Cerrato Vaguely Explains Draft Strategy (with Questionable Evidence)

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Originally Posted by Beemnseven

But didn't the Patriots "need" a linebacker? Vrabel and Bruschi are ancient. They did need a linebacker, so they got Jerod Mayo.

Just like we needed a cornerback in the 2005 draft. Champ was gone, and Smoot was in Minnesota. So we drafted Carlos Rogers.

You can't ignore needs, that's for sure.

Varbel is old but in 2007 he was a monster having one of the best years of his career posting 12.5 sacks, Bruschi was the soul of that defense but yes LB is a position that needed depth the starters were mostly all returning and the Pats have a history of being able to pick up older LBs and get somthing out of them ... But also you could just as easily argue that having lost Gay and Samuels they should have gone CB first if they picked soley on need but picked up Mayo a little early possibly because he was the BPA when they picked ...