Mankins prepping to holdout entire season
Apparently teams can reduce the tender amount, albeit not a very "goodwillish" gesture, but can be done. I fully expected the Pats to be the ones to do it to one of the best guards in the league.....must be saving their pennies for Brady...
Lastly watch yet again how the Pats fleece some unsuspecting team for a 1st rounder....just watch....below courtsey of rotoword...
The Boston Globe's Albert Breer reports that the Patriots have already dropped unsigned restricted free agent LG Logan Mankins' tender offer from $3.268 million to $1.54 million.
The league apparently began allowing teams to drop RFA tender offers at 4PM ET Monday, and the Patriots wasted no time. This will only serve to increase the chances that Mankins stages a holdout into the regular season. At this point, it's difficult to imagine him in the starting lineup for Week 1.
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The Cheapriots do not wish to pay anyone and that will come back to bite them.
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Now that they arent clear cut anymore, and going IMO in the wrong direction, people dont want to hear it anymore.. -
Fast forward to now, they have lost that sort of "Belicheck Drone" feel to their squad and they want to be paid, but the cheapriots don't pay their players they tend to trade them rather than pay them. -
Cheapriots have only signed one big dollar FA, Adalius Thomas, since then they stick with the circa 2002 philosophy, or worse for them, the 2007 pass happy philosophy that they are supposedly trying to move away from.finyank13 likes this. -
Get him off their offensive line. Thank. ****ing. god.
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So chances are good 34yrs old Brady will have to drop back and spray the ball around again, but even then, the quality of the Wr corps has dropped.gunn34 likes this. -
Part of me says no....new agent, paying for his last contract, wants money
but also part of me says yes he does, he always does, he will fatten up against the lesser teams, and Miami of course..... -
Back to that power running stuff, it reminds me of the Bills drafting a running back, while ignoring their needs at both offensive tackles, how are you going to run the ball when your tackles are more likely backups or not on roster on any other team in the NFL?
In that light, how are the Patriots going to switch to a power running game when they do not have a power running back? In the BB glory days, one of those backs in DC, Johnson, Parker or Portis would be in New England ala Corey Dillion. -
And Pads also noteworth, their WR corp isnt world beaters either...Moss fine, Edleman is good, Welker who knows what you get from him...? They would probably bring in TO, if they didnt have Moss already....
The Pats could be either the same as last year or go backwards a bit....:up: -
Leave it up to the Pats to find/exploit these little loopholes. I swear, sometimes it's like they have a team of attorneys raiding the books year-round.
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And you are right, the more Brady drops back to throw, the better the chance of another injury happening to him at his age, 34 is right around the time those dings and knicks start to add up for a Qb, recall that Warner was crappy in NY due to his thumb, it took him several years to get completely healthy.
The NCAA kick return yardage leader who appears to have a chronically bad knee. (Brandon Tate)
Taylor Price from tiny Ohio University, it takes time for the vast majority of small college Wr to learn the NFL route tree and just how to to get open.
Meanwhile they will have to make do with Edelman, career ST Wr Sam Aiken, and the truculent Randy Moss..once again, how is that going to work exactly?
So this should be a great yr of football in the AFCE, like the old NFCE in the mid 80's with Tuna/Gibbs/Ryan running herd.:up: -
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Rumor has it, Mankins was offered 5 years, 7 milllion per. If this is true, patriots were not the cheapriots. Mankins just think he's better than top 5.
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2010/06/15/angry_mankins_wants_a_trade/
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Me-me-me strikes again. Let's just hope the Dolphins aren't the next victim.
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2010: 4 Mill
2011: 5 Mill
2012: 6 Mill
2013: 6 Mill
2014: 14 Mill
That's 5 years at an average of 7 Mill per season. But of course he'd never get paid that 14 Mill in 2014.
I mean there are plenty of ways to make 5 years at 7/yr look good, but on football contracts it's rarely that cut and dry. -
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Friends of Patriots LG Logan Mankins say he doesn't need the money and would have no problem holding out for the entire 2010 season.
Some believe that Mankins will eventually sign his tender and report to camp, but those that know him well describe him as frugal and someone that can afford to hold out. Mankins, who has said the Patriots lied about how much money they were going to offer him, is hoping that with a new league CBA, he’ll become a free agent. -
:yahoo: Well that's just a shame.
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sorry about the caps just too lazy to delete and type the same thing again