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Fixed it for you.Yeah I hope JAG lights it up and BB decides to trade Mallett to STL for a 7th.
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Fixed it for you.Yeah I hope JAG lights it up and BB decides to trade Mallett to STL for a 7th.
We all know how this is going to end. We're going to get a nice lead and something stupid will happen in the end and Giants will pull it out. Regular season, Super Bowl, Pre-season those ****ers do it every time. I think we've only beaten them in 09(pre-season) since that very unfortunate day in Glendale.@JumboHart: The @giants will reportedly play starters for 15-18 snaps on Thursday night against the #Patriots Interesting test for those Pats that play
lets be real here people.
Mallet didn't do anything WRONG in his time with the patriots, but unfortunately for him, Brady isn't done playing, and the pats just are not a team that's going to pay a backup qb the kind of money mallet is going to get offered in FA. This definitely is not a case where the pats drafted a qb and he was a bust.
Mallet did what he was brought in to do, be the clipboard "just in case" player, he never got in trouble, and there was never any drama around him.
Jimmy G is the new future, and from what we have seen that future is bright.
Agreed. I don't hate Mallet, but right now he is the interim piece and JG is the future. The Pats rightly want to see what they have in JG, so they are giving him the final preseason start. This doesn't mean we're cutting Mallet. It means we let him ride out as the #2 QB just in case the unthinkable happens.
You don't trade away a QB with 4 years experience in the system for garbage draft picks. Fact is Mallet is a lot more valuable to us than what the Market should be offering. So I feel that we keep him for the season and let him leave in free agency and just take whatever comp pick that brings.
What??
They lose any chance to trade him after the training deadline as he is a FA. As for the comp pick, they maybe would get a 7th round pick for him. Not sure if BB right now wants a potential 2015 7th round pick more than he does an extra RB, DL, DB, or LB
I'm not sure what math you're using to come up with the idea that losing a 3rd round pick to FA will only net us a 7th round comp pick.
I'm not sure what math you're using to come up with the idea that losing a 3rd round pick to FA will only net us a 7th round comp pick.
The fact that Mallett was a 3rd round pick has nothing at all to do with the formula. It is mainly based on contractual value; with the other variables being post-season awards, and playing time factored into the formula.
If Mallett goes on to get the kind of "borderline" starter/backup contract that most of us are expecting at around 2.5m per year, he'll bring nothing more than a low round pick for his part of the formula.
Anyone expecting a mid round comp pick for our backup QB is huffing glue, unless he somehow ends up signed to the kind of pact that someone like Kevin Kolb ended up getting, and in my opinion that is unlikely.
Also remember that Mallet is only part of the formula, if we sign someone at equal value they will cancel out and no comp pick will be awarded. Or conversely, if Mallet and others leave and it adds up to a much large sum of the combined deals we may be awarded multiple high picks (eg. 2012 Ravens defense was almost entirely lost during the 2013 off season and for 2014 they were awarded about 18 bagillion comp picks).
At least that's how I (vaguely) understand it.
As someone on Twitter noted, though:
Isn't it, well, highly unusual that the Patriots announced this, and are OK with Garoppolo talking about it, this far ahead of time?
Obviously, Belichick has his reasons. The question is, what those reasons are.
I am not sure of that... if Mallett was "trade bait' wouldn't you want to showcase him??
The fact that Mallett was a 3rd round pick has nothing at all to do with the formula. It is mainly based on contractual value; with the other variables being post-season awards, and playing time factored into the formula (which ctpatsfan77 claim to be used as "tiebreakers.")
If Mallett goes on to get the kind of "borderline" starter/backup contract that most of us are expecting at around 2.5m per year, he'll bring nothing more than a low round pick for his part of the formula. I would think a 6th round pick, maybe a 5th at best--but again, it's a team-wide formula based on who we lose and who we sign in free agency.
Anyone expecting a mid round (3rd/4th) comp pick for our backup QB is huffing glue, unless he somehow ends up signed to the kind of pact that someone like Kevin Kolb ended up getting, and in my opinion that is very unlikely.