Know why these next three days of player-picking will be fun? Because the Patriots need guys at fun spots.
Would you rather talk defensive tackle, inside linebacker and slot corner? Or wide receiver, running back, tight end and left tackle? I’ll take the latter. And the Patriots might be taking players at all those spots with their nine picks.
It will be fascinating because now, truly, the Patriots are being re-made with a different vision from Bill Belichick’s.
Mike Vrabel’s tenure has so far shown a new-broom-sweeps-clean mindset. That didn’t exist last year when the Jerod Mayo-Eliot Wolf tandem tried to keep one foot in the past and another in the future.