I can't wait to see him in a Patriots uni. I'm really glad we got him! I think he is going to do very well in New England. Him and Dillion are going to be a dynamic duo!!
I've always like Maroney ( I even called him our "back of the future" in a thread last fall and was immeadiatley ridiculed for it). I think tha addition of Maroney does fill the biggest need.
Obviously Beoli is in agreement with you - and put Chad Jackson right behind him in terms of need and value... it seems they had a very high interest in Jackson even when most thought he'd be drafted in the teens.
Most of us are usually wrong about our draft predictions - others are but seem to think they've got a monopoly on football knowledge.
Although generally proven right this time I know I could just as easilly had been wrong, which is why I seldom ridicule others draft predictions.
My fave Maroney from last year
Watch the Purdue Vindicated One 2005 vid and look at how he makes this fool # 93 fall down and dive at air w/o even making a real move at between :42 and :44 secs into the video now that was PURE FEAR