It Can't Be! (Update: Nope, it isn't!) The Pats' Draft board on camera??

[VJCPatriot]

Look at the position titles, then look at the names. It's a 4-3 board on defense. This looks like the overall draft tracking board as opposed to the NE draft board, I doubt it gives away a great deal to rival teams.

That's pretty exciting stuff if those ratings are true! But the Pats are known for not being exciting. Hmmm. Makes me wonder if those grades are different for a 3-4 team. I mean why did the Pats go through all this trouble and then put up a draft board complete with grades for the media to see?? Seems kind of out of character and mysterious. I question their motivations but feel excited at the same time if this is really how they feel about those prospects. Hehe.

 

[Mainefan]

I don't know...that's an awful lot of trouble to go to in order to mislead...on the other hand, it would be unbelievably (and that is exactly the right word) sloppy to let it be seen. Neither conclusion seems credible.

This one's a real headshaker...

 

[dryheat44]

Look at the position titles, then look at the names. It's a 4-3 board on defense. This looks like the overall draft tracking board as opposed to the NE draft board, I doubt it gives away a great deal to rival teams.

The DE list suggest it's not. I doubt Wilkerson, Dareus, Watt, and McPhee would be 4-3 DEs. Then again, their are a lot of OLB types too.

My guess is that either this comes from much earlier in the draft prep calendar.

 

[PATSNUTme]

Look at the position titles, then look at the names. It's a 4-3 board on defense. This looks like the overall draft tracking board as opposed to the NE draft board, I doubt it gives away a great deal to rival teams.

Why is Connor Barwin still on their board? Could we be trading #17 to the Texans once the lockout is over?

 

[WaterfallJumper]

I have no idea how to respond to this. Perhaps the easiest way is to just wait for two weeks. If we assume that the rankings are legit, and then compare their actual draft to these rankings, we might gain real insight into how they grade prospects.

Cool to discuss, regardless.

 

[malenurse2010]

No way this is the real board. After the fiasco with Dallas actually letting cameras show their war room last year with all their grades, then a week later when pats access showed the same thing the Pats board was blurred out. This seems like some BB spy games.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

Why is Connor Barwin still on their board? Could we be trading #17 to the Texans once the lockout is over?

Methinks you may want to double-check your prescription. I read the list three times, and couldn't find Barwin on there anywhere. Of course, I may have overlooked something, in which case I will gladly schedule an eye exam.

 

[bucky]

Curran is not the only one to have this on video. SMY had some of it on Boston.com.

Does anybody think the Pats would really allow the media free access to their draft board???

Or could it be that they purposely stacked the board for the media to mess with some people's minds?

I'm willing to bet that some of these grade are very real and others are totally made up.

 

[Box_O_Rocks]

It's also not the "war room" under Gillette, it's a media room at Patriots Place.

 

[manxman2601]

It would be interesting to know how accurate the grades are on this "board" - I find them more interesting in comparing different players at different positions than how they have players rated by position. For example:

Nate Solder is rated higher than Julio Jones and JJ Watt and on a par with Cameron Jordan. If Solder is the pick at #17, then there's a good chance the board is an accurate view of the way the Patriots view the draft class. Would have loved to get a look at CB's and RB's.

 

[borg]

It's also not the "war room" under Gillette, it's a media room at Patriots Place.

BB: Hey Nick, what are you up to today?
Nick: I'm heading over to Room 1637 at Patriots Place to give a little draft demo for the press.
BB: Great stuff, Nick. Don't forget to wheel over our "authentic" draft board with the "genuine" rankings of all these college kids.
Nick: Great idea Bill.
BB: Do me a favor, at some point during the session, whisper into Curran's ear that bringing over "this" draft board was a big mistake. Then shut down the presser and get them to the hogie bar as fast as possible....but let Curran linger behind...that little weasal. And if Ron Borges is in the facility, keep him away from the cripples or he might start another fight.

 

[gomezcat]

From the website (Curran's comment): "yes, that was a facsimile big board."

 

[Dufflebagz]

It's very interesting, although I'm 99.9% sure it's not the real thing.

My thinking is that it was just some random board to make the video more "realistic".....but there is always the possibility that BB is f***ing with everyone. All it takes is one team that thinks highly of the Pats to follow this board and take someone and then the player the Pats want falls to them.

Like I said, it's not the real thing though....BB would not let that even come close to happening.

 

[borg]

As we speak, McShay and Kiper are greasin up with a bottle of lube because they think they've struck the motherload

 

[gomezcat]

OK, if anyone thinks this is a leak, watch the video. It is blatantly meant to be there.

 

[PATSNUTme]

Hate to burst the bubble. Just last night I read over the chapter on the Patriots draft grading system in Patriot Reign.

Those grades are not the grading system taked about. There are no "i's" or "p's" or many of the other lettering that goes with the numeric grades.

Maybe the Patriots have change their grading system since then. Possible, who knows. Also it was stated that anyone with a numeric grade of below 5.50 is off the draft board and might be looked at as UDFA's.

 

[patchick]

I didn't mean to suggest that this is the actual Pats' draft board. But I do think it's something -- way too much care and detail to be a random fake mockup. Those scores came from somewhere.

So what the heck is it, and why? It doesn't correspond to common wisdom at all in positions like WR and DT.

 

[RussFrancis]

Those are player grades, but I think theyre arranged PRE-red flags, or in other words, not the final grades. I still cant believe they'd actually show that information, but theyre not the final cut. Some of those players might not even BE on the actual board.

 

[SamBamsFan]

I didn't mean to suggest that this is the actual Pats' draft board. But I do think it's something -- way too much care and detail to be a random fake mockup. Those scores came from somewhere.

So what the heck is it, and why? It doesn't correspond to common wisdom at all in positions like WR and DT.

Yeah, I though Siliga was going to go in the 7th. He's ranked up with the big boys. "Mom, crank up the VCR, and get a load of this..."

 

[PATSNUTme]

I didn't mean to suggest that this is the actual Pats' draft board. But I do think it's something -- way too much care and detail to be a random fake mockup. Those scores came from somewhere.

So what the heck is it, and why? It doesn't correspond to common wisdom at all in positions like WR and DT.

I don't think it's an eleobrate ruse either. I think that is probably one of their "working boards" that they are using and grades are probably from a scouting service that they look at. There are probalbly several of these type boards set up and this was one of them.

One thing that we all have learned about BB and his organization, there is no stone unturned. So I think they look at many of the scouting services evaluations and compare them with their own.