The case for the Patriots trading down

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

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry are live from radio row in Las Vegas. The guys welcome in Eric Eager and former NFL GM Thomas Dimitroff, both now of Sumer Sports, to debate whether or not the Patriots should trade down from third overall in this spring’s NFL Draft. Then the guys talk more with Thomas Dimitroff about whether he’d be interested in a return to New England, the value of a football ‘overlord’ for a franchise and if he thinks Bill Belichick will be coaching in 2025. 1:00- Making the case for and against the Patriots trading out of the third overall pick 17:00- Would Thomas Dimitroff have any interest in returning to Foxboro? 18:55- Why Thomas thinks there’s value to a franchise ‘football overlord’ and how it can be done correctly 24:05- How do Jerod Mayo and the Patriots prevent there from being too extreme of a culture change going forward? 27:15- Why didn’t things work out between Bill Belichick and the Falcons? Will Belichick be coaching in 2025? Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gZTjOj5ldIo

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to Tom Curran's Patriot Stock Podcast. We're in Las Vegas, Nevada. Getting ready for Super Bowl.
0:19.2	58. LV. I-I-I-IAI sounds right and as we do so we will be
0:25.8	providing you every single day with a podcast edition and we're going to lead it off this
0:31.3	week by talking about trade-down scenarios it's a topic that's near and dear to Phil and
0:36.7	I's hearts and I'm trying to eyes hearts. And I've been trying to
0:39.0	convince people of the notion, Phil, that it's not a horrible idea to trade down in the NFL
0:43.9	draft. I found a guy to back me up. It's Eric Eager from Sumer Sports. Eric, hit it. Hit it.
0:54.8	If I were in charge, I'd trade down.
0:56.8	Just because, you know, Jaden Daniels is phenomenal as far as a prospect, but there are some concerns.
1:02.2	You know, pressure to sack ratio.
1:03.8	Like sack avoidance is the number one.
1:05.9	You look at Patrick Mahomes, down years statistically.
1:08.2	He averaged three yards fewer per attempt than Brock Purdy to this year, but he was second in the NFL in
1:13.6	sack avoidance to Josh Allen. Josh Allen would be second in MVP voting
1:16.9	this year and so Jaden Daniels, he took a sack on 20% of pressures this
1:21.0	year, 30% last year for LSU and that's something that carries. And so
1:25.0	when you think about the Patriots having to rebuild the offensive line, having to rebuild the receiving core, when you have a quarterback that struggles with pressure, struggles when the wide receivers aren't open.
1:34.8	And that's going to be hard to build an offense around.
1:37.0	We saw it in Washington with Sam Howell.
1:38.4	That's another guy with a high pressure to sack ratio.
1:40.8	For young quarterbacks, it's just not conducive to success so unless they can go up and get
1:45.4	williams go up and get may i just don't think that it's a good gamble for them and so i think moving
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