New England Patriots 2021 QB options: Go big or go home
2. New England Patriots trade a boatload of draft picks and whatever else to get a bonafide quarterback in the first round of the draft.
Moving up in the draft to get THE guy is essential if New England doesn’t trade for a bonafide quarterback suggested above.
This is an option that can also be combined with re-signing Cam Newton if the New England Patriots feel the young guy needs a year or two of seasoning (see below).
There’s lots of cap space available now and much more can be added by cutting ties with highly paid players who can be replaced, if not at quite the same level then at a decent level.
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But the club actually has to be astute in free agency to get better at those and other positions. There’s little evidenced by their personnel operation that they are capable of doing that. That’s why offloading draft picks that will be wasted anyway makes perfect sense to get the quarterback of the future.
More later on the alternatives in the draft. A few have been mentioned previously. If only New England Patriots’ fandom could be certain that if they trade all of those picks they can actually select the quarterback of the future?
Just don’t over grade and pick a third or fourth-round graded talent in the first, as they have been known to do early and often, and flunked on most.
They often pick a player who everyone else in the football world thinks is mediocre and put a second or third-round grade on him, and they flop.
How many times has that been seen? Far too many.