Patriots Hype OUT OF CONTROL_ ESPN Ranks New England 21st-BEST NFL Roster

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Toucher & Hardy ripped ESPN’s ranking of the Patriots as the 21st-best roster, calling it ridiculous. They said the team is rebuilding, with a weak offensive line and possibly four rookie starters by midseason. Despite some upgrades, Fred and Wallach think talk of nine wins is unrealistic. They compared the Pats to the Jets and said this season is just the beginning of a long rebuild.

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00:00the uh nfl uh espn has ranked the top uh rosters in the nfl they've gone in uh you know chronological

00:08order okay best to worst and i'll tell you what this patriots team hang on to your hats let me

00:15guess yeah guess guess where they ranked them 26 nope i know the answer i was looking at the 21st

00:27best roster yeah in the nfl it's ludicrous things are getting well out of hand with this team okay

00:34i can add to this uh pro football focus puts out its pre-season view of top they ranked all the

00:40offensive lines patriots had the 32nd best offensive line the worst offensive line in

00:46football you know where it is pre uh pre-season starting this year it's second i mean i mean

00:53seriously 20th 29th 29th and the reason i bring that up is to back up fred's point

01:00they don't have the 21st best roster they are better pretty much all around from where they

01:07ended last season but the point is you're starting from zero right and you're a two or a three as

01:13opposed to a five or a six that was the argument we were having or not an argument discussion we

01:19were having with mike reese when he floated the idea of the possibility of this team winning nine

01:24games they're not winning nine games they're going to win six or seven because the schedule is bad

01:30but as much as you look at other teams on the schedule as wins for you those other teams are

01:36looking at you and saying that's a win for us well the thing is this is that you're going to be better

01:41i mean i mean just you will you have a better coach you went crazy in free agency and that always

01:47get you a couple wins in the short term it doesn't help you in the long term but in the short term

01:53and and but you know you're having a rookie if you're lucky start every game which you think is

02:01a great thing but you know there might have been games for that percent just by being a veteran one

02:06that may can't and second of all he's gonna make mistakes he's gonna throw into coverage he's gonna

02:11think he's got an arm that's more powerful than everyone else he's gonna he's going to throw into

02:17triple coverage where there's no receiver open it's part of the maturation process for any

02:22quarterback so there's the stakes have raised so much for him because it was just show your like

02:27elite physical talent last year and hooray and now it's going to be like oh you want me to win games

02:34for you and how is this roster better than 10 other teams rosters that's fascinating to me

02:41you don't know what drake may is they're not great at running back they're not good at receiver

02:48their offensive line's not good secondary it's all deep well yeah their secondary is good yeah

02:53their secondary is very good so yeah and and look they're they're they're praising and this has been

02:58going on for years he plays a premium in terms of like evaluating a team's overall uh quality based on

03:06the quality of specifically your two corners and if you have by then the jets should have a better

03:11a better roster the jets are 29th and the jets have better corners than the the or at least the same

03:19yeah as the patriots going on which sauce gardener shows up but yes well sauce gardener even when he's

03:24bad and he drove me crazy last year isn't bad go ahead here here's what you need to know about the

03:29patriots roster and we're gonna have mark daniels on in a second to discuss this look at the top four

03:34picks in the draft that you got will campbell travion henderson kyle williams jared wilson all

03:42four of those guys could be starting for you by the second half of the season garrett bradbury we

03:49talked is not a good center jared wilson is supposedly the next guy campbell's gonna start

03:54immediately but you were said it yourself running back wasn't good last year henderson could be your

03:59starter and kyle williams who knows who the other guy is from stefan diggs and who knows what version

04:05of diggs you're gonna get you could have four rookies starting for you by the middle of the

04:10season that's not a roster that's in middle of the pack that's a roster that's near the bottom i just

04:16think that it's just out the expectations for this team are just crazy at this grade and it happens

04:23every year there's everyone loves the nfl myself included it's a lot of fun when it starts like

04:29around this time of year you start going like okay let's have like sundays taken care of for a while

04:35i'll take the weather change let's get football going at least that's how i feel and you start

04:41and there starts to be group thinking it's not even local it's national there's just this

04:45someone gets an idea and they the thing about anything politics anything is that you can

04:52just create something in your head and make an argument for it right and then other people hear

04:57that argument they go oh and then they start adding to that argument and i think that's very much where

05:02the patriots are this year like if the patriots won seven games if i'm a patriots fan i'm like great

05:08great that means that may was pretty good that means that our defense played well and that you know we

05:16have to improve on our offensive line and our receiving receivers that and then you know what you need

05:21next year you win seven games this year next year you improve in those areas now you're talking

05:27about you could win the division i'm talking about winning the division absolutely but this year

05:32no nine games absolutely i think you're out of your effing mind i don't think you're as good as the

05:37jets i really don't ow they really hate fields they really really hate fields but is fields any worse

05:45than drake may i think here i think he will be yes see i don't know this year if he is he he will

05:51he's not gonna i mean drake may is gonna have a way better career but i don't know if this year

05:56game by game drake may is a better quarterback than justin phillips now at the end of the season he

06:01may be the offensive line will have a lot to say about how good the jets offensive line is better

06:06than the patriots that's true that's true i mean you got morgan moses who i love and is a great

06:12locker room guy but he's 34 and he's walking around on broken sticks in your injury prone but

06:18going back to what we started this brief conversation with he's better than what you had last year by a

06:24lot the only reason i'm bringing up the jets too is just the randomness of all of this like that

06:28they're like last year the jets were supposed to be like in the super bowl like it's just

06:31people like who you know it's just people land on something and then it gets out of control and i

06:37think that's where the patriots are this this is the crawling stage you were you were a dead stop

06:42last year this is the crawling stage hopefully you're walking next year and then running after

06:46that that's where we are okay if you like that clip and how could you not check out more videos

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