Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel joins The Greg Hill Show on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
The new head coach of the New England Patriots already
geared up in what are we calling this? Like a
half half quarter zip half hoot. We had a guy
here who had a particular style sense, game time attire.
You seem to lean toward the half zip vest.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Love the quarters that, yeah, we'll cut the sleeves off
here later. Okay, they couldn't cover this guy. Okay, he
would get us down to the end zone, I going
and score, but during the field they couldn't cover.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, that was when he started stealing his catches, though
in the end zone he wasn't happy about that.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It wasn't it wasn't too hard to steal from Christian.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How are you fantastic?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Awesome?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Great to be back in the middling?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, I mean already. Uh, you know, Elliott and I've
been meeting here for a couple hours and just trying
to go through the roster and you know, have a
lot of meetings and get through the staff and you know,
the support staff and everything that's critical and the scouts
and get to know them and see where they're going
and how we can help and support them.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You want us to start easy or go to wherever
you want to go. So on. On the topic of Elliott,
and this may not be the case, but it seemed
like the case in Tennessee was that there became an
issue when it came to you earning full roster control
and kind of wanting to be in that role in
addition to the head coach role. If that's act.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We didn't win enough games in Tennessee that I think
that's the problem. But no, that that's never been an issue.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But so are you comfortable? Are you comfortable with this arrangement?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be here. And I
think that through the conversations and the interview process and
the conversations over the weekend with Elliott and with with
with Robert and Jonathan and just trying to put a
roster together in a program that to me, that's the
biggest thing. I want to try to put a program
around our coaches, our support staff, our personnel department, our players.
(03:02):
Most especially that people want to be a part of
that they're proud of that, they invest time and energy,
and we can we can start to see results, you know,
beginning here in the off season when we don't have
the players, and then when we have the players in April,
that these guys are like, Okay, I feel like what
we're doing is going to help me. We don't want
to waste anybody's time, especially the players time. So this
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is all very important to me, and it's all very
calculated after having done it, you know, for six years
in Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Mike, when you look at coaching, you've been in this
business a long time. The most important position, it looks
like you have COVID in Drake May. How important is
it now for you guys? To make sure you put
the right pieces around them, especially in free agency where
it looks like you guys have some money. And you know,
when we think about that, elite wide receivers have done
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such a great job. You look at your former player
in aj Brown and what that means. What's the kind
of thought process going in that direction?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Moving forward?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, again, we talked about this passer rating efficiency in
which we throw the football, right, you don't have to
throw it fifty times, you know. I think an interesting
stat was, I think the passes quarterbacks that are tech
more than fifty passes a game have won twenty two
percent of their games other than Tom Brady, so he's
won like seventy percent of the games that he's had
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to throw for more than forty five times or something.
So if you don't have Tom Brady, then you probably
shouldn't throw at forty five or fifty times a game.
That's not the point here. The point is that when
we throw it, which will be as many times as
we need to, that you want to be efficient, right
that you want to have great completion percentage, which then
leads to receivers. Going back to the question about receivers,
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Receivers that have great catch radious right, that can create
separation that are good against contested catches, right, because when
you're contested and PBUs go up in the air, then
they get intercepted, right, And then now that leads to turnovers,
which then changes field position and all these things. So
we have to focus on the line because I think
that the best teams right now in the National Football
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League are the ones that still have the best offensive lines,
that are changing line of scrimmage, protecting the passer, have
versatility in a run game, can run a zone scheme,
can run a gap scheme, because I don't think he
can just major and just say in zone, right, because
teams that penetrate and disrupt the zone play, you've got
to be able to find ways to double and move
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gaps and change gaps and force them to move positions.
So with that being said said, you know, I want
to focus on some of those areas offensive line. We'll
take a look and see what skill we have here
at receiver and give everybody a new opportunity to kind
of come in. It's a clean slate, decide who wants
to be here by their actions, and then they continue
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to evaluate.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You brought up Tom Brady. Was the reporting accurate that
he reached out and you said, nope, I'm already I'm
going to do it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well, I don't know if that was the case. Tom
and I had had many discussions. I think you know
we're friends, we're teammates, we're friends. We've continued to talk
throughout my career and coaching his career as he played,
and now his new transition. So you know, we we've
talked and we'll continue to talk. But you know, this
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is the place where I wanted to be, and this
is the place that I'm at.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What do you have been a good boss? I mean managed?
What's his management style?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't know. I didn't stick around long enough to.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Find out the conversation. Mike.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I love what you said about culture yesterday and how
building a culture it's important when you're at your lowest.
So when you look at this team in particular, theoretically,
how long will it take to build back a culture.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, that's all based on the players and you know
that that are willing to invest and change behavior if
it's needed to be changed, and how quickly they hold
each other accountable, how close we become. You know, I
think We're going to spend a lot of time and
being very you know, conscious of the relationships and the building,
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you know, And I'm new here and haven't been here
since two thousand and eight, and so I want to
make sure that the how can I help the support staff?
But when the players come in, they have to know
each other. The coaches have to know the players. There
has to be a relationship there that's you know, built
on trust and built on communication and trying to give
the players exactly what they need. So I hate to
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put a timeline on it because I don't know. That
could happen quicker that could happen. You know, it may
go into training camp and you need to go through
training camp. Training camps essential, you know, to build the
team and going through practice and staying you know, with
each other for a lot of hours. And sometimes you
get in arguments in training camps. Sometimes there's fights, sometimes
there's you know, things that happen, but you're all doing
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it just to continue to build a team.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Sorry, do you find that being a coach and seeing
from your time playing to Tennessee to now, there's been
a change in the way in which the player is
or acts because we talk about the millennial player right
now and how different that is. Have you had to
adjust your coaching style to make that to make that better?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well, I just have to be conscious of the relationship
and the connection of the players are coming in. You
know what they need each day from me to be successful.
So you know, Jermaine may need one personality and one style,
Greg may need something else. And I have to do
a great job of understanding what each one of those
players needs, how they respond best.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I like to be coddled.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yes, that didn't surprise me one bit. I've done that
for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yes, I didn't have to. I didn't have to coddle
you when I was kicking your ass all over the golf.
That is not good, that is.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But I think that the system where we are getting
a different player, and whether it's the millennial or whether
it's specifically the college structure right now which allows for transfer,
which again they're eighteen, some of them make a decision
that they wish they could have over and I like
some of the idea of being able to go to
another college. But there's an nil, there's being they're being compensated,
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and so I think that they come to our league,
and not every one of them, but some of them.
You're tat to change some behavior, and we want to
remove entitlement from our program. We might to make sure
that that we're not entitling players to do something and
earn something by not having worked.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
For Wiggy and ty Law on this show. Tye is
going to be on at nine. Even think of Itch
talk about the difference that there was in this locker
room now and then with guys holding other guys accountable.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Is that was that your Well, that was my experience here,
but that that's not like that every year. That's hard
to create. That's a unique relationship that that is between
the players. And again I have to try to and
along with Elliott and our personnel department is bringing those
types of players that will do that. And again if
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they they don't, then that's where I have to step
in and protect the team.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's a little bit easier when you got a guy
like Willie Mack walking.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Around the right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Man, I know my role.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I think that's great because there I watched you and
Teddy were on the Man in the Arena from years
ago talking about that third Super Bowl championship season, and
I thought it was so well done on how you
and Teddy were discussing that you were the ones that
created the culture that some referred to as the Patriot
Way or whatever, where you held each other accountable. It
wasn't about doing what was necessary. It was about doing
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everything you could and demanding that from the people that
you saw walk into their car at seven thirty or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, you just wanted to be able to just to
know that somebody else was as invested as you were personally,
but also was willing to put the team first and
make a decision that was maybe better for somebody else
than it was for your own personal situation. And then
as far as being on time, study and learning, how
hard you played, how hard you you know, willing to
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communicate on a practice field, how well you came back
in shape, Like, we don't have a whole lot of time,
you know, with the with the rules that we have
and the you know, the off season, so it's critical
that they come back in shape and that's a commitment
that they make. We don't have time to probably get
back in shape once April starts, Like if we're not
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ready to go come April, you know, there'll be some
catching up to do.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Mike Rabel is our guest at Jellette Stadium for the
first time as the head coach of the New England Patriots.
I have been demanding that you be hired for this
job for quite some time. Those who were opposed to
it would argue that you're a run first and run
only guy.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Now, our best player was our running back. What I said,
as you can see, as you can see in Baltimore,
and you know, so we tried to structure the you know,
the offense. I mean, we try to build the offense
around what we felt like was our best player and
what was our strength. And you know, when we did
have pieces around Derek that we felt comfortable with, you know,
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we we threw it just as successfully as we ran it,
and we were good in the red zone. I felt
like we were creative. But that you know that you
base whatever system and scheme that you have.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
On the players that you have.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So I do think there's a lot of versatility in
not only myself, but hopefully that the coaches that we hire.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And seems like a different situation here when you look
at what Drake make him.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Sure and again, we we want to throw it as
much as we can remain efficient and explosive. You know,
one again, as many players as we can that are
tough to tackle, that that you don't have to throw
the ball fifty yards downfield to create an explosive play.
Now we'll have that ability. But you see around the
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league some guys, you know, you flip it out there
and they're a good catch and run guy, and they're
hard to tackle. And you know, you force defenses to tackle,
you force secondary players to tackle. We want good guys
that are good in space. And again, then how skilled
are we upfront, how physical we are up front? But
there's still something to being able to run the football
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when you have to in short yardage situations around the
goal line, you know, to be able to control the
pace of the game late in the game, you know,
when you play with the lead. These games, every year
they get closer and closer, just how the league wants it, right,
So everybody watches till the end, the end of the
game and hopefully every but he has a shot. And
how critical we can execute in the four minute two
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minute situations and so there is going to be an
element that our physicality is going to have to play
in and running the football is going to be part
of it, but it won't be the entire thing we do.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
One of the things that you know coming up in
my career that I rarely respected him from coaches, obviously
having Pastsels and Belichick, was transparency and putting your putting
the team above yourself. Based on a lot of your
formal players, they they kind of they reiterate those same
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words about the respect level for a coach that makes
sure every player understands their role and its team first.
How do you make sure that you continue that coming
to a team that might have had some issues and
making sure that message is received loud and clear.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, well, the communication by me is critical that it
is clear, it's clean, it's concise, and it's direct. Like
you said, the transparency. I'm always going to be honest
with the player. They may disagree, but I'm also going
to listen to them. I'm going to listen with the
intent to understand them and not listen with the intent
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to respond. But I'm also going to treat them the
same way they treat the team, and if they treat
the team really well, I'll be willing to listen to
anything that they have to say. Any suggestions if they
don't treat the team very well. If they don't, you know,
if they're not on time, or they're not in shape,
or they don't play hard, or they don't study, or
they're disrespectful to somebody in a support staff. Hopefully they're
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not here long, but if they are, I don't have
much to say to them, or I don't not really
going to take their input. So, like you mentioned, I
think the biggest thing is that average players want to
be left alone. They want to come in, they want
to pick up their check, they want to eat for
free and go home. Good players want to be coached,
and great players want to be told the truth. And
every great player that I've been able to coach in
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the past six years has always come and said, what
do I need to do to be better? What do
I need to do to be great? And you tell
them and then they they seek the truth, and then
their job is to then handle the truth.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What's your timeline on hiring coordinators?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No timeline, the same thing we talked about yesterday. We're
not gonna deal with timelines with injuries or you know,
we're not gonna deal with the hiring a staff. And
when that's going to be complete. It's a long process.
It's one that you know will go out a few weeks.
It could go out longer than that. Right, It's always
delicate when you have teams that are continuing to play
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in the playoffs, potentially the movement that could occur with
coaches on other staffs and related to their contracts. So
that's just not as cut and dry as Hey, these
guys are going to walk in tomorrow and we're going
to have a full staff.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Rob Gronkowski said, your first call should be to Josh McDaniels. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I mean, I'm gonna look at every possible candidate that
I feel like help us. And we're going to start
that process today, uh, at this afternoon and and and
visit with some with some great coaches and uh and
then we'll see where things go. And that's all. Yeah,
there's a lot. It's a long list. Yeah, there's a
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long list. And I'll you know, I've had a relationship
with Josh, and I've had relationships with with other offensive
coaches and defensive coaches that we're going to interview and
want to bring in here.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
How much pressure is there on the OC though, Wiggie
brings up building a team around Drake, but making sure
that he doesn't have a revolving door of offensive coordinators
throughout his time here.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well, I don't, I don't. I mean, this is uh,
this is a production business. So I think pressure comes
with everyone that's a part of this thing, whether you're
a player or whether you're a coach, and I think
you have to embrace the the the challenge of just
getting it right. That's all we want to do is
we want to get it right. And if our players
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can handle a lot, we're going to give them a lot,
and they just need to get out there and get
lined up and be able to snap the ball so
that we're you know, we're we're going to avoid self
inflicted wounds and we don't want to have unforced airs.
But if we can handle a lot, and we can
move and we can shift, and we can motion, and
we can go play on the football and you know,
try to apply some pressure defensively, then those are all
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things that we'll be able to do. Then I've done
in the past with with multiple coordinators.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I don't I don't want to add any pressure, but
you're you do, you probably won't be able, but you're here.
You're here to save us, like the entire region. Like
are you aware?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah? I think we're all aware of what our what
our job is here to do. And we have high
expectations and so do I. Yours aren't higher than mine.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I I just on that note, like you hire a
guy obviously the Jets. I'm you were rumored with every
opening that you were going to potentially have an opportunity
to coach in the NFL for several teams. If you
could dial it, you know, to signify one thing why
you chose to come back and coach this Patriots team?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
What would it be? Well, I don't think there is
just one, but I just like I said, it just
it's it's the right time, it's the right place with
the right people.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Were you this team? Wigi brought up money. This team
has over one hundred and thirty million dollars available salary
cap wise.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
He's always talking about money.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
That's what happens when he'll make a lot when you play.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think that you know from the outside one k
I gotta wait till sixty five.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Book sixty five, ye failing.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
If you're hiring Wiggy you missed this probably, But Wiggy
did was the head coach of the Brockton football team
for one year, trying to get back to the kids.
Just one season. The boxes, Yeah, the boxes, the boxes,
just one year. But if you're hiring yeah, I mean,
but were you able to in your discussions with.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Only for option routes you doing you ain't coaching blocking?
I mean he.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Really blocks now with things.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Let's be honest, what tight end?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Where were you able to get assurances from Robert during
your discussions when considering this job that that you are
going to be able to spend that money.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, I'm comfortable that you know that Elliot and I
are going to be able to find ways to add
productive players, great people, uh to this football team. And
that's through the draft, that's through free agency. So I'm
confident that we'll be able to have the resources that
we need to to go sign players within within a limit.
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And we understand that free agency isn't the only answer.
It's not one hundred percent, as you all know. But
it's about adding the right players and that we feel
like can help the team and that we're we're comfortable with.
And sometimes if you don't know them, you also don't
know what you're going to get. Is this still a
destination when it comes to free agents? Well, I mean
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I think that we have to we have to make
it a destination. And again, I'll tell you a story
about free agency when I got to when I got
to Houston, they had natural grass in the their dome
and they would wheel it out and they'd cut it
into sections, and I'm like, this is unique, Like what's
this And they are like, well, you know, we thought
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that they would the free agents would want to play
on natural grass. I said, the only thing free agents
care about is green and it's not naturally. So there's
two forms of free agency. It's the one is trying
to go out and maximize your earning potential and go
for the top dollar. And we see that early on
in free agency, the first couple of days, that maybe
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the first week. Then after that I try to tell
players it comes down to opportunity and what's you know,
if you'd want the best opportunity to go and be
able to produce and contribute, and then that's going to
lead to then the next, you know, form of free agency,
where then you can take advantage of the system in
a year or two or whatever, you sign with us.
So you know, I was one of those players that
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are coming from Pittsburgh and signed up. And here it
was about the opportunity. It wasn't about the dollars that
turned into being able to have those types of contracts
as as my career went on and a production increased
and all those other things. So we're going to identify
players at all different levels and and it's a process
putting it all together.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Maybe if you provide free books on the sidelines, you
might be able to get a certain wide receiver here.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
But was he a big reader back when you guys
were together.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I think Aj is just trying to find ways to
I'm proud of his development, his personal development and working
on himself and working on controling his and getting back
to center. And again, he's a passionate player and I
love him to death and I have a very very
close relationship with him.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
That book's like number one on bestsellers now skyrocketed.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, good for him, some realty. He wants the audio bak.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Yeah, voracious reader, you're talking about our audiobook bill. We
have a special guests on the line. That Billy in
the car that wanted to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Billy in the car. All right, well let's hire, let's
go to them. Let's let's go to Billy from Chestnut Hill.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Hey, Billy, the first time caller, longtime listener.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
It is Bill O'Brien and otots.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Let's go Patriots.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
You got any players up there? Yeah, Billy, we find
any players.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Are you gonna, Hey man, you gotta come come to
our pro day, come speak to our team. I mean
I've already put my DIBs in on that. So uh
now I'm I'm excited for Mike, I'm excited for the Patriots,
and uh, it's gonna be awesome, no question.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
No question. They Boston College is in good hands. They've
great coaching staff, great leadership, got great facilities. They redid
the facilion a couple of years ago. It's unbelievable. So Billy,
I can't believe that. Uh I get to see you know,
I can tell you some stories about working for Billy. Oh,
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so they call him the teapot. The teapot, they'd go off,
and then thirty seconds later he'd be like, what's wrong
with you?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Buy Why are you looking at him?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm like, Billy just cussed out every one of us
for thirty seconds and now you're looking at it. It's like,
what's wrong? So the teapot would just boil over.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And then he was fine, would you when when he
and Tom went at it, would you go over and
calm him both down? Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He gave way to Tom like that was just Billy
trying to add tough on the TV.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well he did. I gotta tell you. I'm sure I
don't know if he saw the press conference yesterday, but
he Mike said a lot of nice things about you,
and you lived up to the promise to turn him
into a head coach. So something to be proud of, Bill.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
No.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I appreciated those comments. And you know, like I've said
several times this week that you know, Mike's a great coach.
He was a great assistant coach. He's been a hell
of a head coach, and he's exactly what the Patriots need.
And uh, you know, he'll come in there and he'll
treat every everybody in that building with great respect and
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and and he'll be fair with every player, but he'll
demand a lot and the standard of of how they
practice and how they lift weights, and how they run
and how they condition and obviously how they play games
and how they execute you know, it'll be way up there, sore.
Everybody in the region is excited. And uh, it's great
for the Patriots and and uh, you know, great for Mike.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Any advice for him on navigating the waters around here?
Any uh, any area, any offices he should stay out.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Of avoid bowling or probably the one I'm sitting in
right now, the media studio.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, this is the one to stay out. Unfortunate, Unfortunately,
you're contractually required. Oh you haven't read all right, Bill O'Brien.
We will. We'll talk to you again Thursday. But great
to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I'll see it, Billy.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, I mean you gotta. Unfortunately, you got to do
every Monday with us Winter Winter lose you.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You have access to my contract.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I mean, well, we're going to be killing you when
you go for two or something and then you're gonna
have to come in here and uh and uh and answer.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I don't have to come in here. Technically, I can
just call in my office. I just have to do it.
I don't have to. Actually, the man with the goal
goal makes the rules.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Was that another thing when it came to Tennessee. I
know you probably don't want to dwell in the past,
but just to clear up all this stuff. Was that
another another thing too where you kind of disagreed with
the analytics guys like you went for h that game
of Miami or whatever and they were all buttered about it?
Is Was that an issue where wass not are the
game we won? Yeah? Or where are you on analytics?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Are you I'm not sure where you get your information
at the analytics We want to use as much information
as we can to make great informed decisions in real
time with real people and things change, right the weather,
the backups, who you have in the game, like how
the defense is playing, how their offense is playing, have
(26:48):
you stopped them? And you know, we'll always try to
use that information and excited to get with our staff
here to see what they've done. Whether that's in you know,
acquiring players like I look at analytics and I look
at it in three phases. One is in player acquisition,
how do you apply analytics and the numbers and the data,
play speed, estimated play speed, all these different things that
(27:10):
you can use to evaluate players. That's that's one area
that we're going to try to use it, you know.
The other one is in you know player, you know
health and safety. How do we manage our players? What's
the workload? What's their speeds? How often do they get
to ninety percent of their max speed? Right? You see
all these numbers come out of the game. Let's say
a players max speed is twenty miles per hour. Well,
(27:34):
then we feel like at least one time between games,
you should go ninety percent for a certain distance. So
you should run an eighteen miles per hour for x
amount of distance if you're a gunner or a receiver
or a player that does that, Like, we can see
what they do in the game, and we want to
make sure that they're they're recreating that at least once
during the season or once during the week. So then
(27:56):
how we track player load management, how we construct practice,
all these things that we're going to use the data.
And then the final piece of analytics is game management
and you know risk ratio of going forward and all
those different scenarios that you look at throughout the game.
So those are the three buckets that obviously we're going
to always try to use analytics and then make a decision.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
All right, well, listen, I appreciate taking the time pleasure great,
glad to have you.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Let's let's go to work.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Okay, I can go back to work right now.
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
The new head coach of the New England Patriots already
geared up in what are we calling this? Like a
half half quarter zip half hoot. We had a guy
here who had a particular style sense, game time attire.
You seem to lean toward the half zip vest.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Love the quarters that, yeah, we'll cut the sleeves off
here later. Okay, they couldn't cover this guy. Okay, he
would get us down to the end zone, I going
and score, but during the field they couldn't cover.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, that was when he started stealing his catches, though
in the end zone he wasn't happy about that.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It wasn't it wasn't too hard to steal from Christian.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How are you fantastic?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Awesome?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Great to be back in the middling?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, I mean already. Uh, you know, Elliott and I've
been meeting here for a couple hours and just trying
to go through the roster and you know, have a
lot of meetings and get through the staff and you know,
the support staff and everything that's critical and the scouts
and get to know them and see where they're going
and how we can help and support them.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You want us to start easy or go to wherever
you want to go. So on. On the topic of Elliott,
and this may not be the case, but it seemed
like the case in Tennessee was that there became an
issue when it came to you earning full roster control
and kind of wanting to be in that role in
addition to the head coach role. If that's act.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We didn't win enough games in Tennessee that I think
that's the problem. But no, that that's never been an issue.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But so are you comfortable? Are you comfortable with this arrangement?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be here. And I
think that through the conversations and the interview process and
the conversations over the weekend with Elliott and with with
with Robert and Jonathan and just trying to put a
roster together in a program that to me, that's the
biggest thing. I want to try to put a program
around our coaches, our support staff, our personnel department, our players.
(03:02):
Most especially that people want to be a part of
that they're proud of that, they invest time and energy,
and we can we can start to see results, you know,
beginning here in the off season when we don't have
the players, and then when we have the players in April,
that these guys are like, Okay, I feel like what
we're doing is going to help me. We don't want
to waste anybody's time, especially the players time. So this
(03:23):
is all very important to me, and it's all very
calculated after having done it, you know, for six years
in Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Mike, when you look at coaching, you've been in this
business a long time. The most important position, it looks
like you have COVID in Drake May. How important is
it now for you guys? To make sure you put
the right pieces around them, especially in free agency where
it looks like you guys have some money. And you know,
when we think about that, elite wide receivers have done
(03:52):
such a great job. You look at your former player
in aj Brown and what that means. What's the kind
of thought process going in that direction?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Moving forward?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, again, we talked about this passer rating efficiency in
which we throw the football, right, you don't have to
throw it fifty times, you know. I think an interesting
stat was, I think the passes quarterbacks that are tech
more than fifty passes a game have won twenty two
percent of their games other than Tom Brady, so he's
won like seventy percent of the games that he's had
(04:22):
to throw for more than forty five times or something.
So if you don't have Tom Brady, then you probably
shouldn't throw at forty five or fifty times a game.
That's not the point here. The point is that when
we throw it, which will be as many times as
we need to, that you want to be efficient, right
that you want to have great completion percentage, which then
leads to receivers. Going back to the question about receivers,
(04:43):
Receivers that have great catch radious right, that can create
separation that are good against contested catches, right, because when
you're contested and PBUs go up in the air, then
they get intercepted, right, And then now that leads to turnovers,
which then changes field position and all these things. So
we have to focus on the line because I think
that the best teams right now in the National Football
(05:04):
League are the ones that still have the best offensive lines,
that are changing line of scrimmage, protecting the passer, have
versatility in a run game, can run a zone scheme,
can run a gap scheme, because I don't think he
can just major and just say in zone, right, because
teams that penetrate and disrupt the zone play, you've got
to be able to find ways to double and move
(05:25):
gaps and change gaps and force them to move positions.
So with that being said said, you know, I want
to focus on some of those areas offensive line. We'll
take a look and see what skill we have here
at receiver and give everybody a new opportunity to kind
of come in. It's a clean slate, decide who wants
to be here by their actions, and then they continue
(05:46):
to evaluate.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You brought up Tom Brady. Was the reporting accurate that
he reached out and you said, nope, I'm already I'm
going to do it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well, I don't know if that was the case. Tom
and I had had many discussions. I think you know
we're friends, we're teammates, we're friends. We've continued to talk
throughout my career and coaching his career as he played,
and now his new transition. So you know, we we've
talked and we'll continue to talk. But you know, this
(06:13):
is the place where I wanted to be, and this
is the place that I'm at.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What do you have been a good boss? I mean managed?
What's his management style?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't know. I didn't stick around long enough to.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Find out the conversation. Mike.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I love what you said about culture yesterday and how
building a culture it's important when you're at your lowest.
So when you look at this team in particular, theoretically,
how long will it take to build back a culture.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, that's all based on the players and you know
that that are willing to invest and change behavior if
it's needed to be changed, and how quickly they hold
each other accountable, how close we become. You know, I
think We're going to spend a lot of time and
being very you know, conscious of the relationships and the building,
(06:58):
you know, And I'm new here and haven't been here
since two thousand and eight, and so I want to
make sure that the how can I help the support staff?
But when the players come in, they have to know
each other. The coaches have to know the players. There
has to be a relationship there that's you know, built
on trust and built on communication and trying to give
the players exactly what they need. So I hate to
(07:20):
put a timeline on it because I don't know. That
could happen quicker that could happen. You know, it may
go into training camp and you need to go through
training camp. Training camps essential, you know, to build the
team and going through practice and staying you know, with
each other for a lot of hours. And sometimes you
get in arguments in training camps. Sometimes there's fights, sometimes
there's you know, things that happen, but you're all doing
(07:42):
it just to continue to build a team.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Sorry, do you find that being a coach and seeing
from your time playing to Tennessee to now, there's been
a change in the way in which the player is
or acts because we talk about the millennial player right
now and how different that is. Have you had to
adjust your coaching style to make that to make that better?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well, I just have to be conscious of the relationship
and the connection of the players are coming in. You
know what they need each day from me to be successful.
So you know, Jermaine may need one personality and one style,
Greg may need something else. And I have to do
a great job of understanding what each one of those
players needs, how they respond best.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I like to be coddled.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yes, that didn't surprise me one bit. I've done that
for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yes, I didn't have to. I didn't have to coddle
you when I was kicking your ass all over the golf.
That is not good, that is.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But I think that the system where we are getting
a different player, and whether it's the millennial or whether
it's specifically the college structure right now which allows for transfer,
which again they're eighteen, some of them make a decision
that they wish they could have over and I like
some of the idea of being able to go to
another college. But there's an nil, there's being they're being compensated,
(09:03):
and so I think that they come to our league,
and not every one of them, but some of them.
You're tat to change some behavior, and we want to
remove entitlement from our program. We might to make sure
that that we're not entitling players to do something and
earn something by not having worked.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
For Wiggy and ty Law on this show. Tye is
going to be on at nine. Even think of Itch
talk about the difference that there was in this locker
room now and then with guys holding other guys accountable.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Is that was that your Well, that was my experience here,
but that that's not like that every year. That's hard
to create. That's a unique relationship that that is between
the players. And again I have to try to and
along with Elliott and our personnel department is bringing those
types of players that will do that. And again if
(09:56):
they they don't, then that's where I have to step
in and protect the team.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's a little bit easier when you got a guy
like Willie Mack walking.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Around the right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Man, I know my role.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I think that's great because there I watched you and
Teddy were on the Man in the Arena from years
ago talking about that third Super Bowl championship season, and
I thought it was so well done on how you
and Teddy were discussing that you were the ones that
created the culture that some referred to as the Patriot
Way or whatever, where you held each other accountable. It
wasn't about doing what was necessary. It was about doing
(10:35):
everything you could and demanding that from the people that
you saw walk into their car at seven thirty or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, you just wanted to be able to just to
know that somebody else was as invested as you were personally,
but also was willing to put the team first and
make a decision that was maybe better for somebody else
than it was for your own personal situation. And then
as far as being on time, study and learning, how
hard you played, how hard you you know, willing to
(11:01):
communicate on a practice field, how well you came back
in shape, Like, we don't have a whole lot of time,
you know, with the with the rules that we have
and the you know, the off season, so it's critical
that they come back in shape and that's a commitment
that they make. We don't have time to probably get
back in shape once April starts, Like if we're not
(11:21):
ready to go come April, you know, there'll be some
catching up to do.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Mike Rabel is our guest at Jellette Stadium for the
first time as the head coach of the New England Patriots.
I have been demanding that you be hired for this
job for quite some time. Those who were opposed to
it would argue that you're a run first and run
only guy.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Now, our best player was our running back. What I said,
as you can see, as you can see in Baltimore,
and you know, so we tried to structure the you know,
the offense. I mean, we try to build the offense
around what we felt like was our best player and
what was our strength. And you know, when we did
have pieces around Derek that we felt comfortable with, you know,
(12:09):
we we threw it just as successfully as we ran it,
and we were good in the red zone. I felt
like we were creative. But that you know that you
base whatever system and scheme that you have.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
On the players that you have.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So I do think there's a lot of versatility in
not only myself, but hopefully that the coaches that we hire.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And seems like a different situation here when you look
at what Drake make him.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Sure and again, we we want to throw it as
much as we can remain efficient and explosive. You know,
one again, as many players as we can that are
tough to tackle, that that you don't have to throw
the ball fifty yards downfield to create an explosive play.
Now we'll have that ability. But you see around the
(12:51):
league some guys, you know, you flip it out there
and they're a good catch and run guy, and they're
hard to tackle. And you know, you force defenses to tackle,
you force secondary players to tackle. We want good guys
that are good in space. And again, then how skilled
are we upfront, how physical we are up front? But
there's still something to being able to run the football
(13:13):
when you have to in short yardage situations around the
goal line, you know, to be able to control the
pace of the game late in the game, you know,
when you play with the lead. These games, every year
they get closer and closer, just how the league wants it, right,
So everybody watches till the end, the end of the
game and hopefully every but he has a shot. And
how critical we can execute in the four minute two
(13:34):
minute situations and so there is going to be an
element that our physicality is going to have to play
in and running the football is going to be part
of it, but it won't be the entire thing we do.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
One of the things that you know coming up in
my career that I rarely respected him from coaches, obviously
having Pastsels and Belichick, was transparency and putting your putting
the team above yourself. Based on a lot of your
formal players, they they kind of they reiterate those same
(14:06):
words about the respect level for a coach that makes
sure every player understands their role and its team first.
How do you make sure that you continue that coming
to a team that might have had some issues and
making sure that message is received loud and clear.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, well, the communication by me is critical that it
is clear, it's clean, it's concise, and it's direct. Like
you said, the transparency. I'm always going to be honest
with the player. They may disagree, but I'm also going
to listen to them. I'm going to listen with the
intent to understand them and not listen with the intent
(14:45):
to respond. But I'm also going to treat them the
same way they treat the team, and if they treat
the team really well, I'll be willing to listen to
anything that they have to say. Any suggestions if they
don't treat the team very well. If they don't, you know,
if they're not on time, or they're not in shape,
or they don't play hard, or they don't study, or
they're disrespectful to somebody in a support staff. Hopefully they're
(15:07):
not here long, but if they are, I don't have
much to say to them, or I don't not really
going to take their input. So, like you mentioned, I
think the biggest thing is that average players want to
be left alone. They want to come in, they want
to pick up their check, they want to eat for
free and go home. Good players want to be coached,
and great players want to be told the truth. And
every great player that I've been able to coach in
(15:28):
the past six years has always come and said, what
do I need to do to be better? What do
I need to do to be great? And you tell
them and then they they seek the truth, and then
their job is to then handle the truth.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What's your timeline on hiring coordinators?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No timeline, the same thing we talked about yesterday. We're
not gonna deal with timelines with injuries or you know,
we're not gonna deal with the hiring a staff. And
when that's going to be complete. It's a long process.
It's one that you know will go out a few weeks.
It could go out longer than that. Right, It's always
delicate when you have teams that are continuing to play
(16:04):
in the playoffs, potentially the movement that could occur with
coaches on other staffs and related to their contracts. So
that's just not as cut and dry as Hey, these
guys are going to walk in tomorrow and we're going
to have a full staff.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Rob Gronkowski said, your first call should be to Josh McDaniels. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I mean, I'm gonna look at every possible candidate that
I feel like help us. And we're going to start
that process today, uh, at this afternoon and and and
visit with some with some great coaches and uh and
then we'll see where things go. And that's all. Yeah,
there's a lot. It's a long list. Yeah, there's a
(16:47):
long list. And I'll you know, I've had a relationship
with Josh, and I've had relationships with with other offensive
coaches and defensive coaches that we're going to interview and
want to bring in here.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
How much pressure is there on the OC though, Wiggie
brings up building a team around Drake, but making sure
that he doesn't have a revolving door of offensive coordinators
throughout his time here.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well, I don't, I don't. I mean, this is uh,
this is a production business. So I think pressure comes
with everyone that's a part of this thing, whether you're
a player or whether you're a coach, and I think
you have to embrace the the the challenge of just
getting it right. That's all we want to do is
we want to get it right. And if our players
(17:27):
can handle a lot, we're going to give them a lot,
and they just need to get out there and get
lined up and be able to snap the ball so
that we're you know, we're we're going to avoid self
inflicted wounds and we don't want to have unforced airs.
But if we can handle a lot, and we can
move and we can shift, and we can motion, and
we can go play on the football and you know,
try to apply some pressure defensively, then those are all
(17:50):
things that we'll be able to do. Then I've done
in the past with with multiple coordinators.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I don't I don't want to add any pressure, but
you're you do, you probably won't be able, but you're here.
You're here to save us, like the entire region. Like
are you aware?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah? I think we're all aware of what our what
our job is here to do. And we have high
expectations and so do I. Yours aren't higher than mine.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I I just on that note, like you hire a
guy obviously the Jets. I'm you were rumored with every
opening that you were going to potentially have an opportunity
to coach in the NFL for several teams. If you
could dial it, you know, to signify one thing why
you chose to come back and coach this Patriots team?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
What would it be? Well, I don't think there is
just one, but I just like I said, it just
it's it's the right time, it's the right place with
the right people.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Were you this team? Wigi brought up money. This team
has over one hundred and thirty million dollars available salary
cap wise.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
He's always talking about money.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
That's what happens when he'll make a lot when you play.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think that you know from the outside one k
I gotta wait till sixty five.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Book sixty five, ye failing.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
If you're hiring Wiggy you missed this probably, But Wiggy
did was the head coach of the Brockton football team
for one year, trying to get back to the kids.
Just one season. The boxes, Yeah, the boxes, the boxes,
just one year. But if you're hiring yeah, I mean,
but were you able to in your discussions with.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Only for option routes you doing you ain't coaching blocking?
I mean he.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Really blocks now with things.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Let's be honest, what tight end?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Where were you able to get assurances from Robert during
your discussions when considering this job that that you are
going to be able to spend that money.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, I'm comfortable that you know that Elliot and I
are going to be able to find ways to add
productive players, great people, uh to this football team. And
that's through the draft, that's through free agency. So I'm
confident that we'll be able to have the resources that
we need to to go sign players within within a limit.
(20:01):
And we understand that free agency isn't the only answer.
It's not one hundred percent, as you all know. But
it's about adding the right players and that we feel
like can help the team and that we're we're comfortable with.
And sometimes if you don't know them, you also don't
know what you're going to get. Is this still a
destination when it comes to free agents? Well, I mean
(20:24):
I think that we have to we have to make
it a destination. And again, I'll tell you a story
about free agency when I got to when I got
to Houston, they had natural grass in the their dome
and they would wheel it out and they'd cut it
into sections, and I'm like, this is unique, Like what's
this And they are like, well, you know, we thought
(20:44):
that they would the free agents would want to play
on natural grass. I said, the only thing free agents
care about is green and it's not naturally. So there's
two forms of free agency. It's the one is trying
to go out and maximize your earning potential and go
for the top dollar. And we see that early on
in free agency, the first couple of days, that maybe
(21:06):
the first week. Then after that I try to tell
players it comes down to opportunity and what's you know,
if you'd want the best opportunity to go and be
able to produce and contribute, and then that's going to
lead to then the next, you know, form of free agency,
where then you can take advantage of the system in
a year or two or whatever, you sign with us.
So you know, I was one of those players that
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are coming from Pittsburgh and signed up. And here it
was about the opportunity. It wasn't about the dollars that
turned into being able to have those types of contracts
as as my career went on and a production increased
and all those other things. So we're going to identify
players at all different levels and and it's a process
putting it all together.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Maybe if you provide free books on the sidelines, you
might be able to get a certain wide receiver here.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
But was he a big reader back when you guys
were together.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I think Aj is just trying to find ways to
I'm proud of his development, his personal development and working
on himself and working on controling his and getting back
to center. And again, he's a passionate player and I
love him to death and I have a very very
close relationship with him.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
That book's like number one on bestsellers now skyrocketed.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, good for him, some realty. He wants the audio bak.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Yeah, voracious reader, you're talking about our audiobook bill. We
have a special guests on the line. That Billy in
the car that wanted to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Billy in the car. All right, well let's hire, let's
go to them. Let's let's go to Billy from Chestnut Hill.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Hey, Billy, the first time caller, longtime listener.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
It is Bill O'Brien and otots.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Let's go Patriots.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
You got any players up there? Yeah, Billy, we find
any players.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Are you gonna, Hey man, you gotta come come to
our pro day, come speak to our team. I mean
I've already put my DIBs in on that. So uh
now I'm I'm excited for Mike, I'm excited for the Patriots,
and uh, it's gonna be awesome, no question.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
No question. They Boston College is in good hands. They've
great coaching staff, great leadership, got great facilities. They redid
the facilion a couple of years ago. It's unbelievable. So Billy,
I can't believe that. Uh I get to see you know,
I can tell you some stories about working for Billy. Oh,
(23:35):
so they call him the teapot. The teapot, they'd go off,
and then thirty seconds later he'd be like, what's wrong
with you?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Buy Why are you looking at him?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm like, Billy just cussed out every one of us
for thirty seconds and now you're looking at it. It's like,
what's wrong? So the teapot would just boil over.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And then he was fine, would you when when he
and Tom went at it, would you go over and
calm him both down? Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He gave way to Tom like that was just Billy
trying to add tough on the TV.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well he did. I gotta tell you. I'm sure I
don't know if he saw the press conference yesterday, but
he Mike said a lot of nice things about you,
and you lived up to the promise to turn him
into a head coach. So something to be proud of, Bill.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
No.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I appreciated those comments. And you know, like I've said
several times this week that you know, Mike's a great coach.
He was a great assistant coach. He's been a hell
of a head coach, and he's exactly what the Patriots need.
And uh, you know, he'll come in there and he'll
treat every everybody in that building with great respect and
(24:43):
and and he'll be fair with every player, but he'll
demand a lot and the standard of of how they
practice and how they lift weights, and how they run
and how they condition and obviously how they play games
and how they execute you know, it'll be way up there, sore.
Everybody in the region is excited. And uh, it's great
for the Patriots and and uh, you know, great for Mike.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Any advice for him on navigating the waters around here?
Any uh, any area, any offices he should stay out.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Of avoid bowling or probably the one I'm sitting in
right now, the media studio.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, this is the one to stay out. Unfortunate, Unfortunately,
you're contractually required. Oh you haven't read all right, Bill O'Brien.
We will. We'll talk to you again Thursday. But great
to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I'll see it, Billy.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, I mean you gotta. Unfortunately, you got to do
every Monday with us Winter Winter lose you.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You have access to my contract.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I mean, well, we're going to be killing you when
you go for two or something and then you're gonna
have to come in here and uh and uh and answer.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I don't have to come in here. Technically, I can
just call in my office. I just have to do it.
I don't have to. Actually, the man with the goal
goal makes the rules.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Was that another thing when it came to Tennessee. I
know you probably don't want to dwell in the past,
but just to clear up all this stuff. Was that
another another thing too where you kind of disagreed with
the analytics guys like you went for h that game
of Miami or whatever and they were all buttered about it?
Is Was that an issue where wass not are the
game we won? Yeah? Or where are you on analytics?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Are you I'm not sure where you get your information
at the analytics We want to use as much information
as we can to make great informed decisions in real
time with real people and things change, right the weather,
the backups, who you have in the game, like how
the defense is playing, how their offense is playing, have
(26:48):
you stopped them? And you know, we'll always try to
use that information and excited to get with our staff
here to see what they've done. Whether that's in you know,
acquiring players like I look at analytics and I look
at it in three phases. One is in player acquisition,
how do you apply analytics and the numbers and the data,
play speed, estimated play speed, all these different things that
(27:10):
you can use to evaluate players. That's that's one area
that we're going to try to use it, you know.
The other one is in you know player, you know
health and safety. How do we manage our players? What's
the workload? What's their speeds? How often do they get
to ninety percent of their max speed? Right? You see
all these numbers come out of the game. Let's say
a players max speed is twenty miles per hour. Well,
(27:34):
then we feel like at least one time between games,
you should go ninety percent for a certain distance. So
you should run an eighteen miles per hour for x
amount of distance if you're a gunner or a receiver
or a player that does that, Like, we can see
what they do in the game, and we want to
make sure that they're they're recreating that at least once
during the season or once during the week. So then
(27:56):
how we track player load management, how we construct practice,
all these things that we're going to use the data.
And then the final piece of analytics is game management
and you know risk ratio of going forward and all
those different scenarios that you look at throughout the game.
So those are the three buckets that obviously we're going
to always try to use analytics and then make a decision.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
All right, well, listen, I appreciate taking the time pleasure great,
glad to have you.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Let's let's go to work.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Okay, I can go back to work right now.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
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Speaker 2 (28:40):
But where the Patriots are concerned.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Let's just get one thing done, and let's get it
done right, and then.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We can worry about versatility.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Am I lying to anybody here?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Let's just get one thing done. Let's get one thing
done right, and then we can move along. That's kind
of my biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
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