Bert Breer is joining us.

Dante High Tower is out for the season.

He has a torn pectoral muscle.

And the trade deadline is on Hallows Eve.

And Bert Breer over there from MMQB, who will be in with us for an hour.

He was on with the Burtrand, Zolak and Bertrand show yesterday for a long time.

So this is not redundant at all.

So, Bert, who is available?

First of all, in your opinion, how devastating a loss is this for the Patriots?

It's a big loss.

I can't imagine they weren't at least preparing for it.

I mean, this is a guy who was out for a lot of the offseason.

And look, he failed physicals in March because of this.

I know one team found that he had at that point, and this is seven months ago now,

had a 55% torn peck then.

So that was why they were very careful with them in the spring.

It's why they were careful with them in the summer.

And I think the hope was that they could get through this year with it.

And they knew all along that that wasn't 100%.

And this is a guy who's been banged up a lot. And it's a gigantic loss. Look, they need playmakers in their front seven. They don't have many of them. And here's a guy who plays multiple spots. And because of that, I think that, you know, it's going to take multiple guys to replace him and what he brings to the table. The good news is that they've already gone through parts of this season without him,

so it's not like this is foreign territory.

They weren't very impressive parts of the season that they went through without him.

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