I'm Going to Miss Strange 69

[TomPatriot]

Good list. Here's mine.

1. Cole Strange. Not the player you trade down for. This was a bad team that desperately needed an infusion of talent. A G from a small school wasn't it.
2. Ras IR Dowling. They had all night to discuss who they were going to take with the 1st pick of the 2nd round and they took a guy with major injuries since High School. 5 years later they corrected the mistake by signing the player they should've drafted in Jabaal Sheard.
3. Dominique Easily. Tore his ACL twice in college. That's not who you take with your 1st round pick when the team continues to come up short in big games.
4. Logan Mankins: Lots of controversy with this pick. He came out of nowhere when David Baas was viewed as the top G.
5. Richard Seymour. The most controversial pick given where they picked in the draft. It was pretty unanimous media and fans wanted David Terrell to help Bledsoe out. I also wanted Deuce McAllister.

Just missing the cut and honorable mentions:

Jimmy G: Team needed to use resources to stop the drought, not take a clipboard holder with a 2nd round pick.
Jermaine Cunningham: Bill passed on Dunlap because he felt Cunningham could play OLB in a 3-4. Bill scrapped the plan and went back to a 4-3 just one year later in 2011.
Devin McCourty: Everyone and their mom thought Dez Bryant was the pick.
Kyle Dugger: The dreaded trade down out of the 1st round occurred only to take a player from a small school.
N'Keal Harry: The WR class was deep and he was regarded as a 1st round pick. It got weird when he leap frogged players that were mostly rated above him in Metcalf, Samuel and Brown.
Jordan Richards. Watching his college and his tape and seeing his measurables shouldn't need an explanation.
Kevin O'Connell: What was the purpose of this pick when they had Matt Cassel since 2005? The guy I wanted went one pick after O'Connell in Manningham. He had a back breaking catch 3 years later in the Super Bowl.

Daniel Graham, TE. A serviceable TE, good blocker, abut nothing special. The greatest safety of all time went a few picks later.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Daniel Graham, TE. A serviceable TE, good blocker, abut nothing special. The greatest safety of all time went a few picks later.

Eh, yeah it was kind of a weird pick although it was a major need. I do remember Ed Reed was the talk of the draft. He was a boom bust pick. I think Bill didn't take him because Tebucky Jones was still some what young and had Lawyer Milloy. You know there's teams that take players and instantly regret when they see others on their board have impacts like Reed did.

 

[VJCPatriot]

Too bad it didn’t work out. I't would have been nice to have Strange 69 for the next several years. Oh what could have been.

Why so we could mock him another 2 years for being a bust? I think Vrabel made the right decision to finally cut the cord.

Strange was a reach and a bust. He couldn't even beat out a 7th round pick OL who made the 53 over him.

 

[n1997y]

Why so we could mock him another 2 years for being a bust? I think Vrabel made the right decision to finally cut the cord.

Strange was a reach and a bust. He couldn't even beat out a 7th round pick OL who made the 53 over him.

Some posters here seem to think mocking players for being a bust is the essence of fandom. Along with complaining about historical missteps by long gone coaches and draft rooms.

 

[VJCPatriot]

Some posters here seem to think mocking players for being a bust is the essence of fandom. Along with complaining about historical missteps by long gone coaches and draft rooms.

Naah. Believe it or not, we'd rather celebrate successful players. The problem is our drafting was so piss poor there was little to celebrate in BB's wind down years and Mayo's short but awful reign as head coach of the Patriots.

Gonzo great pick. The other 1st rounders in the past 10 years of BB's tenure were mediocre to awful. Busts like Strange and N'Keal Harry, we'd rather forget them. Moving on from Strange was a wise choice by Vrabel.

 

[ahmed]

Without context it seems bizarre.

But once you realize:

#1. He was going at the top of the 3rd round if not earlier.
#2. The Patriots had him rated mid 2nd round which is why they tried to trade out of the pick and drop back but they couldn't find a buyer.
#3. They didn't have anyone rated much higher on their board and definitely not at a need position.
#4. The 2nd round was basically a huge bust. Go look at it. Heck, outside of McDuffie, the latter part of the first round also busted.

So you are saying if their big board was not crap, they would not have taken him that high? Do you even understand what you type? You can basically excuse every crappy pick in the history of the NFL with that.

The point is the pick was so bad people were laughing at how high he was taken. Everybody and their grandmother said he was picked a couple rounds too early. The worst part is this was not an anamoly. It happened once or twice every single draft for years.

 

[ahmed]

People are still unironically defending/justifying the Strange pick? Absolutely unreal.

Some people would justify just about anything.

 

[moosekill]

No they were laughing at the pick because they had scouted him and thought they were going to be able to grab him later and Bill grabbed him ahead of them. He got cut because he was injured and unable to come back to his original, level of play. Having a player who makes the team and starts multiple games isn’t a historically bad pick, like some of you seem to think, no matter where they were drafted.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

No they were laughing at the pick because they had scouted him and thought they were going to be able to grab him later and Bill grabbed him ahead of them. He got cut because he was injured and unable to come back to his original, level of play. Having a player who makes the team and starts multiple games isn’t a historically bad pick, like some of you seem to think, no matter where they were drafted.

You left out the part that the Rams had traded away their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks and were scouting him for their 4th round pick. The Strange pick as always been indefensible, when it was made, afterwards, and now when its finally over. This was the pick that cost Bill pretty much everything, now he is toiling in the ACC, and banging a 24 year old.

 

[Real fan 02]

we got a spot with bourne gone, we should bring him back.

He was picked up elsewhere

 

[Real fan 02]

No they were laughing at the pick because they had scouted him and thought they were going to be able to grab him later and Bill grabbed him ahead of them. He got cut because he was injured and unable to come back to his original, level of play. Having a player who makes the team and starts multiple games isn’t a historically bad pick, like some of you seem to think, no matter where they were drafted.

 

[billdog3484]

People still existing in a universe where they can look backwards and always make the right pick? Ridiculous

I don’t think one non completely biased pro BB super lover liked that pick. It was horrible when it was made and it is horrible now. Nobody is changing their opinions here. One of the worst selections

 

[PatsFan2]

Why so we could mock him another 2 years for being a bust? I think Vrabel made the right decision to finally cut the cord.

Strange was a reach and a bust. He couldn't even beat out a 7th round pick OL who made the 53 over him.

Or Practice squadder Benny Brown.

 

[Real fan 02]

Or Practice squadder Benny Brown.

Benny brown made the team over stranger..

 

[PatsFan2]

Benny brown made the team over stranger..

 

[captain stone]

He was picked up elsewhere

Cleveland's practice squad, to be specific.

 

[PancakeBlockPaul]

Hell, I’ve missed strange the past 9 years….. OH COLE STRANGE! Will miss him too, not as much as the other strange…

 

[upstater1]

So you are saying if their big board was not crap, they would not have taken him that high? Do you even understand what you type? You can basically excuse every crappy pick in the history of the NFL with that.

The point is the pick was so bad people were laughing at how high he was taken. Everybody and their grandmother said he was picked a couple rounds too early. The worst part is this was not an anamoly. It happened once or twice every single draft for years.

Hard to argue against your illogic. Your very first sentence makes no sense.

In your second paragraph, you cited someone laughing (McVay) who is quoted as saying he wanted him in the 3rd round. The Rams pick that year was in the top of the 3rd round. That's not 2 rounds before.

It's impossible to have a co0nversation when people are posting illogical things.

 

[upstater1]

I don’t think one non completely biased pro BB super lover liked that pick. It was horrible when it was made and it is horrible now. Nobody is changing their opinions here. One of the worst selections

Who said I liked that pick?

What is wrong with people.

Sometimes posting on this board is weird when the very plain and simply things people post get twisted.

 

[TheRainMaker]

So who would you have drafted if we were to do it all over again? McDuffie, Hill, Lloyd and Walker were mocked heavily to the Pats. I wasn't a fan of McDuffie and feared his lack of size would be a problem. LB was a major need. Lloyd was my pick then and I'm staying with it.