Balanced alternate view. Respect that .
I try, thanks.
I was not commenting on agholor or Jonnu as person, the fleecing was more with respect to how their performance is commensurate for the dollars. As for agholor his fumbles and drops have lost us more games than his play has won. So in that regard it's a miss.
Agholor was a miss, yes. o was every other FA WR that year, stunningly.
Wynn was already performing sub optimally and had health issues and attitude issues prior to 5th year . Signing his tag was something that was universally condemned in 4th year not something that I came up now.
You're forgetting that they had to exercise the option in MAY of 2021, before the fourth year even began (and he was very goodin 2021 and there were no attitude issues.
Today is the deadline for exercising 5th year option. Pats have 2 options with Wynn and Sony. By the new rule exercising options fully guarantees both 2021 salary and 2022 option. Wynn = 2M + 10.4M option Sony = 1.8M + 4.5M option Neither price tags are excessive but both had injury issues so...
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You have to go to page 98 to get there. There were a couple here who were against it, but the overwhelming majority (and pretty much every Pats reporter) agreed with picking up the option.
88% yes on the poll here.
Spending 25 million on TE without having game plan is criminal . We just spent so much because we couldn't draft , nor develop players . And in the end the net results are there to see. 45 + million across Wynn, agholor, Henry and Smith . It's retrospective but reflects the poor assessments and in teams with 2 or more losing seasons gets the GM fired. I am not saying we need to do the same .but we need to acknowledge we have a problem . No point buttering it up just because bill has won six rings while having the GOAT QB. I understand rebuilds take a while but this year's experiment essentially put a reset clock on rebuild and again we are starting at year 1 . Bengals did a reset in 2 years with Burrow.
I don't disagree. It's more about development than draft regarding WR and TE here, in my opinion. Neither Smith nor Henry are "bad" NFL TE's - they were both rated highly BEFORE they got here, in the top 7(iirc) in the league. Criminally used, I agree.
Regarding Michel, bust might be a strong word. I retract that . But you don't draft bell cows at 31 when you can get similar production in lower rounds Harris, rham, Pacheco, pollard etc. That was a water of draft pick .
Go look at the grading for RBs coming out - and the Pats needed an RB. Here:
2018 NFL Draft Prospects: Running Backs
What Michel had that few others had was the ability to pass protect - which was kind of important to BB. Sure, in hindsight, Chubb was the guy (Barclay was long gone, obviously), but Michel was huge his rookie year and did well in years 2 and 3. Sure, he would have a short career, possibly, with that knee, but when does that matter to BB? He lets RBs walk after the rookie year.
The very fact that we have not resigned any of our first rounders since McCourty tells me we have been really missing the mark and bardy and scar making up for the whiffs. Now that they are not there it's plain vanilla to see.
I think they've blown several first round picks, I agree.
Andy Reid is within striking distance of Bills postseason records. Chiefs have gone to 5 consecutive AFC championships . We haven't won a postseason in 4 years . That's all to say .
Andy Reid is a great coach, other than "in-game." He may retire with the most wins, but he won't have 6 rings. If he gets a couple more, he'll be in the all-time top 5 discussion, without doubt, and he'll belong there.
I have no problem with that.
