"McDaniels faithful". Funny. I call it being a Patriots fan and a believer that BB knows a damn sight more than you, me or anyone else on this thread. And the fact that he appointed McDaniels twice tells me a lot more than a person on a forum making stuff up.
As for your final paragraph, I'm really curious at your witch hunt on Amendola. Worst FA in the NFL? Good grief.
Just because you disagree with one aspect or decision doesn’t make you less of a fan. I love my wife and believe in her very much but sometimes she does things I question or have concerns with it doesn’t make me less of husband. I question it cause I care about this team and I am seeing things out of McDaniels over the last 1+ seasons that I do not think is in the best interest of the team, maybe I am wrong (hopefully I am wrong) but being a fan doesn’t make me blind to the fact that in the last few weeks Josh’s game plan has been awful in the first half and if we didn’t have the GOAT at QB we would have lost 4 straight games and 6 of their last 7 games:
Week 7: Loss @ Jets
Week 8: Down 17-3 vs. Dolphins at halftime
Week 9: Win vs. Steelers
Week 11: Loss (down 10-3 at halftime)
Week 12: Down 24-0 at halftime
Week 13: Down 17-7 at halftime
Week 14: Down 6-0 at halftime
We’ve scored 10 points in the first half since we came out of the bye week; there is a problem with the game plan and personnel decision, or the players aren’t being coached properly either way that burden falls on McDaniels first and foremost.
As far as Amendola I said one of the biggest failures of the 2013 free agent class, can you dispute this? Has his signing been a success, are there a lot of players who have been bigger failures than Amendola?
It is not a witch hunt it is an assessment based on the cost of his contract and others who received similar contracts, in that group Amendola is one of the biggest failures and if you want to say otherwise I think you should do so with some context other than “good grief”.
How I come to form my opinion is by looking at this:
Bowe
Wallace
Jennings
Welker
Amendola
Edelman
Hartline
In no particular order those were the wide receivers considered to be in the top 100 of free agent wide receivers this past off season. Amendola has the least receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns of any of them so that says to me he is the biggest failure of the wide receiver group this past offseason, now before you roll off a post of excuses I just want to say justifying an outcome does not change the outcome, I said this in a post yesterday if this summer it is revealed that Hernandez and his associates accidently killed Lloyd it does not change the fact that they killed him, maybe they will receive a lighter sentence but there will still be a sentence and some level of accountability for their actions. To expect that everything is going to perfectly according to plan and there will be no adversity to overcome is a childish conjecture, adults know that it is likely that a nagging injury or something will linger with them and impact them and they prepare to overcome it. Danny has a groin injury as does Arrington and many others in the NFL nobody promised him perfect health when he signed that contract, to whom much is given much is expected even in the face of adversity. Does Belichick accept injuries and let the team lose at will? Nope not even a little bit.
