Pats hire Floyd Reese as Senior Football Advisor; Caserio will remain director

Regardless of Caserio's knowledge and ability, the personnel office had to be understaffed and lacking experience with Dimitroff and Pioli's successive departures. Adding a solid veteran personnel man to partner with Caserio and take the lead on the business side of talent acquisition is a hard move to argue with, IMO.

I like this move. Reese built a very good Titans team that was one of the elite for many years. He will be an asset come draft time.

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apple strudel said:

I have to believe that's the role he'll take, along with cap management. As far as I can tell he just doesn't seem to draft Patriots type players, and we already have the scouting system set up to do exactly that, with Caserio at the head of it.

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His job wasn't to draft Patriot type players his job was to draft Titan/Fisher players. And the systems are pretty different. Certainly the key to his success here will be whether he can recognize the difference.

Two key points to that though is Caserio has been here for a while and is in tune with the Patriot type player and Pioli I would imagine has already identified most of the guys in this years draft that are patriot players and Reese will just need to assist in narowing the list.

And a third point which comes from Reiss is supposedly he will be here to be more of the contract guy and Caserio will be the personell/talent evaluator.

Great move for Pats in my opinion.

1) Gives Caserio time to slowly take over Piolis duties without being totally overwhelmed with everything at once. (As it seems according to the reports that Reese will mainly do the contract negotiation.) I mean how does one underling (person) fill the shoes of the 2 time award winning NFL executive of the year? Answer: you don't even try right off the bat; you split up the duties into 2 jobs to allow Caserio time to develop. I mean wasn't Dimitriov (Atlanta) anyway supposidly the heir apperant last year? So then that would make Caserio 2 steps down from Piolis job in 2007?

2) Give another set of 'experienced eyes' to evalute the scouts reports and such. He has alot of years of doing talent evaluation.

3) BB will not give him final say in the draft War room. So any mistakes will be on Bills shoulders (and in Bill we trust).

I see many more upsides to this than downsides. Vast NFL personnel experience is in short supply and in heavy demand - no one is perfect but the Patriots system will utilize his expertise as well as help filter out any possible mistakes as his decisions will be screened by Bill.

This is an excellent, Belichick-ian type of move. The guy has a huge rolodex and just grabbed maybe the best personnel guy on the market.

SunnyDenmark said:

Great move for Pats in my opinion.

1) Gives Caserio time to slowly take over Piolis duties without being totally overwhelmed with everything at once. (As it seems according to the reports that Reese will mainly do the contract negotiation.) I mean how does one underling (person) fill the shoes of the 2 time award winning NFL executive of the year? Answer: you don't even try right off the bat; you split up the duties into 2 jobs to allow Caserio time to develop. I mean wasn't Dimitriov (Atlanta) anyway supposidly the heir apperant last year? So then that would make Caserio 2 steps down from Piolis job in 2007?

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Just as a minor point, I don't think that's true; after all, Dimitroff was the director of scouting. He certainly reported to Pioli, but I'm fairly sure Caserio didn't report to Dimitroff.

Not sure BB needs the help but this move could also help land some coaches, whom Reese is more familiar with personally, for the open WR, TE and secondary jobs.

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TN Patriot said:

Reese's drafts have never been that great he's maybe pulled one/two players each draft that ever amounted to anything.

2004... none of them are with Tennessee any longer.

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Like we do with the Pats drafts, you need to look at where those players are, if NOT with the Titans. Atleast 5 of these guys are still playing football. So I wouldnt say that 04 was a bust for Reese.

SI.com - 2004 NFL Draft - Tennessee Titans Draft Picks

Caserio will have the privilege of working next to two of the best football personalities out there today in Pioli and Reese. Both men know how to build and maintain teams. Caserio should be a good one when he's ready.

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Fencer said:

Yeah. With that melt-down 3 years ago and the two blown high picks -- Young and Jones -- it's no wonder the Titans did so badly this year.

Oh, wait ...

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Bud Adams forced the Young pick.

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nashvillepatsfan said:

Like we do with the Pats drafts, you need to look at where those players are, if NOT with the Titans. Atleast 5 of these guys are still playing football. So I wouldnt say that 04 was a bust for Reese.

SI.com - 2004 NFL Draft - Tennessee Titans Draft Picks

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I stand corrected "TN patriot".

actually, 10 of 13 pics from reeses 2004 draft, are still playing in the nfl. For that matter, you say no one from the 04 draft is still on the team? Eugene Amano says hello

10 of 13,,,,,thats not that bad, huh?

Reese soundbites

Floyd Reese soundbites - Reiss' Pieces - Boston.com

He did not meet with director of player personnel Nick Caserio in the interview process – he met with Robert Kraft, Jonathan Kraft and Bill Belichick -- which could be an indication that his role as a senior advisor will be more contract-based and business-based than personnel-based.

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Too many are assuming that he is here to replace others or take over... I think it's a great pickup because even though he'll be adding input and sharing his experience, we all know BB has the final say.

Reese will work and add to the team so that BB doesn't have to do ALL the work, freeing him to focus on the big picture.

Good signing.

Great signing. No-brainer. NFL lifer with a defensive mind. We're headed into a draft
where we're going to draft some defensive players. Never bad to get a "good"
2nd opinion on the prospects.

THEARCHIVES said:

I like this move. Reese built a very good Titans team that was one of the elite for many years. He will be an asset come draft time.

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Didn't he also put them in 'salary cap hell' a couple of years ago? Don't get me wrong, I am sure BB made the call on this one after he met with Reese a week ago anf felt that he could obviously help - not hurt.

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nashvillepatsfan said:

This is a very good move. Most Titan fans will tell you, that their drafts have sucked since Floyd left. He always did a god job of finding offensive, and defensive lineman late in the draft, that turned out to be good players. I like this signing.

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Only Belichick does a "god job" at anything. Sorry, couldn't resist.

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ScottieC said:

If you have not read "Education of a Coach" - as it should be mandatory reading for all Patsfans posters - do so soon.

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Ditto. The truth is that one could almost call Belichick a disciple of FR.

BB is very open to discussion, debate and disagreement with those he works with, but it comes with people that he basically feels very comfortable with (Ernie Adams or -- back in the day -- Mangini).

I love this hire.

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mcsully said:

I'm on the other end of the spectrum about this hire. Of course BB and the pats know him better but on the surface this move actually looks poor to average.

Went to NFL.com NFL Draft History: Full Draft - by Team
and a quick glance shows me his picks were not the best, actually they were pretty bad. From 1995 not sure if he ran the 94 draft, up until 2005 (2006 the owner wanted Vince young so I won't hold that against him) he picked some really bad players who failed because of injury concerns and/or attitude problems.

We know Pacman but boy look at some of the guys he draft, especially at CB.. They were pretty much failures..

And then the article someone post about their salary cap.. Reminds me of the cowboys and 49ers, mortgaging the future.. Not something the pats do..

Time will tell but this off season has been rough so far..

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FWIW...

Reese thrilled to be joining Patriots | New England Patriots | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Reese and Belichick have remained in touch through the years, Reese said, talking usually around draft time and the league's trade deadline. While with the Titans, Tennessee's and New England's draft boards were generally close, he added, with each team taking players the other had targeted or thought highly of.

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He can recognize talent.

Outstanding. I don't really pay that much attention, but i noted this guys name years ago. No team has drafted and filled any better than the Titans while he was there IMO.