**The official Day 2 Patriots Draft Thread**

[hellolin]

Drafting Mallet means the Matt Cassel experiement is on again~~~~

 

[Nitro]

calm down kids,
1. pass rush sucked because we had one CB all year. it's hard to have one of those when the other CB just has to look away from mcourty and throw. Bodden will be back and the new kid might spend half the year or so uninjured. So that will automatically get better.
2. BJGE is a very good backup, yes i said backup. Morris, Taylor and faulk are all 34, which is *ancient* for a nfl RB. Drafting some RB's wasnt optional.
3. TFB is 34, do you all think he's going to be TFB until he's 44? Mallet can sit on the bench and learn how to play on the field and not be a ****** off the field from the best for a few years. Kid is not a bad quarterback.

 

[shmessy]

There have been plenty of brainless QBs with big arms in the NFL, from Jeff George to Dan Marino.

Those two are also ringless, however.

 

[Ring 6]

What's scary about this draft is Belichick isn't even drafting the best players he could have gotten with his draft position at the positions (RB/CB) he's been drafting.

Because you know better than him who is the best player at the position?
Are you really that ignorant?

 

[Greg]

I think Bill hates the players in this draft. He's now just dumping picks into next year.

We now have to look to free agency for some help for the front 7

Nah, Just great value. Plus,We have too many picks to begin with, then add in the lockout could really hurt how many rooks will contribute for any team.

 

[b72s]

I did not get my big play pass rusher so I am a little upset

Now that we got 2012 ready on to

fre Agency.

How about we all buy sniper rifles to shoot at opposing Qbs from the stands then we get pressue??? just Kidding

 

[Urgent]

This really is a fascinating draft.

The Patriots went 14-2, and really had one serious flaw: the worst third-down defense in football. With an inability to generate pressure on the passer, the Pats just couldn't shut teams down on third and long, and relied on supreme offensive performance to win games.

The draft was rated as average in general, but potentially the best ever for 3-4 front seven players, and the Patriots entered with an abundance of picks where those players lay. A perfect match.

And they have simply avoided that fit.

Clearly Belichick reads both the team and the draft significantly differently than most of us.

While some of the early picks were odd, they appear odder as rounds increase.

Solder looks like a solid pick, although probably a player needing some time. But picking him dropped the team out of contention for the top front seven players.

Then another trade out of the first, a pattern now with this team.

Then a trade down yielding value, when other teams were gaining big premiums on the traditional draft chart.

Now a second running back that was presumably drafted now because who knows when teams will be able to sign undrafted players.

A back-up QB is the best value pick of this draft, but a player most of us hope doesn't see the field for the next three years.

A total focus on offense.

Really a surprise.

Echoes of the Meriweather draft class.

 

[Ring 6]

calm down kids,
1. pass rush sucked because we had one CB all year. it's hard to have one of those when the other CB just has to look away from mcourty and throw. Bodden will be back and the new kid might spend half the year or so uninjured. So that will automatically get better.
2. BJGE is a very good backup, yes i said backup. Morris, Taylor and faulk are all 34, which is *ancient* for a nfl RB. Drafting some RB's wasnt optional.
3. TFB is 34, do you all think he's going to be TFB until he's 44? Mallet can sit on the bench and learn how to play on the field and not be a ****** off the field from the best for a few years. Kid is not a bad quarterback.

Oh and there is still that free agency thing. Did you ever think adding draft choices to a veteran offense and free agents to a young defense might make sense?

 

[RayClay]

Those two are also ringless, however.

Wel, there's Rapistburger, not exactly a Rhodes scholar.

 

[reflexblue]

So, so far we have 5 players, a 2012 1st and a 2012 2nd.

Now Belichick will see if he can find someone in the longshots tomorrow.

You don't think he found some tonight?

 

[ATippett56]

I like Stevan Ridley from LSU however as a fifth round selection. I would have preferred either an offensive guard (Clint Boling) or a 3-4 outside linebacker (Sam Acho).

 

[MossWelkowski]

Can someone list the pats 2012 draft picks?

1st Round
1st Round (New Orleans)
2nd Round (Oakland)
2nd Round
3rd Round
4th Round
5th Round

Steal hahahaha.. this is awesome.. im so pumped

 

[RIP#40]

What's scary about this draft is Belichick isn't even drafting the best players he could have gotten with his draft position at the positions (RB/CB) he's been drafting.

Best players according to who, Mel Kiper, and Todd McShay? I'm pretty confident BB selected the best players according to him.

 

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Allen Bailey and Greg Romeus say hi

Tell them to say hello again when an NFL team drafts them. Just because we know their names does not mean they are NFL starters, especially as rookies. Who's to say the Pats don't wind up getting them anyway?

 

[letekro]

didn't the pats get better when they put bledsoe on the bench?

The talent is very similar. Also, both are sons of coaches. He certainly could be the next Bledsoe, or Jeff George, for that matter. But, if the switch flips, we're talking about a potential Hall of Fame caliber player.

 

[VJCPatriot]

Pats are completely retooling their offense. It looks like they are gearing up to be a running team to do better in the playoffs. And there is some logic to this. When the Pats running game disappeared in the playoffs their offense got too predictable and teams could gear up just to stop the pass. Pats added a mammoth LT who will be stronger in the run game, then two shiny new RBs, one who can gash the defense, and another who can pound the rock to revitalize the run game.

Now do I think they went a little overboard with the RBs? Maybe a little. I probably would have taken Hankerson over Ridley. But it's hard to argue with the 'new vision' that BB has for this team. I think defense will again be addressed by BB with veterans once the lockout ends and free agency starts again.

 

[jsull87]

for months I've been panning mock drafts and NONE of them were this bad!!!!!


IS it me, or are the Pats still without a starting guard, a DE, and an OLB????????

Mankins and connoly are the starting guards

Warren comes back as starting DE

only thing i agree with you on is OLB... Have you made one post which isn't a complaint in this entire draft?

 

[NE_Paddy]

Lombardi reporting that Pats trade this year's 3rd and 4th for Oakland's 2nd next year.

Now have 2 1sts and 2 2nds next year.

=2 firsts and 2 seconds in 2013, and on it goes.

Kiwanuka as a FA?

 

[Horace's Ivories]

calm down kids,
1. pass rush sucked because we had one CB all year. it's hard to have one of those when the other CB just has to look away from mcourty and throw. Bodden will be back and the new kid might spend half the year or so uninjured. So that will automatically get better.
2. BJGE is a very good backup, yes i said backup. Morris, Taylor and faulk are all 34, which is *ancient* for a nfl RB. Drafting some RB's wasnt optional.
3. TFB is 34, do you all think he's going to be TFB until he's 44? Mallet can sit on the bench and learn how to play on the field and not be a ****** off the field from the best for a few years. Kid is not a bad quarterback.

agreed 100%

 

[NE_Paddy]

Pats are completely retooling their offense. It looks like they are gearing up to be a running team to do better in the playoffs. And there is some logic to this.

I'd also like to be a defending team.