Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome into Tom Curran's Patriots talk podcast, joined by the one and only Mike Giardy.

I like to call him G-Tom.

We have a ton to get to today, including Bill Belichick

and the agreement struck with the University of North Carolina. But before we get to that,

let's stay local and stay Patriots and actually veer a little bit today, Mike, to talk about

Drake May. He is the most stable leg of the Patriots four-legged table.

And for a Patriots team that's looking for urgency, desperately seeking it, it feels like

May is the one who's bringing it.

Here he was on Wednesday talking about watching games of import around the league during

the byweek and how quickly he wants to get involved

in those?

You know, I haven't really experienced a playoff game, and you always hear about what it's

been in the past year with the playoff games and the environment here in Gillette, and, you know,

the advantage of us, you know, bringing, you know, teams that may not be, you know, more accustomed

to the cold and the cold weather and, you know those guys Duke it out and those runs they had is special

and I think you want that feeling

and those guys in the locker room, you know, some of them had it

but a lot of us young guys haven't

so I think we're striving for that

and you can use these last four games as a challenge

and, you know, as a step to, you know,

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