00:00The Patriots signed Kevin Byard, the safety, from the Chicago Bears.
00:03He also played with Mike Vrabel in Tennessee.
00:05I think overall they still need to do a couple things
00:08because if you look at the rest, at least in their division,
00:11the Bills are clearly better.
00:13They signed Bradley Chubb yesterday to a three-year deal.
00:15They traded for DJ Moore.
00:17That Bills team is going to be better this year than they were last year.
00:21So you have to be prepared for that team.
00:23I think on offense, you really need to focus on, of course,
00:27we've been talking about it the entire time,
00:28trading for another receiver at some point.
00:30Whether it's Brian Thomas Jr. or it's A.J. Brown or whoever,
00:34you need to acquire another legit top receiver.
00:37And then, sneakily as well, I think you also still need to bring in a tight end.
00:41I know you brought in Reggie Gilliam, who's like a fullback slash tight end,
00:44but you need another pass-catching tight end.
00:47Hunter Henry can't do all of that, so you need another guy
00:50who can not only block but also catch
00:53because I think one of the big issues with the Josh McDaniels offense is
00:56if you trot out Reggie Gilliam
00:59and you trot out Jake Westover on the same play,
01:02everybody and their mother is going to know you're running the football.
01:06Like, everybody's going to be able to predict.
01:08It's very similar to when it was Sonny Michelle and James White, right?
01:13Sonny Michelle's on the field.
01:14They're running the football.
01:15James White's on the field.
01:16They're probably throwing the football.
01:17You need to be able to disguise what you're doing on any given play.
01:21They need to go out and acquire another tight end
01:23that can both block and catch similar to Hunter Henry
01:26and allow themselves that multiplicity, that variability on offense
01:30because right now it's pretty straightforward.
01:33It's either going to be Drake Mays just dropping back
01:35and praying for his life he's awesome and makes a play
01:37or they're just going to line up and try to run the football at you,
01:40which I don't necessarily love.
01:42So there needs to be a couple more acquisitions on offense
01:46to really kind of round out this offseason.
01:48So what are your thoughts on the Julian Hill kid,
01:51the tight end that they did sign?
01:52Again, like I don't think he's like, again,
01:56step down from Austin Hooper even.
01:58Like I don't think Julian Hill's on that good.
01:59Any chance he's like a third or fourth tight end.
02:01No relation.
02:02Not the most talented hill in Boston.
02:04Any chance, Shime, that they maybe use that 31st overall pick,
02:10there's a chance maybe they can get the kid Sadiq out of Oregon.
02:14I don't think Sadiq will get to 31, if I'm being honest.
02:18Like I just, I think he'll be gone probably between like 17 and 23.
02:22Oh, wow.
02:22You think he's going to go that high?
02:23Yeah, he tested well at the combine.
02:25I think a lot of people are kind of hip to him now.
02:27I think he's going to go a little higher than people expect.
02:29Okay.
02:30Between the years of 2000 and 2023,
02:34they ranked 31st in cash spending.
02:39Before Belichick, they ranked 6th since they ranked 14th.
02:45Just, I think it is interesting that Bill Belichick
02:49immediately goes to cash spending
02:51when he had that press conference saying they were 27th.
02:54And there is a pretty good chance that he may have been helping
02:57to feed the narrative post-job firing
03:00about the Patriots' cash as a way to get ahead of something
03:04that he would have been criticized for.
