When free agent signings are discussed, makes you realize that despite the noise from the naysayers, things are not all that bad.. certainly more hits than misses.
What is missing are some of the tight end that they brought in and they failed... the names escape me, but there seemed to be an effort to find a new or similar Hernandez...
Agreed...I liken it to my fantasy baseball auction I have coming up: people with throw huge money at Kershaw and Miggy and others. If they get hurt or, in Miggy's case, succumb to father time and start declining, they won't be worth the money and could derail the entire season when you've spent 25% of your budget on them. They'd have to be OUTSTANDING for them to outearn the money you bid on them, because the market made them so expensive.
But on the other end you have lesser-known and/or young players who'll go for nothing. These guys don't need to do much to earn their salary and are easily replaced because they didn't cost you anything. But if they break out, if they become serious contributors, then you have a very good player for very cheap, outearning their contract by a TON.
That's the way the Patriots operate, like it or not. They have some serious 'big earners'--Brady, Hightower, Gronk, etc, so it's not like they're building a team from scratch. Revis, at full market value, would be a monster risk. Compare that against half a dozen $2-$5 million/year players and what they could add to the team and you're better off moving on.
Sorry for the derail, these two weeks of non-stop Revis talk and the BS about the Pats being 'cheap' somehow have gotten me pissed off.