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    One Draft Hot-Take

    Felger and Mazz are all in on Michael Penix, so it's a given that they'll complain no matter who the guy is they pick at 3 because you could have had a haul in a trade down and picked a better QB later. My hot take is the Patriots will use either their second or third round pick (in...
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    2024 NFL General Season News and Notes

    His last season was absolute elite, no real injury history, young, consistent production, operates in an area of the field Goff loves throwing the ball to. Slam dunk deal for them.
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    What is next for BB?

    If they made the Manning Cast Peyton, Eli and Bill with a rotating guest interview during halftime it'd be just perfect football content. But I fully expect the guests to still have a ton of space during the game itself, mostly contributing nothing while Peyton tries to awkwardly insert...
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    The Next Pats QB: Daniels or Maye?

    A whoooole lot of that is draft Twitter updating their priors over the recent success of guys like Mahomes, Allen and Herbert (who was also widely disliked). More and more people are looking at traits and how QBs react to certain situations over mechanical polish, accuracy and overall...
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    The Next Pats QB: Daniels or Maye?

    As with Daniels, the more I watch of JJ, the less impressed I am. In a way, he's sort of the opposite of the guy he's being sold as? I don't think he's this great in structure, take what the defense gives you, patient in the pocket QB. To my eyes he has spray misses just as often as Maye, he's...
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    If he calls the Patriots and says "hey, Elliott, 3, 34, a 2025 first and a 2026 second for Herbert, you in?", I'm giving him that package every day of the week and then he can do something ridiculous like drafting both JJ and MHJ.
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    I like Penix mostly because I think he can throw the hell out of the ball and will move more in the pros than he did in college, but I suspect his incredibly low pressure to sack rate, which would usually be the greenest of flags in my evaluation, was as much a product of his environment as...
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    Yeah, meeting with Penix at this point after not having done all due diligence on him before just screams "we're open for business, so better be prepared", which I hate. If Maye is on the board and they don't take him I'm going to be in a dark place.
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    That's what he meant, it just makes little sense. The Patriots had very little presence at his Pro-Day, they met with the other QB prospects more throughout the whole process. It all points to Penix being a contingency plan, and not the guy they wanted all along.
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    I feel like Mahomes would be much more highly thought of if he came out in this year's draft, while Trubisky's stock would be lower, just as a guy like Drake Maye would be a lesser prospect back in 2017. A lot of established wisdom about the traits a college QB needs to have in order to be...
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    Don't get Lazar's rationale at all there. Penix would be the opposite of their Tatum in that scenario: a quarterback they aren't interested in taking at 3 who they wanted to know better in order to be prepared for the possibility of receiving a trade down offer they can't deny. Trading down to 6...
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    I don't think you buy time because a mediocre team with a mediocre journeyman QB is one of the least attractive combos in the sport and a lot of fans won't have that much goodwill or care all that much going into year 2 of the regime to find the QB. I believe people also look at picking a QB...
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    The Krafts

    They made a move to get rid of a coach with a lot of power because said power meant you couldn't really pin the blame on anyone else in football ops for the team's poor results. It's not like they were in the playoffs every year and Kraft's ego just couldn't deal with Bill running the show, the...
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    The Krafts

    I didn't say being concerned is talk radio nonsense, I just argued we don't have to overreact to every single specific tweet that comes out as if it represents a wild shift in philosophy. You guys are obviously free to do whatever you want.
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    The Krafts

    Sure, but what I'm arguing is I don't think there's any indication they'll have final say and having input for a franchise altering draft pick is the norm for owners. I just think the Kraft we were sold for 20 years ever actually existed and he was never THAT hands off with Bill. He just didn't...
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