Thru week 6 Amendola has only proven his critics correct…

[50-yard-line]

I am not calling for his release right now...

Whew, good thing, because I know the Patriots coaching staff and DA's family were waiting nervously with bated breath for your decision.

What a game yesterday, huh? I watched the end at the club at Fenway...like a sports bar on steroids.

And then the Sox! Oh man, still can't figure out why they didn't cut Ellsbury after his shoulder issues last year, or that Papi clown with the achilles problem...

 

[PatsFan2]

Before you tell me how that hit was illegal and blaming Amendola is dumb, let me just say this – I don’t care! One of the things that made Wes Welker a great player was his intelligence and the wherewithal to protect himself from taking those type of hits, Amendola ran 100 MPH and it was as idiotic as throwing a glass against the concrete along with having a similar result. My excuses for Danny Amendola have flown south with the birds, he is never going to contribute to this offense consistently because he is never going to be on the field and when he is it is going to be like weeks 1, 5 and 6 where he is out there but far less than 100% and we as fans are just sitting in our seats waiting for the next shoe to drop.

He is a talented player and it is a damn shame, but at 28 years old I think it is time to accept that he is what he is and that is a player who you cannot center an offense around or even be made a key piece to an offense because his is going to give 8-10 games per year on average and 3-5 of those will be played at less than 100%.

I agree completely the guy is made of glass he's no good to us on the bench.
BB is no fool as soon as A Dropson gets it I can see BB parting ways with DA. It's a guarantee that even Austin Collie will produce more than him this year. Who would have thought that? We should have kept Welker, DA is No Match not even worth mentioning in the same sentence.

 

[coolguy]

I agree completely the guy is made of glass he's no good to us on the bench.
BB is no fool as soon as A Dropson gets it I can see BB parting ways with DA. It's a guarantee that even Austin Collie will produce more than him this year. Who would have thought that? We should have kept Welker, DA is No Match not even worth mentioning in the same sentence.

If amendola is made of glass does that mean gronk is made of plexiglass?

If gronk falls the wrong way his bones break.

 

[fnordcircle]

Day after one of the greatest regular season wins in this team's history and the most active thread is one complaining about one of our guys getting injured too often.

This ******* fanbase.

 

[manxman2601]

Day after one of the greatest regular season wins in this team's history and the most active thread is one complaining about one of our guys getting injured too often.

This ******* fanbase.

Whilst I was watching the game, I genuinely thought it was one of the best Patriot performances I'd ever seen because of their performance in the face of adversity.

 

[Sciz]

I agree completely the guy is made of glass he's no good to us on the bench.
BB is no fool as soon as A Dropson gets it I can see BB parting ways with DA. It's a guarantee that even Austin Collie will produce more than him this year. Who would have thought that? We should have kept Welker, DA is No Match not even worth mentioning in the same sentence.

Another word being terribly misused in this thread.

 

[4thDown&GoingForIt]

I agree completely the guy is made of glass he's no good to us on the bench.
BB is no fool as soon as A Dropson gets it I can see BB parting ways with DA. It's a guarantee that even Austin Collie will produce more than him this year. Who would have thought that? We should have kept Welker, DA is No Match not even worth mentioning in the same sentence.

Nah, we couldn't win **** with Welker. Dude already cost us 1 superbowl, might as well start fresh with a brand new receiving core.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I have seen plenty of absolutely atrocious threads in this forum but the op and this thread definitely belong in the Hall of fame for Garbage Threads and Original Posts.


Thanks for that, it's good to know who the worst fans actually are.



Now it's time to go compare Tom Brady's combine numbers against Spergon Wynn, Belichick really screwed that one up, just look at Spergon's short shuttle.........4.24, awesome.

 

[ProductOfASystem]

Here's what I want to know - why do people care so much about Amendola?

I mean, I kind of get it - big, stupid contract.

But the Patriots already have a better slot receiver named "Julian Edelman." You know, the guy who is on pace for over 100 catches despite not even playing the slot for 2 of the 6 games, and a large chunk of yesterday's game?

You know, the guy who has more catches and yards than the ridiculously overhyped Wes Welker right now?

I just don't understand why the Patriots signed Amendola in the first place. The slot receiver in a spread offense like this one is a system-based position. There are no-name guys all over the league you could plug into this role and get enormous production out of. The only attributes that are special about Welker are his toughness and durability. In terms of actual receiving skill, there are Wes Welkers everywhere. Edelman is the "bigger, stronger, faster, young" Welker everyone was hyping Amendola as, not Amendola.

Amendola is actually even slower than Welker. He has never shown any breakaway speed or vertical ability whatsoever. Not on the field, not at the combine, not at his pro day.

Forget Welker, leave Edelman in there, give Brady his reliable target, and move onto worrying about the real problem with this team - the lack of production out of the tight ends. Losing Gronkowski and Murdernandez is the main issue with the passing game right now. Hoomanuwanui just isn't doing enough to off-set any of their absence.

The slot position has generally been fine. Amendola did well in week 1, and Edelman has done well whenever in there. People should really stop talking about Welker like he's freak'n Calvin Johnson. He's a role player. Nothing more, nothing less. And don't buy the hype about the 8 TDs he has, either - the Broncos get inside the 10 several times per game, spread it out, and Welker has caught 6 of his 8 touchdowns on dinky little routes you could have thrown to anyone.

 

[Brady6]

Re: Re: Thru week 6 Amendola has only proven his critics correct…

I have seen plenty of absolutely atrocious threads in this forum but the op and this thread definitely belong in the Hall of fame for Garbage Threads and Original Posts.


Thanks for that, it's good to know who the worst fans actually are.



Now it's time to go compare Tom Brady's combine numbers against Spergon Wynn, Belichick really screwed that one up, just look at Spergon's short shuttle.........4.24, awesome.

Congratulations Ivan you've been selected to be the first person I use the ignore function on.

 

[ausbacker]

Well, I just spent the last half hour reading through this thread after my contributions of yesterday. The only conclusion I can come to is to say thank you for the breakfast laugh Patsfans. We're an interesting lot, that's for sure.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Here's what I want to know - why do people care so much about Amendola?

I mean, I kind of get it - big, stupid contract.

But the Patriots already have a better slot receiver named "Julian Edelman." You know, the guy who is on pace for over 100 catches despite not even playing the slot for 2 of the 6 games, and a large chunk of yesterday's game?

You know, the guy who has more catches and yards than the ridiculously overhyped Wes Welker right now?

I just don't understand why the Patriots signed Amendola in the first place. The slot receiver in a spread offense like this one is a system-based position. There are no-name guys all over the league you could plug into this role and get enormous production out of. The only attributes that are special about Welker are his toughness and durability. In terms of actual receiving skill, there are Wes Welkers everywhere. Edelman is the "bigger, stronger, faster, young" Welker everyone was hyping Amendola as, not Amendola.

Amendola is actually even slower than Welker. He has never shown any breakaway speed or vertical ability whatsoever. Not on the field, not at the combine, not at his pro day.

Forget Welker, leave Edelman in there, give Brady his reliable target, and move onto worrying about the real problem with this team - the lack of production out of the tight ends. Losing Gronkowski and Murdernandez is the main issue with the passing game right now. Hoomanuwanui just isn't doing enough to off-set any of their absence.

The slot position has generally been fine. Amendola did well in week 1, and Edelman has done well whenever in there. People should really stop talking about Welker like he's freak'n Calvin Johnson. He's a role player. Nothing more, nothing less. And don't buy the hype about the 8 TDs he has, either - the Broncos get inside the 10 several times per game, spread it out, and Welker has caught 6 of his 8 touchdowns on dinky little routes you could have thrown to anyone.

1st post....




Hopefully it gets much much better...........................that really sucked.

 

[Tunescribe]

Amazing how an incredible win and stupendous 5-1 start can degenerate into people indulging this stinking pile of crapola. :bricks:

 

[goheels22002]

When the 'criticism' is that he's injury prone, pointing out yet another injury is an appropriate thing to do, and responses claiming "but... concussion.... hit" don't magically make the injury unhappen.

The fact is that those who were critics of the Amendola signing (either as a stand-alone signing or as a replacement for Welker signing) spent a lot of time pointing at Amendola's recent penchant for getting injured, and this start to his Patriots career has proven the critics' position on this issue to have been well founded.

Can a legitimate argument be made that Amendola could have protected himself better? Yup.

Can a legitimate argument be made that, if Amendola had given himself up in order to avoid injury, some people here would have been complaining that he didn't give his all trying to get the first down? Yup.

Was the timing of the thread poor, given how this site has become about this stuff in the past year or so? Yup.

Was the O.P. right, generally speaking, in noting that what's happened is what critics were saying was the problem? Yup.


Pretty much everything else has just been people trying to see who can piss farther and higher.

So is Aquib Talib injury prone, and a bad signing? He's gone down three times in under a season's worth of games. In the 49ers, Ravens and Saints games.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Amazing how an incredible win and stupendous 5-1 start can degenerate into people indulging this stinking pile of crapola. :bricks:

And that's straight from the big guys mouth.....thank you dalai lama, nice hat

 

[Deus Irae]

So is Aquib Talib injury prone,

Yes

and a bad signing? He's gone down three times in under a season's worth of games. In the 49ers, Ravens and Saints games.

He was a risky signing, but they needed a CB1, and he was a re-up, not a replacement. I thought they'd have been better off looking at one of the other available CBs (Grimes, for example) because of Talib's question marks, but Talib wasn't being brought in to replace a Wes Welker level player, so the situations aren't really the same.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I find it amazing that Patriot fans, of all fans, are so demeaning of slot receivers, when it's the Patriots who made the position into what it is today through their use of the Brady to Welker connection. Suddenly every JAG WR can supposedly be turned into a HOF caliber slot receiver and Welker leading the league in 1st downs, catches, YAC, and nows TD's is just some jerk-off slot receiver who is easily replaced by any combine star who has a better 3 cone or short shuttle. The truth, at least imo, is that these guys are invaluable to their teams by keeping the chains moving and the defense off the field, as well as setting the offenses up for points and to dominate TOP. They take the worst punishment of any player on the field because they are generally smaller quicker players who operate in the middle of the field and take ungodly hits after routinely being sized up by safeties and LB's who see the play develop and make them pay dearly for making it.

I could understand criticizing Amendola if he didn't do the work and didn't care about the game enough to work his ass off to be out there, but to criticize a player like this for nothing more than getting hurt playing the slot in the NFL takes stupidity and ignorance to new and greater heights. Amendola is a really tough, really hardworking player who took a major shot to the head trying to get a key first down for the Patriots, and to attack him for that is actually pretty obscene. A thread wishing him a strong recovery would have been appropriate, players really deserve much much better than this.

 

[RayClay]

Yes




He was a risky signing, but they needed a CB1. I thought they'd have been better off looking at one of the other available CBs (Grimes, for example) because of Talib's question marks, but Talib wasn't being brought in to replace a Wes Welker level player, so the situations aren't really the same.

Seriously Deus, he's gone. He signed a contract with Denver, he's not coming back. Let the healing begin with acceptance.

 

[Deus Irae]

Seriously Deus, he's gone...

Seriously, Ray, either read the thread or don't post. I was answering a direct question as opposed to bringing up anyone offhand.

 

[E1Downey]

Lol this is a joke. I don't understand how anyone could seriously argue the premise of this thread. It is absolutely true that Amendola has proven to be exactly what our worst fears were..."THRU WEEK 6"!!!!!!

Stop being a bunch of ****ies and claiming that the OP is "attacking" such an amazing, hardworking young man. There's nothing personal about stating the fact that "THRU WEEK 6" Amendola has been the "Injury Prone" player we feared he was while Welker is still the Elite WR that we all know he is. Only now he's catching passes from our hero's arch rival.
Thus far the whole Amendola vs Welker debate isn't even worth having because it's so painfully ******* obvious that it's fact, not opinion, that this was a mistake.

THRU WEEK 6