AJ McCarron would like to be a Patriot

AJ McCarron Models Game After Tom Brady, Wants To Be Patriots? Backup | New England Patriots | NESN.com

McCarron said he would welcome the opportunity to sit behind Brady as the Patriots’ backup. Brady is signed through 2017, and Mallett is on the last year of his rookie deal, so the Patriots might be looking for a new successor. “I love the Patriots organization,” McCarron said. “If I had the chance to go there and sit behind Brady for however long and learn from one of the best to ever play the game, that would be an awesome experience.”

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Why do I think that, in the end, McCarron will go in the first round.

If for some odd reason, he is still around late in the third, then why not?

Hell yeah..

ctpatsfan77 said:

AJ McCarron Models Game After Tom Brady, Wants To Be Patriots? Backup | New England Patriots | NESN.com



Discuss.

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I mentioned this in another thread and said that it certainly ticks the right boxes. But let's face it, he'd be foolish, in the biggest interview of his life, to say that sitting behind Brady would be a bad thing. I think it boils down to this; it's hard to help yourself with these interviews but it sure is easy to hurt yourself. I give him credit for not doing the latter.

As for McCarron the player, yes please as a reasonable priced backup but I'm not sure he's QBOTF material.

"It would be the worst decision they've ever made,"

I can only imagine what Manziel would say about stting behind anybody for a couple of years.

“If I had the chance to go there and sit behind Brady for however long and learn from one of the best to ever play the game, that would be an awesome experience.”

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He has the wrong attitude. The exact opposite attitude a young Tom Brady would show.

patsinthesnow said:

He has the wrong attitude. The exact opposite attitude a young Tom Brady would show.

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I disagree completely. Brady would do everything in his power to win the job, if he was incapable of beating out the starter he'd make the best out of that situation.

Anyway, it was a canned response in a job interview. He probably knows the Pats want to move Mallett and that he'd be a potential replacement, he's trying to make the Pats feel comfortable in drafting him.

patsinthesnow said:

He has the wrong attitude. The exact opposite attitude a young Tom Brady would show.

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Brady would think it but never say it. I'm sure the kid is doing the same thing. He's media savvy.

Coach42 said:

Brady would think it but never say it. I'm sure the kid is doing the same thing. He's media savvy.

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He's not that media savvy.

He can't keep his Mom, a grown woman who calls herself Dee Dee, from making weird comments about Jameis Winston, who is a better quarterback than her son.
A.J. McCarron's Mom On Jameis Winston: "Am I Listening To English?"

He got all Twitter-defensive about why he wasn't at the ESPYs.
A.J. McCarron Has His Panties In a Bunch Over Johnny Manziel Being At The ESPY's?

More importantly, he didn't attend the Senior Bowl but now he's throwing at the Combine so that people will notice him. The best way to get noticed would have been to go to the Senior Bowl and play well. Who knows, maybe he is the best quarterback in the draft, he's certainly been making decisions like he is. Maybe he knows something.

I'm not anti-McCarron, I'd be fine taking him in the 4th round, but the Pats have bigger fish to fry in the draft to get that ring.

Also, if we're going to knock Manziel for his at times questionable decision making, McCarron has one of the worst tattoos I've ever seen taking up the majority of his chest.

I'd take him in a heartbeat. Kid knows how to win!

Hercules Rockefeller said:

He's not that media savvy.

He can't keep his Mom, a grown woman who calls herself Dee Dee

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Yeah, just stop right there and think about that comment for a minute, and then get back to us

AzorianPats said:

I'd take him in a heartbeat. Kid knows how to win!

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I'd take him as a 7th rounder. He knows how to win because he plays behind a great OL and gets no pressure. Oklahoma made him pretty rattled when they got some pressure on him.

If he falls to the 4th round, I'm all for taking a flier.

AzorianPats said:

I'd take him in a heartbeat. Kid knows how to win!

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And pick girlfriends

McCarron would be a perfect fit for this offense. Alabama runs plenty of multiple groupings, motions, 3, 5, and 7 set patterns-- very pro ready.

And McCarron is very similar to Brady coming out of Michigan in that he isn't a finished product physically, and was asked to win plenty of big games at a major college program.

He played with plenty of talent but also against the best talent for three years. He's a steady, reliable QB, with good work habits and intangibles....would love to have him but don't see a way that we get him unless we move back.

He's too polished of a quarterback to drop past the third round.

Snake Eyes said:

Yeah, just stop right there and think about that comment for a minute, and then get back to us

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I did, I thought about it. I don't blame him in particular for his stupid mom, but "media savvy" types don't generally tend to have those problems. What about the rest of what I wrote?

He is a decent QB, but if we are calling him media savvy we have to acknowledge that he has made some missteps. He seeks attention without playing in the senior bowl. He gets jealous. Again I'd have no problem with grabbing him a little later.

As for the "knows how to win" angle, not posited by snake eyes but a different poster, so did Greg McElroy, Tim Tebow, Colt McCoy, Matt Leinart

Deus Irae said:

If he falls to the 4th round, I'm all for taking a flier.

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there are about a billion better players and bigger needs. McCarron is very overrated and there are a host of actual needs that the Patriots should be looking to fill in the 4th round, if he is around in the 7th then sure but otherwise its just a wasted pick.

Deus Irae said:

If he falls to the 4th round, I'm all for taking a flier.

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Same here. McCarron won and posted very good numbers in an offense that was obviously run first. In the bigger games, when the run got shut down, McCarron usually got the job done. Smart kid with excellent pocket presence and a good pedigree. Why not?

I think AJ will sneak into the 2nd so probably not. If he's available in round 4, BB will have to think about it

SalemPats said:

I think AJ will sneak into the 2nd so probably not. If he's available in round 4, BB will have to think about it

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That's my take, he'll go too high for them to consider it. Unless Mallett is dealt I wouldn't advocate taking a QB until round 5 with the overall depth of talent, so many other player who could help at other spots.