You don't get a Vita Vea in the 20's. (I want that Davis kid from Georgia, as an aside)
A Devin White is RARE after top 15.
A Mike Evans is hard to find after the first half of the first round.
You don't get a Tristan Wirfs past #20.
Go look at where those guys were drafted - Pats haven't had a pick that high since Mayo.
Now throw in Brady, Antonio Brown, and Gronk...see where I'm going with this? Tampa was in great position to turn it all around, and they did. And to their credit, they've gone for it - but man, go look at the contracts on that team - they'll be paying Suh for FOUR YEARS after next on his current 1-year deal. Evans got all his money pushed to the back end, so they're paying him almost 42 million over the next 2, AND he has voidable years, as does Brady, as does half that team.
That's a risk you assume in playing it this way. And consider, even with bringing back all 22, a couple of injuries could derail that team, and even without those injuries, a bounce here or a bounce there could stop them from repeating.
So say they don't win the SB this year or next. Brady retires (and let me state unequivocally that they were in the best position I've ever seen for a team to do this, especially when Tom Freaking Brady fell into their laps, and with Gronk and AB beside him...neither of whom were ever playing here again)...Gronk retires...they're paying people in 2023, 2024, 2025 in $$ that count against their cap. You can build teams that way - the Saints come to mind.|
BB does not build his teams that way. Even with the huge expenditures this year, reloading the team, the Pats are not in CAP trouble for the foreseeable future.