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An interesting article from Pro Football Weekly:
Commentary - NFL pro football commentary and opinion from Pro Football Weekly
The most interesting thing for me: the author is one Ron "Wrong" Borges. Writes Borges:
"Considering how he handled the first day of this year’s annual NFL lottery, Bill Belichick should have been put in charge of handing out the TARP money by President Obama. If he had been, he would not only have known where the money went, but he would have made sure it wasn’t wasted on bonuses to guys not likely to ever earn them. Belichick may not have been sure what he wanted at the top of this year’s college draft, but he knew what he didn’t want. He didn’t want to waste his money on a first-round draft choice he wasn’t sold on. The days of profligate spending in America are gone, and that surely seemed to be the case at Gillette Stadium The Patriots twice traded down to move out of the first round, yet they actually increased the number of picks they had in the top 100 from six to eight and did it without being stuck with any of the top 32 selections. Those top picks cost millions more than the players who follow them in Rounds Two and Three but often are less productive. No one ever knows for sure if that will be the case or not until about three years after the draft, but this year the one sure thing in Belichick’s opinion was that there were few sure things, so why not gather as many lower-cost picks as you can and spread out the risk while saving some money? If the CEO at AIG thought like that, the company might still be in the insurance business instead of in the borrowing-from-the-taxpayers business. "
Borges concludes: "Four players were acquired very likely for the cost of what the No. 8 pick in the first round is likely to be paid. At a time when everyone in America is looking for such things, the Patriots got the only sure thing they could find in this draft — good value and reduced risk. These days, what more could you ask for?"
I can imagine him choking on his own spleen as he wrote the article.
Commentary - NFL pro football commentary and opinion from Pro Football Weekly
The most interesting thing for me: the author is one Ron "Wrong" Borges. Writes Borges:
"Considering how he handled the first day of this year’s annual NFL lottery, Bill Belichick should have been put in charge of handing out the TARP money by President Obama. If he had been, he would not only have known where the money went, but he would have made sure it wasn’t wasted on bonuses to guys not likely to ever earn them. Belichick may not have been sure what he wanted at the top of this year’s college draft, but he knew what he didn’t want. He didn’t want to waste his money on a first-round draft choice he wasn’t sold on. The days of profligate spending in America are gone, and that surely seemed to be the case at Gillette Stadium The Patriots twice traded down to move out of the first round, yet they actually increased the number of picks they had in the top 100 from six to eight and did it without being stuck with any of the top 32 selections. Those top picks cost millions more than the players who follow them in Rounds Two and Three but often are less productive. No one ever knows for sure if that will be the case or not until about three years after the draft, but this year the one sure thing in Belichick’s opinion was that there were few sure things, so why not gather as many lower-cost picks as you can and spread out the risk while saving some money? If the CEO at AIG thought like that, the company might still be in the insurance business instead of in the borrowing-from-the-taxpayers business. "
Borges concludes: "Four players were acquired very likely for the cost of what the No. 8 pick in the first round is likely to be paid. At a time when everyone in America is looking for such things, the Patriots got the only sure thing they could find in this draft — good value and reduced risk. These days, what more could you ask for?"
I can imagine him choking on his own spleen as he wrote the article.
