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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Patriots anoint new leadership corps, plus Mike Florio gives a national view of New England

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

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry discuss the Patriots' mindset heading into Week 1 of the season. What should we make of the new captains? Will Christian Gonzalez be ready to play? Later, Mike Florio joins to discuss his new book, “Big Shield,” and give a national perspective on the Patriots.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:12.5

Welcome into Tom Carrey's Patriots Talk podcast.

0:15.5

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

0:19.0

the Patriots and Raiders are going to get after it.

0:21.4

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

0:26.0

his return, which seems to be elongated.

0:29.6

Patriots named their captains after releasing Gibral Peppers.

0:33.1

Some eye-opening decisions there.

0:35.6

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

0:38.4

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

0:43.2

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

0:49.0

at?

0:49.6

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

0:56.0

you prepare?

0:56.5

How much do you give them?

0:57.5

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

1:01.9

for things that come up.

1:03.5

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

1:11.0

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.

1:25.3

We talked about being great in the second half

1:27.7

and being intentional with that.

1:29.5

12 to 16 winners won the second half last year

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