Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome into Tom Carrey's Patriots Talk podcast.

First week of the National Football League's 20-25 season,

the Patriots and Raiders are going to get after it.

We're also going to talk today with Phil Perry about Christian Gonzalez, the timeline for

his return, which seems to be elongated.

Patriots named their captains after releasing Gibral Peppers.

Some eye-opening decisions there.

Meanwhile, we will have Mike Floria, who will be on with us to talk

about the Patriots perception around the league and whether they can crack the AFC hierarchy.

But first, here's Mike Vrable talking about how he is preparing for this week, and where his heads

at?

There's a lot of excitement, but also things that you want to prepare for and how much do

you prepare?

How much do you give them?

I guess, you know, you don't want to cover ghosts, but you certainly want to be prepared

for things that come up.

And maybe that's just me handling it and making sure that we're not overloading the players.

You know, give them some, they have base rules that we have to use and go and see what happens on Sunday as far as the scheme that we're seeing and making sure that we're really good in the second half.

We talked about being great in the second half

and being intentional with that.

12 to 16 winners won the second half last year

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