I admire your optimism and fandom (is that a word?) in regards to Kenbrell Thompkins, even though we have a major disagreement on the subject.
One area that I also highly disagree would be your downplaying of the Austin Collie signing. If you want to talk about someone who put in tons of work with KT, look at Collie's long work days, and constant film review from last season. He was gaining a ton of respect from BB, Brady, McDaniels, and O'Shea for coming in hrs early, and leaving hrs late. His ability to successful use his experience to mesh with the new verbiage in our specific system showed decent enough results in many situations, and I'd take Collie all over again....perhaps even over Kenbrell Thompkins, since it can be argued that Collie is better for our system and had a better rapport with Tom Brady.
We'll have to see how it plays out, and I am hoping that Thompkins really steps it up. My main concern is that I believe he'll have limited opportunities unless Dobson starts the year on PUP or becomes injured again.