The reason the Pats have great depth ....

[Dunnie]

Or at least A reason ...

Brady is worth 500,000,000 ... However his salary is below 1,000,000.

His $$$ comes from being unbelievably successful and the marketing deals that come with at success ... He realizes that his salary cannot hold the team hostage because it would threaten the power of the team and thus his success.

Add to this the fact that his wife is worth 1,000,000,000 and it becomes fairly simple to have a low salary.

[heymangold]

Or maybe it's just that their player scouting personnel are really good.

[ASG0531]

What in the world does personal net worth have to do with a team's depth chart? Absolutely nothing. Belichick places a high value on ST depth. It showed last night.

[barkus]

Originally Posted by Dunnie

Or at least A reason ...

Brady is worth 500,000,000 ... However his salary is below 1,000,000.

His $$$ comes from being unbelievably successful and the marketing deals that come with at success ... He realizes that his salary cannot hold the team hostage because it would threaten the power of the team and thus his success.

Add to this the fact that his wife is worth 1,000,000,000 and it becomes fairly simple to have a low salary.

Edit:
He restructured contract march 2012 to 950k salary and instead got 10mill signing bonus, just cap maneuvering

Wtf are you talking about?? He signed a 4yr 72mill contract with 48mil guaranteed in July 2010

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nfl...ory?id=5552561

[Beerfish]

The reason the Pats have depth:

Last 5 years # of draft picks.

Pats: 57
Jets: 31

[Dunnie]

Originally Posted by barkus

Edit:
He restructured contract march 2012 to 950k salary and instead got 10mill signing bonus, just cap maneuvering

Wtf are you talking about?? He signed a 4yr 72mill contract with 48mil guaranteed in July 2010

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nfl...ory?id=5552561

It's quite simple ... His salary was restructured to 950,000 guaranteed this year in order to retain and acquire talent.

All I am saying is that is simple to restructure your contract like that when you have huge $$$ from other revenue streams.

[JetPotato]

Originally Posted by Beerfish

The reason the Pats have depth:

Last 5 years # of draft picks.

Pats: 57
Jets: 31

This.

While we continue to trade up in the draft for bust after bust and an occasional hit, they stockpile by trading down when they don't see a great pick at their slot.

[AFCEastFan]

Originally Posted by Beerfish

The reason the Pats have depth:

Last 5 years # of draft picks.

Pats: 57
Jets: 31

Even though they screwed up last year's draft by drafting scrubs like Solder and Ridley instead of getting defensive help?

[Beerfish]

Originally Posted by AFCEastFan

Even though they screwed up last year's draft by drafting scrubs like Solder and Ridley instead of getting defensive help?

Solder is doing fine because the league ignores his holds on every play and he has a Qb who almost never throws long and gets rid of the ball quick.

The Pats have not won the SB in 7 years, their defense is still lousy. They can get away with it when facing medium to bad teams but when they have to beat 3 good teams in a row to win the sb they will be exposed and fail.

[AFCEastFan]

Originally Posted by Beerfish

Solder is doing fine because the league ignores his holds on every play and he has a Qb who almost never throws long and gets rid of the ball quick.

The Pats have not won the SB in 7 years, their defense is still lousy. They can get away with it when facing medium to bad teams but when they have to beat 3 good teams in a row to win the sb they will be exposed and fail.

Solder is also doing fine because he is an size/athletic freak with excellent O-line coaching. In related news, Gabe Carimi was just benched and Anthony Castonzo was beaten like a rented mule last week by the immortal Rob Ninkovich.

I disagree that their D is "still" lousy. I would say it is approaching "newly" mediocre. That may or may not be enough to win in the playoffs. We'll see.

I agree that the Patriots chances of beating 3 good teams in a row to win a SB are not great. But they likely will not have to beat more than 1 good team. The AFC is weak this year from top to bottom. Even last year, they only faced 2 good teams in the playoffs and both (1 Pats win, 1 Pats loss) were decided by a couple of fluky plays. Again, we'll see.

[WTE]

Originally Posted by heymangold

Or maybe it's just that their player scouting personnel are really good.

Or maybe it's because they don't give huge, guaranteed contracts to bums like Mark Sanchez, Santonio Holmes, Calvin Pace and Bart Scott

[BluVayner]

It's also because Belichick is not afraid to cut his losses. If a high draft choice cannot play, he will cut him and replace him with an undrafted or street free agent who is better. He is not worried about protecting his draft record, only the production. If Darius Butler or Maroney can't play, be will replace them with Arrington, Taliban, or Woodhead. He doesn't care if people say he missed on a draft pick.

[Cool as a moose]

Not to take anything away from the pats, but it doesn't hurt they play 6 games a year against the 3 most inept football organizations in all of football.