Oh I'm not doubting Brady, not at all. He is still for me the best QB if not the best player in the NFL (Yeah yeah, I can hear the Payton lovers moaning). Branch was the standout he has had, and yeah apart from that, Pat's strengths have been Brady finding the open man, be it a talented Tight-End (like the two we have now) or the WR.
But, can you imagine TB playing with Wayne and Harrison to aim at? Hell even a Chad Jackson, or a Torry Holt. That would be something. I just think it might give the Pat's something else. I dunno, its just the way I see it. I tend to moan about the Receiver situation a lot, but Graham and Watson are impressing me this season from the TE position, and Caldwell is improving as the season goes on.
I think every Pats fan would love us to have one stud wideout, and two would be cock-stiffiningly tremendous, but I'm not that fussed that we don't. As I said, with legitimate #1 WR he'd just end up being double teamed so Brady wouldn't go near him anyway.
You need two first rate WR's for them to operate properly IMO otherwise it's too easy to cover one good wideout even if you have great TE's (a la the Giants or KC). Look at Cinncy (who have 3), Indy, Dallas, Carolina - all have great sets of wideouts and are almost impossible to shut down completely.
With regards to Big Ben and DG I agree although Watson has coughed up a lot of balls lately and needs to really tighten that up. I like what we're doing though, we don't have one obvious target, even if Ben is Brady's favourite guy at the minute, Graham is a fine TE, Gabriel has been a good pick up, Gaffney looks solid and can only get better the longer he's here, I'm really looking forward to seeing what Jackson can become and as for Caldwell, I think he is the closest thing we have to a #1.
I mentioned somewhere else before the game last night that I'm really taking a shine to him. He seemed a bit of a bust after the first few games of the season (as did all our WR's in all fairness), but each week since then he's gotten better, has gotten open more each week, and seems to gain more yards each week. He runs some really nice routes and has great hands. and seems to get quite a few yards after receiving the ball. Haven't seen the highlights of yesterdays game yet, but it was no surprise to see him have a career game, and was undortunate not to get the TD he deserved.
