The tenor around the Patriots isn't great right now; NFL free-agency update

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

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The first few days of NFL free-agency have seen the Patriots lose key players and sit on the sidelines, and Tom E. Curran and Phil discuss all the moves, plus reading into Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski weighing-in on social media on their teammates going elsewhere. (1:25) Left tackle Nate Solder is headed to the New York Giants...could the Patriots have handled this key situation better? Tom says the Patriots weren't aggressive enough with their offer in recent weeks. (7:20) To no one's surprise, Malcolm Butler is also moving on, leaving a hole in the defensive backfield. (15:00) Curran and Perry get into a great discussion about how the Patriots winning Super Bowl 51, and Tom Brady getting his 5th Lombardi Trophy might have been the start of a new philosophy on "Brady The Brand" off the field. (20:30) Do Gotham Chopra's comments to Peter King signal this could be the last year for TB12? (27:40) The Patriots were able to add to the defensive line by trading for Danny Shelton. (29:40) Is Eric Rowe capable of securing Butler's spot? Also, a trip around the AFC (32:00), how likely is it that Ndamukong Suh signs with the Patriots, and Rob Gronkowski might need to be in-line for a pay bump...or else (36:25).

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0:00.0	Today on Queenslandson podcast, Free Agent Frenzy.
0:09.0	Phil and I are going to go deep on everything confronting the Patriots.
0:13.0	Of course, there's been some outflow, there's been some exports, there have been very few imports, but we know that's not going to last.
0:20.0	The bigger picture to me is the overarching tenor around the team
0:25.4	because we still don't know exactly where things are in terms of Rob Grankowski.
0:31.9	Well, really, Tom Brady, we've got a few breadcrumbs dropped.
0:34.6	We'll get into it.
0:35.5	We'll get into it heavy, won't we, Phil?
0:37.3	Sure will.
0:49.9	Let's set the table.
0:51.8	First, I want to talk about, should folks be panicked or unsettled, then we'll get into really some of the breadcrumbs that have been dropped.
1:01.9	Additionally, Malcolm Butler out the door had some interesting comments with Jeff Howe.
1:05.8	We'll get into those.
1:07.2	We'll also talk about specifically the guys who left.
1:11.0	And there's only one that I really think is everything is defensible,
1:15.0	but the least defensible loss to me is Nate Solder and what the Patriots will do after that.
1:21.4	And then Phil maybe a whip around the AFC East a little bit and some other news and notes that have cut your eyeball.
1:26.8	I like that idea, but I think we got to start at left tackle.
1:29.5	Bang.
1:30.0	What's going on?
1:30.9	What do we do?
1:31.8	I think when you talk about panic versus not panicked.
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