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Re: Galloway Says He & Patriots Weren?t ?a Good Fit?
Recovery from in season failure is a real crap shoot. They were already dealing with Welker being out, and Edleman stepping in. Then Edleman broke his forearm once Welker was back. Tate came off PUP and quickly landed on IR. Nunn got nabbed off the PS but perhaps they didn't think he was any more viable than Stanbeck or Aiken or Slater. Lots of teams were looking for receivers this season, including in season. There wasn't much to look at. I know you mentioned Matt Jones, but for some reason no one came close to touching him no matter how desperate they were for another wideout. We've won Superbowls with street FA filling gaps in season. This year there just wasn't anything to do that would have appreciably upgraded over what he had to work with on this roster. And unlike in those superbowl seasons, defenses had a bead on what we have become, which is limited and predictable. And not because the OC is a dolt...
Let me start by posting something I'd written on another site, regarding what you feel Galloway would have added:
Clearly there was a team failure at some level. That much, I think, we can all agree on. It's also pretty clear that the lack of a WR3 made the Patriots, particularly Moss, much easier to defend. The issue moving forth is discerning fault not to assess blame, but to avoid a repeat of the problem moving forward, and to figure out why the head coach/front office did such a terrible job of recovering from the failure.
Recovery from in season failure is a real crap shoot. They were already dealing with Welker being out, and Edleman stepping in. Then Edleman broke his forearm once Welker was back. Tate came off PUP and quickly landed on IR. Nunn got nabbed off the PS but perhaps they didn't think he was any more viable than Stanbeck or Aiken or Slater. Lots of teams were looking for receivers this season, including in season. There wasn't much to look at. I know you mentioned Matt Jones, but for some reason no one came close to touching him no matter how desperate they were for another wideout. We've won Superbowls with street FA filling gaps in season. This year there just wasn't anything to do that would have appreciably upgraded over what he had to work with on this roster. And unlike in those superbowl seasons, defenses had a bead on what we have become, which is limited and predictable. And not because the OC is a dolt...