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I am a Pats fan...and this is the draft. So normally this is where I would go into my annual rant about my frustration in investing countless days discussing the pros and cons of dozens of potential Pats players, detailing with others about who we should pick and who is likely to be there when we do. Then there are the hours spent in watching the actual draft unfold, and once again be subject to trying to figure out what the **** just happened.
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I watched my team trade down....again, and mostly agreed with the process. I justified the wasted 3 and half hours, by looking forward to a busy day on Friday, with 4 picks in the next 70, and dozens of very nice prospects that we could grab. People made lists. Lists with dozens of recognizable names that had been discussed over the last few months. Lists with lots of players that I would be comfortable with.
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I am accustomed (or at least should be) to watching players I would love come off the board, only to hear the Pats make a pick of a player whom I haven't heard mentioned a SINGLE time in all the months leading up to this point. (If someone wrote a post touting Jamie Collins as a prospect, I'd love to see it.)
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I should be accustomed by now to watching my personal binkie (Margus Hunt) get picked immediately AFTER we get another mystery man.
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So when all is said and done, we end up drafting 4 players. 3 of which had NEVER been discussed, and a 4th whose name I recognized (Aaron Dobson) but rarely saw mentioned as a likely prospect for us.
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I should be accustomed by now at checking the players we drafted and finding all had significantly lower draft grades than the players drafted around them. Clearly whatever scoring system is used by the rest of league, we are using something else.
I am a Pats fans....and this the draft. So this whine is something we all do at this time, and over the next few days it will be echoed by many, who like myself our scratching our heads and trying to make sense of what just happened. I will have gird myself to hearing the mediots take this draft apart. Ron Borges is practically giddy with anticipation, and I can see Mazz, with all his football knowledge salivating.
BUT HERE'S THE THING: I am a freakin' Pats fan! And I get to watch my team get to win 10+ games EVERY freakin' year, without the occasional dips we see from the “other good teams”. My team has a young roster, seemingly filled with talented players. And none of us expect anything less but ANOTHER serious run at a superbowl.
This team is a lot more than just a HOF QB, and the best coach in the league. It takes 53 players to win all those games against other talented teams and it only gets harder every year. Somehow during these war of attrition seasons, BB has built teams that can survive all the injuries that occur, better than most everyone else. That depth that allows those double digit season got there somehow. So whatever we do in the draft and however strange it must seem you CANNOT argue with the end results...You just can't. We must be doing something right in the player acquisition process. Otherwise all those teams that seem to do better than us, would be beating us.
BOTTOM LINE: We can question. We can complain, but until the day comes where we start to see those 8-8 or 5-11 seasons again, there has to be some acknowledgment that whatever BB is doing in the player acquisition department is working, rendering all our *****ing and moaning pretty much irrelevant. (including my own)
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I watched my team trade down....again, and mostly agreed with the process. I justified the wasted 3 and half hours, by looking forward to a busy day on Friday, with 4 picks in the next 70, and dozens of very nice prospects that we could grab. People made lists. Lists with dozens of recognizable names that had been discussed over the last few months. Lists with lots of players that I would be comfortable with.
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I am accustomed (or at least should be) to watching players I would love come off the board, only to hear the Pats make a pick of a player whom I haven't heard mentioned a SINGLE time in all the months leading up to this point. (If someone wrote a post touting Jamie Collins as a prospect, I'd love to see it.)
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I should be accustomed by now to watching my personal binkie (Margus Hunt) get picked immediately AFTER we get another mystery man.
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So when all is said and done, we end up drafting 4 players. 3 of which had NEVER been discussed, and a 4th whose name I recognized (Aaron Dobson) but rarely saw mentioned as a likely prospect for us.
I am a Pats fan....and this is the draft. So I should be accustomed by now at checking the players we drafted and finding all had significantly lower draft grades than the players drafted around them. Clearly whatever scoring system is used by the rest of league, we are using something else.
I am a Pats fans....and this the draft. So this whine is something we all do at this time, and over the next few days it will be echoed by many, who like myself our scratching our heads and trying to make sense of what just happened. I will have gird myself to hearing the mediots take this draft apart. Ron Borges is practically giddy with anticipation, and I can see Mazz, with all his football knowledge salivating.
BUT HERE'S THE THING: I am a freakin' Pats fan! And I get to watch my team get to win 10+ games EVERY freakin' year, without the occasional dips we see from the “other good teams”. My team has a young roster, seemingly filled with talented players. And none of us expect anything less but ANOTHER serious run at a superbowl.
This team is a lot more than just a HOF QB, and the best coach in the league. It takes 53 players to win all those games against other talented teams and it only gets harder every year. Somehow during these war of attrition seasons, BB has built teams that can survive all the injuries that occur, better than most everyone else. That depth that allows those double digit season got there somehow. So whatever we do in the draft and however strange it must seem you CANNOT argue with the end results...You just can't. We must be doing something right in the player acquisition process. Otherwise all those teams that seem to do better than us, would be beating us.
BOTTOM LINE: We can question. We can complain, but until the day comes where we start to see those 8-8 or 5-11 seasons again, there has to be some acknowledgment that whatever BB is doing in the player acquisition department is working, rendering all our *****ing and moaning pretty much irrelevant. (including my own)