BabeParilli
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.If there is one criticism with the New England Patriots drafts since 2008, an overemphasis on defensive backs and a complete neglect of interior offensive lineman which results in the following:
Wendell
Connolly
Devey
Kline
As Manx has pointed out about himself, people here actually do point/admit to their misses.
The "hindsight" and "revisionist" arguments have their place, usually when targeted to specific people, but they are simply not accurate when applied as general statements about the entire board.
Well stated. This is basically an average NFL team with a great QB and HC. I could easily see a Miami winning the division if they had BB as HC and Brady as QB. It has been a slow deterioration.
David has been better through 2 seasons than Hightower. Hightower is a better player right now for BB's hybrid defense.
During the Raiders’ first seven passing plays of Sunday’s game against the Patriots, linebacker Dont’a Hightower had six different types of assignments.
He dropped into coverage as a 3-4 outside linebacker, dropped again as a nickel linebacker, rushed the passer from a defensive tackle position in the nickel, blitzed as a 3-4 inside linebacker, covered a running back as a 3-4 inside linebacker and dropped into coverage as a 4-3 outside linebacker.
And on and on it went throughout the day. Hightower has quickly emerged as the Patriots’ most versatile defensive player in their first three games. Against the Raiders, he had a dozen different responsibilities when combining his position and assignment with a particular defensive front.
Question for the veterans around here: would any opening post ever have received as many disagrees and dislikes? It's a useful feature on this new board.
While we've been drafting horribly and steadily in the secondary our interior of both lines have hollowed out over time. The DT's played worse than the OT's tonight against the Chiefs.Baloney!
There have been plenty on posters on draft day within the Patriots Draft Talk section of this message board that voiced their displeasure with certain draft selections on the spot. The two most recent WTF draft picks:
2011, #33 overall - Glass-IR Dowling
2012, #48 overall - Tavon Wilson
Damn you Belichick it's because your drafting hubris that the drafts didn't look this.
I don't think it's a useful feature since it simply aggravates the atmosphere. The Practice Squad, on the other hand is a very useful feature ...
There've already been so many discussions of the Patriots' drafting and we all know how they go. Someone cherry-picks examples of bad picks. Someone else points out that no team hits on all their picks. Someone else points out that the Patriots have drafted consistently later than any other team over the last ten years. And here we go again.
Actually, there have been a VERY few attempts to look at drafting with a decent level of social-scientific objectivity (it's a difficult subject). I commend this one as the best I've seen:
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/2/25/5430150/nfl-draft-history-worst-picks
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That win percentage is due to Brady and nothing more. The defense has been an absolute embarrassment the last four years. We were a 4 win team without Tom from 2010 onwards.
I don't think it's a useful feature since it simply aggravates the atmosphere. The Practice Squad, on the other hand is a very useful feature ...
There've already been so many discussions of the Patriots' drafting and we all know how they go. Someone cherry-picks examples of bad picks. Someone else points out that no team hits on all their picks. Someone else points out that the Patriots have drafted consistently later than any other team over the last ten years. And here we go again.
Actually, there have been a VERY few attempts to look at drafting with a decent level of social-scientific objectivity (it's a difficult subject). I commend this one as the best I've seen:
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/2/25/5430150/nfl-draft-history-worst-picks
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Krafty certainly wouldve spent bradys $ on signing injury free top notch grade free agents to multi year contracts and drafting in the first round every year...oh wait.......cuz history tells us thats what krafty bob doesExcept that you have no idea how they would have spent the money that Brady's absence frees up
Ahhhh jus' luv me some hindsight.....makes me an expert critic!
Krafty certainly wouldve spent bradys $ on signing injury free top notch grade free agents to multi year contracts and drafting in the first round every year...oh wait.......cuz history tells us thats what krafty bob does