Finishing last for 2/3 years is much better for you’re organization than finishing with 9/10 wins and being on the playoff miss/ wild card round fodder line. There’s a much better chance of acquiring the talent to build a contender in the former situation.
Now look at their numbers the past two seasons. Unless you think Mac’s rookie year or Brissett’s early-career struggles are still predictive, Brissett is the better QB and it’s not close. That doesn’t mean this year’s Pats are going anywhere or that Brissett is more than a stopgap, but they’ll be significantly better at QB, assuming Maye doesn’t see the field unless he’s within shouting distance of Brissett.
Yeah. Down from the greatest NHL team (in the regular season) ever. And they lost two legendary players. I think that view was expected.
Bourne is coming off an ACL injury though and for a guy of his skills and age, along with when he tore it, I don’t know that I’d expect him to be particularly useful for a lot of the year. He might not even start the season on the active roster (PUP perhaps?). Even then, he’s pretty mediocre on his best days
Brissett had 23 passing attempts last year
In theory I agree. Would much prefer a terrible season (record wise) with a team that can hang in most games but can’t quite win (i.e. a lot of 20-13 or 17-14 losses).
We’ve discussed this before but Wolf and Mayo clearly felt re-signing guys was—if not as much at least also—about preserving and transitioning the culture from Bill to Mayo as it was locking in talent. So most likely that will mean they have guys signed whose impact will be more in the locker room and on the practice field as it is during games. Given the seismic move moving on from Bill, I am ok with that.
So who would you be acquiring to replace Stevenson, Henry, Bourne, Dugger, Jennings, and Tavai, how did you get them, and how much did they cost?
100% u had a great opp to start over 100% other than re-sign onwenu i would had let everyone else u re-signed go as of today u guys still have 43 mil in space but with my moves u guys would have 75 mil to roll over for 25
Lowe is awful but let’s not kid ourselves than Okorafor, Wallace or Anderson is 5 wins better. Maybe Wallace can develop into something but Okorafor and Anderson are marginally better than Lowe (apparently not at all better at LT given Lowe seems to be getting most of the reps there).
I can't get past four myself. I think if the defense is good, the record will look like the Rod Rust era, but with somewhat less hideous point differentials.
They don’t need to save $5M or even $9M just to get a couple of 7’s. At the very least, they should at least wait until the trade deadline.
Kind of really paints the picture of how bad things are currently... I just dont see any team on that list that are at the basement level the Patriots currently reside at.
Different era and all that, but the offense of the 1990’s Pats had Irving Fryer, Marv Cook and Bruce Armstrong. On D they had Tippett, Hurst, Vince Brown and some solid “B tier” talent
In the locker room (Fryar, Mowatt etc) and in the coaching staff but not in talent.
Defense is a lot worse without Barmore and Judon and doesn’t have BB coaching them up
