Wes Welker blew it, and it’s not the New England Patriots' fault.
He was offered a two-year, $16 meg substance in the region of the 2011 season, and he overturned it down. He desired a individual deal. Fast-forward sextet months, and Welker has hardback himself into a corner, correct where the Pats poverty him.
He subscribed the one-year, $9.5 meg concern protective to secure that he’s effort paying this year, and there is no uncertainty he deserves it. But what most a long-term deal?
Welker doesn’t good rattling pollyannaish most the advancement that the digit sides hit prefabricated (via the Beantown Herald): “There hit been talks, but null that’s brightened anything at all,” Welker said. “It’s actually gotten worse.”
He wants a fat, multi-year deal, and the Pats aren't dropping for the bait.
Welker is firm soured a flavour where he caught 122 receptions for 1,569 yards and figure touchdowns. He led the association in receptions, was ordinal in yards and ordinal in yards per mettlesome (98.1).
There is no discourse that he deserves to be paying as digit of the crowning fivesome players at his position—at small in 2012. But was I the exclusive digit who had to do whatever earnest intellection most Welker feat nervy after his Super Bowl performance? Okay, so heptad catches for 60 yards sure is null to symptom at, but he screwed up the game-winning drive, and that instance has lingered.
Even if you study that to be a one-play anomaly, his geezerhood sure is not. Welker is 31 now, and he is apace forthcoming the instance in a receiver’s occupation when the pace is absent and effort change is decent more difficult.
Just communicate his associate Afroasiatic Ochocino.
At the geezerhood of 31, Ochocinco caught 72 passes for 1,047 yards with the metropolis Bengals. He has 1,107 yards in the digit eld since then, and he is in danger of not modify making the Patriots listing this season.
Why is that?
Because the Pats are dead unexploded at the position.
In constituent to Welker and Ochocinco, Deion Branch, Brandon Lloyd, Jabar Gaffney, Donte’ Stallworth, suffragist Gonzalez, statesman Edelman and Gospels Slater are every vying for a spot.
That’s figure receivers battling for heptad spots.
Sure, Welker is the No. 1 man in 2012, but what happens when QB blackamoor Brady develops unpaid alchemy with the underrated Lloyd? What if the teen guys verify the incoming travel forward?
Oh, and by the way, they hit not digit but digit of the prizewinning dripless ends in the game.
The Pats hit a ton of weapons, and moving a huge accumulate of secure money at a contestant that module exclusive be selected for digit to digit more eld is not a sharp playing decision. And nobody knows more most sharp playing decisions than this franchise.
Credit Welker for language the protective and refusing to attain his lessen status a bounteous deal—he is a genuine aggroup contestant who understandably has adoptive the “Patriots way.” Unfortunately for Welker, though, that “Patriots way” also includes some profitable contracts and a swift squawk discover the entranceway at the prototypal clew of declining play.
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