Thank you. Live from Southern California, this is the Jim Rome show on Westwood One.

He's not wrong.

All right, so we're moving to hour number two.

Remember, it's now officially a four-hour show,

what with the after hour for our fast channel?

Coming up later on this hour, the big head James Kelly right now, though,

and he's been waiting.

I want to get right to a good friend of ours.

He is a Patriots insider for NBC Sports Boston.

He has covered that team since 1997. He is co-host of

the Patriot Talk podcast. He is co-author with Julian Edelman of Relentless Memoir. He is Tom Curran.

Tom, my brother, always great to talk to you, dude. How are you doing? I'm great, Jimmy. Thank you for

holding on for me. I was a little bit tardy, a little bit tardy. That's all right, dude. How are you doing? I'm great, Jimmy. Thank you for holding on for me.

I was a little bit tardy, a little bit tardy. That's all right, dude. And then you waited for me.

Listen, so I know it's a big day there, and you had the introductory press conference from Mike Vrable.

In fact, on top of that, you had a one-on-one with him for five minutes or so. did he say anything out of the ordinary to you? What was your takeaway from your

conversation with him? The main thing I wanted to know from Mike is this Patriots team has become

dysfunctional. And it got that way, really, believe it or not, in about 2017, when the Fisher

started to emerge, Mike, between Brady and the things that he wanted to do and how that flew in

the face of what Bill Belichick expected, with Bronk, with Bill wanting to move on from Tom, and it really got worse and worse and they became a lot of blame laying.

So it continued.

We saw it happen with Mack Jones and Bill, and we saw it happen with the crafts and Bill and the amount of blame laying and finger pointing.

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