tanked_as_usual
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Having catching up to do in regards to developing talent is true... where opinions differ is some people want to ignore the following just to call the Patriots "bad" drafters and developers:
- When you have great teams, it becomes that much harder for rookies to stand out.
- We generally draft towards the end of every round, and had a first round pick taken away.
- We chose to trade picks away for Welker and Moss, which worked out well.
Always room for improvement, but some of you argue as though the Patriots continually blow top 15 picks. We're a good drafting team.
the pats have simply had too many players in round 2 and 3 that they got nothing out of......going back to 2003, (2003)bethel johnson, (2004)marquise hill, (2006)chad jackson....now you can see why the pats traded their 2nd rounder for wes welker.....as for round 3, nick kaczur and ellis hobbs (both in 2005) are the only 3rd rounders ever to amount to anything ... guss scott, kevin o'connell, dave thomas, shawn crable
well....it may not be bad drafting AND bad developing, but it there is alot to the possibility of it being bad drafting OR bad developing
look at it this way.....since 2004, the colts have gotten better players in the 4th round and later than the pats have gotten in the 2nd and 3rd rounds