00:00Greg, one of the guys that was on the Patriots last season that was a free agent,
00:03Kalevon Chason, has signed a one-year $12 million deal with the Washington Commanders.
00:09That's why I'm back on the Max Crosby train.
00:12He was second on your team when it comes to sacks.
00:14He had seven and a half, so now you lost your second-best pass rusher.
00:18Your first was Harold Landry at eight and a half,
00:21but it seems like he's dealing with some type of injury,
00:24so who the hell knows where he's going?
00:26So, I mean, maybe it's just wishful thinking
00:30because Brady's not going to send anybody from Vegas to New England.
00:35But speaking of Vegas, the rest of the NFL world thinks that last year was a lucky run for the
00:41Patriots.
00:42Clearly. Well, the gamblers do. My lord.
00:46I mean, I was shocked when I saw that.
00:49That you're behind the Lions? You're behind the Chargers?
00:52Yeah, I mean, it's clear to me that those, at least who are wagering,
00:58believe that last season was a fluke for this football team.
01:01It was the schedule, last season, what they got.
01:04And so now Vegas looks and goes, oh, okay, wait a second.
01:06Well, also the Mahomes injury, the Bills were not quite as good,
01:10the Ravens missed the playoffs.
01:11Joe Perreault being out, like all of that.
01:14But you're ahead of the Bengals, at least, in the odds, like this year.
01:17But Mahomes, do we even know? The Chiefs are ahead of you.
01:19Do we know when he's coming back?
01:20Nope. And I'm betting it's probably like somewhere between week four or five.
01:26I think he'll be ready for week one.
01:27Oh, you think he'll be ready?
01:28All right.
01:29Yeah, it's just a torn ACL MCO, right?
01:31I mean, guys come back from that now in eight months.
01:33This is great news for Patriots fans who don't want to see Mahomes.
01:36All right, so you may be right.
01:37If Steph Diggs came back at the beginning of the season, maybe Mahomes.
01:40Tatum came back from a torn Achilles in 10 months.
01:42I think Mahomes will be back from an ACL in eight.
01:45And maybe that's why Travis decided to come back for one more year.
01:47Maybe you're right. So maybe he is back.
01:49Look, he is. But there's another team that if you're the Kansas City Chiefs,
01:54aren't you in on A.J. Brown?
01:56Absolutely.
01:56Should be.
01:57All right.
01:57So there's another team that you look at if you're the Patriots that are in your conference
02:02and going, all right, they're going to be better next year.
02:05But I wonder how much of the Patriots, and this is what we've kind of been talked about,
02:09is going, oh, we're going to get better because a lot of our foundational guys were young.
02:17Yeah.
02:18And so we don't have...
02:19Including the most important one, Drake May, who was also, you can argue,
02:24injured to a reasonable part of the playoffs or at least heading into the Super Bowl.
02:30So they might go, well, you know, we don't have to add crazy pieces because...
02:35Well, I think that might be what they're thinking, but I think they might be wrong about that.
02:40Yeah, I don't agree with it.
02:41Like, if you're looking at this approach to the offseason as being we're a piece away or whatever,
02:49then I think that's a fool's errand.
02:52I think you're misreading it.
02:55I mean, who, odds-wise, Curtis, again, who's ahead of them?
02:59Let me get the exact list if you give me one second.
03:02In the AFC, it's Bills, Ravens, Chiefs, and Chargers.
03:06Bills?
03:07Okay.
03:08Ravens, Chiefs, and Chargers.
03:11All in the AFC.
03:11See, the Chargers one...
03:12And then there's like six NFC teams.
03:14Like, the Chargers one I don't really get.
03:15I'll give you the Bills.
03:16I think the Chargers...
03:17That's people who believe that Justin Herbert has to finally, eventually overcome his playoff drought.
03:25I guess.
03:26Right, but I'd still look at, because you played them last year, and I look at,
03:29they haven't really made any significant moves when it comes to adding.
03:33So I'd be like, ah, the Bills, I'll give you with the DJ Moore move.
03:37The Ravens, they...
03:38I mean, they just gave $12 million to a punter, and they're ahead of the Patriots.
03:42Like, I don't even understand.
03:43The Ravens, maybe they're going, all right, Lamar won't be hurt next year.
03:46So, okay, I'll give you Baltimore.
03:48But that's it.
03:49And who'd you say the other team was in the AFC, Sean?
03:52It was Bills, Ravens, Chiefs, and Chargers.
03:54And the Chiefs, if you feel like Mahomes is coming back, I'll give you those three teams.
03:58They're never going to make the Chiefs lower down on the odds, just because the books are
04:02never going to take that risk with Patrick Mahomes.
04:04So I don't even know that that's necessarily an accurate reflection of how good they think
04:08the Chiefs are.
04:09They're just never going to allow for it.
04:10Adam Schefter just tweeted, too, that the Pats are releasing Anfernee Jennings today.
04:14There's another pass rusher.
04:15There's another pass rusher that you have.
04:18So when you look at the edge position, the edge, strictly the edge, we're not talking
04:23about the defensive tackle.
04:24And this new guy that they brought in, Draymond Jones, I'm still wondering, based on his size,
04:30do they feel like he might be more of an interior guy because he's like 280 pounds?
04:35No, I don't think he actually plays at 280.
04:37It looks, I think he is an outside guy, for sure.
04:40Okay, so you think...
04:44This is Bob from Londonderry, New Hampshire.
04:48Hello, Bob.
04:50Hey, guys, how I enjoy the topic of what you were mentioning about the Patriots, and I thought
04:55I'd give you just a little other side of the opinion, meaning my daughter, who lives here,
04:59works out of Boston.
05:01She travels a lot in the medical field, and she said, Dad, you know, after the Super Bowl,
05:05she said, you know, the rest of the country is not looking at it like we do here with all
05:11the excuses and this and that and whatnot.
05:14She goes, Dad, they made...
05:16I go, I know they made absolute fools of themselves on national TV right across the board, not just
05:23because they lost.
05:23But if you travel elsewhere in the country, if you heard the conversations, people are just
05:30literally saying that, you know, in essence, they never belong there, and even if you...
05:38No matter how you look at it, what a lackluster, boring game.
05:42And now the Pats look like they're doing all they can to get things in order, but boy, it's
05:46going to be a tough job.
05:47But I was just giving you an input as to what the country says, and they just laugh at all
05:51the excuses we make.
05:53I mean, I don't look at it as they embarrass themselves.
05:57No.
05:57They were in the Super Bowl, dude.
05:59Like, what are we doing?
06:00That was a long road.
06:02Their offense was pathetic, right?
06:04And I think the problem was your offense was pathetic in the Super Bowl, and, you know,
06:11throughout the playoffs, they weren't great, and then everybody was on the Cam Newton's
06:16fool's gold, right?
06:17Everybody was on the schedule and this and that.
06:19So then they...
06:20Now the world...
06:20Well, that's a legitimate...
06:21If you're figuring out how to wager, I think that's a legitimate factor is that the
06:26schedule is much tougher.
06:27Right.
06:28This season.
06:29And then the world probably wasn't watching the Patriots play all that much, so then they
06:34get to see the Patriots on the biggest stage, and the offense doesn't look good, but your
06:39defense looks good.
06:40And then you start to say, well, yeah, they benefited because of that schedule, and then
06:44their defense really played well in the playoffs.
06:47That's why they were able to get there.
06:49But you...
06:50Courtney brings it up.
06:51Your schedule's going to be much hotter, and you better be going into this season with
06:56a better team.
06:57You're just losing more and more pieces.
06:59This team isn't getting better.
07:01So losing those two pieces now, do you think that Mike Vrabel looks at that pick, the 31st
07:09pick, and says, I'm going to draft D-line there?
07:13Well, it's such a great question, Greg.
07:16I'm so confused on what they're thinking.
07:20They look...
07:21If you know your defensive end position, your edge position, you're losing guys, your
07:28receiver room, you're like, all right, we need a legit number one, and then you replace
07:34your receiver room with, let's call them a 1C.
07:38Your D-line, your edge guys, you haven't done anything except losing Tavai, losing Jennings,
07:45losing Chason, and you're like...
07:48Losing Tonga?
07:49Yep, losing Tonga, and when you start to look at this team on paper, and that's what
07:54we do, since the Super Bowl, have they gotten better or worse?
07:58I think you have to say that they've gotten worse.
08:00And then they've got a hotter schedule, and then we don't know what Will Campbell's going
08:05to look like as a left tackle, and Drake May, we're hoping that he can take that next
08:11step, but if your own line is dealing with some issues, and he doesn't have anybody to
08:15throw it to, does he take...
08:16You lost Austin Hooper?
08:17Well, you did add to the line, right?
08:20I'll give him credit for that.
08:21And you subtracted from the line.
08:22But that's if AVT can stay healthy, too.
08:25Right.
08:25Like, that's the other thing.
08:26Right.
08:26That's the one question mark.
08:28That's a massive question mark.
08:29You added, and Curtis is right, you added and subtracted.
08:32So, Bradbury's out the door, Tucker's in, Bradbury played in all, what, 17 games last year?
08:40Tucker, can he do that?
08:41You don't know.
08:42So, you're a little bit in a position of, maybe your center might be better based on
08:48skill, but availability is not the same.
08:51You lost Austin Hooper?
08:52Say what you want about him.
08:54He wasn't anything spectacular.
08:55But you brought in a fullback, Wiggy.
08:58Right.
08:59I'll give you that.
09:00You did add a fullback.
09:01And Josh McDaniels, we know in his offense, loves a fullback.
09:03But you didn't get better since the end of the season.
09:08Well, how do you feel about it?
09:09Did they get better or did they get worse so far?
09:13Since the Super Bowl, you can leave.
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