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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.Whether or not you agree with the assessment of the Welker situation, I think anyone can (and should) agree that you should give some reps to Edelmann:
1.) See what you have just in case Welker won't be here
2.) To develop him further
2.a) to keep Welker fresh/healthy as he gets older
2.b) When injuries happen, you don't have to drop your game plan
2.c) If Welker is being covered by double team or a lockdown defender you still have a player to take up the slack
I don't understand why everyone has to make this about some dastardly narrative. Why don't you want more weapons?
The only issue right now is if it's costing us games. Whether they cost us the Arizona game is debateable, but so long as Welker is not taken out when it matters most I don't see any reasonable reason to whine about this.
No one is disputing that Welker was not playing much early on. What is being disputed is this ridiculous notion that Belichick did so to make the team less reliant so we can transition to an offense without Welker next year. It keeps getting repeated and it's absurd.
Whether or not you agree with the assessment of the Welker situation, I think anyone can (and should) agree that you should give some reps to Edelmann:
1.) See what you have just in case Welker won't be here
2.) To develop him further
2.a) to keep Welker fresh/healthy as he gets older
2.b) When injuries happen, you don't have to drop your game plan
2.c) If Welker is being covered by double team or a lockdown defender you still have a player to take up the slack
I don't understand why everyone has to make this about some dastardly narrative. Why don't you want more weapons?
The only issue right now is if it's costing us games. Whether they cost us the Arizona game is debateable, but so long as Welker is not taken out when it matters most I don't see any reasonable reason to whine about this.
Have you counted the number of snaps Welker has played lately?
No one is disputing that Welker was not playing much early on. What is being disputed is this ridiculous notion that Belichick did so to make the team less reliant so we can transition to an offense without Welker next year. It keeps getting repeated and it's absurd.
.... That's the point. With Edelman injured Welker must play all his normal snaps.
Only Brady, Gronk, and Lloyd played more snaps than he did on offense.. that can be scarcely considered "keeping him fresh."
I'm not interested in what you think constitutes "common sense." The fact is Welker did not start in game 1 and only came on strong when Hernandez got injured. As far as we know, Welker did not have any injuries, lingering or otherwise hidden, otherwise the number of snaps he was in wouldn't have spiked when Hernandez went out.
Are you reading my post? The point was that with Edelman playing, Welker can play less.
Now that Edelman is injured Welker must play all snaps. Of course Welker now has a ton of snaps. Edelman can't take any if he's injured.
Why do you feel they screwed up? Do you have a link to a story, or some sort of behind the scenes knowledge that makes you believe they screwed up? I mean, something credible, not gossip.
edit. Im not starting a p*ssing contest with ya about it. Im seriously wondering if you've heard something, because all i've heard for the past month, has been based on speculation.
This would make a hell of a lot more sense if there weren't other WRs on the roster. Since there are other WRs on the roster, though, it makes essentially none.
Since no other WR is ready or able to effectively play Welker's routes, your observation is irrelevant.
Branch can, and often has, run those same routes.
1.) Team play suffered
2.) The immediate improvement when the situation reverted and the team game planned appropriately for the new personnel sets.
Not a problem.... Here's what we know, and I won't include reporter 'hearsay' or 'interpretation' about the preseason
- Belichick and McDaniels are both on record pumping Edelman's tires
- Welker hardly got any time at all in the exhibition games, and he didn't catch even one pass during that time
- The discussion of "formations...." by McDaniels was completely consistent with the substitution work in game one
- Welker's snap totals were down significantly in game 1
- Welker was running decoy patterns to start the season, while Edelman and Hernandez were getting Welker's old routes
- Welker wasn't getting run in game 2 until Hernandez went down
- Welker is healthy enough to be catching 13 passes in a game
- The running game is able to function quite well with Welker in the lineup
If I've missed any pertinent points, it wasn't on purpose.