patriot1136
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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I absolutely agree, but I also want to add that the OL improvement and that of the receivers are two pretty decent sized IFs. We've definitely seen positive strides in recent weeks, which would suggest they're trending up. But who knows with the way players keep falling? Look at how losing Connolly immediately changed things yesterday. Connolly, especially, is concerning because the number of concussions on his resume has been on a steady incline in recent seasons. But overall, your point is spot on.
The only players on the team with a higher APY are Brady, Revis, Mayo, Wilfork, and Gronkowski. Amendola has 10 catches in his last 10 games dating back to last season, and has not had a catch in 5 of the 10 games. He is the worst UFA signing in Belichick tenure.
Yeah well when Brian Tyms plays 1 game, makes 1 catch, and now has more yards and touchdowns than the player dubbed as Welker's replacement it is worthy of this many posts. This entire situation has become laughable and now posters want to pretend Amendola does not exist or is not worthy of discussion to attempt to gaze past the huge failure that is Danny Amendola.
Chad Johnson was an aging player signed with the hope that we could get a year or maybe 2 of a rejuvenated career. Amendola was supposed to be a centerpiece in the offense for 4-5 years at least. His failure is huge, and if not for the emergence of Edelman we would be truly screwed.
Since Amendola misplayed the potential game winning touchdown at the end of week 15 against Miami last year he has 10 catches in 10 games.
The problem is that Amendola is still on the field in front of players like Dobson, Wright, and even Tyms who have shown the ability to do far more with their opportunity than Amendola. I suspect he has the full first half of the season to get his **** together, so that leaves him 2 more games, after that I would say he will be lucky to be active on game day if things do not change. We cannot continue to give him snaps it is actually depressing to watch as a fan.
Amendola like Brandon Lloyd, Greg Salas, Spencer Larsen, Daniel Fells, and Michael Hoomanawanui are products of Josh McDaniels, they came in on his recommendation having played for him the years prior either in St. Louis or Denver. These failures land on McDaniels, and also on Belichick for listening to McDaniels. Amendola was a player tossed around in the same discussion as Greg Salas in 2012 a player we may have given up a fifth or sixth round pick in a trade, a year later we are paying him nearly $6M per season. That never should have happen, the expectations that came along with that are not even in the realm of feasible for Amendola, he is not that quality of player and never has been, he had a handful of big games over 4 years in St. Louis, that is all.
How long do things need to play out? I feel like they played out, started over and played out again.
Oh come on, you're loving this. There are more " I told you so's" from you here in this thread, and now you're feigning depression?
