ME insulting others??? Have you read this thread???? I can't even win when I admit I'm wrong.You guys can't take yes for an answer.
But you are arguing you are right, and you just called everyone who disagree with you full of ****.
Nobody going to ******** me and tell me how much they know about the inner working of the Pats cap because they DON'T and I don't deny what you have said is very logical and has some truth to it.
The cap data is public information,
When it comes down to signing Reche Caldwell or Dion Branch and Reche Caldwell drops a ball with 40 yards front of him and it cost them a trip to the SB. People are going to *****.Rightly so.
When you go to the AFC championship with K Thompkins, Josh Boyce, and Dobson. And none are on your week to week 53 man roster the next year when you let Welker go and don't go the extra to sign Manny Sanders. People are going to *****. Hindsight is 20/20.Thats part of the sports discussion thats what makes us fans.
So every personell decision must result in a SB win, or the team and its management sucks?
The Patriots did sign Sanders, and the Steelers matched. The Patriots then chose LaFell over Sanders, which seems like a reasonable decision.
Remember your posts here are saying the team is cheap. You have now strayed off in tangents.
Are you admitting you are wrong, or defending your argument, which is what it seems?
My critisicm came early based on these passed practices so far I have been proven wrong. What else can I say???
You could start by acknowledging that the 'past(sic) practices' have resulted in this franchise being the most successful in the league over the time the current decision makers have been in place.
You could continue by not trying to defend your argument out of one side of your mouth and say you admit you are wrong out of the other.
But they also have been wrong in the past by signing guys on the cheap and those are some examples.
And many other teams have been much more wrong and done more damage to their franchise by overpaying on big FA contracts.
You do realize that they use all the cap right? So any signing you call 'on the cheap' only allows them to spend more on a different player. The fact is the Patriots have chosen to pay handsomely to keep their own players who are in the primes of their careers rather than overpaying players on the downside of their career to stay, or going out and paying big money to Free Agents (which is a strategy proven over and over again to be a failure).
That was the crux of my whole argument in this thread.
Well, that and the idea that the Patriots way of building a team is embarrassed by the Broncos, and that the Patriots don't belong on the same field. Plus you blatantly misunderstanding the salary cap.
And don't forget they are they have gone the longest to not win a championship in New England. Its been 10 years.
Its been longer than 10 for most teams, and in the last 15 they have won more Championships than anyone.
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hey are without a question in my mind the smartest guys in the room. Maybe too smart sometimes. And when you come up short and its because you are a player or two away or a quality player or two away. You will subjected to criticism and questioning.
Think about that statement. Lets take the last 10 years. 9 actually because 10 years ago they won the SB.
They have won the division in 8 of 9 years.
They have been to the AFCC Game 5 times. That is they were one of the 4 best teams in the NFL more than half of the seasons.
They have been to the SB twice.
They have won more games than any other team.
They are not 'coming up short because they are missing a player' making them incompetent.
They are overwhelming making the right decisions and have not been able to finish off when they got close.
They were one play away from winning both of the SBs. If they won either one or both, they would be the most succesful franchise in the NFL over those 9 years.
You can criticize and question, but you need to realize doing so you are a 3rd grade math student questioning graduate school calculus.