Is it time for the #Patriots to "get uncomfortable" with spending? Who is available to target? Is Tee Higgins still an option? WiIl Tee Higgins be overpaid?
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00:00Tommy Curran yesterday. Wow. Bad boy. You know, what's funny is that wasn't even the point of his
00:06answer, but he does take another shot at Romander Stevenson. Oh yeah. You know, like he was talking
00:11about free agency and then he was getting into specifics of Ronnie Stanley, but like
00:17he got a block from Romander Stevenson. Like, oh, thanks. Yeah, it was kind of funny.
00:21But no, bad boy, Tommy Curran. If you missed any of it yesterday, it was on the Odyssey app,
00:26Tommy Tuesday every week here on Jones and Keefe. High noon on Tuesdays will be on WEI
00:31afternoons with Hart and Fitzy and Ted tomorrow. He also dropped a not good question, Keefe. He
00:39loved that question. It was a really good one. Are the Patriots going to get uncomfortable
00:43a la the Red Sox and Alex Bregman this offseason? I think that's a great question.
00:47They have to or they won't get anybody. Last year they didn't and they just re-signed their
00:52own guys and then made a couple of, you know, smaller free agent signings like Austin Hooper,
00:57Antonio Gibson, that kind of thing. So if you're going to get somebody that fans are
01:01going to be excited about all law, Alex Bregman, you're going to have to sign someone where you
01:05look at it, go that guy for that much. So I guess I get what you're saying. I I'm starting to wonder
01:10who is actually going to be in free agency. Like I'm still skeptical about T Higgins. Let's circle
01:15back to him in a moment because he was active on social media last night. Um, Trey Smith,
01:20there are reports that Trey Smith, the guard, I don't even want him, but like he, he was one of
01:24the, he is the highest rated offensive lineman on a lot of these free agency lists. He's a guard,
01:28uh, from Kansas city. The chiefs are going to re-sign him. Uh, Dacosta, Eric Dacosta,
01:33the GM in Baltimore came out yesterday and said, yeah, I'm confident we're going to get a deal
01:36done with Ronnie Stanley. So no, you're not all right. Fine. They're going to get uncomfortable
01:40on some of these players. The Bengals plan on franchising T Higgins. Maybe they won't,
01:44maybe they'll trade them again. We'll circle back to it. Stanley, Trey Smith, those guys
01:48aren't available. Like if they are going to get uncomfortable on a player, I'm starting to wonder
01:53who that's even going to be. Like, who is that guy? Is it Josh Godwin, Josh sweat, Chris Godwin,
01:57guys like that, you know, and maybe if it's not straight up in free agency, it's that next
02:01layer where you make a trade and then sign that guy to an extension. That is a significant deal.
02:06I would allow for that. That's a great, that's a great way to think about it. Like it doesn't
02:09have to be just a straight free agent. However, very well did talk about having the team kind
02:15of ready to go prior to the draft. Yep. So it can't just be trades. Cause then if you do that,
02:20you don't have any draft picks left. Most likely. No, Rable said that right on Sirius XM after his
02:25original press conference. And by the way, if you're listening to Jones and Keefe all day long
02:28here on WEI, you will hear Elliot Wolf from the combine right around one o'clock. We'll air that
02:33live here today in the one o'clock hour, right off the top of the one o'clock hour. So stay tuned for
02:37it. But yeah, Vrabel said our goal in free agency is to fill out the roster and let the draft come
02:42to us, which is a great plan, but you got to get uncomfortable with some of these free agents.
02:46So, you know, Harold Landry who played for Vrabel in Tennessee, and it's actually been
02:51much more productive than I thought the last few years. I think he had nine sacks a year ago. He
02:57had 12 in a recent season. He's been a pro bowler before. Apparently the Titans are ready to trade
03:02him. You know, you know, names like T Higgins that are out there and potentially available.
03:07Josh sweat is a free agent that you can extend yourself for. But no, I was saying on the
03:11trade market, like there are some names already that are going to be available via trade.
03:16Joshua would be an interesting one to get uncomfortable for Milton Williams. That's
03:20name. Yeah. D lineman in Philadelphia. Like those are some of the guys who could be
03:24potentially you extend for and they'll be fine. Then you get to the T Higgins stuff.
03:28Duke Tobin yesterday says we're going to make Jamar chase the highest paid receiver in football,
03:32the highest paid non quarterback in football, 40 ish million a year. He also went on and on about
03:39Hendrickson and how they want to resign him on defense. It made it seem like T Higgins is more
03:45of an afterthought. They want to work out a longterm deal, but there was nothing super firm
03:51in his commentary about it. T Higgins late last night, just after 10 o'clock,
03:55just tweeted out the cap emoji. Oh, so someone's lying. Somebody's somebody's lying. I don't know
04:01who that is. I'm assuming he's talking about Duke Tobin and the Bengals. Yeah. I mean,
04:06I think he's gone. I think he's out of there. It's going to be though.
04:09How much do you have to give up for him? Cause I know