have traded for a top corner. They signed the 2nd most expensive corner on the market (Bodden) and just signed Talib.
I listed the pass rushing moves earlier.
None of what you says adds up.
if you can't draft them and don't want to sign them, well you are going to have holes at those positions every year, which you have to agree they have had since 2007.
Moss and Welker at WR is not a hole. Welker and the 29th most productive WR in the NFL along with the 2 top TEs is not a hole.
The defense needed to be rebuilt due to age. You seem to think it just takes a snap of the fingers.