maineman209
Veteran Starter w/Big Long Term Deal
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Reach? For what?
I really don't care about Allen's 2017 salary right now, regardless of the context. It's history. Water under the bridge. There's nothing to be done about it now, by anyone. All that's left is to evaluate his play and contributions going forward. Complaining about Allen not playing up to his paycheck seems like crying over milk that someone else spilled.
Setting aside the idea that "worth" is in the eye of the beholder, if you want to generalize about "a guy", then sure, what a team is paying "a guy" could always have been spent differently. It might have achieved "better" results, and it might not have. AFAIK, there's never been any way of being absolutely certain in advance, and definitely not over the considerable distance from where I sit to BB's chair.
Clearly, Allen has underperformed your expectations so far. If those expectations were based, even in part, on what BB signed up to pay him for 2017 ... wow! I don't know what to tell you.
I care about the Pats. I also understand that it's not humanly possible for BB to make perfect decisions for the team every time, much less decisions that will always please all "the fans". But, I definitely don't pretend to speak for them, any more than I pretend to be aware of all the constraints, the potential upsides and downsides that BB takes into consideration with each decision. I can't really do much but sit back and enjoy watching how his decisions play out in the here and now.
I really don't care about Allen's 2017 salary right now, regardless of the context. It's history. Water under the bridge. There's nothing to be done about it now, by anyone. All that's left is to evaluate his play and contributions going forward. Complaining about Allen not playing up to his paycheck seems like crying over milk that someone else spilled.
if a guy's worth is below his salary
Setting aside the idea that "worth" is in the eye of the beholder, if you want to generalize about "a guy", then sure, what a team is paying "a guy" could always have been spent differently. It might have achieved "better" results, and it might not have. AFAIK, there's never been any way of being absolutely certain in advance, and definitely not over the considerable distance from where I sit to BB's chair.
Clearly, Allen has underperformed your expectations so far. If those expectations were based, even in part, on what BB signed up to pay him for 2017 ... wow! I don't know what to tell you.
I care about the Pats. I also understand that it's not humanly possible for BB to make perfect decisions for the team every time, much less decisions that will always please all "the fans". But, I definitely don't pretend to speak for them, any more than I pretend to be aware of all the constraints, the potential upsides and downsides that BB takes into consideration with each decision. I can't really do much but sit back and enjoy watching how his decisions play out in the here and now.