Okay... I think the point that BB might not be the second day genius people paint him as, could be true... although again, you would
expect all misses in Day 2. He's also got more of a rep as a "middle rounds... and sometimes even in the late rounds" genius.
What we need to do to figure out the legitimacy of that reputation is pick some other teams and look for contributors, much less starters and stars, coming from the late rounds.
As far as disappointing drafts go, let's look at 01, the year before this 4-year experiment:
1 6 Richard Seymour DE Georgia
2 48 Matt Light T Purdue
3 86 Brock Williams CB Notre Dame
4 96 Kenyatta Jones T South Florida
4 119 Jabari Holloway TE Notre Dame
5 163 Hakim Akbar OLB Washington
6 180 Arther Love TE South Carolina State
6 200 Leonard Myers CB Miami
7 216 Owen Pochman K Brigham Young
7 239 T.J. Turner OLB Michigan State
2 Hits and 8 misses. And the hits were exactly where you'd expect, in rounds 1 and 2.
Trust me, the results get worse as you go backward from the Belichick era. You start seeing runs of drafts that produce staples of the team for a couple years (say, three present starters), then nothing - I mean
nothing - for whole years. All this to say, maybe these 4 drafts
all get "A"s in retrospect, and the divisions are more like A+, A, and A-. Again, I felt like way too much of a homer going that route. And again, with the maybes still lingering from '03, that draft might turn out to be spectacular (f'rinstance, what if Bethel learns to run routes this year, drinks the kool-aid, and learns to love the Patriot Way?)
Hey, how's Hart Lee Dykes doing these days, anyway?
PFnV
Edited to say: 95 and 96 were blatantly outstanding, by the way!
