Eliot Wolf will be in charge of the personnel department,

[dirtynine]

In the Wolf piece by Reiss, this stood out to me:

The Patriots' ideal scenario is by April 25 -- the draft's opening night -- they'll have conviction about one of the quarterbacks available to them. Mayo recently said they haven't reached that point yet.

If they don't reach that point, the team is open to other options, such as trading down.

Obviously this idea isn’t news, but it’s the first I’ve seen reported that the team hasn’t come to consensus yet, a week out, on the non-Caleb QBs. Unless that’s a smokescreen.

edit - makes me think a trade down is more likely than I’ve been assuming.

 

[Cellar-Door]

Schefter still thinks Daniels going #2. Last few seconds of the clip.

Well I saw him walking it back elsewhere, and now he's going for the "well WAS still wants him but he might not want them" angle. I wonder whether his original really strong take was from someone in the FO in WAS who didn't have as much pull (that is a weird crowded FO/Owner situation) or it was from Daniels' agent and now he's feeling the pressure.

 

[DJnVa]

edit - makes me think a trade down is more likely than I’ve been assuming.

Jeff Howe said yesterday that he would "fall out of his chair if they didn't take a QB at #3"

 

[dirtynine]

Jeff Howe said yesterday that he would "fall out of his chair if they didn't take a QB at #3"

Fair enough. Hopefully it’s done with conviction.

 

[DJnVa]

Fair enough. Hopefully it’s done with conviction.

He actually said he likes the spot the Pats are in and compared it to the Oden/Durant draft, as whoever was picking #2 essentially couldn't get it wrong. (Note to readers: that does not mean the player pans out). Phrasing it like that makes me think the Pats like both guys enough that they'll be happy with either guy. He said he would prefer Daniels, but wasn't sure which one the Pats preferred but that either guy is worthy of the #3 pick.

 

[sezwho]

Fair enough. Hopefully it’s done with conviction.

It’s just word salad, but he did say they expected to be there by the draft. I mean what can he say? ‘Yup, we know already just hope X is there!’ Gotta keep the cards close still.

 

[4 6 3 DP]

Curious who this group thinks the source is of all the Jonathan Kraft stuff.

You figure it's either a Jonathan source, from an ego standpoint letting the world know he's in charge now not his dad, or a Wolf source to protect himself if the pick ends up going bad.

Can't think of anything else obvious.

 

[DJnVa]

I think it's nothing nefarious, simply ownership being in the room and in the loop. We never really heard about it before because it was all BB, all the time, but now people are looking for clicks and pretending owners aren't involved when a team is preparing for it's most important draft in 30 years.

 

[Cellar-Door]

Curious who this group thinks the source is of all the Jonathan Kraft stuff.

You figure it's either a Jonathan source, from an ego standpoint letting the world know he's in charge now not his dad, or a Wolf source to protect himself if the pick ends up going bad.

Can't think of anything else obvious.

I think a lot of it is just spin on stuff from a bunch of people because it became a story, and for the first time in 2 decades it's unclear who is truly in charge. Like the Russini thing, from subsequent stuff.... I'm pretty sure her source was in MIN, and probably they said... "We talked to Wolf, and Kraft is in the loop" which became "Is heavily involved" because it isn't untrue, but also gets attention. Do I think Kraft is probably a bit more involved and overseeing things tighter than when Bill was there... yeah for sure, but it's hard to tell if he's really meddling in football, or just people are pointing out his involvement far more because it's a story, where in the past.... no story there, everyone knew Bill was the Guy.

 

[Mystic Merlin]

I think a lot of it is just spin on stuff from a bunch of people because it became a story, and for the first time in 2 decades it's unclear who is truly in charge. Like the Russini thing, from subsequent stuff.... I'm pretty sure her source was in MIN, and probably they said... "We talked to Wolf, and Kraft is in the loop" which became "Is heavily involved" because it isn't untrue, but also gets attention. Do I think Kraft is probably a bit more involved and overseeing things tighter than when Bill was there... yeah for sure, but it's hard to tell if he's really meddling in football, or just people are pointing out his involvement far more because it's a story, where in the past.... no story there, everyone knew Bill was the Guy.

Plus did Bob and Jonathan give much of a shit who they were picking at 32/what their board looked like when the AFCCG and Super Bowl were the Patriots Open? They haven’t made a pick this big in thirty years (Bledsoe), even with Bill still here they’d be more engaged.

 

[Jimbodandy]

Curious who this group thinks the source is of all the Jonathan Kraft stuff.

You figure it's either a Jonathan source, from an ego standpoint letting the world know he's in charge now not his dad, or a Wolf source to protect himself if the pick ends up going bad.

Can't think of anything else obvious.

Complete fabrication is a possibility.

Eyeballs stave off unemployment.

 

[lexrageorge]

Plus did Bob and Jonathan give much of a shit who they were picking at 32/what their board looked like when the AFCCG and Super Bowl were the Patriots Open? They haven’t made a pick this big in thirty years (Bledsoe), even with Bill still here they’d be more engaged.

It would have been interesting to have seen the conversations in the front office in 2001, when Belichick selected Richard Seymour with the 6th pick (highest selection BB ever made), when the media consensus was that the Pats should select a WR. And the second guessing would have been brutal had the Seymour and Light picks not worked out, given that the Pats did leave Santana Moss, Reggie Wayne, Ocho Cinco, and Steve Smith on the board (albeit, quite a few teams left the last 2 on the board).