Again with the dinosaur thinking. Patriots use sub packages a higher percentage of the time than their base defense.
Let's look at the snap count for the Patriots win over the Bills this year.
Barmore only played on 63% of snaps.
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Does that make him a waste of a 1st round pick?
Not when you consider IMPACT on the game. He was a perfectly viable use of a 1st round pick.
Now imagine if we had BOTH Barmore and Karliftis on this defense? Our defense would be giving QBs nightmares.
He would certainly have been useful with Judon missing the rest of the season!
Wake up and smell the coffee. NFL teams use sub packages ALL the time for the right situation. It's called specialization.
I'm not even making the argument that Karlifitis is the ONLY guy we could have drafted that would be BETTER for the Patriots now than Strange. I'm sure there were more. He's just the most obvious example of BB blundering in the draft yet again because he was taken only 1 choice AFTER Strange.
Bottom line you can never have too many pass rushers and they impact the game more than a mediocre guard even if they don't get as many snaps per game.
If Cole Strange played like Logan Mankins, nobody would be complaining right now but he's NOT. In the end he's very mediocre and represents yet another wasted opportunity in the 1st round.