Kraft also stressed that Welker, who the team attempted to sign to a long-term extension this offseason, remains an integral part of the team's offense.
"I know there's been a lot of chatter about Wes this week, and Wes is an important of the team, and Wes is somebody that we tried this offseason to sign long term, and we just weren't able to get there. That's not a function of either side doing something wrong, I think it's just a matter of, when you sit down at a negotiating table and two sides have a perception about what's right, and you get close, and you just can't get all the way there. And that's what the situation was with Wes. I'm hopeful that Wes will finish his career a New England Patriot."
The chatter Kraft referred to has centered around Welker's relative lack of playing time season (close to 73 percent of the offensive snaps) in comparison to a year ago (89 percent). Kraft posited that this is due in part to the presence of an outside receiver that the team largely lacked in 2011.
"I know there's a lot of talk about his play time, and one of the guys on our staff came up with an interesting statistic, which is, Wes before last year, in the year in which we really didn't have a full-time outside guy like a [Randy] Moss or like we have with Brandon Lloyd, Wes, in the games from 2007-2010 that he had played in, averaged 73 percent. So far this season, he's averaging 72 percent play time. I'm sure, if there really is a dramatic difference, I think a lot of it has to do with the personnel that are available. And I think anybody that assumes Wes Welker isn't an integral part of this team and isn't somebody that -- we love having him a part of it, I think they're making a bad assumption."
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