As a Patriots fan from a Pats perspective

  • We need to draft a quarterback in this Draft from Round 1 with our top pick wherever we land in the Draft order. Personally, I would have Malik Cunningham who is a dual threat QB start as our QB for the remaining games this season mainly just for evaluation purposes to see if he can play in this league. I would bench Mac and Bailey for the last remaining games of this season. Cunningham starts mainly to see what we have. Then if he flops, then we Draft our rookie QB for the future whether it be Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels or someone else. But even if Malik Cunningham excites, I would still go QB and have Malik as a stop gap. Cut Zappe and I would ultimately cut Mac Jones or trade him preferably trade him for draft picks.

  • Next draft need on the board…Offensive Tackle. Definitely need an OT to help block for our QB going forward as OT is the linchpin for everything on offense. This I would try to go for in Round 2.

  • Then go pass rusher (EDGE)

  • Then go tight end afterwards and then linebacker

Free agency

  • However if we do not go QB in this Draft and we address it in free agency instead…list of free agent QBs right now as it stands for 2024 free agency: Kirk Cousins, Ryan Tannehill, Jacoby Brissett, Marcus Mariota, Tyrod Taylor, Sam Darnold, Jameis Winston, Baker Mayfield, Gardner Minshew and Joshua Dobbs

  • Or potential trade candidates if the Patriots trade for a QB in free agency: Derek Carr (Saints), Kyler Murray (Cardinals) or Justin Fields (Bears)

  • Go wide receiver by going after someone like Mike Evans from Tampa Bay or Tee Higgins from Cincinnati to bring to New England to basically be WR1 for our rookie QB

  • Re sign Dugger, Onwenu

  • Then you get rid of Gesicki or Hunter Henry in free agency…most likely I would get rid of Gesicki but keep Henry

Then as far as the front office…you fire Bill Belichick as the GM of this franchise and you bring someone else in to replace Bill in the front office

Keep Belichick on strictly to be the coach and coach this team

  • ctpatsfan77BEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Once again, the order of events is:

    • Decide if you’re making coaching/GM changes;
    • Free agent signings;
    • then the draft.
    • MisterccwBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      And if you go into the draft with a strict plan to draft a position in a given round (versus weighing available talent and positional value), it’s bound to be a terrible draft.