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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.Even if he did have any say in it, it was the right decision to make at the time. Hindsight is 20/20 of course and of course we know now that it wasn't. But if the decision were between he and Greg Jennings then they made the right choice based on the drafting principles that usually applies with WRs. Jackson was the bigger, faster, stronger and overall more athletically gifted prospect of the two and offered a lot of things that Jennings did not in that regard.I let the Chad Jackson thing slide. Which i'm not even sure he had any say in it.
I let the Chad Jackson thing slide. Which i'm not even sure he had any say in it.
Does Josh know how to evaluate receivers? I think that he does. We can only ask that he does nearly as well with patriot draftees as he did with Thomas and Decker.
McDaniels, minus Tebow, actually did a really good job in Denver drafting. He gets too cute calling a game at times, but what I was most excited about was having him back to help with drafting. In the Broncos Tebow upset over the Steelers, the Tebow draft had IIRC 7 starters on the team, including several big time contributers that had monster games.
You forgot about Moreno? He was another gaffe.
McD does know his wr's though. At least more than BB does.
Moreno looked pretty damn good last season.
But I do agree that for the most part he's been a disappointment.
McDaniels is a good drafter, even the best at it sometimes slip up.
Just note that the 17 point output in Super Bowl XLVI against the Giants was not on McDaniels as the OC. Though he was technically on the staff as a special assistant, the offensive coordinator for that game was Bill O'Brien.McDaniels biggest challenge is finally taking the high power offenses that he assembles and actually winning a SB with them. 14 and 17 points aren't going to cut it.
McDaniels biggest challenge is finally taking the high power offenses that he assembles and actually winning a SB with them. 14 and 17 points aren't going to cut it.
You have a point, but give the Giants' D some credit. McDaniels' biggest challenge is in assembling an offense that can't be shut down when it counts the most, whether it's due to key injuries, elite defenses or by his own inability to adapt to good defensive game plans.
You have a point, but give the Giants' D some credit. McDaniels' biggest challenge is in assembling an offense that can't be shut down when it counts the most, whether it's due to key injuries, elite defenses or by his own inability to adapt to good defensive game plans.
His biggest challenge is going to be finding a way to threaten defenses outside the hashes. If Amendola is as good as Welker, it still doesn't change the Pats' biggest problem. Their three best receiving options essentially occupy the same part of the field, the middle. This is what has cost them in the postseason the last two years. They are too easy for good defenses to defend when they have no outside threat.
I have said it on other threads before and I'll say it again, the Pats would have been better off not signing Amendola and using the money on an outside guy. With two quality TEs, the need for a top of the line slot is not great. I would have much rather kept Lloyd, signed Jennings and drafted a guy like Swope than pay that kind of coin to Amendola. At this point they are easier to defend than last season.
Also, I don't know how anybody is saying Amendola is anything more than a slot guy. The guy has a career avg of 8.8 yds per reception. That is a description of a guy that is nothing more than a slot guy with absolutely no explosion. He has never shown any ability to threaten the outside of the field, and his YPC shows that.
Did you see how much Jennings got from Minnesota? Don't know how you'd justify that here.