#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.