Originally posted by pasodoc9er:I agree qnn, and would add just one other point. JimmyG was BBs fair haired boy, picked and raised and hand taught by Bellichek. No doubt in my mind he wanted to keep Jimmy and airmail Brady, but Kraft wanted no part of that. So when it came time to trade him or have him become a FA, he called the one best place he thot jimmy could go. 49ers. Kyle had already impressed BB by asking him for his advice in the SB loss. BB respected that....and then, as you mentioned there was the Mike connection. But BB didn't want the guy he had hand raised going to CLEVE or some dump like that. There are at least 20 crappy HCs in NFL and he didn't want jimmy wasted there either. So, thanks to the JL /Kyle axis, we got him. It wasn't as some have said blind luck. It was by intent. Bill Bellichek's intent. He didn't want to see his 3 yr project go to waste.
And based on the last 5 games of 2017, JimmyG didn't go to waste. Match made in heaven .,..with some assists.
So I left that out. Having said that, I've loved most of the 2018 draft except for Kentavius. Now, don't get me wrong, he's a 49er so I'll support Kentavius. What I don't like is that there was edge rushers out there that could be had for the Kentavius pick. (again, even if the edge rusher picked at Kentavius' spot *didn't make the team,* it would still equal the result of Kentavius being IR'ed for a whole year plus). Buckner wasn't at fault, I think he was playing at the NT position and he communicated it to the Big end and also to the 3-tech, but I don't think the 3-tech (would that be Solomon?) communicated it to Dakota (or whoever was playing LEO at the time).
That might be mortgage the future type of trade.
That might be mortgage the future type of trade.