Where does Edelman rank for your as your favorite Pats WR?

Where is he at in your eyes?

TB is my #1....Edelman after this year may be my #2

#1

I went to the San Diego game this year and saw his amazing breakaway touchdown. In the playoffs, and especially in the Super Bowl, he was heroic in every way. The guy takes a beating and goes harder on the next play. He reminds me a lot of Welker, except I think Edelman is harder to shut down. Let's remember Welker was often surrounded by lots of great talent; Edelman is the great talent that surrounds the other guys. Edelman has also come up much bigger than WW when we needed it the most.

I used to be a huge Edelman critic, one of the biggest Edelman bashers on the board. I was disappointed that it seemed he has plateau'd after 2009; it's so much I didn't like him, so much that I couldn't fathom why so many posters still thought he was a valuable player. The way he has played the last two seasons has been a joy to watch, and humble pie has never tasted so sweet. I am sorry, Julian, please forgive me. I am not worthy.

TB is my favorite as well.

Love Jules though.

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I've liked the pats for a long time. But this is my first Super Bowl as an adult. Where I lived and breathed the team. Where I watched every snap of every game.

Edelman is just the man. I don't know how, but somehow he had elevated himself to near Brady status for me

Pretty damn high.

I was on the Edelman bandwagon before the wagon had a band

1. Troy Brown
2. Julian Edelman
3. Deion Branch

Was too young to see legends like Gino, Morgan and Fryar.

Ask me when he retires. I still have fond memories of Brown and Branch from super bowl 38 and countless other classics.

#1 of recent note.
And was my favorite slot corner a few years ago too!

1.a Edelman
1.b Brown
2. Moss

Love me some Incredelman

Pretty high up there. David Givens was my favorite from the dynasty years. But, I love Branch and Brown too. Edelman is as tough as they come.

I find it hard to not like most of the pats players that have especially come in from the late 90's. But Edelman is a special player. Glad he got at least 1 ring

Edes is one of my favorite players by far. He is one of the biggest reasons we are here, celebrating a SB. I was one of his biggest supporters from day one. I really couldn't understand the negatively he got years ago. He did everything great. Offense, defense, special teams.... I give him the most credit for that Lombard. But, I love this whole organization. Fans too. We are blessed.

Edelman is my favorite with Brown a close 2nd.

Also I will add this which is going to get down voted into infinity. If you replace "2007 Moss" with "2014 Edelman" on that 2007 the Patriots would have won that championship. Moss is the better WR but is not a good playoff option.

Down field WRs that need time for routes to develope do not do well in salary cap era football pass rushers get there too fast and lines can not hold up for 4 seconds consistently.

Look at Edelman in these playoffs the last 2 years. 84, 89, 74, 98, 106. That consistency is rare in the playoffs and is because short passing works no matter how good the other teams pass rush is.

BobDigital said:

Also I will add this which is going to get down voted into infinity. If you replace "2007 Moss" with "2014 Edelman" on that 2007 the Patriots would have won that championship. Moss is the better WR but is not a good playoff option.

Down field WRs that need time for routes to develope do not do well in salary cap era football pass rushers get there too fast and lines can not hold up for 4 seconds consistently.

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There is some truth to what you say, but those 2007 Pats had Wes Welker and Kevin Faulk (probably our best pass catching RB of the era). Those two guys should have opened up the short pass attack in that SB but failed to. I think the problems in that game were more than just the style of offense.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

There is some truth to what you say, but those 2007 Pats had Wes Welker and Kevin Faulk (probably our best pass catching RB of the era). Those two guys should have opened up the short pass attack in that SB but failed to. I think the problems in that game were more than just the style of offense.

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It wasn't so much a personnel problem but a game plan problem. They had short passing options but went deep to moss and either threw incompletions or took sacks. They didn't change it cause it is what they did all year and it worked all year. It really wasn't until late in the game on the last few drives the started to dink and dunk and then moved the ball well and even scored a TD. If they played that way all game they would have won.

If they had Edelman over Moss they would have had to go to the short game and would have been better off for it and had won.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

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I went to the San Diego game this year and saw his amazing breakaway touchdown. In the playoffs, and especially in the Super Bowl, he was heroic in every way. The guy takes a beating and goes harder on the next play. He reminds me a lot of Welker, except I think Edelman is harder to shut down. Let's remember Welker was often surrounded by lots of great talent; Edelman is the great talent that surrounds the other guys. Edelman has also come up much bigger than WW when we needed it the most.

I used to be a huge Edelman critic, one of the biggest Edelman bashers on the board. I was disappointed that it seemed he has plateau'd after 2009; it's so much I didn't like him, so much that I couldn't fathom why so many posters still thought he was a valuable player. The way he has played the last two seasons has been a joy to watch, and humble pie has never tasted so sweet. I am sorry, Julian, please forgive me. I am not worthy.

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The problem was not that Edelman plateaued. The problem for him was that the Pats got GRONK, Hernandez, Branch, and Woodhead. In 2009 he was sometimes the second best receiving option on the field. By the end of 2010 he was often the fifth.

Number one, to the degree that I changed my password on Windows on my laptop to his name and some numbers.

It's tough to decide between Moss, Branch, Troy Brown, and Incredleman.

The guys who were good and productive enough in the time I've followed the team to be in the discussion are Brown, Branch, Givens, Moss, Welker and Edelman.

I put the gritty 3-way players Brown and Edelman above the others. Those two are also the only ones who never made a move to leave the team.

Edelman seems to be the smarter and funnier of the two. Brown is the one more important in franchise history (if there were such a thing is postseason team MVP, he would have been it for the Pats' first Super Bowl win). It's a close call for me between the two.

Personal Favorites List

1 (tie); Troy Brown and Julian Edelman
2 Deion Branch
3 Wes Welker
4 Randy Moss
5 Randy Vataha
6 Stanley Morgan
7 Darryl Stingley
8 Gino Capelletti
9 David Patten
10 (tie) Shawn Jefferson (personal binky) and David Givens