Brady should be pissed off at Brown for being an idiot. As for free agency Brady should be more pissed at Gronk for leaving it late so the Pats could be in sooner for Cook who was genuinely the only worthwhile TE to give money to. I like how people ignore that. The TE free agency was so void of guys that Austin Seferian Jenkins, who the Pats signed, was considered by most free agency rankings as a top 5 free agent TE. Also Belichick can't make guys sign. And people can screw off with the draft sh*t. He drafted a WR not his fault the guy got injured and missed half a season and i'm sure you're someone who probably looks at other rookie WRs and says "should have got him" what's the proof they would have walked in as a rookie and contributed just as good in this system? Pats system isn't just telling guys to run a go route. Also notable in the draft Belichick drafted
a CB- who will likely replace Jason McCourty next year.
a DE- who had 6 sacks only playing 25% of the snaps. But being a rookie and with Van Noy & Collins ahead of him on the depth chart he was used in a rotational/situational role
a RB- all you have to do is look at Shane Vereen and James White when it comes to RBs that get a redshirt year. Now with Burkhead hitting FA. Harris fills right in
a T & G- 2 guys that ended up being medical redshirts but that's still depth for the OL for the future
beyond dumb to look at the current year draft and proclaim it was "monumentally screwed up" based on 1 season
What's "beyond dumb" is to not be able to recognize the difference between drafting for the future when Tom Brady is thirty-two, and doing so when he's forty-two. The former is perfectly sound; the latter is asinine, as the results this year demonstrated all too clearly.
Malcolm Mitchell was drafted in the fourth round and played at entirely another level his rookie year than Harry did. No one had Mitchell rated as a first-round talent, just as no one had A.J. Brown rated as a fourth-round talent. If you can't admit that despite his overall greatness as a coach, and further, despite the many times he has won the draft and made sound picks, Belichick screwed the pooch this year, you're just a blind homer with no regard for the truth.
Brady was a completely different player the one game this year he had a top-flight WR still in his prime on the field, and he would have had an entirely different year, and the Pats would be resting on their bye right now getting ready for home-field throughout the playoffs, just if we had taken A.J. Brown rather than Harry.
You really think Ryan Tannehill and Arthur Smith, who had never been a coordinator prior to this year, are getting production out of A. J. Brown that would have been beyond the capabilities of Brady and McDaniels to match? You really think Malcolm Mitchell, who came out of the SEC, was able to step right in and contribute immediately and profoundly, and yet another SEC receiver with ten times the talent of Mitchell would just be lost and do nothing?
A. J. Brown had over 1,000 yards receiving this year; D.K. Metcalf had 900. If we had not drafted colossal bust Harry, and if we hadn't drafted a redshirt cornerback, we could have drafted them
both.
But in your world it makes more sense to waste what easily could have been the GOAT's last year as a Patriot with multiple "redshirt" picks in one draft.
Give me a break.
