Diante Lee

Especially if I might be hunting for wide receiver help as well, and I might have to go trade for a high-end wide receiver.

If I know I'm going to have to dish out a big contract and free agency to another wide receiver, then yeah, let me go get a guy like Jalen Phillips, and maybe we'll be able to pay a little bit above what everybody else might be offering on the market, right?

If the number ends up turning out to be $28 million for New England versus a team like the Jets or the 49ers,

I think the Patriots can say, hey, that's fine, because that is one of the things that we are genuinely missing to be able to be a championship-level team the way that we aspire to be.

I think it will make a lot of sense for New England.

I think if it's not at that kind of high, top-shelf number for a guy like Jalen Phillips, then maybe that list expands.

But I do like the idea of Phillips, his play style, what he can give both on early and passing downs, giving that to the Patriots, who I think are pretty well set on the back end,

and really just need a little bit more help in the front seven if they want to stay stable year over year.

100%.

And I'm right there with you in terms of resetting the market.

I think my number is right as close to where yours is.

I have them somewhere from like 21 to 22.

I think who goes in and says, Hey, I know you're not going to pay me like the best guard in the league, right?

That's Tyler.

Tyler Smith was the last guy to reset the market at 24 per, I believe.

Right.

But if you can pay me about what Landon Dickerson made as a guard, a guy who's kind of got that flexibility and,

And I do think if Linderbaum in a pinch got to bump over to play guard, he'd probably be able to live in that world as well.

And just on a base level, he is the best center to have hit the open market since I really don't know when.

I really don't know when because this is a relatively devalued position and the ones who have the team to have good ones typically resign them.