REPORT: Danny Amendola and the Patriots have agreed to restructure contract

Wondering what will happen with Edelman. I would imagine something will have to happen relatively soon and I am not sure how it will go. He's what 29? And there is also a fairly lengthy list of injuries in his career.

203Pat said:

Wondering what will happen with Edelman. I would imagine something will have to happen relatively soon and I am not sure how it will go. He's what 29? And there is also a fairly lengthy list of injuries in his career.

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You'd think he'd restructure? He's a huuuuuge bargain. There's noway he should give up any money.

Froob said:

You'd think he'd restructure? He's a huuuuuge bargain. There's noway he should give up any money.

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He is and has been a definite bargain (which I am sure he and his agent are very aware of) but his contact is up when he is 31? I wonder if they extend him before that or let him play it out and low ball him. I love Edelman and I am pretty sure he loves it here too but I wonder if he will be willing to take a hometown discount after being underpaid for a few years already.

Danny is jumping up my list of all time favorite pats. He is a team player who can get it done when the lights shine the brightest.

varjao said:

Unfortunately for him his playing in the past years dictate his market, he didn't have much options, if he didn't agree he would get the same kind of offer in the market. Might as well keep playing for a winning team instead of going to Tampa or Cleveland.

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There is a good maket for a multi positional player who only cares about winning and has a superbowl ring. You may be right but I think someone would pay more for him than the pats.

grux said:

There is a good maket for a multi positional player who only cares about winning and has a superbowl ring. You may be right but I think someone would pay more for him than the pats.

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Lets be honest, folks. Pats deserve a little credit too.

While we all love DA, the market for a 30 1/2 year old WR who is a bit on the fragile side was most likely not better than what the Pats offered.

Seeing how he is basically making $4m per for the next two seasons, I highly doubt he would have gotten that now on the market. Maybe in March but not now.

They kinda had him by the nuts but gave him a pretty good deal.

Dobson is one of the biggest BUSTS in NE Patriots football...time to finally cut this guy loose...so he can go work for Stop and Shop and pull a hammy loading groceries.....

notex said:

writing seems to be on the wall for Aaron Dobson... Only thing I would change is that perhaps Lucien or another makes practice squad (maybe even mitchell?)

In my eyes it is Dobson vs. Martin for final spot..

from earlier in post - this is mine as well..

JE11
Hogan
DA
Martin
Mitchell

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07 was lost on a bunch of fluke Hail Mary plays, horrible non holding calls against Giants OL.... and an absent OL protecting Brady (same we had in second SB loss to Gints)......really thought BB would beef up the OL in draft and FA (kid they did draft will be good i think)....hopefully won't be our Achilles heel again this year (setting records for most knockdowns and sacks in AFC championship game in past 10 years against Donks)


QUOTE="patsfan13, post: 4625950, member: 2707"]Ancient history but in the Giant SB wins, Brady was injured in both. In 07, he had a high ankle sprain the week of the game, in SB 46 he was injured in the 3rd qtr on a sack ans separated his shoulder. His throws were off the rest of the game.

Just sayin.[/QUOTE]

robertweathers said:

Lets be honest, folks. Pats deserve a little credit too.

While we all love DA, the market for a 30 1/2 year old WR who is a bit on the fragile side was most likely not better than what the Pats offered.

Seeing how he is basically making $4m per for the next two seasons, I highly doubt he would have gotten that now on the market. Maybe in March but not now.

They kinda had him by the nuts but gave him a pretty good deal.

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And he was not getting this deal in September.

robertweathers said:

Yep. King is outstanding.

Slater was banged up a lot last year. Hope he isn't wearing down

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Yeah, Slater had a bit of a down year because of injuries. That tends to happen as players get to 30. Hopefully he will have a couple more healthy years.

King is only 22. So I could definitely see him here as the next long time gunner. Though what Slater has done should not be diminished, he's not only a great gunner. But also seems to be a very important leader, not only for special teams, but for the whole team.

stcjones said:

Dobson is one of the biggest BUSTS in NE Patriots football...time to finally cut this guy loose...so he can go work for Stop and Shop and pull a hammy loading groceries.....

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In any case, Dobson is injury prone and is about 8th in the WR depth chart. Cut him now before he is injured yet again and we owe him money for 2016.

To put it another way, many players have been cut who had a better chance of making the roster than Dobson. It is time to move on.

Huge cap savings.

Ben Volin ‏@BenVolin 33m33 minutes ago
His new cap number this year is $2,916,666. So #Patriots save $3.4m in cash and $3.9m in salary cap on Amendola

Miguel had guessed less than that :

CapSpace=$5,205,732 ‏@patscap 16h16 hours ago
Still waiting for Amendola's numbers to come in. Expect cap savings of between 2 and 3 Milloy

I'm not a Volin fan either but he's usual solid with his numbers info. Way more savings than we were expecting.

mgteich said:

In any case, Dobson is injury prone and is about 8th in the WR depth chart. Cut him now before he is injured yet again and we owe him money for 2016.

To put it another way, many players have been cut who had a better chance of making the roster than Dobson. It is time to move on.

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As one of Aaron Dropson's Biggest supporter's around here I say why cut him when we can afford to see what he's got. Lets say Aaron knows that this is a make or break season for him in the NFL Period! I heard he worked out with DeAndre Hopkins this Offseason Hopkins is one of the Best young WR's in the Game. We'll see if Dobson learned anything...I am holding out hope that he comes around he should know the Offense by now and I think he'll get every opportunity to win the X-WR Position.

Also Dobson a year removed from that Foot Surgery he had last year.

PatsFan2 said:

As one of Aaron Dropson's Biggest supporter's around here I say why cut him when we can afford to see what he's got. Lets say Aaron knows that this is a make or break season for him in the NFL Period! I heard he worked out with DeAndre Hopkins this Offseason Hopkins is one of the Best young WR's in the Game. We'll see if Dobson learned anything...I am holding out hope that he comes around he should know the Offense by now and I think he'll get every opportunity to win the X-WR Position.

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If Dobson lights it up in TC, it would still be difficult to keep him over other WRs, just because he has been disappointing and fragile, and it would be difficult to expect him to keep up the TC performance into and through the regular season.

To even be in the conversation though he need to be healthy and an elite performer in the pre-season.

BelichickFan said:

Huge cap savings.

Ben Volin ‏@BenVolin 33m33 minutes ago
His new cap number this year is $2,916,666. So #Patriots save $3.4m in cash and $3.9m in salary cap on Amendola

Miguel had guessed less than that :

CapSpace=$5,205,732 ‏@patscap 16h16 hours ago
Still waiting for Amendola's numbers to come in. Expect cap savings of between 2 and 3 Milloy

I'm not a Volin fan either but he's usual solid with his numbers info. Way more savings than we were expecting.

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Amendola is a winner.

Danny must REALLY like it in NE. He could easily get more somewhere else

dude's awesome

but his cap hit for 2017 is almost 8M, so by this time next year, he's gonna suck

It remains to be seen if this restructure results in a significant extension or two.

Jimke said:

It remains to be seen if this restructure results in a significant extension or two.

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Edelman should get an extension and a raise. After that I think Hightower should be the first domino to fall. And although many here probably won't agree I think they should do everything possible to extend Bennett, I think his impact on the offense is going to be huge and losing him after one season will really hurt.