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We have to realize that BB gets full of himself sometimes and makes picks to amaze friends and colleagues. His Draft record other than one year is mediocre at best.
He has pulled some bad Trades and missed some that would help us. The Koolaid Klub here suggests that these missed picks were all part of some huge mystical plan.....Sometimes you just have to say he wiffed and go on. He does his mochs, we do ours. He says it's a crap shoot and sometimes outsmarts himself. We are right as much as he is if you view the players moched by our posters over the last few years.
If we sit and consider him as perhaps the best coach ever in the NFL and acknowledge his warts as Drafts and Media relationships We'll all be fine.
I would prefer someone else handled the Drafts for the Pats and let BB coach.
We got spoiled in one year and now if he Drafts nine punters in this Draft we would all say, he has a master plan!
Cousins, he is really not that good. He is mid pack as a talent evaluator in the Draft. I accept that. It's not a mystery. He Drafts out of fear of failure. If he doesn't like the guts it takes to go for a player unless there is 100% no downside, he'll trade out to the following year. That is the easy way out. It is harder to actually Draft a player. He more or less admitted that.
His talent is he coaches those he Drafts up to there he thinks they should be. To me it makes it tougher on BB to do it that way with a lesser talent, rather than take a better talent and teach them. Quantity over quality is his approach, that and bail out.
His big thing is "value". I laugh. He knows some of his picks have no more value than fifty guys that are on the board who are better according to scouts, GMs, scouts and experts.
He makes his Mochs like you and I. Finds a guy that he likes or has a cool name and picks him. Our 7th round pick is an example. How many were on the board with more value when the kid admitts he didn't even think he would be Drafted. So could the Pats have gotten him in FA? Absolutely. Value my ass, but he is still the best coach.
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