Jones & Keefe: The Patriots don't seem sold on this Draft

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00:00I find this whole thing amusing where it's like every day it's like, oh, maybe it's Shalen Walker.

00:05Oh, maybe it's Will Campbell.

00:06Oh, maybe it's Mason Graham, right?

00:09And we're as guilty of that as anybody else.

00:11I don't mean to absolve us of that.

00:13We've spent a lot of time following the draft and talking about what could happen at four.

00:16But when names start coming out of what I would consider left field,

00:20where we've established now that a month's worth of conversation,

00:23and we're talking about pick four, we're not talking about pick ten.

00:25No.

00:25There's only so many things that can happen in front of the Patriots

00:27where prospects rise or fall.

00:30And a name comes out of what I would consider the woodwork.

00:32Guys can rise up, but between Membu and Jalen Walker, it's one of two things.

00:38Either we have too much time to talk about the draft and kick around,

00:41and now we're just throwing names out there.

00:43Possible.

00:44Yes.

00:45Or the Patriots don't really know what to do it for because they don't love any of these guys.

00:49The guys they love are the obvious guys, Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter,

00:54and they don't really love any of these other prospects, which, by the way,

00:58I wouldn't blame them for.

00:59Well, I don't know that anybody really loves these guys.

01:00Well, perhaps that talk is, all right, well, what happens if you trade down, right?

01:03Because maybe it's not you're taking any of these guys to four, but it's like, all right,

01:06well, what if the player you really like goes off at three,

01:10and then you get blown away with the trade offer?

01:12What would you do?

01:13How far would you be willing to go down?

01:14And then who would you target?

01:16And then you'd have to figure another handful of guys' names would be off the board.

01:20That would be my hope because Jalen Walker might end up being a great player in the NFL,

01:24but if they walked away with him in the first round, I'd be devastated.

01:29I'd be like, how do you do that?

01:30Like, I think it's either Abdul Carter or offense.

01:34So even the next best defensive player, he very well could be the next best defensive player.

01:40I don't want that.

01:41They were all defense in free agency.

01:43I think he's good, but I don't think he is, you know, what Abdul Carter could be.

01:48So that would be pretty rough.

01:50That would also be a tough sell to Drake May.

01:51Be like, hey, did you see that first round last night?

01:53What'd you do?

01:53Yeah, you know, the defensive guy.

01:55We're beefing up that line.

01:56You're like, okay, great.

01:57Like, I needed somebody to throw to or somebody to block for me.

02:00So instead of rushing out and getting Harold Landry,

02:02could you have gotten me a wide receiver way back when?

02:04That would have been nice.

02:04Left tackle?

02:05That is a fair way to look at, yeah, or a left tackle.

02:07Exactly.

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