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patchick, I understand what you're saying, yet I do think you are including a tad too much in your scenario. This trade value in terms of numbers exceeds what would have been required to jump from 62 to 37, removing Wilhite and including Slater is the more likely scenario, to make that jump up to 37, not Wilhite. So in all fairness it would have been (DRC/Curtis Lofton) vs (Mayo/Wheatley/O'Connell/Slater).
Lofton just wasn't going to happen last year. He was obviously going to go late 1st/early 2nd, so with picks at 7 and 63 there was no realistic way that we could get him if we had taken DRC in the 1st round.
Say what you want about the merits of drafting Chad Jackson, nobody expected him to still be on the board in the late 30s, so the Patriots pounced.
Could you imagine the Pats without Mayo last year? They lost Thomas, Crable, Woods, Alexander, and Bruschi to injury, they ended the season with Jr, and Colvin coming out of retirement. Mayo was the pick, and the right one. You have to remember that Wheatley was coming on before he got hurt. DRC is a very good player, and I was all for drafting him if they could have moved up (FROM THE 2ND RD) to grab him. But the Pats took the #7 pick in the draft and garnered their starting ILB and ROY plus another pick, you really can't ask for much more than that.
I guess that I'm the only one not ready to throw Wheatley and Whilite to the scrap heap. Like the guys who were calling Merriweather a bust last year at this time. The Pats defense is very complicated, and Wheatly and Whilite will be miles ahead of any CB they draft this year.
The Mayo trade and pick was the right thing last year. Because you have to add the 3rd rounder that the Pats got (Crable). Did you want the Pats to take DRC at 7? or even 10?
But the Pats took the #7 pick in the draft and garnered their starting ILB and ROY plus another pick, you really can't ask for much more than that.
No, I wanted the Pats to draft DRC at #10 after their trade down, then I wanted a trade up in R2 using their existing 2 and a combo of their 3/5 aka, Okie/Slater to jump back up for Lofton.
That's what it really comes down to: Mayo was a terrific pick. It's hard to argue with drafting the unanimous* ROY at a critical position that was a desperate need. Were there other terrific players available too? Sure, but you can't draft them all.
Almost unanimous. There was one vote for Rivers.
Almost unanimous. There was one vote for Rivers. Anyways I didn't think Rivers was a fit for our D. Mayo was the best choice and we got him later. Hindsight is 20/20.
DRC looks like he is on the way to being a great CB, but we don't know what we have in Wheatley yet, and Wilhite has looked decent.
the only player I would consider in place of mayo is clady
I think that the point some people is making is - would DRC/Lofton be > Mayo/Wheatley. Interesting hypothetical but I don't think we realistically get Lofton with our #31 pick stripped.
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the only player I would consider in place of mayo is clady
That's really all this is and nothing more. It's simply this:
Is the combination of DRC and Curtis Lofton better than the combination of Mayo and Wheatley.
See, we can agree on some things.