I have seen the opposite:
I've heard that Allen's completion percentage suffers because his receivers weren't able to get reasonable amounts of seperationg thus necessitating a high percentage of difficult throws. No idea if this is accurate.
This shouldnt be a consideration. The position is so important if you find someone good and have to pay market value to do so its worth it.
I thought the Landry selection was interesting as well. I don't watch a lot of BC, but when I did last year I didn't recall him being a particularly big factor.
Yeah and his JR year tape was really impressive. He’s also killing it at the combine and will be long gone before #31.
Why? Lewis is probably gone and Burkhead and Gillislee are both older as RB's go. He drafted Maroney once.
The guide gives you all the graphics with data you'd want like heat maps, comparative charts and tables, top quartile traits, etc. Caveat: Ben did not scout every game so for some of these guys it is a 3 game sample which can be dangerous. Even with that caveat this is a great piece for more information helping to breakdown the QBs available in the draft this year.
AJ Feeley?
I think this post has it. If there is a guy available that they like at a certain pick, take him. If not, up-prioritize it next year.
This is insane. The NFLPA has shown time and time again that they are not inclined or able to survive a long lockout. A strike is even more far fetched.
The problem is that they've gotten very little out of the 2016 and 2017 drafts so far. If they punt 2018 to add a QB, he might be inheriting a bottom-five roster when he takes over for Brady in 2020 or whatever.
Please worry about the Pats.
Cutler's intellect? His middle name should be Dunning-Kruger.
Guys that have low tolerance for players they think aren't as smart as they are really aren't leaders.
In full agreement. Also, to echo others, as much as I love the QBs this year and I think this is one of the best QB drafts in years because of the depth, they need to restock the roster pipeline.
If we draft Lamar Jackson with our first pick in this draft --- then I'll know it's the end of the road for these Patriots.
I certainly understand that view but (and I know you understand this) making those four picks in no way guarantees that they still won’t descend into a bottom 5 roster. You hope to get starters or at least contributors with those early round picks but it’s well within the list of plausible outcomes for three of those picks up be flops. All four could end up being nothing or could tear a knee up or something. I’d love for all four to become starters for 5+ years but it’s not likely to happen.
Landry is a little undersized for an end and hasn’t been able to consistently set the edge in college. Not sure if he’s a B.B. pick.
There's downside risk to every potential course of action, but it is obvious to me that your suggestion is the riskiest course. One pick at the game's lowest-percentage position versus four. There's still a possibility three of four or all four don't work out, but if you punt on adding supporting talent again you're virtually guaranteeing a bad surrounding cast for the next QB - and for Brady's twilight, which is still likely the best chance to add a championship in the next decade.
"Reasonable confidence" of an "above-average starter" is way too low a bar. You put Matt Ryan on a team that's got that kind of supporting talent and you're going 5-11/6-10. This kind of move only makes sense if you think there's a good chance you've got a Hall of Famer. There's a middle ground scenario I could probably get on board with (like trading 63 to move up from 23 to 16 or something) but this team needs young talent.
Since 2012 the Patriots have had two first round picks, one of them was a complete bust in Dominique Easley, and the other a middling starter at best in Malcolm Brown. They've done pretty well for themselves in that timeframe, so I don't think "wasting" one of their 2 first rounders on a QB would be a doomsday scenario.
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