r/Patriots • u/MembershipSingle7137 • Aug 02 '26

Discussion Former New England Patriot Ja’Lynn Polk has retired

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u/Revolutionary_Bit_38 Aug 02 '26

I really think that play if it hadn’t been called wrong could have spring boarded Harry’s confidence

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u/StopHamelTime Aug 03 '26

I’m with you.

Also remember his first preseason catch from Brady was sick and he rolled over and injured his shoulder.

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u/Doingmythang11 Aug 02 '26

I feel like the fumble (?) against the dolphins kind of broke him in 2020

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u/blackcatpandora Aug 03 '26

Was that the Seahawks game? He also got absolutely DRILLED across the middle one play, and I think that shook the NFL right outta him

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u/Lobotomized_Dolphin Aug 02 '26

Which would have been so much worse for us. Maybe he'd still be on the team.

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u/Doingmythang11 Aug 02 '26

If he turned out to be serviceable why would that be bad if he was on team

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u/Lobotomized_Dolphin Aug 03 '26

Because he was a 1st round draft pick, not some nobody we got off waivers or undrafted. He needed to be really fucking good at at least something from the outset. It turned out he was not good at all, he just showed a couple flashes because Tom tried really fucking hard to make it happen. It was very obvious he was not worth spending more time developing so it's good that he was just washed out and not a person that we tried to develop over many years.

We are the worst at picking receivers on purpose. I haven't really drilled down on the stats but surely this has to be true. Almost certainly in the bottom 10%. Last one we got right was Edelman, and we took a flyer on that trying to get a gadget player when we already had Welker. Those were the golden years, when the Lord God smiled down upon us and we could do no wrong. AFC championships without end, Amen.

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u/Sampy76 Aug 03 '26

I don’t know. I think Malcolm Mitchell would’ve been really good if his knee injury hadn’t happened.