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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I had such high hopes for Easley. That first step was something. Had visions of an overload blitz of Easley, Chandler Jones, Hightower and Collins terrorizing QBs for years to come.
Overall it didn't work out at all but I still think it was worth the gamble to pick Easley at the bottom of the first. You don't often have prime talent end up there and with injuries being random as they are there was a solid chance we could ride him at least through that rookie contract.
I know that I've beaten this horse to death, chopped him up into pieces, fed him to the dogs and then beaten him when he's come out of their backsides but, as I said at the time, They should have taken Stephon Tuitt.
And now that horse (what's left of him) has been beaten again. I hope you're happy.
Nobody should be surprised.That's probably the end of his career. Shame.
…or Joel Bitonio, especially considering that Bill traded his 9-year starting LG justI know that I've beaten this horse to death, chopped him up into pieces, fed him to the dogs and then beaten him when he's come out of their backsides but, as I said at the time, They should have taken Stephon Tuitt...
…or Joel Bitonio, especially considering that Bill traded his 9-year starting LG just
4 months later, with nobody really in the pipeline.
I know that I've beaten this horse to death, chopped him up into pieces, fed him to the dogs and then beaten him when he's come out of their backsides but, as I said at the time, They should have taken Stephon Tuitt.
And now that horse (what's left of him) has been beaten again. I hope you're happy.
Yes, Tuitt would have been a good choice in hindsight. He grew into a better pro than most of the people in the draft forum expected. I was looking at Easley along the same lines as Gronk. Both were high risk/high reward picks.
Looking forward to you telling me that those two situations are nothing alike
Dobson is hurt again. That's what doomed him here. Kid can never catch a break.
Good summation and history lesson. I actually forgot how things played out in both those drafts.Gronk was a gamble who was one of 3 players taken in the second round of a draft where the Patriots could burn picks like firewood. He had a one-off injury that was dealt with by surgery. He was taken after McCourty, and just before the Patriots double dipped on linebackers in the same round.
Easley was a guy who'd already popped both ACLs. He was taken in the first round, rather than after a physically safer choice, and that was followed by taking a useless (for "immediate" on-field help purposes) pick of a QB at the very end of the next round. In fact, after Easley, the first meaningful pick made by the Patriots (again, in terms of 'immediate' on-field help) wasn't until the fourth round. in the Gronk draft, the Patriots had already drafted 3 other players by then (Cunningham, Spikes, Price).
So, yeah, huge difference in the situations.