Re: Congratulations to the 6x super bowl champions NE Patsies
Think it’s a bit more complicated than that, Mookie.
I’d say its that if you take a hometown discount, be prepared for the Pats to think that you will take more of them in the future (e.g. Amendola) and if you won’t take a hometown discount, be prepared to be shipped out or cut unsentimentally (e.g. Leon Gray, Richard Seymour, Lawyer Milloy, Asante Samuel, Chandler Jones, apparently Malcolm Butler). I can’t fault the Patriots for operating that way, but Belichick seems to have a way of making it more ugly than it needs to be.
The Butler thing baffles me. If he did something that justified being benched for the SB, why dress him? As other folks have said he couldn’t have played worse than Rowe. If it was because he wanted to be paid and they were going to let him go anyway, playing him would have actually to the Pats advantage; either (a) he’d pay well and some other team would overpay him, hurting their cap or (b) he’d play poorly, justifying the Pats letting him go.
Originally posted by mookie1995
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I’d say its that if you take a hometown discount, be prepared for the Pats to think that you will take more of them in the future (e.g. Amendola) and if you won’t take a hometown discount, be prepared to be shipped out or cut unsentimentally (e.g. Leon Gray, Richard Seymour, Lawyer Milloy, Asante Samuel, Chandler Jones, apparently Malcolm Butler). I can’t fault the Patriots for operating that way, but Belichick seems to have a way of making it more ugly than it needs to be.
The Butler thing baffles me. If he did something that justified being benched for the SB, why dress him? As other folks have said he couldn’t have played worse than Rowe. If it was because he wanted to be paid and they were going to let him go anyway, playing him would have actually to the Pats advantage; either (a) he’d pay well and some other team would overpay him, hurting their cap or (b) he’d play poorly, justifying the Pats letting him go.
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