Absolutely. I'd expect Lowe, TWj and Stueber are all likely cuts, and if McDermott gets hurt again, he can be cut for nothing. Any could land on the practice squad safely. Anderson's restructure means he'll have a slightly better chance of making the team, but even he is just a $2M cut.
Very much this.
What do you mean even drafting another bledsoe? Bledsoe was elite until he got Grand down over the years.
He was never elite. Maybe bottom of top 10 at his peak. We all love Drew but let’s not pretend he was something he wasn’t.
Its funny because on the PM draft show, BB said the Pats needed to fill those exact positions.
Hoping his brother passes along some pearls of wisdom to Caedan. Looking forward to seeing him shuck some defensive linemen.
Eh, he was considered a top 5 QB in '96 and '97, maybe even top 3 behind Favre and Young. The falloff after then was considerable, but his peak was elite.
So, Wallace was a guy the Pats went into the draft wanting to take. They must have thought they could move back and still draft him, since Wolf says they considred it, but in the end they just took him at 68. Overdraft or no, they wanted him.
While passer rating isn’t the be all end all, it was more important in the mid 90s than it is today. Drew finished 8th in 96 and 6th in 97. That range feels about right. He could sling it but he made a lot of bad decisions too.
He doesn't like to dump on guys, but he went out of his way to say he liked Wallace. You can disregard if you like.
My brother who knows Riddick and works for ESPN says Riddick doesn’t like everyone but won’t say bad things on TV - doesn’t think it is fair to those kids. FWIW.
He (along with Parcells) helped immediately turn the organization around and was an above average quarterback for several years. I don't consider him to be elite like Elway, Favre, Young, Marino, etc. were in the 90s though.
He also had one of the shortest peaks known to man. He had two very good years, 96 and 97, in years 4 and 5. And that was the end.
Sure, but he was hurt and only played 14 games that season, so I cut him a break. The talent was still there even if his body was breaking down.
It does feel like that, but I don’t love feeling that way. Clearly they could’ve made the choice even to come back up into late first and grab a tackle or use that second for a tackle where it lay, but they did not. These coaches see something we don’t, or theres another shoe to drop I guess…but it’s already late for shoe dropping and LT looks like a very large question mark.
According to pro-football-reference, the number of guys who were starters for 10+ years:
Adams, Amegadjie, Glaze, Goncalves all went just after Wallace. SMU, would you (or anyone else) have put any of them ahead of Wallace? Personally I have no idea, just curious what y'all think.
I'd have had Kiran ahead of him for sure. And I really don't think that Glaze is a tackle.
I hope it works better than Matty P watching some YouTube videos on how to move them to a Zone Blocking team with no one on the team with any experience in Zone Blocking and it was a complete disaster starting in training camp.
I'd like to hear someone who knows more about this than I do weigh in. We all know the Pats invested draft capital in 2 OL picks despite having a lot of bodies on the roster and just now cut McDermott. That alone suggests Mayo/Wolf/AVP weren't happy with the line for any number of reasons.
Cross posting from @Saints Rest's thread:
Isn’t the prevailing wisdom that someone will be drafted with a likely high pick next year? There was nobody close to close value at either draft spot and while its easy to say they could have traded up for the BYU Sumataia guy (that seemed even more upsetting to people that he went to KC), he is a long term play anyway, not a plug and play day 1 starter. A run happened in the draft. Oh well.
One would assume they will invest in the LT spot more next offseason than they did this year but they’ll likely have plenty of other needs as well.
