dryheat44

Because with a haul of McCourty, Cunningham, and Spikes, it looks like BB is playing favorites with his college connections, allowing his relationships to cloud his judgment.

Hopefully it's just a co-incidence.

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CheeseMonkeys

What do you mean? They are good players regardless of who BB knows.

Coach42

Yeah I kind of wondered about that too but, on the bright side McCourty was projected in the first round by many different people and if you watch Spikes on film you would have never thought that he would run a 5.0 40. Basically what I'm getting at is that if another team had drafted those same players in similar spots I don't think it would have raised eyebrows too high.

larryo

That's nothing. He's letting Bruschi pick our 2nd round offensive pick.

TommyBrady12

how can this be a coincidence? These players were specifically drafted because of where they played college, what they bring to the table and their potential. BB trusts Schiano and Meyer because they run similar systems. He knows inside info on these players and trusts Schiano and Meyer. If anything, it's smart to make college connections so you can get the dirt on certain players.

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"He’s the greatest quarterback to ever play the game. He goes from being a rookie that nobody is expecting anything from, to taking over with people saying he can’t do it, to winning three Super Bowls....It should already be obvious he’s the greatest quarterback to ever have played. "

- Steelers S Troy Polamalu on Tom Brady

dryheat44

Yes they are. My point is that if a college coach (and Mack Brown talked about this a little bit) is asked questions by a pro coach, the college coach has a definite interest in talking his players up. Urban Meyer really doesn't need to have the loyalty of Bill Belichick, what he needs is to be able to go out on the recruiting trail and tell recruits that he put 8 guys or whatever in the first three rounds of the draft. I think that the tendency would be to oversell your players. God help Urban Meyer if Nick Saban or Mark Richt can look an undecided recruit in the eye and tell him that Urban told an NFL coach not to draft his player.

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dryheat44

Yes. And while such actions brought us Logan Mankins and Jarvis Green, it also brought us Chad Jackson, Jeremy Mincey, and Marquise Hill.

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jeffbiologist

I think there is more to that than we know. I already posted in other threads that I thought Tebow was a target in the first but McC was a backup once we got boxed out on him by Josh. I think with all that time down there and all the Tebow stuff BB got a good whiff of FL players. Spikes would have been drafted higher as a soph. and Cunningham is the most under rated guy on that team by far. Besides, you save on gas if you do all your scouting in one place, maybe Krafty took away the gas cards in the recession this year...

the wrothbroughterer

If he doesn't use his contacts to get better information then the next team, he shouldn't have a job.

WhiZa

His judgment is clouded every year. It's quite common for the Pats to draft players out of a school that BB visited.

BB visits by year
2006: Florida (chad jackson and that other guy)
2007: no comment
2008: He went to alabama to discuss rival Mayo
2009: Uconn (butler)
2010: FL again (2 FL picks in the first 3 rounds)

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