00:00Mike Vrabel is at the NFL meetings, and yesterday could not stop praising Romeo Dobbs.
00:10I thought you might want to hear a little bit of that.
00:12So here is Mike Vrabel yesterday.
00:13I think, first of all, he loves football.
00:15I mean, he is a football junkie.
00:17He loves talking football.
00:19You know, from the time that we were able to sign him and have him come into the building,
00:24you know, he didn't really want to see any of the, you know, the new building.
00:28Yeah, he wanted to see some of that, but he really wanted to meet with Josh and talk
00:32and meet with Todd Downing and meet with me about football and all the things that he wants to do
00:38to continue to improve, you know, his skill set and his impact on the team.
00:43But, you know, he's a player that's been really consistent over the first four years of his career.
00:48Showed up in the red zone.
00:50He showed up on third down.
00:51He's got a good savvy to him.
00:53You know, runs a full route tree as good, you know, I would say play strength at the point of,
00:59you know,
01:00the catch point, you know, contested catches that are always critical there and, you know, continues to build savvy.
01:06He's played a lot of football and he's, you know, relatively young still.
01:11Okay.
01:11So, thank God, the full route tree.
01:14I mean, there's nothing like a full route tree.
01:18Right.
01:19But, and, and the, you know, those, those responding to me will say, well, what would you expect?
01:24What's he going to say about a guy that they went after and got?
01:27And, but I, that is how we all know, Vrabel, that is above and beyond.
01:32Correct.
01:32So I do, I, I do go back to this all the time.
01:36Do you think that they believe that Drake may, who will be here later,
01:41is a guy that will elevate that player.
01:44And that is what they are relying on when it comes to Wiggy, as he would call it.
01:51And a weapon, weapon one and a weapon, a thousand yard wide receiver for the New England Patriots.
01:57I think that they feel like Drake may could definitely elevate Romeo Dobbs a little bit,
02:02but I also think that they feel like Romeo Dobbs can elevate Drake may because you got to understand Drake
02:08may still a young quarterback.
02:10Right.
02:11I mean, he's still a guy that has to, you know, you know, consistently prove that he can elevate everybody
02:17around him.
02:18And, you know, it's very difficult for quarterbacks to do that early, early in their career.
02:23I just think that they look at it and they go, all right, we think Romeo Dobbs can do what
02:29Steph Diggs did for us last year.
02:31It just feels like a big ask to ask a guy who's the closest he's come is 724 yards.
02:36Right.
02:36And so to ask him then to increase his production by almost 300 yards in a single season feels like
02:43a really big ask for a guy who's never done it before.
02:46Well, what they're doing is saying you probably could have did it, but you weren't given full opportunity to do
02:55it because you were never the guy in Green Bay.
02:58Right.
02:59So I think that's probably what they're thinking and saying, you come here, you're going to be the guy.
03:04So you're going to be able to produce to a way that we and you believe that you can produce.
03:09Yeah.
03:09I feel like this is a huge misstep if they're banking on Dobbs and just bringing everybody else back.
03:16The MVP of the NFL last year, as voted by the media, was Matthew Stafford.
03:22And look at the weaponry around him with the Rams.
03:25Insane.
03:25A guy that has had, what is it, 12 at least, how many years has he been, I mean, forever,
03:2915-year NFL career?
03:30Yeah.
03:30He's been in, I think, 2010 he got drafted.
03:32Right, so for me, like, outside of two people in my lifetime, Peyton Manning, I mean, Patrick Mahomes and Tom
03:40Brady, maybe Peyton Manning briefly in the regular season, can elevate everybody to get them to a Super Bowl and
03:45win it.
03:46But that is not where Drake May is yet.
03:49And that's not an insult.
03:50Yeah.
03:51It's just a reality.
03:52Like, there are few people that can do that at the peak of their power.
03:55And you sit here today, why would you say that you don't need A.J. Brown?
04:01What are you going to take with that first round or second round pick?
04:05Because you have to pay Christian Gonzalez and you have to pay Drake May eventually.
04:11And Robert Kraft gets $500 million before he sells his ticket, a hot dog, or a parking spot.
04:16Yeah, I'm not defending it.
04:17I'm just saying that may be the reason that they look at it that way.
04:21I would ask this question, what quarterback has had success and Super Bowl level success and at the highest of
04:31the high without having an elite playmaker with him?
04:37You brought up Peyton Manning.
04:39He had Marvin Harrison.
04:41You brought up –
04:4106 Patriots.
04:42I'm ready to get Gronk, right?
04:44Yeah, he had Gronk for all those years.
04:47But the 06 Patriots got within a play of the Super Bowl.
04:49Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm saying you could do it for one season.
04:54Like, that's something that you could do for one season.
04:56I'm not saying that a quarterback can't.
04:58But if you look at the quarterbacks that consistently are at the top of the league and their teams are
05:03consistently in it, you need an elite playmaker with them.
05:07You're not going to find a quarterback that his team is consistently at the top and consistently competing for Super
05:15Bowls without one elite player.
05:18And I'm not saying Romeo Dobbs can't be that guy, but you have to be that guy.
05:25Travis Kelsey.
05:26I don't care what you say about Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
05:30They're in love.
05:30For a long time, he was one of the best tight ends in the NFL.
05:34And you go to that Patriots 28-3 comeback.
05:36We don't talk about it enough.
05:38Brady was throwing too.
05:39Gronk was out.
05:40You had a seventh-round quarterback out of Kent State.
05:43And you had a lacrosse player.
05:45And you came back from 28-3.
05:47And Malcolm Mitchell, who, like, never played again.
05:49He was the Robert Edwards of the thousands.
05:50That's...
05:50That's...
05:50That's...
05:50That's...
05:50Um,
05:51that
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