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You're tuned in to the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, guiding your gridiron journey, none other than your host.

Former NFL lineman Ross Taylor.

Oh, yeah, it is. But it's not just any Ross Tucker football podcast.

It is a prediction Thursday.

Yes, we've been all over the board, of course,

with some of our predictions and our schedule this week.

But I'm going to get into my thoughts on the game.

And there's more and more news again.

But first, we've got some awesome guests.

And then we'll dive into the news.

Had a great chance to talk with so many awesome players and coaches involved in this game.

Why don't we start with Elliot Wolf, the architect, the GM, executive vice president of the New England Patriots.

The Big Show.

All right, I'm here with Elliot Wolf, the executive vice president of the New England Patriots. Elliot, well, first, I want to start with this. You for New England, John Schneider, for Seattle, you both have the same roots coming from your dad. That's got to be pretty cool. Yeah, it's really special. I'm really excited that, you know, my dad's going to come in Thursday. Both my parents are.

And, you know, hopefully we'll get to spend some time with John as well. So John, my rookie year in 2001 with Marty Schottenheimer, John was like 29 years old and he was like the head guy. I didn't realize he was that young at the time. Yeah. No, John's, John's had a, John's got just, you know, cold calling my dad for a job and eventually, you know, working his way up. And, and he's been, you know, he's been a tremendous resource for me as I, as I've ascended in the league as well. Wait, is that right? I didn't know. Tell me that story. The cold call. John Schneider, yeah. Yeah. So he, he was a, played football at st thomas and uh found my dad's number

somehow and after several kind of rejection letters of you know we don't have anything open right now

he cold called my dad and talked his way into an interview and did well in the interview and eventually

got hired that is amazing all right so elliott I did a couple Patriots games last year on TV.

One for CBS, one for NFL network.

And I think I even said in one of the games, I thought, and you can't say this, but I can.

I thought that your offensive line and receiving core were among the worst in the league last year.

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