What a bit of telling me, this time, world champion, and there ain't nothing you can do about it.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome into Tom Carren's Patriot Stock Podcast.

It's the pre-trading camp pod.

You excited?

I am, too.

2021 promises to be a fascinating season.

What are we going to hit in this pod?

Well, we're going to talk a little Stefan Gilmore.

We're going to talk a little McKeel Harry. We're going to talk the quarterback battle, of course, on the Eva camp. Big camp questions.

Phil A. Perry will be in to discuss that with us. But we're going to start with 2021 being Bill Belichick's

opportunity for rebuttal to Tom Brady's 2020 Super Bowl win.

And with that, I'm going to bring in our good friend Phil Perry, who will, along with me

and the rest of everybody else at NBC Sports Boston, lead the way, be at the Vanguard, be the

point of the spear on coverage of the 2021 Patriots training camp and regular season. Phil.

That's right. You know it. And I find your take to be an interesting one because

Bill Belichick, to me, is where he wants to be right now, Tom. I think he's got things

set up the way he wants. And so he should be theoretically in good position for, as you put it,

a rebuttal. Should he not? He should be. But the interesting thing with Bill is, you know,

this is what he wanted. This is what he chose. And in so doing, to get to this spot,

he kind of had to walk over some hot coals, hot coals that he didn't even expect were going to be there.

I'd hate to say that 2015 through 2019 was a slog

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