Kyle Lauletta

[PatriotSpy]

I don't think he's going to get drafted by the Pats. He has a smallish body frame, doesn't have that starting qb look. Just my opinion. I think mason rudolph gets drafted by the Pats

 

[mihap]

Lacrosse, navy are BB stuff, Lamar Jackson better

 

[patfanken]

I watched vids of Lauletta and watch one game last season. I didn't think his arm strength was as mediocre as the scouting report I read indicated. He had a nice touch on the deep ball and could throw outs pretty well. I didn't see a lot of intermediate passes though. Footwork and release could use work.

On the whole, he looks like a good FCS QB but I wasn't wowed by him. In the game I watched it seemed like he could run the offense well but didn't make plays. Then again, I always do better watching linemen than skill guys, especially QBs.

I don't think that most QB's that will be available to the Pats will be the ones that "wow" you.

For guys like Lauletta, you look at his vision. His ability to read the field and find open receivers. You look at his release. Does he see his opening and release the ball, or does he tend to hesitate? Brady's greatest weapon has always been his mind and his ability to absorb what he sees within those 2 to 3 seconds available to him. I'd also like to know how well he moves from his first option to his 2nd and 3rd, or does he linger on the first option until there are no other options.

No some of this stuff can be taught by a good coaching staff, but some of the mental stuff you either process or not. Remember though that any QB the Pats draft this season will have at least 2 to 3 years to develop under Brady, so what we see coming out of the draft might be completely different after 2 or 3 years experience.

 

[TomPatriot]

I don't think that most QB's that will be available to the Pats will be the ones that "wow" you.

For guys like Lauletta, you look at his vision. His ability to read the field and find open receivers. You look at his release. Does he see his opening and release the ball, or does he tend to hesitate? Brady's greatest weapon has always been his mind and his ability to absorb what he sees within those 2 to 3 seconds available to him. I'd also like to know how well he moves from his first option to his 2nd and 3rd, or does he linger on the first option until there are no other options.

No some of this stuff can be taught by a good coaching staff, but some of the mental stuff you either process or not. Remember though that any QB the Pats draft this season will have at least 2 to 3 years to develop under Brady, so what we see coming out of the draft might be completely different after 2 or 3 years experience.

Good points. I don't remember seeing him go through progressions. His release was quick but I guess I take that for granted in a potential NFL QB. Better than other CAA QBs.

I remember that he also had big WRs to throw to. One guy was probably 6'5", more like a TE.

 

[patfanken]

Full scouting report on Grandpa Lauletta the coach?

OK.... Remember you were the one who asked me about this. Don't blame me if this becomes another old guy rant.

When I got to Tufts, Harry Arlenson had been a long time HC coming to the end of his reign. He had many really good teams over the years, but his recent teams weren't that successful. I never play under Arelenson because he retired after my Freshman year, and back then Freshman didn't play varsity Football. There were separate teams for them.

My Sophmore year Rocky Carzo became the HC. He played and coached at Delaware, and then coached at UCal under Marv Levy before coming to Tufts in 66. He was the HC for about 7 years before he moved on to being AD and had that job for decades. When he arrived he brought with him as his top assistant Joe Lauletta who had also played and coached a Delaware. He stayed at Tufts and coached with Rocky, but eventually left and coached at West Chester College. I have no idea what he did after that.

Joe coached the backs so I rarely interacted with him, but I remember always thinking he was a good guy. Remember back then we only had one HC and 3 assistants coaching the entire varsity, and 2 coaches worked with the Freshmen.

We won 2 games in my first 2 years playing varsity ball before having a 6-3 season my senior year. But in the end, my experience playing at Tufts was a great one. When it was over I still loved the game enough to keep on playing for a few years after graduating and coaching it for a couple of decades on the HS level.

I also played Lacrosse there. I had hardly heard of the game before arriving in 65. At the time there was only one public HS in MA who had a team (Winchester). I was recruited to play by one of my older teammates to told me that I could hit anyone within 5 yds of the ball.....AND......they would give me a STICK!!!!! I was hooked. I played defense and started right away despite the fact I rarely caught the ball cleanly. But I was a great defender and good on balls on the ground. Back in those days, we used wooden sticks and good defensemen would add up their broken sticks to determine how good a game we had.

The success of the Lacrosse team was the reverse of Football. I played on 2 really good teams my first 2 years, and we sucked enough my senior year that I regretted not taking my last chance at ever going on a Spring break trip.

Rocky was the HC those first 2 years with Joe being his assistant. Joe was HC my senior year and was for several years after that. I returned to Lacrosse after my football days were over, joining various club lacrosse teams in the area and played the game into my 50's at an ever declining level of skill

 

[Hyped]

RE: Arm strength

I think a NFL QB propspect needs to a minimum be able to throw a 15-20 yard out across the field from the far side hash mark with enough zip that it isn't an easy pick six.

 

[NormZauchin]

I was going to post this in the draft forum, but when I hit the forums link, it wasn't there. If the mods want to move this to the wherever the draft forum currently resides, feel free to do so. (and btw, let me know how to get there. )

I was prompted to get on this topic from a tweet by Phil Perry about the Pats being one of the 27 teams at the Richmond pro day. Headlining the day's events was their QB, Kyle Lauletta, and I thought that name sounded familiar. Now I never heard of Kyle Lauletta, but I had a coach in college named Joe Lauletta, so I decided to give this kid a look to see if there was any relationship.

In doing so it became clear that if there was a QB who was within reach of the Pats from the bottom of the 2nd down, it was Kyle Lauletta. Now beyond all the physical QB stuff, his father was a QB at Navy, his 2 uncles played college Lacrosse and the final piece that will make him my QB binky for this draft is that his grandfather turned out to be the Joe Lauletta that coached me at Tufts from 66-69 in BOTH football and lacrosse. Here's a link to an article that describes the actual football reasons, Lauletta could make an intriguing QB prospect

.How Kyle Lauletta Became Bill Belichick’s Perfect Quarterback Prospect

My QB binky as well, because my wife was a history prof at Richmond for thirty years.

 

[primetime]

I don't think he's any good. If you want a starting-caliber QB, you need to use the draft capital to get one, and that means taking one in the first or second round. Of the 25 or so best QBs in the NFL, very few were acquired beyond the 2nd round:

Brady (6th)
Brees (1st)
Rodgers (1st)
Wilson (3rd)
Newton (1st)
Wentz (1st)
Ryan (1st)
Roethlisberger (1st)
Stafford (1st)
Luck (1st)
Garoppolo (2nd)
Rivers (1st)
Winston (1st)
Prescott (4th)
Bortles (1st)
Smith (1st)
Cousins (4th)
Watson (1st)
Carr (1st)
Keenum (undrafted)
Mariota (1st)
Manning (1st)
Foles (undrafted)

Only a handful of those players were taken after the 1st round. The chance of getting it right on a 1st rounder is just much, much higher than taking a player later on, which is why NFL-caliber quarterbacks tend to rise to the 1st round.