I see Mike Vrable's called the show. So Mike Vrable on Patriots Monday here on EEI is brought to you by Northeast Men's Health, the experts in treating men's sexual health with six New England offices or at northeast men's health.com. And by John Sewer and Drain Cleaner, the name to know when your drains don't flow. Mike, good morning. Courtney and for Greg, who is on the Great Island of Nantucket, missing your first appearance on this period. I thought he was going to Myrtle Beach and, you know, I mean, go down there and play some putt, putt, get some all you can eat seafood. I think we should make this the best show of the year since Greg is gone and we'll have fun. And when he comes back we can we can go back to whatever

but let's have a good time i agree congratulations on how you started things off on friday uh how impressed

were you with your guys we knew travion was going to be fast but that was pretty incredible

a good way to start you know i mean a good way to start we've've really moved on kind of to the next phase and to the next week and to the next challenge.

But I really appreciated the players' energy and enthusiasm and excitement and obviously the execution.

Mike, I know it's a lot different with the three preseason games and trying to keep guys healthy with, you know, practices.

What's the one thing that you try to

come away from

a team perspective and what you're looking at guys

in these preseason games?

Or just how they make adjustments and how they respond to

live action, whether that's tackling,

whether that's breaking tackles, the physicality, to live action, whether that's tackling, whether that's breaking

tackles, the physicality to finish the overall operation, I think, from all of us.

I thought was clean, which was good to see it.

It looked like there was an organization to what we were doing.

It was a good test defensively.

They didn't huddle for most of the games, so I thought that was a good challenge to start

the preseason.

And, you know, substitution, we had guys running out there late on different things or 12 men

on the field or we didn't have operation penalties.

We got close to one time down there and then, you know, called the timeout, you know, down in the low red. Probably would have gotten a snap off, but just wanted to make sure that things were good there. Yeah, Mike, I had the, my biggest takeaway watching it was just that it was smooth. I wasn't concerned about, you know, I'm not, I know you're not going to talk about years before this, but it just felt like there was always something clunky. There was either, you know, a formational issue. There was too many men in the huddle. You had to call timeout. The defense wasn't aligned. I thought for week one, preseason game number one, it seemed pretty smooth all around. We're trying to get, you know, a flow to our building and what everybody does and what

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