2020 Patriots off season

The internet rumor mill was more extreme than the reality. 15 female former staffers as well as reporters describe sexual harrasement and verbal abuse as pervasive and with no mechanism to stop it. Snyder or Bruce Allen not implicated directly but built a toxic culture and other execs (as well as the radio voice) led it. Pretty awful stuff.

That said, doesn't include coke parties, a coach benching the OT because they slept with the same woman, leading to Alex Smiths broken leg, ref bribing, and Jeffery Epstein connections, all of which had traction in the rumor mill. I bet Snyder survives it.

That’s not the way Bill likes his players to talk. He’d better keep his mouth shut if he wants to play.

Let’s not forget Newton has won at every level. That’s hard to do if you’re not a hard worker.

Well every professional athlete isn't lazy, yet every professional athlete isn't Brady or MJ either.

Most football players don't know what hard work is till they play for certain teams like the Patriots.

We'll see if he works crazy hard there won't be many issues. The bar in New England is crazy high though. We've seen it repeatedly over the years from players coming in here. They didn't understand what hard work was till they played for Bill.

I said that because Cam Newton is the polar opposite of the typical Patriots QBs since Bledsoe. A group of guys like Brady, Hoyer, Cassell, Jimmy, and Stidham. A group that is much better described as crazy hard workers, incredible high football IQ types, that do well off of hard work more than physical ability. 100% focused on football, football junkies. With that we ran the most complex offensive system in football. 

I don't think Cam Newton has been that type of QB. Not saying he's lazy, but I don't see a guy who's a die-hard worker who wants to perfect his craft and be the best he can be. The guys one of the most talented QBs in the history of the game with his arm talent, athletic ability, speed and power. If he buys in, does things the Patriots way, watch out NFL. It's not just watching game tape either, it's so much more than that. It's the little things and fine details. It's practicing all year at a level few teams do, so your ready for things like say jumping on a football in the Superbowl, not worrying about getting injured. He's just got a very long list of non-patriot type crap. His crap in College is the thing of legends and not in a good way. His below average Wonderlic score at the combine, when most Patriot QBs are well above average. It's a crazy long list.

Sanu will be an okay 3rd WR. You don't want him starting because between him and Edelman you won't stretch the field. We have to hope Harry can do better at that, he's the guy you want as your #2. In a perfect world your #3 would be a speed guy that could take the top off the D to allow those guys to work underneath. Asiasi should help adding more of a vertical threat. Yet we really need either Lee or Thomas to step up.

We have to have more big plays, because without Brady your not going to dink and dunk all game long. The D will do what they did last year and whoever the QB is won't be as good at not taking sacks. The fact both QBs can run will certainly help. Yet you still need to stretch the field. I really like Asiasi yet you can't count on him being that guy as a rookie, like you could with Gronk. While I don't mind the players, Edelman, Harry, Sanu and Myers isn't a great mix for that. Lee can be that guy, yet can he stay healthy?

Jeff Thomas would have been a 2nd or 3rd round pick based just on talent. He's that fast, that athletic and has great ability in the open field. He's a guy that's perfect for kickoffs, Punt returns and being a #5 WR who you bring in to stretch the field. Now if he can just get his act together. I love how his agent steered him to the Patriots. That is either brilliant or very stupid. I can't take another year watching Bolden return kicks and I don't want core players returning punts either. Just look at Sanu getting injured doing that. On tape he has more ability to go up and get balls than Dorsett ever showed, which is why he was horrible at it.

JJ Taylor has a higher Madden rating than Dalton Keene. It's the year of smaller undrafted weapons! Bill rebuilding our weapons with undrafted guys.

How? We already went through this with much more detail and actual numbers and percentages. 50% of revenue comes from TV and players get like 55% if I remember right. That's about 4.4 billion of the 6.4 billion cap coming from TV money for this year. The likely lost revenue is the lowest part of the salary cap and player get like 40% of it. Nevermind the NFL TV deals have a 7% growth rate built in them. Meaning that 8 billion will grow by 7% and thus the players 4.4 billion will go up 7% next year. Those numbers make zero sense, a 25% decrease in revenue will result in like a 15% drop in the salary cap because the players get a small cut of ticket sales and concession sale etc.

The only way a 25% drop in Revenue could reduce the salary cap by 40% is if that money is TV money. If that happens that means reduced or no games and they would lose way more than 25%.

I don’t know man but it seems the analysis that was done previously here wasn’t correct since the NFL announced yesterday the lowest they’d allow the cap to go is $175m which is $35m lower than the $210m projected. Saints, Eagles, Falcons and Chiefs will be hurting big time if that happens.

I think projecting reductions in future salary caps is like spitting into the wind. Until you get to the final numbers and see how many games are played, whether any fans are allowed in, we are totally guessing. A lot is going to depend on how much money the owners lose and how much money the TV people lose. We will not know those numbers until January or February. The owners and TV people are not going to maintain cap level numbers if they lose large chunks of money and let the player salaries continue at the original 2019 projected numbers without some push back. Most people I read say they will be surprised that they make a whole season. No one has ever seen anything like this pandemic thing before. So what happens over the next 3 or 4 months is anyone's GUESS.

Cam certainly appears to be a different personality than recent pats QB's. I also think that Bill thinks he knows what he is getting or he would not have signed him to begin with. Huge diff between Cam and Tom, both in personality and skill set. He has proved that he can win in the NFL and I do not think that Rivera would put up with anything other than working hard and trying to win. We shall see how all of this works out. 

The NFL just said the Salary Cap won't go below $175 million no matter what happens.