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Using Mike Reese as a little bit of a guide here, also the athletic, talking about the Patriots pending free agents. I'll just start with guys who are under contract but may not be for much longer. Steph Diggs, Mads, you think they're moving on from that. I do. I think the combination of, now look again, I will not rule out a restructure,

but he's going to have to take less money than he's projected to get. That's for sure. His salary cap charge goes from nine and a half to 26 and a half, but we all know that's not the important number. His base salary, the real money, spikes from $2.9 million to over $20 million. Yeah, no way they're doing that.

I told you, I didn't think they were going to pick up the $6 million dollar bonus payment. So that's due on March 3rd. It's not a bonus payment. It just guarantees $6 million of his salary come the season. Oh, all right. Okay. So if he's on the roster, the third day of the league year, March 13th, six million of that 20 million gets guaranteed.

It's not a bonus, but they will. the third day of the league year, March 13th, 6 million of that 20 million gets guaranteed.

It's not a bonus, but they won't do it. But it's, you know, effectively the same thing. Yeah. They won't do it. They're on the hook for that money. I think he's out. Well, I don't think he's, I think he's out on that contract. Diggs in or out, Murray. I would be out, but I think there's going to be a restructure there.

I found it telling that they, you know, they be out, but I think there's going to be a restructure there.

I found it telling that they, you know, they put out that statement that supported him when that news came out in December with the alleged thing with the chef, the living chef, when they didn't for Barmore. That was kind of telling to me. I felt like he enjoyed the year here. It was this, you know, real leadership. There was a real leadership quality to him. I think if he can restructure, I think he'll be willing to do that.

I think he'll be back.

If he agrees to a haircut... year here was this, you know, real leadership. There was a real leadership quality to him. I think if he can restructure, I think he'll be willing to do that.

I think he'll be back. If he agrees to a haircut,

he's got a shot. Yeah. I wouldn't do it again. I just, I think at this point, you'd probably move on. You would, you would, Jim, Jim Murray would move on. I would. I don't know if you're going to get that same type of year out of him that you just got out of him.

And those postseason numbers suck.

Then, you know, we went over the alternatives last hour. I know. It's going to be tricky. I just quickly mentioned before, you know, the four years he was in Buffalo, seven playoff games, two touchdowns. His production drops off that December digs thing. Like he was not good this postseason for the Patriots too. And you know what I think it is? The later he's gotten in his career, the harder he has shaking tight coverage. Yeah. And whether it's Manor Zone, when you get into the postseason, even against zone teams, their match zone and they're on you. And it's just it's a higher level of coverage all the way around. And I think that...

They need a guy that can beat that. They don't have that. Okay. Defensive tackle, Christian Barmore. Bye. Bye. Same thing. He's on the books next year for only $12 million. I say only. But if he's on the roster the third day of the league year, $10 million of that is guaranteed. Two is already guaranteed. the final 10 gets guaranteed if he's on the roster March 13th in or out.

I think they trade him. I'm out. Yeah, there was, again, he didn't get the support letter from the team when his incident popped up in December and I'm out. He feels like off the field of a problem wait now. He's had a couple of off-field incidents now in two years, basically.

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