Alpha Wolf: Eliot Wolf named de facto GM

[tims4wins]

I think the test is 2025. Do they make short sighted moves to chase a playoff spot (like they did in 2021), or play the longer game?

 

[Eric Fernsten's Disco Mustache]

Now... so far the Patriots are following [the Detroit/Arizona] model, which is good.... what is somewhat concerning is they haven't hit much so far (outside of course the most important spot, QB). No guarantee it works out, but the process shows an understanding of what the team is and where they are in the process, and that's encouraging.

This is the story I'm telling myself about what they're doing... I hope it's right!

I'm also going to continue to hope that Polk and Wallace turn a page and show us things that validate where they were drafted. And that a handful of other guys who we more-or-less-picked-up-for-free (Elliss, Pettus, Hawkins, Jaheim Bell, Michael Jordan) pop and turn into competent league-average starters.

Don't look now, but a gust of crisp air just blew through hell. Which is to say, 'Trey Jacobs actually did a decent job of pass blocking, first against Tennessee and then again against the Bears...

(I'm not going to let myself get optimistic. Yet.)

 

[Cellar-Door]

This is the story I'm telling myself about what they're doing... I hope it's right!

I'm also going to continue to hope that Polk and Wallace turn a page and show us things that validate where they were drafted. And that a handful of other guys who we more-or-less-picked-up-for-free (Elliss, Pettus, Hawkins, Jaheim Bell, Michael Jordan) pop and turn into competent league-average starters.

Don't look now, but a gust of crisp air just blew through hell. Which is to say, 'Trey Jacobs actually did a decent job of pass blocking, first against Tennessee and then again against the Bears...

(I'm not going to let myself get optimistic. Yet.)

Yeah, I'm not really that down on anything yet. Sure I'd like to have seen more out of Polk, and Wallace before injury, but it;s still early.

I meant it more there haven't really been any breakouts.

Okorafor quit, he was the biggest dice roll hoping for value.
On the other hand, a bunch of small contributors.. Hooper has been decent, they're piecing together line play with a bunch of guys who weren't on the roster to open the season wall of whom they got for nothing (Jordan, Jacobs, Brown), Roy has been a decent situational player the last few weeks they pulled off waivers, Pettus looks like he can play for real and he was nice UDFA.

 

[cshea]

I think the test is 2025. Do they make short sighted moves to chase a playoff spot (like they did in 2021), or play the longer game?

I think they should be chasing a playoff spot next year.

I don't really have much issue with the 2021 spending spree, the players they brought in were largely fine, I don't think the money spent set the frranchise back. The problems were elsewhere, the QB and the coaches. We have 7 games to go this year and Maye so far looks like a franchise guy. Assuming Maye's trajectory holds over the rest of the year, it's time to invest around him.

 

[tims4wins]

I think they should be chasing a playoff spot next year.

I don't really have much issue with the 2021 spending spree, the players they brought in were largely fine, I don't think the money spent set the frranchise back. The problems were elsewhere, the QB and the coaches. We have 7 games to go this year and Maye so far looks like a franchise guy. Assuming Maye's trajectory holds over the rest of the year, it's time to invest around him.

I agree they need to invest around him. I just hope they do it with a long term focus and not solely on chasing a playoff spot in 2025 (e.g., signing a 30 year old WR or something).