under Bill Belichick, who's been
obviously with the team since 2000.
Everyone's eligible, except Tom Brady because obviously, that
would be the first pick by the way, my crease pointed out
yesterday. 83 draft-day trades made by Bill Belichick Far and
Away the most since 2000. I think a lot of it has to do
with. He's in charge.
He doesn't have to worry about getting anyone on the same
page. He can do what he wants when he wants how he wants. All
right, you get the first pick. Tom Curren
best draft pick made by the New England Patriots
under Bill Belichick since 2000. All right, Nan, Brady,
draft picks. I'm gonna take Robin Wright house, key,
Rob kropp. We're doing Brady. No Brady. No I said non Brady.
No Brady. Okay fine. I'm going to take Rob Gronkowski 2010,
second-round pick 20 years old coming
off a season at Arizona, which he did not play.
He ends up going on to become arguably the greatest tight end
in NFL history and as a result, he helped catapult. Them
to however many Super Bowl appearances. They had last
decade in three Super Bowl wins.
But he was never a Super Bowl MVP. Unlike a gentleman who was
selected in round seven
out of position where they have struggled to draft and develop
receivers. We have done the stories and I've gone back and
looked at all the guys, from remember, Chad, shacks. And
what disaster that was, when they used a second round pick
on him way, back in two thousand, five or
six ish. But Julian element
a seventh-round pick, who would become
not just the successor
to Wes Welker, but a Super Bowl,
MVP Super Bowl. D3.
Great Value from a seventh-round pick Tom?
Great Value from a seventh round pick. And again, it's
interesting because that's a drafted wide receiver who was
developed to replace a wide receiver. They had brought in
Via free agency, Wes Welker. They love the free agent route.
Let's go next with my first excuse my second round pick.
It's going to be Richard Seymour in 2001 sixth overall.
Pick the Patriots. Had to hit on that pick. They are coming
off a five and eleven season and Bill Belichick
finds the Who ends up being a hall-of-fame anchor for his
defensive line in Richard Seymour in 2001 first round
number six overall
now gets a little more difficult.
You know, what is gonna go?
Hey,
I am a student of the Jimmie Johnson School of special
teams. It is one third of the game. It is as important as
offense and defense and if you take it for granted, you end up
losing at home to an overmatched
49ers team. Like the Packers did
Matthew Slater is a fifth-round pick in.
And ate the amount of years they've gotten out of him. He
has been a Cornerstone. He was recently compared to the likes
of a Lawrence Taylor. On defense the importance. He's
had to the special teams in New England by Bill. Belichick
since
2008. I'll go Matthew Slater sneaky under the radar solid
draft pick. They never would have dreamed that, he would
still be on the team through all these Super Bowl wins and
also
be such a Cornerstone of their special teams and still
keep going. You got something to say about him. We got to
take a break. You got something, love it. Now,
I think that's a great pic tremendous and good stuff. And
that's where done.
All right, there's the draft so far of the
best draft picks made by Bill. Belichick
since he arrived as head coach of the Patriots and de facto GM
in 2000. Tom. You are on the clock for the third pick, who
you got.
I'm going. Vince, Wilfork 2004 wins. The Super Bowl is
a rookie helps to solidify that defensive line,
and keep those linebackers clean all the way until 2014.
And also helps to Shepherd through that
Patriots, way culture
that he Turned under see more variable brewski and then
passed it on to the next Generation.
Really huge cultural. Touchstone
taken in the first round. I think it was 20.
Fourth overall. I should know that off the top of my head
with the help of the University of Miami. And that's a great
pick because he was the defensive bridge between
the two
halves of the dynasty. Tom Brady offense. Vince, Wilfork
defense. Good pick by you.
I thought about Stephen Gostkowski because when Adam
Vinatieri leaves for the calls, they use a fifth-round pick on
Gostkowski and he keeps the kicker position under control
for a hell of a long time,
but I'll go with Deion Branch, another Super Bowl, MVP,
another, you know.
When you look at the
road of pissed away, draft picks at the receiver position
that Bill Belichick has had you've got to Super Bowl MVPs.
Not many teams. Can say, they've drafted two receivers
over the past. 20 years, who have become Super Bowl MVPs.
The Patriots can
Deion Branch second round pick, but still
won a Super Bowl. MVP, it fell apart. Once he decided you want
to get paid and they didn't want to pay him. They
eventually traded him after an acrimonious. Hold out to
the Seattle Seahawks, but he was a Super Bowl MVP. So I'll go.
Oh that way Tom also really cool about Deion Branch when
they finally said enough is enough with Randy Moss and they
dealt him
but God that they brought in to replace moss in 2010 was Deion
Branch and he ended up playing the next two plus seasons for
the team. It had a nice little run with them. When he came
back, help to reconfigure their offense.
What a steal that was during the draft in 2007
to get Randy Moss.
A guy that we all fought was washed up and done. He hadn't
even had ten years in the NFL at that point, but he had to
design
Easter season with the Raiders and the bottom line is they
stunk. So he was the guy that he was in Minnesota when things
wouldn't go well, he was just that way every week because
the Raiders
were bad every week,
people just forgot how great he was
and what they get in for a fourth-round, pick
with round, pick
of all time. Great trade steals ever
and he comes in, he has one of the great seasons for any
receiver ever right away. And it also, it also led to the Al
Davis overhead projector press conference.
In which he said,
Mike Lombardi actually
told everybody that Moss was slow and then sent them to
the Patriots as a favor to Bill Belichick secret workout in
Miami, where Belichick got to see how fast he was and Davis,
accused Lombardi and Belichick of being in, cahoots. I
remember that vividly,
and then Lombardi would go on to work with Belichick,
purely coincidental,
purely coincidental.