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Jones & Keefe: Why Free Agency is the best way for the Patriots to build
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2/12/2025
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If you're going to go all in and build through the trenches,
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get your hog mollies, your big uglies, your hosses,
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that's your plan.
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I think the better route to do that is free agency.
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And I think the way I would phrase
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it is the top free agent target for me is not T Higgins.
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And I would love them to get T Higgins,
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but I think there's a lot of options at wide receiver.
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We've talked about them.
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You could trade for DK Metcalf, Cup, Samuel.
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There are receivers in the draft,
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not that this organization has a good track record of that.
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So I think the number one free agent target for me
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is Ronnie Stanley.
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And getting a blindside left tackle
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who has had injury issues, but he's
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been a high level player for a talented and successful
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organization, I think that's where I'd start.
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That would be the ideal fit this offseason.
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If the Patriots are going to make a big splash,
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drop some dough, T Higgins I'd be very excited about.
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I'd like a shiny object to get the jersey.
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You're more likely to get the T Higgins jersey than the Ronnie
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Stanley jersey.
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But if they don't get Ronnie Stanley,
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then I'm starting to wonder, well,
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where is your franchise left tackle coming from?
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Is it the draft?
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I'm not sure.
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Is it another free agent?
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I feel like that's, if you're talking
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about scarcity out of position, that's
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the one I want to go capitalize on.
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Yeah, I'm torn on the draft just because I don't
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want one in the first round.
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I want one probably in the second round.
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But then you're saying, well, if there's
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nobody really liking the first round,
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what are the chances of somebody really liking the second round?
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And we've seen it work both in their advantage
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and not in their advantage.
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The Patriots drafted Joe Tooney and Shaq Mason
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not in the first round.
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And those guys at a time were two of the best guards
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in the NFL.
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Guards.
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Guards, yeah.
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No, you don't want Tooney playing left tackle,
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but they were two of the best guards,
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but still solidifying your offensive line.
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I would say Dickerson and Beckton,
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pretty good for the Eagles.
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So there is an avenue there.
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But then there's also the two guys you took last year.
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You kind of took that similar approach.
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The two guys you drafted a year ago,
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and maybe you were going to play one of them out of position
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or whatever, but those guys you could have looked at,
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you're like, oh, that's similar draft capital to Tooney
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and Mason.
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So it's all about finding those guys
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and then sort of developing them.
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