ESPN gave us a B draft grade. Does that make the pessimist happier?

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by ChiefRon

I think we also have to understand this.

The Pats org have scouting setup differently than we do, and our scouts have been taught/trained how to do some things differently than Pioli + Haley expected.

They referenced this in the pre-draft conference.

I expect we'll be making changes in the scouting dept and next years draft will be much different in approach and it will show on draft day.

I think our FO was put together so late in the process, the changes could not have been practically accomplished in the amount of time remaining before the draft.

Dimitroff was the Patriots DIRECTOR of scouting and look at how he conducted his first offseason:

Franchise QB
Franchise LT
Get a RB to protect the QB

next year

Pass Catching Red Zone threat to help QBs development


Offense is set.

So what do we do?

Penetrating DT
Ball hawking safety
pass rusher
road grader


Nowhere in there did I see Dimitroff needing to completely revamp their scouting department, or taking a pure Patriot approach to drafting. He also didn't scrap what talent he had on D to put a square peg into a round hole and then spent an entire draft burning picks to fit the scheme when the value was elsewhere.

That scouting department excuse is just CYA for Pioli.