A coach (Patricia) who has a past relationship with Amendola just overpaid for him yes. But:
By "shit ton" does he mean a portion of the approximately 25 people that replied? And the first Pats fan literally said "I don't believe that"
Humphies at 8-9 million isn’t all that dissimilar to the contract BB offered Amendola, so if Flowers goes elsewhere or Gronk retires, this kind of offer from BB wouldn’t surprise me. Depends what they think of Berrios and other draft options maybe.
If 29 year-old Cole Beasley gets $9M/year, I’ll eat a log of Rocco’s shite.
Damn.
Seriously. Trent deserves credit but coming to the Pats on a 1 year deal should be so desirable for players looking to cash in.
Still wouldn’t be shocked at a Cannon trade. They still have depth at the position and can draft another. His value might be a second rounder at this point, and he has trouble staying on the field and is aging.
How do they have tackle depth? Right now it is Cannon, Wynn (zero NFL games played), Cole Croston, Dan Skipper, and Kyler Matthews.
I thought Waddle was still under contract, but he’s a FA. He could probably come back on the cheap, but maybe not if Brown is setting the market...
Do they? I would think a one-year deal advantages the player more than the team in a sport with non-guaranteed contracts.
That's still not depth. You trade Cannon and start Waddle and now your backups are the JAGs I mentioned previously.
I'm not really interested in testing the limits of the Scar effect, especially in a year where LT is going to be at least a little bit of a question mark. He's worked wonders but they've also given him talent to work with for the most part.
I guess it's context dependent. But, yeah, I would think a team would be much more interested in a prove it one-year deal on a 34 year old receiver. The incentives (I'm assuming) are NLTBE so you defer over a million of the comp to next year and then only if he produces. But, yeah, I take your point that a team would be more interested in a multi-year deal for younger players it can amortize. My point is that I don't think Amendola would have sniffed a contract near $4-5.5 million for multiple years so it's hard to say that it's any kind of comp for, say, Humphries.
This.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Not at all, even in the first or second. Not expecting it either, but it's clearly a position they value.
I don't know why he wouldn't like him at those numbers. Look at what the market is doing right now. Trent Brown just signed for double this AAV. Cannon is a good player. And while RT are historically underpaid, it's starting to come around. Cannon's AAV ranks 11th among RT (and of course, a bunch of the guys below are on rookie deals). Now if he starts showing signs of slipping next year, it's a different story.
Yeah, Cannon's deal is still pretty good, I don't see him being shopped or cut unless they want to make space for a big acquisition, which is very un-Patriot like.
It helps for sure. However, with Clayborn at best here for another year plus the unknown with Rivers/Davis/Kamalu all you have is Bennett/Wise/Clayborn as known commodities. They could stand to bring in another DE in FA plus draft 1-2 guys.
I would've paid Brown that though. He was one of the best offensive tackles in the league last year and top tackles are worth their (very high in Brown's case) weight in gold. Saw some study once showing OT's along with WR's, are the most important non QB positions in the NFL
Eh, not sure about that. Last big contract they paid for non-Patriots free agent turned out pretty well. Paying big money is not the issue if you pick the right guy.
If Bill has shown anything over the years, it's that guys like Clayborn, Sheard, et al. are easy enough to find. DL is a place where he values quantity.
Players who are FA after 2019 that could be had in the trade market.
It would take a lot to get Green and he's expensive as is Agholor. Seth Roberts is worth kicking the tires on.
Agholor might get cut in the next couple days. Still might be too pricey.
