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GMFB on a Thursday, everybody, Jamie Mante, Kyle and Seth, last hour was awesome.

Adam Shine stayed for a couple of segments.

We played GMFB trivia as it pertains to Super Bowl history. And now it's NFL honors presented by Invisalines tonight.

A category, we'll find out who the MVP is. We'll find out who the Hall of Famers are. And of course, John Hamm will be your host. And you're going to hear an interview from him later this hour on GMFB. Plus, Matt Castle coming on the show this hour. Castle friend of the show as are Cam Wolf and Omar Ruiz.

Cam is with the Patriots today and Omar with the Seahawks. Cam. I begin with you. The Drake May, Sam Darnold thing. We can't escape it. Quarterbacks are all the rage. But specifically, New England has to be happy with how fast their second year guy has developed ahead of being on the biggest stage of his career.

Jamie, the Patriots are ecstatic with Drake May, and let me take you back to draft day.

I was in the Patriots facility, and there were some questions about whether they would take Drake May or take a big bag offer to trade back.

Elliot Wolf said they were never close to trading that number three overall pick. He told me that this week. He's a de facto general manager there. And he said there was a few reasons. One, the offers weren't tantalizing as maybe people would anticipate. They started to debate. We would trade back. Maybe we get Joe Al or Malik neighbors. But every single draft we'd be trying to find Drake May, and there aren't a lot of

Drake Mays. Two, they were sold on Drake May, the man, the competitor. There were some questions

about his offense and how quickly the fit would have with scheme coming from North Carolina,

but they never had any doubts about Drake May, the dude. And that's why Mike Vrabble said this

week, Drake May was one of the biggest reasons he wanted to become the Patriots head coach. Stefan Dick said the maturation of Drake

May has been unlike any young quarterback he has seen, calling him a mini inspiration. And on Drake

May's right shoulder that's got all the buzz, he fully participated in practice on Wednesday.

It sounds like he is going to be a full go to throw that deep ball.

I talked to one of his receivers, Pop Douglas.

He said he looked just like normal Drake May this week,

and we expect him to look like the Drake May in the regular season,

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