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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

96: Curran vs Gasper, Are Patriots wrong for playing hardball with Malcolm Butler?

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tom E. Curran is joined by Chris Gasper to debate whether the Patriots are doing the right thing by playing hardball with Malcolm Butler over his contract.

Transcript

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0:00.0

QuickSance the podcast with Tom Curran Flying Solo, the Gaspur interview.

0:11.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:13.0

You know, Chris Gaspin wrote a call on Thursday's Globe. I wanted to give him a ring and go over some of the topics with him.

0:18.6

So I decided to do that without Phil.

0:21.0

Don't tell him.

0:21.9

Okay, so this is a special one-on-one.

0:25.4

Gasper, current interview on Quickslance, the podcast, brought to you, as always, by Papagena.

0:30.7

Made with five simple ingredients.

0:32.8

Fresh daily in Walpole, Massachusetts.

0:35.1

There's nothing that you want to put in your damn face during March madness.

0:39.9

Should I have said that?

0:41.0

During the Big March basketball games, then Papua Gino's Pizza.

0:45.4

All right.

0:46.9

No further ado.

0:48.1

Let's see if my guy's there.

0:50.1

Ring ring.

0:51.4

Ring ring. Ring ring.

1:02.0

Butler, Butler, Butler. So much talk about Malcolm and Chris Gasper wrote a thoughtful column today, Thursday in the Boston Globe,

1:09.0

highlighting perhaps the player perspective, certainly a perspective

1:13.6

that a lot of people end up with when these contract negotiations turn into bare-knuckle,

1:21.9

eye-bleeding, wrestling matches, and really hasn't even gotten there with Butler.

1:25.8

It's all been kind of behind the scenes.

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