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Patriots Out of the Running in the Brandon Aiyuk Sweepstakes
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8/7/2024
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Now, I love our producer Joe Frizzo, who is pulling double duty today, really triple duty
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downstairs and behind the scenes, technical directing the show, producing the show on
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the fly.
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But the headline for this next graphic, brother, you can't be putting this stuff on live national
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television.
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Pats pull out the Patriots out of the running for the Brandon Aiyuk sweepstakes.
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They were involved in perhaps trade pursuits for the disgruntled wide receiver in San Francisco,
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one of the rumored teams that was in the running to maybe trade for Brandon Aiyuk.
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They had had conversations with San Francisco, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter, but now
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no longer in the running to trade for Brandon Aiyuk.
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What do you make of this situation, DRS?
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This situation is kind of odd for me to start out with, because we've heard about Brandon
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Aiyuk being upset with the San Francisco 49ers for months and months and months on end, right
01:03
from the Super Bowl all the way up till now.
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So you figured you say, all right, we're in the Super Bowl window.
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We want to win a Super Bowl.
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We got to keep our best players happy.
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He's an integral part of this team.
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But they sort of let this fester where he's not practicing and now contacting other teams
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and probably getting excited about leaving San Francisco to go to the other teams.
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But the joke for me always was like, if he went to the Steelers, OK, Russell Wilson's
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a quarterback, you know, Justin Fields, there's a legitimate chance that they could be a solid
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franchise this year.
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I'm not talking about Super Bowl, but just playing in a good division.
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And you're certainly going to get your fair share of looks in that offense.
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Or if you're going to, let's just say the Cleveland Browns saying, you know what, Deshaun
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Watson, hopefully he can turn it on at this point and be that quarterback always thought
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he would be.
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I'm going to be an integral part of a very good football team.
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I think that can make a run into the playoffs and do some damage.
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The Patriots never made any sense for me because there's the timing of all this.
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Do you always want to improve your team?
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I understand the easy answer is yes.
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But the timing of when you want to improve your team, if you're looking at the Patriots
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this year and let's just say, and it could still happen where they maybe jump into the
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process, then let's just say in 45 minutes, Brandon Ike got traded to the Patriots.
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We break the news and I go, their win total is the same.
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They stink.
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I mean, it's just it doesn't make any difference.
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But he could be a difference maker in Pittsburgh and a difference maker, obviously, if he was
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going to the Cleveland Browns.
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So when I see like Brandon Ike's availability doesn't look like he's going to be with the
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New England Patriots.
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I don't understand why they were in on this.
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They should just be tanking this season once again, building up those assets, saving their
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money for when they believe they can start to be a competitor in the AFC East.
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That's when you go and get these legitimate players.
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You're always looking for better players.
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Again, I understand that.
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I just never thought it made any sense whatsoever to the Patriots.
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