I know, but then you watch

that game and you think, okay, we're one foot from being undefeated No. 1 team in the country, and then we're one yard last week from losing to Minnesota.

We are close to losing to Michigan in overtime.

Like, it's just...

I don't know.

We've got to figure it out on offense.

Our defense looks unbelievable.

The person that sits in this seat would

That was terrible.

I'm shocked.

I am shocked that Dan Quinn still has a job.

really am and when we were writing we wrote like a bold predictions we did our mmqb across the board predictions at si.com week one of the season we were asked to submit a bold prediction and my bold prediction was that no coach would get fired mid-season i said that there's only a handful of guys that may be on the hot seat and one of them was dan quinn and he had jaden daniels coming back who was going to look healthy and and so or was going to be healthy and so maybe he would um be able to stick out the season and Boy, was I wrong about the state of coaching, at least.

And as you said, I mean, across the board this weekend, bad decisions were made.

And even last night, I saw people talking about the Bills' decision to not run the clock down further because yes, they're in a sudden death situation, But if they had missed, just like Harrison Mevis, who ended up being released after what he did last night for the Rams, after he missed, the Bills were given more time.

Perhaps the same thing could happen on the other end.

No, I

Like, is he somewhat, I don't know, I don't want to say against taking the free yards, but maybe it's something he might have to work on.

It's 100% something he has to work on, Joe.

I do think teams, now that they have 17 games of...

Or more than 17 games, but a 17-game season, plus the playoffs of MVP-caliber play on Drake May, that they see what he does and doesn't want to do, and they now have tendencies on the guy, right? And that check down Charlie comment from last year, he was asked about it today as well.

And it's something that...

You need to be able to take what the defense gives you.

I mean, that's how Tom Brady won in this offense for so long.

And just looking at the receiver group now, how do you feel that they actually handled the entire process when it came to their wide receiving core this year?

I just would hate to send him somewhere like the texans because i don't know remember he beat the texans he's had good games against the texans so i guess for them if you can't beat him join him yeah it's a weird um

that i thought that line was interesting too about you know sending me to an organization i truly wanted to be a part of right i mean and wolf was asked yesterday if he had any worries about sending booty to uh you know a competitor in the afc and elliott said no pretty quickly so I don't necessarily, and I mean, I hate the return as well.

I was talking to Skaz before I came on, and getting Jalen Reed, who played seven games as a rookie, was hurt twice as a rookie, as sort of a depth safety in a room that, no, the depth isn't great there, but John Saunders has been coming on over the last couple of weeks.

Del Pettis is a guy who's been here.

So one of those guys now is seemingly out of the room behind Bayard and Craig Woodson.

So that and a flyer in 2028, I hate the return.

And I hope that, you know, from the Patriots' perspective, Joe, they should have been looking for the best return and not sending Keishon to where he wanted to be.

Mike, besides what you know, what do you think is going on with the Christian Gonzalez deal, and is it going to get done?

Mike?

Yeah, uh, I think the Patriots, as we know, clearly won yesterday.

I think today was more split down the middle, more competitive back and forth.

Um, some, you know, some drills, some I guess sections of practice were, went either way, but I think the best thing out of these is that both, uh, especially today, you competed against a really good football team.

We know the Patriots are good after last season.

You know, they can, they can, uh, I guess level up compared to what we saw a couple years ago in that joint practice against the Eagles-

Yeah

... at, at the beginning of the season.

I think McDaniel is going to use them sort of as a chess piece.

I 100 percent agree, I think.

And again, I know I mentioned Keishon Booty and we'll probably get into a little bit more.

But like the first day, you know, we were there for three days of minicamp.

They were only competitive twice, Monday, Wednesday.

The middle day was sort of a walkthrough.

But the first day when Booty was there, they had Booty at the X and A.J. Brown at the Z and put those guys on the field at the same time.

Like, it'd be tough to see him go considering what you finally got out of him last year.

Right.

Exactly.

It's a lot of mouths to feed.

There's no room.

There's no room.

Or do you think that they could sign him and it would be a positive to distract from the Mike Vrabel situation?

It's funny you say the tying it into the Mike Vrabel situation.

I was just mulling this over in, in my own head about 10 minutes ago before I came on, 'cause I saw a tweet about, um, Diggs, uh, posted something on Instagram saying, you know, he had x-- he played x amount of snaps last year and had receptions and yards, whatever it was.

Um, and there was a bunch of Patriots players who were commenting saying, "Come back to the Patriots," and blah, blah, blah, and he posted, like, the eyeball emojis back to, I think, Milton Williams.

And so people are starting to speculate, you know, whether they would bring him back or not.

Um, a- as far as if they will or won't, you know, just that question in general, I think the ship has probably sailed, and I think it has to do more so about the fact that an A.J. Brown deal is all but finished.

The fact that they already signed Romeo Doubs and they have, you know, a couple other, uh, you know, you know, Mac Hollins and Pop Douglas and guys that they maybe wanna try and bring along here a little bit further, rather than go back to Diggs.

It's a first-round pick." But to me, that seems like a, a, a crazy overpay.

It'll be interesting to watch, but again, I, If you're sitting there watching it from afar and watched it all season long and been with them, it's like they'll feel supremely confident heading into that first playoff game no matter who they play.

Roche, I think that's the best part of this season if you're a Patriots fan, right? It's all kind of lining up the way that...

It almost feels like a team of destiny.

And, you know, I was a little bit too young to understand exactly what was going on in 2001 with, you know, Brady's second season and a young defensive coach and a team that has an identity.

But it almost feels similar to that.

And now you have Drake May potentially winning MVP because Stafford put up a dud last night.

And...

Not what do you think should happen or who should win the MVP? What do you think the voters will do? What do you think the voters will say when they cast their ballots for the

Non-reporter Mike Adlick speak, what are you seeing?

I think he's fine.

I think fine is the way to put it.

I will say that he's undoubtedly been a leader in the room, at least on the field, breaking down huddles, first in line, that kind of stuff.

We were talking on our Patriot Daily podcast yesterday about Diggs potentially being a captain on this team because what we've seen from a leadership perspective, as far as talent on the field, A number two is probably the right way to categorize it.

Mark Daniels from MassLive charted every single throw Drake May made in team drills, and Diggs was the second target behind only Pop Douglas.

Caught 20 balls in team drills, popped out 25.

I'll at least have to say that.