Mike Brable on this radio show moments ago on a miced up Monday, and we are at Gillette Stadium,

and I think we got some good stuff out of Mike Rabel.

And certainly we're getting there, so a week from Sunday, it's football that matters.

And you can talk about that all day long here on Boston Sports Original, W.E.I.

I think Jones and Keith are going to talk to Hunter Henry today and Drake May this afternoon on the afternoon show. From the answers we just got, do you see Steph Diggs playing in week one? Yep. No issues there. No issues at all. Okay. He said it. He said, I expect him to be out of week one helping our offense. Which is great news. Right. Awesome. That's the thing that you look at. And I think I took, all right, I took out of it. He got a lot of reps in practice and joint practices. And I took, he's a veteran, 31, 32 years old, however he is, where Frabel's like, I don't need to see you in the preseason games. I know what you can do. I know you're coming off this injury. You look good enough for me in practice. I don't need to see him. But doesn't he want to see him with, I mean, doesn't he want every chance that he can get for Drake May and he to get acclimated or he doesn't worry about that.

But in a game with this offensive line with three rookies with all the issues they've had,

I feel like for the Patriots, the risk of an injury to May or an injury to digs.

Outweighs the value that you get there.

Right.

So like if you can do a joint practice and you can know that Drake can drop back and not get, you know, demolished by somebody with a free rush. I also thought it was interesting. Clearly, the Patriot beat writers that have been tracking practice in sacks, this was a big thing, Ken, sent me, it's like, Andrew Callahan reporting that Drake May got decapitated 16 times.

Like, I feel like Brayble might have been pushing back a little bit on the fact that everybody that breathed near Drake May in a practice wasn't actually sacking him.

Which is good news.

Like, I mean, if the offensive, I mean, Shimes had five leads about how bad the offensive line is going to be.

Need a new excuse.

Well, Shime, you're not making excuses for Drake May.

You just believe in the player.

That's all.

That's correct.

I believe in my guy, Drake May, and I don't believe in this offensive line.

If my big takeaway, off air, if I'm judging Belichick, Mayo, and Vrable, Vrable by far and away, the best handshake. Oh, really? Very firm. Firm. Firm. Maita. Mayo was not quite a dead fish in Belichick, you know. No, handshake. No, he was not shaking. He looked at it. Oh, my God. When he asked how those were, I just started sweating. Same.

My palms got immediately sweating.

I cannot convey how awkward it was.

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