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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.Just Bradyite wishful thinking.some people actually believe that this team would be contending if brady and his 25-30M contract were here?
if they're not contending, then there is absolutely no reason to pay a QB that much
I do not believe they would be 2-4 right now. Maybe they still lose to the Seahawks and Chiefs but I don’t think they no show against the Broncos and Niners like they did. Also I keep hearing about how they couldn't have paid Brady, who wouldn't we have been able to keep? McCourty and not franchise Thuney? I would take that trade off and have a much better chance of being 4-2 than 2-4.some people actually believe that this team would be contending if brady and his 25-30M contract were here?
if they're not contending, then there is absolutely no reason to pay a QB that much
I do not believe they would be 2-4 right now. Maybe they still lose to the Seahawks and Chiefs but I don’t think they no show against the Broncos and Niners like they did. Also I keep hearing about how they couldn't have paid Brady, who wouldn't we have been able to keep? McCourty and not franchise Thuney? I would take that trade off and have a much better chance of being 4-2 than 2-4.
I can respect that. No real way to know either way. I just didn't want to see Brady go.I disagree
Considering where the Patriots look like they will be drafting, there is a good chance the only QB off the board will be Lawrence. So they will have their pick of all the rest.If the Patriots are fortunate and end up with someone like Hebert in the draft next year I think they can turn things around quickly. QB is so important that nothing else really matters until that problem is solved. They are in an enviable position $ wise compared to the rest of the league and if the cap drops like expected there should be a bunch of quality veterans available for cheap dollars. I think more than the draft the Pats need to hit on the group of "middle class" players and find their next batch of Ninkovich, Hogan, Van Noy type players to fill some holes. If they do there is no reason they are not serious contenders in a couple years.
A little simplistic. I’m not happy Bill wanted to move on from Brady but it’s probably a lot more likely it was due to age then Bill not wanting a franchise QB.If bill knew more than anybody what a franchise qb meant to winning he wouldn't of disenfranchised and pushed out the greatest of all time.
Bill is great but he has a smug attitude about him that thinks he can win with anyone.
Wrong.
I’ll give you an example of destroying dynasties. The Roman Empire got complacent, underestimated their opponents, didn’t field their best generals & strategic leaders, and fell by the wayside.“Destroyed the dynasty”
I mean. I don’t even know where to start. Dynasties are short. The greatest ones are 2/3 SBs and are then gone forever.
I think posters minimize the incredible skill, luck, and health it takes to win just one SB. This team went 3/4 and 3/5. Amazing.
A little simplistic. I’m not happy Bill wanted to move on from Brady but it’s probably a lot more likely it was due to age then Bill not wanting a franchise QB.
I’m not disagreeing about Brady. I thought he should have retired a Patriot.Yea. its his age. OH NO HIS AGE. THE TERROR!!!!!!
Brady is no Boomer and still playing with the best of them.
The only thing simplistic is Bills excuses as to why he thought the 3 bums on our team were viable replacements. They arent even as good as the "****" version of Brady we had last year.
Let's start a petition to force BB to expand his draft board and include good playersProblem is, and people have reported this, the Pats have a very small draft board and they are very rigid, they won’t stray from that board. So when you are talking about “right players”, well from 2013 on, he’s missing out on those “right players”, sometimes by bypassing them when they are there for the taking. Totally destroyed the dynasty and has put us 5 years behind.
The first team Belicheck needs to work on is the team which supports him as GM. I do not presume to know where the problem lies personnelwise, but the blatant fact is that we have seen in our GM increasing lapses in judgment, resulting in multiple trash draftings and trades, particularly of course re outside receivers.
It seems to me Bob Kraft has a role here. In important respects, his employee, Bill Belicheck - as GM - is not doing the job. Kraft should do what he would do with any other employee: tell Bill either to make the changes necessary to get the job done, to delegate - genuinely - those responsibilities, or to be deprived of them. If Bill cops a snit and leaves, so be it. This has gone on long enough.
All I know is that on draft day 18 months ago, we had a slew of articles about why Harry was a great 1st round ick, that Harry had great ability to wrestle balls away like an Anquan Boldin, and that the Patriots had done a great job selecting him. The fact that he is nowhere near as good as an athletic big bodied burner like Metcalf is evident in retrospect but at the time, there were a slew of articles that painted Metcalf as a straight line burner with little lateral quickness, and also a guy with possibly bad hands.
Anyone who tells you there was better than a 50/50 chance of getting either of these calls correct is lying.