New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is just like the rest of us. Well, at least in one regard he is. The draft is just two weeks away, and teams are beginning to make their final preparations for the biggest weekend of the offseason. Trying to evaluate and parse the top quarterback prospects can be somewhat of a crapshoot, but nobody wants to admit it.
Everyone thinks they can tell who is going to be the next great pro quarterback, and it takes a humble man to admit the difficulty. Belichick recently acknowledged as much. The notoriously tight-lipped Belichick actually opened up a little bit, and expounded on what makes the transition from college to the NFL so hard to predict for a signal-caller.
“I’d say the issue in college football is there just is not the same passing game in college football that there is in the NFL, period,” Belichick said, per Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com.
“You know, we’re all looking at the same film, so all the teams in the league, we all see the same games. But, the college passing game is very different from the professional passing game. When you’re looking at it, you’re looking at a lot of it’s really projecting all those positions a little bit differently. To a certain degree, it’s different in the running game, too, but probably less difference in the running game than in the passing game, in my opinion,” he continued.
The randomness of it all hasn't stopped Belichick from drafting quarterbacks high in the past. A handful of years ago the Pats took Jimmy Garoppolo in the second round, and he seems to have turned out well. Tom Brady is 41 now, and many have speculated that the Patriots will draft a quarterback in the early rounds sometime soon.
New England has done their due diligence on the top quarterbacks for a while now, but haven't pulled the trigger. It'll be very interesting to see if that changes in a couple of weeks.
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