Once Hernandez comes back, K2 will be a TE3 — if he’s even kept on the roster at all once they have a healthy Hernandez. Roster spots are precious and players like Winslow are very expendable.

As I understand it Hernandez’s injury is not a long-term one, so maybe K2 read the tea leaves and deduced something like, “If I want to have a long term position, I better look elsewhere.” In short, I suspect this was about a long-term job security concern of Winslow’s.

This is one of the only logical interpretations for Winslow’s benefit so I think it’s important to consider this possibility since all of these other theories all render him irrelevant, so why care if any those ideas are the case since it wouldn’t matter to anybody else then if he truly has a bum knee.

Winslow already signed a waiver since he couldn’t pass his physical, and was playing with such pain in his knees that he only wanted to play on Sunday without practicing.

Can’t do that there.

From all accounts it was an amicable parting. Winslow plans to take the rest of the season off to rest his knee and hopefully find a team next year.

Someone posted earlier that maybe Hernandez might be back sooner than later and wants to stave off the inevitable.

Other than Randy Moss, what recent cast-away has actually panned out for the Patriots?

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I’d rather the team I support kick the tires on players such as Winslow and maybe find the elusive diamond in the rough instead of just writing off what were once promising players with no due diligence.

Bye self proclaimed ‘warrior’.

Good riddance.