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Toucher & Hardy

Roche Praises Vrabel // Patriots Playing Meaningful Games Again - 12-24 (Hour 2)

Toucher & Hardy

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.3735 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

(0:00) Mark Dondero and Dan Roche discuss everything Mike Vrabel did right in his first year coaching the Patriots.

(25:43) The guys are excited the Patriots are playing important games in December again.

(33:32) Will the pundits deem the Patriots a fraud team if they come up short in the playoffs?

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0:00.0

Toucher and Hardy.

0:03.0

See, I'm trying, again, I'm trying, I'm just so bad at this, like, non-sports thing. Like, I'm trying to think of more non-sports things to discuss. I just need to get better. You're like me. I'm all patriots. Yeah. It's just my life. Yeah. You know, so it's like, it's okay, Mark. Don't feel bad. we talked a little bit of a Christmas.

0:20.4

Yeah.

0:20.6

How about this?

0:21.1

I don't blame you if you're still lying in bed.

0:23.3

It's a feel,

0:24.3

feel like temperature right now of like between two and four degrees every. And the wind. The wind was awful last night. Taking the dog out was a great trip. But bone chilling. Yes. You know, so don't feel bad. The other part I'm just looking at, too, I'm not sure what the accumulation is going to be. We're going to get some snow here. But down further south you go in New Jersey, I think we're going to get some snow tonight into tomorrow morning. So there'll be a fresh coat of snow everywhere down at MetLife Stadium. We're driving down tomorrow morning for the game. So that could be another factor. It'll be cold. I think by then they'll have the snow clear. It'll be no problem whatsoever. But it's important for the Patriots. Let's reset you with the Patriots, right? Yeah. 12 and 3 and 12 jets, Sunday at 1, winners of 11 of 12, including the big Sunday night win. win they'll practice today and this is the big story with the Patriots right not practicing Wednesday because yesterday Christmas was an off day for the players but if they had practiced they put out an injury report which you were just talking about so you looks like like, in my estimation, because of the injury,

1:28.1

Kayshon Booty won't play.

1:29.9

He'll be in concussion protocol because of that non-awful call the other night on Humphrey.

1:36.1

Mack Hollins has a stomach issue.

1:37.8

I'd expect that he would play.

1:39.5

Jared Wilson is in concussion protocol.

1:42.1

So I would not expect him to play since he didn't practice or hasn't been practicing all week.

1:47.4

Robert Spillane, Mike Rable said, you know, the good thing was we saw him in the locker room on Tuesday and Wednesday and he didn't have a boot on, but he's still being bothered.

1:58.0

And Mike Rable said he won't practice at all this week.

2:00.1

And if you don't practice, you're probably not going to play. That's a factor for their running game. And then if you look at Kairas Tonga, watching him with my binoculars and just, he left with a little boot on after the game on Sunday. He probably won't play in my estimation because he's got a foot injury. So that's the, you get Milton Williams back, hopefully for this one. He sounded like a guy and talking in the locker room the other day that was ready to go and ready to play. So that's huge news for that running game trying to stop. And then Harold Landry, I just thought like towards the end of the game, he was having a hard time even moving well in that game. So I think he's

2:35.6

been gutting it out for the last however long, a couple of months, almost. He should play. And then

2:41.3

Carlton Davis had an illness, so he should play too. Now, Trevion Anderson is the interesting one. Concussion

2:45.8

protocol wearing a red non-contact jersey. Maybe he's got a chance to play if everything goes well with him as far as the testing and the results go. So it was a possibility with him. But pop has a hamstring. We saw Morgan Moses and Tham Monford on the sidelines, both with knee injuries, both coming in and out of that game. So the Patriots are hurt. And that's why that buy, which we talked about if they could ever get a break from Denver,

3:08.2

if they get that buy, it would be huge for them to get them all healthy for that first

3:12.3

playoff game of what you hope is just three playoff games, right?

3:16.1

Where do you stand on this team, this season overall, and where the kind of the trajectory

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