00:00So yesterday was, in fact, cut-down day for your New England Patriots.
00:03Cole Strange, arguably the worst pick ever made by the New England Patriots in the NFL draft.
00:09Worst pick ever?
00:10Ever. Period.
00:11Whether it was Bill Belichick or anybody else,
00:13arguably the worst pick ever made by the New England Patriots was officially cut yesterday.
00:17And for some reason, I don't understand this eight receivers thing.
00:21I don't know if it's a, they think they can trade some of these guys now that cuts have been made,
00:26or what the deal is, but why are you not keeping, like, other players?
00:31You have almost as many wide receivers as you do offensive linemen,
00:35and your offensive line might stink.
00:38We don't really know.
00:39It's just I don't quite understand the decisions.
00:42Luckily, hopefully, this isn't the exact roster we see week one.
00:47Like, there should be changes, even if it's at the bottom of the roster.
00:50There should be changes between now and that Sunday game against the Vegas Raiders.
00:55However, eight receivers seems redundant to me.
00:59I like Kendrick Bourne.
01:01Doesn't need to be on this team.
01:02Could he use that spot for, I don't know, your fifth-round rookie
01:05who maybe just needs a little bit more seasoning time?
01:07You really don't need Javon Baker.
01:10Cool, he plays special teams.
01:11I can find 100 guys that'll play special teams for me.
01:14I don't need Javon Baker here in order to do that.
01:16I don't know.
01:17Seems kind of weird.
01:18But, hey, you know, if you trust Mike Vrabel, you trust Mike Vrabel.
01:22It is what it is.
01:22Didn't my former arch enemy, Tom E. Curran, suggest on this very radio station
01:29that there would be some kind of a monumental trade done by the New England Patriots
01:35prior to yesterday, prior to cut-down day?
01:39Did he say monumental?
01:40Well, he said a significant trade would be done.
01:44And it didn't happen.
01:45No, not even rumored.
01:47But are they – is that what they're whispering to people?
01:51Is that what the organization has now been reduced to?
01:54Yeah, they're trying to drum up interest in Kyle Duggar and Anthony Jennings,
01:58and there is none because they're not that good, and their contracts are bad.
02:02Like, now you – I think it was Jeremy Fowler had the report that there were multiple teams
02:07interested in Kyle Duggar, but the contract was just too much,
02:10and the Patriots weren't willing to take enough of it.
02:12Well, it was – I mean, in hindsight, it is – he probably was given too much money.
02:18Yeah, but if you want to get rid of him, you can eat some of the contract.
02:21You have, like, $60 million in cap space.
02:24It's doing nothing but sitting there.
02:25Yeah, because you're just going to have a guy who doesn't play.
02:28I mean, who's there for depth if somebody gets hurt.
02:30But, you know, we're –
02:33On a team that doesn't have a lot of established leaders,
02:36do you want a former leader disgruntled in the locker room?
02:39Yeah, because that's what he is.
02:40I mean, you heard him after a preseason game when he's like –
02:44I mean, guys playing into, what, the fourth quarter.
02:46It's like – it doesn't help your team when you keep a guy like that around.
02:52This is Jim from Weymouth.
02:55Good morning, Jim.
02:57Good morning, everybody.
02:58I'm a little bit upset that they cut Cole Strange because I wanted to buy
03:03and wear his shirt and have yet another reason to piss off my ex-wife.
03:08Oh, he gets a rim shot on that early for a 6.30.
03:11I don't get it.
03:12Well, why is it a rim shot?
03:13It would be like a strange – you know, strange.
03:17Is that an old head term?
03:19I can't explain everything to you, Sean.
03:22No, like, I know I understand the term strange, but that was a –
03:27Didn't hit with you?
03:27Why would it be a hit to his wife, his ex-wife?
03:29Yeah, like, his ex-wife.
03:30I don't –
03:31Maybe call back –
03:33Don't call him a rim shot on things that don't deserve rim shots.
03:36I mean, the guy – give the guy an A for effort.
03:38That's it.
03:39Crying out loud.
03:40I mean, it was so judgmental around there.
03:41He didn't even mention the 69 strange jersey.
03:44Also, I didn't realize how many Swifties apparently listen to this show.
03:48They're coming at me.
03:49Oh, yeah.
03:49You got to be careful.
03:50They are –
03:51They're everywhere.
03:52I think they want to talk about it.
03:53I don't want to talk about it.
03:54For the record, not me bringing it up again.
03:56No.
03:57No.
03:57I mean, I got a text saying I'm an a-hole because if it was Bruce Springsteen that got engaged,
04:02we'd be talking about it all morning long.
04:04That is true.
04:04We probably would.
04:05Definitely true.
04:06I guess.
04:07Double standard.
04:08I don't know.
04:09My hometown.
04:12Congratulations, Courtney.
04:13Once again.
04:13Thank you so much.
04:14I'm so happy for you.
04:15All right.
04:16Shine, thank you.
04:17Curtis, good morning.
04:18I'm going to keep this short and sweet because I feel like I'm the warm-up back for Taylor Swift.
04:23So we've hit on it.
04:25We can't say it enough, but the Patriots are a dumpster fire.
04:30And they are doing the same tricks that the Red Sox front office did for years, which is act like they're going to be trying to improve the team as fastly and as quickly and expensively as possible, when in reality they don't.
04:46They're going to already lay the foundation that the reason this team still stinks and doesn't get to the playoffs is because of the draft failures of the years that preceded it.
04:56Yet, that has no weight when you retain the guys in charge of said drafts.
05:02If you fired Elliott Wolfe and you fired Matt Groh, if you fired the people that were part of the drafts that made these awful decisions, I would give you the benefit of the doubt that this was going to take some time, but that the healing has begun.
05:16Instead, you keep Elliott Wolfe, who's there to shine Vrabel.
05:20Everybody that tweets about this, by the way, that covers the teams was like, non-story.
05:23It's clear that it's Vrabel's team.
05:24So then why does the guy talk?
05:28Why do you allow him in front of the media?
05:30Why do you allow him anywhere?
05:32If it's so, why isn't it clear to Elliott Wolfe if it's clear to Tom Curran?
05:36So it's just a self-inflicted wound.
05:39It's stupid.
05:40And the Cole Strange-Nakil Harry picks are just the height of arrogance.
05:47Everybody knew that Cole Strange was nowhere near a first-round pick.
05:52Yet some people here were like, oh, he never misses on attack.
05:56Oh, he misses on a guard.
05:57This is going to be amazing.
05:59And then Akil Harry, those two, for different reasons, just totally waylaid this organization.
06:05But if I'm the Patriots, if I want to actually move forward, the only way you do that is by getting rid of all the people, purging the system of those that were in charge of drafts that led you to take players that are no longer here already a year after they were picked.
06:20Well, Elliott Wolfe, the reason why they're smart, I got to give the Patriots credit.
06:24Elliott Wolfe is the new Bill Belichick.
06:26He is the guy that now gets all the slings and arrows.
06:29So when you think about the draft.
06:31So if they're being called cheap or whatever.
06:36We blame that guy right there.
06:38We blame the guy that says, hey, well, we'll give up a first and second round.
06:42But everybody that covers the team says he's powerless.
06:43Yeah, but that's what they say.
06:47But once it's like they didn't do anything, who's the first name that they come up to blame?
06:51Yeah, Elliott Wolfe.
06:52They might be like, oh, he's powerless, but then the Patriots don't do anything.
06:56Elliott Wolfe.
06:56So why don't they fire the cheerleading coach?
06:58It would be the same thing.
06:59No, no, because Elliott Wolfe is the guy.
07:01Well, you're sort of right because everybody is pointing the finger at Elliott Wolfe right now and saying, what's he doing?
07:09Yeah, no one's saying, well, hey, Vrabel, what are you doing here, buddy?
07:15They're saying, Elliott, what's going on?
07:17And if we all believe that Vrabel is a guy that has power over there, this is the perfect thing for him.
07:24He gets to, you know, he gets to fly under the radar.
07:28And then when everything happens bad, they'll blame him.
07:33And if something good happens, well, that's because Vrabel was there to make sure they drafted Will Campbell with the fourth overall pick.
07:41So it's smart by the Patriots.
07:44They've always had that guy.
07:46And in the past 20 years or 20 plus years, it's always been Bill Belichick.
07:50Now they need that new guy.
07:52No one's saying anything about Kraft.
07:54Is it possible that it's Elliott Wolfe who insisted on eight wide receivers making this football team?
08:02No.
08:04Really, man?
08:05You think Elliott Wolfe is like, hey, Mike, here's what we're going to do.
08:08We're going to keep eight wide receivers.
08:10Five of them probably won't play.
08:12Then we have to stop washing Vrabel for a minute and ask why he did that.
08:18He's been on pretty consistently, though, having a lot of receivers.
08:23Like, I remember Meggo talking about it after one of the practices where I believe she questioned him on having a crowded receiver room.
08:31And he basically said, it's not crowded.
08:32This is how I want things to go.
08:34So it wasn't really a big surprise to me that he kept all of them.
08:38Really?
08:39Yes.
08:39Go back and look at the Titans when Vrabel was the head coach.
08:42I'm not talking about the Titans, though.
08:44I'm just talking about that team that had one of the best running backs ever.
08:48And they were built on that.
08:50And they had A.J. Brown.
08:51Right.
08:51They didn't need a bunch of receivers.
08:53But if you look at every team in the NFL, most teams.
08:57Would you rather five twos or one ten?
09:01Most teams.
09:02We have five starting pitchers.
09:03Carry five wide receivers.
09:06Maybe six.
09:07You know?
09:07I'm just saying what I remember Meggo was doing the podcast and was talking about that specifically.
09:15No, I understand that.
09:16So I'm just saying that that's why it didn't surprise me.
09:18But I think Mike is kind of, you know.
09:19He has Ken sent a text the second six rings is posted.
09:22I think Mike is kind of being politically correct and saying, you know.
09:26But when you look at it, the offense, look who the offensive coordinator is.
09:31Right?
09:31So he has a big say in what the offense should look like.
09:35And that's Josh McDaniels.
09:38Generally likes to play two tight ends.
09:40Loves a fullback.
09:41When do you ever see a Josh McDaniels offense have eight wide receivers?
09:45Maybe they're going to introduce the league to some sort of an eight wide receiver set or something like that.
09:51Would be very difficult to cover.
09:53I love it.
09:54It'd be like the second half against the Ravens in the divisional playoff.
09:58Drake May already doesn't have an offensive line.
10:00There's no difference.
10:01Yeah.
10:01It'd be like Will Campbell, Drake May, and eight wide receivers.
10:05And eight wide receivers.
10:07God, did they speak.
10:08Never been done before.
10:09I mean, you've got to get the ball out pretty quick.
10:10Yeah, that's true.
10:11But if you have eight wide receivers, you'll have.
