Pioli's Draft Record (Good read.)

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by milkman

All you have to do is give this a little bit of thought (I know that's asking a lot of you).

Bill Bellichick is the head coach of the Patriots.
He doesn't have time to go on scouting trips, or to pour through the hours upon hours of tape on players in college.

That job fell to Scott Pioli.

He has to pare down potential draft candidates to much, much smaller list.

BB has the final say, but there's no way that you can look at the Patriots draft and fail to give Pioli a huge amount of credit for the work that's been done there.

You are correct as far as you go, with Pioli doing alot of the scouting, both film and individually, durign the season.

My understanding is that the pared down list that Pioli is primarily in charge of creating then gets handed to BB, who also does a ton of film work (big surprise, I know) on those players on the list, and of course deals directly with scouts.

It would be a vast mistake to think that BB was passive or uninvolved in the drafting process.

All that said, I take nothing away from Pioli, who headed the entire scouting process, and had shared veto power with BB in the draft room.