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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I felt like Asante didn't deserve the money.
He clearly does. He's damn good.
It will be sad to see him go, but he deserves whatever salary he can get.
You can thank Asante for tonight's win, and keeping alive a perfect season.
Really, I don't understand. Samuel is a superstar corner. He should be All-Pro this year (should've been last year, too), he's young guy playing a premier position with us having no one ready to replace him. If he wants ridiculous money then sure, don't pay him, but no team ever lost because they had too many superstars earning their checks. I don't understand the sentiment that we can pay Colvin his money but can't pay Asante.
Asante deserves big money and he WILL get it.
Just not from us.
The Patriots were built by paying players less money than their talent is worth on the FA market. This allows us to field more talent than other teams that are bound by the same salary cap.
Asante, like Nate Clements before him, will be offered substantially more money than his talent is worth.
If we are going to continue winning Superbowls on a consistent basis, we need to let Asante walk.
Clements deal isnt necessarily a 10 year $80 mill..its smaller than that because theres little chance he gets the end
built with less expensive players is not the case anymore..we paid the players who win us games and make big impacts like the DL and you take Samuel out and our D gets passed on all over
The team that signs Asante is going to be paying him $10M/yr for the next four plus years. Factoring in the risk of injury and/or diminished performance, Asante is NOT good enough to earn that pay check.
Plenty of players are going to be free agents next year. Some of them will command salaries that greatly exceed their likely production. Some of them will be available at a substantial discount to what their talent should be worth. The teams that succeed will only pay money to players who cost significantly less than what their talent is actually worth.
Regrettably, Asante is not such a player.