Kraft Wants Welker To ‘Be A Patriot For Life … But It Takes Two Sides’

May 22, 2012 12:00 AM
Kraft Wants Welker To ‘Be A Patriot For Life … But It Takes Two Sides’
" BOSTON (CBS) — Wes Welker loves being a Patriot. The Patriots love Wes Welker. In a perfect world, the player and the team would be tied together forever, but in the real world, salary caps and contracts make such a union much more difficult.

Welker said his peace last week, and now owner Robert Kraft got his chance with NFL Network.

“We’d like to see him be a Patriot for life, but it takes two sides,” Kraft told Kim Jones on Tuesday in Atlanta.

Those two sides currently aren’t seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to agreeing on a long-term contract, with Welker saying last week that negotiations have “gotten worse.” Though he later backed off on those comments, his revelation that the two-year, $16 million deal that was originally offered was now pulled off the table was a good indication that the player and the team are miles apart in negotiations "

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