Pat's Jets tonight on Thursday Night Football and joining us now a member of the broadcast team this evening,

a friend of this radio program, and a former New England Patriot superstar.

That is the great Devin McCordy.

Devin, good morning.

Good morning, man. How you doing?

Great. Nice to see you last night.

Likewise, man. It's always good to see you. And I got to hang out with Nikovic, who let me know

he replaced me on Wednesday. So you let Nikovic make fun of me right in front of my face

without, you know, giving me a warning of like the person who replaces you. Like, that's pretty mean, Gray. Well, listen, I mean, you were with us for, I think, one season and then off to the, off to the bigs. I mean, it's the network now. It's very sad. That's, I understand. It kind of left us in the dust here, but we appreciate the advancement of your career.

You're doing a good job, by the way.

Thank you.

At least I can say, Nico is a downgrade, so I'll make sure I'll let them know.

We talked about this briefly last night, but this team is 8 and 2.

How surprised by that outcome so far are you, Devin McCordy?

I think it's happening a little faster than everyone thought.

I think you saw in the preseason, you know, being around and doing the games,

there was a lot of rumblings, I think that people felt like, hey, man, like I'm looking at this schedule. Like, this team could win 10 or 11 games, but I don't think that came with, hey, man, this team could be the number one seat in the AFC. This team could win the division. I think those are the things that shocked people. But I think it's, it's, hey,

when you have an influx of talent, you go out there and you identify the guys you think

will be good, and you put them all in the room, and you put a leader like Vrable in front,

and you see the belief, like being there in the preseason and seeing, you know, guys that,

not even just the young guys,

the veterans who came in, the Spillanes, the digs, the Millville Williams,

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