Did the Patriots Blow It at the Trade Deadline?

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00:00We were talking about the NFL trade deadline yesterday at 4 o'clock,

00:04anxiously waiting by to see if the Patriots would do anything,

00:07and they didn't do anything.

00:09Why didn't they do anything?

00:11Phil Perry.

00:11I don't think they're willing to part with draft picks

00:13in the middle of what they still consider a rebuild.

00:15I asked Rabel two or three weeks ago, I think now,

00:17if their record and their performance this season

00:20would at all change their approach at the deadline,

00:22and he basically at the time flatly said no.

00:26He wasn't shutting off the idea of making that happen,

00:28but he clearly was not taking an aggressive stance either

00:32at the trade deadline in order to help bolster

00:34what they already have on the roster.

00:36Now, they didn't do nothing, as John pointed out to us last night.

00:41They did acquire, is he a wide receiver, I hope?

00:44Yes.

00:45Jerry Rice's kid signed him to the practice squad.

00:48Yep.

00:49A bold move.

00:51Bold move alters everything.

00:54They were, I get not wanting to make a big deal.

00:56You don't want to part with day one or day two picks.

00:59I get that.

01:00You're building something here,

01:02but there were some minor things that the Patriots could have done.

01:06We talked about, we had more than one writer talk to us

01:09about Rasheed Shaheed and what a deep threat he would be,

01:11and Shaheed was traded for a fourth and a fifth.

01:15That's something the Patriots could have done.

01:17I mean, the Chargers got a tackle for a sixth-round pick from New Orleans.

01:23Chargers' offensive line has been decimated on the left side

01:26because of injuries.

01:26They've lost both of their tackles.

01:28They got a guy who's going to start for them for a sixth-round draft.

01:32But do you think the Patriots thought they needed a tackle?

01:37I think the odds of both Will Campbell and Morgan Mose

01:40is making it to the finish line is remote.

01:44Considering Mose's injury history and the lack of depth on that offensive line

01:48and the fact that you have a kid that you want to protect,

01:50yes, I think that they certainly could have used an upgrade,

01:54and if the Patriots are being honest with themselves,

01:56they could have used the depth.

01:58A sixth-round pick for an offensive lineman is nothing.

02:00But is he in an expiring deal?

02:03I did not look at that.

02:04I don't know.

02:05But it shouldn't matter.

02:08Well, you're banking on someone getting hurt.

02:12Yeah.

02:12No, I understand what you're saying,

02:14but you said that the Chargers are going to start the guy.

02:18Well, they are because they don't have a left tackle with them all.

02:20Yeah, but that's why they made the trade is because they were in a desperate situation.

02:24I think if the Patriots had said,

02:26we'll give you a fifth,

02:27they probably would have gotten the deal done.

02:30All I'm saying is there were minor things the Patriots could have done.

02:34And didn't.

02:35And it was needed.

02:36We've gone over and over again about how this team is lacking with depth

02:40in many key positions

02:41and how this roster isn't nearly as good as the record would indicate.

02:45Here was a chance to get some depth and make the roster better.

02:49And if you really want that fifth round pick back,

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