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Well, every year I pick a team that I think is going to come close to doubling their wins,

and I've been on about a four-year streak, and the Patriots were that team this year.

For a lot of reasons.

One, I didn't like the direction of the dolphins or the jets, and I thought they could go four-and-oh. And I also think so much of Mike Frable, who's just a really bright guy.

Everybody ever known that knows Mike just instantly connects with him.

Drew Bledsoe knows him.

They actually played together for a year, and Drew is joining us.

Undisclosed location in the Northwest.

I'm jealous.

That's all I'm going to say.

A beautiful, beautiful place.

So you were only a teammate for a year, but everybody I know that's played with him

or been in the staff, he just is, you know, Drew, some guys just have a connectability. And so tell me about your relationship with Vrable in the year you played with him. You know, it's funny because I only played with Mike for one year, but it seems like we were teammates for like five or six years. You know, we just had a great connection personally. You know, it's not a surprise to me or to anybody that knows Mike that he's had great success as a coach. You know, one funny thing about Mike is he just had so damn much energy, uh, as a player, you know, he would, you know, in the middle of practice, he would go run scout team kickoff coverage just to burn off some energy.

I've compared him to like a Labrador, you know, like you got to run him, you know, like you had to run him.

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