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I'm sorry guys I remember the last time we were tearing out our hair and rending our garments about a kicker. "No no not just a kicker, the most clutch kicker in the history of the NFL."
Okay this one is really good and makes teams get the ball at the 20 too. I just go w/whatever Bill says on this one. Hopefully, as in all cases, our binkie kicker retires as a Patriot.
Let's go with "hope we keep him, I'm done" on this one.
A kicker?
Except he wasn't.
Welker was our #1 WR. Edelman was absolutely slotted into that role when he left.
Amedola was signed to give us more depth at that position because we lost one of our top WRs.
So your response was an epic fail.
No, he clearly was. Kraft specifically noted it. Edelman was absolutely slotted into the Edelman role.
My response was fine. Your initial post was ignorant.
As I recall, Amendola was signed the day after Welker was let go. All the press and comments made it clear that he was signed to have a role similar to that of Welker. Obviously, there was a lot of talk about whether Welker or the patriots were responsible for the split. There was never any question as to why Amendola was being signed to such a high salary.
For a month after Amendola was signed, Edelman was out looking for work. Almost no teams were interested, only the Giants and the Patriots. Edelman signed an incentive filled contract that even when everything was reached didn't amount to much.
Edelman was signed to be a backup WR. Amendola was already in house. An offer had just been made to Sanders.
The Patriots screwed up the Welker situation.
And Welker, although he may not have realized it at the time, screwed it up even worse.
If we need to choose to prioritize between a pro bowl quality player at K, CB or S, I would put kicker as the lowest priority of the three. Signing McCourty and Reivs is much more important than signing Gostkowski.After giving it some thought, Gostkowski is the MOST important signing at the moment. Nothing is more annoying than having a bad special teams unit.
Prediction:
Gost will be re-signed.
Detroit too, remember how bad their kicking was? i don't want to go through that, franchise the ghost.Ask Denver how important a reliable kicker is.
Yeah this.........If we need to choose to prioritize between a pro bowl quality player at K, CB or S, I would put kicker as the lowest priority of the three. Signing McCourty and Reivs is much more important than signing Gostkowski.
BTW, I favor franchising Gronkowski and paying him $4.4M. I just think that Revis and McCourty are more important.
I bet BB offers 3/$12-13m -- and see what happens.. Otherwise there are 2-3 very solid kickers that could be had for a 5th/6th rounder... is it worth it? maybe, depends how strongly our scouts feel about these guys coming up.
XP are irrelevant. Any kicker in the NFL will make, for all intents and purposes, every XP. What is not irrelevant is a kicker who can make clutch 50 yard FGs and consistently put his kickoffs through the endzone. We have that. I watched too many teams screwed by NOT having that this year. He stays.Because the kicks would be more difficult, teams would go for it more on 4th down and 2pt conversions.