Other than cheating to win Superbowls, the second best thing the Patriots do is not re-sign or get rid of impact players that they really need. Their GM has odd ways of doing things. We have seen this in the past when the Patriots traded Richard Seymour, Asante Samuel, Adam Viniteiri, among others and it has really hurt them for a long time. Hell for how long have the Patriots been looking for a pass rusher, in fact, they still haven't found one, we have to wait and see what Chandler Jones turns into. The same can be said for their secondary, it seems like there is a forever, rotating secondary and they are often ranked near the bottom of the list, and maybe is Adam Viniteiri is still on the team Bill kicks the 48 yard field goal in the Superbowl and they win, instead of going for it. The most peculiar thing about Wes Welker is, that the guys above got mega contracts, Wes got a 2 year 12 million dollar deal. That's 6 a year. For someone who has been over 100 catches and 1000 yards with Brady for 5 years, 6 million for 2 years seems awfully reasonable. Also the thing Wes had that a lot of other WRs don't is the camaraderie he has with Brady, look in the past how hard this is to grip for other WRs, where Chad Ochocinco, Brandon Lloyd, Joey Galloway, Torry Holt, Doug Gabriel and others have failed, are we 100% positive that Danny Amendola will be able to pick it up without a pitch.
Now lets move on to Wes' replacement, Danny Amendola. The Pats counter Welker to the Broncos by giving Amendola an asinine 5 year, 31 million dollar deal. I just don't get the logic of paying someone who is unproven in the system, injury prone, and less productive more money for more years. I guess, you can say they did the same thing with Wes essentially with the trade to get him from the Dolphins, but they at least traded for him. Maybe Belichick really likes white guys from Texas Tech, but I just don't think Amendola is an upgrade at all. If you had to have 2 years from Welker or Amendola on the Patriots you 100% take Welker. I would be willing to bet anything that Amendola misses more games than Welker did in his patriot career, this year (3).
Many Patriot fanboys will bring up the Welker drops or definitely the drop in the Superbowl, which you can put 50% on Brady btw. But that shouldn't matter in this, Welker had 5 seasons in which he went over 100 catches and 1000 yards with the Patriots, had a great rapport with Brady, it seems awfully like someone in the Patriots organization had a vendetta against him. They fucked with him last year, they were blatantly phasing him out this year and then lowballed him on an already fair deal.
Also, there are already reports close to brady that say he's infuriated by this whoel thing. “He’s got so much pressure on his shoulders now — again,” the source close to Brady told Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports. “If the offense doesn’t perform at a high level, they’re screwed. This is unbelievable. It’s hard not to feel like they’ve sold him out.” So pissing off your star QB who took less money, is always a nice thing to do.
Maybe they just want an all injury prone offense with Gronk, Hernandez, Edleman and Amendola. Oh well.
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