Mack Herron
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My but people come and go so quickly around here.
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You take a look at him now, while getting a few insights into the Eagles' offense.
Amendola's only 5'11" to Welker's 5'9", and Welker, at 5'9" has been catching passes at a rate nobody's ever done it. Tall receivers outside of Amendola doesn't speak, at all, to why Welker's gone. If it does, the Patriots are really, really stupid.
And the Patriots aren't really, really stupid.
I agree with you DI. BB also wanted to FORCE TB out of his comfort zone, on relying on dumpoffs to Wes Welker, who was frankly getting old. So they replaced Welker with a bigger, faster, younger, version of himself, to play the slot position. Edelman or Boyce can back up the slot position.
All their other WR candidates are much bigger, can fight for downfield completions, return the Outs and Go routes to the repetoire, potentially block for the outside running game. It also forces the Defense to spread out, and NOT collapse on the short over the middle routes.
I also believe that Welker was being over used, as the other geriatric candidates like Branchand Stallworth, weren't doing enough. BB would rather have 8 guys catch an equal number of balls, than one guy catching 110.
Amendola is a talented receiver , but I'm not sure which is more humorous--your suggestion that it was a good idea to terminate the most successful passing combination in the NFL for the past 6 years, or your amazing ability to divine that this was in fact BB's secret strategy all along despite the owners frank (if ill advised) admission that Welker was plan A.
Funny coming from one of the biggest McCourty lovers on the board.
Did you see Pitta school McCourty last AFCC?
Did Kraft say WW was going to be the "number one guy" and our first priorty?? or did he say "I hope WW is here and I want WW on the team?"
But owner Robert Kraft just went into an eye-opening amount of detail on the team’s negotiations with wide receiver Wes Welker, emphasizing that keeping Welker was the team’s first choice before the wide receiver went to Denver.
Kraft also referred to Danny Amendola as “our second alternative,” which should make Amendola feel very welcome in New England.
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Not exactly:Elvis is back in the building, but unavailable
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Both players waived by the Patriots on Saturday, OL Elvis Fisher and WR Lavasier Tuinei, cleared waivers and reverted to IR, per source.
Elvis is back in the building, but unavailable
I agree since that cut was unexpected so early in training camp.What I'm trying to figure out is what happened to Nick McDonald. . . .