Sounds like agent spin to me. Rhody, did you think when the Dunn gave the Pats a final offer that was way over what they thought the market was going to be, they were going to sit around waiting for Wes to come to his senses????. No they used that "legal tampering" time to try an gauge the market on Plan B which was DA. They found that DA had a lot of SERIOUS suitors and if they waited even a day for Wes to come back to reality, he'd likely be gone... .and they could be left without BOTH plan A and B.
The reality, and the Welker whiners better get used to it, is that Wes was both a victim of his greed, his agents incompetence, and some bad timing. IMHO it was more about his agent's incompetence. I can see Wes thinking he'd get more. We all did. Certainly more than 2 for 6. HOWEVER, my question and one that still hasn't been answered, WHY during the 3 days of "legal tamperin" didn't his agent figure out that he'd vastly over estimated the m arket BEFORE actual FA started and the Pats had to act on DA
If the agent had actually DONE his job, he'd have come back to Wes on Tuesday morning and said to him.
"Hey Wes. It doesn't look good out there. From what I'm gathering it doesn't look like what the Pats were offering is too bad. I think I might be able to get a little more guaranteed money out of Denver, but nothing you can't reach with those makeable incentives in the Pats deal. If you really want to go back to the Pats like you said, it does't seem like there is a big enough difference in the years and money to leave." OK buddy, let me know what you decide, just do it before noon so we can set it all up.
THAT conversation obviously DIDN'T happen. Clearly Wes was being told that there WERE significantly better deals out there on Tuesday. So by Wednesday and reality had hit them both square in the eye, the Pats had been FORCED to move on, by the time constraints of the DA deal.
It was sad, unfortunate and TOTALLY unnecessary, but how can you blame the Pats?
