New England Patriots director of scouting Eliot Wolf spoke at the combine Tuesday and told all of us assembled there that the team was changing its draft grading rubric from the traditional Bill Belichickian scale, which is weighted heavily on a player’s prospective role, to a more Green Bay Packers–centric scale. Wolf said the Packers scale is more “value-based,” which allows scouts to more easily stack prospects.
Before we get on with our point, let’s consider how stunning that last sentence was for several reasons.
- A member of the Patriots’ scouting staff spoke publicly at the scouting combine.
- A member of the Patriots admitted that the team had a grading scale.
A member of the Patriots admitted what the original purpose of said grading scale was.
A member of the Patriots admitted that the team was changing its grading scale.
A member of the Patriots was not immediately thrown into the trunk of an unmarked Camry and driven to a dark site where his identity was erased.
