What's up everybody? Welcome into Tom Curran's Patriots Talk podcast, joined as always by the

Senator Phil Perry. We get plenty to get to. Yeah, we know what happened Saturday night. We know

what's going to happen going forward. The Patriots aren't a part of the postseason. How do they get back?

We're going to get into it right now.

At a bit of Perry, Mr. All right, folks, we've got a few things to get to today. Phil, how you doing?

Doing great. Doing great. Good. Good. Let's go. Let's get an action plan out here. Okay. Three-point action plan I have. How good is Mac Jones?

The J.C. Jackson conundrum, a cap look, and a quick breeze through the free agents.

We're going to try and cram all this in about 30 minutes, okay?

So let's not get to wasting time, which is what I'm doing.

Phil, action plan.

First step for me, keep tweaking the staff.

Patriots tweak their personnel group last year in the wake of Nick Casario's departure.

They got four guys collaborating and you had a good yield in free agency and a good yield in the draft.

Now do it with the coaches. Who does what on defense? You have Bill Belichick, who's the greatest

mind in defense of coaching history. You have his son Steve Belichick who appears to be a play caller. You have Gerard Mayo, who's the greatest mind in defensive coaching history.

You have a son Steve Belichick who appears to be a play caller.

You have Gerob Mayo, who I'm told does a hell of a lot and runs a lot of the meetings.

And then there's Matt Patricia with the cans on, giving advice overseeing in some ways,

perhaps advising, maybe consulting.

Who's in charge over there?

Meanwhile, on the coaching staff,

Ernie Adams, who was a selfless helper of all coaches on all fronts, able to do whatever was necessary, is gone. Who stepped into his shoes to help the coaches? Dante Scarnacia,

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