Adam Amin

I understand what you're saying about the drafting of a true starting center.

Oh, no, no.

I agree with that.

But I think at the end of the day, they come to Ben Johnson like, which of these fits what you need as a offensive playmaker?

And in year one, it was very easy for them to go out and be like, we're just going to get the best center available as a free agent on the free agent market.

Clearly, they couldn't do that with somebody getting paid $27 million a year.

They couldn't do that with Linderbaum.

That was not an option with the cap restraints and them trying to, I don't know, reconstruct an entire defense, really, that could actually affect someone else's passing game while also stopping the run.

It was like a two-thing.

Like, hey, we get a lot of takeaways, but we're not really stopping the run or stopping anyone from throwing the ball against us.

We just happen to get a lot of takeaways, more than anybody in the NFL.

I think now Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles are like, okay, so what is our future play here?

Now that we don't have Drew Dallman for at least two years and cannot draft a center to develop what the Patriots did, basically, as they put one of their guards now at center that they've been preparing for this moment, and that's why they're able to trade away Bradbury.

Now for them specifically, it's we have to go and draft a center.

And they knew they were always going to have to go and draft a center.

The timeline just went up a little bit with having this bridge guy in here in Bradbury.

Right, and Ryan Poles, though, back then was in charge of Matt Eberfuss, who clearly didn't know what he was doing and who was more defense-focused.

Yes, I just think Ben Johnson's at the top of the pyramid now.

He's the one calling the shots when push comes to shove.

And Ryan Poles wants to preserve his position also, so he's going to get the guys what they need.