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The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

Mike Vrabel's BIGGEST challenge this offseason

The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

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

4.8558 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Phil Perry welcomes in former NFL player and analyst Solomon Wilcots and Malcolm Butler for a pair of interviews from radio row at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Plus, Phil breaks down Mike Vrabel’s biggest challenge this offseason and reveals version 3.0 of his 2025 NFL mock draft and who the Patriots are taking in the first two rounds.

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? Welcome into the next Pats podcast. I'm Phil Perry. There are your horns again for the third time this week. Horns are working overtime. We got episodes already this week with Christian Gonzalez.

0:22.7

Go check out last episode of NextPats with Kurt Warner.

0:26.1

Great stuff on Drake May and Josh McDaniels and that marriage and how that thing's going to work.

0:30.0

And we've got another great episode for you here today.

0:32.3

We're talking to Solomon Wilcoats about T. Higgins.

0:34.8

Is he a number one receiver?

0:36.4

Is he somebody worth paying through the nose

0:39.1

for if you are the New England Patriots? Solomon Wilcoats, former Cincinnati Bengal himself,

0:44.4

long time NFL brain worth picking for us as we do just about every year around this time

0:52.7

because he is a staple on Radio row, and there's a reason

0:55.3

why.

0:55.7

Guy knows ball, and the guy knows the Cincinnati Bengals, and he knows T. Higgins, and he's going

1:00.0

to throw one stat at you that I think might just blow your mind going into the weekend.

1:04.7

So apologies for that, but a very impressive stat when it comes to T. Higgins, and the kind

1:09.6

of centerpiece he can be for any offense, especially the Patriots, when they need as much receiver help as they need.

1:17.6

So great conversation there with Solomon Wilcox.

1:19.6

We're also bringing on Malcolm Butler of all people.

1:22.2

Malcolm Butler, 10 years removed from the interception that saved the Super Bowl for the New England Patriots against

1:28.9

the Seattle Seahawks, also a former Mike Vrable employee.

1:32.9

And so he gives us great insight into who Vrable will be as a coach and what will make him,

1:37.1

in his opinion, a good coach here in New England.

1:41.0

But before we get to those conversations, I do just want to highlight something that

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