Archives for April 2014

More time for more mock drafts and misinformation! The pre-draft period was already annoyingly long before they pushed the draft back into May. It’s no accident that suddenly players who have been atop the rankings all year are suddenly getting destroyed by “scouts” and “sources”. A lot of this is done to try and affect draft stock, most often by teams who want that player.

I don’t love the draft like a lot of people out there. I’ll be far more happy once I can jump in and evaluate the players the Pats pick up, rather than trying to pick a few random needles out of the haystack and try to explain why they will be who the Pats select, when really, they’re probably not selecting them.

I’m not a trained scout. I don’t watch college football film all day. The bit I do watch are YouTube cutups that give little context. I do think I know the kind of players the Pats like and I do my best to find those types of players, but I could do without the surrounding hype leading up to the draft and much of the online draftnik community, especially those who think they have it all figured out.

I don’t think so, he probably fits more of a Will linebacker prototype, so if he’s redundant to anyone it’s probably Mayo.

My love/hate relationship with Mayo has been well-chronicled here. Despite his elite athleticism, I’ve just always felt he lacks that special something in coverage that the less-athletic Bruschi had. We’re entering year seven with him and there’s no question he’s the brains of the defense, but really how much worse off were they without him for most of last year? Hard to say for sure, but there weren’t many “man, if only we had Mayo” sentiments out there.

So the short answer is that I’ll take any defensive front seven player BB deems worthy in the first round, be it a defensive tackle, end or linebacker. And I don’t think it’s out of the question to take a player who could potentially back-up, and eventually maybe replace, Mayo.