People keep using the Patriots as a comparison

[juliosantos]

12 hours ago, R0CKnR0LLA said:

so we got rid of a GM with a top 5 winning percentage because when he tells players they're cut he doesn't do it a nice friendly way?

no we had a gm that turned  a superbowl contender to 6 and 10 half the stars on our team are from hurney 

[Darvinsun]

1 hour ago, ncfan said:

 

This ×10000

 

How many of these guys "complaining" were Hurney guys?

 

Every single one you have seen do it were Hurney guys. All got spoiled where the GM got buddy buddy and handed them whatever they wanted, hurting the future of the franchise.

In comes a GM who more about winning than making friends and put the team first.

Cuts those guys with the fat contracts to help the Team. They get mad because they are complacent fat and happy.

 

 

Curious.

How many players can you name that bashed Gettleman outside of those Hurney guys coming off the fat contracts?......................I can't think of any. Cotchety praised the organization, as did Harper, Allen, etc etc etc. Mike Mitchel, never heard a peep. Not one pouting tweet. Heck KK never cried last off-season when he didn't sign. Gettleman let him play through his contract and most all but assumed that we would just tag him and rent him for the year and let him walk ... nope Gettleman got it done and a pretty good contract at that.

 

 we couldve had Belicheck but woudpve never been given the opportunity to do anything just cut within 3 years because he's not becoming bff with the players just looking at the goal of winning

 

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Most of those you named  were scrubs coming off the couch he gave them a chance to revive or play again why would they be mad... Dave has too much confidence in his ability to find scrubs to play.. the core players are the ones he is screwing..players that have renegociated several times... There has to be an inbetween  and better way of handling exits.  Im not saying he is wrong in cutting.. we are not the patriots we can not rreat people like it and think others will want to come play here.

[Jangler]

10 hours ago, Krovvy said:

The Patriots have Bill and Tom, the rest are just pieces. Unless you happen to have arguably one of the best coaches and quarterback combinations of all time, then I wouldn't bother trying to emulate a single facet of their strategy.

It's Bill all the way. And even he was a loser in Cleveland. copy cat is nothing new, but we cant even do that correctly.

[bababoey]

When you have a great quarterback, who has been it the same system for 15+ years it's a lot easier to make the offense work.  Brady probably knows the offense better than most of his OC have in the past 5 or 6 years.

But the best thing the Patriots do and have always done is in the draft.  I am not saying they draft HOF guys in the 6th round all the time but they know how to use their assets.  They will trade the 1st for a 2nd a 4th and a 2nd next year.  Then they will use 2 of those picks to draft a replacement for their pro-bowl DE or LB or DT that is nearing the end of his rookie deal.  Maybe 1 of those guys does not work out but the other one does.  It's easy to do this when you have 10-12 picks every other year.  They let the pro bowler walk and nobody freaks out because they have already planed for that.

You can't do stuff like that when you only have 5 picks in every draft.