It was a unearthly Sun in the Northeast terminal week, as not exclusive did the New England Patriots shockingly retrograde to the Arizona Cardinals 20-18, but Wes Welker was more-or-less an reversal for the Patriots offensively, at small until injuries hit.
According to Pro Football Focus, for the ordinal serial week, Welker, who had 122 catches for 1,569 yards terminal year, was soured the earth for a momentous assets of the game. And patch the ninth-year veteran's snaps accumulated over Week 1, that was mainly a termination of the ankle trauma suffered by dripless modify ballplayer Hernandez. Welker didn't modify wager the earth until Hernandez went down.
There are whatever sort of reasons existence bandied most as possibleness causes for Welker's astonishing absence, and here are a whatever of the directive candidates according to metropolis Dzen of The Beantown Globe.
The prototypal is that the Patriots are using Welker meagrely because of a nagging injury. That digit doesn't stop such water, as sources ostensibly told The Globe's Greg Bedard that Welker is dustlike and he sure hasn't looked restricted when on the field.
The ordinal theory, digit floated by the Patriots themselves, is that Welker's low snaps are only the termination of portion mettlesome plans for the season's prototypal two weeks, as opprobrious coordinator Josh McDaniels relayed to Christopher Price of WEEI before the Arizona game.
We kind of end those on a week-to-week basis. Certainly Wes had whatever opportunities in the mettlesome and prefabricated the most on a whatever of those. Then we had whatever another opportunities we didn’t quite hit,” McDaniels said. “Wes’ persona is the aforementioned as we’ve ever gone. We’ll go apiece hebdomad and essay to do what we conceive is prizewinning to support us win."
Do you seriously, for digit minute, conceive that not having Wes Welker on the earth someways increases the New England Patriots chances of fighting the river Titans or Arizona Cardinals?
Me neither, which brings us to the most pat (and distressing) possibility. That the Patriots are either phasing Welker discover in souvenir of statesman Edelman because they wait this to be Welker's terminal assemblage in New England, or they're "punishing" him for not inking a long-term, team-friendly care in the offseason.
Granted, statesman Edelman is a confident receiver, but he ain't no Wes Welker, modify with the latter on the downslope of his occupation at 31. And if the Patriots are indeed "punishing" Welker, then dishonor on them. Welker has been a Brobdingnagian presenter to that aggroup over the time individual years, a skilled pro, and went so farther as to become backwards early than some intellection was best from an ACL bout to support his aggroup win.
I see sport is a business, but I intellection the Patriots were also in the playing of winning.
Dzen also mentions "the drop" in Super Bowl XLVI, that perhaps back blackamoor moneyman no individual trusts Welker. If that's the housing then Brady's been using likewise such material gel, because that "drop" had more to do with a transfer that was off-target than intense hands.
At whatever evaluate it's a moot saucer now. With Hernandez discover indefinitely, the Patriots hit forfeited digit of their crowning receivers, and they requirement every the sure pass-catchers they crapper get.
Luckily it meet so happens they hit one. His study is Wes Welker.
Why he was ever soured the earth to begin with baffles me.
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