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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Mike Florio: Is the AFC Wide Open? Plus A.J. Brown Rumors & the 18-Game Season Push

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran sits down with Mike Florio to break down a "wide-open" AFC—which team actually deserves to be the preseason favorite? Florio also shares the latest intel on the A.J. Brown trade rumors and whether the Patriots are the frontrunners to land him after June 1st. Finally, they dive into the logistics of an 18-game season and what it would take for the players to sign off.

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk.

0:16.0

He's under the NBC umbrella.

0:17.5

He does a tremendous job.

0:18.7

Hey, have you ever read the book Big Shield?

0:20.5

It's a book that Mike did. Yeah, there it is. Just happen to have one right here.

0:25.6

Really great book that actually cuts to the heart of the conversation about gambling in the NFL.

0:31.9

And as it continues to spawn new and more interesting events, really in the NFL NFL as much as in college basketball and

0:40.8

baseball and professional basketball. So worth a read. Very entertaining, Mike. Now, you say that

0:46.9

as if you've actually read it, and I know you haven't, but thank you for giving it a pull

0:51.3

available on Amazon in ebook form for 99 cents. This is $14.99. It's paid, you know, it's 99 cents. It'd be a tough profit margin to sell these for 99. The ebook, though, is 99 cents. And you can get it whenever you would like, and you can download it onto your your phone and you can read it at your leisure.

1:11.5

You should do that, Tom. It'll give you something to read as you fly from Boston to Arizona for

1:16.5

the league meetings. I agree with that. And I want to delve deeply into the league meetings because I

1:22.2

think the NFL is slowly reaching a crescendo on a number of fronts business-wise that they're going to have to

1:30.2

confront for the health of the business, one of those resets that happens every 10 to 12 years.

1:35.1

But first, who's the best team in the AFC?

1:37.7

And before you answer, I'm going to roll through the odds.

1:42.1

Buffalo, Baltimore, Baltimore, Kansas City, Chargers, Patriots, Broncos, Texans, Jaguars.

1:48.6

That's the pecking order.

1:49.8

I contend, Mike, that the AFC is probably more wide open than it's been at any time since about

1:57.2

1998.

1:58.6

And even then, Denver was good.

2:01.4

Bills have a new head coach and crippling expectations that may make it challenging for Joe Brady to do what is expected.

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