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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Taking the pre-draft pulse on Vrabel and this year’s draft class depth

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry discuss the latest headlines surrounding Mike Vrabel and whether they could impact his coaching. They also react to Eliot Wolf’s pre-draft comments on the strength of this year’s draft class, the Patriots’ depth issues and A.J. Brown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:12.5

Welcome into Tom Carrey's Talk podcast, Phil Perry alongside.

0:18.0

And, you know, it hasn't been a banner week from Mike Vrable,

0:21.3

the Patriots head coach, embroiled in controversy after pictures of he and athletic reported Diana Rusini.

0:28.1

Out in Sedona, Arizona were published by the New York Post.

0:31.7

The only comments so far from Vrable and Rusini was that the photos did not reflect the true nature of a group

0:39.4

gathering prior to the owner's meetings.

0:42.7

Nature abhors a vacuum.

0:44.4

We know that.

0:45.8

So when GM Elliott Wolf stepped to the mic for a pre-draft press conference on Monday, we wondered

0:53.9

what he would have to say about Vrable.

0:55.8

And Phil Perry, the intrepid one, ventured a question asking what Mike Vrable's involvement

1:01.9

has been over the past week in draft prep.

1:05.3

Elliot, how involved has Mike been the pre-draft meetings of the course last week?

1:09.6

Very involved. I mean, you know, business as usual. He's been in there. I would say he's been in there with us probably, but this around a meeting, he's probably a little bit more than he was last year, just because I know, you know, there's the coaching staff, he's probably more comfortable, this is me putting words in his mouth, probably more, just where things stand from that standpoint.

1:31.8

But he's been in there. He's been contributing. He's watched a ton of the players.

1:37.9

I think he tries to watch every player that, like we give each position coach, he watches that whole, they call it the coaches list. And so he has an opinion on these guys and it's helpful.

1:43.2

Because sometimes there's, you know, there's players that the scouts like me included,

1:47.6

and he'll be like, well, this is the reason that maybe this guy's not the best fit for us.

1:51.3

And so, you know, we can, again, continue to compile all the information together.

1:54.2

Now, after the Wolf Press conference, we took a tour of the Patriots new training facility.

1:59.3

It was unbelievable.

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