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1. Warren Sharp is a NFL expert who writes a 500+ page NFL betting preview book every season.
2. John Carroll college roommates Dave Ziegler and Josh McDaniels (and before that their other college roommate Nick Caserio) preceded their departures with 8-years of draft class turds but also left the gift of a massive exploding Patriot salary cap bomb that hit this season. Good riddance to the 3 idiot college roommates. These 3 stooges rode TB12’s coattails for a long time, and then left before getting too obviously exposed.
Warren Sharp explains the Patriot salary cap bomb eloquently:
“Hunter Henry went from a $6.8 million cap hit in 2021 to $15 million this year.
Jonnu Smith went from a $5.6 million cap hit in 2021 to $13.7 million this year.
Matt Judon went from a $6.3 million cap hit in 2021 to $16.5 million this year.
Nelson Agholor went from a $6.9 million cap hit in 2021 to $14.9 million this year.
Kendrick Bourne went from a $3.1 million cap hit in 2021 to $6.4 million this year.
Every single player costs over double against the cap this year what they did in 2021.
Collectively, those five free agents cost $28.7 million against the cap in 2021. In 2022, $28.7 million became $66.5 million. While the 2022 cap increased to $208.2 million, that’s only up $25.7 million from 2021. These five players alone have a cap increase just themselves of $38 million, well higher than the $25.7 million total that the cap increased. The four most expensive players on the Patriots’ roster based on 2022 cap hit are all free agents from that 2021 class: Judon, Henry, Agholor, and Smith. These aren’t even all the free agents the Patriots signed in 2021, let alone other rostered players whose salaries jumped a ton. For example, left tackle Isaiah Wynn’s cap hit jumped from $3.6 million in 2021 to $10.4 million this year.
Look at it through this lens: The most expensive receiving corps (wide receivers plus tight ends) in 2022 in the NFL:
1. $72.2 million - Patriots
2. $53.8 million - Jaguars
3. $49.5 million - Chargers
4. $47.4 million - Giants
It’s truly wild. The Patriots are nearly $20 million more than even the No. 2 group in the NFL. If you look at either of those two receiving groups (or the Giants), there is no way you would believe they would be a top-4 receiving corps in the NFL in 2022. This is the result of free agency spending catching up.
Because of that, other players had to go. Starting cornerback J.C. Jackson is now with the Chargers. No player since at least 1980 has more interceptions in his first four seasons than Jackson’s 25.
Starting guard Shaq Mason is now with the Buccaneers after a trade. Out of 88 qualifying guards, he graded out fourth overall by PFF (second-best RG). He was sixth in run blocking and 17th in pass blocking.
Starting guard Ted Karras is now with the Bengals. Out of 88 qualifying guards, he graded out as the seventh-best in pass blocking by PFF last season.
Starting linebacker Kyle Van Noy is now with the Chargers. He played 75% of snaps and graded out as best in coverage last season, per PFF, among 90 qualified linebackers. These are the losses, two quality offensive lineman and two top-5 coverage players on the Patriots defense.
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2. John Carroll college roommates Dave Ziegler and Josh McDaniels (and before that their other college roommate Nick Caserio) preceded their departures with 8-years of draft class turds but also left the gift of a massive exploding Patriot salary cap bomb that hit this season. Good riddance to the 3 idiot college roommates. These 3 stooges rode TB12’s coattails for a long time, and then left before getting too obviously exposed.
Warren Sharp explains the Patriot salary cap bomb eloquently:
“Hunter Henry went from a $6.8 million cap hit in 2021 to $15 million this year.
Jonnu Smith went from a $5.6 million cap hit in 2021 to $13.7 million this year.
Matt Judon went from a $6.3 million cap hit in 2021 to $16.5 million this year.
Nelson Agholor went from a $6.9 million cap hit in 2021 to $14.9 million this year.
Kendrick Bourne went from a $3.1 million cap hit in 2021 to $6.4 million this year.
Every single player costs over double against the cap this year what they did in 2021.
Collectively, those five free agents cost $28.7 million against the cap in 2021. In 2022, $28.7 million became $66.5 million. While the 2022 cap increased to $208.2 million, that’s only up $25.7 million from 2021. These five players alone have a cap increase just themselves of $38 million, well higher than the $25.7 million total that the cap increased. The four most expensive players on the Patriots’ roster based on 2022 cap hit are all free agents from that 2021 class: Judon, Henry, Agholor, and Smith. These aren’t even all the free agents the Patriots signed in 2021, let alone other rostered players whose salaries jumped a ton. For example, left tackle Isaiah Wynn’s cap hit jumped from $3.6 million in 2021 to $10.4 million this year.
Look at it through this lens: The most expensive receiving corps (wide receivers plus tight ends) in 2022 in the NFL:
1. $72.2 million - Patriots
2. $53.8 million - Jaguars
3. $49.5 million - Chargers
4. $47.4 million - Giants
It’s truly wild. The Patriots are nearly $20 million more than even the No. 2 group in the NFL. If you look at either of those two receiving groups (or the Giants), there is no way you would believe they would be a top-4 receiving corps in the NFL in 2022. This is the result of free agency spending catching up.
Because of that, other players had to go. Starting cornerback J.C. Jackson is now with the Chargers. No player since at least 1980 has more interceptions in his first four seasons than Jackson’s 25.
Starting guard Shaq Mason is now with the Buccaneers after a trade. Out of 88 qualifying guards, he graded out fourth overall by PFF (second-best RG). He was sixth in run blocking and 17th in pass blocking.
Starting guard Ted Karras is now with the Bengals. Out of 88 qualifying guards, he graded out as the seventh-best in pass blocking by PFF last season.
Starting linebacker Kyle Van Noy is now with the Chargers. He played 75% of snaps and graded out as best in coverage last season, per PFF, among 90 qualified linebackers. These are the losses, two quality offensive lineman and two top-5 coverage players on the Patriots defense.
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