new england takes what they get and makes a good team out of it almost every year. let's give belichick his due, he's probably the best coach in nfl history.
but on paper, their drafts are never rated highly.
people got really excited when they signed a shortstop who will hit 240/310/450 and traded for a competent corner outfielder.
like you said, expectations were really high based on assumptions that mize/skubal/manning would all be great and greene/tork would be competing for rookie of the year. rookies struggle, even really talented ones.
it takes a long time to build an organization if youre not going to spend a bunch of money like old man illitch did.
all this said: its still really early in the season. they have time to get healthy and turn it around.
surprised to see perrion winfrey still on the board. teams must see him as a workout warrior because he dominated the senior bowl. engabare is there too. both of those guys had some late first early second talk for a while.
still a lot of decent tight ends and corners left (josh jobe?) not a ton left at linebacker.
fire hinch? lol.
why fire the guy who made chicken salad out of chicken shit last year? if you want to fire someone, fire the guy who gave him the ingredients for chickem shit and told him to make coq au vin.
the tigers dont have a lot of talent and the talent they do have is hurt. a lot of last year's flukes are off to bad starts.
if they get healthy, they'll get better. if not, they'll continue to lose. other teams are going through the same thing (look at the white sox).
paschal's scouting report reads like a dan campbell/brad holmes wet dream. three time captain. eats and breathes football. guy who goes all out for everything all the time.