… As for Amendola, I have to be honest: I can’t get over the overall anger that comes across in these chats and mailbags. It’s overwhelming. Let me say this: Amendola has not worked out the way the Patriots envisioned. There is no debating that. It has been a disappointment. That said, to call him useless is off the mark and more fit for the sports-talk-radio circuit or knee-jerk Twitter forum. He just isn’t producing the way he or the team envisioned when they overpaid him. But you can’t tell me he isn’t helping in a niche role, because it’s just not true.