00:00Well, we can hear from Cameron Wolfe talked about the Patriots' interest in receivers
00:04still being there even after signing Romeo Dobbs. Here was Cameron Wolfe.
00:10Patrick, the wide receiver position has been the Patriots' focus primarily as free agency started.
00:15They've called on just about everybody, and a lot of calls were too expensive for their liking.
00:19But they got Romeo Dobbs, who they think is an ascending player.
00:23As far as Stephon Diggs, I also checked in to see, hey, is there a chance they would bring him
00:27back on a lower number?
00:28It sounds like that is not going to be a realistic chance for them.
00:32They're going to move forward without Stephon Diggs.
00:34And so are they done at wide receiver?
00:36There's been a lot of buzz with A.J. Brown throughout the offseason.
00:40From what I've told, the Romeo Dobbs signing does not end their interest for A.J. Brown.
00:45It certainly changes it. They're not desperate for a wide receiver anymore.
00:48They're not hungry and needing to overpay. And so maybe it changes leverage.
00:52Don't rule this out.
00:54And maybe this is a conversation we talk about later in the offseason when it becomes a little bit more
00:58advantageous for Philly.
00:59After June 1, it goes from a potential losing $20 million on their cap if they trade A.J. Brown
01:05to gaining $7 million on their cap if they trade him after June 1.
01:09So just keeping an eye on that, from what I understand, the Patriots still love him.
01:12They're just not as needy to get him as much now that they have Romeo Dobbs in the building.
01:17Why wouldn't you want Diggs back here on a lower number?
01:19I would all day long.
01:21Yeah, but I mean, I would, but he's probably not coming back on a lower number.
01:25No, but that's not what I'm – the reporting is that he asked and they're not interested in him even
01:33at a different number.
01:35Because it was all for public consumption.
01:38This lovey-dovey relationship was by design.
01:42It wasn't really how they felt about him.
01:45It's that they needed him and he needed them.
01:47And they were going to boost his reputation and he was going to help boost Drake May.
01:53And that's what happened.
01:54Like, Drake May has been traded the last two times and cut by the last three teams he was on.
01:58Not Drake May.
01:59I mean, Seth Diggs.
02:00Seth Diggs.
02:01Cut twice and traded once.
02:03Well, they knew it was a one-year deal anyways.
02:05They knew – when they signed him, they knew it was a one-year deal.
02:06Well, everybody here said it was a three-year deal.
02:08No, no.
02:08Yeah, I did.
02:09No, no.
02:10I took everybody at their word and I –
02:13But the money pointed to a one-year deal.
02:15But if you can have Diggs and Dobbs –
02:17Uh-huh.
02:18Diggs and Dobbs, Diggs and Dunks, whatever.
02:21Fifteen million bucks for Diggs, you wouldn't – that sounds like a great scenario to me.
02:25Yeah, and I don't know that he's going to get all that much money.
02:27I'm just looking around at the rest of the contracts that have been handed out to receivers.
02:31Outside of Alec Pierce, none of these contracts are insane numbers.
02:36Like, I don't know that he's going to get a ton of money in free agency anyways.
02:39Well, let me ask this.
02:40So they have some sort of an issue with the player then?
02:43If you don't want him at less money?
02:46Well, I think they might feel like if –
02:48What, Curtis?
02:49No, I just – I would just love to hear Mike Rabel answer that question.
02:53Yeah.
02:54It would be fascinating.
02:54Did Diggs want to come back at less money?
02:56Was there any reports about he would take less to come back?
02:58No, he said it was up to the team of whether or not he would be back.
03:01He didn't specify the money.
03:01On his contract.
03:02So I think when they look at it, they probably know if we're not going to –
03:09If we didn't offer him, hey, we want you back but at less money, then they know there's no way
03:15to cut him and bring him back because he's going to feel a certain way because he's going to have
03:20–
03:20Unless they're giving him a chance to explore his market, realize he's not worth what he may think he is,
03:25and then he comes back and he's like, okay, I'd take the money.
03:27That's the only way he can do it.
03:28That's very rare.
03:29You don't come back for less.
03:30You'll sign elsewhere for less.
03:31I mean, Edelman did it, right?
03:33One year, six million.
03:34Yeah, he did one time.
03:35Didn't they do it with Dante Hightower too?
03:37No.
03:38Well, Dante Hightower went out there and –
03:41Explored his market.
03:42Well, if that's their intention, I wouldn't be whispering to people that we don't want him back at less money.
03:49So –
03:50And Dante Hightower was a free agent and so was Julian Edelman.
03:54They didn't have contracts in place where the team was like basically like, hey, we don't want to pay you
04:00this.
04:00We'll cut you.
04:01If you can't get money, we'll bring you back.
04:03That's the difference.
04:04I think Steph Diggs is probably looking at it like, I have a contract here.
04:08You knew what this contract was.
04:10And I –
04:12A 508 text says, Greg, you know the reason is that Diggs was a clown show.
04:16I don't think he was a clown show.
04:18He wasn't.
04:19That ain't got nothing to do with it.
04:20They just didn't love him the way they said they did.
04:22I'm sorry.
04:22Because if they did, he'd still be here.
04:24And Julian Edelman got $6 million from the Giants when he had to beg for it, when Belichick was paying
04:29his kids $3 million each.
04:31Right.
04:32Because Belichick knew the market.
04:34Right.
04:34I mean, that's the thing.
04:35Well, I don't think he paid Steve market value, if we're being honest.
04:38No, no.
04:38I mean, he knew the market with Edelman, you know.
04:40And Edelman is – unfortunately, he was in one of those – he was in that –
04:44They were paying him $3 million or they offered him $3 million.
04:46He was in the category of like, teams looked at you like, oh, the only reason why you are who
04:51you are is because you play for New England.
04:53Was Julian Edelman the best bargain in Boston sports history?
04:56Pretty close.
04:57When you consider his impact.
04:58Yeah, I would say he probably was.
05:00I mean, you look at the Super Bowl 49, Super Bowl 51, Super Bowl 53.
05:04Those three Super Bowls.
05:05Yeah.
05:06He was the MVP of one.
05:07He was damn good with the greatest catch in Super Bowl history.
05:10And then he had that go-ahead touchdown against the Seahawks.
05:12Yeah, I don't think there's another guy that has helped an organization around here to win three championships.
05:17I just don't understand it.
05:18Like, you got a guy who got you 1,000 yards.
05:21Right.
05:22And if you could get him for $15 million, $16, whatever the number is, I don't know why you wouldn't
05:27do that.
05:28Then you have to worry about A.J. Brown or whatever else.
05:31Because you're worried that, Greg, if you knew that, like, here's my contract, and then they came to you and
05:38said, oh, we want you to take less, it's a slap in the face.
05:41No, I'm not talking about a slap in the face.
05:44Like, the way you're progressing the timeline, they are saying now, they are uninterested.
05:51If Diggs came back and said, hey, I want to be here and I'll do it for $15 million, they
05:55would say, no, thank you.
05:56Like, I don't get that.
05:58Oh, if they did that, I would have it.
05:59No, but that's what the reporting just was.
06:00Are you listening to the show?
06:02Like, that's what the reporting is.
06:04Right, but I don't think Diggs is coming back to them going, hey, I'd love to come back and play
06:09for you.
06:10That's why I think that's the reason why.
06:12But Greg's point is that why even have it leaked that you wouldn't give him, you wouldn't take him back
06:17for less money, even if he did?
06:18Like, despite whether or not Steph Diggs would do that, why, as the Patriots, are we even letting that be
06:24out there?
06:25Because that rumor alone makes it seem like you don't want him, like you want nothing to do with him.
06:30Right, and it lowers his value.
06:32That's why it's leaked it.
06:33It's dumb, I think.
06:34But they wouldn't want to lower, they're not trying to lower his value, Wiggy.
06:37No, no, I'm saying for, I guess I'm, I don't, I don't understand why.
06:42All I know is that if you have a contract.
06:45The whole thing I was saying, I just don't understand it.
06:47No, no, no, but Diggs, Diggs is not coming back for less, and Diggs is not saying, I'll come back
06:53for less.
06:54If he was, if Diggs initially said, hey, I'll come back for less, or I'll restructure my deal, and the
07:00Patriots said, no, we don't want you.
07:02Okay, well, anyway, anything else, Shire?
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