Patriots offseason reset… Where do they start?

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

4.5 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry take a look at the Patriots’ offseason outlook. They discuss the team’s cap space, pending free agents and the upcoming draft. They also take a look at extension eligible players, most notably Christian Gonzalez. They wonder how much money the Pro Bowl corner will command and whether it’s even worth it for the Patriots to pay him. They also look at some interesting names in trade talks. Plus, the team is opening up their defensive coordinator position.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:12.9	Welcome into Tom Carver's Patriots Talk Podcast.
0:16.5	Phil Perry alongside.
0:18.2	We went through a little bit of the aftermath of the Super Bowl earlier this week.
0:22.2	This week, this show. Let's take a look at the aftermath of the season long term.
0:28.3	What are the Patriots going to do? How are they going to do it? What do they need to do?
0:31.7	And we're going to start you off with a little sound from Drake May from Tuesday before the Patriots
0:35.9	departed for the offseason. The 20 other games that we played, and it really, you know, it feels like the last one was the one that really mattered. And I think that's what you kind of learn about. That's what you go to work for and improve and try to not try to stay the same level, you know, coming to the next year and try to act like, man, we're here and we're fine. We just need to keep doing what we're doing. You got to elevate, and, you know, teams are going to be, you know, looking at, you know, what we did, you know, how we, you know, improved so quickly and how we, you know, won the division and won the AFC and a lot of great things. So teams are going to try to, you know, have a bull's eye on us and try to, you know, stop us.
1:14.2	So we got to. won the AFC and a lot of great things. So teams are going to try to have a bull's eye on us and try to stop us.
1:14.3	So we got to try to be complacent and know that the teams are going to be chasing us.
1:18.8	And we've got to try to chase the Seahawks.
1:22.5	All right, here he is, Phil Perry.
1:23.9	Phil.
1:24.2	We had a great job done by Jason Levine on our staff and a story written up by
1:28.7	Jason Ledger, which basically on our site, NBCSportsBoston.com, goes over a number of the
1:35.1	parameters of Patriots need to follow in this offseason. First things first, let's talk cap space.
1:40.5	Patriots are 11th in the NFL right now, $42 million or so dollars. So enough to spend,
1:47.9	but not a ridiculous amount when you figure in there's guys that they need to redo, including
1:53.5	Christian Gonzalez, who we'll get to in a second. Let's now talk about some of their pending
1:59.4	free agents. We have Kairis Tonga, Jalen Hawkins, Jack Gibbons, Vedarian Lowe, Kalevon Chase on, and Austin Hooper.
2:10.4	Pretty good spot they're in, I think, overall.
2:13.9	Yeah, I mean, listen, you've got enough money to be able to resign some of those guys, in my opinion.
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