Woodhead is on pace to reach 1'000 yds if you add rushing and recieving. Anyone who reaches 1'000 total yds in this league is worth of mention.
That's the stupidest argument ever... if Bledsoe hadn't gotten injured Brady would've never seen the field... James Harrison got cut a gazillion times without seeing the field... talent and seeing the field are two different things! That and in this league you never know when an opportunity to shine come up.
talent and seeing the field may be different, but when there's more talent in front of you than you posses, they align.
You should just stop posting here Mambo, every post makes you sound more and more like you have no clue.
Really? Tell me where there's a flaw in my logic! How many players on the Pats are on pace to reach 1'000yds on O? You may not agree with me and that's ok but I don't see why insulting me proves a point. My point is it's not just the starters that have a place on this team! If tomorrow LT sprains his ankle and McKnight proves he still isn't ready (I hope not, I'd rather be wrong) wouldn't it help to have Woodhead on this team? The fact he isn't needed NOW doesn't mean he couldn't be helpful if something happened. And an injury to a 31yrs old RB isn't so weird in this league.
It isn't you. The McKnight crowd on here is like an angry little cult--only they know what's up, the rest of us are foolish for wanting a good player to be on our team rather than New England.
You are basing this argument on the fact that we might need him down the line at some point because of injury. THE ENTIRE REASON HE WAS CUT, WAS BECAUSE WE NEEDED A ROSTER SPOT BECAUSE OF INJURY. why would this be any different for Woodhead than it was for the other people who did not do anything in our offence? Not to mention, he had several opportunities to show his skills in our(much different than NE) offense, and he continually failed to come up big. The fact that he was able to become an efficient back in NE is moot. He did not do what he needed to do while he was here, so he became expendible when we needed the roster spot. I swear, you're totally disregarding everything he DIDN'T do when we gave him play time here. You get an opportunity and you don't cash in, you get cut when we need a spot. He learned from his mistake here and didn't make it twice. Good for him, but to keep on suggesting we made a mistake with him is completly asinine.
No. The entire reason he was cut, was because of injury and coupled with the fact that we thought no one else would grab him, also the FO is hoping to find some magic with Patrick Turner.. We clearly made a mistake..but that's life.....shit happens. Had LT suffered an ankle sprain in the intervening time period, your lens on this would be different.
Great grasp. There are two kinds of players. Those that make plays and those that play. Woodhead is the former, Washington the latter. When you have guys that make plays......you need to keep them. That is really the essence of this argument. LT is 31. in the event of a tragedy, you could have been looking at a backfield of Greene with Woodhead as a third down specialist. (And an INEXPENSIVE one at that). Maybe McKnight will be better later but he isn't right now....If we had the misfortune to suffer an injury to LT, keeping Clowney, or Turner would have looked ridiculous
Woodhead obviously isn't a guy you build an offense around, but he's shown a proven ability over the last six weeks or whatever it's been to make timely plays. He's tough as a runner because guys literally can't see him until he comes out from behind the line, and as a receiver he does a nice job of turning little swing passes into eight or 10 yard gains. It seems like he's picked up right where Faulk left off in terms of making clutch plays. My initial concern with him was that he wouldn't be able to block blitzing linebackers who have 50+ pounds on him, but he's shown he can handle that as well. I agree, though, that it's a system thing. Woodhead is perfect for the Patriots' system, and he got a great opportunity and did the most he could with it.
........and if greene got injured, washington could fill his role. your point is moot, because it is all hypothetical. neither washington or woodhead showed our front office that they could make plays for this team so they got cut.
