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Don't really want to see the other edge players on third and short as well they can't hold their ground on early down so why on third? Especially when it is maybe a pass play. I would line up depending on expected pass or run..of course it's not that simple with the RPO and PA stuff..
Yes I know everything they do is perfect. Picks are meaningless blah blah blah. We currently had Cowart as a starter all year, Bentley as a starter all year, Jake Bailey as our starting punter, Joe Cardona as our starting long snapper, Marcus Cannon would have been a starter in all likelihood. All 5th round picks so don't tell me spending a 5th round pick on a guy who never even made the team is fine.
I agree with the most Part but wasn't wino the guy who was our Best edge defender against the run during the first few weeks before his playing time declined? I remember statistics in the wino appreciation thread where he was succesfull to set the edge against the run and pass. He is sometimes out of Position and probably Lacks also consistency to do his Job to Set the edge instead of going on the pass rush. I hope he can add some weight and become an every down starter.
Glad you are in love with 5th round picks. Slater was a 5th round pick, Brady was a 6th, Edelman was a 7th. So that means every pick has to hit or we are left drawing the conclusion that 5th round misses = "that means we are where we are?". I agree with your points - completely disagree with your generalization and overreaction.
What generalization? Bad drafting is why we don't have Brady anymore. Bad drafting is why we had no cap space before the opt outs. Bad drafting is why we have no depth. Bad drafting is why we may have the worst roster from top to bottom in the league.
He made the team and is still on the team. He got beat out by Nick Folk, who hit 26 of 28 FGs this year (and will probably price out next year) for a 53-man roster that only keeps one placekicker.
He showed nothing in the NFL to be a starting Kicker so far. I dont see any reason to spent a second round pick on a Kicker. I think that is a joke from the bucs.
. Let's hope they have changed already as indicated in the 2020 draft - I liked the Dugger and Uche picks and still like them.
He never made the roster he made the practice squad but honestly I didn't think anyone would take offense to my post but here we are.
We are in cap trouble because Bill has drafted poorly. When you whiff on Aaron Dobson and N'Keal Harry you have to pay Brandon Lafell and Chris Hogan and trade for Sanu and sign AB. Instead of having Geneo Grissom slide into Jamie Collins' role you have to trade for, then pay Kyle Van Noy. You should have had cheap young talent but you had to pay people.We had no cap space because we put the tag on Thuney and BB wanted to clear the cap space and start again in 2021. Swallow the cod liver oil and get healthy. You might hate it, but it was the right decision. Sit back and watch this team transform over the next 24 months. Enjoy the ride - don't hate on it.
"Worst roster in the league top to bottom because we can not draft, and last year's 5th round pick indicates that". Then you say. "What generalization"? Too funny.
Sure you can second guess the pick. That is OK. Maybe they got cute - being cute as worked out for them as they wrote in your last post having hit on 6 players which is an OUTSTANDING hit rate in the 5th round. So maybe being cute didn't work in this case but overall it works? Maybe? In one post you note how good the Pats are picking in the 5th round, and in the next post you say they got cute in the 5th round. Since they have hit on prospects in the 5th round at a much higher rate then the average, maybe they were not being cute by following their previously successful 5th round formula? If something works way above average, maybe we should stick with it even though it misses once or twice or thrice, and looks a bit cute?
My point is that a miss in the 5th round is exactly that - a miss in the 5th round. Nothing more. Surely not an indicator of overall drafting ineptitude. If you want to argue that the Pats should stop being cute in the 2nd round with their CB picks and they should change their 2nd round strategy, I think you would have a much stronger argument
What a willfully ignorant statement.
Well, that's the whole point of the Bedard "revelations," isn't it? Go look at the draft profiles of the guys in question - he's just regurgitating the weaknesses that were known from all of them when the Patriots drafted them.
