Jones & Keefe: How the Patriots can lure Free Agents to New England

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00:00How do you sell players to come play in New England?

00:02I think the easy answer is just pay them more money, which we can get to,

00:06because I have questions about that with Kraft.

00:08How do you sell them? Is it as simple as Drake May?

00:10So I think to put money to the side, because I think money is the number one thing everywhere.

00:14I know like Miles Garrett was saying it isn't the most important thing, but whatever.

00:18It is for almost every single player.

00:20Maybe you can find like 1% of guys that isn't.

00:23So I think you can sell them on a few different things.

00:24One would be Drake May.

00:26I think another would be Mike Vrabel.

00:28I think both of those guys are pretty easy sells to be honest.

00:33And then depending on the player in the position,

00:35don't you also sell them on their role and how important they're going to be to the turnaround?

00:40Like I think if you brought in...

00:41Right, it's like we have Vrabel, we have Drake May, we have nothing else.

00:44You guys can be part of it.

00:46We're set at coach quarterback.

00:47Yeah.

00:48You guys can be part of the turnaround,

00:49and you're going to be the best player at your position.

00:51You're going to be a leader at your position.

00:53Yeah.

00:54You're going to get a lot of play.

00:54If you're a receiver or running back, there's tons of playing time for you.

00:58Yeah.

00:58And the NFL is different than the other sports too,

01:01because actually maybe the NBA is even becoming this way too.

01:06They're really market-proof.

01:07You don't have to play in New York.

01:08You don't have to play in LA to be on every commercial and super famous.

01:14And if you're winning and you're really good, you're going to be there.

01:17You see Rob Gronkowski everywhere you go, right?

01:20You can do that.

01:21So if that's something that any of these players that aren't familiar

01:24with New England are worried about,

01:25I don't think they need to be worried about that at all.

01:27And just the nature of the NFL.

01:29Bad teams can become good teams overnight.

01:31You know, it happens all the time.

01:33You could point to a million examples.

01:34You could point to Washington this year, Houston last year,

01:38like on down the line and be like,

01:40Hey, we could be that.

01:41Why can't we be that?

01:42We have a coach that knows what he's doing.

01:44We have a quarterback who is at least arrow pointing up.

01:49So yesterday when we did our top 10s,

01:51we didn't have him starting the year in the top 10,

01:52but it doesn't mean he can't jump into that conversation at some point.

01:56They at least know who their guy is,

01:58which is a leg up on 10 other teams.

02:00No, for sure.

02:01So I think Vrabel is a good one.

02:03I think selling a player on their role is always a big one.

02:06And I think Drake may.

02:07I mean, you hope guys want to play with Drake.

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