What's up, everybody? Welcome into Tom Caron's Patriots Talk podcast.

Matt Castle, Phil Perry and I are going to go deep on the Patriots decision to trade Stefan Gilmore.

Should people look at that as bad asset management?

And how do the Patriots ultimately replace Gilmore going forward into future years

with J.C. Jackson. Also a look at the Houston, Texans and the challenge that moves.

I had a bit of telling.

Patriots time. World champion. And there ain't nothing you can do about it.

And here we are, it's, as always, Matt Castle and the Senator Phil Perry joining me.

And news of the week, obviously the Stefan Gilmore

trade, want to have a freewheeling conversation on this and summarizing our Gilmore feelings.

Fellas, how are you doing? Great. How are you? Good. You know, in the long list of stunners,

I got Gilmore around seven on Belichick against stunners.

You know, Malloy is always going to be number one. Then you got Moss, branch, Seymour Mankins.

You could even throw in Newton Garoppolo and Vrable if you want to, even though Vrable wasn't an in-season

situation.

But I'm not stunned by Gilmore being traded in the way I was with those other guys.

Yous?

I agree with you.

I mean, the fact is he has been on the field all year.

And we know that they were way off in their contract negotiation.

He's in his last year. He goes on the PEP list. He hasn't been a contributor all year. And we know that they were way off in their contract negotiation. He's in his last year.

He goes on the PEP list. He's he hasn't been a contributor all year long. And you knew that he wasn't going to be here for longer than this year anyway. So the fact that they did it though right

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