Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome into Tom Carver's Piedist's Stock Podcast.

Patriots first OTA practice open to the prying eyes of the media occurred today.

We're going to go through some of the things we saw, some of the things we heard,

which include Mike Vrable at the microphone with hard pivot to football from the offseason.

Imbrilio.

Meanwhile, the OTAs minus guys like Christian Gonzalez and K. Sean Booty, we'll get into that. Milton Williams on A.J. Brown, he gave us the best sound on the would-be Patriots for Steveer. Drake May speaks an after an uneven afternoon. And our first look at Caleb Lomu, Romeo Dobbsbs and Draymont Jones.

I put him in the wrong order.

But let's start with Mike Vrable right quick.

Oh, really good.

I think that that's, again, I appreciate my family is great.

I love Jen.

I love the boys.

I love, you know, my personal friends.

And then, you know, this spring is focused on really the coaching staff, the players, more importantly, than the coaching staff.

But I just, you know, seeing the coaches in the second year, how smooth the conversations are, you know, hey, we love this play.

How do we make it better?

And then these guys, they go out and they find ways to make it better, and then we have conversations, and then we decide on a few things that we're going to try to enhance the things that we did last year. Do you anticipate having to miss football activities again for the rest of the spring? I mean, I can only tell you I'm going to be there today, Ben, I can't tell you anything

other than I'm going to be out there today in full force. And I mean that because, you know,

who knows what's going to come up. I'm not even, you know, anything could happen. And so I'm going to

focus on today. But in the excitement that we've had and that we've built so far, and the conditioning

that we've tried to incorporate into our practices and the weightlifting and all the things

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