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BOTTOM LINE
1) We're not paying Revis $20M.
2) McCourty will play for us.
3) We're not paying Wilfork $8.5M
4) Mayo can be restructured for the same money.
5) There is plenty of room to sign Gostokowski and/or Vereen, if Belichick so chooses. If they go, it will be because belichick thinks that they are no worth what they are asking in compensation.
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1) I disagree that Wilfork will either have to take a pay cut or he'll be cut. Many here stated that "a man of that size can never successfully come back from an injury like that," and yet Wilfork did---and then some. He was a staple on the defensive line (which was already rather weak) and led them to a nice SB push. He will likely play out his last year here in 2015, but getting rid of him will put them in a very bad position. There's just no one else there...at least not yet.
He played "nice" last year by agreeing to less money. He has now played at or above the level of the new agreement that he signed. He has absolutely ZERO incentive to do it again.
2) A decision will have to be made within the next 2 weeks in terms of Devin McCourty and the franchise tag, which is 9.5m dollars. We're already 4m over the cap as it stands now. Franchising McCourty (which is the popular rumor that even he himself referred to yesterday) will put us somewhere near 14 million dollars over the cap. Any potential 2015 cap savings on the contract of Darrelle Revis will immediately wipe that out, or at least take a big chunk of it out, but they will definitely still have a lot of work to do in terms of signing other key players. If you stay with your projection that extending Revis will free up 9m dollars, that would STILL leave us 5 million over the cap. Obviously, the franchise tag possibility for McCourty, along with the pending decision on Revis will go hand in hand.
3) I highly, highly disagree that there is money or value to retain Shane Vereen.
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