Who could Maye be throwing to next season? Do Patriots need a true #1 before they can contend? Tee? DK?
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00:00This is Brandon from Boston.
00:03Hey, Brandon.
00:04Hey, what's going on, guys?
00:06Thanks for taking my phone call.
00:07So, you know, usually I don't give the Patriots much grace,
00:10but I have to take my hat off to them.
00:12I don't know if it was full of Red Bull,
00:14but they was playing on both sides of the ball
00:16when it comes to defense and offense.
00:18Yeah.
00:19So I take my hat off to them,
00:21and it's a shame that, you know, the Patriots didn't go out there
00:24and get a number one for Drake May
00:26because he definitely deserves a number one.
00:28I know a lot of people are saying Higgins,
00:30but Higgins is more of a number two to me.
00:33You know, a number one to me is like a Mike Evans, a Jefferson,
00:36or a Tyreek Hill.
00:38They need somebody like that.
00:40But, you know, I would like to see this team do more screen plays.
00:44I would like to see this team, you know, convincingly do a play acting
00:49because everything develops slow.
00:51And one thing I don't see this team do is formation.
00:54I would like to see them get more creative on offense.
00:57They're still a little too pedestrian to me,
01:01and I would like to see them get more creative.
01:04So, yeah, I'm a Rams fan, and they failed last night,
01:07so they might have a chance.
01:09But, you know, let's see what happens.
01:11Yeah, I mean, what?
01:13The only issue is in order for you to get that Mike Evans type
01:19of number one clear-cut receiver, because I've heard that before too,
01:25T. Higgins is not like – he's like a 1B, right?
01:31In order for them to get that guy,
01:33they're going to have to trade for somebody who might be disgruntled
01:38or might be looking for a change of scenery.
01:40And that to me is – you're either going to do that
01:45or you're going to have to pay – do you like T. Higgins
01:50as your number one guy and have to pay him solid money?
01:55Don't you, Wiggs?
01:58I don't know.
02:00He's been dealing with a lot of injuries.
02:02Sean, would you like T. Higgins as your number one?
02:06Yes, but the only stipulation I would put on that,
02:09if I am getting T. Higgins as my number one,
02:11I would also be open to using a first-round pick on a receiver
02:15so that you get a legitimate young guy in here.
02:17So by the time that T. Higgins contract is up,
02:19hopefully that first-round receiver evolves into a legitimate number one.
02:22But let me ask this question to the room.
02:24Would you like T. Higgins as your number one free agent
02:28or would you try to see if there's some trade interest in a guy like D.K. Metcalf?
02:37Oh, I would love D.K. Metcalf.
02:39Because wasn't his name being thrown around this – like this deadline?
02:43The problem is, I mean, don't you think if you look at Sunday as a legit,
02:50like the caller said, both sides of the football win,
02:54and this team has somehow turned things around under Gerard Mayo,
03:00then yes, you're way closer than you thought you were.
03:03But what if that's just a mirage, that win on Sunday?
03:07Would you guess that a win over the Rams would make it less of a mirage?
03:12Because I'm nervous that –
03:14Listen, you've won two out of three, and you probably should have.
03:18If you went for two, you probably should have won three of the last three, right?
03:22Right, but no one's going to give you credit for the –
03:24So don't you now look back – if you're of that mindset,
03:27you look back at Elliott Wolfe in the offseason and you go,
03:31darn it, like you were – this team was not that far away.
03:35But even – you can go after the offseason, Greg.
03:38You can say at the deadline, you have the ability –
03:41there are some teams that are up against the cap
03:44because they don't want to guarantee the money.
03:46So you have the ability with $50-plus million of funny money
03:50to bring in talented guys, take on and absorb their deal,
03:54and they just sat out.
03:55And it was interesting because Monday of that week –
03:57was it on Tuesday, the deadline?
03:59Yeah, it was Election Day.
04:01Mayo basically told us they were done at 9 a.m.,
04:05which is just – I don't know.
04:07Because I think they felt like, well, there's no need to trade for a guy
04:13that's not really going to make that big of a difference.
04:16It's not going to move the needle, right?
04:18So why are we –
04:19But the difference, hindsight being 20-20,
04:22the difference right now is just two games, like Courtney says,
04:25and takes a lot of abuse for, like you're two games out of a playoff spot.
04:29Right, but I don't – I think that – do you think the front office,
04:35the people in charge over there feel like they can rip off three wins in a row?
04:42I would hope that they do.
04:44It's not a whether or not hope.
04:45Do you feel like if you had to put a gun to their head and say,
04:49can your team rip off three wins in a row?
04:51It seems like Gerard Mayo does.
04:52Yes.
04:53No, but I don't think so.
04:54I think Wiggy got the best nugget yesterday with that interview.
04:57When Gerard Mayo commented about the win over the Bears,
05:01and he said at the beginning of the year,
05:03you thought the Bears were a much better team.
05:05Right.
05:06They don't view their team as close.
05:07Right.
05:08That's why I would say if you put a gun to their head and say,
05:10can you win three in a row?
05:12I think they would be like, no.
05:13Well, I asked him yesterday.
05:15I said, do you consider the fact that you guys could be a playoff team?
05:19Like is that something that you think about?
05:21Well, I mean it's –
05:22He says he's going to take a week to week, blah, blah, blah.
05:24Right, but that's him being politically correct.
05:26I'm saying truth serum behind the scenes.
05:29I just think that they look at it where their roster's not great.
05:35And so to rip off three in a row,
05:38I don't think that they believe that they could do that.
05:41Do they think that they can be –
05:43Like Gerard, you know the other thing I got from Gerard
05:45is he feels like his team is the spoiler team at the end of the season.
05:51That could maybe potentially –
05:53That's what he said.
05:54They wanted them to be the –
05:55He wanted to be the team that everybody was afraid to play or whatever.
05:57Yeah, like that's the spoiler team.
05:58So Buffalo plays them.
05:59And if they win this game, they have the one seed.
06:01But all of a sudden, New England spoils the party.
06:04Damn, I wish that they won that game against the Titans in overtime.