Jones & Keefe: Until the Patriots start hitting on drafts, there are going to be MAJOR roster holes

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00:00Most people were on Cole Strange.

00:01I think most people were jumping on Cole Strange.

00:03I think some of the other ones are a hit or miss, I guess, over that time.

00:08If you're looking at Taequann Thornton,

00:11I do remember specifically pointing out that whole year

00:14how they reached on every pick other than maybe Marcus and Jack Jones.

00:18Everybody else was projected to go,

00:20and you can say whatever you want about projections,

00:22but Cole Strange famously projected maybe to be a third-rounder.

00:25Taequann Thornton was supposed to be pushed down as well.

00:27They overdrafted everybody, and they were wrong.

00:30But this is also one of those things where you have to sort of pick

00:32how you want the draft to be discussed.

00:35Because in real time, people are like,

00:37you won't know until five years.

00:39That's the thing, the pushback you get a lot of times.

00:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:41How do you even know?

00:42No one has any idea.

00:43Oh, well, you guys are all just like a revisionist history.

00:46It's like, well, now we actually have a sample size of what they did in the NFL.

00:50And I'm not even doing a Bill Belichick all drafts talk.

00:55We're talking about the 2022 draft,

00:57because specifically they just cut their first rounder.

00:59But make no mistake, I mean...

01:01He had a lot of bad ones, yes.

01:02Yeah, and part of the reason the roster blows is because he had a lot of bad...

01:05It's not just Elliott Wolfe.

01:06Yeah.

01:07Like, a lot of people are like, oh, Wolfe and Mayo,

01:09and they were all brainless, and look at the position you got left in.

01:12I mean, Gonzalez can play.

01:13Go look at that draft.

01:14Keon White, he's getting beat out by Caleb on Chase,

01:17and that's not looking like a great pick.

01:19He has a couple of receivers in the sixth round.

01:21Let's see what Booty and Pop Douglas are.

01:22A punter?

01:23But, like, even that draft, Gonzalez is great.

01:25Yeah.

01:26When he's out there, Gonzalez is great.

01:28But even that draft.

01:29So a big part of why you're here isn't just Elliott Wolfe's crap draft last year,

01:34which was terrible.

01:35Yeah.

01:35It's the Cole Strange one.

01:36It's everything after Christian.

01:38I mean, Bill had a string of terrible drafts in a row,

01:40which is a big reason why you are where you are.

01:43And I know you weren't dumping on him for that reason.

01:46But if people want to defend some of his drafts,

01:48I would just point out the reason the roster blows

01:50and you've got to keep nine offensive linemen

01:52and eight wide receivers

01:54and you can only keep three running backs

01:55is because Bill didn't leave you much.

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