Editor’s Note: Well, we have got a treat for you today. A man who identified himself as a “long-time BSMW lurker” contacted us this morning with his thoughts about this weekend’s draft, which he seemed intent on sharing as soon as possible. Though his name was unfamiliar to us, he describes himself as a writer [...]

by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The time has come again, mercifully, for us to put away this foolishness for another year and close the books on the Patriots’ 2007 NFL Draft. The weekend wasn’t at all what we expected it to be – and that makes it a fairly typical draft weekend after all.
The Pats made eight picks [...]

The Patriots returned to the Radio City Music Hall podium for the first time in over 100 picks and chose Miami defensive tackle Kareem Brown with the 127th selection of the 2007 NFL draft.
Rob Rang of NFL Draft Scout has the profile, which concludes:
Compares To: Vonnie Holliday, Miami … Holliday is much quicker than Brown, [...]

Adam Schefter of the NFL Network is now reporting that the Patriots have acquired Randy Moss from the Oakland Raiders for a fourth round pick in today’s draft, perhaps the pick they received from San Francisco (#110) in the Meriweather trade.
The Patriots remarkable off-season, in which the formerly demure Pats signed free agents and traded [...]

Yawn.
It was a long and sort of anti-climactic day yesterday, at least for Pats fans, but today promises to be a more active one for draft followers. Some lingering thoughts this morning…
BSMW’s Own Greg Doyle summed it up best last night – the Patriots must have really hated this draft. They did everything but trade [...]

The Patriots have just traded again, this time with the Oakland Raiders, in exchange for Oakland’s third round pick – in 2008.
The Raiders also threw in their seventh rounder this year, pick #211.
That’s going to be a hell of a draft. But it will be nothing compared to 2009, and then 2010, and then………
I’ve [...]

We’re fast approaching pick 91 and the end of a long and only occasionally eventful day that featured the longest first round in the history of the draft.
The Pats will make just their second selection of the day, after drafting semi-controversial safety Brandon Meriweather with pick #24 and trading pick for San Francisco’s first round [...]

Several of the questions at Bill Belichick’s first press conference since the selection of Brandon Meriweather concerned the safety’s checkered off-and-on-field past.
Meriweather was at the center of a much-publicized on-field brawl last season, and previously, had actually drawn and fired a gun at an attacker outside his apartment. Neither act necessarily fits the profile of [...]

Here’s the summary of the profile written by Rob Rang of NFL Draft Scout:
Compares To: Ed Reed, Baltimore Ravens …Whenever the Ravens need a big play, it is Reed who is likely to come through with it, not Ray Lewis … Meriweather is in the same mold as Reed, as he uses his excellent route [...]

The Patriots are off the clock – for a good, long time – after trading their pick at #28 to the San Francisco 49ers for the Niners first round pick in 2008, and their 4th round pick (#110) in this draft.
San Francisco used the pick on LT Joe Staley, who I guess Dante didn’t feel [...]

Make this one good, boys – this is the last (planned) pick for a very long time.
Some ideas:
Michigan LB David Harris – the latest rumors say this happens.
Michigan DE LaMarr Woodley – the Pats would stand him up on the outside, you’d figure
C. Michigan OT Joe Staley – will they pass on him twice?
Auburn G [...]

The Patriots have selected Miami safety Brandon Meriweather with the 24th pick of the first round.
The Patriots worked Meriweather out in March during a visit to the Miami campus.
And with this, the Deion Branch case is closed.
Meriweather wasn’t my first choice, but with the way the first round went today, it is at the [...]