Besides Gronk and Hernandez, Beli has been godawful at finding receiving threats for Brady in the draft.
Josh Boyce
Taylor Price
Chad Jackson
Aaron Dobson
Kenbrell Thompkins
Brandon Tate
Braxton Berrios
Jeremy Ebert
Bethel Johnson
PK Sam
N'Keal Harry
The only good ones were David Givens (7th rd) kinda, Deion Branch, Julian Edelman and Malcom Mitchell. And I'm being generous.
This is over 20 seasons.
And, here is the issue, and it's unreal how many people seem to do this. It's ONE year and not even a full season yet. The team situations and personnel are completely different as well. The Patriots will have plenty of cap space to make impact signing, use their compensatory picks, etc.
You're talking about a playing not even eight weeks into their career on a team with more offensive weapons than the Patriots, and can have less double coverage at this point in his career.
Again, list me these Ravens and Steelers picks. You can go back to whatever year after 2000 you want to start at. List Jamal Lewis if you so please.
Steelers receivers alone since 2000:
Heinz Ward was the 92nd pick, 3rd
Antonio Brown was the 195th, 6th round
Diontae Johnson 66th pick, 3rd round
Chase Claypool
Emmanuel Sanders 82nd overall, 3rd round
Antwan Randle El was 62nd overall, end of the 2nd round
Mike Wallace was 84 overall, mid-late 3rd rounder
Santonio Holmes was a 25th overall at the end of the 1st round - btw, the Patriots could have gotten him. Who did they get? Lawrence Maroney, a BUST. (we could have gotten Mercedes Lewis and Joseph Addai as well).
Juju Smith Schuster was the 62nd pick, at the end of the 2nd round
Plaxico Buress is the only high pick here. (8th overall).
That's a pretty damn good list of receivers, nearly all of them were not high picks. Were all of them the #1 receiver in the league? No. But they were very productive for their teams. And Belichick could have gotten most of them. And the problem is that Belichick's players were nowhere near very productive. Seriously, look at what I posted above!!
How is it even an argument? Do I REALLY have to post examples of Ravens players? Or other skill position players on the Steelers? Like, come on, everyone knows this.