CBS NFL analyst Boomer Esiason dissected the Patriots’ loss to the Ravens during his weekly appearance on the Dennis & Callahan show. Esiason talked about the lack of intensity from the Patriots, the fact that quarterback Tom Brady has been affected by injuries, the need to have a changing of the guard in the locker room, the idea that the Patriots will need a top-flight wide receiver, and the possibility that Randy Moss might have played his last game in New England.

To listen to the interview, click here. A complete transcript follows:

The only Patriots player who showed up on Sunday was the one who everyone was worried about: Julian Edelman. It looked like the rest of the team didn’t show up.

Well I agree with you. I couldn’t say it any better than that. It was like a bunch of impostors running around in Patriots uniforms. Tom Brady alluded to that after the game yesterday. The disappointment and dismay that Patriot fans are feeling this morning is just — they’re stunned. Most of us who cover the NFL were stunned. We know that the Ravens come with great intensity, we understand the whole Ray Lewis thing, but to not show up and to play the way they did, especially in the first quarter — it’s like they were sleepwalking — was a major disappointment. And I really can’t put my finger on it. I have no idea why they would put themselves in a situation like that.

I don’t know if you were ever a part of a game where a team en masse didn’t show up. But I’m wondering, do you think that it would have been different had they stopped them three and out and Ray Rice’s 83-yard touchdown didn’t happen? Or did that put them in the funk?

I don’t know, but I will tell you one thing — it sure set the tone of the game. The first handoff, to go right up the middle, especially when everyone was lauding the fact that Ty Warren and Vince Wilfork were back in the middle, and then to have that happen. It happened before I even got to sit down to get ready to watch, you know have lunch and get ready to settle in and watch a good football game. So, stunning I think is probably the appropriate word here, guys. So, now it is the morning after, time to pick up the pieces and figure out who should remain with this club and who shouldn’t remain with this club. One thing that was apparent is that this team looked old and it looked slow.

You’ve always been a big Belichick guy, a big Brady guy. Are you wavering? Do you think it runs deeper than just this one and done in the playoffs this year?

Well I know one thing, Tom Brady isn’t healthy. I don’t care what anybody says, I don’t care what Bill Belichick comes on here and says, denying that he is hurt and all this other stuff. And I understand that they have to protect their best interest going from game to game to game.

You’re going to hear probably about some surgery on Tom Brady’s finger, maybe he has two busted ribs as opposed to three, he’s got shoulder problems. He’s beaten up, there’s no question about that.

I know a healthy and motivated Tom Brady will still be one of the best three or four quarterbacks in football next year, I’m not worried about that. What I am worried about, however, is who he’s going to play with. Who are his wide receivers going to be next year? Right now the only guy that I see that makes any sense at this point is the guy you just spoke about, Julian Edelman, but he’s not going to strike fear in anybody. Where is Randy Moss’ head at? Where is Randy Moss’ body at? Is he motivated? Does he still have top-end speed? All of those are huge questions that have to be asked. The amount of dropped passes yesterday was stunning.

What is going on with Laurence Maroney? There’s still so many questions.

And then you have to worry about, was the trade of Richard Seymour the right thing to do at the time? I still say it was, because if you can get a first-round draft pick and this year’s draft is going to be deep maybe that works in their favor. But in the long run this is a team that has a lot of questions moving forward.

Do you think there will ever be a day where Bob Kraft does like Daniel Snyder and says, “We have to bring in somebody else to help you Bill or like in Cleveland, we have to bring another GM or offensive coordinator or something.” Where Bob Kraft and Jonathan Kraft actually throw their weight around and say, “Bill, you need help, it isn’t working.”

Well it could happen, I don’t necessarily know that it would happen this year. You know, I think the team is clearly going through a transition. When you lose guys like Tedy Bruschi and Mike Vrabel and Rodney Harrison and replace them with the kind of guys you replace them with you realize that it’s not the same type of leadership, the same type of understanding, they are just not the same players.

You know, they had a run like no other team is recent history, the success that they had. And Bill Belichick is the reason for that, don’t for one second think that he is not. But you know, he has lost Scott Pioli, he’s lost Charlie Weis, he’s lost Josh McDaniels, he’s lost Romeo Crennel. There has been more change in that organization over the last five years with the exception of one man or two men, you could look at it that way — and that is Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

And as long as they are together they are going to be successful. The question is how successful will they be moving forward. And that same question is being asked in Philadelphia this morning with Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb.

I say that there is still a lot of time left in Tom Brady’s career, but when you have that type of player who is as good as there is in the NFL, you have to surround him with top-end talent. When you watch that game with the Green Bay Packers and you watch Aaron Rodgers going up and down the field and you watch these receivers making acrobatic catches and with the speed and the explosiveness they have and then you compare that to what the Patriots have outside, you can see that Tom Brady is severely hampered by the lack of big play talent on the field with him.

When are people around this league going to stop saying that Randy Moss is the most fearsome, awesome deep threat in the history of the league and has to be paid all this attention to with all the things he brings to the table? The guy absolutely disappears in the postseason. The numbers are staggeringly bad in the postseason.

Well I think it is probably to the point where they are going to have to decide whether or not they are going to bring him back. And I personally, watching Randy over the last 4-5 weeks, and I don’t know what else is going on in his life and the whole, ‘I have the big shoulders’ comment after the Buffalo Bills game. To play like he did yesterday, to me maybe it’s come to its end. Maybe it’s run its course.

And only Bill Belichick knows in his heart whether or not Randy Moss is the type of player he really wants on his football team. When you have a quarterback of Tom Brady’s ability and the things that he can do for you, you have to surround him with players that are going to get him to the next level and this team to the next level. Right now, there just aren’t any players. And I told you last week, before everything else came out about the diagnosis of Wes Welker, he’s not going to be on the field next year.

So now what are you going to do? Julian Edelman is your guy? Sam Aiken is your guy? Stanback is your guy? A broken down Randy Moss? You see what I’m saying? You look at it and you see exactly what needs to be taken care of in the offseason. I can win with that offensive line, I can win with that group of running backs assuming Laurence Maroney comes back, but I can’t win in this league with that group of wide receivers. I just can’t.

That list of Patriots assistants that left that you just talked about, were they in charge of a lot of the in-game adjustments when they were here? We used to think that Bill Belichick would see something wrong, from series to series – wouldn’t even wait until halftime — would grab the chalkboard and sit in front of the offensive line or defensive line and make an adjustment and fix what was going wrong. But on Sunday, the Ravens ran 52 times and the Patriots never made them stop.

Well they can go in and make adjustments, but there is one thing you can’t adjust and that is the players’ mindset going into the game. And I can tell you that the Ravens had more intensity going into yesterday’s game. And when you look at the Ravens and you look at the New England Patriots, you say who is the leader of the New England Patriots?

Tom Brady doesn’t strike me as the Peyton Manning type where he is going to get in people’s faces, that’s just not who he is. And Kevin Faulk tried it yesterday, and as much as I love Kevin Faulk, he has always been a bit player for the Patriots.

Who is it on defense? It’s certainly not Adalius Thomas, it’s not Jerod Mayo, and it’s not Brandon Meriweather, who is still looking for his jock from yesterday. There is no bona fide leader on that team. Maybe Richard Seymour would have been that leader, certainly it was Tedy Bruschi and Rodney Harrison. They don’t have a personality even remotely close to that, and I think that has obviously hampered them.

There has to be some personality changes and you have to look at players like Adalius Thomas. Is he there for the long haul? I don’t think so, and I think Bill Belichick is going to want to go in and clean out some of the guys that are not doing it the way he wants things done. And he knows better than I do that his team is slow right now. It just doesn’t look like a very explosive team on offense.

We always hear about young quarterbacks studying tape of Tom Brady — I’m guessing they won’t study tape of yesterday—but why can’t the Patriots study Kurt Warner? He lost his possession receiver, he is facing a pretty good defense, or so we thought, and he puts up a game for the ages. You look at Tom Brady and I wonder how could Baltimore have surprised him? Or were there no surprises at all, because he certainly looked confused at times. How does a team you played already, you studied all the video, you prepare hard, how is possible that Baltimore made him look so confused?

It’s pretty simple, the intensity was ratcheted up. You don’t have to break too many things down, you just realize that they wanted it more than the New England Patriots did.

In relation to Kurt Warner, what he was doing, I will tell you there is no Larry Fitzgerald on the team for the New England Patriots, no Steve Breaston on the team for the New England Patriots. You take a look at some of those explosive plays in that game, where is that player on the Patriots roster? Where is the DeSean Jackson, where is the Jeremy Maclin, where is the Miles Austin, where is the Vincent Jackson? Are those players on the Patriots roster right now?

Well they have a Hall of Famer, arguably the most physically gifted receiver that anyone has ever seen. Do you think Randy Moss is hurt, or could he just not match the intensity of the Ravens?

Well I think it is both. I don’t think he is right either. And we pointed this out yesterday on “The NFL Today” that it looked like he has lost his top-end speed. He caught a ball going across the middle against the Jaguars and got caught from behind and that is not who Randy Moss is.

Because of the way the Patriots handle injuries and the secretive nature of everything, you never really know what is going on with these guys. And then he misses practice last week, I don’t know if it was personal or physical.

I would tell you this. If I’m Bill Belichick or Bob Kraft and I’ve got myself a $100 million quarterback and I’m putting him out on the field with — listen, I’m sure they are all nice guys and I’m sure they try hard, but there is not one upper echelon wide receiver that will be on this roster next year when the season starts.

Now if Wes Welker were healthy I would say he would be the guy, but he is not going to be healthy enough to play. So now, in my estimation, you have to re-make this entire wide receiving corps, maybe even the tight ends, who were dropping balls yesterday. Because when you compare it to everyone else in this league who are in the playoffs right now — maybe with the exception of the Jets and the Ravens — you say to yourself that he Patriots don’t have a guy that would make any of these other rosters.

In my estimation I saw three all-effort plays yesterday by someone wearing a Patriot uniform and they were all Julian Edelman. You don’t see it from anybody else.

That’s right, and that is how dismal that performance was yesterday. And that is why you say bye-bye. You say bye-bye to people that are not earning their paycheck, you say bye-bye to guys whose production is starting to wane. And that is the reality of this league — you can’t play forever, and when you watch yesterday and you take a look at it and you start to dissect it you see a number of aging veterans that probably need to be moved along.

I think there needs to be an edge brought back to that franchise. And again I will say it: if you have a $100 million quarterback you can’t put him out there with guys that don’t strike fear into anybody, and Randy Moss is one of those guys. And I think Chris Gamble said it after the Carolina Panthers came up there, that Randy Moss quit in that game. And Randy Moss did not play great the week before in Miami and Tom Brady alluded to players competing and we all knew what he was talking about, although he will never personally or publicly admit to that. But I wouldn’t be surprised if you have seen Randy Moss in his last game as a New England Patriot.

I thought this was the year that they were revamping that defense and making them younger and quicker and more athletic.

Well, I thought so, too. I will also say this though guys, they still won the division and they still made it to the playoffs. And even as bad as their performance was yesterday, going through the transition phase they are going through they still won games. That is a testament to the coaching staff and to putting the team together.

And I know nobody feels good about it this morning — I certainly don’t after watching it — but again this is going to be a total revamping of the offensive roster, I believe, this offseason and they have got to find themselves a pass rusher somewhere. They have no bona fide pass rusher on that roster; there is nobody that gets after the quarterback. There is not one person on that roster right now that when you go and play them from an offensive standpoint you say, “You know what, we have to worry about this guy and the pass rush.” There is no DeMarcus Ware, there is no Jared Allen, there is nobody that can generate pressure without some sort of scheming to help them out. So you have two major problems with this franchise: where are the explosive plays going to come from the wide receiver spot and where is that defensive bell cow, where is that one guy you can count on that is going to make a difference for you.

Their best guy, and their only above-average defender I think, is Vince Wilfork and he is an unrestricted free agent. Boomer, will Denver trade Brandon Marshall and will they trade him here?

That is a very good question. I know that Josh McDaniels is probably at his wits end with Brandon Marshall. So I think that if you want to clean up your locker room and grab hold of your team you might think about trading a disgruntled wide receiver. I would also imagine that Josh has a very good relationship with coach Belichick and left New England in good stead. So I imagine that would be a possibility and there are going to be other possibilities around the league too.

The unfortunate thing, much like bringing in Randy Moss, is that it’s going to have to be someone that is disgruntled. You’re not going to get Donald Driver, or Greg Jennings, or Marques Colston or Miles Austin, those guys are going to be locked up by their teams. They love their teams and their teams love them. You are going to have to find either an unrestricted free agent that has some explosive value or you are going to have to take somebody else’s headache off their hands.

Of the AFC wild card winners going forward, who has the better chance of getting into the AFC Championship Game: Baltimore going into Indianapolis to play the Colts, or the Jets going all the way out to San Diego to play the Chargers?

That is a really good question. We are going to find out a pretty simple answer this weekend and that is: what wins championships? Is it defense, or is it quarterbacks?

Because you have the two best defenses in the AFC — some would say in the NFL — going up against the two best quarterbacks. I would say the Jets have the best chance. The reason I say that is because San Diego has not seen the Jets this year, the Jets can run the football and San Diego does not have a great run defense. San Diego does not run the football, so you don’t have to worry about a situation like last week with Cedric Benson and the Bengals. And all you have to do is blanket Vincent Jackson and get pressure on Philip Rivers. So I think the Jets have a really good shot of doing this, I would say it’s about a 30 percent chance.

On the other side, talking to a couple of people in Indianapolis yesterday, I don’t think they mind seeing the Ravens because I don’t think they have a lot of respect for the way Joe Flacco is playing right now. Flacco yesterday completed four passes in winning a game and he just didn’t look right. He looked like his hip is really bothering him, so I do believe that Indianapolis playing indoors with a very fast defense against a limited mobility-wise quarterback is going to give the Baltimore Ravens fits.

Does Arizona have a shot to build on this going into New Orleans? Aren’t we all going to be disappointed when Arizona goes home?

Who was more fun to watch yesterday, Arizona or Green Bay?

I don’t want Green Bay to go home either. Can we arrange something — double elimination?

I mean, if you are a defensive purist and you like defensive football then yesterday was not your game. But I tell you what, watching those wide receivers for Green Bay, the catches that Greg Jennings was making yesterday — even a converted linebacker, [Spencer] Havner, was making nice catches yesterday — made both teams fun to watch. I thought Green Bay had a chance to go deep into the playoffs. It’s unfortunate that they lost yesterday. But I think this works out great for the Saints. I think the Saints are going to be tough on the Arizona Cardinals next week.