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Sorry I misunderstood your post. At this point I split Bill's GM career into thirds and the first 2/3 was A+ level. The last third I think he's lucky to get a D+. From 2014 on he has made a few questionable trades, let a few guys walk who were questionable, and some bad drafting and cap management.
Did you honestly just state that you would give BB a D+ for his last 7 or so years as a GM when the team had the greatest run of success in the history of the league? Being a GM is a lot more than just draft picks. In this D+ stretch BB acquired numerous players that played critical roles in their repeated AFCCG appearances, 4 Super Bowls and 3 victories. - Malcom Brown, Browner, Revis,, Gilmore, Trey Flowers, Thuney, Van Noy.... he continued to dominate the extra comp pick process by trading for players like Trent Brown on the cheap and allowing them to leave when the cost was too much yet still recouped their trade cost. He smartly moved on from Revis after he helped him hang their 4th banner. There is no doubt he has generally done poorly on his top picks since 2014 and that the team needs an influx of talent but he has positioned the Pats with a tremendous amount of cap space at a time when the cap will be dropping for the 1st time in history. If BB can find that next QB the Pats can be back in contention as early as next year. Sorry that I do not share your high level of doom on the prospects of this franchise.
His 2014 offseason and Gilmore are really the only things keeping him from failing as far as I’m concerned.
I feel for you buddy if this stretch has been so bad for you. Malcolm Brown never made a big play in his life, Flowers didn't sack Ryan to save the day, Chris Hogan didn't catch a 3rd and 10 from the goal line to keep team alive, Sony did not have the best postseason a RB has ever had for the Patriots. I guess none of these player moves had any impact on the team having 62 regular season wins from 2014 - 2019 and 3 Championships. You and I clearly define success much differently.
This is what everything devolves into. “Huh huh six rings huhh”. Brady being the best to ever do it is the main reason those teams were so successful in spite of the talent diminishing on the roster as a whole. The cornerstone of those teams was Brady, Gronk, White, McCourty, Hightower, and Edelman. Of all those guys White is the only one who was drafted in the last 7 years and coincidentally the only skill position player drafted that’s been any good since 2014. Chris Hogan had a solid year and a half. Can Noy was a great scheme for and great trade for us. Trey Flowers was a great player but as with a lot of the higher end talents Bill didn’t want to give him a second contract. As for Malcolm Brown he never made a big play in his life. The talent started aging and drying up in 2018 and wasn’t replaced with young player via the draft and now we are playing practice squad receivers and healthy scratch rookies as usual and basically one LB playing who is in over his head. Outside of the Jets this may be the worst roster top to bottom and that’s on Bill.
Says the dope committing straw men left and right.
Oooh sassy!
That 2017 Kony Ealy trade is an underrated awful trade. Kamara was right there. Perfect fit for the Patriots
Winning the Super Bowl is the goal every year so when you actually do win it you may look back and think some of the roster management actually worked out. We all understand that "winning the draft" is obviously the most important thing but I personally find on field success a nice consolation prize. If the current stretch was a D+ am curious how you rated prior period an A+? Illegal Contact already listed many of his prior draft misses in the earlier years and he clearly drafted poorly from 2006 - 2008 (even worse than recent stretch) and made those horrible trades for Derrick Burgess and Albert Haynesworth. Traded Branch to Seattle leaving them short at WR in 2006. And the team did not win a title from 2005 - 2013.
You are wasting your time. For many of these guys who hate Bill, it's only the draft and nothing else. Nothing.
Easley was Bill's worst pick he ever made. Jimmy he carried for 3.5 years and didn't maximize the return he likely could have.
I agree with your second paragraph pretty much (aside from RB's being a strength). Overall as a whole I think Bill is one of the best, if not the best, GM since the salary cap was implemented (which obviously made things much harder to build a roster) but I think the last few years he hasn't been batting anywhere near as high in all aspects of general management of a football team. The thing that worries me is I don’t think finding a QB is an easy thing to do. It's hard to judge Bill on the quarterbacks he has taken because other than potentially Garoppolo, he likely drafted all of them as backups. Aside from Hoyer and Brissett (and obviously Brady) none of them ever turned out to be much in the league as far as backups but I would assume Bill knows what separates a potential career backup from a starter/franchise QB. The roster is in a pretty bad state right now but I agree with you that with the cap room he has if he is able to find a QB, which is a big if, we could be right back in the mix in a couple years.
I love posts like these. Especially when they come from people who have heaped praise for BB when he hits on those top picks. That’s fine. But you should also be able to assign blame when he whiffs. Otherwise, you’re being logically inconsistent.
I’d take Reese back in a heart beat. Dimitroff or Pioli? I’d rather have Pioli by a mile. I’d also get Dorsey on the phone and see what he wants in order to come to New England, be that voice in BB’s ear, and provide a new perspective. Caserio is trash IMO. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the drafts went to **** when Reese departed and his role became elevated.
Well it's only the most important process of team-building, so...
