They are VERY good backup and role players. Green (who's contract is up) has consistently been a solid contributor in our defense as is absolutely worth the $4M he made. Kaczur has usually done a solid job filling in on the line, but he did get hurt this year. Also you have to look at what the worst case scenario is. If they had to cut Green last year, the cap hit would have been ~$3M. Kaczur's cap hit if cut is under $1M this year. So their contracts are/were not nearly as bad as you try to make them out to be. And they have been solid contributors here over their careers. When Seymour has gotten hurt in the past for example Jarvis has filled in admirably. Now if you overpay for Seymour at the expense of a guy like Jarvis, you have to overplay Seymour and hope he doesn't get hurt.
Role players should be payed accordingly, IMO they are overpaid along with AD, and a few others on this team. If you want to pay for depth go ahead and be my guest. Mike Wright is just as good as if not better than green and his Cap hit is almost 3M less. Jarvis Green should not be making that much more than Mike Wright.
We will not 'reward' him. We will pay him according to what the best QB in the NFL should be paid based on what he will produce. If it was highly likely that Brady would be a bad QB in the future they would not pay him just because of what he did in the past.
How is paying him according to what the best QB in the NFL should be paid not being rewarded. If the Pats dont Reward Brady, we will need another QB in the next 2 years. James Harrison was "rewarded" for being the best Defensive player in the league last season, rewarding is getting what you deserve, not solely based on what you will do in the future because nobody can see into the future. You look at what a player did most recently and their age and how it projects to the future. You reward them accordingly and Peyton Manning will be heavily rewarded trust me so the Pats better be ready to pony up if they want to keep Brady.
Because he is NOT worth it. Could you tell me what strengths and weaknesses Samuel has? What limitations does he have? What limitations does he impose on what you can do schematically and with your safeties? Is there any risk is there to jumping a route before a QB commits to the throw? Why did Samuel lead NFL CBs in opponent's YAC in 2009? Why hasn't he brought the Eagles to the promise land?
Can you tell me the Patriots scheme and what they did last year? Tell me why we were so bad on third down D two years ago and why we played 10-15 yards off the ball last season?
I guess that worked out for them considering they haven't gotten nearly what they should for the money they pay Sanders and once Freeney was slowed down (hurt) the D is significantly worse.
And we haven't gotten sh*t from AD. When Wilfork went down was our D not worse?
Also do you really believe their defense is good? It's built to play with a lead, and it's built around the very premise that Peyton and the offense will give the team an early lead.
Their D is better than our D.
If they were as good as you claim, why did they allow 34 points to the Patriots and 31 to the Saints in the SB?
See above.
Samuel is NOT ever going to be worth $10M, you simply have no idea what kind of corner he is or you overvalue him because he was once a Patriot. He is a zone hawk that requires safety help and is a HIGH risk player who allows significant yardage and scoring opportunities. He generates turnovers (mostly against bad QBs) but at the expense of allowing a lot of yardage, especially a lot of YAC because he's out of position. Cover corners should be at a premium, not limited risk takers in the form of Samuel that limits what you can do schematically.
Bodden had how many picks against quality QB's?
Seymour is definitely a rare talent and is capable of dominating his side of the line. But he's past his prime, his production and abilities will start to decline, he will command a king's ransom and there is a high probability that he will not live up to what he will earn in his next contract. If they locked up Wilfork earlier then they probably could have kept Seymour and tagged him, but who knows if Seymour would have held out.
Thats why statisticly he had his best season in 2008 who knows if Wilfork will hold out?
Bottom line is that Seymour and Samuel are isolated cases that you are talking about, but there are many more where you can argue the same type of "he's still productive, reward him" crap. Neither Seymour or Samuel are so spectacular that you change your philosophy and bend over backwards to keep them. BTW, I can all but guarantee you that Willie is not talking about only Seymour and Samuel.
Until names are named were all just guessing.
The Patriots have allowed 0 players go who have lived up to the contracts they received. That's a pretty damn good success rate of properly evaluating the talent they have. You can't always replace the player that left, but I don't know how anyone can argue against the Patriots philosophy. It generated 3 SBs, the best team to ever play, a team that went 11-5 (and would have been dangerous in the playoffs) after an injury to its HOF QB in week 1... the TEAM of the decade.