Are The Patriots Being Cheap? // Patriots Free Agencies Struggles // Patriots Resign Another Linebacker - 3/25 (Hour 1)
Felger & Massarotti
Beasley Media Group
4.1 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
- (0:00) Mazz, McCarthy, and Michael Holley open up the show with the question of are the Patriots cheap? How much more will they spend or not spend as we approach the NFL draft?
- (16:36) Discussion continues on how the Patriots can become a more attractive destination for free agents?
- (26:20) Talking about the criticism in the media for the Patriots and spending money. Is it unfair to the Patriots or is it on the team? Callers weigh in.
- (37:00) Is there anything to be excited about with the Patriots resigning Christian Elliss? Is this another cheap move by the Patriots?
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | Robert, this is going to be very expensive |
| 0:11.1 | buying out of coaching staff, bringing in on new coaching staff, |
| 0:14.9 | perhaps it goes to the personnel department. |
| 0:16.5 | You also have $120 million in cap space this year, the most in the league. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, what you spend on this transition affect anything that you spend on players this offseason? |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.2 | The answer is no. |
| 0:34.3 | We've always had a situation where we spend to the cap and if we go over the we have never told any coach or limited the spending the only thing we've said is if you exceed the cap we like to see it leveled out over three years. |
| 0:55.7 | And, you know, so that we never get way out of hand. |
| 1:00.4 | But spending to the cap or above the cap is not, we want to win. |
| 1:06.3 | That's our priority first. |
| 1:11.5 | So now why would we play that today? |
| 1:15.1 | Why would we play that today on Felger and M? |
| 1:20.0 | Let me just tell you again, Mike is still out. |
| 1:23.0 | He's not going to be out the whole week, though, for those of you who are interested in |
| 1:26.6 | knowing that, he'll be back soon, because I'm sure I'll get my share of hate emails. And I was just telling |
| 1:32.1 | Jimmy Stewart this during the break. Michael Hawley is here. You get hate emails? I'm shocked. |
| 1:38.1 | I would say one out of every 200, Michael. Okay, one out of every 200. Not so bad. And if you |
| 1:43.8 | believe that. It's a price of doing business. Not so bad. And if you believe that... |
| 1:44.5 | It's the price of doing business. So it is the price of doing business. It's part of the deal. We all accept it. No problem there. But as I was just saying here during the break and again, Michael Holly is alongside, Matt McCarthy is alongside. Jim Murray also out now. Kevin Majorie also out. They're dropping like flies. They're going to come back 14 pounds lighter. |
| 2:03.4 | Let me do it. |
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