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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.They underpaid Amendola for years, forcing him to take pay cuts. When healthy, he's been a quality part of the offense. So all the "but money!" arguments are nonsense, because the pay bump could easily have been justified.
But not paying Amendola is only going to be an issue if the receivers don't get it done. As is almost always the case when a sports team moves on from a player, the real issue is who's brought in to replace him, because it's the impact of the replacement player that largely determines the value gained or lost by moving on from the now-former player.
Also, how do you pay DA 6 mil when you are paying Hogan 3 and JE 1.5?
Yeah, bring me the red emergency phone.
IDK why the team doesn't just sign Dez Bryant. It would be a 1 year thing but clearly he would be good here.
Dez would happily take 6M for 1 year to play with Brady and set himself up for that last contract. No reason not to at this point.
I take the player's assessment with a grain of salt. As in "not an acl." But a lot of other things will kerp him out of action for a bit, which is not what we need. I will feel better when he catches a bunch of footballs Thursday night.Was posted earlier in thread; said he walked back to the field to get his pads and said he "was all right".
Patriots training camp: Injury scare at wide receiver in Tuesday's practiceThis is one to monitor, as the Pats don't have many reliable options at wide receiver. Kenny Britt is off the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list, but he's hardly practicing. He hasn't yet participated in team drills or 1-on-1s. Eric Decker hasn't made a particularly strong impression, and Cordarrelle Patterson does not receive many reps with Tom Brady (although he has delivered a handful of highlight plays in training camp).
The Pats parted ways with Malcolm Mitchell and Jordan Matthews earlier in camp.
I take the player's assessment with a grain of salt. As in "not an acl." But a lot of other things will kerp him out of action for a bit, which is not what we need. I will feel better when he catches a bunch of footballs Thursday night.
Patriots training camp: Injury scare at wide receiver in Tuesday's practice
We will see. What I have seen "bite this team in the ass" is injuries and lack of depth. And DA gets injured hence the snap count.
DA has a 6 mil cap hit
Decker, Britt, Dorsett, Turner and Lucian combined are less than that.
Also, how do you pay DA 6 mil when you are paying Hogan 3 and JE 1.5?
Also, Patterson has been a solid 3 WR and is probably the second greatest return guy of all time. He dosent even need to be our 3 WR here and we have him for 3 million.
DA is strictly a role player now. And you can restructure Dwayne Allen this year. You could not do it again with DA
I agree with all of this. But there's more info....
Turner and Lucien are camp fodder waiver wire guys, Britt has done nothing and has a shaky track record, Decker has looked to be in decline and Dorset is a fringe roster player. If 2 of those guys make the roster, I'd be surprised
Amendola is more valuable than that quintet of has beens and never will bes
That's not to say Amendola is worth what Miami paid him. But the "replace two proven guys (Cooks and Amendola) with quantity over quality" plan looks pretty terrible right about now. Matthews is on IR, Patterson is known garbage at WR and Britt/Decker have been underwhelming at best in their very minimal camp time
I don't know how anyone can look at this collection of WR and be anything other than worried unless you're buying heavily into Patterson/Dorsett blossoming into quality players.
It's a bad WR group that needs an awful lot of "ifs" to go in the Pats favor to be a strong group. The fundamental strategy this off-season was questionable
I'm ok with losing Cooks and Amendola but the pile of crap brought in to replace them is frightening
No it would make no sense on any BB run team whatsoever to pay Dola what he gets in Miami.
He is getting low-end WR1 money. He is not even a full WR3 and needs to be kept on a snap count or you run risk wearing him down. We are using RBs and TEs so he would be maybe the fifth or sixth option sometimes. He is turning 33. None of this makes any sense in terms of value.
Like I said in a different post I LOVED Dola. I wish he would have retired here. Bringing up Allen being arguably overpaid does not change that what the Dolphins offered Dola was crazy money.
Turner and Lucien are camp fodder waiver wire guys, Britt has done nothing and has a shaky track record, Decker has looked to be in decline and Dorset is a fringe roster player. If 2 of those guys make the roster, I'd be surprised
Amendola is more valuable than that quintet of has beens and never will bes
That's not to say Amendola is worth what Miami paid him. But the "replace two proven guys (Cooks and Amendola) with quantity over quality" plan looks pretty terrible right about now. Matthews is on IR, Patterson is known garbage at WR and Britt/Decker have been underwhelming at best in their very minimal camp time
I don't know how anyone can look at this collection of WR and be anything other than worried unless you're buying heavily into Patterson/Dorsett blossoming into quality players.
It's a bad WR group that needs an awful lot of "ifs" to go in the Pats favor to be a strong group. The fundamental strategy this off-season was questionable
I'm ok with losing Cooks and Amendola but the pile of crap brought in to replace them is frightening
No complaints from me there the BB lemmings refuse to see it though. Just wait until Gronk is consistently doubled and Hogan faces #1CB's consistently. It might be slim pickings for Brady and the Offense hopefully they have a running game. We better hope Gronk or Hogan doesn't miss time early on very paltry looking bunch after them poor Brady.
At TE we have a GOAT and depth issues. At WR, we start the season with a WR3 and depth issues.I loved Dola. Clutch! Hated to see him go but liked seeing him ca$h in at last. Regrettably the right decision for the team.
Posters who say we're too thin in WR depth w/o Dola and in the same post suggest cutting Allen for the $ contradict their argument. What's the depth at TE if Gronk goes down? WORSE than the WR depth with Dola gone! No TE with any pass threat who can block.
I loved Dola. Clutch! Hated to see him go but liked seeing him ca$h in at last. Regrettably the right decision for the team.
Posters who say we're too thin in WR depth w/o Dola and in the same post suggest cutting Allen for the $ contradict their argument. What's the depth at TE if Gronk goes down? WORSE than the WR depth with Dola gone! No TE with any pass threat who can block.