BlitzFritz
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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All I can say at this point is WOW, the more I think about this draft. I wonder if others feel the same way.
1. End of targeting the 2nd Round for quantity. Clearly new thinking at work in Foxboro on using 1st round picks, the rookie 1st round 5 year contracts etc. One player taken in 2nd round (vs likely 3 players in my mind)
2. Scheme shift in D now bovious and complete. Last year, we saw BB create an kind of sub-package featuring light DEs and pure pass rushers. (Guys who arent really Vrabel, McGinest type OLBs.) Jones and Bequette are really intriguing. And Hightower as a Clay Matthews put him anywhere guy.
3. Five impact players taken for the Defense. Can't say for sure, but we may look back on this 2012 draft in AWE that he took 5 guys on D who start and make plays. Two DEs, one ILB/pass rusher, one safety, one CB.
I tend toward optimism, and know point 3 is conjecture. However, I am stunned at the quality that BB managed to rake in.
Points 1 and 2 are less debatable in my mind.
So, will this be looked back upon as a Historic Draft? And a turning point to the next Great Run?
Thoughts?
-- FRITZ
1. End of targeting the 2nd Round for quantity. Clearly new thinking at work in Foxboro on using 1st round picks, the rookie 1st round 5 year contracts etc. One player taken in 2nd round (vs likely 3 players in my mind)
2. Scheme shift in D now bovious and complete. Last year, we saw BB create an kind of sub-package featuring light DEs and pure pass rushers. (Guys who arent really Vrabel, McGinest type OLBs.) Jones and Bequette are really intriguing. And Hightower as a Clay Matthews put him anywhere guy.
3. Five impact players taken for the Defense. Can't say for sure, but we may look back on this 2012 draft in AWE that he took 5 guys on D who start and make plays. Two DEs, one ILB/pass rusher, one safety, one CB.
I tend toward optimism, and know point 3 is conjecture. However, I am stunned at the quality that BB managed to rake in.
Points 1 and 2 are less debatable in my mind.
So, will this be looked back upon as a Historic Draft? And a turning point to the next Great Run?
Thoughts?
-- FRITZ