Yes, but as has been pointed out many times during these discussions, the decision to move forward with Amendola will come in the offseason--not before.
I do not care about that, I do not care if Amendola plays for the Patriots for the next decade. The point of my continuing to post about Amendola is that I want to understand why to this day posters on this board continue to make up excuses for his lack of production, and continue to advocate on behalf of Amendola. I am trying to understand it, because honestly I like to think most users of this board are bright people but the way posters handle any Amendola discussion is ****ing stupid, and excuse filled and just delusional on every level. It intrigues me, sort of like when you are driving on the highway and you slow down to look at a car accident on the other side of the road, you want to try and understand what happen and what is going on, make sense of it.
The logic is not there, Amendola does not deserve to be defended, yet posters spend countless hours trying to discredit the facts and actualities that me and other posters write about Amendola, like the fact that he does have just 9 catches in his last 6 games. Instead of coming to terms with that I get some ridiculous accusation of dishonesty lobbed at me because a poster has nothing else they can respond with. It is a big turd that is all it is, first he was going to turn it around in the second half, then in the preseason, I read the ridiculous assertions of posters on this board saying that a healthy Amendola could be better than Edelman could, and now it is because Brady does not distribute the ball well enough. It is never on Amendola, so you know what I am going to keep beating the dead horse until posters stop making excuses and start looking at Amendola for the failure that he is. Of all players on the Patriots if you ranked them in order of players deserving to be defended, Amendola would rank #53, never in the Belichick era has a player been given so much in terms of money and opportunity and responded with so little.
It was pretty much expected that he'd be here for the first 2 yrs of the deal, no matter what. By that measure, all of this complaining over a 54 catch effort last year seems kind of pointless to many of us.
Based on his APY, Amendola made $105,555 per reception last year, so yeah I am complaining.
I don't think anyone will argue that he's overpaid, but Belichick obviously feels that it's worth it to keep him for a 2nd season, so we'll have to trust his judgment.
It is more than being overpaid, we would have likely been better off with Thompkins being active today than him.
It is hard to trust his judgment when he gave the contract to Amendola to begin with.