Brady6
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DI,
I can stomach only so much bellyaching from you.
Fact: the Pats were 1-1 versus Denver last year.
Fact: the team was virtually terminally injured by the AFCCG. They actually had a trick play for Slater, they were so desperate.
Fact: BB has been re-building the team since 2009 and the Defense was coming around in the first four games, before all the injuries hit. The DL now has six people on it that would possible Pro Bowlers. The Line Backers can offer three more. The secondary has improved and has at least least 3 more possible representatives as well. Its deeper than the Law's Six that shut down the Greatest Show on Turf.
Fact: they have added a lot of new talent, Revis, Browner, AA and found developed others Siliga, C Jones, Collins, and on Offense Dobson, Blount, and Edelman.
You ***** that they couldn't run the ball, when Denver was overloading to prevent it. Then you ***** when the added big OL talent. You criticize the draft of a big Center in Stork who won the Rimington trophy last year, while playing injured. He outweighs game but undersized Wendell by at least 25 pounds. You criticize drafting Halapio who is a road grader at G, even though he played with a torn pec. I know I would have rather have had Martin, Sua Filo and Bitonio. Make up your damn mind. Did they need more talent on the O line or not? Did they need a bigger tougher interior O line or not?
I'm sorry BB didn't have 10 First Round picks to satisfy your desires, I'd like that too. But as they say, That is the way the World is, Deal with it. Five Super Bowl appearances in slightly more than a decade plus knocking on the door several other times is a fine record.
There are teams that have never even made an single appearance and I recall following one for 25 years before it got there, only to have it smashed and humiliated by the trick overload defense of Da Beahs, followed by the cloacal cavities in the Boston 'sports media'.
Realistically what percent of the draft picks made end up lasting long term? 35-40% (all teams not just the Patriots), so when a poster says they do not like every pick is that really a negative or just there prediction on who the player that does not work out is going to be?
When I look at this draft, I rank the picks as follow (best to worst) –
Easley
Moore
Fleming
Thomas
White
Garoppolo
Stork
Gallon
Halapio
The bottom three players I do not think will work out. That is not putting Belichick down, that is acknowledging that every draft has players that do not work out, and those are the players whom I view as most likely to fail.
As far as Garoppolo goes I think he will be a solid NFL player, I just am not sure he will be a starter ever, and I do not think that he is the heir apparent to Tom Brady.