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We were heavy Red Sox the first hour.

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Rookies reporting today.

Dondero, you covered the Patriots for a long time.

Five years.

Yes.

Channel 12 in Providence.

Yes.

You missed this at all all like going down to

training camp and you know sitting up on the hill there and getting sunburnt beyond belief watching

a bunch of fat guys push sleds around did you do you miss this i miss bills press conferences

i'm sure he misses you i love bills press conferences i miss that i mean i mean yeah i miss

you know what i miss i miss i miss the anticipation of a potential Super Bowl type of team. And when they did draft somebody in rookies, you know, reported, I didn't know if that would be the guy that would change the game for the pay. I missed that. Could this be the receiver that puts the Patriots offense over the top? Is this going to be the missing piece that gets them back into the Super Bowl and puts that defense back into a position to dominate? That's what I miss. Yeah, I miss it. Has the Patriots brand been hurt? Majorie, we talked about this earlier on in the week as well. I mean, Felger talking about, you know, the kind of the lack of brand equity for the Patriots right now. And, you know, my argument has been, and it was even before Brady and Belichick left, it's like you will never reach these heights ever again. You know, I mean, look at the Red Sox. If you had said 20 years ago that the Red Sox would be the third or fourth team in town, I would have said you were nuts. Like, you on crack. What are you, what are you thinking? Well, that's what's happened. Part of that's a baseball issue. But definitely a lot of that, as we talked about in the last hour, Dondaro, is a Red Sox issue. It's an ownership issue. You know, fans don't believe in the direction of the team. Is some of that starting to settle in a little bit with the Patriots?

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