Shine, good one. Red Hot Chili Peppers lead song this morning. Nice choice by you. Thank you. That's a long distance dedication to all those texters who think they have the moral high ground here. Oh, Shime. Okay, I like it. Leads this morning brought to you by Subaru. Let Love Bloom in a 2026 Subaru. Find yours at Subaru of New England.com. Shine, your lead. It's draft day. Is it draft related? Yeah, I have to, uh, I'm going to pivot slightly. It's tied into my lead, but I'm going to pivot slightly. Curtis absolutely nailed this on the head. There is a 0.0% chance the Patriots make a pick at 31 tonight. Like there is no chance.

So great job by my mock draft.

However I got there, I got there. Never wrong, only early. Like, there's no way the Patriots are going to make this pick. They're absolutely going to trade out of this because they want nothing to do with the spotlight tonight. They don't want to be trotting a guy out to Jolette Stadium tomorrow with the number one jersey and his name on the board because they want to stay out of the headlines.

They want to stay away from this. With everything going on with Mike Vrable, they want to just kind of

go away. Well, that's not good. If you two are right, then this is affecting the football operation.

Of course.

If you're telling me that there is someone that they should take in the first round and they're not going to do it because of the they don't want to have to deal with a press conference or what have, then... That would be horrible. That's the worst thing that could do. If that's what you believe, then that is affecting the football. Do you really believe that? Yeah, I believe that the, I believe it is a strong part of why they will trade out.

I just, I always... worst thing that if that's what you believe then that is affected you really believe that yeah i believe that i believe it is a strong part of why they will trade out i just i also think that too

like the guy they want isn't going to be at 31 yeah okay that might that's a different conversation

if if you think they're doing this for optics that is that's malpractice bad bad for business

no i i think it's pretty simple from my perspective.

They didn't want to draft at 31.

They've been trying to move off it.

They were unsuccessful.

The local media was enraged, especially the beat guys that were there every day for 30

years, that Rabel met the media without their presence.

And so the organization, knowing they weren't going to pick, unlikely to pick, figuring that

they had this new story that was going to continue to drip, fed it to a guy, Mike Reese,

who has been there the longest with Tom Karin, and they said, Brable's going to miss day three,

knowing full well that this was not overshadowing a draft pick on on thursday night okay

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