Kendrick Bourne staying in Foxboro: 3 years, $19.5 million(up to $33 million)
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Agreed. With a real offense, that could look like a bargain for the Pats.
Sweet. Good piece of business. Now go get the #1 guy (somehow) so he's properly slotted. I'll be interested to see the incentives and of course how he looks coming off the injury.
That one will be interesting, apparently he wants to play guard (according to Girardi)... and I'm not sure the Patriots are going to spend what he wants for a guard given the roster.
Great deal. As noted, if you get a real number one so he’s your third option, he’s a really solid player to have in that role and this deal is priced accordingly. Now we need that top option.
Wonder if this news was (part of) what Zolak was hinting at, or if there's more coming tomorrow/Tuesday.
Loving this deal!
Loving this deal!
Good to hear. Seems like a good guy who loves being in New England. Between this Henry, Austin, and even Wheatley, the FO is doing well by signing half decent to solid, productive players all at reasonable costs. Like the vintage BB years, in fact.
Well, there has to be more, as the Pats have a lot of money to spend and they need to spend most of it per the CBA.
If Hunter and KB are used more proficiently next year and beyond, it will be an indictment of who was in charge of the offense in NE for the past two years. I am all for this signing.
Hunter Henry with Chargers: 55 games, 42 y/g, 3.6 receptions/game, 11.8 y/c, 69% catch pct.
With Pats: 48 games, 31.9 y/g, 2.8 receptions/game, 11.5 y/c, 68.2%
Bourne with 49'ers: 58 games, 30.5 y/g, 2.4 receptions/game, 12.9 y/c, 62.8%
Bourne with Pats: 41 games, 40 y/g, 3.1 receptions/game, 12.9 y/c, 73.4%
Both have been roughly the same player with the Patriots that they were before they arrived. Henry's usage has dropped, but he also shared targets with Jonnu Smith during 2 of his seasons here. Bourne if anything has been better with New England, and that includes his subpar 2022 season in which he has admitted he was out of shape.
So, a better QB should indeed bring out better play from Henry and Bourne (and vice versa), but I would not expect a huge change in either of their usage or their stats.
Since there are fairly plausible scenarios in which either Calvin Ridley or MHJ is a WR for the Pats next year, don't you think there could be a huge change?
Interesting -- so all $13.5 million of the incentives are NLTBE. Saves them a lot in cap money this year but hopefully they pay it in future years because he hits them.
Looking at his stats for 2023, his numbers were 8 games, 5 starts, 37 receptions, and 406 yards. So, all of the incentives must be above those, since they seem to be 100 percent NLTBE. Not surprising I guess. Those are pretty low numbers.
We had a good discussion in some thread about pay now versus pay later on salary cap stuff. This is clearly a pay later deal, which you can structure for players who were injured for chunks of the year before, since even reasonable incentives are NLTBE.
Pats are really heavily using incentives. Like to a crazy degree -- Uche's contract is a 5:3 ratio of incentives to other money.
Maybe they have found a nice sweet spot -- players are competitive and like to believe in themselves. I think some of these can become a bit of a mess when it's the back end of the year and players have massive amounts riding on incentives. But by and large I like what the Patriots are doing. They are also using them to get a bit creative on cap accounting.