The only consistent picks are top half of the first round. Everything else is mostly guesswork. N’Keal Harry is a great example as a guy who looked great and had a former NFL coach vouching for him versus someone like DK Metcalf who was physically a beast but looked like a baby giraffe in college. Also “loaded receiver draft” and yet no one was picked until pick 25?
AJ Brown was on twitter leading up to the draft literally begging the Patriots to draft him.
The Patriots passed on him twice for N'keal harry and their annual 2nd rd defensive back.
And yeah the Patriots missed some gems they had opportunities on but that’s literally the Draft because every other team around there also missed those gems.
The Patriots haven't just "missed" at the receiver position, they haven't drafted a single NFL caliber player at the position for over 10 years. You can't continuously miss on an important position like receiver and handicap your offensive attack every year in a passing league. Not to mention that they never once attempted to seriously address the tight end position via draft since Gronk.
Its 10 years of complete and utter incompetence drafting pass catchers. If you say its harder to draft players without a good first round pick fine, but I expect them to maybe hit on 1 or 2 of their picks at the position they've had the most glaring need at for a decade instead of being 0/1234324234234.
Clearly Belichick is a bad gm who undervalued Brady and forced him to take pay cuts that made Brady feel unwanted- oh what’s that? Brady just took a pay cut in Tampa? Huh.
The reports by Pats beat writers all pretty much state the Belichick wanted Jimmy to take over for Brady starting in 2018. I don't see how anyone can look at that and see it as anything other than a gross misevaluation of 2 QBs. Brady's play in 2017 (league MVP) forced Belichick to trade Jimmy, and probably won the patriots another superbowl (they obviously weren't winning with Jimmy in 2018).
Belichick had Brady in the building for 20 years, nobody knew the player better than he did. He's probably spent more time with Brady than any other person outside of his own family members, and yet he still didn't think Brady was capable of playing till 45. Brady earned the right to have his contract extended, but Belichick insisted on going year to year with him. He either did that solely because of Brady's age (actively betting against Tom Brady which never ends well) or because he saw slippage in Brady's play (which was due to the league worst skill talent Belichick surrounded him with). Whichever one of these it was doesn't matter because they were both obviously incorrect evaluations.
He also somehow failed to account to the leadership, accountability, intangibles blah blah blah that Brady brings to any team.
Brady dunked on every critic last year, but it was Belichick who got dunked on the hardest. Dude had the easiest choice in the world to bring Brady back but f'd it up. He's earned all the criticism that he's gotten over the last few months because he's the one that made the bonehead choices that got him to this point.