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  1. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    They have to, right? Because there are actual human beings who know what the picks are going to be at the top of the draft, you have to cap their economic incentive. It's not an exercise in uncertainty like a game or election or something.
  2. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    This is a good example of how only the results matter, which is what I'm arguing. The consensus big board had Trubisky 23rd (just behind Watson 22nd) and Mahomes 30th. But no one cares that it was defensible by consensus at the time; it failed so they're dumb.
  3. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    I don't think people remember these draft details. In both those scenarios, they wind up with shitty QBs, the team probably stinks, and the GM probably gets fired.
  4. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    Why is that a more obvious way to mess up than taking the QB and he stinks? That’s just as obvious, isn’t it? (And more likely, as most QBs fail)
  5. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    It is all hard. But taking a QB that you're lukewarm on doesn't make it any easier. Maybe it buys you the benefit of the doubt for a year, but that's about it if the guy isn't producing after that. I agree you could get fired constantly deferring the QB pick, too.
  6. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    I see it the opposite. The biggest risk with a QB is the opportunity cost - you're married for 2-3 years and you probably get fired if it doesn't work out. If you trade back and build a war chest, you might buy time. I don't think drafting a QB high is ever the "conservative approach." Two /...
  7. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    I think they try to solicit opinions from teams that don't have skin in the game, reasoning that Chicago or Washington or New England (or whoever is picking a QB) is either going to tell them nothing or be intentionally dishonest. Maybe some random team like Indianapolis or Green Bay or Kansas...
  8. Super Nomario

    Rank the WRs

    Speed is a way to beat press, or to scare opposing defenses out of pressing. But you're right that it's not the only way. Ideally you do want the X to bring some verticality since it's hard for safeties to get over to the sideline.
  9. Super Nomario

    The Krafts

    Jonathan Kraft has been involved with the team since RKK purchased it, in a variety of roles. I think he's a pretty different scenario than those you mention who were legacies, or say, Jed York who graduated college and then basically got handed a team. Minor tangent, but to me owners should...
  10. Super Nomario

    The Krafts

    The "can't trust" quote is, at best, fifth-hand (as @DennyDoyle'sBoil alluded to above). We just can't take the exact verbiage reported there seriously.
  11. Super Nomario

    The Krafts

    Mahomes didn't cost the Patriots any rings.
  12. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    A lot of scouts get fired not because they're bad but because there are moves at the top of the organization and new GMs tend to bring in their own guys. It's a brutal industry. No, the scouting services go back to the 70s, they predate Kiper. BLESTO was founded in 1963, when Kiper was three...
  13. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    2010 Stanford averaged 29.2 pass attempts per game and 41.2 rush attempts per game (~41% passing) 2010 NFL averaged 33.7 pass attempts per game and 27.2 rush attempts per game (~55%) 2023 Michigan averaged 24.1 pass attempts per game and 37.5 rush attempts per game (~39%) 2023 NFL averaged 33.7...
  14. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    It's not reasonable to compare them; Luck was a generational QB prospect and McCarthy is just a decent one. The point is, even with a generational QB prospect in Luck, Harbaugh still ran the ball a hell of a lot. Running the ball a hell of a lot with McCarthy is not necessarily a black mark...
  15. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    Not for Jim
  16. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    Jim Harbaugh ran the ball 40 times a game when he had Andrew Luck as his QB, too.
  17. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    It is oversimplifying, but at the same time, if Mac was better, they don't go 4-13 last year (and probably better in 2022 as well) and Belichick may very well still be here. You're right that the pick wasn't (widely) criticized at the time. That doesn't mean Mac's failure didn't cost Bill his job.
  18. Super Nomario

    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    They're not getting killed for drafting Mac, but Bill did get fired.
  19. Super Nomario

    Calvin Ridley, you in?

    Who are the tackles worth signing for big money?
  20. Super Nomario

    Patriots sign Austin Hooper

    This is the right approach to FA IMO. The best players don't hit the market, by-and-large. Teams should be patching holes in free agency and getting splash players in the draft (or maybe trade).
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