2019 Patriots' News

[BigKen]

More interesting news.

Both Rob Gronkowski and Devin McCourty are in the final year of their contracts. Gronk is a $12.5M Cap hit and McCourty is a $13.45 Salary Cap hit. McCourty has hinted that he will retire if BB insists that he take a pay cutorwill force BB to cut him.

Gronk is 29 and McCourty is 30. McCourty's brother Jason is a FA and will not resign with the Patriots if his brother retires.

Belichick is painted into a very small corner with both. Most likely he will attempted to sign both to contract extensions that will guarantee a big upfront payment with very little effect on the cap. Problem is that if they don't playout the contract, the dead money could be brutal.

The other problem with releasing Gronk is that the NYJ have nearly $130M in cap space. Offering Gronk a 3 year deal at $20M per year and guaranteeing $50M would be easy for the Jets and a disaster for Belichick and the Patriots. One has a feeling that Mr. Brady might not be very happy either.

Two more tough decisions.

Worst case..................let them play out their contracts and wait until 2020.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

Several things.................

First. Josh Gordon is a free agent, not a rstricted free agent. Someone on BST made a mistake and the station got about 100,000 tweets, emails, texts and phone calls. They apparently checked their tapes and apologized.

Second. With so little space under the cap the Patriots will not Franchise Tre Flowers or Trent Brown. It is expected that both will get much higher offers than the Franchise. If Nate Solder is getting $15M then Trent Brown will surely break that easily after his outstanding performance in the playoiffsand Super Bowl. He expected to get multiple offers and could become the first $20M a year OL. Tre Flowers will be one of about 10 DL free agents and whether he resigns will be on how enamoured teams are with the market. If teams Tag their own defensive players because everyone wants one and are willing to pay $17.2M then Flowers will be an extremely hot commodity and will probably be very close to $20M. The patriots are not in any position to even think about it. If Gordon does test the market and some team offers him $15M.....he's gone and without the Patriots protection and going to a bigger city, Gordon will most likely fail a drug test and be banished for life. AND............he knows it.......tough decision when it comes to a possible 3 year $45M contract. His homieswill swoop in and he get drained and as well as stoned.

2019 Franchise Tag Official Salaries:

• Quarterback: $23.189MM
• Running back: $11.866MM
• Wide receiver: $15.982MM
• Tight end: $9.846MM
• Offensive line: $14.077MM
• Defensive end: $17.143MM
• Defensive tackle: $13.939MM
• Linebacker: $14.961MM
• Cornerback: $14.975MM
• Safety: $11.287MM
• Punter/kicker: $4.939MM
  
  

I'd love to see Brown back but I also think someone else pays that big beast. Lucky for NE Wynn should be back 100%?

NE should franchise Flowers if they can't get a contract. let him test the market. This draft is full of DTs and DEs. I could see BB moving up to get one if Flowers leaves.

I think Hogan and Dorsett are both gone which will free up cap space for flowers.

No way Gordan is getting $15M. If I'm recalling correctly he won't even be able to play until week 15 if he gets reinstated? ,

Adding onto your other post I've already been on record saying they need to bring Gski back. Punters are more easily replaced.

I think BB finally moves up in the draft and or trades away a couple picks for future picks. 12 picks and limited cap would make sense don't you agree?

Interesting none the less. Going to be as exciting as always this offseason.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

More interesting news.

Both Rob Gronkowski and Devin McCourty are in the final year of their contracts. Gronk is a $12.5M Cap hit and McCourty is a $13.45 Salary Cap hit. McCourty has hinted that he will retire if BB insists that he take a pay cutorwill force BB to cut him.

Gronk is 29 and McCourty is 30. McCourty's brother Jason is a FA and will not resign with the Patriots if his brother retires.

Belichick is painted into a very small corner with both. Most likely he will attempted to sign both to contract extensions that will guarantee a big upfront payment with very little effect on the cap. Problem is that if they don't playout the contract, the dead money could be brutal.

The other problem with releasing Gronk is that the NYJ have nearly $130M in cap space. Offering Gronk a 3 year deal at $20M per year and guaranteeing $50M would be easy for the Jets and a disaster for Belichick and the Patriots. One has a feeling that Mr. Brady might not be very happy either.

Two more tough decisions.

Worst case..................let them play out their contracts and wait until 2020.

Brady can also renegotiate his contract. After the disrespect by the media and others I could see TB taking another pay cut if that's what it takes to keep Gronk around. The McCourty brothers, meh. They have good games and bad games. They had a very good playoff run this year but BB won't get handcuffed by these two.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

Gordon is definitely a restricted free agent

 

[Southieinnc]

Gordon is gone.
McCourty has had a great career with NE. Can't seem him leaving for a couple $$ more
Gronk doesn't want to play anywhere else.
Dorsett will get offers and after rarely getting the ball he'll be gone.
Hogan has not been reliable
The money offered Brown will be more than we can afford.
Trey Flowers has not made a lot of money yet. Can we offer him enough to keep him?

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

@MikeReiss

As Bill Belichick fills out some of the vacancies on his staff this offseason, the expectation is that Mick Lombardi will be one of the additions. Lombardi spent the 2011-2012 seasons in New England as a scouting assistant/coaching assistant.

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Presumably he'd take Schuplinski's spot as asst QB coach since that's the role he held with the Jets (speculation mine). He is Mike's son, no relation to Vince, although he did go to Fordham (go, Rams!).

 

[BigKen]

Winning a Super Bowl comes with quite a few benefits. A parade. A shiny ring. Fans memorizing your name. Visiting the White House, sometimes. That extra little piece of serenity in retirement.

However, the lone on-field perk the NFL gives its Super Bowl champion is the privilege of hosting the following year’s league-wide season opener. In addition to all the fun of celebrating a championship, the game also usually takes place on a Thursday, giving its participant an extra three days of preparation for Week 2 while the rest of the league plays Sunday.


NFL reportedly favoring Packers-Bears over Patriots for season opener

The reason why: The NFL is celebrating its 100th season, and there would be no more apt opener for that milestone than the league’s oldest rivalry.

Even though there’s reportedly a legitimate reason behind the decision, you can imagine this will only fuel a fanbase that looks for every possible slight as evidence of a league-wide conspiracy against their team as it enters the 2019 season looking for their seventh Super Bowl ring in two decades.

 

[YankeeRebel]

Winning a Super Bowl comes with quite a few benefits. A parade. A shiny ring. Fans memorizing your name. Visiting the White House, sometimes. That extra little piece of serenity in retirement.

However, the lone on-field perk the NFL gives its Super Bowl champion is the privilege of hosting the following year’s league-wide season opener. In addition to all the fun of celebrating a championship, the game also usually takes place on a Thursday, giving its participant an extra three days of preparation for Week 2 while the rest of the league plays Sunday.


NFL reportedly favoring Packers-Bears over Patriots for season opener

The reason why: The NFL is celebrating its 100th season, and there would be no more apt opener for that milestone than the league’s oldest rivalry.

Even though there’s reportedly a legitimate reason behind the decision, you can imagine this will only fuel a fanbase that looks for every possible slight as evidence of a league-wide conspiracy against their team as it enters the 2019 season looking for their seventh Super Bowl ring in two decades.

I saw this mehhh matters not to me

 

[nefansince75]

Winning a Super Bowl comes with quite a few benefits. A parade. A shiny ring. Fans memorizing your name. Visiting the White House, sometimes. That extra little piece of serenity in retirement.

However, the lone on-field perk the NFL gives its Super Bowl champion is the privilege of hosting the following year’s league-wide season opener. In addition to all the fun of celebrating a championship, the game also usually takes place on a Thursday, giving its participant an extra three days of preparation for Week 2 while the rest of the league plays Sunday.


NFL reportedly favoring Packers-Bears over Patriots for season opener

The reason why: The NFL is celebrating its 100th season, and there would be no more apt opener for that milestone than the league’s oldest rivalry.

Even though there’s reportedly a legitimate reason behind the decision, you can imagine this will only fuel a fanbase that looks for every possible slight as evidence of a league-wide conspiracy against their team as it enters the 2019 season looking for their seventh Super Bowl ring in two decades.

There's a very good reason for the shift. It's not like the issue stinks of conspiracy.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

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The New England Patriots have added another piece from Youngstown State.

Penguins offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo is heading to the NFL as an assistant offensive line coach, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. He had been with YSU for the past nine seasons.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

@FieldYates
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Source: the Patriots have signed reserve OL Brian Schwenke to a one-year, $895,000 extension through 2019.

 

[BigKen]

The New England Patriots currently have six wide receivers on their 2019 roster, and it’s completely forgivable if only two of their names ring a bell.

Hopefully, you’ve heard of Julian Edelman and Matthew Slater. But Braxton Berrios, Riley McCarron, Damoun Patterson and Darren Andrews are only known by true Patriots diehards — or folks paid to know their names.

We’ll get into Berrios and Patterson later, but let’s focus on Andrews today. The Patriots added Andrews as an undrafted free agent in May, but he spent the entire 2018 season on the non-football injury list. Andrews tore his ACL nine games into his 2017 senior season at UCLA where he played with quarterback Josh Rosen.

Prior to suffering the injury, Andrews had caught 60 passes for 773 yards with 10 touchdowns and added four carries for 49 yards. The 5-foot-10, 181-pound receiver did most of his work out of the slot, lining up inside on 59.6 percent of his snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. He caught 35 passes on 54 targets for 472 yards with six touchdowns out of the slot.

For an undersized slot receiver, Andrews did a lot of damage on deep passes. He caught 8-of-18 deep targets for 268 yards with six touchdowns.

Overall in 2017, Andrews dropped just four passes for a 6.25 percent drop rate.

Andrews didn’t practice a single time with the Patriots in 2018, but he did spend time with the team, so it’s likely he’s already familiar with the playbook. Andrews should be viewed as a longshot to make the Patriots’ 2019 roster, but he’ll have a chance to compete for a slot or “Z” receiver role. There’s no more unknown commodity on the Patriots’ roster than Andrews since he hasn’t played since midway through the 2017 college season. He also didn’t perform in any pre-draft testing last winter.

Receivers Cordarrelle Patterson, Phillip Dorsett and Chris Hogan are entering unrestricted free agency next month while Josh Gordon is a restricted free agent. That’s why the Patriots currently are left with just Edelman, Slater, Andrews, Berrios, Patterson and McCarron on their 90-man roster.

We expect maybe one of Patterson, Dorsett or Hogan to be back next season, so the Patriots certainly have some holes to fill in their receiver corps, and they could do so with some big names. But Andrews has a headstart on the competition after being around the team in 2018. He’ll either surprise in offseason workouts and training camp or go the way of most undrafted free agents who spend their first season on a reserve list. Andrews does have some appealing traits, so he’s a player to watch once practice start up again in the spring.

 

[YankeeRebel]

The New England Patriots currently have six wide receivers on their 2019 roster, and it’s completely forgivable if only two of their names ring a bell.

Hopefully, you’ve heard of Julian Edelman and Matthew Slater. But Braxton Berrios, Riley McCarron, Damoun Patterson and Darren Andrews are only known by true Patriots diehards — or folks paid to know their names.

We’ll get into Berrios and Patterson later, but let’s focus on Andrews today. The Patriots added Andrews as an undrafted free agent in May, but he spent the entire 2018 season on the non-football injury list. Andrews tore his ACL nine games into his 2017 senior season at UCLA where he played with quarterback Josh Rosen.

Prior to suffering the injury, Andrews had caught 60 passes for 773 yards with 10 touchdowns and added four carries for 49 yards. The 5-foot-10, 181-pound receiver did most of his work out of the slot, lining up inside on 59.6 percent of his snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. He caught 35 passes on 54 targets for 472 yards with six touchdowns out of the slot.

For an undersized slot receiver, Andrews did a lot of damage on deep passes. He caught 8-of-18 deep targets for 268 yards with six touchdowns.

Overall in 2017, Andrews dropped just four passes for a 6.25 percent drop rate.

Andrews didn’t practice a single time with the Patriots in 2018, but he did spend time with the team, so it’s likely he’s already familiar with the playbook. Andrews should be viewed as a longshot to make the Patriots’ 2019 roster, but he’ll have a chance to compete for a slot or “Z” receiver role. There’s no more unknown commodity on the Patriots’ roster than Andrews since he hasn’t played since midway through the 2017 college season. He also didn’t perform in any pre-draft testing last winter.

Receivers Cordarrelle Patterson, Phillip Dorsett and Chris Hogan are entering unrestricted free agency next month while Josh Gordon is a restricted free agent. That’s why the Patriots currently are left with just Edelman, Slater, Andrews, Berrios, Patterson and McCarron on their 90-man roster.

We expect maybe one of Patterson, Dorsett or Hogan to be back next season, so the Patriots certainly have some holes to fill in their receiver corps, and they could do so with some big names. But Andrews has a headstart on the competition after being around the team in 2018. He’ll either surprise in offseason workouts and training camp or go the way of most undrafted free agents who spend their first season on a reserve list. Andrews does have some appealing traits, so he’s a player to watch once practice start up again in the spring.

Well I know you said we'll get into Berios later but, he too is a slot receiver is he not? WithJules still on board it would be nice to target someone over 6'

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

Atif Austin, who served as a first-year Patriots coaching assistant in 2018, is leaving the organization to become Northern Illinois’ running backs coach, the Daily Chronicle’s Kaleb Carter reported Wednesday.

Austin was considered to be in the running to replace Chad O’Shea as Patriots wide receivers coach

 

[patspa]

Berrios Highlights

Andrews

 

[BigKen]

Antonio Brown has requested a trade from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Rooney is hoping that things can be mended but AB tweeted a farewell to Pittsburgh.

So what would the patriotschances of getting Antonio Brown?

ZERO........NADA.....NOPE......WILL NOT HAPPEN !!!!!!!

Steelers and pats have Six Super Bowl Rings and the Rooney Family will not help the Patriots pass them The Rooneys have a legacy to protect.

Antonio Brown has a $21.3M Cap hit and that goes up when he gets his $3.5M Roster Bonus. He also has three years left and $72M to be paid.

The Steelers, if they trade him want a huge price and they don't want him in the AFC if at all possible.

The Absolute no's are the Patriots, Ravens, Browns, Bengals for sure. More than likely on the 'no' list are the Broncos, Chiefs, Chargers, Colts, Texans and Titans. Steelers do not want to put any playoff teams over the top.


Might look at the Cardinals, 48ers and possibly the Lions. It would take more than AB to vault them into the playoffs immediately.

 

[sharkymcwrath]

Fuck Antonio Brown. I will never doubt a move by the Pats but I would be at least temporarily seriously pissed off if that flaming bag of dicks ended up in NE. I've read several reports now linking him to the Pats and I just don't see that as being possible.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

Raiders are the obvious landing spot even though it’s AFC he doesn't make them immediate contenders, and they’ve got a ton of cap space and 3 firsts.

 

[Shoeshine Boy]

Damn maybe we should just get Mookie to switch to football to fill a WR spot.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

The New England Patriots currently have six wide receivers on their 2019 roster, and it’s completely forgivable if only two of their names ring a bell.

Hopefully, you’ve heard of Julian Edelman and Matthew Slater. But Braxton Berrios, Riley McCarron, Damoun Patterson and Darren Andrews are only known by true Patriots diehards — or folks paid to know their names.

We’ll get into Berrios and Patterson later, but let’s focus on Andrews today. The Patriots added Andrews as an undrafted free agent in May, but he spent the entire 2018 season on the non-football injury list. Andrews tore his ACL nine games into his 2017 senior season at UCLA where he played with quarterback Josh Rosen.

Prior to suffering the injury, Andrews had caught 60 passes for 773 yards with 10 touchdowns and added four carries for 49 yards. The 5-foot-10, 181-pound receiver did most of his work out of the slot, lining up inside on 59.6 percent of his snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. He caught 35 passes on 54 targets for 472 yards with six touchdowns out of the slot.

For an undersized slot receiver, Andrews did a lot of damage on deep passes. He caught 8-of-18 deep targets for 268 yards with six touchdowns.

Overall in 2017, Andrews dropped just four passes for a 6.25 percent drop rate.

Andrews didn’t practice a single time with the Patriots in 2018, but he did spend time with the team, so it’s likely he’s already familiar with the playbook. Andrews should be viewed as a longshot to make the Patriots’ 2019 roster, but he’ll have a chance to compete for a slot or “Z” receiver role. There’s no more unknown commodity on the Patriots’ roster than Andrews since he hasn’t played since midway through the 2017 college season. He also didn’t perform in any pre-draft testing last winter.

Receivers Cordarrelle Patterson, Phillip Dorsett and Chris Hogan are entering unrestricted free agency next month while Josh Gordon is a restricted free agent. That’s why the Patriots currently are left with just Edelman, Slater, Andrews, Berrios, Patterson and McCarron on their 90-man roster.

We expect maybe one of Patterson, Dorsett or Hogan to be back next season, so the Patriots certainly have some holes to fill in their receiver corps, and they could do so with some big names. But Andrews has a headstart on the competition after being around the team in 2018. He’ll either surprise in offseason workouts and training camp or go the way of most undrafted free agents who spend their first season on a reserve list. Andrews does have some appealing traits, so he’s a player to watch once practice start up again in the spring.

Good write up Ken thanks.

It will be interesting to see how the ACL healed and if he has confidence of getting in and out of cuts? At least he'll have JE11 to help coach him thru it.