Remember '07 when Welker showed what he could do?
It was great, we a little white guy tearing it up and at the time it was somewhat uncommon.....now you draft a 7th round QB and you have Welker 2.0.
I love Wes but if he's not willing to stay for a hometown discount.....we'll miss ya, man.
With all respect Dufflebagz, what is making everyone assume that Edelman is "WW 2.0?" In a few games in 2009 he was able to play well enough to give us all hope, particularly the BAL playoff loss. But, we have no idea if his playcalls were scaled down, more limited etc--likely they were.
Even though I love Edelman, and I think he does certainly have a chance at being almost as good at certain areas, I don't understand why so many discredit exactly what Welker does--and that happens to be Brady's right hand guy. No doubt Tom has to appreciate Wes' chemistry with him.
How long will it take for Edelman to develop that same chemistry? Can it even be done? At what cost to the offense, and the 'closing Brady window' that so many continue to speak of?
I agree that Edelman MAY be able to provide MOST of what Welker does, but can we really be sure?
It sure seems as though a lot of posters are assuming :
1. That Edelman can immediately pick up where Welker left off, and that they are basically clones of each other
2. That Welker is going to try and break the bank here, instead of taking a reasonable pay increase up to 6-7 million a year. That is what I believe he is worth, maybe a little more. That is also what I believe would be a 'reasonable' and fair side for both parties involved. Can we really not afford to pay Wes an extra 4-5 million a year? And would that set the offense back a bit? FWIW--I have seen nothing at all that should lead any of us to believe that Welker will not take 'a bit' of a hometown discount. In other words, I think he'd agree to a bit less than what other teams would offer. It will be interesting to see exactly what that price range will be. I don't worry in the least about Tom Curran's article, or his opinion. That's really all that the article is--one man's opinion. And as we know, he's been wrong before on very important issues, and can be a bit of a pot-stirrer.
It sure seemed as though Edelman had a GREAT game in the BAL loss, but at the same time didn't it seem coincidental that Brady could not find anyone else open at all, and that just about everyone here blamed the lack of Welker on the offense's inefficiency?
I don't think there's any 'correct' answer here, it can be debated forever, but I do wonder if the majority of the board isn't making some interesting assumptions regarding Welker and Edelman.
