RayClay
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Hate these panic threads about losing every player (while, amazingly we always could sign someone else's) but this year there's definitely merit to them.
People have always talked about a window and the team has ignored it, fortunately, thereby having a chance to win every single year since 2002.
However, you can't deny there's a window now as Brady will retire someday, and the chance for multiple rings with this team is deadly serious.
I've always maintained that the Pats almost always retain players they want, that want to play here. Most big name cuts were older players, or ones where there was some friction.
Say we want Revis, McCourty for a few years and I'll say Mayo too and Wilfork 1 or 2 [so we don't end up the Colts until we get some building blocks and Easley and the overachievers can take over]. (Please, no Wilfork or Mayo bashing, there are already threads for that.)
So, we maintain our core through clever accounting and crash later. Is this possible financially?
Miguel, it would be wondeful if you'd like to chip in...
People have always talked about a window and the team has ignored it, fortunately, thereby having a chance to win every single year since 2002.
However, you can't deny there's a window now as Brady will retire someday, and the chance for multiple rings with this team is deadly serious.
I've always maintained that the Pats almost always retain players they want, that want to play here. Most big name cuts were older players, or ones where there was some friction.
Say we want Revis, McCourty for a few years and I'll say Mayo too and Wilfork 1 or 2 [so we don't end up the Colts until we get some building blocks and Easley and the overachievers can take over]. (Please, no Wilfork or Mayo bashing, there are already threads for that.)
So, we maintain our core through clever accounting and crash later. Is this possible financially?
Miguel, it would be wondeful if you'd like to chip in...