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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.The Patriots signed Amendola before the Hernandez situation occurred.I blame Hernandez for everything. I believe if Hernandez wasn't a piece of ****, he would have replaced Welker and Pats don't sign Amendola while focusing in other areas of need like the safety position.
its was the GM Brian Xanders that Drafted him Josh never had BB type power in Denver and Thomas was a First round pick the pats have never Drafted a WR in the First round. the point is you cant keep Drafting the 6th or 7th best WR in the Draft and think he will be anything more then a 4th or 5th WR on the roster if he can even make the team or be active on sunday
I don't see why anyone would blame him for Tebow he took over a 1-4 team and won a wild card game for them, that also made Elway see that they can win with that young team and the owner gave him full power and he got them in the SB two years later and they are still one of the top 4 or 5 team in the NFL and IMO Tebow was a part of that turn around in DenverSo Josh McD doesn't get credit for drafting Demaryius Thomas, but he gets all the blame for Tebow? Doesn't make sense...
Amendola has been really poor so far. I think it's still early to completely give up on him, but I suspect if the Patriots had known for sure what Edelman could, and would, become, there's no way they would've spent the Amendola $$$ the way they did.
As for McDaniels, I have no interest in his input on receivers. He is a big part of why we traded for Salas, a big part of why we signed Amendola, and while we were all wringing our hands about the OL coach not making adjustments last week, we should've been focused on Josh. He did a putrid job in Miami, and has this bizarre assumption of assumption (to HC) once BB retires. Insane.
I'm not sure I would see Brady forcing the football elsewhere rather than throwing it to Amendola as a positive. Keep in mind that the player Amendola was employed to replace was the player Brady had previously been accused of forcing the ball too.
Did Amendola play today against the Viking? I thought so!
Defense won this game.
Since the end of the Dolphins game in week 15 when Amendola misplayed the potential game winning pass Brady has targeted Amendola at total of 18 times in 6 games, which equates to 3 targets per game, to put that in perspective in that game against the Dolphins the ball Amendola misplayed was his 14th target of that game. What I am getting at is it is very clear that Brady does not have the highest level of confidence in Amendola and prefers to throw the ball elsewhere. Similar to when Chad Johnson dropped the touchdown against the Bills in 2011, and Brady seldom went back to him again that season.Not sure what you're getting at here. If Amendola or anyone else is wide open and Brady throws into double coverage (whether it's his choice or because he's rushed and can't get deeper into his progression), it's a BIG problem. More than anything else, I believe it's why we've lost the last two games badly. Offensive three-and-outs in the Denver air and in the Miami heat are a recipe for disaster for your defense.
Amendola has 9 catches in his last 6 games, you need to stop trying to pass the buck to other players when clearly Amendola is the reason for his own failure.I suspect it's the OL. Brady needs time to get through his progressions without pressure up the middle. I'm hoping Stork can become the C sooner rather than later (he wasn't getting bull-rushed, from what I could tell), and was hoping the rumors of Vollmer to LG were a possibility (Solder, Vollmer, Stork, Connolly, Cannon).
If a QB does not have confidence in them then it is likely a result of them letting the QB down, so it is there fault.Whatever the case, I find it hard to blame receivers who are open if the QB won't get them the damned ball.
I do not think I have ever once said anything about Emmanuel Sanders in the last year so I really do not have a clue what you are referring to.And please, enough with the Manny Sanders worship. I wanted the guy this year and last - he's a good receiver. But he's not Antonio Brown or AJ Greene.
Edelman is a great slot WR. He is not a number 1 WR.
The O did what it needed to and kept if very vanilla... no need to put a lot of folks in situations where they could get hurt, or show every wrinkle of the O...
Brady only threw 22 passes completing 15, I believe in the second half.. so draw what conclusions you like from that.
He has 9 catches in his last 6 games, times that by 25 and you will have the number of different excuses that have been made for Amendola in the last 6 games.The O did what it needed to and kept if very vanilla... no need to put a lot of folks in situations where they could get hurt, or show every wrinkle of the O...
Brady only threw 22 passes completing 15, I believe in the second half.. so draw what conclusions you like from that.