Brady2Moss
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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You need to huff some glue, eat some cat food, and drink a beer. Eventually it'll come.
Drinking the kool aid is much more pleasant.
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Orly I have a biology and economics degree from a top 15 university and I know nothing about economics
Drinking the kool aid is much more pleasant.
At least on that red stuff you can construct arguments that are actually coherent.
Drinking the kool aid is much more pleasant.
I actually agree with the way the Patriots manage things financially, for the most part, but they can be real ballbusters and have a history of offering less, and players have talked about that for years. I agree they set a value and stick to it, i just think their bar is almost always under market value and getting people to sign comes from their success and the opportunity to win and play for a really good team. Even the deals for guys like Mayo, Gronk, and Hernandez are team friendly, which is something they excel at.
Most of the time Belichick is right about when to keep and cut players, but sometimes he gets stuck on their top players making market contracts, and we saw that with Law, Branch, Seymour, Vinatieri, and Samuel, and will probably see it with Spikes in the near future. They are great at getting most of their key players, but sometimes they could go the extra mile with their best players and be much better off and not have to expend resources trying to replace your playmakers.You go the extra million and save the picks and misses trying to fill that hole. Samuel is a great example of this. he wanted big money, but they would have been better off paying him and using all the resources they wasted trying to fill his shoes on other needs, I guarantee they spent much more capital trying to replace him than they would have used by just cutting a deal.
The koolaid of a team that hasn't had a losing season in 12 years is fine wine compared to the swill of whatever Redskins or Jets franchise you want the Pats to emulate.
Reading comprehension. It can be your friend. I have said half a dozen times I am not promoting a Redskins approach.
Please keep your early 2000 Colts garbage to yourself. The team has emulated that model just fine since 2010.
Were you a fan of the NEP prior to 2000?
Honest question.
Yup, but I am young and do not know much of the dark ages as some posters here, i.e. pre-Parcells.
Ah. It all makes sense now.
Reading comprehension. It can be your friend. I have said half a dozen times I am not promoting a Redskins approach.
Please keep your early 2000 Colts garbage to yourself. The team has emulated that model just fine since 2010.
I wasn't aware one had to be older than 30 to post on this board. My mistake.
You can say you haven't, but everyone can see that you are emulating the Redskins approach.
And let's see, in the two years since 2010, that "garbage" approach has gotten them to one SB (where they were inches from winning) and one AFCCG home game.
Please tell us all how that is disastrous team building. Be creative and exhaustive in your analysis. Rely heavily on your "top 15 University" experience.
Yup, but I am young and do not know much of the dark ages as some posters here, i.e. pre-Parcells.
Well, that explains a lot about your Little Lord Fauntleroy/Veruca Salt attitude to the utter embarrassment of only getting to two straight AFC Championship home games the past two years.
If Samuel and WW caught those passes we would have 5 rings. Why dosent anyone blame them?
People are conflating two separate issues regarding the Patriots and their spending habits. The Patriots are not cheap as a franchise, they routinely spend to the cap and are never 40 and 50 million under, like the truly cheap teams like Cincinnatti. On the other hand the Patriots are very tight and tough when it comes to individual deals with players. Other than a few players, like Brady, they don't want to give market deals to their players and almost always go lowball when dealing with both their players and free agents.
You can say you haven't, but everyone can see that you ARE recommending emulating the Redskins approach.
And let's see, in the two years since 2010, that "garbage" approach has gotten the Patriots two straight AFC Championship home games - - and one SB (where they were inches from winning).
Please tell us all how that is disastrous team building. Be creative and exhaustive in your analysis. Rely heavily on your "top 15 University" experience.
Ifs and buts, how many SBs have they won in the last 8 years you don't even need a brain to answer that question. So even one such as yourself should be more than capable of coming up with the answer.