Seeing Jakobi Meyers playing well for the raiders this year got me thinking of what recent moves are questionable looking back at the past five years. Hoping we can discuss/grade Belichick as our GM over the last few years when it comes to free agency.
Players that have performed well for other teams and should have kept: Joe Thuney, Shaq Mason, Jakobi Meyers, Johnnu Smith, Brandon Bolden? (this one is complicated, maybe more a discussion around coaching rather than GM). And the most obvious of all Tom Brady.
Which ones did we retain or brought in that moved the needle. I can only think of Judon really.
PS. if we believe the reports that Belichick wanted to replace Tom with Jimy G at the time this kinda ends the conversation about how crap he is as GM, but that was all speculation
Overall, I think BB has been not wholly able to replace what we lost IMO
I was Ok moving on from Brady…He wasn’t going to win with what we had in 2019…I am happy for him that he won another one with a stacked TB team that only needed a QB. He looked WAY better throwing to Williams Godwin and Gronk…
Speaking of You might as well add Gronk to the list …sure he “retired” but really he was done with BB, no love lost there.
Jakobi was a true head scratcher as well as Mason…Thuney was less so, because he was going to get mega paid, but was still a big loss
Gilmore was another headscratcher, but the secondary didn’t seem to suffer much
Bill did add Judon and Henry which was nice, and brought back Trent Brown, which has been a mixed bag,
I think the question boils down to how does what weve lost to free agency compare to what we brought in?
It’s really hard to ask this question without discussing the draft