Patriots Waiting Until #NFL Draft to Address WR? Could NE Deal for Aiyuk?
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00:00If you want tech if you want tech tech mcmillan you could still trade down because I think he's still going to be available
00:05for you like
00:07The draft might be but but he's not he's not the mob the raiders could take him at six
00:12So you can't trade down that far. He's not the marvin harrison of the draft
00:16Like there's no wide receiver that people are like, oh this guy's gonna change be this generational wide receiver
00:22No, but he's the best wide receiver in the class and like a couple years ago
00:26We had that receiver class where it went in the 20s and it was jordan addison. Um, uh, the johnston kid from tcu
00:33um
00:35Jsn all like right in a row and they got drafted late in the first round and two of the three were awesome
00:40I think even three of the four
00:41Like I I think there's still a chance that tet mcmillan's really good. Yeah, he's not he doesn't have the marvin harrison hype
00:46Yeah, but jordan addison also went to the vikings and played alongside justin jefferson
00:51Okay, so it makes things a lot easier for you if you're coming here and you're tet mcmillan
00:56The day you get drafted by the patriots
00:59you're
01:00You're supposed to be the guy because you're the best guy at least brian thomas jr
01:04Got drafted by the jaguars last year that team stinks and he was no i'm not saying that but mcmillan's coming in
01:10You need to be the best guy on the field because you're the best guy in that world. This is walter from boston. Hey walter
01:17Hey guys
01:18Wiggy, he will be the best guy on this team
01:20But but i'm saying to me golden's close to mcmillan in this draft gold is more
01:25Adjusted system. I see the pats taking two receivers because wolfe said that remember
01:30He said that he's gonna do what the packers usually do every year
01:34Take two receivers and this you could get one of them, you know early and then get somebody like wiggins
01:39From there's two good dudes on iowa state. There's other guys in this draft because nobody's coming here until they start winning some games
01:46So I think the pats are gonna have to build it through the draft offensively
01:50Because if you're a receiver out there and there's money on the table
01:53You're gonna take a little less to go have a chance to be in the playoffs right away
01:56Yeah, see but the problem with that is though like that's not really doing it for people, right?
02:02If they go like, oh, we drafted a wide receiver in the second round the the track record of this team is like
02:07All right, whatever if they drag
02:09uh, tete the role mcmillan at number four people are probably gonna be like
02:13Okay, who's that? Because they haven't probably seen a play. They're gonna be like, well, why didn't they take travis hunter?
02:19Why why didn't they take travis hunter?
02:21Um, so i'm kind of with you greg
02:24I just look at the draft as
02:27I don't even if you take a wide receiver. I still think guys, you know fans are going to be like
02:32What what are you doing? Why do you have they have?
02:36Almost 100 million dollars in cap space. Yeah, I I just correct. Yeah, and your good friend robert says they spend to the cap
02:43Well, it's gonna take a herculean effort to get to that puppy dog, right?
02:47How do you think people feel greg let me in the room if they take
02:51Honestly, if they take travis hunter at number four, I I would be great with that. Okay, I would not
02:58And I think a lot of fans would be excited about that. You're not shy. No, I heard you saturday talking about this
03:04Yeah, I just i'm out on travis hunter
03:06Like I don't I don't want him on my team and he may be successful elsewhere
03:10But that's not a risk i'm willing to take so so do you think people will be happy with that because they think he's coming
03:15In and he's playing a ton of wide receiver. Yeah, but what about when he comes in and he doesn't well
03:19Then they'll be let down right
03:21but that's why I but I think that people see
03:24That mike rabel's not an idiot and they need somebody at wide receiver and travis hunter has said that he wants to do both
03:30so I think people just are going to trust what he's saying instead of
03:34Believing what you're saying
03:36yeah, I I feel like it
03:38It's less and less looking like a vrabel issue. It's
03:42it's craft like
03:44Look at the way these off seasons have gone now. Wait, you really think this is craft's fault that they're not spending on receivers
03:51Yes, what? Well, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. They've spent a ton of money this offseason
03:54No, they haven't they've spent on a couple guys
03:57Yes, and they've and and those guys have been selected by the head coach who's picked all defensive guys
04:02That's a choice not a direction from the owner
04:05I believe that if you look at the off season after off season
04:11They I think are scared away by the receiver
04:15especially the highly paid receiver
04:18And they view this as a solid investment on the defensive line because robert craft is obsessed
04:25With not paying people to not do what they've been paid. Why?
04:28Why would they be scared off by the high paid receiver when they've never done it?
04:32That's my point. What's the constant curtis? What's the constant wait?
04:35What's the constant in all these years of not paying a high-priced receiver?
04:40Everything's shifted except the owner
04:43Okay, I mean sure if you want to go about it that way
04:45But you also had tom brady for all those years like you didn't need the hype. I don't like talking about him
04:49Do you believe though curtis? Yes
04:51Do you buy that they were in on chris godwin to the tune of 30 million dollars a year?
04:56Yeah, and I think they were in on godwin because he is a good receiver
05:02Who has impeccable character?
05:05And that there has never been a doubt, you know, I watched a ton of chris godwin for many years
05:10When brady was down there and he is a perfect patriot
05:14He would have fit in with troy brown and deon branch and all those guys. The issue is is that you
05:19You need to elevate your young quarterback not have him elevate everyone around him. And that's why I I just
05:26It it defies logic rubber craft is not dumb. We all agree
05:30There's when you enter the off season you had two massive needs offensive line and wide receiver, correct? Yeah
05:36So why have you done nothing to address it? Well, yeah, but well
05:40Scheim was you think they're gonna fix that with cam robinson?
05:44I mean if it's like their only option at this point, but clearly the rest of the nfl doesn't want cam robinson either
05:50so like that may be an issue and it's
05:53Again, like I look at he's a more than
05:55Serviceable solution. Yeah, he's a former first round pick. You could probably get the job done. Is he the best?
06:00No, but he's still like a starting
06:02Nfl tackle he's better than anything you've had in the last two or three years, I guess and so it's just it's but
06:08Vrabel even said to us he wanted to build in the trenches and yet they didn't sign offensive lineman
06:13They signed morgan moses
06:14That's it
06:14And if you want to have the real downside
06:16Potential of what this offseason means is that elliot wolf and grow both still have power in the building because wolf and grow
06:24Would benefit greatly from one of these receivers from improving dramatically under josh mcdaniels with drake may in year two
06:31So that is to me terrifying
06:34That those two freaking frack still have some power
06:38In a building we thought was now run by mike vrabel because everything else defies logic. The question I would ask is like
06:44Where did the whole?
06:47Character thing come from like I mean with who like, you know, like people won't they won't be in on
06:54george
06:55Pickens because of or steph diggs because of character like where did that come from because
07:01They haven't really had like crazy in the past couple of years like there hasn't been crazy character issues
07:06and like no, I think curtis is just suggesting that mike vrabel is probably somebody who stands on that more than
07:15Gerard mayo would have I I mean, I I but dk metcalf hasn't been like a problem
07:20I don't understand why they think he's like a character. Vrabel has a great relationship with aj brown
07:25Yeah, who's crazy? We've seen him on the football yelling at his quarterback
07:29Right, so he has character issues like I I don't I think that it's if the player is good
07:35and they can
07:38Get the money, right?
07:39Then they'll go after the play because we talked about cooper cup who seems like he has a great character
07:43But they we just need to stop making excuses instead of telling me they don't have good character go sign good football players
07:50I don't care if they don't have good character if they're yelling at people on the field go sign good football players
07:56That's what we were saying yesterday too. We I i'm sick of hearing that they don't want to come here like
08:02Stop so many excuses. You're so right. I agree with you on that one
08:05100 like we need to stop allowing like these this team to have excuses. It's a fact in the case of chris godwin
08:14He told me that he didn't want to come here. Well, yeah, because he wanted to stay
08:18to stay in tampa, basically
08:20He didn't want to come here for significantly more money
08:23Yeah, because he wanted to stay in tampa which I get but like at the same time don't make excuses for a guy like dk
08:29Metcalf who would have been a trade not a free agent. You could have acquired him and just paid him the money
08:34But here's what people like the cold weather and then he did like the right weather
08:37Yeah, 30 million reasons on why to like
08:40Listening is a skill for so many people this on twitch godwin was never going to come here
08:47Week later curtis still thinks we have a shot. No you
08:50Not wise human
08:53What i'm saying is that they were targeting godwin because of what he represented not that he was going to come here
09:00It's that they are risk averse at the position
09:02Mike vrabel if he's given a certain amount of money to spend and he's in charge of its success
09:07Is going to default to defense, right?
09:10That's the side of the ball. He understands best, right?
09:13But if he's if they are in on godwin then that tells you mike vrabel knows
09:17Knows
09:18That they have issues at wide receiver
09:21So, all right, we missed out on godwin who that if they're in on godwin for 30 million
09:27That means he's a top of their free agency board
09:30But they also have to have plan b and plan c just in case they can't get godwin. So
09:38Who the hell is plan b?
09:40And who the hell is plan c and right now it seems like they have no plan
09:44Plan
09:45Cup could have been plan b. They didn't give him an offer
09:49If they were in on godwin
09:51Why wouldn't they give cooper cup and I don't understand that I don't get that
09:55I will never understand that for the life of me. We would have known about that right 15 million bucks
10:00We knew they were in on godwin. Yeah
10:02So why wouldn't we have known about cooper cup if they were in on him?
10:05So clearly i'm like, where's your plan b mike? That's I am a little concerned on the offensive side