What's up, everybody? Welcome into the next Pat's podcast. I'm Phil Perry. We've got a tremendous show lined up for you today because we're going to talk about strategy for the Patriots in their regular season finale.

How should they approach this game against the dolphins in terms of managing injury,

maybe going after that one seed if it's available to them,

maybe making sure they grab onto and lock in that number two seed,

depending on their potential opponent.

Fascinating machinations.

We're also going to talk about ideal opponent in the wild card round if they're playing

on wild card weekend.

And we're going to have a ton of discussion on the MVP race.

We're bringing in our good friend Mike Sando of the athletic.

Just had a tremendous note on Drake May versus Matthew Stafford in his most recent pick six column on the athletic.

If you haven't seen it already, make sure you go and check it out.

Make sure you're reading him every single week.

The best in the business when it comes to covering the league at large.

He's also one of the 50 AP voters for things like Most V player and coach of the year award.

And so we'll have a chance to ask him about Mike Vrable and his chances of maybe taking

home some hardware after the season as well.

But before we get to Sando, I want to share with you my thoughts on the MVP race and share

with you some of what I think are critical data points when it comes to this discussion.

And we'll start with the numbers laid out for us by Mike Sando, because I thought he did a great

job of giving us what is the MVP average in a number of different categories.

And so the general MVP caliber season when it comes to yards per attempt, touchdown interception ratio,

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