What's up everybody? Welcome into the next Pats podcast. I'm Phil Perry. We are coming at you from Indianapolis, the NFL scouting combine.

Two more phenomenal guests for you in this edition.

Earlier in the week, we talked to Charlie Weiss and Nick Casario about what might be next for the Patriots coaching staff.

What might be next for Bill Belichick in terms of the energy that he'll have to expend as there's been so much coaching turnover on his staff. Today, we get into what's next for the Patriots in this particular

draft and what's next for the league in terms of some rules that might be changing this offseason.

So we're talking to Pro Football Focuses, Mike Renner, their lead draft analyst.

We're playing a little game with him.

We want to hear about day one and day two prospects that he thinks could fit with the Patriots at receiver, corner, and linebacker.

A bunch of names that we all have to know before we get to the draft in late April.

We're also talking to the NFL networks. Judy Batista,

our friend Judy, is plugged in more so than anyone else when it comes to the competition

committee conversations that are happening behind the scenes right now. What's going on with

the taunting rule? How about the overtime rules for 2022? And is the punt slowly but surely being phased out of the NFL? Fascinating conversation with Judy. But let's get right to our conversation first with PFS Mike Renner. All right, very excited now to have with us on the next Pat's podcast, pro football focuses draft czar. Mike Renner. Mike, thanks for being with us. It just gave you a nickname. You just told me you never had a nickname before there you go bud I was gonna say that's on my LinkedIn now draft star perfect perfect put it right there at the very top you're doing phenomenal work for PFF nobody knows these prospects the way you do and so we need to play a little game here we played this game with you last year we're gonna ask you for I don't think we're going to get all the way into day three because it's still early in the process here. We played this game with you last year. We're going to ask you for, I don't think we're going to get all the way into day three, because it's still early in the process here. But I'm going to ask you for some day one and day two names at positions that we're hot on here in New England. But let me ask you first, is there a position, you're not just studying the prospects, you're studying the teams and the team needs as well. Is there a position that you think the Patriots desperately need to address early? Desperately need to address? I think they need a difference maker, wide receiver. And now you kind of did that two years ago, and it backfired with the kill Harry. But like a number one, a guy that really is a go-to guy in that offense, I think it would elevate it to another level because I like the receiving core as it's built, but you have a lot of complimentary guys. And so you get a, I'm just saying Devante Adams, but you get a number one in there. You get a Jamar Chase. You could have a Jamar Chase type of impact on Mack Jones. You could take him to that level of it makes everyone else around him better and just gives you an offense

that has so much just options to go to that. That's what I think would be the one guy that

really could take that team to that level. That Nikila Harry miss hurts so much because that's

really the spot they're missing. They have Nelson Aguilar who played the ex-receiver spot for

them pretty much all last year.

The way they had it set up was Jacoby Myers was the slot.

Kendrick-Born was the Z who kind of did a little bit of everything.

They would hand it off to him occasionally.

And Aguilar on the outside, is there, or let me put it to you this way,

give me the best X-receiver fits at, I would say, between picks 20 and 50-ish,

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