00:00Okay, so you mentioned the Dolphins not trying in week one.
00:03Is there any concern if the Dolphins hand the Patriots their ass on Sunday,
00:09which you're describing a scenario where that may happen,
00:14how does that affect the culture early in Vrabel's tenure?
00:19It's a test, right?
00:20It's going to test buy-in, which was something that we talked so much about.
00:24Bill Belichick, he was lacking at the end.
00:27And I thought Mayo had it early.
00:29Thanks in part to some very early week one success last year.
00:32But that obviously waned with time too.
00:36So it's a real test.
00:38It's a real challenge for what Vrabel's trying to establish in terms of identity,
00:41telling these guys, hey, if we do X, Y, and Z, we're going to be okay.
00:46If you're not okay after two weeks against two beatable teams,
00:49that to me really starts to test where your locker room's at.
00:52And we'll break, but that was my whole thing about losing to the Raiders,
00:56is that 0-2 against two very beatable teams.
01:02Now, look, your schedule is so easy, but now it's not.
01:07Because you understand what I'm saying?
01:08Because no team's easy at that point.
01:10Like, what, you're going to play Carolina at home and that's an automatic win?
01:14No.
01:15I mean, you should be better than Carolina.
01:19But, you know, you should have been at least a chance of being better than the Raiders.
01:25And the Dolphins are in disarray.
01:26Like, it's just this – I really – and I'm no Patriots fan,
01:31but I really do hope for everyone's sake that they win on Sunday.
01:34Because I think that it would be like a blow that I don't know that this fan base
01:40has had this early in the season because Mayo won his first game, like you said,
01:44and then that got people excited for a little while.
01:48Vrabel comes in.
01:49There's people saying they're going to win 11 games, which was ridiculous.
01:51I know.
01:52But people were saying it.
01:53Like, fans and broadcasters were saying it.
01:56Like, you go 0-2 against two – one team in complete disarray
02:01and one team that has more talent than you but is not a deep team.
02:06That's a very beatable team.
02:08Like, that Raiders team might win four games.
02:10I mean, he knows.
02:11That Raiders team isn't a team that might – I mean, they could win four or five games.
02:15Anyway, so when you lose to two teams like that –
02:18A lot of those 9-10 win totals are shot to hell.
02:20But just like no one's – there's no, like, layup, right?
02:24Like, all of a sudden, going to New Orleans is in a layup, right?
02:28Like, it's just like – it's hard to get pumped up for a 425 game at the Saints
02:34when, you know, the team can't get it together to beat a team
02:38that wants their coach fired and a team coached by a 73-year-old, you know,
02:43with one offensive lineman.
02:45Okay, whatever.
02:46We have fell for another break.
02:48I just really hope they win this week.
02:50I rarely feel this way.
02:51The one thing that would give fans some hope would be if the quarterback played well.
02:54If they put up a lot of points, that's what I said.
02:56If it's a shootout and they lose, fine.
02:59But at least that's exciting.
03:01But if it's a slog of a game that they lose,
03:03it's very hard to get motivated to watch it on a rainy Sunday.
03:06You know what I'm saying?
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