All right, Roche is in for Mazzen our town fair tire studios, as promised.

Right back to the phones.

Josh in Somerville.

Go, Josh.

Hey, guys. Ten time, a long time. I'm one of your biggest defenders by far. Believe me, I catch out for it. But I love the cynicism. I love the negativity and pushing back and all that. But this is assault on Roche today. It's on becoming. I mean, it's not nice, and it's not in a house spirit.

I know him from the morning show only,

but he seems like the sweetest man ever. You've been yucking enough for the last three hours, trolling and torture on him, like, only you can. I mean, don't you have enough opportunity to upset enough people on a daily basis on the show? I mean, don't you get that satisfaction at least? We vote to you alone. He's the sweetest man of the world. See, thank you. And I go back to Mike when people said, oh, you're filling in for Maz on Thursday. And I'm like, yeah, it's my first time. And here's what it's going to be like. You walk in as a witness to sit down for a murder trial. You get on the stand. and by the time you're done, and this will happen in 51 minutes, I will leave feeling like I committed the murder.

That's what has happened. That's what happened. That's what you've done to me today. Hashtag pray for Rochi. There's a lot of support out there on the text line, on Twitter. People sending you personal messages of support throughout the course of the show, right? All these people, yes. From all the producer friends down at Foxborough,

all my pajama footy friends that down there,

my good friend Russ Ken,

so they're all out there. Michael Reese. Thanks for helping out. Matt Smith, appreciate your love. Thank you very much. Hashtag pray for Roche. Thoughts and prayers for Roach. Here's Thomas and Narragansett. Hi, Thomas. Belgar, I wanted to credit you on your earlier point this year regarding Sopon Gilmore.

I think he's a signing, just like you said, the first single day of free agency after 15 games.

You know, I think that he's done nothing spectacular for the Patriots.

You know, they're getting paid $65 million a year for that contract.

It looks like all he does is just play under.

He's got a safety over the top every time they don't trust him one-on-one.

And lastly, I think losing Akieb to leave has been one of Bill Belichick's worst personnel decisions.

In my opinion, the guy makes a Pro Bowl every single year. So, Thomas. I mean... I like Talib, too, but they've won two Super Bowl since that happened. I think there's a lot of baggage with Talib, too. Well, but even still, I think you accepted it then. Why wouldn't you accept it now? Wait, now you care about baggage? What happened to the James Harrison conversation? say, now you care about baggage? Just for that argument, yes.

That's all I'm going to. you care about baggage? What happened to the James Harrison conversation? Now you care about baggage? Just for that argument, yes.

That's all I'm going to say from right on, Mike. Come on, Roche. Come on. So wait a minute. So wait a minute. Bill doesn't keep a player, and now he has too much baggage. But he brings in James Harrison, one of the true A-holes in all of sports. He brings in James Harrison for one, two games. It's got nothing to do with that.

Rochi.

It's not signing a guy to a huge contract or God. It's got nothing to do with that. Roachie.

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