Believe me, you don't want me to post those same numbers for #1 receivers around the league either. I chose Jakobi because they let him walk, but if you look at the numbers of #1 receivers (which Parker is supposed to be around here, especially without JuJu), woah boy, it's fucking depressing.
You could easily add Agholor to that list too.
So, you're ok with the following?
onwenu is precisely the type of guy they need to keep imo. It’s becoming harder to build a good o line with all young guys - they barely practice anymore
He drafted at 17th a player that would have won DROY were it not for a freak injury.
He's a UFA and who knows if he'll come back. Are you trying to maximize your assets for the tank or not?
I'm fully confident in Belichick's ability to pick a stud at 5, he's generally done very well with higher picks in the first round, I'm even confident he could find a good QB at that spot, just have zero confidence he'd maximize said QB's development.
I'm not Judge Judy and I've never watched her, but I'm gonna play her.
There's a huge difference between picking a QB top 5 and likely getting one of the 2/3 best available, and picking at 15 and getting the 5th best QB on the board. As for the bolded, I already explained I don't have faith he'll develop the player properly. All I'm arguing is that I'm fairly confident that if Bill has a top 5 pick, he won't get the Zach Wilson/Trey Lance equivalent QB of his class at that spot.
Yup. Going back 22 years isn’t necessary, nor instructive. Past 5-6 years is the most relevant.
Well then I don't see why he should be doing it.
Why don't we cherry pick even more and just go last 3 seasons:
My grades are all Incompletes. Although I think what you have for Mac and Strange are likely to be very generous when we have a better picture in a couple more years.
You have to make judgments based on (a) "in the moment" what was the "correct" pick, and (b) how it all played out. Clearly with respect to Mac, (b) hasn't been kind to BB, but if you look at it from (a), it was the "correct" pick. And it's not like Mac has been abjectly terrible his whole career. His rookie year, he - and the Pats - were good. Legitimately good.
If perception of the player and his fit for the team at the time of drafting carries weight in the evaluation (and I would argue it shouldn't, why should you gain or lose points as a GM based on what other people thought of your pick/your needs at the time?), Strange would need to perform like Zack Martin to be a success.
For sure. And has been discussed a bajillion times here, it was quite possible to pick either Strange himself, or someone with Strange's upside, in a later round. So we missed out on taking someone else who could have helped.
I don't think there is a way for a team to "plan" a transition from a QB like Brady. Especially when the organization from the Krafts on down went all in on the 2018 and 2019 seasons in a way that was guaranteed to put the team in salary cap jail in 2020 (which was a meaningless season anyway).
This. BB used to draft pretty well, both in the early rounds and uncovering contributors in the later rounds. But the last 10 or so years have been really dicey and occasionally outright bad - hence why I would like to see someone other than BB do the drafting. And since I doubt BB is going to give that up, I am okay with losing BB the coach too.
The bolded is probably fair. At the same time, they had NO plan. Like, it sure seems that Stidham was going to start in 2020 had Cam's free agency not been such an epic fail and he had literally no other options.
Well...was it? We don't know what other teams have on their board. We heard at the time from some people that it was a reach, but from the Patriots (if I recall...though my recollection may not be accurate) we heard that other teams had interest in Strange and that he may not have been available when they picked next, so if they liked him, THAT was the time to get him.
Which was in itself a bad move considering they shouldn't have liked him at that spot. He's performed at the level of an average at best guard when healthy, and he's been injured. You can find average at best guards anywhere in day 3 of the draft.
I personally wouldn't draft guards high in the draft for the reason you state. But then again, I'm some knucklehead fan, not a GM making millions of dollars building (mostly successful) NFL rosters.
There is an alternative to option c, which could have been to trade draft capital to move up and draft Parsons. Hard to say if there was any possibility of that, but I doubt anyone would be mad today if they had made that kind of move.
Then they're still without a QB - and maybe (likely) have someone even worse than Mac.
So? At least they'd have a long term All Pro type of piece to build around. It's not like they've won anything of significance with Mac.
I feel this gets said a lot but I’m not sure it makes sense (sorry not picking on you BJ, love your posts), just want to fact check a bit.
I agree with all this. I still think the Mac pick - given the circumstances - was good. But holy crap yeah, the fact that Mac is CHEAP means they should have been able to build a very high level roster around him, and they have failed in that.
The difference, to me, is that anyone Bill drafted between, say, 2004 and 2018, was picked under a completely different franchise dynamic than what has been since the 2020 draft.
Oh yeah totally agree, but again, if Strange is a HOF player it's fine. I still wouldn't love the pick given everything you said, but it wouldn't be some glaring error.
With an average QB on this team, they are 6-2.
