Davante Adams traded to the Raiders.
Aaron Rodgers must be thrilled.
What a crazy offseason this has been
Meanwhile... the Pats are doing basically nothing. I wonder if Bill's just thinking, "the AFC is loaded, lets just ride it out a year, develop the young draft picks of 2021-2022 and then with a TON of cap space for 2023 start to make some moves with Mac Jones getting an additional year too".
Because right now, I think there's a legit case there's like 8-9 teams ahead of NE in the AFC. The AFC West is STACKED (all of them, even the Raiders now), and also a team like the Colts can still get a solid QB (Baker? Garoppolo? Not elite but still really good)
Develop the young draft picks and then trade 'em away or let 'em walk, and then re-draft new guys...rinse and repeat.
Such venom towards a guy that created teams that got this fan base to 9 Super Bowls in 20 years with 6 wins. The entitlement is simply dripping off this post.
That's kind of not fair. Especially when they let a bunch of guys they developed just walk. It's very true guys that developed into top players at their positions walked if they got top 5 money.
You can't hold onto everyone and Bill has had an eerily good eye of letting go of guys at the right time.
And even with that has held onto these guys until almost the end or until the end: Wilford, Brady, McCourty, Slater, Andrews, Edelman, Faulk, Bruschi, Light, Hightower, White, Gostkowski, Chung, Hernández, Develin, Ninkovich, Vollmer, Mayo, Mankins, Gronkowski, Koppen, Neal, Vrabel, Warren.
Belichick holds onto guys, but the right guys. And he doesn't usually overspend on guys he has drafted and so trades them or let's them walk late. Chandler Jones is one of his few mistakes in this regard. Ty Law probably another. Very, very few others left here to have long, highly successful careers elsewhere.
So actually, I think my response very fair.