Alex Barth

The Patriots need a wide receiver that can come in and take coverage like it just makes sense.

Now, what's so weird about this is there's going to be a handful of OTA practices that happen between now and that June 1 checkpoint.

If some team's star wide receiver goes out and twists his knee, does somebody get really desperate and maybe offer the Eagles more than the Patriots should because they're in the back end of a contending window and they just need a win now, that kind of thing.

So, you know, that's the only way to me it doesn't happen is there's some major change in circumstance around the league.

Oh, yeah.

They just wanted offensive line, offensive line.

A lot of people around here weren't talking about Lomu because we thought he'd go higher.

And then, obviously, he gets jumped by Maxi Honitore and Blake Miller.

But they have a 35-year-old right tackle in Morgan Moses, played very well last year, but that's a year-to-year situation.

So now they have somebody in the pipeline behind him, and they got Demetrius Crown over out of Texas A&M as well, who projects as a swing tackle.

So, look, I've covered the Patriots.

This is going to be my eighth season, and this is the first time I think I can say professionally I feel good about where they're at at tackle in both the short term and the long term.

I don't think that the Red Sox organization's regretting it.

I think this was something that had been building.

The fan base is another story.

Alex Corr, when it played here, won a championship here as a manager, he was somebody that this fan base got behind and believed in and rooted for.

So I think it's regretted in that sense.

It's also just another example of...

And June Lee has had a great piece on this up after the firing, just the directionlessness of the Red Sox.

And it's everything they do seems to counteract itself.