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It’s not, though. It would be a three year deal for approx. 13m a year.I like AB and all but his contract is way too much $$
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It’s not, though. It would be a three year deal for approx. 13m a year.I like AB and all but his contract is way too much $$
According to Shefter they are reworking Ben's contract to make some cap room. Looks like they may end up dealing Brown.
They still have JuJu, Ben, and Connor, and they’ll probably get a nice haul in higher round picks/players they can use for defense and maybe another WR. They’ll also save about 1m against the cap and improve the team chemistry.Zero chance brown is on the steelers next year.
Bell and brown gone...Steelers have some holes but also young guys stepping up
It’s not, though. It would be a three year deal for approx. 13m a year.
Last 5 years:More than the Pats should probably invest for one WR, though. Especially for 2019.
Last 5 years:
129 for 1698
136 for 1834
106 for 1284
101 for 1533
104 for 1297
(59 touchdowns during that span)
At his price, it’s something like 21 million per.
I don’t want him at any price and wouldn’t trade more than a fifth round pick for him. Then he’s off to cleaveland
I am too lazy to look but I am pretty sure the exact same things were said about Moss before he came to town. I would do a trade is a second, it is not like the Patriots can be trusted to draft a WR, also you weaken a rival.Why not send Brady out in style?
Patriot WRs under contract for 2019
- Edelman
- Slater
- Berrios
- McCarron
Not exactly the greatest show on turf.
The Pats got Moss for a 4th-rounder in 2007. His cap hit was $3m, which represented 2.8% of the cap, in a year when the Pats had more relative cap space to begin with.
Assuming that the Steelers would even consider trading AB to a major rival like the Pats, they'd likely want a much higher draft pick than what the Pats gave up for Moss, and AB's $13m salary for 2019 would represent 6.9% of the cap in a year when the Pats are fairly short on cap space. That $13m is also roughly equivalent to the combined cap hits of Edelman, Hogan, Patterson, Dorsett and Gordon in 2018.
Spending that much available cap space on one (soon-to-be-31-year-old) WR, thus constraining the Pats from signing or re-signing valuable players at other positions, just doesn't seem like a winning strategy to me.
Lol what? Moss I would agree is a better receiver but Brown is no Michael Crabtree.Moss was way better of a receiver than brown. It would be like comparing jerry rice to that guy on the raiders. Crabtree or whoever that great one they have is. So, while that guy is good, he’s not worth 20 million. No one is worth that
I hear you. I just think that we’re going to end up with a fair amount of additional cap space after a couple/few changes, and we may not have high hopes for either Brown or Flowers.Again, I'm not questioning AB's value wrt production versus cost, taken in isolation.
However:
Pats' WR for 2019 (currently):
- Edelman (33) .. thru 2019
- Darren Andrews (24) .. thru 2020, on IR
- Berrios (24) .. thru 2021, on IR
- Cody Hollister (25) .. 2018 ERFA, on IR
- Damoun Patterson (24) .. (PS, likely futures contract)
- Hogan (31), 3 yrs Pats exerience .. UFA
- Dorsett (26), 2 yrs Pats experience .. UFA
- C. Patterson (28), 1 yr Pats experience .. UFA
Given the Pats relatively limited cap space, and given the Pats relatively limited options for creating significantly MORE cap space, and given the potential desire to re-sign Flowers and Trent Brown (plus Gost, Ryan Allen, etc.), investing that amount in just the one WR (who also turns 31 before the start of next season, simply doesn't seem wise to me, compared to the potential loss of future returns from Flowers and Trent Brown (at least one of whom would NOT be able to be retained if the Pats sign AB).
IOW, AB is certainly worth $13m, just not for the Pats, given their current roster/cap circumstances.
I hear you. I just think that we’re going to end up with a fair amount of additional cap space after a couple/few changes, and we may not have high hopes for either Brown or Flowers.
It doesn’t matter anyway. Brown obviously isn’t coming here.
Was going to agree with you, right up to that last comment. I can’t agree that a locker room cancer diva is “certainly worth $13m”. Especially when his current team certainly does not agree with that....
IOW, AB is certainly worth $13m, just not for the Pats, given their current roster/cap circumstances.
Was going to agree with you, right up to that last comment. I can’t agree that a locker room cancer diva is “certainly worth $13m”. Especially when his current team certainly does not agree with that.