Reaction to Patriots losing Trey Flowers and Trent Brown in free agency. Will Michael Bennett be enough to replace Trey Flowers?

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

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

(1:00) Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry discuss the Patriots losing Trey Flowers and Trent Brown. (3:00) Trey Flowers was pretty much ‘the perfect Patriot’ why would the Patriots not do more to keep him? (7:00) What’s the plan to replace Trey Flowers? (9:30) How do we feel about Michael Bennett adapting to the Patriots way? (15:00) Who can the Patriots bring in to replace Flowers? (17:00) Reaction to Trent Brown going to the Raiders (24:00) Will Rob Gronkowski return? Should Patriots look for TE in the draft?

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0:00.0	Well, I was cutting the rug down at a place called lurkid and the world came in the loo.
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0:30.5	Today on QuickSlan a podcast, emergency podcast, free agent frenzy podcast, moves are being made, the patriots aren't making them.
0:32.1	Nobody's supposed to be making them.
0:33.8	Boy, getting into them anyway.
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0:49.2	Presented by, as I said earlier, Nissan, Nissan. Phil Perry's over there. Hey, Phil.
0:53.6	Hey, what's going on? Thanks for having me back on the pod. Why would I not? John Henry right over here.
0:55.5	It's the skull crusher. He's running point.
0:57.3	Hey, everyone. Hey, how's it going?
1:00.2	First things first, we're not going to be a monkey around right to it.
1:03.5	Trey Flowers is going to be a Detroit Piston.
1:07.0	No, he ain't. He's going to be a Detroit lion.
1:15.6	Beast on the boards. He would be. Oh man, imagine that. These huge shoulders, giant arms, vinyl-like arms. First things first, he's going to make $17 to $18 million.
1:20.6	It's a five-year contract, so it's going to check in in the $85 to $90 million range.
1:26.6	He's not going to have to worry about his cable bill for a while.
1:30.1	But the bottom line to me is the Patriots pass on, if they even had a chance to, retain a homegrown player that they got huge production out of at a low-raid cost for the last three years,
1:45.4	going to the Super Bowl each year as he turned into their best front seven player, arguably.
1:50.2	Hightower you could make a case for as a front-seven player when he was out there,
1:53.3	but I think Flowers were probably the better one and certainly more consistent, durable guy.
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