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I'm assuming he wouldn't have taken him. You're arguing why he would have - which means you think he might have. Which is fine. I don't think he would have. I'll take it a step further - he's never used a top-15 pick on an offensive player.How does drafting a QB at 3 when you need a qb go against everything he has ever expressed? When has he said QBs don’t matter?
I don’t know who he would have taken, I can’t read his mind. You are the one trying to do that. The only point in guessing at that is to try to create a positive spin on Wolf taking the guy everyone knew he should in order to try to cover up that every other thing he has done has been awful. “Yeah if we kept belichick we wouldn’t have Maye” just isn’t being serious.
Ever. Until Mac Jones.
And you can argue, "Well, they never picked high that often." True, but when they did, they took guys like Richard Seymour, Ty Warren, Jerod Mayo, etc.
And as I said to @sb1, had it not been for Saban, maybe he wouldn't have taken Jones and would have done what he did with Garoppolo and others and targeted someone further down.
But I do think if he had the #3 pick and wasn't 100% head over heels for Maye, he absolutely would have traded down and potentially taken McCarthy or Nix, or whoever.
Belichick loves draft picks and he was coming off a season where they were embarrassed and had a lot of holes to fill. He would have done all he could to give them the best chance to do so. Especially if the guy sitting at #3 wasn't a "must-have" guy in his eyes.
Again, just my opinion, but previous history tells me that's what he would have done. Although, at the same time, McCarthy wasn't terrible and neither is Nix, and we won't know for a few years on Maye. Hopefully, he's "the guy" we all believe he might be. But I think Belichick would have played it the same way he always had. And yes, I'm being serious.












