(04-04-2019, 12:03 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(04-04-2019, 11:13 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Bill has always picked at the end of the rounds compared to Dave at the beginning.  Pat's have had some pretty good players over the years though that they drafted

They have some good players but they have also drafted a lot of very bad players.

He has so many dudes who are no longer a Patriot or some even in the league. Just go look at 2017 and 2016.

The point here is that GMs miss. They miss all the time. Caldwell has drafted Ramsey, Telvin, Linder, Westbrook, Jack, Yan, Robinson (drafted ARob too), Harrison, Fournette, Abry Jones and Colvin. Of course he has some misses but every GM does. Caldwell isn't the best but he's certainly not the worst or even close to it.

Everyone overlooks how bad of a GM Belicheck is because he has Tom Brady who masks the entire offense.

I mean since 2009 he probably only has like 2 truly terrible drafts and he's one of the best GMs in football at picking up undervalued assets and gaming the system. Definitely not the best drafting GM around but he's not bad, its just the Patriots have the most unique board in football so when they "miss" it tends to look a lot worse.

He does have some blind spots like he's very bad at drafting WRs and usually is good for drafting a bum DB in the 2nd or 3rd fairly commonly

---