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How a few recent draft blunders hurt the Patriots' defense in Super Bowl 52
Thoughts?
Do you agree with this?
Thoughts?
Do you agree with this?
How a few recent draft blunders hurt the Patriots' defense in Super Bowl 52
Thoughts?
Do you agree with this?
How many people thought Tom Brady was anything in 1999? He couldn't beat out Drew Henson for the starting job at Michigan. If Bledsoe hadn't been hurt in the Jets game, would Brady have been a Patriot in 2004? Would the Patriots have won a Suoer Bowl in 2001, 2003, 2004? With Bledsoe at the helm, I don't think so. If Brady had become a free agent in 2004, where might he have landed? Miami? Kansas City? San Francisco??
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I think the Brady analysis at Michigan is way over played. The fact is he demonstrated time and again he was the better QB, but nobody wanted to believe their eyes. Brady was brought in as a respectable bench player until his play finally proved otherwise.It's always easy to shit on what happened two, three, four years ago. We're all experts after the fact.
How many people thought Tom Brady was anything in 1999? He couldn't beat out Drew Henson for the starting job at Michigan. If Bledsoe hadn't been hurt in the Jets game, would Brady have been a Patriot in 2004? Would the Patriots have won a Suoer Bowl in 2001, 2003, 2004? With Bledsoe at the helm, I don't think so. If Brady had become a free agent in 2004, where might he have landed? Miami? Kansas City? San Francisco??
As for the defensive players that Belichick "blundered" on, how many has he hit squarely oin the head with his hammer? Malcom Brown, Dontae Hightower, Devin McCourty, Malcom Butler, Deatrich Wise, Duron Harmon.....
For every one missed, there's one that was a direct hit.
It's the off season and writers are bored. It's fun to scratch at scabs and see how much blood you can draw.
Maybe the writer of this article should make 7 picks in this draft before hand and see how good those picks are in three years. Why three years? Because it took that long to realize the value of Jimmy Garapollo. You know the guy everyone thought was a wasted pick in the second round of the 2014 draft.