Joining us now the 2025 NFL coach of the year in his first year with one of his former teams, New England Patriots, the great Mike for April. How are you guys? We're doing great. Not as well as you, though. I don't know about that. Yeah. Congrats though. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, it was. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. Enjoyed it it enjoyed building it and bringing people together and the

you know players and the staff that were there and the ones that we brought in really enjoyed it

yeah we're we're big fans of you and then what you do i don't know i don't think you give a shit

what we say about you but you can say that just no f bombs right exactly right say hey look at that

he saw that on there he's saying attention attention. Yeah, they worry about that. But, yeah, we do, we do, you know, I feel like you're a chip off the old Baca. Sometimes I say Bill Parcells in that way. But the first thing I wanted to ask you is just your time away from head coach a little bit.

Was there an adjustment you made and your own coach there?

I mean, I don't know if there was an adjustment.

I just tried to figure out what my role was in Cleveland and how I could help and also spend time with my family and get away on the weekends during football season, but try to invest in their

staff and their players.

And, you know, you realize that's what's important.

It's about the players.

It's about making connections and keeping those connections and trying to develop players.

And sometimes when you get into this thing longer than a few years as a head coach

you start to you know a lot of the other things wear on you more than just you know the players

and the coaches it's everything outside of that and try to focus on what's important and where you

can make an impact one of the things that impresses me about you because I say say all the time, every NFL team is a football machine, and every part is going to be removed at some point and replaced with another part. And so it makes it hard to have an emotional connection. But you seem to have that with all your players, the way you greet them after the games, the way you're trying to prop the guys up after the Super Bowl. And how do you strike that balance between the reality?

All these guys are going to be gone at some point.

But while they're here, they're my guys.

Well, I think I lived it, and I can explain to them that, you know, I didn't start a game in

Pittsburgh for four years, had an opportunity to come to New England on an opportunity, opportunity contract.

It wasn't about the dollars.

It was about opportunity, but also then built into a player that was compensated well for his position,

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