Wait... It could take YEARS to rebuild the Patriots offensive line?!?

The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

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Sports, 2024 Nfl Draft, Nfl, Phil Perry, Drake Maye, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Nbc Sports Boston, Sports News, Ja'lynn Polk, News, Nbc Sports Network, Nfl Draft

4.8 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Phil Perry is back with more interviews from radio row at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. This time welcoming in former NFL players Jerome Bettis and Geoff Schwartz to get their thoughts on how New England should go about rebuilding their offensive line and ground game.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome into the Next Pats podcast. I'm Phil Perry. We've got a lot to get to in this edition of Nextpats. We have a couple great interviews. We're talking to the Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis, as well as from
0:21.3	Sirius XM and Fox Sports. Jeff Schwartz, former NFL offensive lineman, played in the league for the
0:27.3	better part of the decade. And I love pairing these two interviews together. Both of these are from
0:31.6	our time on Radio Road down in New Orleans, but I love pairing these together because we're talking
0:35.5	about how the run game is coming
0:38.6	at you at the NFL. And we know that all things are cyclical when it comes to pro football. Now that
0:44.6	you have more too high safety coverages, you have more room to run. We're seeing teams with really
0:50.3	good running backs that are actually having a lot of success. We're seeing rushing efficiency
0:53.9	go up. We're seeing passing efficiency come down. And so what better way to attack where the
1:00.5	game is going? What's coming next in the NFL than by talking to a Hall of Fame level running
1:06.9	back and an offensive lineman? Guys that have a lot of emotion, they have a lot
1:11.4	invested tied to how the run game works and how it's impacting offenses at the NFL level.
1:17.2	So I really think you're going to love both of those conversations. We also have a Daniel
1:20.6	Jeremiah mock draft. We have to get to. We have some salary cap news we have to get to.
1:25.1	And we have some receiver news not t higgins related
1:28.5	but another potential free agent receiver some receiver news that we have to dig into as well
1:34.8	first before we get to our salary cap update which impacts how we'll look at free agency this
1:40.3	offseason not only for the patriots but what it means for other teams league-wide.
1:48.0	Some news breaking right now as we're recording this on Wednesday afternoon.
2:02.7	The Patriots have released linebacker Sioni-Taki-Taki. Not exactly an earth-rattling move, earth-rattling transaction as far as the Patriots are concerned. but it is interesting in that to me the first thing that I think of is that Sione Taki Taki was somebody that Elliott Wolf went out of his way to bring in year one of this
2:07.7	new Patriots regime in 2024, which Rod Mayo, Elliot Wolf.
2:11.1	They needed a little bit of linebacker depth.
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