It's time for Amendola to step up

[voluntarysaftey]

If this team had re-signed Welker, and signed Amendola for 4m/year, I think we'd all be happy with his production.

The problem is the team made a Welker or Amendola decision at essentially equal money, and it looks like they made the wrong decision.

If Amendola has been hurt all year and it's slowed him down, then I'd give him a pass and hope for better next season -- but it does beg the question as to why the Patriots let lingering injuries ruin a players entire season instead of just shutting down the player and making sure they are 100% for the playoffs -- as there's no question about making the playoffs, so we should be optimizing for our team's health at the time of -- even if it means a lower seed.

If Amendola has not been hurt, then it seems like the Patriots made a poor evaluation of his abilities -- he clearly wasn't paid for past performance -- he was paid because they thought he'd flourish better than Welker had with Brady. And in year one, that's not close.

 

[TonyTucker]

Let’s flash forward to 2014 for a minute; Gronkowski is healthy, we resign Edelman, Dobson makes the 2nd year leap, Vereen is 100%, Boyce and Thompkins make strides in year 2 as well and we sign or draft another tight end. We have Amendola being paid $5,700,000 on average for what to be our 4 option at best? Now it’s not a terrible probably to have fortunately but still it’s not the best use of money.

In what world will Gronkowski be healthy? I have more faith in Amendola lasting a full season over him. Boyce and Thompkins? Complete unknowns. Amendola had a good game last night, he didn't have many catches, but a few were big, and Brady only completed 11 passes anyway.

 

[Betterthanmost]

He might not be getting the number of catches, but he sure do pull in some catches when we need it. That ball he caught almost diving to the ground is something we have been missing outside Gronk. Welker could do it, but not behind the first down mark on third down.
I like our team. If you want to stop the run, load the box and see what we can do.

 

[Archeryaddict12]

In what world will Gronkowski be healthy? I have more faith in Amendola lasting a full season over him. Boyce and Thompkins? Complete unknowns. Amendola had a good game last night, he didn't have many catches, but a few were big, and Brady only completed 11 passes anyway.

Can you make yourself look any dumber?? Gronk played 46 straight NFL games without and injury. It has only been his last 2 seasons he has gotten injured on FLUKE injuries. Geesh

 

[Brady6]

But you'll just claim that Amendola and Thompkins split snaps because the coaching staff doesn't trust Amendola, and you know that Amendola isn't dealing with a nagging injury because your mom's a gynecologist or something.

My mom is actually a doctor that works in geriatrics, please leave my mother out of your sarcastic shots at me, I don’t have an issue with you doing it to me but anything that has to do with my mother no matter how slight is crossing the line of disrespectfulness.

Secondly Amendola was not splitting anything he was the 3rd wide receiver who only began taking snaps as the 2nd wide receiver after Thompkins departed with an injury. It is not that the staff doesn’t trust Amendola, I never said that it is that Amendola is the 3rd wide receiver on this team right now based on his capabilities in the coaches eyes. The groin injury is hilarious to me, it happen 18 weeks ago.

“Generally, speaking, Grade 1 symptoms usually disappear within a week; Grade 2 symptoms last 2-3 weeks; and Grade 3 symptoms can persist for 6-8 weeks”

 

[primetime]

If this team had re-signed Welker, and signed Amendola for 4m/year, I think we'd all be happy with his production.

The problem is the team made a Welker or Amendola decision at essentially equal money, and it looks like they made the wrong decision.

I don't think Welker wanted to play for the Patriots anymore, so I'm not sure it was an either-or decision. And Amendola's substantially younger than Welker, as well. One was looking at their first free agent contract, the other their last. It's not an apples to apples comparison.

People who are projecting Thompkins or Boyce are just pissing in the wind. They're probably more likely to be out of the league by the end of their rookie contracts than they are to be starting. Dobson is another story, but he still hasn't done anything more than flashed ability and been injured as a rookie.

 

[Brady6]

In what world will Gronkowski be healthy? I have more faith in Amendola lasting a full season over him. Boyce and Thompkins? Complete unknowns. Amendola had a good game last night, he didn't have many catches, but a few were big, and Brady only completed 11 passes anyway.

The year 2010 and the year 2011 the world saw a healthy Gronkowski.

 

[Bobsyouruncle]

Can you make yourself look any dumber?? Gronk played 46 straight NFL games without and injury. It has only been his last 2 seasons he has gotten injured on FLUKE injuries. Geesh

2011 SB? That was his second year. Like it or not its fair. Gronk has gone through one year uninjured, his rookie year.

 

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Brady6, I respect your zeal for the Pats and for the Patsfans board. You often make a lot of good points. But I am starting to wonder if Amendola stole your girl or something.

You may honestly have some sort of mental illness. It is INSANE the amount of anti-Amendola posts you have composed. It has to amount in the hundreds. Hundreds of times you have banged the same drum and made the same point. Please, please, I implore you to stop. You are wrong, and it is becoming embarrassing. Even if you were dead right, it would be embarrassing. Hundreds of posts where you repeat yourself over and over and over and over and over and over. Please, knock it off.

 

[Patsrock]

He made some good plays which is great and he helped the team win. The fundamental problem is not that he is playing so poorly it is that he is the 3rd wide receiver on this team in week 19 of the season and we cut him a check for $8,500,000 during the 2013 pay period. That is the issue, listen as I said in other posts the more I watch of him the more he appears to be more of a replacement for the Deion Branch role than the Wes Welker position which is fine but he is being paid differently.

Let’s flash forward to 2014 for a minute; Gronkowski is healthy, we resign Edelman, Dobson makes the 2nd year leap, Vereen is 100%, Boyce and Thompkins make strides in year 2 as well and we sign or draft another tight end. We have Amendola being paid $5,700,000 on average for what to be our 4 option at best? Now it’s not a terrible probably to have fortunately but still it’s not the best use of money.

You worry way way to much on how much a player is being paid. I think NFL teams worry less than you do.

 

[Bobsyouruncle]

If this team had re-signed Welker, and signed Amendola for 4m/year, I think we'd all be happy with his production.

The problem is the team made a Welker or Amendola decision at essentially equal money, and it looks like they made the wrong decision.

If Amendola has been hurt all year and it's slowed him down, then I'd give him a pass and hope for better next season -- but it does beg the question as to why the Patriots let lingering injuries ruin a players entire season instead of just shutting down the player and making sure they are 100% for the playoffs -- as there's no question about making the playoffs, so we should be optimizing for our team's health at the time of -- even if it means a lower seed.

If Amendola has not been hurt, then it seems like the Patriots made a poor evaluation of his abilities -- he clearly wasn't paid for past performance -- he was paid because they thought he'd flourish better than Welker had with Brady. And in year one, that's not close.

Welker choked in big games, I'm glad he's gone. He didn't want to play here anyways.

 

[kennyb]

Amendola was unstoppable in the first game. Since then somewhat injured. I hope edelmen will settle for amendola like money.

 

[Patsrock]

My mom is actually a doctor that works in geriatrics, please leave my mother out of your sarcastic shots at me, I don’t have an issue with you doing it to me but anything that has to do with my mother no matter how slight is crossing the line of disrespectfulness.

Secondly Amendola was not splitting anything he was the 3rd wide receiver who only began taking snaps as the 2nd wide receiver after Thompkins departed with an injury. It is not that the staff doesn’t trust Amendola, I never said that it is that Amendola is the 3rd wide receiver on this team right now based on his capabilities in the coaches eyes. The groin injury is hilarious to me, it happen 18 weeks ago.

Are you a doctor? Are you Amendola groin? How can you say the injury is hilarious?

 

[PATRlOT]

Legarette Blount had an awful game last night, why else would they use Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen so much? They didn't even trust Blount to run the ball in on the goal line. And in the first half he only averaged 3.8 yards per carry, and if you take out his 75 yard run its even worse, and he got stopped behind the line several times. You guys are clearly watching a different game than I am.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just a complete idiot.

 

[Patsrock]

Next Sunday Amendola could catch 11-185 2tds and still Brady6 will find fault in the game

 

[primetime]

My mom is actually a doctor that works in geriatrics, please leave my mother out of your sarcastic shots at me, I don’t have an issue with you doing it to me but anything that has to do with my mother no matter how slight is crossing the line of disrespectfulness.

It wasn't a shot at your mother, it was a shot at you and your off-the-wall insane post about how you are able to determine when a player is at 100% because your mother is a doctor.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just a complete idiot.

That was a post in Brady6 style.

 

[Brady6]

Are you a doctor? Are you Amendola groin? How can you say the injury is hilarious?

The groin isn't hilarious the fact that you and others keep pointing it out as an excuse is, it's week 19 of the regular season I'm pretty sure 53/53 players have some type of nagging injury. Dennard had knee surgery a month ago he went out there as a starting CB had 4 pass defended and 2 interceptions.

Please just stop with the excuse they're really meaningless anyway even if the groin is hindering him how good of a player could he be if that drops to a 3rd wide receiver who has averaged 2 receptions per game over his past 3 games? Welker averaged about 7 catches a game, Amendola was dubbed as the Welker replacement so apparently this groin is taking 70% of his production away.

 

[Brady6]

Next Sunday Amendola could catch 11-185 2tds and still Brady6 will find fault in the game

That's actually very untrue...

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/showthread.php?t=1081356

As you can see when Amendola performance merits praise I am one of the first to praise him but I am not going to just blow smoke up peoples asses and make excuses for one the highest paid players on the team when he isn't doing what I would expect of him.

 

[Brady6]

It wasn't a shot at your mother, it was a shot at you and your off-the-wall insane post about how you are able to determine when a player is at 100% because your mother is a doctor.



That was a post in Brady6 style.

Brother you're in here lobbying that a player who entered the NFL in 2008 which is on rounded up side of a decade now is going to be better than Welker and Edelman in 2014 and a 19 week old groin injury is the only thing prohibiting that; I'm the insane off the wall poster though? OK

 

[Huckleberry1]

Legarette Blount had an awful game last night, why else would they use Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen so much? They didn't even trust Blount to run the ball in on the goal line. And in the first half he only averaged 3.8 yards per carry, and if you take out his 75 yard run its even worse, and he got stopped behind the line several times. You guys are clearly watching a different game than I am.

Combined with Brady's atrocious 0-12 performance it is a miracle they won the game. they really need to release Brady after this season, it won't cost them anything and Mallett can hand the ball off just as well as Brady can. This may be the worst football team i have ever seen, they are "pitiful," just "pitiful."


*Note-I didn't count Brady's completions because they were easy, and those don't count.