Patriots: ‘Blue smoke and Mirrors’ approach lands Mac Jones at 15
The New England Patriots Bill Belichick has once again played Harry Houdini in the NFL draft process using ” blue smoke and mirrors” to get their man, Mac Jones of Alabama at No. 15 in the first round of the NFL draft.
Now, the New England Patriots have been a rather poor drafting team over the past two decades. let’s make that perfectly clear. Not good.
This space has often cited numerous examples of shoddy drafting by the New England Patriots over the years especially on high drafts picks. They are well-known and obvious.
Numerous especially second-round picks have amounted to almost no production whatsoever as a previous article pointed out. Their record is poor at best.
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In addition, their overall draft strategy has been flawed to the point of ridiculousness. (That may just be changing now, we’ll see later on.)
Yet, there is one pre-draft strategy they have utilized well under Bill Belichick, GM that has worked at least twice now including yesterday. That’s their “blue smoke and mirrors” tactic. The bluffing game.
Don’t play poker with that guy. Ever. Not only does he have the perfect poker face, so to speak, but he knows how to bluff.
Here’s how it works. Over the years, while the Patriots had the best quarterback and often the best winning team because of him, they won every year.
Consequently, the then hapless Buffalo Bill’s and the clueless New York “Jest” (sic Jets) were constantly looking up in the standings at New England. No revelation there.
There is one caveat for both the Jets and Miami, though, when Chad Pennington was the quarterback of either, he made them competitive to an extent.
That guy could play. He was a very good quarterback whose career was wracked and then wrecked by injury.