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Hello, friends. Welcome into Tom Carren's Patriots Talk podcast.

We are in Green Bay for a table setter type podcast, Andrew Callahan from the Boston

Herald alongside.

For those of you on YouTube, you might be able to detect right here.

That is the story to Lambeau Field behind us, a variety of bars and restaurants in the immediate area.

Andrew, we're going to have a good time this week?

Oh, we're going to have a great time.

More important than anything else is, what are we going to key on during the beginning of the Zeke Elliott era?

How seismic is the addition of Ezekiel Elliott?

Because on Tuesday, it was a lead story to a large extent on national

media and I heard some breathless takes about the impact he could make some breathless takes

from the national media you say look I've been wrestling with this the last couple days because

we've really discussed it's the last two three weeks and you came on my podcast very gracefully

and we discussed it maybe for eight minutes I think we spent closer to double time on Malik Cunningham because Ezekiel Ali

is going to help you in two ways. Short yardage and a blitz pickup. And in doing so, though, what I

finally arrived at today after this 48-hour wrestling match is he's going to make life easier on the

Patriots best and most important players on offense, those being respectively, Remandre Stevenson and Mack Jones. And that's the value for me. Not as statistics,

not his number of pass blocking snaps brought to you by PFF. It's making Stevenson better by taking

some off his plate and giving Mack more time, which we know he needs more of. We can spend all kinds

of time going through the stats on short yardage.

His effectiveness on third and one or third and three or less.

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