Patriots 2021 season thread

Sucks that when OBJ gets cut the Pats are no longer the team that will get him cheap.

I want no part of OBJ, he's tops on his team in targets and still causing issues. That's the last thing a young QB needs. The Browns seem to be playing an offense like ours, spread the ball around. He needs an offense that is just built around a few players. Even then he has the lowest catch percentage among the top six guys in targets at 50%. Maybe raise your catch percentage OBJ before you complain about more targets.

I will say the best argument against OBJ right now, is that it’s proven difficult for the Patriots to work a WR into their offense, especially mid season, so while I’d still take him and even want him, it may not work out until next season.

I read the reason for the restructure was to owe him less after he cleared waivers. I suppose it goes hand in hand and we will see the numbers but I can’t imagine him giving up a ton of money

It would be scary if he goes to the Cheifs, I could see the Packers as a good fit. Get Tom another weapon? Lol maybe the Raiders after releasing Riggs.

Anyone catch what Toney said about Riggs? I don't know what's worse, his writing skills or defending one of the most extreme crazy deadly things an NFL player has done in recent memory. Florida what type of College are you running? It's about time the combine adds an IQ test.

Bad look by Toney. Toney came into the league off-the-field concerns (there were a few gun issues at Florida [no charges] but more was hinted at); punching a dude his first good week and then saying "we all make mistakes" to a killer don't help with those worries.

So the rework contract just voids the last two years of OBJ contract, yet there was no dead or guaranteed money left anyways. So why do that? If a team was going to claim him, having two years at 15 million per is a positive. It doesn't workout you cut him, if it does two years 30 million isn't horrible. It's like they did him a favor, which I certainly don't understand given what he's done.

I kind of wanted OBJ on the Patriots because I thought he could help out. Then I read a piece on ESPN that reported he was consistently running his own routes mid play, and Baker basically had no idea what he was doing.

No thanks. That would never work in an offense built on timing and precision.

Well if OBJ refused to participate or tried to submarine the team then I’d have a different take on him, hence my question. I haven’t read up on him.

It seems weird that nothing happened since the trade deadline and now they are just releasing him. Guess it’s piss poor management or there were legitimately zero offers.

It’s Twitter, a lot of it’s shorthand and writing how one speaks. I doubt he graduated since he came out early.

So you prefer a two faced liar that caused so many issues they just released him and no team would trade for him. That's your choice, I certainly don't understand it though. Go read up, article after article. You can make the choice to not read up, it doesn't just make that crap disappear. Simmons is staying away after his coach and teammates threw him under the bus. OBJ showed up, killed chemistry, had a bad attitude and didn't do what the coaches wanted. I'd call out Simmons in two seconds if he just showed up and tried to destroy the team. That was the smart play money wise. It's what James Harden did and it got him traded rather fast.

Only thing I fault the Browns for was not trading OBJ in the offseason. The writing was on the wall last year, 3-3 with him and 9-3 without him. Mayfield had the best stretch of his career after OBJ went down. Think about that, one of the most naturally gifted receivers I've ever seen, yet he's such a headcase that his team is better without him.