Greg Little update

http://www.stevedakota.com/2011/04/greg-little-update-day-2-nfl-draft/

It is widely noted my man crush for the PATS to draft Greg Little the WR out of UNC….so after the first round went by the board and 3 wr’s taken (AJ Green – Julio Jones- Jon Baldwin) I see about 3-6 wide-outs drafted in the 2nd round …

The good news is ….he wont be one of the next 3 or 4 taken in round 2 unless one of the teams love Little like I do…. Thus if Im the PATS I can take him with the 28th pick (60th overall) in round 2 or their first pick in round 3 which is #10 (74th overall) — either way we have a great shot at getting a slot WR that with Brady throwing to him will haul in 50 plus catches a year and be great in

Watching the PATS never trade up and continuously trade down is BORING. WHy is it that the PATS are the only team that got booted in round 1 in the playoffs that TRADES DOWN…..year in and year out. How can you get the ELITE players if your constantly trading down. Are not the ELITE players chosen higher in the draft? Do we need to fill 100 positions or do we need to find some STUDS to fill a few positions? Bill is managing this like we are an expansion team.

Do you want a team that is exciting on draft day, or a team competing for Super Bowls for 10 straight years?

I do not care if it is boring. Seriously look at the Dynasty team. Here are the 1st round picks leading up to the SB run:
92-Eugene Chung (gone by 2001)
93-D. Bledsoe (on bench most of 2001 gone by 2003)
94-Willie Mac (def part of the run)
95-Ty Law (def part of the run)
96-Terry Glenn (only played in 4 games in 2001 gone by 2003)
97-Chris Canty (gone before 2001)
98-Robert Edwards (gone after rookie year ( )
99-Damien Woody (part of 2001-gone for 2003)
-Andy Katzenmoyer (left team before 2001)
00-No 1st round picks
01-Richrd Seymour (STUD MAJOR PART OF DYNASTY)
02-Daniel Graham (Def part of dynasty)
03- T. Warren (on last SB team)

So looking at this list the team was not built in the first round. It was later rounds 2nd and 3rd were huge and that 6th rounder named Brady might have been the best pick in the history of the NFL. Those who want the team to build in the 1st round need to look at this closely. Really on three or four of these 1st round guys were key to the dynasty. Relax and enjoy the ride. In Bill we trust!

Ask a team that tied up millions on a 1st round bust how that worked for them. You miss on a 2, you move on, it doesn’t destroy your cap for years.

I’ll pass on the 1st round every year for 3 or 4 #2′s. Don’t tell me you can’t find good/great players after round 1, the NFL is drowning in them.

Brady, Light, Koppen, Branch, Faulk, Gronk, Chung, Vollmer, Cassel, Samuel, Green, Givens, Bruschi and that’s just off the top of my head and just the recent Pats.

7 Division titles, 4 AFC Championshis, 3 SB wins, and a 112-48 record! Remember what things were like before he got here? I do. Bill can trade down whenever the hell he wants as far as I’m concerned.

Stop complaining and enjoy the ride!

Sheard Hankerson Offensive Lineman in 3rd round I’d like to say Brooks but Sheard is a cold weather player

do you call one and done competing in the playoffs every year! i don”t no elite pass rusher same result one and done

People that say “In bill we trust” = morons

As for the Pats…Cam Jordan would have been nice……

So there are no elite players after the first round? Why waste time with rounds 2-7??? According to some of you, Brady was a waste, since the Pats didnt trade up and grab him in the first round, LMFAO. Hernandez and Gronkowski were terrible last year, because they werent first rounders. Sebastian Vollmer, complete waste of space, he wasnt drafted in round 1, right?

Some of you need to relax, and let the Pats brain trust do what they think is best. You guys heard some tool on tv say that “Random Player” was a game changer, and thus you tihnk the Pats just NEED to move up and draft him. Remember, for every 1 of those cant miss players, you have 5 Ryan Leafs…

I was a little disapointed that New England passed on a few of the available players, but to be honest, I always am. It is just the way it is. Why pay first round money for 2nd round talent, or 3rd talent, etc. That is the statement the Pats made last night. There are very few “elite” players in a draft, and the Pats havent been afraid of grabbing them when they see them (Seymour and Wilfork come to mind).

I would much rather be disapointed on draft day, than to see another Laurence Maroney debacle. If the Pats had traded down and skipped on Maroney, all of you would have bitched about them trading down, lol

Magnum. F OFF. Moron? For trusting in a coach that came here and brought this franchise (one of the worst in all sports before this decade) THREE Superbowl championships? Who is the moron here? Because you know more than one of the GREATEST COACHES IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL? Yeah Jordan would have been “nice” no chit! They set themselves at the LT position and or the RT position for probably the REST OF BRADY’S CAREER here! Are you the same “moron” who hated the McCourty pick last year? Best corner in NE since Ty Law. Could be as good when it is all said and done.

I do trust Bill. He has nothing but win here, I am guessing you are under 30 and do not remember the days of futility in the early 90′s? Or maybe a fair weather fan who only shows up for a winner? There was a reason we got Drew Bledsoe with the first pick…we had the worst team in the NFL. Bill. along with an amazing ownership team and let’s face it a hodge podge of assistant coaches, scouts and staffers who changed with the leaves of New England, has managed to keep this team VERY competitive for over a decade!

So I ask who is the moron? A real fan who has spent hours watching this team in the good and bad seasons or a PI who makes blanket statements about a fan base that has seen this team through the thick and thin of what is the New England Patriots?

Give the man and the team a break. They made one pick last night and added a 2nd rounder this year and traded first rounders to get it. I understand that they missed out on Matthews last year. they also avoided Gholston too. They will address their needs and I bet they do it tonight with their FIVE picks in the 2nd and 3rd rounds! You do not get that many picks by just making your picks. You sacrifice a pick or two to get more…getting more picks in the early rounds=more impact players.

I for one am looking forward to what they do in the next few hours. Even if they trade down and disappoint those of you looking for the ” sexy picks”.

IN BILL I TRUST!

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Great win despite a stupid penalty by Lucic.

Bourque’s kid has to go. Sorry, he’s just not that good, period. I can’t understand how a guy that mediocre gets to play the point on the power play. Baffling.

Neely needs to call Ray and tell him that his kid got a shot after seven years in the minors and he just can’t cut it, at least not in Boston.  

And to the poster who thinks the B’s need “no fixing”, the power play continues to be a burden. It’s pathetic….they keep winning, that’s what goes good for the B’s….but at some point, the brass will address this Achilles Heel by the deadline….an effective power play will make this team almost unstoppable….Is this team fun to watch?

 Yeah, tough penalty considering, at best, he’s going to be called for a hand pass anyway and at worst what happened. Just blows my mind how dominant the Bruins have been and how few power play opportunities they get. Every night they play, I check the box and their opponent always seems to have twice as many chances on the pp. I know they have been atrocious with the man advantage but I would still like the penalties to be fair for both sides.

I feel 10 times stupider after reading this comment by Sicko.
May God have mercy on your soul.

The B’s NOT having power plays is a good thing. They get more shots when they’re shorthanded.

 Yeah okay douch e.

They need to fix the power play….regardless of the penalty ratio….I keep reading and listening to all the theories but it’s the same old same old….I realize no team is perfect but they can certainly use help in that regard…

 I agree 100% my only point is they seem to take a lot of penalties even with the dominant record. The power play has been a killer ever since Savard went down.

Strange but seems to be true. The power play is just hard to watch. I would like them to go out and get someone that can score down low. IMHO they rely too much on the points on the power plays. Chara has an absolute gun for a shot but how many times does he ever score from the point?

They have cap space…there will be a move to improve…count on it.

A nail biter tonight.  Wish the B’s had won in regualtion and not afforded the Senators a point, however we’ll take the two.  Awesome hit by Thorton which rocked the Garden.  As ususal Tuukka rules, and should have had the shutout tonight.  If only they could have pushed the puck to the corner…. 

Despite always seeming like the Bruins are killing off a penalty, if you check the stats, we actually have one of the lower total PIM for the season so far.  It’s just too bad they all come at the worst possible time.  And yes, I too am also starting to become a little inpatinet waiting for the power play to improve. 

 Yeah, but if you also notice they are the lowest team in the league for getting power plays at 51(next closest is 61). I know they have played a couple of fewer games but having one of the better teams in the league you would think they would get more pp time.

As long as they keep winning I could care less but it always seems they are killing off late penalties in close games.

 Next closest is actually 57, my mistake.

 What gets me is the lack of finishing when given great opportunities.  They are averaging 3 goals a game. As for the penalties, the league has started to take the NBA approach to calling games. Some odd calls and many missed ones.  I hope this means the refs haven’t hit their stride yet…..

 Well knuckles, he does have a point.  That hand on puck is often only called for a hand pass.  Especially this late in a tied game when Refs often don’t have the stones to call a potentially game winning PP.  In my opinion, it should always be a penalty, but the refs aren’t consistent enough about it.

 and in many cases, more goals! One of the great wonders of the world – how can a team with such offensive skill suck so bad on the PP???

PP is definitely a concern.  The Bruins for the most part are playing with some swagger, but you can see that disappear as soon as they go a man up.  Almost as if they are too consumed with it.  I have read all sorts of suggestions and ideas, but one thing I know for sure, Chris Bourque does not belong on the point or on the ice in any PP scenario.  

“Chris Bourque does not belong on the point or on the ice in any PP scenario.”…which again proves my point…they need help on the power play and judging from history, this team will make some changes come trade deadline….

I understand that the B’s have cap space but that is no guarantee that the Jacobs will spend the money. It’s a gamble for them; short season, less profit…..

Good point…however, from what I’ve read and heard, they’ll make a move…maybe just one…without having to spend the entire nut….and like you alluded, the Jacobs are all about $$ and the deeper this team goes in the playoffs, the more $$ they make….concessions etc…it’s a gamble for them but one I’m betting he’s willing to take….

Solid win, however Bruins are clearly more talented than Ottawa and should have put that team down before they got a point for the OT. Bruins still for whatever reason play better on the road. 

The PP, well we have been saying it for years and nothing has changed. There is no movement, no hustle, no sense of urgency to score on the PP. They continue to mystify me by changing the entire team philosophy for the PP’s.  

I say, the best short term fix is to simplify things. Keep the Krejci line together, keep the Bergeron line together and keep the d pairings them same. Stop mixing and matching lines for the PP and putting forwards on the point. Tell them to play like it’s 5 on 5 and still use the cycle and normal forechecking to get this PP going. They go from being a grind it out hard forechecking team, to this pass happy, everyone standing still PP, it makes no sense. 

I played against Chris Bourque when he was at Cushing Academy, yes at that point in his career he was lethal from the point on the powerplay. However, he just doesn’t have it at the NHL level. 
For that matter, there are very few forwards in the NHL I would put on the point over any of the current bruins defensemen. None of those forwards are currently on the Bruins, one of them just so happens to be Jerome Iginla. 

Amen. I believe that the B’s could acquire Iginla and I think he’d be a great fit.