Jones & Keefe: The trade deadline was a missed opportunity for the Patriots

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00:00Look, I still think they're a good team independent of doing anything.

00:03Right, right.

00:03I just wish they added some depth in case of injury,

00:06and I wish they added a player that could have raised their ceiling

00:10because I think the window is wide open to compete for a Super Bowl this year,

00:15maybe win a Super Bowl this year, and apparently they disagree,

00:18and that's just frustrating.

00:20Yeah, it's super frustrating because this team is ahead of schedule.

00:23They are a lot better now than I think anybody would have anticipated,

00:27and the rest of the AFC is closer to you than we could have anticipated.

00:34And so nobody was screaming about, oh, you've got to go out there

00:37and get Sauce Gardner or Quinton Williams, right,

00:39the two best players that got traded yesterday by the Jets,

00:42and you're trading multiple first-round picks.

00:43That wasn't going to happen.

00:44Nobody's asking for that.

00:45But there's a big difference between trading number one draft picks

00:50and then also doing nothing.

00:51There's a huge middle ground.

00:53You have all these other rounds.

00:54You added picks, and dumb me,

00:56I thought part of the Keon White and Kyle Duggar trades last week

01:01were to sort of get all your kind of draft capital lined up

01:04so you could make moves yesterday and sort of add depth pieces.

01:08The roster is better than we thought it was going to be,

01:12but it's obviously not perfect.

01:13And whether you think they need a starting running back,

01:17a depth running back, a depth pass rusher, a depth safety,

01:21a linebacker, whatever,

01:22you could make an argument for a lot of different positions on the team

01:26and they decided to do nothing.

01:29And that is very frustrating.

01:31Yesterday was the time to do it.

01:32I'm not interested in somebody else's practice squad cast-off.

01:36I wanted somebody that you could bring in and help the team.