All great points and these are all factors that you can use to determine who to vote for.
If you really wanted to know what others thought, it would appear reasonable to define the question. Otherwise, it appears a lame poll replete with ambiguities to support a player you are "campaigning for" (or in this case, against). Injured Amendola against healthy Edelman? How ingenious. And with
Wow Edelman hasn’t dominated like this since last Sunday
Edelman – 79%
Amendola – 21%
we can throw out any hope that you wanted to conduct a scientific poll, and just write it off as silly with a design of using these numbers again in support of . . .
Seem like we are bringing in some McDaniels endorsed players and investing value in them and not receiving much of a reward while at the same players like Welker, Woodhead and others have moved on and been productive for their new teams at a low annual cost.
. . . your insane McDaniels theory. You claim you have nothing against Amendola (I doubt it, since repeated posts have identified Amendola as McDaniels's boy and part of McDaniels's elaborate scheme to bring in lame players that tax the Pats salary cap). You are, however, the Mayor of Crazy Town when it comes to Josh McDaniels. This just seems like a round-a-bout way of trying to discredit a prior McDaniels player in your campaign against McDaniels. Paid too much this year for Amendola? Probably yes, given his injury. But what is a guy with 85 receptions on a lousy Rams team worth? What is the same guy worth when he likely needs no transition period due to the familiar offense under McDaniels? Do you BB may have looked at these issues a bit when Amendola was signed?
You have some great posts on other topics, but you are a full-on, tinfoil hat wearing crazy conspiracy theorist on this topic. You just watched BB roll the dice on an OT decision with the Broncos, a decision few head coaches would make. He will take risks, both on the field and with personnel decisions. That OT decision was BB and nobody else. Adalius Thomas was a gem from BB as well. As was Brady.
From all your discussion on this McDaniels topic, you apparently believe BB is some tapioca pudding slurping octogenarian sitting in his bed in a nursing home while Josh McDaniels, the OC with no apparent authority on personnel decisions, forces a pen on him, points to the contracts and says "Sign here. Sign here. Initial here" while BB stares blankly ahead. One of the smartest coaches ever, the guy who likely has done more film study than anyone in history, has been bamboozled by this OC into signing a bunch of under-performers. If you believe that, then you really need to read more on the head coach of this team and how he runs things, because that theory is insanity, pure and simple. If you need more convincing, watch the Rodney Harrison interview from a few years ago and learn why he joined the Pats. I'll answer it - BB impressed him to no end when he rattled off specifics of plays he was involved in from games 4 and 5 years ago. Maybe he just took the day off with all the McDaniels players, to his horror, and they didn't pan out. Not bloody likely.
So in the end,
1. you think McDaniels is a lousy OC who convinced BB to sign bad players to bad contracts
2. you cited Amendola as an illustration of your McDaniels issues
3. you have no issue with Amendola, but don't like - ta da - his contract.
So does this poll become the launching point for a new anti-McDaniels tirade, with numbers made meaningless by eliminating contact details and health status prior to the contract period of 2014, or are you really just curious about Edelman and Amendola and who people prefer right now?
Again, I actually enjoy reading many of your posts not on this topic because you do offer statistics when you make an argument, but you got beaten like a rented mule by numerous posters in that McDaniels thread because of your unfounded belief that the players under an OC who join the Pats after playing for him previously must mean the OC is directing BB to sign his former players to the detriment of the Pats. BB is the Pats, plain and simple. He coaches coaches and players. There is no way these are not his decisions and his decisions alone. Try a poll asking if you believe that McDaniels was the decision-maker in adding his former players to the Pats roster and see how those numbers play out.
