What's up everybody? Welcome into the NextPaths podcast. I'm Phil Perry. We have a prototypical

Patriots edition of NextPats coming at you today. So excited to get this series started because

we're in a new era.

Prototypical Patriots was a little bit turnkey for a little while there.

Not to say that we always hit on which players the Patriots would be picking draft after draft after draft under Bill Belichick.

But at least under Bill Belichick, we had 20 years plus worth of drafts

to be able to go back and check out and investigate and try to figure out what exactly

Bill Belichick preferred at quarterback, at receiver, at tackle, at defensive end, at lineback,

at safety, all of these positions. And we did it every year for the last several years now.

I'm not even sure when we started.

I have to go back and check.

I don't think we're quite to the 10-year mark, but it's been a while now.

And so again, for so long, we had so much data on what Bill Belichick wanted that year after year,

because the data didn't change all that much,

it really didn't.

He always wanted big linebackers.

He liked big 330 plus pound defensive tackles if they were available.

He wanted certain movement skills at corner, quickness especially, ability to transition for all his defensive backs really mattered.

The three cone historically for a long time, we know if you're a Patriots follower for a long time.

You know, Bill Belichick loves his three cone times.

And so I won't say it was easy, but we had an idea of what to look for.

We had a really good idea of what the quote unquote prototypes were at these various positions.

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