Kaepernick ran the Pistol… Dalton ran the spread. Both are gimmicky offenses. Dalton is average sized, with an average arm, and average mobility. He was a caretaker for the NCAA’s #1 defense. Kaepernick runs like the wind and has the best arm in the draft, not to mention he’s 6’5 and WAS the Nevada offense.

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Lol. Kaepernick was worthless against quality competition and is the second most 0ver-hyped (soon to be over-drafted) QB in this year’s draft.

16 TDs with just 2 INTs vs. losing record/D-II teams, but 5 TDs with 6 INTs in 5 games against D-1 teams with a winning record (a monster red-flag).

A 69.1% passer against the lesser opponents, with a 10% drop-off to 58.6% against D-1 teams with a winning record.

A TD pass for every 13.4 Pass Attempts against lesser opponents, a TD pass for every 29.0 passes against the D-1 winning record teams (a major red-flag).

In short, if he was playing fourth-rate competition, he was good. But the second he got to a level that would not even test a QB like Ponder, Stanzi, etc., he failed.

Not to mention the fact that the Raiders CLEARLY got the best of them on that Seymour trade. Seymour with a two-year head start or Nate Solder? You make the call. Nothing against Solder per se, just that I’ll take the bona fide All Pro DT over a rookie who’s got maybe a 50% chance of panning out at all any day of the week (and twice on Sundays).

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Well, that makes sense only if you believe that Seymour is really worth what they were paying for them and if you believe the Patriots couldn’t spend $10 million more wisely. The Patriots weren’t going to franchise Seymour and all they gave up was one year of him for five years of someone who is going to protect Tom Brady.

frankiefiveangels says:
Apr 29, 2011 5:52 AM
I’m a Pats fan but I’m so tired of this. Trading for future picks has become a cliche for Belichick. I’m no scout but I feel Ingram or Heyward would have been great picks for them, but they had to trade out because it’s “The Patriot Way”. They are getting like an old man who saves his money forever then dies with a trunk of cash sitting under his bed. What good are these picks if you NEVER use them? Unfortunately the haters are right when they say this strategy seems smart until you realize they have not won a single playoff game since 2007.

McCourty, Chung, Meriweather, Mayo, Cunningham, Spikes, a bunch of talented DT types, and only Wilfork, Warren and Bodden are in the middle-to-end of their careers. They are VERY YOUNG.

The key to trading down is this: if you keep doing it year-after-year, that means you are ALWAYS adding an extra 2nd round pick. That’s an extra high pick EVERY year. If he pans out only 66% of the time, that means after 10 years that you have 6 more GOOD players on your team taken in the 2nd than anyone else that doesn’t use this strategy.

I also laugh at people saying the Patriots should have taken Wilkerson or Ingram as though Belichick hadn’t scouted them already.

So they traded one year of Seymour for 10 years of All-Pro mammoth LT.

STOP TRADING WITH THE PATS YOU IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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To say the Raiders haven’t been ripped of by the Pats would be an understatement and a compliment to the Pats.

They’ve done just fine, thank you.

With the 32nd pick, couldn’t they have waited to pick, and spent the whole night trying to trade? And if no trade materialized, then turn it in right before NE picks at 33. Instead, NE can try all night to trade the pick, which means, in essence, that the 33rd pick might have more value than the 32nd pick. I’m not saying, I’m just saying…

Go ahead and post on it, taking credit for the idea yourself…

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If this could happen (I’m pretty sure it can’t), then NE would still be the ones on the clock right now, so instead of having the 33rd pick to deal, they now have the 32nd. All they have to do is get to the podium before the Packers do, and the 32nd pick is theirs. And vice versa, whoever the Packers are trying to trade with would know that they aren’t guaranteed the 32nd pick.

Most other teams look to the Patriots and their staff for guidance in their draft picks and then knows not what to do with them when they get who they believe the Pats want.

BB is a teacher and innovator. He will take smart athletic players in the second and third round and TEACH them how to play more than one position. This way he also has depth at all positions.

To bad you can’t draft coaches.

DL, LB, OL, (solder probably aint the LT they need, at least in 2011), RB (the law firm could use some help), WR

ALL DECENT TO BIG PATS NEEDS

but we can just pick one every year, and then OH NO by the time we fill all the needs Brady will be done.

PFT please keep track of this stat for me: # of pats draft day trades to # of playoff victories before Brady retires
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I understand what you’re getting at, but there are two major points you need to keep in mind.

1. While there are some really good people in this draft, it’s not nearly as loaded with talent as some other drafts.

2. The Pats don’t have as many open spots on their roster as some other teams, and they have a lot of young players that were drafted highly. Seven of them drafted in the 2nd round the past two years I believe. Simply using all those picks this year probably wouldn’t give them as much bang for their buck, and would leave them trying to figure out which players to keep and which players other teams could poach when they had to cut them to get their roster size down.