What's up everybody? Welcome into Tom Caron's Patriots Talk podcast.

Back from the Combine, it's Phil Perry. We've got a half an hour or so of intel on what Phil picked up and the direction of the Patriots as free agency approaches.

Strap in! We're going to have ourselves a tie.

Phil, I'm looking at some of the Patriots moves in the direction of the team, the roster, the coaching staff.

And there's so much around this team right now that makes me feel as if it's still renovating.

It's still tweaking between the coaching upheaval and they're ushering in and the hoping for new leaders to emerge.

This is rebuilding as it could get, but it's different in a way from the rebuild of 2021.

What's your perception right now of what the Patriots are up to on the cusp of free agency?

Yeah, I think that's fair. I also think that's just sort of how the rest of the league lives and maybe

we're just sort of experiencing it firsthand for the first time in a long time. This is how every team

deals with life. There are many questions. There are players retiring in, out,

you know, Tom Brady, having Tom Brady and Bill Belichick there every single year knew,

you knew what you were getting every single year. And it's not the case anymore. Even though

they have a young quarterback that I think a lot of us believe has shown real promise and has the

ability to be a really good player and that a lot of us believe that Bill real promise and has the ability to be a really

good player. And that a lot of us believe that Bill Belichick is still a really good coach.

But when all those other pieces are moving around those guys, there's uncertainty.

And that's natural. And so I would say there is plenty of that surrounding the team right now.

And for me, it really does, it starts on the coaching staff because I think it's that important.

And because I think the players that that may be out while important, I don't know if they're

going to lose players, Tom, that are going to necessarily make them like four to five games worse.

You know what I mean? I don't think we're going to see any kind of cratering, but it's just can

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