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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.By the evening of Day One, my priorities are:
1. Re-sign Peppers.
2. Re-sign Jones
3. Tender Cajuste
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Our trade for a WR might happen in the next week, or it might wait for more information on the WR market (especially for Meyers and Juju).
Let’s remember we have one player in the top 100
If went by a Patsfans poll we would have 53 in the top 100 ….. loldid you just cite a player poll? yikes.
… and my priorities areBy the evening of Day One, my priorities are:
1. Re-sign Peppers.
2. Re-sign Jones
3. Tender Cajuste
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Our trade for a WR might happen in the next week, or it might wait for more information on the WR market (especially for Meyers and Juju).
This team as far as a projection could have been on the trajectory that JAX is on.. this is how much last season pushed us back. now JAX having ridley back in the fold gives Lawrence exactly what we don't have a #1 WR..Minus huge moves and overhauls this teams ceiling next season is a first round playoff elimination.
They’re a couple years of positive growth from being anything approaching a contender
By the evening of Day One, my priorities are:
1. Re-sign Peppers.
2. Re-sign Jones
3. Tender Cajuste
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Our trade for a WR might happen in the next week, or it might wait for more information on the WR market (especially for Meyers and Juju).
If all we do is resign Meyers & sign JuJu, we will have wrapped up last place in the division
Let’s remember we have one player in the top 100 & it is a guard we drafted in the 6th round a couple years ago.
We need Talent !!!
Meyers has the ability to get open, but he lacks speed & he is not worth the money they are talking.
I am ok with Meyers being our WR3, but if we go into this year with him as our WR1, we are in trouble.
The Dolphins just got Ramsey & we are talking about resigning Jones.
I am more frustrated with post Brady Patriots than I ever was with the Ron Earnhardt, Rod Rust, & **** McPhearson teams.
Nobody pretended they were contenders.
Man…it’s going to be a long offseason.Minus huge moves and overhauls this teams ceiling next season is a first round playoff elimination.
They’re a couple years of positive growth from being anything approaching a contender
He also just discussed a possible trade, which as @ mgteich mentioned might require seeing how the chips fall with those guys, particularly Meyers. And the question has never been Meyers being their #1, it’s been about who can they get as a potential #1 to go with him, provided he doesn’t get priced out by another team.If all we do is resign Meyers & sign JuJu, we will have wrapped up last place in the division
And then the real team building begins... When we hopefully find the second tier players to round out the depth needed to fill out the weaker positions...By the evening of “Day One“ most of FA is already over. Nice haul : )
What drives me to distraction is what does “priced out” mean. They have the cash, they have the cap space and they have a good rapport with Drew Rosenhaus.He also just discussed a possible trade, which as @ mgteich mentioned might require seeing how the chips fall with those guys, particularly Meyers. And the question has never been Meyers being their #1, it’s been about who can they get as a potential #1 to go with him, provided he doesn’t get priced out by another team.
I agree. The problem with Meyers will be if the market blows up and he gets an offer from someone else at $17 or $18 million, which would make it too hard to keep him.What drives me to distraction is what does “priced out” mean. They have the cash, they have the cap space and they have a good rapport with Drew Rosenhaus.
If the market for a #2 receiver is $14 million as exhibited by him getting a couple of offers in that neighborhood, why can’t or won’t the Patriots just pay the market price to retain a young, productive player? The days of them saying “we see you as a $12.5 m player and you either accept that or else” need to be over.
Free agents are no longer coming here on the cheap to chase a ring and rebuild their value. Those days are done. They’ve got to keep the good talent they develop while adding to it in the draft to return to contender status.
Don't forget, securing someone like Cajuste in March basically ensures you retain the guy you know vs the potential unknowns who could emerge. People tend to undervalue known role players, not realizing how important it is to keep them in the fold until you at least have an unknown who has proven they can get the job done. The worst part about last year is that as bad as it was, things actually could have been worse and it's guys like this who kept it from potentially reaching that point.I’d be fine blowing up the whole thing. There is no one I’m extremely passionate about.
That said, I did like Peppers this year. I think he was an under-the-radar contributor who seemed to come on the last third of the season.
Cajuste ? I couldn’t care less. UDFA would produce just as much, maybe stay on the field more.
And then the real team building begins... We we hopefully find the second tier players to round out the depth needed to fill out the weaker positions...