What's up everybody? Welcome into the next Pats podcast. I'm Phil Perry. We have a very, very exciting episode for you this week because we've got another

big time college football game on the way national championship. You might have heard of it,

Alabama, Georgia. And so who can we bring in to break down the prospects that we should be eyeing

very, very closely from a Patriots perspective in this game? You happen to find yourself on the couch for that one, as you should.

We got our guy.

Mike Rodak, AL.com, covers Alabama.

He is on that Alabama beat.

Nobody follows them more closely.

Nobody has a better understanding of both the Alabama program and the Patriots program

because of Rodak's experience covering the Patriots. You remember him from his days at ESPN Boston. He also covered the bills for ESPN. Now he's down south. He's covering Bama. He understands this Georgia roster as well. So we're going to throw a bunch of names at you today, different from the names. A lot of them different from the names we heard with Jordan Reed last week. So between the last two podcasts that

we've got here on NextPats, we've just got a boatload of names for you. You should be writing

them all down, get your legal pads out, get your legal pads out. I said it. Write them down.

And as the game is going on, just try to track them. See who you like. See who you don't.

It's going to give you a nice head start as we head into draft season as to which players you like, which ones you don't,

which ones the Patriots might be picking. So without further ado, let's get right to our

conversation with our guy, Mike Rodak.

All right, very happy to have with us now.

Alabama expert.

Perfect time to bring this guy in.

Mike Rodak, al.com.

Rodak, you will remember, dear listeners,

you will remember that Mike Rodak is the one who told you first here that

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