For the bulk of the offseason, it appeared like the were going to simply sit on their hands, not make a big splash into the quarterback market and roll into training camp with and as the two signal callers who'll duke it out for former gig. That all changed on Sunday, however, when agreed to throw his fedora into the ring by agreeing to a one-year deal with the club.Of course, Newton has been on the market since mid-March after he was released by the so why didn't the Patriots elect to bring him in sooner? What changed between that point and now? Well, Charlie Weis, who served as Bill Belichick's offensive
Dallas Cowboys Men Jersey coordinator between 2000-04 and has a deep understanding of the inner-working of the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach, noted on WEEI's The Greg Hill Show that it simply came down to "Nothing really surprises me," Weis said upon reacting to the Patriots signing Newton, as transcribed by WEEI.com. "Bill (Belichick), I've always talked about his insight and his foresight. He is always looking down the road and he probably looked at Cam as a guy down the road if the price got right he would consider. Just like in the draft. It wasn't like he went into the draft saying, 'Well, we're not going to
Alfred Morris Jersey take a quarterback.' The price has to be right in Bill's eyes."I think that in Cam's case, he had an opinion that somebody was going to pay him a lot of money to be a starting quarterback. Well, that didn't work out. Well, unlike some of these guys who go ahead and take backup money
Amari Cooper Jersey and go there to be a backup, that's not the situation Cam was looking for. I thought this was destined to be waiting for an injury during the season and waiting for that phone call. I thought that was where this was heading. There were a couple of places out there with an unproven quarterback and New England happened to be one of them. Regardle s of (Jarrett) Stidham's future, he's an unproven quarterback. So you have an unproven quarterback and a guy who has been the league's MVP. It makes sense at a price."This is a no-lose
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DeMarcus Ware Jersey departure of Tom Brady, which is crazy in itself. And if injuries continue to nip at his heels as they have for the previous few seasons, then New England can simply get out from under Newton's deal without any real financial ramifications and continue in the direction they were originally heading towards with Stidham.As it relates to Stidham, he's still under team control at a minimum cost through the 2022 season. Even if the Patriots end up rolling with Newton as the starter for 2020, they can still continue to develop him as a po sible future starter down the road, which only further's Weis' opinion of this being a "no-lose situation" in Foxborough.
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