- Brady should be resigned
- Thuney should be resigned if they can get him for $12m or under. If not sadly we should let him walk but spending close to $25m on guards isn’t the best use of cap space when we have lots of other needs.
- KVN likely gone. Would love to resign him but he wants top $
- McCourty resign 1 year $7m.
- Collins try to resign for 2 years $5m per.
- Shelton or Butler, not both, but Shelton could get costly
- Slater 2 years $3m per
- sign Nick Folk 2 years $1m per
Cuts- Gostkowski and Sanu unless he takes a big cut
Restructures - Cannon and Hightower. Possibly Gilmore
- Sorry, but you don't cut Gostkowski for Folk.. That's just silliness.
- And I don't think they bring back Collins.. He played great initially, then started doing the same old same old that got him shipped to Cleveland.
- Butler is an RFA. He'll be back.
- Definitely want Slater back.
- Elandon Roberts is likely to be back as well.
- I personally wasn't all that impressed by Brooks either on defense or Special teams. I'd rather have Brandon King out there.
- I see Chung as being cut or possibly retiring since he got injured again. His play really went downhill this year. I think that JoeJuan Williams would be a perfect guy to take Chung's place in that role of covering TEs/Tall WRs out of the slot. He did well in the limited snaps he got with JMac out.
- I think that Thuney will be a priority. I could see the Pats going for the lower end of the top 5 salaries ($9M/year) . I think a 4 year deal between 36-44M (9-11M APY) gets it done.
- I'd like to see DMac back. I don't feel we have anyone behind him who can be that FS who controls the secondary right now.
I think we're going to see a big turnover at LB. I think that the Patriots might try to bring back Kamu Grugier-Hill. I'd like to see them go after Markus Golden from the Giants and Matt Judon from the Ravens.
I wouldn't mind seeing Christian Covington in the replace Shelton.
I hope the Patriots don't try and bring Ferentz or Newhouse back. I'd like to see Karras back, but I have a feeling that a team need with needs at C/G will over-pay for him like teams did for Fleming and Waddle.
What will be interesting is how the Pats go for QB, O-Line, WR, and TE.
O-line - Swing Tackle, Back-up OC/OG, Starting LG
WR - While they have Edelman, Sanu, Henry, Meyers, and Oszlewski under contract, there was an overall lack of execution there all year. Too many dropped passed in key situations.
TE - They definitely missed Gronk. LaCosse was a failure overall. Watson showed glimpses, but he wasn't even 5% of Gronk. The Pats definitely need someone here. Probably 2 someones.
Personally, I'd cut LaCosse, focus on Henry and adding someone to develop early in the draft while letting Develin/Jacobson/Roberts take TE snaps.