I mean, I don't know if they're desperate but they should be at
least in my opinion.
Look at the Patriots. Robster. You, you brought up nikhil.
Harry. Okay. Yes, I wouldn't think he's gonna be there much
longer. If he is. He's not going to be a major part of
the offense.
He's been a huge disappointment.
But then Michael
after that, you go,
who the hell do they got it? Receiver. We know
they got
a course, Nelson Aguilar and and then they got Kendrick
born, you know, you.
The ad, Ty, Montgomery to the mix. Who I don't know if he's
going to be used more as a running back or receiver. Most
teams have used a Moore's, a third-down running back
the last few years. So,
again, this is where it's gonna get interesting.
They've lost Jacoby Myers. He's put up some production
for them. The last year's
right? Jacoby Myers is not on the football team anymore.
If I'm remembering that the right way here.
So that's where I just look at it. And go
man. The Patriots had a desperate need here.
They're they're one in. Real way from Gone.
Whoa, who the hell you going to play a receiver? This guy's
unproven commodity, is he really ready for prime time?
And of course, as we know they got a Young quarterback who
you're still trying to make look good in this situation.
Yeah. They've got a Galore born to kill Harry, Ty Montgomery,
train X and Malcolm Perry. Matthew Slater, although he
rarely plays receiver and Christian Wilkinson.
Think about Ty Montgomery.
That really does fit with something. We know the Patriots
like to do which is get your personnel on the field and move
guys around right then to write no-huddle and put the defense
in a bind. They used to do that when they had
the late Aaron Hernandez, on the team here, play any
position that they wanted to put him in and maybe Ty
Montgomery. Does that? That's why I'm surprised Cordarrelle
Patterson didn't last longer in New England because he was able
to do that, but they like having guys like that.
Yeah, where they can slide into no-huddle if they choose to do.
So but you're right, they needed help at the position,
and
you can still roll the dice in the draft. But look, they did
with nikhil Harry. We've criticized, the Cowboys for
sending
their first-round, pick
in 2019, to get Amari Cooper because they paid Cooper fifty
three point nine million over three years. When they would
have paid less than 12 million on a four-year contract for
somebody, would take them with the 27th. Overall, pick in
the draft in, 2019. Now,
and we've rattled off the names of the guys, they could have
had DK. Metcalf Tebow Samuel, AJ Brown. However, they also
could have had the kill Harry because that's who the Patriots
took
with Debo Samuel, AJ Brown
and DK Metcalfe on the board.
So
I no longer trust it. If I ever did the ability of the Patriots
to Draft receivers for as great. As this Steelers, are ya
at finding receivers
in an amazing that that is the glaring. Achilles.
L of Bill Belichick and his group, I mean they took Chad
Jackson who was disaster in right around like in two
thousand eight thousand not
they have been abysmal Abyss. When it comes to drafting
receivers. Yeah, they were abysmal. Even the years. I was
there was some of the guys draft, even mid round picks.
They are Mike one. Where
you have said it, you in. This is the
to me, like, you know, epitomizes exactly what
this is. One where,
yeah, for whatever reason, New England Belichick. There. Not
great, at evaluating or or translating. Wait, what? This
guy is in college. This is what he can be in the NFL.
They're very good at wait, we've seen you in the NFL
and now we think we can make you work up here. Whether it's
Wes Welker or other guys, like the Randy Moss, blah blah,
blah. Yes, that works. But
I know Mike it is pretty shocking as far as that that,
you know, positions concern.
It is not a great, you know, track history as far as what
they've done there for Isaac can really help their team out.
Especially, I think, if we're thinking top, half of the draft
type guys, top two, three rounds of the draft,
a point. We've made in the past.
Is it an issue of drafting the wrong guys? Or it is, is it
a failure to develop them? And does it boil down to simple,
Belichick in
impatience? Get that son of a bleep off the field, he done,
you know,
let him play again when he figures out how to tie his
damn. A shoelace, you know, that kind of thing. Let's get
a veteran out here. Who knows what we're doing, and what we
look for. So, we can practice these reps so we can get
through
this day, so we can
develop our defense to instead of having some guy with his
head up, his butt out here, who doesn't know what he's doing.
It could be that simple.
Then he just has no patience
for a younger guy. Kind of like Jon. Gruden wouldn't have
patience for a Young quarterback. Maybe Bill
Belichick doesn't have patience for young receivers and they
never develop. He never. Gives them that chance to learn.
I don't know. I'm spitballing. No, I don't think can't just be
picking the wrong card, right? Every
time it's got to be something more than we got the wrong guy.
It's got to be at some level. We're not doing enough to turn
that guy into the player that he could be.
I think there's some truth there to that Mike,
you know, legitimately first thing. Let me just say this
Jacoby Meyers is there. He was restricted, restricted free
agent. That's why I couldn't figure it out in my head on
the roster yet, but I still did I remember? I was like, wait
something. It down. Okay.
So yes, there is that. But then to your point Mike,
I think that's a very real thing up there in New England.
How many times have we talked about? And I've kind of tried
to discuss as far as how complicated that offense is,
right? It that offense is far, as
language is concerned how the plays are called,
is different, than any other place
in football, and then the rules and
The amount of plays that have rules and are very intricate
and detailed. There.
It is very tough on young receiver, out of all
the positions that I would say, you got to go from college and
the NFL and adjust
receivers already, one of those, that's a little bit more
complicated than the rest. Because again, you know,
college football right now. It's
run up to the ball and
act like we're going to snap it and then we don't snap it. And
then I looked to the sideline and the coach tells me, exactly
the play. I'm going to run. Okay, right. I'm going to run
one of those three routes because I only run three
routes.
I'm in college football
and that's their life. And that all the sudden they go to New
England and they're going, you know,
0 as lot. 72 pearls, perhaps a little like they're saying all
these words and they're going. Well my gosh. Wait, hold on.
Hold on. I don't even know where to line up first. And
then wait, what's my route? And then wait, I gotta run three
different routes according to the coverage and you want each
one to be a little difference and nuanced and I
think there's some reality to what you're saying, Mike 100%.
Sorry for the long story there, but I was just trying to paint
the picture for people a little bit. No. No, I think that's
valid. And again, whether it's impatience or whether its
failure to develop them or failure of them to step up.
There's something that
has gone wrong with the Patriots. For the most part,
when they have drafted receivers under Bill Belichick.
This won't take long. Indulge me on this train action.
Seventh round her last year.
Nikhil Harry first-rounder in 2019, Braxton various
six rounder in 2018
Malcolm Mitchell. Oil, fourth, rounder, and 2016
Devin Lucien seventh round her 2016
Jeremy gal. Seventh round, her 2014, Aaron Dobson. A second
round because I was Marshall right in 2013. That was
a wasted second round pick Josh Boyce fourth round or that same
year. See you hear me Ebert
Taylor price out of Ohio a third-round bust
in 2010 taking around before Aaron Hernandez Brandon Tate
who was decent at first. Yeah ended up in So Natty right more
is a kick returner.
He was a third round her in 2009.
Then
Julian Edelman. Well, there is an exception. There. It is
right there is one right, seventh rounder and 20 2009
Matthew Slater again. He's not really a receiver. So he
doesn't count. He was a fifth router.
Chad. Jaxon was all the way back in 2006 and 2008 or 2009.
He was the second round her in 06
and PK Sam Bethel. Johnson,
Deion Branch second round her in 2000. So there you go. The
Bill Belichick. Check experience. So they got two
Super Bowl MVPs. I guess if you look at it that way it's glass
half full.
Hey, man, I've drafted two receivers who became Super Bowl
MVPs in the last 20 years.
Who else can say that? Well, that's fine.
But the rest of the work,
not exactly Super Bowl MVPs. No. No, I mean
really
what's amazing is the majority of the names. There you go.
They never even got on the NFL radar. Forget about like, we're
a little bit disappointing or didn't.
Workout in the NFL.
It's like, no, we've never heard of those people. They
never got on the scene. There was never a moment or a game
where you oh, I remember that guy and that's where there,
it's where it's crazy.
And then you know, even with an Edelman it was it took a few
years, right? He was not exactly like a guy that was
just plug and play.
He was special team. Sat behind Wes Welker learned how to play
football like him and they developed them that way. So
there was a little time to let him learn the offense and not
have to
put them out there and perform right away because he was
a seventh-round pick that worked in their favor that way. But
man. Yeah Deion Branch, he was a good one that worked out. But
other than that, it's Slim Pickens there in New England.
As far as the draft is concerned. That's for sure.
They should just no longer Draft receivers and acquire
them this way. Let someone else develop them and pick them. And
then you go out and cherry pick them either as free agents or
in a trade, when
someone ends up with a glut
of wideouts, which is exactly what happened
to the Miami Dolphins. Ins.