00:00Not a terrible analogy from the Twitch chat.
00:02What do you got?
00:03Is that a compliment?
00:05Sounds like it.
00:05Rather be golfing.
00:06Alec Pierce is like when Calvin Ridley was a free agent.
00:09The Pats needed a wide receiver.
00:10He's the best option out of a mad group.
00:13Yeah.
00:13I think Ridley was better, but that's not a horrible analogy.
00:17I was thinking like Christian Kirk, and they're different style of players,
00:20but there was a year where Christian Kirk got paid through the nose by Jacksonville,
00:23and you're like, ugh.
00:24I think a pretty good, strict free agent, he's not great as a wide receiver.
00:28I feel like it doesn't really happen.
00:30I feel like that's why, even like last year, T. Higgins ended up getting franchise tagged.
00:34George Pickens got franchise tagged because there's too much value.
00:37You either are going to figure out a deal with the player, like a Jamar Chase or a Justin Jefferson.
00:42I'm sure Jackson Smith and Jigba.
00:44It's like all these guys.
00:45You're going to figure out a deal, or you know there's enough value there that you're going to tag and
00:49trade them,
00:50or you're going to at least tag them and get that year out of them, whatever it might be.
00:52If they just hit at that position specifically, just hit the open market, when was the last great one?
00:59Because last year, even guys like Devontae Adams, Cooper Cup, and Steph Diggs all were of the, well,
01:06like how good are they going to be?
01:07Like they're all a little bit older.
01:09So somebody in their prime, and like Alec Pierce is in his prime.
01:12Calvin Ridley, I know he missed that season, but like age-wise, he was in the prime.
01:16Christian Kirk was in the prime.
01:17That Christian Kirk contract, he got four for 72, but only 37 guaranteed.
01:22Okay, and that was like a massive overpay.
01:25It was viewed as a massive overpay?
01:26He ended up being better than I thought.
01:28Correct.
01:28For the first year.
01:29Well, and this is my only pause with not wanting someone like Alec Pierce, and I really don't.
01:36I don't want to pivot from Diggs to Pierce, and now Pierce is your number one.
01:40I don't think he's a number one.
01:41I think he's a souped-up Kayshawn Booty, which is a nice piece, but it's a piece.
01:45It's not the number one guy in your room.
01:46I don't think.
01:47But Christian Kirk, I think, actually kind of was worth it on that contract.
01:51He had 1,100 yards and eight touchdowns.
01:52He would have been the best receiver on the Patriots last year.
01:54That is my pause with Alec Pierce, where you're like, all right, well, maybe even though we
01:58thought that was an overpay, he ended up being worth it.
02:01I wouldn't put him top 15, top 20.
02:03I'm like, those guys aren't usually available, if ever, in free agency straight up.
02:07You have to trade for them.
02:09We're like, all these guys that move teams, like A.J. Brown, Tyreek Hill, they're like first-round
02:13picks.
02:14Yes, you're trading them.
02:15Or you just draft and develop them, like Puka Nakua and JSN and Amon Ross St. Brown.
02:19So-
02:19So...
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