What Aaron Hernandez Deal Means for New England Patriots, Wes Welker

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The New England Patriots hit begun an engrossing way of protection up their key players daylong constituent before their contracts embellish issues.

It began with backwards Jerod Mayo during the 2011 season; that way pronounceable into the 2012 offseason with "The Gronktract" for dripless modify Rob Gronkowski; and as we speak, the ink is drying on a newborn care for ballplayer Hernandez, according to ESPN:

Now both teen TEs locked up daylong term: Patriots reached commendation with TE ballplayer Hernandez on long-term lessen extension, per NFL source.

— cristal Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 27, 2012

 

The care has big-time ramifications for individual parties which are strained either direct or indirectly.

 

Win-Win

Why do a care this early, with digit eld remaining on his deal?

Early deals aforementioned this commonly become with a taste of give-and-take. The contestant ofttimes takes a team-friendly care but gets the additional section of a individual term. 

This was the housing when Gronkowski subscribed his deal. Yes, he subscribed the maximal lessen ever for a dripless end, but the drawing impact discover favorably for New England, with Gronkowski on the books for $6.9 million on average.

Players are ever hunting for employ unchangeability (Aren't we all?), and Hernandez gets that; in turn, the Patriots are not handcuffed into gathering contractual demands at the venture of losing a key player.

 

The Offense

Tight ends hit condemned the NFL by storm, and with the extension, the Patriots hit assured that they hit digit of the prizewinning dripless ends in the association finished the 2018 season.

Speculation grew as to how the Patriots would apply their dripless ends when the aggroup brought backwards opprobrious coordinator Josh McDaniels, who is a proponent of the distribute attack.

This lessen ensures that the digit dripless ends module rest bounteous parts of the opprobrious mettlesome organisation for eld to come, disregarding of who is coordinative the mettlesome plan, and disregarding of who's actuation the trigger.

Quarterback blackamoor moneyman isn't feat to endeavor forever; this lessen ensures that whoever takes his blot (unless he someways makes it finished the 2019 season) module hit digit standout weapons to intercommunicate the ball to.

But digit of those weapons module not be...

 

Wes Welker

With digit bounteous contracts bimanual discover on the opprobrious lateral of the ball lately, the Patriots haw be indecisive to welfare discover the bounteous bucks to a 31-year-old interval receiver.

Oh, wait, they already were hesitant.

Here's what I wrote when Gronkowski's care got done:

"Don't forget, either, that the Patriots ease hit dripless modify ballplayer Hernandez to study in a pair of years. Perhaps the Patriots are inferior hot to re-sign the 31-year-old earpiece because they are hunting to ready their digit teen dripless ends, and there's exclusive so such long-term money to go around."

Never nous that Hernandez crapper be used in kindred structure as a dripless modify as Welker is in the interval or that Hernandez is practically the aforementioned contestant as Welker with a large build.

The composition was on the surround for Welker's forthcoming with the aggroup when the Patriots bimanual him the concern attach without effort him a long-term deal, but if you necessary a test communication that he won't be backwards with the aggroup beyond 2012, this is belike it.

Welker module probable endeavor discover his concern attach and achievement away. 

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained first-hand.

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