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NFL Free Agent Frenzy! What did the Patriots do? Patriots add an edge rusher, OL, and a fullback. What are your thoughts? Were you expecting more on Day 1? Alec Pierce the highest paid WR ever?!
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00:00some deals done money-wise that were shocking to me yesterday coach yeah i mean for me it was
00:06the alec pass we had talked about him i'm highest paid free agent wide receiver in the history of
00:13the league wow and he is he will he will not be a new england patriot but um i guess
00:18but doesn't
00:19that like it doesn't that shine a brighter light on if you want because i don't think alec pass
00:26is elite like i don't think he's elite and gonna be a league he'll be a good wide receiver but
00:32that next level what you're looking for doesn't it show like in order for you to get that guy
00:37you have to trade for him yeah i i mean i i think uh the fact that not only you
00:42know his what they are
00:44the fact that he's the highest paid ever shows you that teams don't part with guys right uh and then
00:50you're it's going to be very difficult for you to get uh a a legit a a plus weapon right
00:56but alec
00:56pierce great like it's the first two years are guaranteed so it's really a two-year 80 million
01:01dollar deal and to me that's like no risk at all like two years 80 million yeah for a guy
01:08who had
01:081 000 yard season this year and the miami dolphin signed people yesterday they have 99 million dollars
01:14and dead cap no i know i'm with curtis i like i don't care spend the money right like what
01:19are
01:19you saving it for you know it's it's all a ruse so owners can keep more cash that's what the
01:24cap is
01:25you know what i like to say curtis you don't want to be the richest person in the nursing home
01:29that's right i mean there's no point in saving it might as well might as well spend it right
01:34you know i mean i don't understand why you wouldn't give it give give it give it a flyer like
01:40give him otherwise like what's the downside honestly what's the downside wait uh alec pierce
01:47that i'm not i'm not giving a guy 40 million per year for two years i know i know it's
01:53contract i'm
01:53saying what's the downside to the organization's ability to compete because you know you know the
01:58organization has a budget and so if you spend that money there you're not spending the money elsewhere
02:03on things that would improve your team better i'd rather spend that i'd rather spend that 80 million
02:07and go towards aj brown if i'm gonna like if that's the the question that you're asking yes
02:14i mean if this all ends up with aj brown in a patriots uniform then yes right they handled it
02:22perfectly but i i would just say we've spent some time having fun at the expense of the owner
02:29of the indianapolis colts and she seems to be a person who has a football team that got close uh
02:38up until an injury waylaid them and is willing to go out and spend the money because she knows she
02:45has
02:45a team that's close what and if and if alec pierce is what i think he is not that great
02:51then you find
02:52another receiver you'll figure it out and the only punitive ways it affects you is if you allow the cap
02:58to
02:58dictate your behavior instead of allowing what your roster needs to dictate your behavior and i watched
03:03that yesterday it's pathetic by the patriots like the patriots are just like a shinier red sock
03:08like it's all about interest interest kings baby oh boy i told you a week ago this was going to
03:14happen right you did and i thought i told you about tua but uh yeah i i just to me
03:19i watched that
03:20what did you say a week ago sean i might not have been listening that's fine courtney never listens
03:25it's just that you should expect disappointment in free agency yeah the patriots are not going to
03:29spend a ton of money they never have they're not going to they don't believe they need to
03:33it's just that's the way it goes especially as soon as i heard that cash flow quote i was like
03:37oh
03:38we're cooked they did so they did as as a quick update because most of us are are sleeping they
03:44did
03:44add a guard under the cover of darkness last night yeah about midnight last night they added elijah
03:50vera tucker uh was the guard for the jets for the last four years former first round pick
03:55really talented kid uh he just he never stays on the field like he's played i don't think he's
04:01technically even played a full season he's played 15 games 16 games and then two seasons with seven or
04:06less games so like it is you're taking a risk by signing him to a contract it did add a
04:11fullback
04:12though oh i love a good fullback the amount of people that were like all up in my mentions because
04:17i said that we were cooked because they signed a fullback well is insane the delusion is is
04:23ridiculous wiggy you would know better than i does the josh mcdaniel system require a fullback is
04:31well yeah i mean it does i'm kind of is that what they're they're filling a need and that they
04:35they
04:35they gotta go out and get that done right i'm kind of like making a joke like you know like
04:40they
04:40it definitely you add a fullback to his offense he's always kind of been in that world my thing is
04:46like i like the addition of the god from the jets um the tucker kid but my thing is is
04:55you have to go
04:57out and get a wide receiver a that's where you should be that should have been your main focus
05:05there's you haven't done that there's only one left there's only there's only one wide receiver a left
05:13but how many times did we myself included greg wiggy courtney everybody say that they need to
05:18have a sense of urgency we said it you know they got to the super bowl they got embarrassed now
05:22they
05:23got here they have to do they have to do these three things and then they can capitalize on the
05:27momentum of year one of rabel and they just sat and watched and tonga going like why would you
05:32resign him more players left than they signed yesterday i just tonga they were they were down to
05:39like almost uh signing the deal or something and there was one last thing that they couldn't get
05:44done and i i i don't know i there you just look around the league and there are teams that
05:52are
05:52spending and jim harbaugh yesterday spent over 12 million dollars on a punter
06:03i don't know that seattle punter was pretty good in the super bowl greg i don't know i mean honestly
06:08what's that work out to like a hundred grand a punt it's insane well if the chargers played like
06:14they did in the playoff game he'll be the most busy punter in the nfl i mean the patriots signed
06:19mike allstott's nephew like i just don't get it i really don't i i don't understand it the patriots
06:24had an opportunity this offseason to take a big step back toward big step toward actually winning
06:30a championship and you sit back and you watch who's the center that signed with the was it the
06:34ravens oh tyler linderbaum no side with the raiders from the ravens three years 81 million 60 guaranteed
06:41so if you're gonna trade bradbury for a fifth rounder why don't you sign him upgrade it and
06:45then get some depth of the offensive line i think chimes point was and he was kind of right about
06:49it
06:49chimes point was slide wilson to center bring in a veteran a veteran god to play between thank you
06:54play between campbell and wilson wilson might be a little bit easier at the center position for him
07:00i i just then if that is the plan and that and you're saying you think that's a good plan
07:05we need
07:05to we should acknowledge that and say after you know days after the super bowl everybody was like
07:11you got to do something when it comes to the offensive line so right but i mean that's a need
07:16that is a
07:17need that they address right they just sign a guy that they're not super familiar with just once like
07:22i'm pretty sure uh elijah vera tucker they're familiar with because todd downing coached him
07:27when he was with the jets and then draymond jones i believe they're familiar with um and so like i
07:33don't know maybe just sign a guy that you didn't have before in your life and overspend just a little
07:38bit on somebody that's going to impact this team i don't know maybe please i mean were you not happy
07:43when it comes to draymond jones i i think that's that's a good signing that's like a hat that's
07:48like a that's like a landry signing yeah it's solid okay but your your defense was really good and you
07:55you are improving it right but you didn't go like i watched every i watched every snap of draymond jones
08:01last year and let me tell you he's a diamond in the rough i also think that people aren't worried
08:05about the defense people are worried about the receiver so right now it's like if you don't get aj
08:08brown then nobody's going to be but i think i think i think there's like people when you say
08:14they're not worried about the defense i think people are concerned about where you're getting
08:19pressure on the edges right so there are two glaring areas where you needed to make significant
08:26significant upgrades and that's the edge rushing position and the wide receiver position now jones is
08:35a solid player that will be replacing what you had with chase on or what you had with harold landry
08:42but you with those guys you were still looking for an upgrade like we were talking about max crosby we
08:51were talking about micah parsons we had talked about trey hendrickson's so we're talking about
08:57significant upgrade from players like that yeah you just you're replacing you wanted more than one
09:04trey hendrickson you wanted you wanted trey hendrickson yeah i don't care what you that's an
09:09embarrassment of riches but you're replacing like in the world of courtney you're replacing
09:15a bmw with a bmw but and that's wiki i agree with your overall point if the patriots stay the
09:23same
09:24do you think they will have the same amount of success last season as they would this season
09:28no no we i know we don't want to talk about it but the path and the schedule opened up
09:33for them
09:33they're going to have to i would say not dramatically but they're going to have to
09:37improve in almost all facets of their roster if they want to return to the super bowl well oh and
09:42by the way the teams around them are getting better right like the the bills traded for dj more they're
09:46not going to be a bunch of pushovers this year like they're you're not going to be able to just
09:50be
09:50expect to beat the bills twice this year and i know free agency isn't over but did they get better
09:54or did they get worse worse thank you they had more people leave than they brought in right and the
10:00people that they brought in just replace guys that uh basically that you want an upgrade at
10:08yeah it's the same production yeah so and you lost your best wide receiver and you haven't replaced
10:13and honestly wiki you might even technically be worse like you traded away garrett bradbury
10:17and you brought in elijah vera tucker a guy who can't stay healthy right are we sure that mike
10:22frable knows what neiman marcus is because like maybe he was confused when he said where the patriots
10:27to be shopping like i don't think neiman did he think neiman marcus is uh neiman marcus i said
10:32neiman marcus i screwed up tj maxx there's no and in it so it's just neiman marcus neiman marcus
10:38i don't think i've ever even shopped at neiman marcus it's very nice is it you ought to give it
10:44a try
10:45it's very nice it sounds expensive it is oh is it it's no ralph loren which courtney loves i do
10:51love
10:51that as well yes by the way ralph loren uh i'm i'm guessing that the curb walk did not work
10:57yesterday i did the curb walk i had spicy food oh you did yeah i was six no we didn't
11:03do that one
11:03maybe tonight uh but yeah no still no all right well i think we should do reverse psychology
11:09let's say we don't want the baby to arrive maybe that'll work yeah uh this is rick from new
11:17hampshire good morning rick good morning what's up so the first day of free agency you guys have
11:23busted in the paper yep your phone your phone your phone your phone's not cooperating yeah but can i
11:32call back and so that's an argument that's out there i've seen it on the text line it's day one
11:37of free agency relax who gets signed on day one of free agency the best players everybody oh
11:42almost everybody everybody except trey hendrickson fans of the patriots that celebrate no good
11:48signings make zero sense to me they actually enrage me why would you defend that yeah the first day
11:54of free agency is your tier one players most of the time you know it's the majority of your tier
11:59one
12:00players your tier one players are not waiting around till week three in free agency like this is
12:05not mlb this is not major league baseball don't operate that way in the nfl the the first day of
12:11free agency is when your tier one players go and they go generally pretty quick um and so now if
12:18you're the patriots and we talked about answering the questions and you're sitting there and the two
12:24biggest glaring needs that you that you needed to address with significant upgrades uh the edge rusher
12:31and the wide receiver and you haven't done that and even even if you didn't win the bidding war for
12:36pierce but you were kind of interested why didn't you then ask the colts about michael pitman the
12:40steelers did and they got him for nothing right nothing and and and pitman's not some world
12:46beater but he's better than everything you currently have on your roster by a large margin and what was
12:51it wigs or was it the three million that they had to pay digs if he was on the roster
12:56on monday
12:56yes okay yes so work with me you don't trade him you bite the bullet swallow the three million and
13:03then
13:04maybe yesterday you have leverage maybe you sit back do you think the patriots maybe today say oh maybe i
13:09wish
13:10we would have done that given the money that was i said that yesterday i said that very thing on
13:13this
13:13show yesterday right you sit back in hindsight you were spot on yeah i mean i keep some leverage for
13:20yourself like why tell the philadelphia eagles hey we don't we now do not have uh one or one a
13:28wide
13:28receivers so the the price is gonna go up i i i i don't understand that and you could call
13:36i suppose
13:36you could call digs back but i think he's probably gonna say new phone who dis right i would assume
13:42yeah unless it's cardi b calling and then he probably would immediately pick it up and she's
13:47changed her outfits a bit on tour really they've gotten more scandalous if you can even imagine she
13:52looks good yeah she's twerking like and then she brought up meg the stallion yeah she brought up uh
13:57rob four nine yeah i love rob four nine she had blue face out there we call that thirsty wiggy
14:03that's what that's called drink it up cardi b in the blue man group yeah drink it up are we
14:09not
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