Hey, what's up, everybody?

Welcome into Tom Curran's Patriots Talk podcast.

We've got a big one today.

Of course, we always have Phil Perry with us to ride sidecar and keep it on the rails.

And we also have Sam Farmer from the LA Times.

We've got to sit down with Bruce Ariens after Super Bowl 55 and Sam is the one who was able to call those

quotes from Bruce Ariens relative to the care and feeding of a 43-year-old Tom Brady.

All that and more on Tom Carpenter and a guy.

At a bit of Terry.

He's a fourth-offrey.

This time, world champion. And there ain't nothing you can do about it.

All right, Phil, how are you?

Doing great.

I feel like I've gotten over the Super Bowl hangover.

We'll see if the Bucks and the Chiefs are able to do the same.

And that will be something that plays out over the course of months.

But their off-season have just begun, whereas the New England Patriots is a month and change old.

And really, free agency is just around the corner.

So instead of talking about the Super Bowl, and maybe I'll put a mild Tom Brady moratorium on the top

half of this podcast and just talk about where do the Patriots go from here? What will it take

for them to get back? What are their intentions? I thought it was interesting, Phil, that on Sunday night they congratulated Brady, made a joke to grunk, and then Monday,

first thing in the morning, they sent out a tweet with a little montage of inspiring

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