Right now, the Patriots aren’t a good team. But their record is 7-7 which says they aren’t a bad team either.
But when you really, REALLY get down to it, the Patriots are"meh" because a run that was incomprehensibly long fizzled when the combination of humans making it happen went away. In short, life.
So you end up in 2022 with a team of perhaps better-than-average talent that is as undisciplined and poorly guided as any Patriots team has been since Pete Carroll’s 1999 lame-duck season. So let’s return to the original question. Can the post-Brady-Gronk-Edelman-Hightower-James White-Ernie Adams-Dante Scarnecchia-Patrick Chung-Josh McDaniels-Joe Thuney-James Develin-Patriots get really good without bottoming out like the Bengals did for most of their existence?
But sucking was how the Patriots got good. They used the No. 1 overall pick in 1993 on Drew Bledsoe. He got them to the Super Bowl in 1996. They used the fourth-overall pick in 1994 on Willie McGinest. They used the seventh overall pick in 1996 on Terry Glenn.The first first-round pick Belichick ever made for the Patriots came after a 5-11 season in 2000 and was the sixth pick overall. Richard Seymour is in the Hall of Fame now.
Meanwhile, five of the top seven AFC teams currently have quarterbacks taken in the top 10. All seven have first-round quarterbacks. The Patriots have a first-round quarterback in Mac Jones who might be really average, could be really good. The only thing we all know for sure about Mac is that he’s not transcendent and he’s going to need high-end help.
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