If your argument was that he wasn't on shit teams with bad teammates compared to say Temple, my bad. Never occurred to me that we'd be comparing him to guys that weren't under consideration to be NFL starting quarterbacks. I'll try to read better.
If anyone watched the first 3 picks on the awful Pat Mcafee show it was so scripted and obvious each QB BB BREAKDOWNZ!!!!! Was good play, bad play, good play, Bad play. It allowed BB to play both sides without stating a real opinion. Anyone taking that as BBs real opinion on the player should go buy a bridge.
The show wasn’t great, but I did enjoy seeing Bill in this role. I never expected Bill to give teams grades on whether they made a good or bad pick. Besides, the experts thought Devin McCourty was going to have a ceiling as a special teams contributor.
Oh, I don’t disagree at all. I’m just excited to see what this guy can do. The ceiling seems very high. After watching all of the dismal quarterback play last year I am just eager to see how he develops.
It was hilarious.
I continue to agree with this.
I just Reread it. Sounds like the post was that Maye carried a bad team without a lot of weapons. And your response was that they weren't a bad team without a lot of weapons. Guess that's fine in a vacuum.
Absolutely. Maye was my pick from the start and was nervous that Commanders might come to their senses and pick him ahead of Daniels.
Oh yeah coaching matters for sure. One of Maye's selling points is untapped potential, something that differentiates him from some of his older colleagues from bigger programs.
Omarion Hampton is going to be one of the first RB’s taken next year and is the leading contender for ACC Player of the Year. Maye did have a stud rushing for him this year.
If anything they are actually supporting the new young QB with WR and OL help to build upon. You can’t say that about the previous regime which did very little to put the previous first round QB in a better position to succeed.
Yeah, but the Drake Maye of it is the most important and consequential decision. If he's good or not good, we have pretty decent evidence as to what decision BB would've made if he was still here.
Absolutely the case. You aren't going to find Tom Brady types in the 6th round again. Once in a lifetime lottery ticket. Look at the four AFC division winners. All first round picks. 3 of the 4 top 10 picks. You need to take that chance with a guy like Drake Maye who has big upside if you want to get into that next level again.
We do? Where are you getting this evidence?
That wasn't BBs board. It was from Yates.
None of the reasons were about a fake Wikipedia entry. That's just the kind of silly crap that goes on these days.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40039753/patriots-qb-drake-maye-leadership-mack-brown-nfl-draft-unc
The article is wrong. Belichick clearly pointed out during that segment that Field Yates put together that big board.
Oh. You didn't say the article was wrong. And I didn't watch because there was no sound and I bailed.
Not only that, there was an opening segment with Field Yates introducing it as his big board and talking about how he learned how to put it together in part through his work as an intern with the Patriots.
weird stance considering Belichick spent plenty of draft capital and free agent dollars building an offense around a presumptive young QB
The BB didn't support Mac narrative basically starts in year 2, when the Matty P decision happens and Mac starts to really struggle, primarily because he can't play QB in the NFL. I also think last year might look a little different if Meyers (with whom Mac had a good connection) is here instead of JJSS, and the Oline was more healthy. But really we learned he couldn't cut it. The non-support narrative is a tiresome position that gets brought up in the media all the time but really doesn't tell the whole story. Well put by @NextBigThing8184.
Absolutely. He started out well, while being majorly managed by Josh McD, then started to come down to Earth (not that he was in the stratosphere or anything) when teams got film on him and the competition upped. A solid, but nowhere near spectacular rookie year. The downward trajectory began mid-rookie year.
100% agree. His performance before and after the 2021 bye week tells the tale.
If BB stayed, he trades down to take McCarthy or Nix. Pretty clear based off of his breakdowns and interviews this was his preferred method.
