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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.One of the all time great Patriots was cut because it saved $8M. Cutting Amendola would save a fraction of that. You keep throwing around the term sunk cost, but I don't think you know what it means.
All the worry about losing Vereen is overblown. The same people that are panicking now were panicking when Woodhead left. As much as I like Vereen, and think he would be worth a couple million per year, he's not the kind of guy that you pay $5M per year for. Just like Woodhead wasn't, which is why the Pats let him walk too and replaced him with Vereen in the first place. The Pats have repeatedly shown that they can find these guys when they need them without paying FA premiums. If James White isn't the guy, then the FA market and draft class are pretty deep at exactly this type of RB.
As for kickoff returns, that isn't really on my radar, to put it bluntly. The Pats put Blount back there in 2013. They'll find someone on the roster who's capable of returning kicks, regardless of whether or not Amendola's on the team.
As for the last couple paragraphs of your post, I'm not really sure who you're arguing with. I'm pretty sure that nobody in history has mentioned Brian Hartline and Randy Moss in the same sentence until you did. And I don't think anyone thinks signing a tall WR will replace McCourty and Wilfork. The closest thing that anyone's given to a Hartline endorsement is "if he comes cheap, he could be a nice addition to the offense".
No, you make up ******** and create strawmen and claim people said things that nobody did so that you can continue your jihad in every thread
My point really is DA had 27 grabs. Vereen had 52. The need seems more to be RB than WR. Hartline isn't coming here and getting a 1,000 yards. We have 3 guys that do that already.
It's never on anyones radar until disaster strikes.
I guess I'm just hoping that maybe some of that will resonate with the "we need more WR weapons" crowd when the top 6 receivers on the team accounted for 97% of the receptions and the only one not currently under contract comes out of the backfield.
That's exactly what he is doing. No one on this board is raving about Amendola and everyone agrees he needs to restructure to stay, Brady 6 however needs a straw man so he can continue to rant and rave about a player he has been obsessed with since he arrived here. He has now invoked Amendola in about 6-7 new threads about a variety of topics , and rather than just start an anti Amendola thread he feels he has to go into threads about Wilfork, Hartline, veteran cuts... Etc and wage his so called "jihad." Against Amendola. It simply never stops.
Landry ended up replacing him as WR2 (and Wallace as WR1) midway through the season.
Landry had 5 receptions or more in every game from week 9-17. Hartline was phased out of his possession WR role.
The Pats reprogram the offense every year. The other teams have all offseason to breakdown film with a fine tooth comb and figure out tendencies. In 2002, Marty Schottenhiemer figured out that Brady was less effective if you got him to move off his spot.
The 2015 NE offense be different than the 2014 NE offense.
I can see Wright and Almendola gone. Maybe even Vereen and new faces with different skill sets running a NE offensive scheme with a different twist.
Reportedly he is willing to take less to play with the pats
https://twitter.com/MaryKayCabot/status/573589195324833793
It works well for both parties, would Andy Dalton still be a starter without AJ Green? Also Beckham and Cruz are going to extend Eli's career.That is smart business. How many receivers would still be in the NFL right now had they played with an elite QB instead of a garbage one? From a financial perspective, it is a risky proposition long-term to catch passes from a poor quarterback and even more risky to play for a poor organization.
Cutting Amendola only saves a little over a million and I doubt that they are going to be bringing in Hartline for that.Definitely a little surprised that Hartline is the receiver that we seem to be interested in. Not sure how much of an upgrade he would be over Amendola, unless we can save a lot of money. If he can turn out like another wide receiver we got from Miami, then nobody will be complaining. lol
Why the hell do you respond to Brady6? other posters are getting tired of every thread being hijacked into a Amendola sucks thread. Just let him howl at the moon on this topic.
Definitely a little surprised that Hartline is the receiver that we seem to be interested in. Not sure how much of an upgrade he would be over Amendola, unless we can save a lot of money. If he can turn out like another wide receiver we got from Miami, then nobody will be complaining. lol
Whoever said the Dolphins swallowed a 4.2 dead-hit to wash their hands of him is a telling sign.