BadMoFo

134 tackles, 5 sacks, 4 Ints, 2 FF.

Jairus Byrd, Clay Matthews and Brian Orakpo were the others receiving votes.

bakes781

Would've liked Clay on our team, but still like Butler especially where we got him.

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BradyManny

4 guys all on patsfans.com draft board. Who knows how they would've performed as Patriots. I certainly had my doubts about Cushing & Matthews & Orakpo. I'm happy with what we've got, though Brace is the only real downer at this point.

BadMoFo

I like Butler too, but I don't think he's going to be that special type of player that Brian Cushing. Anyways, we really had no shot at getting Cushing because he went pretty high.

BritPat

The most deserved rookie award since probably Jonathan Vilma. He's been nothing short of sensational all season. Christ, he was excellent on Sunday.

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Creator of the Pats must draft Jason Verrett in 2014 no matter the cost fanclub.

mgteich

These choices were not related. We got Butler at 41. We had two picks before that.

TommyBrady12

except we kept trading down because BB did not see any value early on. Seriously, we drafted Chung and Butler instead of Cushing, maleuga and Matthews. Another brilliant draft for BB.

i don't want to ruffle any feathers around here, but it seems to me that Parcells drafted most of the players the composed our dynasty and the drafting has not been the same in a while.

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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

PATRIOTSFANINPA

Revis will be joining him for defensive awards soon...If Revis does not win DPOY there is something wrong.

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mayoclinic

Cushing went at #15. Not sure why you consider him ever to have been an option for us.

BB drafted or brought in Tom Brady, Corey Dillon, Deion Branch, Matt Light, Dan Koppen, Stephen Neal, Dan Graham, Ted Washington, Richard Seymour, Ty Warren, Vince Wilfork, Mike Vrabel, Rodney Harrison, Eugene Wilson, Asante Samuel and Randall Gay. Do you think any of those guys might have had something to do with our dynasty?

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mgteich

Let's be clear, Belichick had a great draft. It is only message board posters who disagree. Kiper recently re-graded us as A-.

We have 14 rookies on the squad (including the two UDFA's). Vollmer will be in everyone's top 10 in the re-drafts. Butler was 1st round value and will be at least a nickel for the next three years. We secured a long snapper, a backup DL and a solid backup slot back. That is a successful draft.

Yes, we had two players who were injured: Tate and McKenzie. We also drafted a group of developmental players who could work out, or not: Ohrnberger, Bussey and Richard.

Yes, there were two top picks who most of us would have changed at the time and in hindsight. We could have had Matthews (or Eric Wood or Nicks or Beanie Wells) at 26 and Laurinitis (or Sintim or Barwin or Unger or LeVitre) at 34 instead of Chung, Brace and Tate. So, yes, I think we could have done better.

And, of course, we will go into the 2010 offseason considering the same roster needs, hoping to secure players as good as those we passed on to get Chung and Brace.

Finally, I would note that Chung and Brace are not bad picks. Chung has been a solid special teamer and contributed more than Meriweather or Sanders did in their first year. Brace is a backup DL, and hoepfully a backup NT. We had the picks and tried our best to get a future top 3-4 NT. These are extremely difficult to find.