Love the Jones and Beal picks, considering the value obtained. Bailey is a huge MEH from me. I think he's physically gifted, but I don't really want him on my team unless BB thinks he can shape him into a serviceable lineman. And that's really the problem with taking him high in the first, isn't it? He's too much of a risk for a first rounder. If he somehow fell to the second, then okay, it's worth the risk. But not in the first.
Solder would benefit from playing on this team. Scar would whip him into shape and in a year or two, when Light moves on, he would make a great bookend with Vollmer. I am not so sure I want to take a depth/replacement guy that high, but if that's what it takes to secure a premier (but extremely raw) talent, then I'm all about that.
Third round is putrid. Irving is a great player, but I don't see room for him on this team. And if McCarthy goes third round, I'll give up amateur scouting. Okay, maybe not. It's kind of addicting.
Let's take a look at the players selected around them in this draft, and see if we can't tweak things a bit. The first round seems atrocious in terms of the Patriots draft needs. We miss out on every big name front seven player, it looks like. Oh, except Aldon Smith goes in the third . . . :bricks:
The more I look over this mock, the more I truly hate it. If that's really how the draft fell, then I would hope we trade back and stockpile 2nd and 3rd rounders. We could pick up guys like Jimmy Smith, JJ Watt, Aldon Smith, Bilal Powell, Clint Boling, etc, who would actually improve our team this year and next, instead of wasting picks on back up linebackers who wouldn't even make the squad, like Draft Tek has us doing.
Maybe I should change my vote to fail.
