The quarterback position in this year’s draft is not as good as we have seen in recent years but for a team like the Patriots who need a developmental third quarterback who can develop into a back up, this draft has some intriguing options in the middle rounds. It is the strength of this position this year. Here are ten quarterbacks that the Patriots could target in the draft. Especially……
AP Photo/Mark Stockwell After months of speculation regarding what the Patriots would do with the third overall pick in this past April’s draft, the team selected quarterback Drake Maye, out of North Carolina. Maye represents hope after the Patriots failed to develop Mac Jones under Bill Belichick. As a result, the team traded away Jones this off-season to the Jacksonville Jaguars for a sixth round pick. The Patriots have stressed…
The Patriots thought they had their quarterback of the future in Mac Jones after taking him 15th overall in 2021 but after two years of regression, they moved on from him this off-season, trading him to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now comes a new opportunity to truly find Tom Brady’s heir apparent and the next great quarterback in franchise history. It is a good year to be picking at the top…
The Athletic’s Jeff Howe reported on Thursday that the Patriots plan on taking a quarterback with the third overall pick, signing a veteran and that they will trade Mac Jones. Howe says the Patriots are focused on selecting a quarterback that they can build around. “The Patriots really want to draft a quarterback with the No. 3 pick. The front office wrapped up its pre-free-agency meetings a week ago and……
AP Photo/Michael Conroy Purdue’s Aidan O’Connell could be a really good system fit for the Patriots if they decide to draft a quarterback this April. I have long been a firm believer in the philosophy of Mike Shanahan and Mike Holmgren when it comes to quarterbacks and developing the position. Draft as many of them as you can. Both Shanahan and Holmgren believed that by drafting or signing quarterbacks every……
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Many Patriots pundits and fans alike have speculated that Bill Belichick does not value the quarterback position. I am not sure I would go that far. I think he does but there is a pattern of addressing the position in his history which could shed some light into how he will address the position this off-season. Here are three observations I have made about Belichick and how he addresses the……
The Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs is here and it is a reminder that picking a quarterback in the first round of the draft matters. Of the four games this weekend, only one features two quarterbacks that weren’t picked in the first round. The Buccaneers, Saints match up features Tom Brady of course who was picked in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft and Drew Brees who……
The Patriots have turned the page on the Tom Brady era after 20 seasons. It is hard to believe that another quarterback will be the face of the organization moving forward but that is the reality of professional sports today. The Patriots have the 23rd pick in the first round so it is highly unlikely that anyone of the top four quarterbacks in the class will be available to them…….
Bill Belichick once again played it close to the vest in his pre-draft press conference with the media on Monday. However he indirectly acknowledged that the team will draft a quarterback in next week’s draft. Belichick started the conference call by addressing Tom Brady’s departure from the organization after twenty years. He said it was impossible to sum up what Brady accomplished in twenty seasons in one press conference. Belichick…