How Many Top-Market FAs Will NE Sign?

Number of top-of-the-market FAs the Patriots will sign

  • 0

    Votes: 53 29.1%
  • 1

    Votes: 64 35.2%
  • 2

    Votes: 44 24.2%
  • 3

    Votes: 8 4.4%
  • 4+

    Votes: 13 7.1%

  • Total voters
    182

Dotrat

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I voted for 3--and over the weekend. And this may be the only opportunity I ever get to crow about being right on BBTL.
 

moondog80

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Will Belichick go for some high-priced free agents the next few weeks or will he only go bargain-hunting due to the cap constraints of other teams?

Obviously this is a vague boundary but let's say 10 million average annual value or more, or something above the spotrac free agent predictor.

I'm voting 1 because I think he will pay for a TE (or maybe WR)
Only two so far by the $10m AAV standard (Judon and Smith). He’s making a splash, but he’s doing it by paying a little more to secure the mid-market guys he covets. I like it.
 

BaseballJones

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The Patriots have addressed huge needs at OL (Brown), DT (Godchaux), Edge rusher (Judon), TE (Smith), WR (Agholor), and even DB (Mills). They even re-signed Wise to help on the D-line. They're really taking care of business, setting themselves up for some lower-level signings and the draft. The major holes are all filled now except....QB. I mean, they DID sign a QB...just not the one we wanted. I really really REALLY hope that they find a way to draft Lance.
 

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Give me an Andrews re-sign and another WR and this is a great haul.
 

Kenny F'ing Powers

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So, prior to the signings, Miguel had them at $65m under the cap.

Bourne - 7.5m
Agholor - 11m (reportedly)
Judon - 14m
Godcheaux - 8m
Jonnu - 12.5m
Mills - 6m
Trent Brown - 11m

So, that's about $70m if we just take the contracts and look at them via yearly figure. Obviously the numbers will be smaller hits against the cap. But even if they trim them up significantly, I'd say that the team is done after today. They need room for draft picks and resigns. Hopefully I'm wrong, but it seems like BB threw out a lot of guaranteed money in some of the deals we have heard about. I'd think these moves may spell the end of both Andrews and JCJ.
 

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So, prior to the signings, Miguel had them at $65m under the cap.

Bourne - 7.5m
Agholor - 11m (reportedly)
Judon - 14m
Godcheaux - 8m
Jonnu - 12.5m
Mills - 6m
Trent Brown - 11m

So, that's about $70m if we just take the contracts and look at them via yearly figure. Obviously the numbers will be smaller hits against the cap. But even if they trim them up significantly, I'd say that the team is done after today. They need room for draft picks and resigns. Hopefully I'm wrong, but it seems like BB threw out a lot of guaranteed money in some of the deals we have heard about. I'd think these moves may spell the end of both Andrews and JCJ.
Hightower re-structured so that frees some up too.
 

Harry Hooper

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BB's approach resembling how Mo Vaughn used to order off the dining menu at the club.
 

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I voted for 2 and couldn't be happier for being so wrong.

Plus, this has to be it for pricey signings, right? RIGHT?
Pricey you would think? but I wouldnt be surprised if after the dust settles they add another mid range guy. I'm still not convinced they may not give Sanders a look at WR
 

Ferm Sheller

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Am I the only one who's discouraged that they haven't agreed to terms with any in the past three hours?
 

the1andonly3003

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Are we sure BB isn't reading this thread and went out to prove us all wrong?

Voting needs to end on this poll to preserve this for historical record
 

azsoxpatsfan

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Technically isn’t it only 3 so far? Judon Henry and jonnu are the only ones over the 10 million threshold
 

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(I posted this in the QB options thread, but it probably fits better here)

I think this has been bit of an under-reported element of this spending spree. BB likely knew that, other than Thuney, there weren't many outgoing FA's likely to sign big-money deals, so the comp pick haul was likely starting at a low bar anyway. Plus, in that same vein, it makes more sense to put all your own big-money FA signings into one offseason to mitigate their effect on future comp picks. (I seem to recall MLB went thru this a few years back, where the system incentivized teams to sign multiple Tier One guys in a single year, rather than going after one every year.)

Furthermore, I bet BB/Kraft is banking on the rumors that with upcoming new TV deals, the cap will skyrocket again in couple years, so it will make sense to back-load a lot of these deals now.
 
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(I posted this in the QB options thread, but it probably fits better here)

I think this has been bit of an under-reported element of this spending spree. BB likely knew that, other than Thuney, there weren't many outgoing FA's likely to sign big-money deals, so the comp pick haul was likely starting at a low bar anyway. Plus, in that same vein, it makes more sense to put all your own big-money FA signings into one offseason to mitigate their effect on future comp picks. (I seem to recall MLB went thru this a few years back, where the system incentivized teams to sign multiple Tier One guys in a single year, rather than going after one every year.)

Furthermore, I bet BB/Kraft is banking on the rumors that with upcoming new TV deals, the cal will skyrocket again in couple years, so it will make sense to back-load a lot of these deals now.
Yes, combined with the covid brakes being applied to the cap this year, he's had the ability to make it rain without being foolish.
 

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I vote 0, but I don't consider the TE's top of the market guys. The numbers that mean the most to me is the total guarantees and the money in Year 1. If the Pats are shrewd, they can use the bonus money to lower the Year 1 cap hits on guys and maximize the cap space they have as much as possible. Therefore, I don't envision the Pats to sign a guy that costs $10 million or more on the 2021 cap.
Well I can say I nailed this prediction. One of the few that actually come out right.