What will be the status of...

Scott Chandler
Danny Amendola
Brandon Lafell
Jared Mayo

Married
Single
It's complicated
Married

SalemPats said:

Scott Chandler
Danny Amendola
Brandon Lafell
Jared Mayo

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Jared Mayo moves in with his cousin jerod mayo

SalemPats said:

Scott Chandler
Danny Amendola
Brandon Lafell
Jared Mayo

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Cut
Renegotiated
Cut
Renegotiated for peanuts/retires & joins coaching staff

Chandler is gone, Amendola gets his contract re-worked, Lafell will at least be TC competition if not a starter again (should he find health), and Mayo either re-works his contract or gets cut.

I know this is a "what have you done for me lately" kind of league, but I'm surprised how many people are quick to cut Brandon LaFell. It would be like playing a three game series in Baseball and claiming that game three is a lost cause because you lost game two. This guy had one very productive year (including a touchdown in the Super Bowl), followed up by a poor season, which may or may not have been caused by injury.

But aside from that, the problem is his departure still leaves a hole at a position that currently has no one ready to step in and replace him. If we had seen more from Dobson, I'd understand, but there's no one on the roster who can give you kind of production that LaFell did his first year out of that spot. So we'd have to go outside for help, which means we either A) overpay for someone we KNOW will do better, or B) spend probably the same amount of money we'd be spending on LaFell to bring in a guy we HOPE can do what he did (which is basically the same situation we'd be in if we kept him).

Why wouldn't Mayo re-negioate a cheap deal here if it were play here or play cheap elsewhere?

KontradictioN said:

Chandler is gone, Amendola gets his contract re-worked, Lafell will at least be TC competition if not a starter again (should he find health), and Mayo either re-works his contract or gets cut.

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I see LaFell being cut, injury or not his ineffectiveness was dissapointing. There is better than LaFell in FA...I would rather than take a chance on Brandon Gibson going forward over LaFell.

Froob said:

Why wouldn't Mayo re-negioate a cheap deal here if it were play here or play cheap elsewhere?

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Pride. In fact, the Patriots may not even make an offer for fear of insulting him.

PatsFan2 said:

I see LaFell being cut, injury or not his ineffectiveness was dissapointing. There is better than LaFell in FA...I would rather than take a chance on Brandon Gibson going forward over LaFell.

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I think injury caused his ineffectiveness. As for the bolded? LOL.

LaFell will be given a chance to compete.
Mayo will restructure or be cut.
Amendola will restructure
Chandler - hope he is cut.

Froob said:

Why wouldn't Mayo re-negioate a cheap deal here if it were play here or play cheap elsewhere?

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Talk to Wilfork

What the hell happened to Chandler....

SalemPats said:

Scott Chandler
Danny Amendola
Brandon Lafell
Jared Mayo

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Chandler: can save $2M by cutting him, so he should be gone. Wouldn't be shocked if he stays though.

Amendola: can save $4M+ by cutting him, so same as above. I think he'll be cut, but wouldn't be shocked if he isn't.

LaFell: can save a little over $2.5M by cutting him. I think he stays, at least through training camp. He clearly wasn't healthy this year; if he can use the offseason to get back to 100% and somewhere close to his 2014 level of play, then it's better to have him than $2.5M in cap savings.

Mayo: can save $7m by cutting him, so his backs should already be packed. Cutting him is as big a no-brainer as Wilfork was last year, and will be sad to see for all the same reasons. It's necessary, though, because the Pats are going to need that money to help lock up some of the young guys (I'm hoping they'll get Collins and Hightower done this offseason).

Froob said:

Why wouldn't Mayo re-negioate a cheap deal here if it were play here or play cheap elsewhere?

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The two reasons I can think of are pride or someone else being willing to pay more, because other teams don't have the prospect of new deals for Collins and Hightower on the horizon. Some other team that's looking for a veteran presence and doesn't have its own looming deals coming up will probably be willing to pay significantly more than the Pats can afford to. Basically it'd be the Wilfork to Houston scenario again.

Froob said:

Why wouldn't Mayo re-negioate a cheap deal here if it were play here or play cheap elsewhere?

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Because a team will offer him more than New England would I believe due the fact they won't have dead money to deal with his contract.

BradyFTW! said:

The two reasons I can think of are pride or someone else being willing to pay more, because other teams don't have the prospect of new deals for Collins and Hightower on the horizon. Some other team that's looking for a veteran presence and doesn't have its own looming deals coming up will probably be willing to pay significantly more than the Pats can afford to. Basically it'd be the Wilfork to Houston scenario again.

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I have no idea what Mayo's dealing have been, but Wilfork's was kinda tense from the sounds of it (not blaming him, he kinda got put in a ****ty situation a few times). So it'll probably be more likely Mayo would be willing to come back for cheap.

Chandler - CUT; sign Ben Watson instead
Amendola - RESTRUCTURE and/or extend; make him take down carport
LaFell - bring to camp unless someone better is available for same/less in FA; if no one emerges or he can't remember how to a) run routes, b) catch, c) avoid being tackled immediately, then CUT
Mayo - tough one would be nice to keep as depth/experience but can't stay reliably healthy to do that; would love if something happened to keep him but he looks like an obvious CUT (or retire and take the LB job)

SalemPats said:

Scott Chandler
Danny Amendola
Brandon Lafell
Jared Mayo

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Chandler ... drinking play tea with his daughters.
Amendola ... asking Curran to be his best man at wedding with Kaye.
LaFell ... seeing a shrink to cure his dropping **** in the market.
Mayo ... playing for a 1 million contract to grab a ring.

aluminum seats said:

What the hell happened to Chandler....

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for some reason, i think he stays...seems like a patriot type of guy.
too bad he had 0 production.

still looking for the perfect number 2 TE...