Jones & Keefe: Why Free Agency is the best way for the Patriots to build

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00:00If you're going to go all in and build through the trenches,

00:04get your hog mollies, your big uglies, your hosses,

00:08that's your plan.

00:09I think the better route to do that is free agency.

00:12And I think the way I would phrase

00:14it is the top free agent target for me is not T Higgins.

00:17And I would love them to get T Higgins,

00:20but I think there's a lot of options at wide receiver.

00:22We've talked about them.

00:23You could trade for DK Metcalf, Cup, Samuel.

00:26There are receivers in the draft,

00:27not that this organization has a good track record of that.

00:30So I think the number one free agent target for me

00:34is Ronnie Stanley.

00:35And getting a blindside left tackle

00:38who has had injury issues, but he's

00:41been a high level player for a talented and successful

00:46organization, I think that's where I'd start.

00:48That would be the ideal fit this offseason.

00:51If the Patriots are going to make a big splash,

00:53drop some dough, T Higgins I'd be very excited about.

00:56I'd like a shiny object to get the jersey.

00:58You're more likely to get the T Higgins jersey than the Ronnie

01:00Stanley jersey.

01:01But if they don't get Ronnie Stanley,

01:05then I'm starting to wonder, well,

01:06where is your franchise left tackle coming from?

01:09Is it the draft?

01:09I'm not sure.

01:10Is it another free agent?

01:11I feel like that's, if you're talking

01:14about scarcity out of position, that's

01:16the one I want to go capitalize on.

01:17Yeah, I'm torn on the draft just because I don't

01:20want one in the first round.

01:21I want one probably in the second round.

01:23But then you're saying, well, if there's

01:25nobody really liking the first round,

01:27what are the chances of somebody really liking the second round?

01:29And we've seen it work both in their advantage

01:32and not in their advantage.

01:33The Patriots drafted Joe Tooney and Shaq Mason

01:37not in the first round.

01:39And those guys at a time were two of the best guards

01:41in the NFL.

01:42Guards.

01:42Guards, yeah.

01:43No, you don't want Tooney playing left tackle,

01:44but they were two of the best guards,

01:45but still solidifying your offensive line.

01:47I would say Dickerson and Beckton,

01:49pretty good for the Eagles.

01:52So there is an avenue there.

01:54But then there's also the two guys you took last year.

01:56You kind of took that similar approach.

01:59The two guys you drafted a year ago,

02:01and maybe you were going to play one of them out of position

02:03or whatever, but those guys you could have looked at,

02:06you're like, oh, that's similar draft capital to Tooney

02:09and Mason.

02:10So it's all about finding those guys

02:12and then sort of developing them.

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