What's up, everybody?

Welcome into the Next Pats podcast.

I'm Phil Perry.

We have a great episode for you this week.

Great guests for you this week.

We've got the Hall of Famer, Kurt Warner, back with us here on NextPats.

We were able to have them a couple times last season. Always a treat to talk to Kurt.

And especially right now when we're talking quarterbacks all the time, Zappi v. Jones v. Zappi.

What is Bill Belichick going to do? Nobody better than Kurt Warner to be with us this

week to discuss it all. So very excited for that. But before we get into that, I want to share with you

a couple of things just on both of these players. Number one, as far as Mack Jones's injury is

concerned, what I was told recently was that this was deemed to be a four to six week injury.

And four weeks and one day from the day he was injured against the Ravens would be Monday night against the Bears.

So that would still be on the early end of that return timeline, relatively aggressive timetable for Mack Jones to return from that high ankle injury,

but certainly within the realm of possibility.

And as I said, after the game in Cleveland, my expectation is that he'll be healthy enough

to be on the field and that he will be on the field and in uniform starting for the Patriots

just based on people that I've spoken to and the

conversations that I've had with people that are close to this situation. Now, as far as Zappi

is concerned, he's impressive people around the league. After these three games, two starts,

two and oh, yes, against two of the worst defenses in the NFL, but was able to talk to a couple different

evaluators, one coach, one scout recently about Zappi, and I'll tell you what they said about

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