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Prototypical Patriots: One QB fits the ‘Packer Way’ mold to a tee originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
For a long time, putting together our Prototypical Patriots series was relatively self-explanatory. We had about two decades worth of drafts run by Bill Belichick to analyze what he preferred at certain positions.
What were the physical or production-related thresholds he seemed to value at quarterback? Receiver? Tackle? Pass-rusher? Cornerback?
The more picks Belichick made, the more information we had, and — theoretically — the more we could zero in on the players Belichick would want on draft weekend.
Now? The entire process will be less self-explanatory.
De facto Patriots general manager and director of scouting Eliot Wolf, has no track record as a franchise’s primary front-office decision-maker. It’s not entirely clear what he’ll prefer on a position-by-position basis.
All we can do, then, is work off clues from personnel chiefs whom Wolf has studied alongside in the past. That includes his father, Ron Wolf, who built the Packers in the early 1990s and beyond. The elder Wolf then tutored the likes of Ted Thompson, John Dorsey, John Schneider, Reggie McKenzie, Scot McCloughan and Brian Gutekunst. The younger Wolf worked alongside all of them, aside from McCloughan, who left the Packers in 1999.
All those names ended up as general managers of their own teams, with Eliot Wolf working directly under Dorsey during the latter’s run running the front office in Cleveland.
As we work through this year’s Prototypical Patriots series, we’ll use evidence from all the branches of the Ron Wolf tree, pointing out what they valued in their early-round selections.
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When it comes to the quarterback position, there are only eight players for us to look at who cost the above general managers first- or second-round picks. (That includes Brett…
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Publish date : 2024-03-20 14:27:56
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