Still feel like you can remove all of the emotion from the conversation and break it down to a fairly simple question, which is that 17 years ago Bill went into an offseason with poor personnel on offense that cost them a season of the prime of a 28 YO Goat and a still excellent defense (though without the illness in Indy, it might not have). That offseason, offense gets torn down to the studs, we get a rookie RB and three big WR acquisitions that set the team up for years (Welker in particular serving as the glue to transition to Gronk/Hernandez/Edelman).
This team needs that again, except without the QB to actually gel all the new pieces. A wildly successful implementation of this plan next year would be something like what Houston is doing, with Stroud and Dell and Brown leading a team that will win 7-8 games and feel like it has its young core. And of course the GM that put that team together happened to learn from the guy picking our groceries.
I'm looking at a model like Detroit, and they have an excellent offensive mind running things there, along with a massive hit on Sun God, but past that don't have skill position investments with top 10 picks (i.e. every guy on their skill position offense was obtainable either for reasonable money (Monty) or a pick- Gibbs being a high pick, but gettable).
I don't see the 1993 Patriot model happening here, with a 4 year runway for the players to get good, unless you bring in a new coach, because I don't think Bill has that kind of time.
Put a different way, he has screwed up the rebuild, but thats mostly because trying to do it without the QB and without tanking is almost impossible. May have been arrogance that he tried, but if I had his resume, I probably would have tried too.
This team needs that again, except without the QB to actually gel all the new pieces. A wildly successful implementation of this plan next year would be something like what Houston is doing, with Stroud and Dell and Brown leading a team that will win 7-8 games and feel like it has its young core. And of course the GM that put that team together happened to learn from the guy picking our groceries.
I'm looking at a model like Detroit, and they have an excellent offensive mind running things there, along with a massive hit on Sun God, but past that don't have skill position investments with top 10 picks (i.e. every guy on their skill position offense was obtainable either for reasonable money (Monty) or a pick- Gibbs being a high pick, but gettable).
I don't see the 1993 Patriot model happening here, with a 4 year runway for the players to get good, unless you bring in a new coach, because I don't think Bill has that kind of time.
Put a different way, he has screwed up the rebuild, but thats mostly because trying to do it without the QB and without tanking is almost impossible. May have been arrogance that he tried, but if I had his resume, I probably would have tried too.