strngplyr
In the Starting Line-Up
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This is what we need. There is only 1 football to go around. Last year Edelman, Gronk, Lafell, Wright, Amendola and Vereen accounted for 97% of the receptions last year. Only that last name is a FA, and that was 52 catches out of the backfield.
I've stated this before: Brady is not going to throw it 800 times for 6,000 yards. That entire, intact receiving core is in place at a reasonable price. Should we let Amendola you might as well add 1.2 to the salary the replacement signs for this year and 2.4 to next years, because that's the dead money hit. That, and now we need a KR and backup PR guy as well, so you need another player because A. Johnson ain't fieldin' no damn kickoffs or punts.
Unfortunately we can't get everything we want.
I agree, I'd prefer the defense continue to have pieces added, but I'm not confident Amendola is a Patriot in 2015 (though it would certainly be best for him, IMO), so we'd need to add something, it's hard to count on the 2013 rookie class at this point.
The annoying this is that we all have begged for pash rush depth forever, we finally had a form of it this season, and once our #1 guy was healthy he went back to playing 100% of the snaps with Ayers playing LB sparingly, hardly ever at the same time as Jones.
If we get another pass rusher will he even play? It's like we don't believe in rotating.