Diante Lee

I can't do this.

I can't do this.

Sam Monson, we are PFF buddies.

I always got your back, okay?

If nobody else got you, I got you.

He foresaw this coming months ago.

I mean, to your original question about like, was this too soon?

Will they be back?

Were they frauds for not being able to come through in this moment?

As we're talking, the thing I just keep thinking about is Drake May's hometown team, the Carolina Panthers, who were here, who were in that stadium a decade ago, you know, and came up short.

And everybody thought, hey, Cam Newton in his prime just won an MVP.

Luke Keekly already looked like a Hall of Fame level player.

They had all this defensive talent.

They were on the upswing at that point in time as a franchise, and they didn't come back.

And a lot of that is because the NFC at that time had so many great quarterbacks.

You're still talking about Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers.

You had Carson Palmer, who had played really well in Arizona at that time.

It's entirely possible that, yes, we see the Patriots regularly in the playoffs for the next half decade, and it just doesn't matter because they end up on the road playing Baltimore or playing Buffalo or playing Kansas City or Cincinnati.

It can swing just that quickly.

Absolutely.