What's up everybody?

Welcome into the next Pats podcast.

I'm Phil Perry.

We've got a great guest on for you this week.

This is a conversation from earlier this off season, but it's Sebastian Volmer,

former second round tackle of the New England Patriots 15 years ago,

believe it or not, that was the 2009 draft class.

Very solid, very solid 2009 draft class there.

When you consider they got both Sebastian Volmer and Julian Edelman

cornerstone pieces to Super Bowl winning teams.

But a fascinating discussion with him on a variety of different Patriots topics,

but including the importance of addressing his position, the tackle position.

And I think you're going to find his answer in terms of just how crucial it is to be a little bit surprising.

You'll hear some surprise in my voice.

But before we get to Seabas, we're going to talk a little bit about what's going on with our

draft coverage at NBCSports Boston.com this week.

First of all, we have a mock draft that is up for you.

It should be live by the time you're listening to this. And we're calling this the Tom E. Curran Memorial mock draft. If you heard us talk about it on Patriots Talk podcast, you do this was coming. This is not an idea that I love for the Patriots. And if I'm a Patriots fan, I do not want this to happen. But this is Tommy Curran's plan. And I do understand his reasoning. Don't take the quarterback. The team's not ready, build the team first. So in our latest mock draft, we have the team, the Patriots, doing exactly that. They trade down from number three overall. In theory, they're not in love with the quarterbacks. They're not in love with the situation.

They're about to be maybe putting a young quarterback into.

They say, screw it.

We're moving back.

And we're trading with the Minnesota Vikings who very clearly want to get up to take a quarterback.

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