Well, you got me there. I have nothing against Cooks other than the fact he disappeared. LaFell, the worst of the 3, actually came through in the biggest moments. None of this is a big deal anyway, I don't know what we're talking about anymore, my only point is that Belichick did not show a...
The point is, they expended draft resources and brought a lot of guys in. Brown signed for $15m. That's not nothing.
There was a big attempt to stockpile that team with weapons.
I already said it all backfired and was a failure. I was answering one question only: were there efforts to give...
They all had one year.
You call it a fluke and yet he had great performances. Lloyd was the best out of the 3.
LaFell may not have had Cooks' numbers, but he performed on the biggest stages and in the most crucial moments. Cooks disappeared.
You would take a guy who's been butthurt over a contract's word? That's deranged. Amendola has been doing this for many years now. He's in Asante Samuel territory. As for Belichick's words, what words are you talking about? He never talks.
I have no doubt players wanted Butler in there, but...
This would be a good sign, because we know Brisset's base level of performance, and if Zappe could outdo him, it would mean Zappe has improved a lot. Which makes him tradeable to some other team for a 3rd.
One of the absurd things about the Patriots is that so many fans insist they will overvalue white WRs.
Just because Welker, Edelman and Amendola had success in New England, it doesn't mean this team places a higher value on those players than anyone else would.
Welker was just as successful...
There are a lot of busts or guys on the road to bust at tackle as well. Just look at the top 10 of the 2022 draft and look at the WRs that those teams passed to select their bust tackle.
Cook was due for a big payday, and they made the right decision because the guy was never a true #1. It's why the Saints moved on from him.
I would've preferred that they kept drafting WRs. BUT the WRs they had during these runs were plenty good enough. Some of them were more talented than...
I could agree with you and say, especially at the end of his career, Belichick could let his standards down because the ramifications of cutting a guy a break would be lesser in the future.
But again no one ever accounts for how discipline and high standards contributed to team wins.
Think of...
Unless the team was roiling in such dysfunction by then that the imperative was drafting more offensive weapons for Brady in order to pump more air into a dying dynasty. And the feeling of Kraft being upset that Belichick showed him a chart with evidence of QB falloff ( at the time, Brady was...
They were never going to find anyone better than Cam. They had no cap room. They decided to take all the dead money and dump it into that year. Personally I thought it was a smart move because it was the 1st Covid year and a lot of players said they wouldn't be playing that year anyway. Might as...
Browner wasn't even on the team. He came to the Patriots for veteran minimum and was let go when he asked for more.
He lasted in the league one more year. He had a very short career. By the time of that post, he was done
What did Slater say? He said of course he would say NO if he was asked would it help the team for Butler to sit. But you could say that about ANY player on the team.
A more interesting question would be, to Slater, should Belichick drop his disciplinary standards prior to Super Bowls because...
Reason #1 why you don't want owners meddling.
The Steelers ownership group is 100x better than ours. That being said, those owners are some of the best in football and the other owners only dream of being as good as them.
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