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If it's strictly between those prospects? I'd definitely be looking to trade out. If I can't?
I'd go Chaisson/YGM, Baun/Murray & then Epenesa.
I'm probably a little more sold on Wirfs. I think he could play RT right away but doesn't sound like we're far off. I think like Wynn he'll be a very good T but could be an elite G. Love Willis, he's just a football player. Same with him. RT but possibly an elite G bc of his athleticism.Mine as well next to Wills. Wirfs is more athletic but needs a lot more work than Thomas and Wills. Those guys can start right away where wirfs probably play guard first.
I‘m somehow not really sold on Chaisson. Do you think he can drop into coverage?
I guess one of them is available in the late first early second so trade down is also one of my favorite scenarios.
Really like the upside of YGM but he might be gone by 23.
Hard worker, took a bit of a different path. New and still learning the position.Anyone here know anything about Utah DT John Penisini? With a name like that, I just want him to be in the NFL for years to come.
I don't understand. The team has had months to prepare. The patriots have only about 7 key people on draft day. I have to believe that some one has set up a business quality video conferencing set up where everyone can see every one and easily work together. In addition, I would expect each of the key players to have another room setup for conferences with other teams. I suppose a 3rd setup could be for talking to our scouts and coaches. Sure, this might cost $200K to set up, but the problem isn't technological.
The patriots have a tremendous advantage in that very few are usually in the draft room, and very few are part of the draft day decision process.
13. New England (trade with San Francisco)—Tua Tagovailoa, quarterback, Alabama
So Tagovailoa could drop, and Bill Belichick really doesn’t want to take a quarterback now, with one draft pick in the top 85 this year and needs all over his roster. And truly: I have no indication, no inside information, that says he’d do this. It’s simply a guess. But think if you’re Belichick. Because your team never finishes 3-13, you never have a chance to get one of the best quarterbacks in the college game. Until Tagovailoa’s hip popped out of the socket last November, forcing immediate and urgent surgery, he was 1/1A with the transcendent Joe Burrow to be the first pick in this draft. And you don’t want to pillage the lone first or lone second-round pick from next year’s draft. But do you do it for a great but pockmarked talent such as Tagovailoa five months after major hip surgery? I do know Belichick would have confidence in his player-procurement skills.
I also don’t know what the New England orthopods will say about him. I do know one respected team doctor for an NFL team who gave Tagovailoa the once-over at the combine, and I asked him what he thought about Tagovailoa’s propensity for injury while at Alabama—a broken hand, two high-ankle sprains, and a hip dislocation most recently. This is what this doctor—whose team is not in the market for a first-round quarterback—told me Thursday:
“These contact injuries are part of the game. You ask yourself, ‘Is this guy injury-prone, or does he have a bullseye on him because he’s a crucial player on his team?’ I’ve seen a few of the hip dislocations in football, and my experience is that if you lose blood supply to the hip for a long-enough period of time, you’re in trouble. I don’t think that was the case here. As I see it, the effects of the dislocation might show up when he’s 35, but not when he’s 25.”
Cautiously optimistic then. Tough call for a franchise, but when would the Patriots ever get a shot at a potential superstar quarterback? Even if they had to throw in next year’s first-rounder, I think this would be a risk worth taking for the Patriots.
Yeah. Would also like to see wirfs as a tackle cause with his athletic he can probably handle speed rusher better.I'm probably a little more sold on Wirfs. I think he could play RT right away but doesn't sound like we're far off. I think like Wynn he'll be a very good T but could be an elite G. Love Willis, he's just a football player. Same with him. RT but possibly an elite G bc of his athleticism.
Yea remember Chaisson was hurt recently so he's still not operating at full force in terms of development. I do like his athletic upside in coverage tho. I think he's capable of handling flat/over-hang duties. Not sure about squeezing & running down the sidelines on wheel routes but that's not a fair task for a rookie.
This draft is supposedly strong in three groups; WR, OT and DT
That shapes up pretty well for the Pats needs. Good luck guessing who they take.
Personally I'd like to see them trade Thuney, slide Wynn into his spot and take a LT.
So, if StWhat this tells me is: Stay Away from drafting QBs this year, and give Stid more help instead; he's just as good, if not better, as any of them outside of Burrow/Tua/Herbert...
Agree. And it shouldn't cost $20K.
Probably faster than doing it FTF. You don't have to find someone like you would if doing it FTF, everybody is always right there.
Heck just the meeting room and chat capabilities in Zoom should do the trick.
we have the least talented offense in the nfl in skilled positions and you want to take an OL?
we have the least talented offense in the nfl in skilled positions and you want to take an OL?
And if he does, you and lots of others will be disappointed.LOL, if you think BB is taking another WR in the first round this year you'll be disappointed.