Patriots extend Adrian Phillips for 3 years/$12.75mn

[Average Game James]

View: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1477331379046207500?s=20


Per Schefter. Up to $14.25mn with incentives. $7.25mn guaranteed.


Quick glance, this puts Phillips at something like the 25th highest paid safety in football, and not a huge bump from $3mn currently. Seems like a pretty decent deal to me considering his level of play this year.

Tweet text:
“Patriots and safety Adrian Phillips have agreed to terms on a 3-year extension worth $12.75 million and a max value of $14.25 million, including $7.25 million guaranteed, per source, as @caplannfl also reported.”

 

[IdiotKicker]

My goodness, what a deal for NE. This is not a decent deal, this is an absolute steal for a player I think is in the conversation for being the heart and soul of this defense. Maybe I’m misreading how his skill set would place elsewhere, and he’s certainly not possessing skills that would make him a $13-14M per year player, but market value for him should easily be double this deal, given what he brings to the table here.

 

[RG33]

I don’t think there could be a better post today regarding the Patriots. I fucking love this signing. He has been such a great, flexible, consistent addition to a Belichick defense, and this is an incredibly good deal. Happy fucking new year!

 

[DJnVa]

Yeah, that's good stuff.

I still think this team is ahead of schedule this year and this bodes well for the future.

 

[BaseballJones]

Yeah, that's good stuff.

I still think this team is ahead of schedule this year and this bodes well for the future.

I agree. I think the main goals for this season were to find the next QB, be competitive for the playoffs, and set the team up well for 2022 and 2023.

Well, I’m pretty sure they’ve found their next QB and obviously they’ve been very much in the playoff hunt. And this signing is a good step towards achieving the third objective.

Seems like a successful season to me.

 

[Mystic Merlin]

Good chess piece safety at a middle class contract. While you certainly need blue chip players to win a title, nobody wins one without also having a strong core of versatile, quality middle class talent like Philips.

 

[BusRaker]

The Phillips / Dugger combo in the middle has been one of the highlights the last couple of years. This is great ... they should be finishing each other's sentences by the end of the Dugger deal

 

[Ale Xander]

Is this a dream? Philips for the 25th highest paid Safety?
Yes please.
This becomes even more valuable if/assuming DMC retires in the next couple of offseasons.
AP and Dugger is a great combo

 

[koufax32]

Is this a dream? Philips for the 25th highest paid Safety?
Yes please.
This becomes even more valuable if/assuming DMC retires in the next couple of offseasons.
AP and Dugger is a great combo

I’ve just been assuming that DMac and DHT are done after this year. LB, CB, and O-line in the draft then?

 

[BigSoxFan]

Great move. Love Phillips.

 

[Cellar-Door]

I’ve just been assuming that DMac and DHT are done after this year. LB, CB, and O-line in the draft then?

Still have to draft a a Safety, we don't draft smaller quicker LBs ever, instead playing Dugger in the box with DMac and Phillips

 

[BigSoxFan]

Still have to draft a a Safety, we don't draft smaller quicker LBs ever, instead playing Dugger in the box with DMac and Phillips

Too bad the one time we did (Kamu Grugier-Hill), he turned out to be pretty decent

 

[RG33]

I’ve just been assuming that DMac and DHT are done after this year.

Geez. I’m not ready for this. Could you have waited until January 2nd to rain on my parade perhaps?

 

[SMU_Sox]

My goodness, what a deal for NE. This is not a decent deal, this is an absolute steal for a player I think is in the conversation for being the heart and soul of this defense. Maybe I’m misreading how his skill set would place elsewhere, and he’s certainly not possessing skills that would make him a $13-14M per year player, but market value for him should easily be double this deal, given what he brings to the table here.

Well said. I think that safety trio has been the best unit all year and of those guys Phillips has been the best.

As for draft: they could still use a free safety of the future, slot corner or safety, outside corner (if JCJ leaves then potential 2), ILB, DT/NT (they could use a war daddy and Carl Davis has had a bad year minus a couple big plays), and possibly another edge if they don’t like what they have in Uche, Perkins, and maybe Jennings unless they keep trying him at ILB. You won’t solve all the holes on the team with the draft and I’m assuming the shore up in free agency but that’s my list right now in roughly that order. If they sign JCJ biggest needs are FS and ILB. If they want to replace High via the draft then ILB/OLB big hybrid.

 

[tims4wins]

Well said. I think that safety trio has been the best unit all year and of those guys Phillips has been the best.

As for draft: they could still use a free safety of the future, slot corner or safety, outside corner (if JCJ leaves then potential 2), ILB, DT/NT (they could use a war daddy and Carl Davis has had a bad year minus a couple big plays), and possibly another edge if they don’t like what they have in Uche, Perkins, and maybe Jennings unless they keep trying him at ILB. You won’t solve all the holes on the team with the draft and I’m assuming the shore up in free agency but that’s my list right now in roughly that order. If they sign JCJ biggest needs are FS and ILB. If they want to replace High via the draft then ILB/OLB big hybrid.

Do you consider FS a need for next year if DMC comes back on a 1-2 year deal? Fully realize that it is a long term need, of course.

 

[cornwalls@6]

Do you consider FS a need for next year if DMC comes back on a 1-2 year deal? Fully realize that it is a long term need, of course.

Think it would be a position to address in the draft. I’d love to see Kyle Hamilton here(full disclosure, Domer fan boy), though not sure where he projects due to knee injury this year. At any rate, I love the Phillips signing. Very good player/fit here, at a very livable cost. Bill the GM is on roll lately.

 

[SMU_Sox]

Do you consider FS a need for next year if DMC comes back on a 1-2 year deal? Fully realize that it is a long term need, of course.

I think they need a true long term heir as well as backup at FS. DMC at single high enabled them to play their scheme the way they do. So yes I do consider that a need regardless. Plus it usually takes a free safety a year to get acclimated. Some FS prospects have return, gunner, and corner experience which are all pluses.

Think it would be a position to address in the draft. I’d love to see Kyle Hamilton here(full disclosure, Domer fan boy), though not sure where he projects due to knee injury this year. At any rate, I love the Phillips signing. Very good player/fit here, at a very livable cost. Bill the GM is on roll lately.

I hate the program but like the players (I put my irrational fan biases away in draft mode). Harder to hate the program with Freeman coaching though I admit. But as for Hamilton he should be long gone by pick… 5? 10? 15? He’s one of the best at any position this year in the draft. Blue chipper. If he somehow slides to the Pats I’d be thrilled and alarmed. Thrilled because he’s a stud, but alarmed because his medicals must have been bad.

 

[cornwalls@6]

I think they need a true long term heir as well as backup at FS. DMC at single high enabled them to play their scheme the way they do. So yes I do consider that a need regardless. Plus it usually takes a free safety a year to get acclimated. Some FS prospects have return, gunner, and corner experience which are all pluses.



I hate the program but like the players (I put my irrational fan biases away in draft mode). Harder to hate the program with Freeman coaching though I admit. But as for Hamilton he should be long gone by pick… 5? 10? 15? He’s one of the best at any position this year in the draft. Blue chipper. If he somehow slides to the Pats I’d be thrilled and alarmed. Thrilled because he’s a stud, but alarmed because his medicals must have been bad.

Yeah, I saw those same projections prior to his injury, which was initially not even supposed to keep him out for a game, and ended up being season ending. I’m almost certainly pipe dreaming a Gronk like scenario: 1st round talent drops due to shakey medicals, ends being 10 year pro bowler. Hey, a guy can dream.