Interesting. I figured it someone who was trying to sell BB on the pick similar to McDoofus with Maroney in 2006 because McDs brother was coaching at the Univ of Minnesota.
I think it's a strength of BB to allow input from others, but it has to burn him a bit when the pick is not good.
We all know that we could use a few top athletes on both sides of the ball. Bill knows it. Josh knows. The mailman, the night clerk at the Red Fox Motel and all
the Real Housewives of Foxboro know it.
But.......
BUT........I will note that it's one thing to watch guys run like gazelles during the warm-weather section of the football calendar, making splash plays in the
modern NFL and earning fantasy points galore, but we've won multiple Super Bowls using both WR and DB corps that were not as good as what we've got right now.
We've won with TERRIBLE, totally depleted D backfields. I still have nightmares about that first Philly Super Bowl when we were forced by injuries to send rookie Dexter Reid
in at Safety and he had not successfully defended a pass play all year. Somehow, Philly didn't really notice him in there, but I was hiding behind a couch.
If I was the kind of person that cared about proving my points, I could list literally dozens of examples of mediocre athletes who made big plays and won rings with this team when all the track
stars on the other sideline were limping around or huddled around the heat guns wondering what happened.
We draft certain kinds of guys and much of that is based on what goes on between their ears. Bill has sought advice from the best guys in college history (Saban) and some
of the worst (Urban) and it's a mixed bag like every other damn aspect of picking college kids. Sometimes he stays BFFs with his minor-league colleagues and sometimes
he breaks up with them after they send him a dud or two. Sometimes he just wigs out totally like a schoolboy crush (see: Rutgers) for a while before moving on.
We're going to be a really good football team later this year and the folks who are still running around screaming about Brady and how Bill is a shitty GM are going to have to find something else to run around screaming about. Some folks just need to howl about something all the time to achieve self-actualization. Or something.
Everything is OK. Not perfect, but things are steadily and incrementally coming together and I'm going to love watching people backpedaling like mad while claiming they knew it all along.