Is J.J. McCarthy now the object of Patriots desire?
Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast
NBC Sports Boston
4.5 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up everybody? |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome into Tom Cairns, Patriots Talk Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | We're getting into it now, right? |
| 0:17.0 | By the end of the month, the Patriots will have made a franchise defining decision. |
| 0:25.3 | Think about this. |
| 0:28.0 | In 54 years, the Patriots have used three for four first round picks on quarterbacks. |
| 0:35.9 | In 1971, they took Jim Plunkett. |
| 0:37.6 | They didn't win anything with Jim Plunkett, a quarterback. |
| 0:40.4 | But when they traded him, |
| 0:42.4 | they got three first round picks back that they turned into John Hanna, |
| 0:47.0 | a Hall of Famer, Darrell Stingley, a brilliant player. |
| 0:51.7 | Sam Cunningham. |
| 0:53.8 | Sam Cunningham. If he's not a Patriots Hall of Fame or he ought to be. He was a |
| 0:57.8 | beast. And they also continued to draft well through the rest of that decade. And they had |
| 1:02.7 | they didn't get to a Super Bowl, but brilliant. The next quarterback they drafted, it was |
| 1:09.2 | 1983. It was 15th overall pick. It was Tony |
| 1:11.7 | Eason. And three years later, they were in the Super Bowl. Now, people can complain about |
| 1:16.0 | Tony Eason being a little bit soft. But roll it back. You'll see some good Tony Eason play. |
| 1:22.4 | And that team overall, again, bottomed out at the beginning of the decade, 1982. They had |
| 1:27.4 | the first overall pick with Ken Sims. |
| 1:29.4 | Next year was 15th with Tony Easton by the end of the decade, or middle of the decade, |
| 1:33.6 | they were in a Super Bowl. |
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