What's up everybody?

Welcome into the next bats podcast.

I'm Phil Perry coming at you from the Indianapolis Convention Center, the old ICC, home of the NFL scouting combine.

We are, of course, here.

We are here for the majority of the week, really, through Thursday. It's Tuesday afternoon. We are fresh off of multiple, not one, but two media availability periods with head coach Mike Frable. We're going to talk about those on this edition of the next Pat's podcast.

We have some tackle news.

We have to tackle ourselves on this edition of the next Pat's podcast.

We have some early indie scuttle butt, which we always like talking about on the podcast.

We know you love listening to that as well.

And then we're going to finish it off with a stroke of genius from mike renner of cbs

sports one of our favorites to talk to when it comes to all things NFL draft he's going to tell

you what the patriots should do with the number four overall pick he's also going to give you

two more names two more draft names not first round names day two guys maybe second third round guys two more draft names, not first round names, day two guys, maybe second, third round guys,

two more names that the Patriots can draft that will get them into the postseason.

And I think you're going to be shocked by one of them and intrigued by the other.

Before we get to that, though, let's get to some of this,

Mike Vrable discussion, because there was so much there.

There was a lot of meat on the bone.

Tom and I discussed it on the most recent edition of the Patriots Talk podcast.

So if you haven't listened to that podcast yet,

go ahead and head on over there and make sure you consume that entire deal we just recorded it just

telling you a little bit about how the sausage gets made we just recorded it and i was quite frankly

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