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Greg Bedard from the Boston Sports Journal,

joins us via Zoom in these socially distance times. We're not going to let them in the studio quite yet. Hey, what am I? What am I dirty or something? Yeah, we don't know. I can't. Why won't you let me in? We don't know. We don't know. Come on, Radsey. Let me in. Because we run a tighter ship that Belichick does. Seriously. Exactly.

Exactly right. We have quality control here, unlike the Patriots. Tell you, old man to put that in his pipe and smoke. I shower. Greg, what's the biggest issue on the team? Tight end, no doubt. I mean, look, you can make arguments for, especially now that cowards on the COVID list, for defensive tackle, linebacker, a wide receiver, perhaps you could talk me into.

But I'm coming back to your point, which you had early on,

which was about you wanted a tight end.

I wanted a receiver because I didn't know what they were going to get out of bird.

I think they're going to get enough out of bird.

They just, they have nothing at tight end. They have zero. They have seven targets to the tight end.

The next closest team in the league is the Panthers with 13. The league average is 33.

The Patriots have seven. And this is important because tight ends have been traditionally important to Cam Newton.

Like when he had, as soon as they drafted Cam Newton number one overall, the Panthers went out and traded for Greg Olson.

And he always had a ton of targets.

He averaged 6.5 targets per game.

You know, when he played, that was just from

Olson, from 13 to 16, which was sort of Newton's prime with the, with the Panthers. He targeted

his tight end an average of 133 times per season, which was among the highest in the league. The

Patriots were less than that. And we all know how they traditionally love a tight end. So if you want Cam Newton to be better in this offense, and just if you want this offense to be better, you need something in the middle of the field. Izzo is not going to be that. Devin Asiasey and Dalton Keen are not going to be that at least any time soon. And the clock is ticking. They need to go get somebody by the November 3rd deadline and they need to do it quickly. Okay. Before we get to the trade deadline, just, you know, give me the backstory a little bit. You think it's been, you know, willful neglect by the team on the part of that position. Yeah. I mean, look, it started with Aaron Hernandez when he had his troubles.

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