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Memo to Whom It May Concern in Patriotsland

 Dear Sirs and/or Madams in the Front Office: The following is a list of quarterbacks drafted with the third pick in the NFL draft since the merged NFL-AFL draft began in 1967.

1967: Steve Spurrier (note, number four pick Bob Griese is in the Hall of Fame).

1970: Mike Phipps

1971: Dan Pastorini

1979 Jack "The Throwin' Samoan" Thompson (4th pick Dan Hampton, Hall of Fame

1986: Jim Everett

1994: Heath Shuler

1995: Steve McNair

1999: Akili Smith (4th pick Edgerrin James, Hall of Fame)

2002: Joey Harrington

2006: Vince Young

2008: Matt Ryan

2014: Blake Bortles

2018: Sam Darnold

2021: Trey Lance

       As a group, these QBs fail to impress. Everett and Pastorini had OK careers. McNair and Ryan did better than that. Each won an MVP, each had a team reach the Super Bowl but lost. Otherwise, oy. There are some historic failures on the lost -- Firing an executive or two type failures.

Past performance is no guarantee of future success, as the Wall Street ads say, but this list strongly suggests the Pats should do even deeper study of their tapes of Marvin Harrison Jr.

posted by Michael Gee @ 11:06 AM