That's right. Football is back, and so are the New England Patriots. And so is six rings and football things as we come to you with the first post-training camp podcast of the 2025 season.

Your old pal, Nick Fittsey Stevens here alongside Andy Jumbo Hart and the legend of mego, Megan Adolini here recapping practice number one on wednesday july

23rd 2025 good crowd beautiful conditions as we sit here on media hill where of course you will

never find a greater hive of villainian scum in the entire universe first impressions now ben volin left

so oh no there he is there goes ben there goes the villain by the way shout out to scum in the entire universe. First impressions. Nah, Ben Boland left.

Oh, no, there he is.

There goes, Ben.

There goes the villain.

By the way, shout out two, and good job by, Trollin Bolin for having a good sense of humor about giving all of us the viral moment of the week yesterday.

How are you feeling today after taking one for the team?

Well, I exist to provide free content for everyone else, so I'm just glad I could do my job.

Well done. You did it well, Ben. Next round's on me, whenever that is. By the way, what did you think today? Typical day one of practice, no drama, which is good for the Patriots. And I was thinking about this the other day. This is the first year in a few that there's no like WTF aspect of this team. There's no like Matt Patricia and Joe Judge running the offense or Gerard Mayo as the head coach. Like everything kind of makes sense now. They have a good experience staff. You can see the plan in place with the coaching staff in the field. So I think you've got to feel, you know, a lot better about the Patriots heading into

this season than in years past.

Wow. Optimism. Wow. From Ben Bolin. From what? What? What are you? What did you do with Ben Bowling? Get out of here. Is it because the head coach has a V for last name? Brayble scared me straight. I got to say. No, it is nice.

Competence and confidence are back in the house, and we'll see if quality play follows.

Benvolent everybody.

Thank you, Ben.

The hero Patriots Nation needed to kick off pads camp 2025.

Meggo, first thoughts.

I would say there were a couple questions that I think a lot of people had coming into this training camp,

even before the pads came on, which were, how's Drake going to look and how's Steph Diggs going to look

I think on that second one we probably all have a stronger takeaway of Diggs looks really good

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