Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome into Tom Carnes, Patriots Talk Podcast.

That's Phil Perry.

You know, when you take into account off-season work, training camp, camp, the three preseason games and the eight regular season games, we're a little bit past the midpoint of the 2025 football season.

How close are the Patriots to hitting the vision that Mike Vrable laid out for them when he met with the media in January?

Here's what Mike said then.

Excited to get to work. Excited to meet the people in this building that have made this

place special, find out what they need, find out how I can help them, how I can help them

do their job better, how we can enhance the stuff that we do well, and then find out what

the areas of focus are and get to work.

I want to galvanize our football team. I want to galvanize this building. I want to

galvanize our fans. So far, I would say mission accomplished. We're going to hand out some

midterm grades and some progress reports.

Those do need to be signed by your parents.

Let's have a look at what's going on so far.

Check it out, check it out, check it out.

Yo, Patriots, 6 and 2.

You see that loss against the Raiders at home.

The win down in Miami, they lose, just give it away against the Steelers.

Then they reel off five wins, the most recent,

a 31 to 13 and a 32 to 13 win over the Titans and Browns. You see the opponents combined

record there. Not real jaw dropping. It's 20 and 40. Let's now move on to the playoff standings.

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