Romanowski on the Patriots

I recently spoke with four-time Super Bowl winner Bill Romanowski. While the Patriots were not the focus of the interview, I did ask him about the team:

Randolph Charlotin: Considering what the New England Patriots have gone through, how impressed are you by their performance playing without Tom Brady?

Bill Romanowski:Well I think Matt Cassel has done a very good job. Are they the same team? No, but I’ll tell you what. Matt Cassel probably earned himself a starting job somewhere else in the league next year. Or, depending on how the rest of the season plays out, does New England take the young guy, dish off Brady for multiple draft picks, and really solidifies/secures the future of their organization and their game? You heard it from me first.

RC: Also on the Patriots, they have a rookie linebacker, Jerod Mayo. Last Thursday (against the New York Jets) he had a 20-tackle performance. I don’t know how much you’ve seen of him, but I understand he was compared to a former teammate of yours, Al Wilson.

BR: Al was a great football player. When a linebacker gets 20 tackles, that means he’s on the field an awful lot. That’s a little scary for me. That might mean the defense is not playing that well. But 20 tackles is a lot of tackles. I think 24 tackles is the most I’ve had in a football NFL game. So a great performance [by Mayo], but to do that as a rookie, I clearly did not do that as a rookie, so the future is very bright.

An abridged version of the interview will appear on Real GM soon, but I included the full transcription. He talks about wanting to be on Dancing With the Stars and what he's doing with his life right now. It's side of Romanowski that many never knew about. Romo trans.doc