Felger did raise the question of whether signing him means their putting GFIN ahead of longer-term success, and the decision would give insight on which one Kraft, et al values more right now.
People trying to gain "insight" into Kraft by what he does this week or next haven't been paying attention. Or, in the case of talk radio, are preying upon those who don't pay attention.
It should be pretty clear by now that the Patriots are trying - and have largely succeeded where *no one* else has - in simultaneously keeping the longer-term success in focus while GFIN. Unless "GFIN" means "no longer caring about the salary cap implications that might cause us to have to cut all of our good players one year and suck for the following five." If that's what it means, then Kraft *never* GsFIN.
So if the Patriots dont GFIN; they GFI every year. Doing that means when they win, they do so with a very small margin for error -- either injury-wise (Gronk, twice, might have been the difference) or score-wise (they could be 6-0 or 0-6 in SB's; the Balt missed FG, tuck game, etc.). But Seattle's Lombadi isn't any bigger because they beat Denver by 40; and we'll see what happens when they have to pay Wilson.
Individual moves sometimes don't work out. But to be critical of the methods of a regime that has made the AFC CG four years in a row and NINE times in the last 14 seasons makes the critic look stupid.
Such nuance, however, makes boring talk radio.
