I happened to catch that. But what I thought was the bigger point he was making was that Lynch is interested in not so much interesting in coming to the Pats as he is interested in going to where his buddy Sherman is going next season (though Oakland remains the first choice)
And THAT'S where the narrative breaks down. The Problem with a Sherman trade is a similar one to the problem the Saints have with Butler, which is the double whammy of of BOTH paying the big money AND giving up the huge draft pick.
So everyone talks about how to pay Sherman 11MM/yr for the next 2 years, and forgets about the other elephant in the room, which is giving Seattle reasonable compensation for Sherman. So unless the situation in Seattle is so toxic that they'd let him go for something like a 4th or 5rh rounder, there WILL be no Sherman deal, and thus no Lynch deal.
It is fun though to fantasize a world where this kind of deal happens and the rest of the league collectively slashes their wrists or just "gives up" as Ryan Clark declared when the Sherman to NE rumor first surfaced. '