Podcast brouhaha! Battle erupts over Patriots spending splurge

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

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry are taking a closer look at the flurry of free agent signings the Patriots made last week and rank them. Later, they're joined by George Chahrouri of Pro Football Focus Forecast to settle the debate: Did the Patriots overspend on their unprecedented haul? 2:10 - Ranking the Patriots free agent signings. Which additions stand to help the team more? 12:10 - After filling some of the gaps on offense, how will Cam Newton and Jarrett Stidham respond? And is Mac Jones still in the picture? 17:43 - Phil explains why he's passing on some of the top wide receivers in the draft. 25:30 - George Chahrouri from Pro Football Focus Forecast jumps on the pod to put Bill Belichick's recent spending spree into perspective, and things get heated. 38:12 - Regardless of whether or not the Patriots overspent, will they be better this season and if so, how much better? Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/Q7DewT8ojJ4

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0:00.0	What a bit of telling me
0:07.0	This time, World Champion, and there ain't nothing you can do about it. What's up, everybody?
0:23.0	Welcome in to Tom Carren's Patriots Talk podcast, joined as always by the great Phil.
0:27.0	Hey, Perry, we're going to get into it a little bit later with our friend George C.
0:31.0	From Pro Football Focus.
0:33.0	We're going to cross swords about whether or not the Patriots spending last week was profligate or
0:39.5	Hetty. I have Hetty. We're also going to talk a little bit about the Jared Stittam, Cam Newton,
0:45.5	organized events in California. We're going to grade the signings and compare and contrast our notes
0:51.6	on that. Also, I'm warming up a little bit to the idea of Mac
0:55.1	Jones at 15. Didn't like it now? Maybe a little bit. And what about the narrative that the Patriots
1:01.9	were going to have a hard time bringing in prospects? Has that been, quote, unquote, put to bed?
1:07.2	We'll get into all of that right now.
1:12.7	Hey, Phil.
1:14.2	I mean,
1:15.7	what's going on?
1:17.9	Should I remind people why I do that whole thing with it?
1:24.2	It's because it's just a long title to the podcast that we had to do so that we didn't have the word patriots first.
1:25.7	So we had to put Tom Caron in front of it.
1:28.2	So that's why I do that.
1:34.4	I think people, I think the hardcoreist probably knew that, but it's good to remind the people every so often, especially now. Stuff's heating up. More people than ever listening to the podcast.
1:38.7	So yes. More people than ever listening to the podcast, looking at it, looking at it on YouTube.
1:43.6	And we always appreciate your comments
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