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We ravaged the Vikings.
There's simply no other way to view it.
Well, you could view it as ravishing them.
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The Patriots have been in a holding pattern for the last ten years. If TB is going to get one last Superbowl he needs help and that help isn't coming from 4th rnd jags. Thus far this offseason has been extremely underwhelming.
Aaron Hernandez was one of those '4th round jags'. It's hilarious how everybody overreacts when the Pats make a trade in the draft and act ready to jump off a ledge. Well you know what, I won't talk you off the ledge. Go ahead and jump. It will improve the quality of Pats fandom if the jumpers would just take a hike already.
And tomorrow don't expect any big names or binkies to be taken. Expect at least a couple of headscratchers who you never heard of and that NFL.com doesn't even have profiles on. And I'm sure we'll have more lemmings jumping off the bridge en masse when that happens. Well good riddance!
BB just pulled off a FOUR for ONE. That's nearly highway robbery. Don't go by the antiquated trade value chart. When you get FOUR bites at the applie instead of ONE, that's usually a very good thing. And I trust our scouts a lot more than the Jets so I think they will hit on at least a couple of those extra chances.
TWO good players is better than ONE. And on top of that Patterson is a pretty high BUST risk regardless of perceived talent level.
Your analogy is not good its not getting 4 equal sized bites at the apple. Say you have a turkey you don't get 4 times the bites you would have gotten with the 1st round pick. You get 4 bites after a lot of the good pieces are gone. It is much harder to find the good pieces to use the 4 bites on now.
There was no highway robbery it was a fair trade, but IMO for a team that needs impact players trading back doesn't make the job easier.
God help us, then, if we play Denver.
Should we just forfeit? What do you think?
Aaron Hernandez was one of those '4th round jags'. It's hilarious how everybody overreacts when the Pats make a trade in the draft and act ready to jump off a ledge. Well you know what, I won't talk you off the ledge. Go ahead and jump. It will improve the quality of Pats fandom if the jumpers would just take a hike already.
I'll be very surprised if the Patriots don't pick before then. They didn't stockpile all of those picks so that they could sit on them and draft guys to be four-year backups. There will be at least one trade-up tomorrow.
I would hope that with the 52nd, 59th, 83rd, 91st, and 102nd picks, the Pats would select players like the top of your list. Though, I wonder if theLove the draft value still left on the draft board:
Markus Wheaton, WR - Oregon State (79)
Brian Schwenke, OC/OG - California (80)
Robert Alford, CB - Southeastern Louisiana (83)
Bennie Logan, DT - LSU (96)
Barrett Jones, OC/OG - Alabama (100)
Khaseem Greene, OLB - Rutgers (105)
Josh Evans, FS - Florida (124)
Duke Williams, SS - Nevada (156)
Josh Boyce, WR - TCU (169)
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Neither will likely be able to guard Welker.
I'd hope so. I like the rest of the haul but #52 is a little too far down the food chain.
Felger would be right to "whine" about this. How does this help the Patriots? The Pats essentially gained a 3rd + 4th rnd pick while dropping out of the first round. That 7th rnd pick is useless.
The Patriots continue to draft as if Tom Brady is 26 years old. The window is closing fast and 3rd + 4th rnd picks aren't going to be what the Patriots need to put them over the top. They need impact players on both sides of the ball. You aren't going to get those impact players where they have dropped to...Keep in mind the Patriots didn't have any picks because Belichick wasted the teams choices on Ochocinco and Albert Hanesworth. My faith in him no longer exists.
The Patriots have been in a holding pattern for the last ten years. If TB is going to get one last Superbowl he needs help and that help isn't coming from 4th rnd jags. Thus far this offseason has been extremely underwhelming.
Now the trick will be getting an actual starter from those picks, and hoping Cordarrelle Patterson doesn't turn into a perennial Pro Bowler for the Vikings.
The Patriots got 4 picks to make the trade value equal.
What really matter is who Bill would have drafted if he did make the pick. May or may not be Patterson.