It moved watching this
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Watch BB make Hoyer the starter.
what are you narcan to my studham viagra!?!?
https://theathletic.com/1781197/2020…-in-the-draft/
The 2020 NFL Draft has reached its conclusion, and as is the case every year, many fans are left asking a seemingly unanswerable question: why didn’t my team fill a position of need?
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, for example, has had to answer questions about why he didn’t take a quarterback. Why would he let Jake Fromm from Georgia or Jacob Eason from Washington continue to slip? Belichick addressed this subject after the draft: “The bottom line is we’re evaluating the position along with all the other ones,” he said. “If we feel like we find the right situation, we certainly draft them. We’ve drafted (a quarterback) in multiple years in multiple points in the draft. It didn’t work out the last three days. It wasn’t by design. It could have, but it didn’t.”
What Belichick is not saying, but what his actions show, is that he likes Jarrett Stidham. During the draft process, he and his staff evaluated Stidham as he relates to the currently available quarterbacks and decided that none of them would be a significant improvement. This is a part of the draft most fans ignore.
The day the Patriots welcomed Stidham into their organization, they began their evaluation. This evaluation was broad, covering on- and off-the-field behaviors. They knew he was not going to impact the 2019 team, so they tailored his development program accordingly. Even though he was listed as the backup quarterback on the roster, the Patriots treated him as the third-string quarterback in terms of making sure he was getting extra reps after every single practice. With then-starter Tom Brady taking the majority of reps in preparation for their opponent, Stidham was preparing in a slightly different manner. Yes, he was fully engaged in the game plan, but after every practice, he, along with other players, would have their own practice, thus allowing him to gain valuable reps in the offense and allowing the Patriots coaches to gain valuable insight into his talents. When the season ended, the Patriots had over 20 weeks of useful data to review, evaluate, and compare to the potential draft picks in the upcoming class.
Only the Patriots know how much upside Stidham possesses. They also are the only ones who know how his talents compare to the other quarterbacks available. Only they can answer if Fromm or Eason or Jordan Love are, in fact, significantly better. Had Justin Herbert slipped, maybe the Patriots would have been able to make a clear designation on the talent between Stidham and Herbert. But Herbert went to the Chargers at No. 6 overall, a spot the Patriots could never reach.
The key to team building lies in the ability of the organization to evaluate the current players on the roster correctly, as Belichick believes New England has done with Stidham.
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Rich [email]Ohrnberger@ohrnberger·8h
I’ve heard it now from A LOT of people close to the Patriots.
They really believe in Jarrett Stidham.
Stidham is not a cheap placeholder…he’s seen as the future.
14-2 patriots will go with him. Book it
Only losses are to the Colts and someone else.
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We will be 8 games into next season and the national media will still be speculating who will replace Brady.
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And they will be 8-0
For the last 10 years, every time a WR was available the media went into full “Patriots” furor.
Now it’s when a QB is available.
There are still mediots speculating that Cam freaking Newton is coming here. He is the antithesis of everything the Pats look for in a QB, but the average fan HAS heard of him.
h/t Chevss
Auburn HC Gus Malzahn on Jarrett Stidham this week.
“… before he played his first game, you could just kind of tell he was a mature young man. Like a gym rat, always at the complex trying to learn, study film. When he got drafted by the Patriots [in 2019], I thought it was a perfect spot for him system-wise – spreading the field. He’s so good with protections, changing protections, and scheme-wise everything that goes with it, and just the flexibility the scheme gives him. I think that really applies to his strength.”
Stidham turns 24 on Aug. 8 – which is five days after Brady will turn 43 – and he made an impression on veteran teammates such as Patriots safety Devin McCourty last season.
That doesn’t surprise Malzahn based on what he saw at Auburn.
“He’s a people person, too. He has the ability, right off the bat, to develop relationships. People rally around him,” he said. "When he first got here, he had spent one-on-one with the coaches, one-on-one time with the players. He just has that ability that people want to follow him.
“In 2017, he had an outstanding year. He played his best football in our biggest games. Of course, we beat our two rivals and went to the SEC championship game. Had a great year.”
“…the moment won’t be too big for him. He’ll be up to the challenge, that’s what I expect,” Malzahn told ESPN.com.
People just can’t wrap their minds around replacing Tom Brady with what amounts to a rookie. They aren’t going to break the bank for some veteran retread. They never have. They didn’t even for Tom Brady. Granted some if that came from his side not demanding a higher salary. But if he had, his departure from NE would have happened years ago.
I love Tom Brady and have relished being a Patriots fan for the last 20 years. But he is gone. I don’t begrudge him one iota following his heart, or the money or the spotlight. Whatever it was. I hope he finds what he is looking for a hundred times over. He deserves it.
Cam Newton is not getting this team back to its glory days. Nor Jameis Winston. Nor Andy Dalton. Not even Aaron Rodgers.
The process will. Trust the process. Trust Bill Belichick.
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Let the new era begin boys and girls.
You guys lost Tom Brady, we lost Pilsbury Pizza pops in Canada. Been rough all around.
You are seriously comparing TB12 to junk food?
STONE HIM!!!
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Hey hey!!! They were both big parts of our lives ok
Anywho we still have them. It’s the mini pizzas we lost, so this all around was just a bad example.
Lol that was very fitting haha!!
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Ben Watson talks about Stidham.
“I’ve seen a lot of guys who come in with a lot of hype who didn’t pan out,” the 39-year-old said during an appearence on FS1’s First Things First last month. “I’ve seen guys who came in under the radar and turned into superstars. Stidham has all that there needs to be for somebody who’s going to be very successful. He’s a student of the game. You hear that a lot, but what that really means is that when we’re in the meeting rooms, he’s paying attention.”
“He’s eager to learn, and he has a certain humility about him, with confidence. He had a chance to learn under arguably the greatest quarterback to play the game. He soaked that in for a year.
"Patriots fans should be confident that he wouldn’t be in that room if Coach [Bill] Belichick didn’t think he could help the team,” Watson continued about Tom Brady’s presumptive heir.
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