Prioritizing Vrabel Over Extensive Search | Mike Reiss Joins Toucher & Hardy - 1/13 (Hour 2)
Toucher & Hardy
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) Did the Patriots make the right move hiring Mike Vrabel instead of doing an extensive search?
(17:51) Mike Reiss covers the New England Patriots for ESPN and joins the show for his weekly segment to talk about the Patriots hiring Mike Vrabel as their new head coach
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios. |
| 0:07.0 | Fred, what's it like to work with Hardy and Wally? |
| 0:10.6 | What a golden ticket I've gotten? |
| 0:13.2 | There you have it. |
| 0:14.2 | Toucher and Hardy resumes on the sports show. |
| 0:17.1 | The most rumored landing spot for Mike Rable for months was with the Las Vegas Raiders, |
| 0:22.7 | considering that they have his old friend and teammate Tom Brady now there as the minority owner |
| 0:28.0 | and in fact running their current head coaching search. |
| 0:31.8 | My understanding is the Raiders never requested an interview or try to bring Mike Frable because Vrable essentially told Tom Brady, I'm going to end up going back to New England. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey, we're Tudger and Hardy, brought to you by Fandall Sports Book Make Every Moment more with Fandall. |
| 0:53.6 | You can watch it on YouTube. |
| 0:56.1 | Search 985, the SportsUp on YouTube, and subscribe, and then you can stop getting |
| 1:02.2 | Andrew Huberman posts videos for 10 seconds and get something else. |
| 1:08.2 | That is Tom Pelliserro talking about how basically the NFL and the way it's covered is |
| 1:14.4 | essentially middle school. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, Tom is with the Raiders now and he's friends with Rable. |
| 1:22.8 | So obviously they're going to hire Brable because they're friends. |
| 1:27.0 | And if I'm the Raiders and I found out that they declined to interview anyone because they were taking another job, I would say, if you like the guy, you bring the guy in and you don't let him leave. |
| 1:40.9 | You bring the guy. |
| 1:41.7 | If you like them that much, bring them in. |
| 1:44.0 | A, the worst case scenario is you just find out what makes him leave. You bring the guy, if you like them that much, bring them in. A, the worst case |
| 1:44.9 | scenario is you just find out what makes him tick and maybe you glean some information off |
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