Eliot Wolf Pays Rhamondre Stevenson

By: Steve Atkinson
Eliot Wolf is paying the Patriots that are about to be on a second contract. His latest is Rhamondre Stevenson. Stevenson singed a 4 year $36 million contract the other day. Stevenson, the best running back on the team just got himself paid.  What Eliot Wolf has done this off-season is what Belichick would never have done pay his own players he drafted. Eliot Wolf is though and it’s great to see.

Eliot Wolf brings The Packer Way

Part of the Packer Way is to draft and develop it’s own players. That is something that was missed in New England when you had the greatest quarterback of all time. Now, that the Patriots are just like everybody else they have to switch gears and take a new approach at building a winning franchise.

Here is Jerod Mayo talking about Stevenson before he singed his extension.

I think he’s one of the better backs in the league, no doubt about it,” Mayo said at the team’s mandatory minicamp two weeks ago. “I’m excited to see what he does this season, and look, he’s earned everything that he gets.”

With Stevenson having his third offensive coordinator in three years I think anybody is better than Matt Patricia. Alex Van Pelt brings a new offense to the Patriots and plans to use Stevenson a lot.

Seeing him running all throughout defenses with it, the linemen are on the right course, everything looks well put together,” he said two weeks ago. “I hope we can get that done this year.”

I think Stevenson is relieved that there is a change in leadership when it comes to Eliot Wolf running things now. Belichick had lost his ways on the offensive side of the ball these last few years. Wolf seems to be doing things to improve the offense for the long term. They only drafted one defensive player in the draft so that should tell you all you need to know.

Former running back Damien Harris called out Bill Belichick and how he handled the offense these last few years.

“I think that started kinda was this Cam Newton situation… everybody was like, ‘What the f–k is this? Why Cam Newton?’ Bill thought that he could make it work,” Harris said. “It didn’t really work.”

Then Belichick went on and brought Mat Patricia and Joe Judge to run things that didn’t work either. But if you questioned it you were wrong.