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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NFL free agency: Patriots spend big early, but is it the right move?

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry react to the Patriots’ spending spree as the NFL’s tampering period opened up. Which new addition will benefit the Patriots the most in 2021? 1:00-Patriots being aggressive…is that good or bad? 4:30-Does Jonnu Smith fit exactly what the Patriots need? 11:30-How the addition of LB Matt Judon impacts the defense 16:00-What role will Davon Godchaux play? 26:00-Are the Patriots done adding at the QB position? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7krGt67Oj80

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0:00.0

What is up in

0:02.0

What is up in

0:06.0

What is up everybody? What is up everybody?

0:24.1

Patriots have come out firing during the tampering period.

0:27.7

No tampering involved.

0:28.8

They have gone off the deep end and they're signing guys to the left and to the right.

0:33.1

Phil Perry is alongside on Tom Carrens Patriots Talk podcast, and we're going to get into it in an

0:37.8

emergency session. Phil, I told you'd start on defense, didn't I? Well, well, they started with,

0:44.2

you're not fooling anybody here. John Hussmith, that was the first one that we learned about.

0:48.4

No, learned about it. They had all the other guys lined up. They wanted to start it off by saying, we're going Johnny Smith first

0:54.4

to satiate the hordes who need pass catchers. And then we're going to come back at you with your

0:59.2

Matthew Judon, Jalen Mills, Devon, Godshaw, combo. And while we're at it, we're going to bring back

1:04.5

the wise guy. Yeah, that's right. Dietrich Wise. Joe Tuny is out the door as well. You guys all

1:09.9

know that. Let's get into these

1:11.5

one by one first. But, you know, I do want to ask you this, Phil. The Patriots had $60 million

1:20.0

in cap space. And I said and was told toward the end of January, look, we're expecting

1:26.3

that we're going to be extremely and uncharacteristically

1:30.2

aggressive. They have proven to be that. More aggressive, not just than they usually are, but than any

1:38.4

team usually is. Are the Patriots buying at the top of the market and spending like drunken sailors in an uncommon way

1:48.8

that makes you a little bit don't we usually laugh at teams to do this on the first day of free agency

1:58.3

a little bit but i would say the reason for it is pretty easy to understand.

2:04.0

If you're a team that wants to be good and be good very soon, the best way to do that is to

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