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00:00uh digs is looks like he's gonna be fully i don't know i shouldn't say fully participating but he's
00:05running out there uh i mean it's not a padded practice right it's an ota it's voluntary uh
00:11mandatory minicamp is next week but i don't know it looks to me like he's he's running out onto
00:16the field he's got the helmet on he's got the full thing going like he's got nothing on his knee
00:19yeah this is true that's what i noticed nothing or anything but nothing like those are some high
00:24shorts actually there's nothing there's really nothing going on anywhere careful but uh sure
00:28okay look i'm happy he's out there i don't jones but yeah it's good he's out there and i wonder how
00:36much he's going to participate like this is very interesting and to me it underscores a good job
00:40by terp he's got this on twitch right now you can watch the video for yourself if freeze pops had
00:44that twitch.tv slash boston we i'll freeze pops out it as well freeze pops is put out on twitter and
00:49good stuff he's waving to people i guess he said nice to see y'all okay he's out there jogs out there
00:54i mean it is a jog that was not a sprint by any no he's well he's got a warm-up job yeah that's
00:58true yeah you don't want to stretch active stretch yeah no it's a good point
01:00thank you you look good uh good jog i all of this is good news it underscores to me that he should
01:09have been out there last week it's again like what were you why could if you could be here today
01:12what the hell were you doing last week and it does beg the question why are you here now which i i do
01:18think i know the answer to but i think i know the answer to everything keep i mean that's not a first
01:22i i i i think i know the confidence in yourself and nobody will see you to the universe and
01:27everything else yeah i think i i tend to know these answers but my people yes or no yes yes
01:33on lizard people yeah you and jason rossi jeez the reptilians yeah the reptilians yeah they live
01:40among us they've all been presidents yeah okay i don't know i don't know they've all been presidents
01:45oh they've all been presidents almost every uh president of our lifetime anyway has been a
01:50reptilian lizard person okay i gotta maybe i gotta dig a little all right come back to me on that yeah
01:55hot take but no i i think it's good he's out there i think it's pretty clear they threatened
02:00his job last week and they threatened his money and now he's here he responded yeah and he responded
02:05he's he's there but like looking back on last week the firestorm that this was pink substances on a boat
02:11girls calling him daddy i'm mr make it happen on a boat mr make it happen on a boat cardi b's maybe
02:17upset with him maybe not certainly not anymore based on her instagram and what was going on there
02:21don't show that twitch i would say please don't show that on twitch terp we can't show that on
02:26twitch no terp had a good idea you can show screen grab yeah don't show the video there's a lot of
02:30shaking no some would say not enough some would say too much or the right amount i think the goldilocks
02:34approach a lot of shaking on there but so now they've made up giardi comes on and says ah 15 chance
02:41he gets cut even bedard didn't close the door on that breer's like yeah he's got to explain this to
02:45mike rabel or they could move on florio race have details on his contract they threaten his job
02:51they threaten his money lo and behold he's out there if steph tiggs was on that boat but there
02:56was no video of it for the public do you think he's still at practice or not at practice like do
03:01you think that's the same i bet he's probably still not there because i bet it doesn't turn into the
03:05firestorm it turned into and you know mcdaniels and this would be interesting to actually go back
03:09he said he doesn't think they've ever had full attendance at otas but you think over the years
03:16with bill belich and i know josh wasn't here the whole time but you don't think bill ever had a
03:20100 percent ota uh probably not i don't know but here's here's what i would guess i would guess most
03:26of the players rehabbing were strongly encouraged to be encouraged to be there and i bet they had a
03:30real good attendance for those players true i bet it wasn't perfect uh i i'd be surprised if they
03:35ever had 100 attendance over the years they couldn't get brady to show up some years there in the middle
03:39so yeah i mean you do have absences i think what's noteworthy with digs even more so than
03:44carlton davis which i think is interesting on the heels of all the dig stuff and i don't know if
03:48he's there today or not i would hope he's there but i'm not really all that hacked off about carlton
03:54davis not being there the issue with digs is he's recovering from a torn acl and he should be putting
03:58in the work to get back out on the field so i'm happy he's there today yeah no i think it's well
04:02digs is also the more important player you know you look at the position that he's playing like what
04:07the expected what like the high mark could be for digs and getting to be on the same page with
04:12drake may and josh mcdaniels carlton davis not saying that there won't be some sort of you know
04:16acclimation process but he's gonna be the number two corner on defense like i think there's less
04:20for him to kind of have to get on the same page with uh good text here somebody just ordered a
04:26steph digs jersey two days ago or two days before the whole fiasco oh boy so now i was feeling a
04:31little bit better sweating that out that would be a tough jersey that would be a tough jersey doesn't
04:35even make a game that would be the toughest jersey yeah i'll be right up there with the uh antonio
04:42brown jerseys at least the guy got a game it's a brown got a touchdown he did he's in the end zone
04:45now that's just a throwback now yeah antonio brown no that's true at least if you play it's a throwback
04:50so anyway here some of what i'm talking about is uh the mike florio info which uh i think is
04:58interesting actually let's rewind it further some of some of the example of what i'm talking about
05:01like this was uh this was chris curtis earlier today this was his lead this morning on the greg hill
05:06show just continuing what felt like an avalanche reporting on digs and his roster security and how
05:12it's set the patriots are and i believe they were upset at the whole fiasco last week uh this is
05:16chris this morning over the weekend got some info about the patriots a couple things of note regarding
05:21step digs the big man as in rkk very unhappy with the events of last week okay went to the top of the
05:31organization the wide receiver room is the rudderless room of the organization part of the
05:36agreement with rabel and the patriots and step digs before signing him to the roughly 70 million dollar
05:43deal was that he would be rehabbing here and a presence with the young receivers in the offseason
05:50that was what most irked rabel last week which was you had baker and others playing like idiots
05:58and the best player on the field the guy that would command the room would have the respect in
06:04the ears and the eyes of the young guys didn't have step digs to look toward okay so craft is pissed
06:13according to curtis from what he's heard and on top of that rabel's upset because digs isn't out there
06:19and you have polk and baker dropping passes you have baker out there acting like a clown and he's like i
06:24thought steph digs is going to be here leading the group and he's not even here he's partying on a
06:27boat with pink substances and girls and asses in his face and i have to deal with what happened
06:33yesterday uh or last week rather looking at these guys dropping passes left and right not knowing how
06:38to act like professionals and i kind of thought that's what we were going to get out of this so
06:42i believe the patriots were upset craft vrabel whomever i believe they were upset do you do you
06:48believe that yeah i think variable is at least annoyed i mean i guess on the scale of how upset he was
06:53whatever he's a little annoyed like oh come on like we're dealing with this and i wonder if craft
06:57also sort of thing like that way when we heard from him last week he sounded like based just off of
07:01that yeah and then i'm sure craft was a little bit too now i think it to me it's too far to be like
07:07man digs is going to really clean up polk and baker and all these guys like that what is he what the
07:12hell is he supposed to be like even randy moss and jerry rice aren't going to make those guys better
07:15and if you thought digs was going to be the guy who was going to come in and act like a professional
07:18i didn't know like you're doing too much partying on the boat but digs digs has worn out his welcome
07:23multiple places if you expected that out of digs right you probably are expecting the wrong no i want
07:27digs to play 13 games and you know approach a thousand yards i don't i'm not saying and oh by the
07:34way make jalen polk catch the ball and make jayvon baker not celebrate after a pass right like
07:40that's too much for me he's not gonna be able to overdo or over make the whole room so that's some
07:45of the reporting on like whoa craft is upset and whoa 15 chance he could get cut and oh my i mean
07:52burt breer last week uh he has to explain himself to mike rabel like all of this and on top of that
07:58you had reese with the note on his contract and florio who's had a lot of good stuff on his contract
08:02i read this earlier i'll read it again uh florio wrote yesterday we've obtained and reviewed the
08:06entire contract for steph digs until he passes a full physical uh which is including as soon as injured
08:14knee he's entitled to nothing and that wrinkle gives rise to another question that recently became
08:19relevant if the patriots decide to cut digs do they owe him anything paragraph 26 of the contract
08:25sets forth the signing bonus and under paragraph 26a digs gets 12 million dollars keith nice three
08:31different four million dollar installments all right one whenever he passes a physical within two
08:38weeks of the execution of the contract another four million dollar installment on halloween october 31st
08:432025 and a third installment march 31st of 2026 like stranger things season five release
08:50three different phases it's true it works so they didn't just give him 12 million lump they gave
08:56themselves uh an ability to have some cash flow four million at the execution of the contract four in
09:01the middle of the year four million in march basically florio writes the patriots owe digs nothing
09:06until he passes a full physical clearing into practice and play in this case the language of the
09:11contract gives the team specifically its physician the ability to put the kibosh on the entire
09:16contract by determining that digs can't pass a physical due to his acl tear if digs has not yet
09:22passed the full and final physical that clears him to practice and play and the absence of news that
09:26he's passed a full and final physical strongly suggests he has not there's an opening to turn that
09:31three-year 69 million dollar contract into nothing at all that is nice never gonna see all that money
09:37no he's like okay he knew that going is this an indication he's passed the physical now that he's
09:41out there today like we hard to say we had seen we had heard reports he was out there before we hadn't
09:45seen him out there yet like we see the media out there today and so maybe that's an indication he has
09:50passed the physical or maybe they boxed him around enough and threatened his money enough that they got
09:55him to show up regardless i'm happy he's out there and i would really be happy if rabel was able to lean
10:01on him and you know maybe craft threatened his money maybe the the the public pressure campaign
10:07through media got back to him and his agent his people but if rabel could lean on him and get him
10:12back out there i'd feel good about that because i said earlier in the show if you can't get your
10:16veterans to show up and buy in what do you really do well because and usually there's a uh honeymoon
10:21period with steph digs we've seen that specifically right like i think even when he got to buffalo it was a
10:27real surprise just how quickly josh allen turned into like an elite quarterback and he after leaving
10:33minnesota you're like how's that gonna go and it was great and then even last year before he got hurt
10:37he was performing well first year with a new team so even if it doesn't end particularly strong right
10:43he's off of three different teams for a reason you think there's going to be an early you know spark
10:49right the honeymoon period especially when you when you add in mike rabel and you're like all right what's
10:53this relationship going to be like early on and no i'm not saying it's bad but the fact that we're
10:58even like discussing this over the last week you're like oh man they haven't even put pads on yet we're
11:03like we're already talking about what's going on here and like how the guarantee of him even making it
11:08to this season like that was like a real topic of conversation last week now this is just one ota is
11:15one jog onto the field but it does seem like a good sign oh it definitely a great sign like yeah right to
11:20say it's like because the other thing is true like if he wasn't there today you're like oh man
11:24like what will he be there on monday like what's that gonna look like what's the next step there
11:28so the fact that he's there is obviously great on all all fronts for now i would say they're kind
11:33of out of the woods on the digs drama he's there yeah they're not if he's there i don't think they're
11:37gonna cut him and so good i would say mostly they're out of the woods now you're right if he's not
11:42there at mandatory minicamp next week we have a big issue yeah but he's out there today i feel better
11:46about it i mean at the beginning of the show i'm like great there's another video him and cardi b
11:50don't show it yep yep but there's another video of him and cardi b on a boat last night on her
11:56social media i'm like i don't think he's gonna be here so i'm surprised he's here today but i'm
11:59happy he is do you think that was from the same a good question i don't know i don't know maybe and
12:03it was just like a video that like they put up they released somebody else they released later i don't
12:07know just to watch everybody squirm and be like he's not going to show up and then to throw the curveball
12:11maybe she made their relationship official right isn't that what i isn't that what i heard good for
12:15them good for those two i love that i love love you do love love that i'm happy for them uh
12:20so that's uh going on at otas today meanwhile i've been saying i'm looking forward to hopefully
12:26getting some positive news out of drake may on the field we're not going to have any real updates
12:30on that until the ota wraps up uh but he threw four picks two weeks ago last week it was an uneven
12:37day for the offense where current said he's skipping throws like a shortstop not great and wildly
12:42inaccurate yeah so does he kind of take a step forward from here hopefully yeah and i would hope for
12:47that today maybe maybe digs out there and i don't know how much digs is doing uh but maybe digs being
12:52out there will aid in that uh i'm reading from josh mcdaniels today our guy uh freeze pops yep uh
12:59all over it transcribed this okay this is rabel on drake may he said quote he's very smart really
13:03i'm sorry what did i say rabel i'm sorry mcdaniels on may uh quote he's very smart works really hard
13:10we either make a good play or we learn from the results and sometimes as a coach no one wants to hear
13:15this the negative results can actually be your best teacher so good here we go this is actually a
13:19good day of practice the big key for us as we go forward is when we learn from a mistake can we go
13:25out there the next day and not repeat the same error i think he's doing a really good job of digesting
13:31the information processing the corrections when there is a correction to be made and go out there
13:36with a great attitude and a mindset the next day so mcdaniels at least publicly defending may and the
13:41mistakes he's made yeah i mean i would be surprised if there's anything other than that right like i
13:45think i think mcdaniels is you know very much in the the bell check uh coaching tree and so i don't
13:51think he's gonna give away too much and it's so early on that because they've had a couple of bad
13:56days how are you gonna sort of spin that positive in fact that's what bill's even though he said even
14:01when he was making his uh those uh pr like promoting his book stops that is one thing that he has been
14:08pretty consistent about like coaching philosophy wise he's like when the team is doing really well
14:12or a player's doing really well that's when you need to kind of like chop them down a little bit
14:15but like when things are going bad that's actually when you go the other way and kind of pick them
14:19up so drake may throws four picks at an ota you don't need josh mcdaniels being like don't know what
14:24he was seeing out there like what a mess well but even even mcdaniels is saying let's not repeat
14:30these errors so you know it's something and i thought variable said this last week too and we played
14:34variable live on i don't know thursday wednesday thursday whatever it was last week and he's like
14:39well yeah i mean i care that he's throwing four picks like of course i care about that and mcdaniels
14:44doesn't want to see the same errors over and over again with drake may which i'll be honest as a
14:48rookie i feel like there were a lot of repeat mistakes and so can you clean that up in year two
14:54i'd bet on it you'd bet on it keith we both think the team is gonna be much better this year
14:57you have him for 10 wins i have him for nine wins we both have him in the playoffs so
15:01yeah i i think he will be able to do that but i think he started a little behind the eight ball
15:07which maybe makes sense new offense new coordinator new personnel maybe some of that should have been
15:12expected but i'd like to see some progress today at otas and definitely at mandatory minicamp next
15:19week i would like to hear some positive uh numbers we'll see on monday i think we're going to be there
15:24on monday keith we'll actually get to see it with our own eyes how he actually looks and hopefully
15:27there's some progress there yeah and i'm also interested as sort of an aside from that like
15:32does he start to find a favorite receiver because i think that because i don't think digs is gonna be
15:35involved in like a lot of that stuff and like and you know as the season goes on hopefully it does
15:39become digs but right now don't you think that's kind of like pretty even playing field yeah i think
15:44we had that topic the other day like who do you think is going to lead the team in receiving
15:46or whatever and without digs it could be anybody like i think you could make a strong case for
15:52anybody so like along the lines of okay not any not not everybody like if drake may's doing well
15:59so like he didn't do well the first day we heard about you know gonzalez had two picks and what's it
16:04had a pick like all right if he's moving the ball he's a completing pass like who is he relying on who
16:09is he going to because i think there is a big time opportunity for any of those receivers maybe the tight
16:14ends to sort of like take over that role as sort of like the go-to guy 617-779-7937 steph digs is at
16:23patriots otas which is progress why is he out there and why wasn't he out there last week i am still
16:29curious about that although i think we know the answer you can jump in 617-779-7937 later on this
16:36hour we'll get to the nba finals and the stanley cup final both are set and they feel like they have
16:41quite a resounding lack of buzz so we'll get to those coming up and i want to get to a few other
16:46contractual issues for the patriots their top two picks still not signed how concerned should we be
16:52about that
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