Report: Pats offer to Wes Welker ‘lower than expected’

Toomy is not going to be happy he took a pay cut for this crap.  Do the smart/right thing and pay the man his money, he has earned it and will continue to earn it going forward.  He will be severaly missed if they let him walk

And Bert knows this how????  Trust a sports writer/TV anyalist???  yeah sure I will..I’ll wait till the news comes out he signed or he didn’t speculation means nothing mor than guessing which is 50?50

It is a starting point. You don’t. start with you best offer……….

seems the Pats are driven to cheap their way out of superbowl contention the same way they did with Assante Samuel(and the defensive backfield has suffered since). No doubt in Brady’s mind his contract restructering was done in part to sign Welker and now the Pats are. renegging. All that talk from Bob Kraft about wanting to see Welker retire a Patriot is nothing but BS. 

3 years and 15 million they offer him

in other news, no papal smoke has yet been seen from the Vatican…ho-hum

if Welker leaves, Pats will still win 12+ games.  We won’t see a difference.  Just like before he was here

I hate that BB is cheap, but when you look at everything they need to do…25M in cap space isn’t as much as you think…the shopping list
3 cornerbacks
1 starting right tackle
2 other offensive linemen
2-3 WRs
Pass rusher
Defensive Tackle
Kick Returner

They have about 12 roster spots to fill and about 20 million to spend before the season starts…my 3rd grade math skills say that that’s less than 2M per roster spot.  If they blow 8M/year on Welker…that’s 6 guys they have to pay league minimum…so, when you add it up, they’ll be going after 2nd/3rd tier guys. 

Would be interesting to see what they offered Talib…his skillset is even harder to find, so they may have made him a more solid offer.  His play was a huge impact to the defense…about 10 points better per game

But, as you guys are saying…it’s all rumor, spin and BS since none of us knows what’s been said/offered to whom

I Love WW as much as anybody, and think he’s been grossly underpaid for his performance, but the NFL has a couple of different modes…take less where there is better overall talent across the roster, or play for a team that spends heavily on a few guys.  Those guys make out, but usually the teams sucks or the team has to cut/re-structure you in later years.

C’mon you Losers. He is not worth alot of money to other teams. BB is doing the right thing. He needs to spend the extra cap space elsewhere. 

The Pats have to make a lot of players happy. Welker has been itching for used huge contract via free agency let him go and get it. Sign Amendola help your positioning and if you have both of them its a awesome weapon to have.

Dig in Pats!

So far, this seems to be the Patriots strategy this offseason:1. Let Wes Welker sign with the Broncos.2. Let Aqib Talib sign elsewhere.3. Bring in a bunch of low-cost, mediocre “value picks” and “redemption projects” that mostly miss, not hit.4. Draft a few no names in April and hope Bill Belichick can “coach them up”. Works about as well as it has the last 4-5 seasons (on Defense, anyway).5. Go about 10-6 in the regular season, including a few embarrassing losses where Brady is held to about 100 yards (everyone double-covers Gronk and Hernandez) and a young, inexperienced secondary lets up 40+ points.6. 10-6 is not that bad in a weak AFC East mind you, should still be enough to win Division and make Playoffs, though Dolphins could make things interesting.7. Get humiliated in the Divisional Round by a much stronger opponent. Or possibly the WC Round if the Pats limp into the Playoffs decimated by injury.8. Rinse and repeat next offseason, as the Pats continue their downhill slide “but still have a TON of cap space to work with”.