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This might be (the highlighted sentence) the most unfair and unreasonable statement I've seen from you since I've started following your posts. Failed? At what exactly has Danny Amendola failed at? When you you play about a quarter of the snaps and are the 5th option when you do play, how many catches do you think ANY receiver would catch.Sure, everything is fine until one of Edelman or LaFell gets injured, which is where the subject of depth concern comes in.
We can all agree that Amendola is providing neither production or value as the WR3. He's failing terribly at both, even though I'd love to keep him on a cheap deal maybe one more year for depth/special teams purposes.
Everyone else is basically in the developmental stage (Dobson, Boyce, Tyms), or isn't really an actual wide receiver but simply plays on special teams (Slater).
That's now FIVE wide receivers behind Edelman/LaFell who really don't do a damn thing. Sure, we need to have a developmental guy or two (along with ST), but the object would be to reduce the number from five to maybe two or three--at most.
But here's what we DO know. In the one game where Amendola became the #3 option and the primary punt and KO returner, he rewarded his team with over 200 yds of production, and could have had a lot more if not for a penalty. As a receiver he gave us pretty much exactly what we would expect from Edelman.(about 8 catches and 70yds)
I can remember having these long battles with posters over comments like this, only instead of Amendola, the name was Edleman. He was another guy who was didn't put up impressive numbers for 3 years, but did OK whenever he got his opportunities. The same goes for Amendola, in the 2 games of his Patriots career when he happened to be one of the primary focuses of the offense, he's "passed", not failed.
Its fine to complain about his contract, or his injuries last season. But I'm very confident that if you asked BB if Danny Amemdola has done the job be's be asked to do this season, he'd give you a resounding
"Yes". Now that doesn't mean he's not going to ask him to take a pay cut this off season, but.....