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I’ve never thought “hell yes” when my team has signed the leftover scraps in free agency

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You’ve never experienced 5-7 straight seasons of running out practice squad WRs every year and compounding it with worse and worse draft busts every season then.


As I said before (if you read these things ever), beggars can’t be choosers. The level of excitement is entirely relevant to the current scenario of the pats today on March 26 of 2025 man, not out of excitement of the overall situation the pats are in or have been in the last few seasons. You just read way more into a pretty normal phrase of “hell yeah” ignored all of the text that followed it, and created a different post in your head to argue with :lol:

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The deal on its own is fine but Diggs being the biggest difference maker to add as support for a talented young QB with the cap space they had is brutal

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Okay so the solution you’re offering instead is to bring in no support for the young QB?

They can’t make teams trade them good WRs and they can’t make good WRs sign there. The options are limited. That’s obviously an issue. I just don’t understand why you think that somehow makes this deal bad in any sort of way. You’re making two separate points and saying they are correlated

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They spent a whole bunch of money on: An interior DL Two guys coming off major injuries who’s best ball is clearly behind them (Landry and Diggs) A swing tackle An okay number two corner who’s never played a full year The window with that kind of cap space closes fast and I think they did a horrible job surrounding Maye with more talent and setting him up for success. Gonna be highly dependent on nailing several draft picks

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Again you’re having a completely different conversation but the FA market was awful, and will continue to be awful as teams have money to keep their own players. Every teams success is going to be highly dependent on draft picks. They offered way above market and most of the top guys at the main positions of need (tackle and WR) never hit the market at all.


The window on that level of cap space only closes when you hit on the right picks and have a roster worth betting the farm on veterans and have to resign your core. The pats were never going to be in a position to go all in on the roster in year 2 of Drake Maye. The cuppboard was entirely bare and they whiffed on the draft outside of Maye last year to compound the issue.


A few of you are imagining me post grand delusions of the pats being in the superbowl in this thread, I ask that you reread through my posts and try to find where that actually exists because the most positive thing I’ve posted in here was “Hell yes” and then a bunch of qualifiers after.

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New England had to get someone but their fans should be incredibly disappointed with this outcome

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I truly don’t understand how this makes sense :lol: pats have literally no better options, this is a very cheap deal relative to the market and the pats could’ve burned the money on fire and it wouldn’t have effected their ability to compete or their cap space.

I get I’m more optimistic about this than most in this thread, but why would anyone be disappointed with this outcome in comparison to just doing nothing but running back the same weapons last year?

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He’s not just gonna play out the other two years if he lives up to the price tag this year. It’s a one year deal

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That just highlights my point more. It’s very team friendly and can get nuked the moment it goes sideways.

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Dude, you don’t have to sell this.

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I’m not selling anything to anyone, believe what you want about it, I’m excited for it. Could be wrong. Wouldn’t be the first or last. But there’s not a whole lot of more appealing options out there.

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An aging WR who was going downhill while healthy with an MVP qb who is now coming off major knee surgery to play with a young QB while he is an absolute locker room cancer Yeh, you are pumped

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I cannot express to you the dogshit the pats have put on the field at that position. Beggars and choosers and all that

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He was rotten fired spoiled over salted ball taint in Buffalo the last year

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Got noone to compete with for targets. If he sucks he’ll be cut. Pats have 70-80 mil in space already with the first wave of FA done and the cap will go up without many players worth paying on the roster that sum of cash. The only more talented options would cost more contractually and take a draft pick in a trade.

Top WRs are making 30 - 40 mil a season right now, yall gotta put a 26 mil guarantee over 3 years into some perspective

A good diva WR is better than 5 bad diva WRs the pats have had the last few seasons

Was leading the league in receptions when he went down

Probably not unintentional one way or the other that Shefty tweeted this earlier today

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Recently cut all mine off except YouTube premium (not YTTV), I think I get max for free from my phone plan, and I have Amazon but that one isn’t too long for this world either. I just don’t consume nearly as much content as I used to anyway and I usually just rent or buy something when I want to see it.

I usually will stream off a site for sports

These platforms completely severing themselves from having unique or consistent viable and long standing series/properties makes it very easy to not feel like anything is really necessary. The best shows are all like 6 episodes and get 2 seasons at most so just wait until you have a month with some free time and pay a 1 time fee to see it all and cancel instead of keeping it around for no real reason. The waves of pop culture move so fast and hard there’s not even a society pressure or pitch to seeing these shows live. Everyone is behind and everything is created to be picked up later

Brother art is meant to be engaged with. Opinions vary on every movie. Enjoy your own experience and be open to other perspectives

It’s gross that Ticketmaster is allowed to monopolize that industry in a way that allows them to bend you over every time.

The fees themselves are outrageous, I find it especially egregious that they will charge fees per ticket in a combined order.