Draft Do-Over: 10 Players the Patriots Could Have Drafted Instead of Ryan Mallett

brdmaverick said:

I agree. He led a TD drive in mop up duty in Kansas City but I think people are reading too much into that.

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I remember he threw a screen pass that went for like 40 yards on that drive. Gronk dragged defenders 10 yards on a slant pass. The rest was through the running game. Maybe 1 other short pass.

Boy oh boy do I hate articles like this in every sport. A waste of time. For every failure in a higher round we can point to a low round or undrafted success. If you never hit or have a very low percentage of success then fine there is something to look at. That is not the case here in New England for sure. Pointless.

TBR said:

Am I missing something? I don't understand the coronation of Garoppolo. What exactly did he show as a rookie that made him incredibly better than Mallett as a 4th year QB?

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Well, first off I didn't say incredibly better, I said it was incredible that he played better as a rookie than someone that was in his 4th year in the Pat's offense.

I don't know if you watched the preseason games in 2014, but this was a QB coming from a lower level of competition in college who seemed to have a better command of the offense in mere months than Mallett had in the beginning of his 4th year. That's what I meant. You can disagree with that, but it seems the Patriot's brain trust seemed to feel the same way.

PatsDeb said:

The irony is, every other team writes, "The One Player We Should Have Taken Over Everyone Else in The 2000 Draft"

Pick 199 - Tom Brady

I'll take our mistakes over theirs.

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Only with BB, TB can be this successful. He would be selling cars if drafted by other teams.

saspack said:

Only with BB, TB can be this successful. He would be selling cars if drafted by other teams.

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I don't know, Brady has that drive and determination to be great, that separates him from the average QB. I think he would've succeeded anywhere he went. But with the Pats it did wind up being the perfect storm.

complete and utter bullshyt...but thanx for the moronic take.

I think the pick produced which is about the most you can ask from a pick. He bumped Hoyer, was a cheap back up who kept his head down and we are getting a seventh round pick for him.

I am scratching my (now famous) post vigorously...

The title of the article should read: 10 Players the Patriots Could Have Drafted Instead of Stevan Ridley.

Mallett served a purpose: Hoyer was in the final year of his rookie UDFA contract, and a replacement backup needed to be groomed. Mallett was a top-40 talent who fell due to character issues.
3 other players, plus Ridley, had already been chosen before him, so at least it wasn't like the Groppy situation of 2014 in which he was the 2nd damn player taken that year, and behind an injury-infested
jerk bust to boot.

Ridley, OTOH, was just a dime-a-dozen, 5th-round talent who was over-drafted by 2 full rounds.
He had one good season here (2012), but after the concussion/fumble in the AFCC loss, he was never
the same.