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The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

If the Patriots can’t get Bill O’Brien, would they REALLY hire Adam Gase?!?

The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

News, Sports News, Jerod Mayo, Nfl Draft, Football, Ja'lynn Polk, 2024 Nfl Draft, Phil Perry, New England Patriots, Nbc Sports Network, Drake Maye, Nfl, Nbc Sports Boston, Sports

4.8558 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Former Patriot Dan Koppen joins Phil Perry on the Next Pats Podcast to discuss his friend Tom Brady's retirement, how Bill O'Brien or Adam Gase could fit as new offensive coordinator and how Mac Jones will adjust to having a new OC in his second season 7:00 - Dan shares his thoughts on Tom Brady's retirement & his decision to leave the Patriots out of his announcement 16:00 - Thoughts on Bill O'Brien or Adam Gase as the next Patriots offensive coordinator? 20:00 - How will Mac Jones do with a new OC in his second season? 24:00 - As a former offensive lineman, would you rather run the ball or pass the ball?

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody?

0:15.5

Welcome into the Next Pat's podcast.

0:17.2

I'm Phil Perry.

0:18.4

One of my favorite guests in NextBats history coming at you today.

0:21.5

It's Dan Copen, old buddy, Dan Copen, formerly of NBC Sports, Boston, currently of squad locker.

0:27.6

He's going to tell you about his new company, but he's also going to come on and tell us about Tom Brady,

0:31.1

about what he thought about the Tom Brady retirement announcement. Dan's still very close with

0:36.8

Tom Brady, good friend of his.

0:38.3

And so he gives us some really good insight in terms of how he felt about Brady's decision to

0:42.9

retire, period, the decision to leave the Patriots out of his initial announcement to then

0:47.6

drop a video later in the week that really felt like an ode to the Patriots in some ways

0:53.8

because there were so much Patriots video used.

0:55.5

We'll get into all of that Brady stuff.

0:57.4

But I think the portion of the conversation you might like the most will be about what's next for the Patriots offensive coordinator spot.

1:06.1

Because we're still trying to figure that out as we stand here on Thursday afternoon.

1:10.4

Josh McDaniels out.

1:11.3

Who comes in? I was told earlier this week, two names to keep an eye on. Number one, Bill O'Brien.

1:18.2

Even though Nick Saban said earlier this week, he doesn't know that Bill O'Brien is trying to get out of

1:23.9

Alabama. There's been a lot of quote unquote maybes on the internet. I just would

1:28.1

have loved to see how Nick Saban delivered that line in person because I can envision it in my

1:34.3

brain and it's always entertaining to me to hear that guy talk. But I've been told not to rule

1:41.0

that out. And Ian Rappaport goes on WEEI this week and says there's actually

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