The Greg Hill Show: Should the Patriots have held on to David Andrews?

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00:00And we reacted live to it. It was a week ago. Everybody was saying,

00:04Curtis, what are you saying? He's gonna retire. It's okay. Like, no, bad decision.

00:11Also, I said, what's the downside of keeping him here through training camp?

00:16At least if he doesn't make the team, he can work with Rable to work on,

00:21this guy's a keeper, this guy's a Patriot, because we all agree David Andrews, a Patriot.

00:26He's won two Super Bowls.

00:27Yep.

00:28Instead, I get mocked for it. And then yesterday, Karen Garigian sat down with Devin McCourty,

00:34who said they should have kept him to at least have him around through camp,

00:38because of all the things I just listed.

00:40I mean, leadership alone, even not being a part of the team last year,

00:49from a playing perspective, he was somebody who was speaking out. And you could, I think,

00:54you could guess, was trying to hold other guys accountable, the younger guys accountable. I mean,

01:00it's a void in that locker room when it comes to leadership.

01:03But they did him a favor. Because if he still wants to play-

01:07He said in the podcast that he's going to live around here.

01:10But he wants to play. So if he wants to play, why not-

01:13But he doesn't want to, like, up and move the family somewhere else.

01:17But if you want a job, he talked about being fired, right? And I've been in this situation

01:23before. They did him a favor. Releasing him now allows him to go to a team where he can learn the

01:30offense and be ready to go for that team come training camp. Releasing him during training

01:36camp doesn't help him out with other teams. So they actually did him a favor.

01:42He sounds like he's happy about it.

01:44No, no, no. He's not happy about being fired.

01:46Right. So they didn't do him a favor.

01:48No, he's not happy about being fired because he still wants to play.

01:51And he thinks he would have been the best center on the team if he was there.

01:54But in their opinion, they don't believe it. So what they did, the favor that they're doing

01:59for him, Curtis, is releasing him now gives him more options for teams to go to and allows him

02:07to get in the building with his new team, learn the offense, and legitimately be the number one

02:13guy. Rather, if you wait till training camp, now when he gets cut, he's not going to have as many

02:19teams.