holyredeemer
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I think a large part of the problem is that we as fans were spoiled for so many years with such incredible drafts. It was like one hit after another and another and another. When the well started drying up, it wasn’t a big focus. The team was still winning games. The combination of Bill and Brady masked a lot of the problems. Now, no Brady, constant changes in the F.O., coaching departures etc. have finally caught up to Bill and he’s having a difficult time catching that magic in a bottle again. Now there’s no one to help cover it up with. Now the misses are obvious, GLARING ****ing holes. So, the reaction by many fans is understandable to me. However, the parts of the fan base that just repeat over and over and over the same over exaggerated, tired ass takes are the ones that make it hard for anyone to have a reasonable criticism without having someone jump on ‘‘em for it. I agree with what you said, just to be clear. I’m not sure if I made it clear in my response. You fired me up. We’ve had a bad run of drafts. No doubt about it. Won’t argue that. It’s left this team in pretty bad shape talent wise. As others like yourself has posted though, it’s unfortunately very common and many teams go through it. The difference is, many of those staffs are canned without ever really getting a chance. Our guy has been doing it for what, going on 23 years? Makes it real easy to be hyper critical of his results vs guys who have a much smaller sample size. To have this team performing like they did the past few years with the lack of elite talent, and some of the off-season blunders (MP, JJ, OL coaching situation etc…) shows that Belichick can still coach with the best of them. Most teams in a similar situation are picking top 5 year after year. That gives me hope. Now if Bill can just manage to get back on track and hit a few in these drafts, we’ll be back to playoff contention.N'Keal was a bad pick. I'm surprised he's still in the league.
All the other players are still in the league except the 7th rounder.
Is that good or bad compared to other NFL draft classes? Do you even care to know?
Aside from N'Keal, all the others were on 4 year deals, so they're on new contracts now. Do you have any idea how many draft picks sign new contracts with their original team? Hint: on average only about 32 players -- 1.3% -- in an entire draft class end up signing new contracts with their original team.
You are also ignoring all the starts provided by that class -- Damien Harris for instance -- when they were with the Pats, and ignoring picks and players received by the Pats for those players in compensation -- Mack Wilson for instance was traded straight up for Winovich and is still with the team.
And of course you ignore UDFa's; the Pats got Jakobi Meyers in that class so will likely receive draft comp for him next year. And Calvin Anderson is ironically back with the team.
It's the usual bloviation with you guys trashing the Pats drafts, you *never* provide a baseline for expectations so you have no idea what you're talking about.
TL;DR? Draft success is a lottery. Bill has a much larger sample size to judge from than most if not all of his peers. It’s a crapshoot guys. Crapshoot. Stop over exaggerating on how bad the picks are. Bill isn’t the only one with ****ty drafts. There’s hope in the future as Bill can still coach.