New England Patriots' Draft Strategy: Avoiding QB Pick?

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00:00If it's the New England Patriots, Donnie, right?

00:05Yeah.

00:06They're not drafting quarterback.

00:07I know that you don't believe that.

00:08I don't know.

00:09No.

00:10Listen to this philosophy here on the New England Patriots, and this is coming from

00:14just short vision of what we've seen out of Drake May.

00:17I don't think Drake May can play.

00:19I honestly don't think he can play.

00:21Like I wasn't watching him in North Carolina and breaking down every single snap that he

00:28played.

00:29Right now, he couldn't beat out Jacoby Brissett, which I sort of played off as saying, you

00:32know what, that makes sense.

00:33The team's going to be really bad.

00:35The limited time he's gotten into football games, I don't think he can play.

00:39So I'm going quarterback.

00:41If I'm number one and I have those choices, Drake May, you're beat like Josh Rosen for

00:45a fifth round, sixth round pick.

00:47See ya.

00:48I'll just say that Drake May in his big career, I never was a Drake May fan.

00:52His biggest performances, Clemson never really stepped up.

00:56Two games last year at the end of the regular season, he struggled.

00:59He loves Drake May.

01:0044% against Clemson.

01:01Don't.

01:0244%?

01:03He can't play.

01:04They got blown out.

01:05I don't think he can play.

01:06What are you talking about?

01:07Number one overall, if I have it in New England, it's quarterback.

01:09Because also listen, if you think Drake May can play, what's the worst case scenario?

01:13One's really good and you win.

01:15Yeah.

01:16Teams don't do that.

01:17Well, they should.

01:18But that's fine.

01:19They don't, though.

01:20They don't.

01:21I'm just saying they don't.

01:22Right?

01:23That's right.

01:24Drake May has thrown eight career NFL pass attempts and he almost scored.

01:27I'm so happy.

01:28Kobe Brissett out there play and they go like, you know what?

01:30He gives us our best chance.

01:31No, they don't do that.

01:32I know.

01:33That's not what they're doing.

01:34Hold on.

01:35I love this.

01:36That isn't what they're doing.

01:37I used to buy into it and I don't think that's the case.

01:38Again, limited time that I saw him.

01:40I don't.

01:41Because if Drake May came in to training camp and was whipping the football around, they'd

01:46be like, hey, Jacobi, I know we promised you to start.

01:49You're not starting.

01:50No.

01:51If he showed any semblance of life.

01:52That's not true.

01:53Which apparently he has.

01:54I don't believe that.

01:55He had a big camp.

01:56But he had a big camp.

01:57I've consistently told you that they do not want to rush Drake.

02:01Maybe they're covering because the guy looks terrible and they're like, hey, look, hey,

02:04we told you we weren't going to rush the guy.

02:06If that guy was worth getting into a football game, he would already be playing for them.

02:10They're that bad.

02:11Josh Rosen was what, 13th overall?

02:1310th wasn't he?

02:1410th wasn't he?

02:15He also played his whole rookie year.

02:16Stinks.

02:17Drake May went third.

02:18You make that move.

02:19You make that move.

02:20I'm so happy this came up, by the way.

02:21This is good.

02:22I love it.

02:23I love it.

02:24If you have.

02:25What do you do with that number one pick?

02:26I don't know.

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02:56Do the New England Patriots draft Travis Hunter at first overall at an 18-1 number who's

03:01going to be an elite NFL wide receiver.

03:04Blow it up.

03:06Craft sell the team.

03:07Sell it at a loss at that point if they do that.

03:08It's a number one overall pick.

03:09When you stink, you stink because you don't have a quarterback.

03:12Therefore at number one, you get that quarterback.

03:14That's what you have.

03:15If you believe, let's just say New England believes, there's a franchise quarterback

03:18in this draft, even though they have Drake May, the best thing a GM can do is admit your

03:22mistake, make the correct move, and move forward.

03:25I don't, hold on, Drake May's thrown eight passes.

03:28I don't even remotely understand how that's where you are on the Drake May thing.

03:31Can I reiterate?

03:32I'm so happy that this came up.

03:34This is a great conversation because again, I wasn't high on Drake May coming out of the

03:37draft like you know, and I was wrong.

03:39I was wrong.

03:40They took him third overall, but I don't believe that they'll move away from him in regards

03:47to that.

03:48Of course they won't.

03:49I will say in regards to this argument, right, or conversation about number one.

03:55If it was Jacksonville right now, I don't know if they go Travis Hunter.

04:00I think they would go more Williams at 20 to one or, you know, offensive line would

04:06make sense.

04:07But we don't, we don't know.

04:08If New England goes offensive lineman in round number one, pick number one, again, Robert

04:12Kraft would have to sell that team for a loss of profit.

04:15No, I said Jacksonville, but I'm saying, I'm saying New England.

04:18No, yeah, go.

04:19No, but New England.

04:20Oh, he's hot.

04:21I love it.

04:22I love it.

04:23No.

04:24No, but New England, they do need a wide receiver.

04:27If Drake May is your guy to your point, you'd need somebody.

04:32What are you going to do?

04:33Would you take them?

04:34Number one, if I'm the Jacksonville Jaguars, you just pay Trevor Lawrence.

04:37So that way you can't.

04:38He is sticking there, right?

04:40Again, I think everyone will make phone calls, but if the Jags end up there, they are either

04:44taking Travis Hunter or a left tackle.

04:46But see, but seeing the trading out of that, if you can't, I do move out of that.

04:51No matter.

04:52Yeah.

04:53Yeah.

04:54Yeah.

04:55Yeah.

04:56Yeah.

04:57Yeah.

04:58Yeah.

04:59Yeah.

05:00Yeah.

05:01Yeah.

05:02Yeah.

05:03Yeah.

05:04Yeah.

05:05We just don't want to draft first.

05:06Can I ask you?

05:07We'll give you our best players in order for us to not.

05:08We always talk about best player available on the board, right?

05:09Yeah.

05:10We always talk about that.

05:11But, but the number one overall pick is always assigned to either an offensive tackle, potential

05:12edge rusher that can change the game or a quarterback.

05:13Yeah.

05:14Travis Hunter is this revolutionary type of player.

05:17Yes.

05:18My thing is, I think he's just going to play receiver in the NFL.

05:21Okay.

05:22So then if he is a receiver and now you got the elite wide receiver potentially, yep.

05:28Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, is he valued at the number one, meaning can you take that

05:34wide receiver because we've seen receivers four, five, they get paid wide receivers.

05:40I would say this, taking a wide receiver should not be viewed any different than if you took

05:45edge or if you do though, though, but that's the problem.

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