Recent content by Urgent

Last time Patriots were rated #31 was week two 2001.

Absolutely. Rebuild through the draft. Three great options at the top of the draft. Take the QB. Trade down next year once you have the QB. This is a rare opportunity to get a top QB. There are great WR’s every draft in the teens. Get the QB when the opportunity presents.

Yes. It carries over to the following year. The Patriots could roll over the $50M or so currently available cap space from 2024 to 2025. There is no real limit on any one year. There is a salary floor over a four year cycle. Teams must spend 89% of their cumulative cap over four years. The...

Maybe not the right spot... There's an interesting under-the-radar player on defense, CB Marco Wilson. He was a combine star - 6-0, 191, 4.35 40, 43.5 vertical, 11-04 broad jump, 6.8 3-cone. Drafted by Arizona in the 4th round 2021, named Defensive Player of the Week in 2022, posted a 77.1 Pro...

This is the "starting players" v. "players who start" debate. There are going to be ~22 players who start. Are all deserving to be starting players? Offensive tackle is an obvious concern. Color coding Bourne and Tavai, for example, as "quality starters" is debatable. Given current depth...

No way I would set up a QB I liked behind Cole Strange at LT. He misses way too many blocks at guard. He is a lighter, more agile OL on paper, but he doesn't seem to pick up blocking schemes. Again, on paper, he does project to more of the agile blocking scheme Van Pelt has run in the past -...

The Mike Williams release offers a ray of hope. He's 29. Consistently productive - 4000 yards in the four seasons 2019-2022, on page for 1200 in 2023 before an ACL tear. Tore it in Sep, so time to heal. I would pivot hard to Williams. On paper, would be the best receiver here since Edelman.

Austin Hooper. Second tight end selected in the 2016 draft. After Hunter Henry.

Given the lack of WR options, but remaining OT options, a better path now would be to pay for a starting LT and shoot for the WR at #34-ish.

Great fit. Good deal. Good locker room guy. Glad to see it.

Awesome. Huge hole, obviously. He’s performed well. Doesn’t sound like a deal that will constrain any other signings. Nice work.

Both Duggar and Onwenu are good, not great players. Onwenu might not be a great fit for the AVP more mobile OL scheme. Onwenu was the tackle on the #32 OL in the NFL, and is big and stout. AVP plays a more athletic approach. Onwenu is a better guard than tackle. The Pats have Strange, who...

Compared to the real world, yeah, my first reaction is "entitled whiners." "My caviar was too warm!!" However. This is like college [student] recruiting. The college "industry" is basically allowed to price fix - everyone prices within a couple thousand of Harvard - everyone. University...

It wasn’t the coaching. It was multiple years of consistently bad GM judgment. Bad drafts. Bad trades. Bad free agency decisions.