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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.I think you're right. A buddy of mine whose second cousin knows a guy who is friends with someone on the Patriots' security staff said he saw a closed-circuit video feed of the team's draft "war room" in progress. He said (allegedly) that it's really just a big drinking party with the Krafts, BB, Caserio, etc. boozin' it up and laughing hysterically at ESPN/NFLN coverage of what the 31 other teams are doing. When New England's picks rolled around, they'd call their wives/girlfriends and give them three names to choose from or spin a big roulette wheel fashioned as the draft board. When another team would call to offer a trade, they'd make up Jerky Boys skits and then pretend the phone line went dead. They even made a prank call to the Jets offering Garoppolo, Stork and Amendola for Geno Smith. Apparently, the biggest problem was keeping BB sober enough to meet with the media and comment convincingly on the new rookies.I could be wrong. I am not BB but...
I think he values the first round, obviously. Since we often have some good UDFAs that make the team and stuff, I have two theories on his "not accepted" picks often as high as the second round, but some are in the third.
1)He sees later picks as an opportunity to "troll" media (and hence fans).
2)He figures "screw it" and takes guys that he thinks could be great 1% of the time.
He (BB) sees later picks as an opportunity to "troll" media (and hence fans).
But Bill essentially identifies 5-10 players pre draft that he wants and he finds a way to get them. Going into this draft I have no doubt he had identified Grissom, Jackson, Mason, Richards and Cardona specifically as players he really wanted and thus he a) picked a few of them higher than "the board" for fear of losing them and b) made sure he got picks in the areas they would roughly go.
Polian was just on Sirius XM radio ranting about the stupidity of draft coverage by the media. He said "there is no such thing as draft value. No such thing".
He said that NFL teams don't even rank the college players 1 thru 300 the way the media "experts" do. Teams try to identify a number of players that will likely contribute to their program in areas of of need and then they try to get as many of those players as they can in the draft. It has nothing to do with a big board. Nothing to do with "draft value".
He said the idea that a draft slot as some fixed value is ridiculous. This year's draft only had 12 to 14 players with a first round grade. So is pick #20 in the first round worth the same this year as it would be in a year with 26 first round grade players?
Furthermore, the best GMs in the league have no idea what they have when the draft is over. Polian said that, the first day of rookie mini-camps, he used to look at his scouts and joke about praying that the guys they just drafted don't crap the bed. You have no idea and won't for a year or two.
I think Polian is right. Paying attention to the media draft gurus makes you dumber about the NFL draft, not smarter...
BB wont use a second on Kipers draft guide ( or anyones for that matter ), he got a hole staff of scouts, with the SINGLE purpose to scout for Patriots, and NOT for all 32 teams...I think that BB and other GM's are ESPN Insider subscribers and purchase the Mel Kiper's draft guide. But, sometime they just don't have the deep understanding as to what makes a player a "value pick" and that's why you see so many "reaches" of draft day.
just my opinion.
Polian was just on Sirius XM radio ranting about the stupidity of draft coverage by the media. He said "there is no such thing as draft value. No such thing"....It has nothing to do with a big board.
That's a pretty funny photo. It makes them look all serious and focused. Obviously, it omits the other side of the room where the bar and giant roulette wheel are set up.Pic from Patriots 2015 War Room:
That's a pretty funny photo. It makes them look all serious and focused. Obviously, it omits the other side of the room where the bar and giant roulette wheel are set up.
It's no mistake that both Kraft and BB are dating blonde bimbos.And that lady in the underwear that Kraft and Belichick are checking out ...
LMAO, someone actually sent a disagree to my post above.I think that BB and other GM's are ESPN Insider subscribers and purchase the Mel Kiper's draft guide. But, sometime they just don't have the deep understanding as to what makes a player a "value pick" and that's why you see so many "reaches" of draft day.
just my opinion.
Polian was just on Sirius XM radio ranting about the stupidity of draft coverage by the media. He said "there is no such thing as draft value. No such thing".
He said that NFL teams don't even rank the college players 1 thru 300 the way the media "experts" do. Teams try to identify a number of players that will likely contribute to their program in areas of of need and then they try to get as many of those players as they can in the draft. It has nothing to do with a big board. Nothing to do with "draft value".