Patriots under pressure this 'negotiation period'?

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#Patriots under pressure this 'negotiation period'? Should NE be more offensive or defensive focused, Day 1? Thoughts on Godwin or Williams?

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00:00currently in and then Wednesday the gloves are off and you're ready to go so we'll see

00:05what happens.

00:06Yeah.

00:07See if you get your way, Wiggy.

00:08Yeah.

00:09I mean, I'm hoping, I'm hoping that I do.

00:10Um, I, like I said, Chimes on it is more in on Chris Godwin.

00:15I would prefer you seeing about trading for a guy like George Pickens.

00:21Um, I, I'm trying to think who else might be out there.

00:25Who do you have right now in your mock two?

00:28Is it mock two Chime?

00:30Yeah.

00:31Mock 2.0 post combine.

00:32So who are the Patriots picking in that?

00:33Uh, I, I had the Patriots trading down and taking Ted Arola McMillan.

00:37When is the next mock draft come out?

00:38Uh, so the next mock draft will come out post free agency here.

00:41So a couple of weeks once the free agency dust settles, then we'll release a mock draft

00:45because then you know more on what teams need a little bit better.

00:48This is Tim from Hanover.

00:49Hey Tim.

00:50Gentlemen, good morning.

00:51Love the show as always.

00:53I just want to say the heck with the trading up and trade down.

00:59We need the receiver, get Hunter, get bond.

01:02There's about five good receivers out there that can make a difference and then take it

01:08from there, man.

01:09We got to get the, obviously the offensive line and spend, they got the money, spend,

01:15spend, spend, and we should have a team.

01:18Yeah.

01:20I don't know.

01:21Wiggy says it.

01:22Wiggy says it all the time.

01:24Like I, maybe this is not an off season where they're going to spend.

01:29But if, if, if to the, to the callers, you know, question or point, if you're looking

01:35at top, if you're looking for a receiver, the best receiver in the draft would be Ted

01:47McMillan, Ted, the role of McMillan from Arizona.

01:51I think that Travis Hunter is an unbelievable athlete.

01:57He's more, he has more quarterback skills than he does wide receiver skills.

02:02So if you're going to go after him, I'm always told that you don't draft for need.

02:07You take the best player that is available regardless of what the position is.

02:13I don't know.

02:14I don't really subscribe to that one because I think you have to draft for what the need

02:18is for your team.

02:20You need a little bit of a balance.

02:21You need it to be, you don't want to just draft the best player available when you have

02:24a bunch of other guys that already play the position, but you want to draft probably the

02:28best player available at a position that you also kind of need.

02:31Like you need a balance there.

02:32It can't be one or the other.

02:34And I guess the question that I would, I would maybe ask people, all right, the caller said,

02:40get a wide receiver at number four.

02:42Shyam has them getting Teteroa McMillan at number four.

02:45So I guess the question would become, would you want that wide receiver, Teteroa McMillan

02:52or even Travis Hunter that you, but you, if you're going to have Travis Hunter, he's not

02:56going to be a wide receiver.

02:57So you could take him off the board.

02:59So you're talking about Teteroa McMillan and then you're probably talking about Luther

03:03Burden III as the second best wide receiver.

03:06A lot of people actually really like Matthew Golden.

03:08Okay.

03:09Golden or the kid from Ohio state, right?

03:11And Jigba?

03:13Yeah.

03:14Yeah.

03:15Yeah.

03:16Amika Ibuka.

03:17Ibuka, right?

03:18So you're talking either those guys, Chris Godwin, or the guy I'd like to see a trade

03:22for George Pickens.

03:24Like where, if you're the Patriots, what direction do we want to go?

03:28If we're drafting a wide receiver, now we just have a young receiver room that is unproven

03:34and.

03:35Yeah, no, I, you need to give Drake May some kind of a veteran weapon of, and you're talking

03:40about, um, uh, guys that are, have proven minus the injury, um, which, but he still

03:49had, what did he have?

03:50A 50, 50 catches last year for over 500 yards in seven games.

03:55Was that Chris Godwin?

03:56Yes.

03:57Yeah.

03:58So I mean, if that's the direction you want to, I think Chris Godwin's a good player.

04:00Don't, I'm not saying he's not, I just think somebody earlier was saying he was washed.

04:04Yeah.

04:05Why can't you do both?

04:06Why can't you sign Godwin and draft at McMillan?

04:09Like wouldn't that be really addressing a need?

04:12Oh, right.

04:13That would be addressing the need that I, then I would be like, okay, all right.

04:16I could see that because Tet, Tet McMillan would be your future.

04:20Godwin would right now be the guy that you, uh, could, could kind of make sure he's a

04:25good leader, leader in that wide receiver room.

04:29So I, I just, I'm concerned.

04:31Would it be fine if you got Godwin to then get Travis?

04:33No, because Travis is a corner.

04:36I know, but I'm just saying if you address the need at receiver with Godwin, then are

04:40you okay?

04:41If you, if you get Travis because he's such a great athlete.

04:42No, because then what I would do is I would then, I would, I, if I'm, if you don't want

04:46me to trade down or up, then I'm taking Tyler Warren at number four.

04:50I know that's a stretch, but I would rather Godwin Tyler Warren on you as your offensive

04:57place.

04:58Cause look at what Gronkowski was able to do.

04:59Well, hopefully we will be able to discuss this with Mike Vrabel tomorrow morning.

05:05Should he be on the show?

05:06All right.

05:07I would love to.

05:08I'm going to Quincy tomorrow for the 12th annual saving by shaving event.

05:12And I have no idea where, where Mike Vrabel stands on all of this, but maybe he will.

05:17And Frank knows better than anybody.

05:19He knows.

05:20Cause he played both.

05:21He technically played both ways, even though he, even though he was a goal line tight end,

05:26but he knows how difficult it really would be.

05:30Cause you have to practice 90% of the time at one position, more or less difficult than

05:36show.

05:37Hey, Otani Travis Hunter thinks that, you know what he's doing more impressive than

05:43show.

05:44Hey.

05:45Yeah.

05:46I mean, if he was, if he was elite at both at the NFL level, yes, it's more impressive

05:49than show.

05:50Hey, Otani.

05:51But I don't think he'll be elite at both in the NFL.

05:53See, I think he could be an elite corner one day.

05:56He has all the quarterback skills, but he'll be an elite corner.

06:00And then he'll be similar to what we saw like a gadget here.

06:04Yeah.

06:05Like what we saw with Dion and Dion's arguably the greatest two-way player in NFL history.

06:11And he was more of a gadget player.

06:12You come in, you throw him a goal route, you run him a slant, you give him a reverse.

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