Well, he gets rid of football fans that aren't Pats fans in the selection pool, and he plays the "lost my wife to cancer" "victim" card (neglecting to mention his liaisons with a very low-rent hooker while his wife was dying, and the subsequent blackmail attempt, btw), and he's not exactly a spring chicken, so he has the elderly man seeking "companionship" in his sunset years card...
But yeah, he's nuts to roll the dice.