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Speaker 1: It's time for another edition of the Patriots Draft to Countdown,

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Speaker 1: England Patriots. It's Matt Smith with Mike dussaut as a

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Speaker 1: combine rolls on here from Indianapolis. Mike, I know fans

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Speaker 1: look at the position of wide receiver. They want a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver under their tree for Christmas or draft whatever,

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Speaker 1: whatever your holiday that just celebrate. You mentioned the other

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Speaker 1: day that you don't think it's likely that that number

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Speaker 1: one receiver is coming from free agency. So, with that

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Speaker 1: being said and wide receivers being part of the discussion today,

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Speaker 1: give me a guy that you think would be realistic

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Speaker 1: maybe for Patriots fans to think about.

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Speaker 2: Sure, I mean, I'd start with some of the ones

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Speaker 2: that you see. You know, Casey Concepcion from Texas A

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Speaker 2: and M is a really exciting, dynamic player and it'd

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Speaker 2: be easy to imagine him slide into this offense and

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Speaker 2: giving Drake may that quick open option. You know, somebody

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Speaker 2: who can shake loose and then make plays with the

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Speaker 3: The guy that I'm kind of intrigued by the and this.

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Speaker 2: Isn't usually my type. Matt is Denzel Boston from Washington.

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Speaker 2: He's a big guy. You know, sometimes we're afraid of

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Speaker 2: those guys. They're afraid of, like, oh, contest to catch.

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Speaker 2: He can't Runnie, can't get away from people. But I

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Speaker 2: think he's got a special skill set. And when you

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Speaker 2: look at what Drake may tends to gravitate towards those

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Speaker 2: big targets. You know, loves throwing a MATC Collins. This

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Speaker 2: is a guy who maybe on the outside could give

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Speaker 2: him that option. A big guy on the outside that

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Speaker 2: Drake we know is downfield accuracy is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Pushed the ball down to someone like that. And then

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Speaker 3: the last two guys.

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Speaker 2: I'll just mention are the two Indiana guys. Everybody saw

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Speaker 2: plenty of them in the playoffs, sure, and Omar Cooper

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Speaker 2: junior of the two is really you know, got some

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Speaker 2: buzz here going on in the combine. It's what we

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Speaker 2: heard the last few days. Seems like he's another guy

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Speaker 3: So whether it's edge or wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: I think those are the two most intriguing positions here

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Speaker 2: after this week in the draft, and maybe right tackle,

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Speaker 2: like a right tackle in the future when we're talking

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Speaker 1: Deuce's view for some potential draft pick people for the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from another draft guru. That's Matt Miller from ESPN.

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Speaker 2: All right, excited now to be joined by Matt Miller

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Speaker 2: from ESPN. Matt, thanks for sitting down with us again

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Speaker 2: this year. Appreciate it. Appreciate all the hard work you

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Speaker 2: put in trying to guide us. We're used to being

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Speaker 2: on the top of the draft and now a.

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Speaker 3: Little bit different scenario this year than when we sat

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Speaker 2: Right right, It's like it's gonna be these three guys,

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Speaker 2: which one of it's going to be?

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Speaker 3: But I'm just curious your perspective.

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Speaker 2: Thirty first, overall, a lot to talk about the edge class,

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Speaker 2: the edge need for the Patriots.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you see it lining up there?

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Speaker 4: I think it, Mary's really well, honestly, you know, the

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Speaker 4: edge classes, we'll see six players, maybe seven go in

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Speaker 4: So many people are going to talk about the guys

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Speaker 4: but there's really good depth.

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Speaker 3: You get to TJ.

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Speaker 4: Parker from Clemson, Zion Young from Missouri, or Mason Thomas

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Speaker 4: to be in that back end that still fit what Vrabel's.

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Speaker 3: Looking for at edge Rusher.

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Speaker 2: You say, like, what Vrabel's looking for after watching this

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Speaker 2: Wasn't edge there, you know, like, because sometimes I feel

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean definitely.

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Speaker 4: I think wide receiver is one where again, six players

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Speaker 3: And then they end up being there.

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Speaker 4: You know that every year for the Chiefs, it feels

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Speaker 4: the lesson from you know, the Patriots dynasty and then

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Speaker 4: the Chiefs dynasty is that to sustain those you should

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Speaker 4: just draft the best player available. Don't reach for need

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Speaker 4: because if you miss, if you draft, if you go

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Speaker 4: an edge, then you miss, You've hurt yourself so badly.

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Speaker 4: Whereas if you're drafting best player available in every round

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Speaker 4: Elliot Wolf, Mike Rabel know this very very well.

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Speaker 3: Best player available is the way to go.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's where when we saw the decline, and

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Speaker 2: felt like they won the super Bowl, but the talent

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Speaker 2: you start to stack some of those Rabel heard from

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the tight end class that he kind of

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think the cool thing about this tight end class,

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Speaker 4: You know, if you want to go with more of

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Speaker 4: Eli Stowers from Vanderbilt is going to give you that

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Speaker 4: when you think about Mike Rabel, what type of tight

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be that in Joe Royer from Cincinnati, a

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Speaker 3: Those guys are probably gonna be fourth round picks, but.

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Speaker 4: They have that inline ability, They have the toughness to

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Speaker 2: So, Matt, just a big overall question, who are your

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Speaker 2: just guys when you watch you're like, hey, this is fun.

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Speaker 3: This is why I do what I did.

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Speaker 4: With Jeremiah Love is an easy answer there running back

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Speaker 4: from Notre Dame. But I think getting outside of you know,

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Speaker 4: from Miami. Two nickel corners like pound for pound toughest

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Speaker 4: guys in the draft class. Even though they're like five

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Speaker 4: Where you're looking at a player that's you know, maybe

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl coming off the edge there.

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Speaker 3: For Yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, go get your own

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Speaker 3: version of that, right.

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Speaker 5: I like it.

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Speaker 3: I go, Well, Matt, thank you so much again and

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Speaker 3: we'll see you next year. Sounds great. Thanks Da, Matt Miller. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: So here we are at the end of February. March

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Speaker 1: is around the corner. The draft is in April, and

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Speaker 1: would you say that we're in full mock draft season?

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Speaker 3: I hope.

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Speaker 1: So, Matt, I felt like anybody who's anybody's got a mock draft,

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Speaker 1: which means I'm not anybody, but I don't have.

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Speaker 3: You haven't done one.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is when it's fun to do it, you know,

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Speaker 2: when you're picking forth overall, it's kind of an exercise

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Speaker 2: of futility because you're like, I'm gonna take this guy again,

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Speaker 2: and then you know, you know you're probably gonna get

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Speaker 2: Will Campbell when you're at thirty one. Though, it's fun

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Speaker 3: Who slips through those cracks.

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Speaker 2: And I think most of the mock drafts that you're

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Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl, right, and so you're gonna look at, well,

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Speaker 2: the edge depth is chas On's a free agent, Landry

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Speaker 2: A lot of people lamenting the offensive line, and you

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Speaker 2: a chance to talk to Cynthia Freeland and I was

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Speaker 1: So here's Mike Dusau's conversation with Cynthia Freeland.

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Speaker 2: Are excited now to be joined by Cynthia Freeland from

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Speaker 2: NFL dot Com NFL Network. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: sitting down with us.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely glad to be here.

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Speaker 2: I got to start off with your mock draft because

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Speaker 2: so many Patriots fans right now, they're like edge class

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Speaker 2: and you know, you got a couple tackle people, but

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Speaker 2: you came through with Caleb Banks, a giant penetrating defensive lineman, which.

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Speaker 3: I'm kind of a defense guy. I love the defense.

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Speaker 2: And I saw that, I was like, hey, I know

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Speaker 2: we had some of these, but sign me up for that.

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Speaker 2: What did you see in him that made you going

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Speaker 5: What I watched his film and when I tracked all

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Speaker 5: of the data that kind of matches strategies. He's a Verraybell.

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Speaker 5: And the numbers are pretty like the good news about

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Speaker 3: It makes sense.

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Speaker 5: But I'm like, obsessed with your I went to b

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Speaker 2: Drink okay, but you know, I feel like when you're

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Speaker 2: Any of those guys you see that you think rable guy.

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Speaker 5: So he won't he won't be available where you're picking.

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Speaker 5: But I think Casha Stowell is a rable guy. The

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Speaker 5: to say, So how good are you not being fatigued?

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Speaker 5: Right, especially quotiit that really I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 5: I mean, Caleb Downs nowhere near, We're nowhere near, y'all

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Speaker 5: will have no chance at him. No offense, but it's

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Speaker 5: not like an offensive thing. But that kid, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: Drop off, no way.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. So, but Cassius Howel, if he were somehow, if

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Speaker 2: Like our Mason Thomas too, a little bit places with

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Speaker 3: I think he came down easy to love him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm I'm all in on Caleb Downs now.

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Speaker 5: I also, I studied this is ridiculous, but I spent

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Speaker 3: Right now, No, we're not going to arm length.

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Speaker 5: But no, I feel like I'm right now. I'm very

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Speaker 5: excited about seeing how Friendsis Mawanoah interviews. I don't know

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Speaker 5: with like all of his ligaments intact. Nice, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm gona talk about a rabel guy like you heard

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Speaker 5: I want I want to die for It's not that serious,

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Speaker 5: too extreme. Ratchet it down just a tiny bit. But

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Speaker 2: Can actually just going back to this year, I mean,

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Speaker 3: Just what was your perspective on this Patriots seen this year.

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Speaker 5: I think the quick is the part, like it made

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Speaker 5: complete sense, like all I I mean, Milton Williams, that

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Speaker 5: Adding Robert Spulane back to the team. I thought that

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you look at anything good that happened

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Speaker 5: The less expensive free agent acquisitions were really good too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I thought it was a good rebuild.

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Speaker 2: And then we look at the schedule next year. I

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Speaker 2: a core, a foundation. They've got to continue to build

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Speaker 5: Can we just get like a can we just do

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Speaker 5: so mean, I'm so mean. I just want to protect

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Speaker 5: Drake May. I think he's so special and has the

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Speaker 5: seems like Drake may will be fully capable of doing that,

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Speaker 5: But again I still want to go ahead. I reserve

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Speaker 5: all signs point to that. So like pull out like

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Speaker 5: most refrigerator like in this Strett Francis mouwa, Yeah right,

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Speaker 5: I don't care how it looks. I don't care if

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Speaker 5: it's a number one wide receiver that's named like hottest

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Speaker 5: be that. Aj Brown a fan. Okay, great, that'd be awesome,

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Speaker 5: But what is what are you giving up to get him?

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Speaker 3: You well, it's more.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's you know, thirty four years old, Morgan Moses.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying I'm not like, no, I'm not throwing shade.

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Speaker 5: I just I want to give Drake May every single

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Speaker 5: like a huge Hunter Henry Fan. Yeah, yeah, giant Hunter

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Speaker 5: Henry Fan did a service trip last year with him

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Speaker 5: how about twenty touchdowns? Have you got with that?

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Speaker 3: I think we could do that. I think the compar

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Speaker 3: They could that move happen.

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Speaker 5: I think Max Crosby is a fit with like any team.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they said they're gonna play thirty four. Now

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Speaker 5: I don't think that that's actually the I just don't

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Speaker 3: You are here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, would be a fit on any team. There's no

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Speaker 3: Right in that best past preussion, I'm like, no, No,

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Speaker 5: We're good. He's a really good at run stopping too.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of Patriots dans clamoring form We'll see

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Speaker 3: what happens. But Cynthia, thank you so much for savings.

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Speaker 5: Everyone's clamoring from thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: Max Crosby, Cynthia Freeland, everybody, all right, Mike, that'll do it.

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Speaker 1: From the combine, another one in the books.

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Speaker 2: What do you think? What are your impressions? Oh, it's

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Speaker 2: it's always a blast. I mean it's a little different though.

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Speaker 2: I mean this is kind of what more I was

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Speaker 2: There's maybe five or six guys in that first pick.

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Speaker 2: But it's always great energy here. It feels like a

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