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It's ironic to bring up Welker's drops when the Pats receivers routinely drop balls all game as a unit. Fact is they could have had either player for the SAME MONEY and they chose Amendola. Welker went back to the Pats saying here's the number, I'll stay if you match, but they already went with another one of McDaniels' guys. All this is even worse with Brady taking that big pay cut and also the Pats sitting at $13M under the cap. Add Amendola to the list of spectacular rookies, ex-Ram or ex-Bronco acquisitions in the past year:
Greg Salas
Tim Tebow
Brandon Lloyd
Danny Amendola
Michael Hoomanawanui
Kenbrell Thompson
Aaron Dobson
Josh Boyce
Zach Sudfeld
There are going to be a ton of threads on Amendola all the way until he busts and leaves the team a few years from now. This is basically just like all the Laurence Maroney threads from 2006-2009. Another totally overrated, injury-prone player who homers will defend to death.
maverick,
Wasn't going respond to your McDaniels bashing post since it belongs on some nutjob conspiracy theory site, but I am bored. So what the Hell.
- The Pats aren't $13 million under the cap. Miguel has them at $6.9 million and Overthecap.com have them at $8.9 million.
- Brady didn't take a pay cut. In fact, he made $3 million more this year than before his extension. Brady signed an extension (fully guaranteed) that if he is still elite in 2015 and beyond would be a pay cut. If not, it may be a great deal for him.
- So Thompkins, Dobson, Boyce, and Sudfeld all played for either the Rams or Broncos under McDaniels? Rookies who have never played in the NFL before this year?
- If you are giving credit to McDaniels for those rookies, are you going to give him credit if any or all of them turn out to be good or great players?
- Tim Tebow didn't even make the roster. Who cares if the Pats brought him in to take a look at him and see if they could make him an NFL QB? It cost the Pats next to nothing. No harm, no foul.
- Lloyd still had 911 yards and 4 TDs last year. Did we expect better? Sure, but those are still solid #s for a # 2 WR. He might not have lived up to expectations, but he was a solid contributor to the Pats last year.
People make fun of NEM on this board, but at least he never went to the great lengths you do to smear the OC with ridiculous whack job conspiracy theory stuff.