The Brandon Five
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BB's roster management philosophy seems to have a lot to do with playoff wins. I love how we're competitive every season. Injury bug? Next man up. He is well known for devoting more to the bottom third of his roster than most other franchises. That means we have great depth with solid players, and can withstand injuries to key players and keep on being competitive. But you can't have everything. What the Pats roster seems to lack is the statistical outlier, the four or five or six players who are electric, game changing players. The players who command lots of money, but who are the only ones who can do what they do. Downside to that type of roster management is that when a few injuries hit, the next man up is a huge step down. The upside is being able to beat the best. Can't have it both ways with current salary cap rules.
There are seven former Pro Bowlers on IR and one in jail. One other got injured in the second quarter.
Gronkowski
Hernandez
Kelly
Mayo
Talib
Vollmer
Wilfork
Wilson
We still had Brady, Gostkowski and Mankins. Are you saying that we really need to have 10-12 of those marquee players in case half of them go down with injury? Wouldn't that make it impossible to fill that bottom third of the rosters with anything but the dregs of the league? Do you see the issue for the team dealing with a salary cap?