00:00gave away your best wide receiver,
00:02which I felt like Steph Diggs was more of a 1B anyways,
00:05and I still think you needed a 1A caliber player.
00:11You don't have that.
00:12Not yet.
00:13If you get A.J. Brown, hey, guess what?
00:16We're all good.
00:18I'll take back the things I said, and let's get to moving.
00:22I still would like an edge rusher,
00:24and I still think you need to add one there.
00:27You might not add an elite player,
00:28but you still need to add some of those solid role players.
00:32When it comes to their internal evaluations that they have done,
00:37do you believe that they look at the struggle that they had in the Super Bowl
00:43and perhaps offensively in the playoffs was on a lack of talent
00:50or on the injury to Drake May?
00:54I would say...
00:56A combination of the two?
00:57No.
00:58I would say the injury to Drake May, the injury to Will Campbell.
01:02So those two things allow you to say,
01:06you know what, we're not going to be dealing with either of those,
01:09fingers crossed, next season.
01:11Right.
01:11And we got to the Super Bowl dealing with both of those key injuries.
01:17But you didn't even replace the guys you lost.
01:19Like, okay, if you don't think that your team...
01:22If that's the reason you think your team lost,
01:24then you need to at least produce the same exact roster
01:27or at least same exact level of talent on the roster,
01:31you lost your number one receiver.
01:33Over 1,000 yards, Greg, as you pointed out earlier,
01:35and you've yet to replace that.
01:36But they will.
01:38Will they?
01:39Yes.
01:39They're going to replace him with somebody.
01:41They're not going to go into...
01:42Yeah, but if they replace it with Romeo Dubs,
01:45he's not better than Stefan Diggs.
01:47No, I'm not saying he is.
01:49But in their mind, he can give you the same production that Stefan Diggs is.
01:53That Diggs gave.
01:54But he can't.
01:54We all know that.
01:54But he can't.
01:55Like, I don't care about what's in their mind.
01:56Why does that matter?
01:57Because that's the way they evaluate it.
01:59Right, and we're evaluating the way that they're building their roster,
02:02and that's a dumb way to build it.
02:03Right, but the way that they look at their roster,
02:05and it's not so much of lack of talent,
02:08and I think part of it is the injuries,
02:10but I think the other thing that they'll lean on more than anything
02:14is they were one of the youngest teams in the NFL.
02:17They're going to go...
02:18Next year, Drake Make will be a year older in the world of football.
02:21Well, he'll, you know, same with Booty and Kyle Williams and Campbell and Wilson.
02:28Like, all these guys will be a year older,
02:31and they probably look at it like,
02:33we made it to a Super Bowl,
02:35and two of our key players were dealing with injuries,
02:38and we were a young team.
02:40They seem to be so far approaching free agency from a luxury position
02:47where you just have to add a few parts here or there.
02:50Like, you know, we want a fullback
02:54because the Josh McDaniel system works better when you have a fullback.
02:58But if you're approaching it from that angle...
03:00Yeah, we were watching the games last year.
03:01We all thought they need a fullback.
03:03Their evaluation of the roster is bad.
03:05Like, if they think that this roster is complete,
03:07then that's not accurate at all.
03:10Like, this is a very thin roster.
03:12Right, and my favorite in the Twitch chat game dog says,
03:15Curtis and Scheim could build a better roster.
03:17A guy that sits for 20 hours a week
03:19and tells us how to do a radio show
03:21is mad that we're talking about the Patriots roster building.
03:23And so if you're going to complain about the roster...
03:25Who would make a better GM, Curtis or Scheim?
03:29In football or baseball?
03:30Football.
03:31Curtis would spend more money.
03:32Yeah, I'm really good at spending other people's money.
03:34Okay.
03:34Right.
03:34Yeah, Curtis would definitely spend more money.
03:36I'd be crushing the draft, though,
03:37so I'd be stocked up on picks.
03:39You might be...
03:40You're probably going to be way happier with Curtis as your GM
03:43because he's going to cut the...
03:44He doesn't care.
03:44He's just floating the check to everybody.
03:46The Dodgers and the NFL.
03:48It's like Alec Pierce, $80 million a year.
03:50No problem.
03:52But the thing is...
03:53Trade every tick.
03:54Five first-rounders for Patrick Mahomes.
03:56But here's the interesting...
03:57I'd sign Tom Brady tomorrow.
03:59Here's the interesting part, Greg,
04:01is that if you're complaining about the roster building,
04:06then you should be all eyes on Mike Vrabel
04:09because you believe, and I believe, too,
04:14that Mike Vrabel has complete control
04:16of how he wants to build the roster.
04:19So if you think this...
04:20But he doesn't have control of the money.
04:22No, no, no.
04:23We're not talking about the money right now.
04:25We're talking about the players that he brings in
04:26because Scheim said they don't have the talent
04:28or people will say,
04:29then you need to be upset with Mike Vrabel
04:32because he's the one we all believe.
04:35Not Elliott Wolfe.
04:37We all believe that Mike Vrabel
04:40is the architect when it comes to building this roster.
04:44And Mike, Wiggy, I hear what you say,
04:47and you know Vrabel obviously better than I do,
04:48but it's not that why would he come here
04:51if he wasn't able to have final say.
04:52You have to compare it to the jobs that were open.
04:55He told Amazon Prime that a big reason he's here
04:58is because of the quarterback.
04:59The Jets were a team that everybody thought
05:01whiffed the year before on possibly hiring Vrabel.
05:04Vrabel canceled an interview with them.
05:06And I believe that's not about control.
05:08It's do you want to work for Woody Johnson
05:11and do you want your quarterback to be Justin Fields?
05:13Right.
05:14No, I agree that he came here
05:15because I think a lot is working with Robert Kraft
05:19that he had a relationship with in the past
05:21and the fact that you...
05:22And he had Drake May.
05:23And he had Drake May, right.
05:25And I mean, every coach is going to want to go to a spot
05:27where they know that they have a capable quarterback in play.
05:31You know, you look at the Tennessee Titans with Robert Sala.
05:34He's going to an organization
05:36where the quarterback is a question.
05:38He's coming from an organization
05:40where he had a quarterback issue.
05:41So that's, you know,
05:42sometimes that's a recipe for disaster.
05:44Vrabel goes, okay, based on what we've seen
05:48and, you know, the sample size of Drake May's rookie year,
05:51it looks like he has the potential.
05:52But when it comes to roster building,
05:56we all believe that it's about Mike Vrabel.
06:00So if you don't like this roster,
06:02then you need to blame him.
06:03But aren't the two things in lockstep?
06:06Because the amount of money you have to spend
06:08determines on who you can actually add to the roster, right?
06:11Right.
06:12But you're saying you believe
06:13he has money to spend on A.J. Brown.
06:17Yes, I believe he has money set aside
06:20because he believes that a deal will get done for A.J. Brown.
06:23Okay, so hear me out.
06:25If you have money for A.J. Brown,
06:27which is a lot of money.
06:29$30 million.
06:29$30 million.
06:31Then that tells me you had the ability,
06:34if you felt like he was worth it,
06:37to pay a guy like Alec Pierce.
06:38But that means that would then prevent you
06:40from getting A.J. Brown.
06:41No, no, I understand that.
06:42But I understand that the point that I'm trying to make,
06:45he has the money,
06:46he's just choosing to go with A.J. Brown
06:49over Alec Pierce.
06:50That's fair.
06:51I mean, and they are,
06:52they have been multiple reports
06:54say they are the only team that is left in on him.
06:57Right.
06:58So that's why I said,
06:59but then, Wiggy, I would question,
07:01then why cut Stephon Diggs?
07:03You lose all the leverage.
07:04No, no, listen, I completely agree with you,
07:10they weren't willing to pay Alec Pierce
07:13because they don't want to spend that money.
07:15An argument on why Mike Vrabel did that with Diggs
07:18that came in on the text line earlier,
07:20which was pretty good,
07:21is that because he's a,
07:22he's a player's coach
07:24and he wanted to give Diggs the opportunity
07:26to, you know,
07:27to be somewhere else and be with somebody else.
07:29I could buy that.
07:30So the $3 million was just a benefit
07:32that they didn't think of?
07:34Like, I could buy that,
07:35get him out before free agency starts
07:37and give him the opportunity to,
07:39you know, get it on those teams
07:41that might be like,
07:42all right, we need a wide receiver.
07:44And then they wait.
07:45And that, that team
07:46who could potentially go after Steph Diggs
07:48misses out because Diggs is still on the roster.
07:50Well, he didn't even get signed though.
07:52No, I know that,
07:53but there are still teams that he could,
07:55if he wasn't a free agent
07:56and they waited,
07:58then maybe a team that is looking for a wide receiver
08:02would drive.
08:02I mean, he's going to end up with somebody, right?
08:04Like, people aren't waiting
08:05on the resolution of the court thing with him.
08:07No, I bet that he's...
08:08Is that what they're waiting for?
08:09I bet his agent is talking to people.
08:11It's, I bet with him,
08:12it's probably trying to figure out the money
08:14and what's a valuable...
08:16Because Shine brought up...
08:17Is there a chance he comes back here?
08:19No, no.
08:20Because you blew that by saying he didn't want to.
08:22Yeah, I'm kind of mad too.
08:23Like, the Patriots weren't more in
08:25on a guy like Mike Evans.
08:26His guaranteed money is nothing.
08:28It's like $16 million.
08:30I thought he was going to get way more money
08:32than he did, Wiggy.
08:33So, there you go.
08:35You're right on that one, for sure.
08:36I would have been all over that contract.
08:39Right, but they have to move team mealtime
08:40to 4 p.m.
08:41He's 90.
08:42It's fine, but it at least replaces
08:45what you lose with Stephon Diggs.
08:46Right, but that goes back to my original point
08:49of all of this.
08:50They look at Mike Evans and they go,
08:52we don't think he's worth what he wants.
08:57He didn't get anything.
08:58Right, but they might be looking at it.
09:00Guess what?
09:01We'd rather pay-
09:02Basically a one-year,
09:02like $16 million deal.
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