This afternoon Bill Belichick made a colossal mistake trading Jamie Collins to the Browns for a conditional third round pick. He could have cost the team a championship with this move.
Collins was a top three player on their defense this season. He is a top tier linebacker in the game who is an absolute freak. Rich Hill of Pats Pulpit points out that the Pats ave let up more passing and rushing yards while he was on the field rather than when he wasn't. Maybe he did let up two scores to Owen Daniels in the AFC title game but that point is the Patriots are worse without him.Bill deserves bashing for this move because you can't spin this into a good move. It is a bad move and that is a fact. You cannot take an elite player out of the defense and expect to be better. Bill said the defense has to be better, is this getting better? It is common sense.
What happens when/if Dont'a Hightower goes down? Then what? Elandon Roberts steps up? Not likely. If Hightower goes down for any extended period of time, this move is going to cost them games. And realistically a Super Bowl. Hightower is better and a team captain but he gets hurt all the time an Collins steps in every time and plays at an extremely high level. When Hightower missed the Texans game earlier this season Collins stepped in and had 14 tackles.
I know he wanted 6 years for $116M, just let him walk at the end of the year. Not that hard, then you're going to get a third round comp pick when he leaves for a team like Cleveland who will throw money at him. That is the rational move at least. I'm not smarter than Bill, but I'm smart enough to realize that he made a mistake with this one.
You can't tell me that Collins didn't know he wanted a huge deal at the start of the season that the Bill wouldn't go for, Couldn;t they have just traded him then? That would make more sense than right in the middle of a Super Bowl season. It seems like their are no positives because there are pretty much none. Maybe a positive could be that this give them a better shot at signing Bennett, Sheard, Hightower, Butler, Long, and Harmon.
It makes no sense right now that the Patriots would decide to trade Jamie Collins. I can't wrap my head around it.
Collins was a top three player on their defense this season. He is a top tier linebacker in the game who is an absolute freak. Rich Hill of Pats Pulpit points out that the Pats ave let up more passing and rushing yards while he was on the field rather than when he wasn't. Maybe he did let up two scores to Owen Daniels in the AFC title game but that point is the Patriots are worse without him.Bill deserves bashing for this move because you can't spin this into a good move. It is a bad move and that is a fact. You cannot take an elite player out of the defense and expect to be better. Bill said the defense has to be better, is this getting better? It is common sense.
What happens when/if Dont'a Hightower goes down? Then what? Elandon Roberts steps up? Not likely. If Hightower goes down for any extended period of time, this move is going to cost them games. And realistically a Super Bowl. Hightower is better and a team captain but he gets hurt all the time an Collins steps in every time and plays at an extremely high level. When Hightower missed the Texans game earlier this season Collins stepped in and had 14 tackles.
I know he wanted 6 years for $116M, just let him walk at the end of the year. Not that hard, then you're going to get a third round comp pick when he leaves for a team like Cleveland who will throw money at him. That is the rational move at least. I'm not smarter than Bill, but I'm smart enough to realize that he made a mistake with this one.
You can't tell me that Collins didn't know he wanted a huge deal at the start of the season that the Bill wouldn't go for, Couldn;t they have just traded him then? That would make more sense than right in the middle of a Super Bowl season. It seems like their are no positives because there are pretty much none. Maybe a positive could be that this give them a better shot at signing Bennett, Sheard, Hightower, Butler, Long, and Harmon.
It makes no sense right now that the Patriots would decide to trade Jamie Collins. I can't wrap my head around it.