KontradictioN

There's two great reasons why the Pats didn't draft him. The first is that he's borderline retarded. The second is that Vince Wilfork is probably more fleet of foot than he is. As for the draft picks we spent, the majority of them we get back anyway, and the ones we don't are in the lower rounds where the draft becomes an essential crapshoot anyway. Why not use it on veteran talent to see if something sticks? If it does, you're a genius on this forum. If it doesn't, you're an idiot on this forum.

I will agree that I'm getting more and more pissed off by the day that we wated a 3rd and a 5th on a guy like Burgess who is doing an excellent ghost impression if I've ever seen one.

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Rob0729

The fact of the matter is that football is about skill sets matching the schemes you run. Sorry, it isn't just BS. Saying the Pats don't use high draft picks for LBs and that is wrong to do is one thing. But saying that the Pats were stupid to pass on a player who is immensly talented, but doesn't fit the Pats' system is another.

All you have to do is look at highly touted free agents who are superstars on one team and then change teams and become duds or the guy no one wants and a team picks them up and they become a break out star to prove the theory that some players fit one scheme, but not another.

Look at Galloway. His problem isn't that he has lost a step. If that was his problem, he wouldn't have been inactive. It is because he struggles in the Patriots' system. If he was in a less complicated system right now, he might be starting depending on the other WRs on the team. On the Patriots though, he is not even worthy of activating for the game.

Warren94

I don't think LB is the problem... Guyton, Mayo are solid... Banta Cain is a nice rotational player. Thomas has "disappeared" since 2007...It is going to take time for these guys to gell in the secondary.. I blame the DC for not playing some press coverage vs. Marshall and Royal.

R_T26

doesnt help that he's the oldest reciever in the league who was coming off a season in which he was injured.

Rob0729

Except he still has blazing speed. His problem has not been physical, it is mental.

Warren94

Well if we are looking for brains on defense... I wouldn't put Rey in that category.. I would of preferred Matthews and his ability to set the edge.

condon84

Do you really need to ask this question on these boards?

Rob0729

Sorry, but I didn't want the guy before the draft for the same reasons I don't think he would do well with the Pats now. I do think the Pats want intelligent players and their defense is a read and react defense which requires football intelligency. Magualu can thrive in a defense where he is just asked to make plays, but that isn't what the Pats ask of their defensive players.

DarrylS

If he was able to crack the starting line up.... the grass is always greener.

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Phokus

Perhaps our defense is too complicated and we need to scale it back a bit.