SITE MENU
Registered Members experience this forum ad and noise-free.
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.All very interesting,,
Was Flyod Reese in the war room??
Thinking that "college professor guy" was Ernie Adams.
That was Ernie, and if Floyd was there he wasn't an integral part of the process. Caserio was clearly occupying the seat vacated by Pioli and Ernie is always part of the process in any BB endeavor. Ditto Bob and Jonathan Kraft are always in attendance. Often times complex or contentious draft day trades are finalized at the ownership level. Particularly if marquee players or future firsts are involved.
If I could feel better about this draft I do after watching that. They got the players that they had targeted in the spots that they wanted them.
Some may say Cunningham was a reach based on the rankings at credible sites. But it's clear that the Patriots had him rated as a second pick and I think we can assume that other teams might have also. They would not have taken him at #53 if they thought he would be there for a later pick.
Which is why I don't think we wanted Option 1. I think Belichick's reaction was a TE going off the board which would make getting Gronk that much harder in the second.The Pats thought that the Bengals may draft Gresham, but being they also care about value they weren't going to trade up to get him. Instead they get their player (or next best player) at a much lower spot.
Let's say Gresham is available at 22. Would you rather have this:
22 Gresham
42 Javier Arenas (next best CB, but pick any available player)
or
27 McCourty
42 Gronk
90 Taylor Price
The Pats thought that the Bengals may draft Gresham, but being they also care about value they weren't going to trade up to get him.
That's why the war room is (comparatively) calm -- they're not doing player comparisons at that stage.
Now isn't that interesting?
And Ernie seems to be wearing a wedding ring. (Thought he wasn't supposed to do anything but watch football tape and learn the digits of pi ...)
Check out 7:40. Clock is ticking down on the trade with Oakland to move up 2 spots to pick Gronkowski. Not much time left. BB is on the phone, not speaking. Caserio says "We're waiting on old one." Almost seems like old one hangs up on BB, who doesn't appear to say anything into the phone. He just hangs up, kind of shrugs and gives them the go-ahead. Fascinating.
Anyone else remember a similar vid that was up a few years back with BB talking to Ozzie Newsome? It was when we traded our first to the Ravens, so '04 or whatever it was. At first all you can hear is BB saying, firmly, twice "Who are you taking?" Then he says something like "Ozzie, I've got a ton of calls coming in, I don't have time to screw around."
Later in the video BB is discussing (explaining) a potential deal with Bob Kraft.
I've looked for that video recently, but wasn't able to find it.
Amusing as this is, I'm pretty sure he says "Oakland", not "Old one". LOL