00:00pop douglas good morning good morning we're in new hampshire it's freezing cold but there are a ton
00:08of patriots fans uh many are are geared up and ready to go and they want to send you off right
00:14now so there they are pop your people are here say hi to your people pop how y'all doing
00:21um well you are listen you're you're going to the super bowl how many times
00:27have you pinched yourself and and uh asked if this is real uh over the last week
00:33uh probably a thousand and a thousand two hundred
00:38before i get to my uh football question may i just say the soda unbelievable we love a cream
00:49soda we tried it on air it was very very good well i appreciate uh appreciate uh but you were
00:56very emotional after the afc championship game and you gave all the credit to coach rabel because
01:01of how close you guys are you've played for other head coaches what's been the difference this season
01:06uh you know uh before touching the field coach rabel did a great job of you know
01:13getting us into the uh team room and uh getting to know each other you know he established that first
01:20you know getting to know each other and uh i felt like that that helped build us a bond and
01:25no helped us get to know who we're playing beside pop i i know this is your first time and a lot of
01:33guys in that locker room first time heading to the super bowl what has coach rabel done for you guys to
01:39get you to to to understand the magnitude of what you're walking into as far as all the hoopla and
01:46other stuff but also understand that you have to stay focused in the moment about the football stuff
01:52and don't let that other stuff overshadow uh your mind when it comes to your focus headed into this
01:58game uh next sunday oh he just really uh helping us stay focused on football like uh he said he really
02:07just like uh the game is what matters after you know after the game is when you know everything else
02:15you know uh matters so uh really helped us stay focused on the game and uh help us helping us
02:22stay locked in i mean never mind coach rabel i wiki you've been to a super bowl two two uh two of
02:29them yeah one you won one you did not when you lost to the patriots i mean you must have some advice
02:34for pop when it comes to you know bed check and like what that's a saying i have don't let your night
02:42job yeah i mean can you can you give him a little advice please the advice i would give you is enjoy
02:48the moment um but understand it's just another game sure right there you go he's like i love that
02:58i thought it was gonna be better too pop i i thought it was yeah i mean it's fine
03:01yeah it ain't very hot it's yeah enjoy the moment but it's just another game man
03:08pop what has been you know obviously you were here last year and you know that you talked about
03:13rabel and and what he's done to change the culture what have you seen in drake may this season that
03:19you didn't see last year as he's developed and matured as a quarterback
03:22uh uh his grit you know um say uh man how hard he plays and uh whatever he does whatever he needs
03:34to do you know for the team to be successful uh definitely a great leader they stand poised
03:40through the times that uh through the ups and downs and never let anything get to him but like he's
03:45been growing in a lot of aspects of the game and uh man's gonna be scary when he gets it down
03:51all the way this may be week from sunday may be the best defense you guys have have uh played
03:58this season what do you when you look at tape what do you what do you what do you see what are
04:01the issues that these guys can present nah yeah these guys good on uh every level you know uh
04:08that's the bill uh watch the film on that's the good at every level but i mean i mean we
04:15we play we play too so i mean uh every week we've been here we're going to play the you know best
04:22defense so uh it's something that go through one ear and out of the other pop when you when you start
04:29to look at this this offense especially i would say the the pass catches the skill position you guys
04:35have done a really good job of just week to week it's different guys and gift and guys making plays
04:41in the game you know staying ready what what part of um like where does that come from the just the
04:46fact of just staying ready and making those plays when those moments come
04:50um i was being i feel like you know i was being unselfish and knowing that you know it's a it's a lot
04:59we have a lot of playmakers you know the ball can find its way to any one of us so uh definitely be
05:05ready you know uh and no jerk watch the film close watch the film and he they they make plays you know
05:11for us to get open so um you know uh just be be ready when your opportunity call because you never
05:17know it might be the big play you know that we need to spark a play or you know to win the game so
05:22uh just definitely be ready at all times how many how many ticket requests have you received from
05:28friends and family and how many have you been able to fill oh yeah nah they they as we say in florida
05:36they grit they grit so that's what them tickets are a lot you know uh
05:41so really my main my main family you know members could come what do you guys maybe like you guys get
05:51what's the it used to be wiki you got two free right is that the way as a player if you weren't
05:57in it if you weren't in it but if you but if you're in it i think he i can't remember what it
06:03was maybe four get pop what do you get how does that work with you guys now yeah you get two free
06:09two free so you can pay for the yeah two free in the nosebleeds oh in the nosebleeds yeah yeah so
06:15you gotta sell a lot of you better sell a lot of soda pop you gotta you have gotta sell a bunch
06:20of that soda to pay for this i mean goodell only has eight million a year yeah i need to do a lot
06:26of signing i need to do a lot of signing i told my family all right yeah uh pop when it comes to
06:33steph diggs he every time that they have a mic'd up version that the patriots uh release he's always
06:38very vocal whether it's in the huddle or or on the sideline can you just speak on on what he's been
06:45like having that veteran presence that's been able to really fire up the rest of the guys
06:49yeah man uh man steph is you know a great leader you know uh definitely was needed here you know uh
06:58especially for we have a young receiver corps uh definitely needed them you know just to see how
07:04how to go about this for how to go about this journey you know a lot of i don't have a lot of you
07:10know vets but uh steph done been in the game for a minute uh with 11th year and uh made successful
07:16in this league and just to see how he takes his steps and you know how he uh go about it man it's
07:22amazing to see and see how he became successful he worked hard you know um a great leader to everybody
07:29on the team not just the offense and uh when you got somebody like that man it's easy to follow you
07:35know it's easy to follow and try to become successful just like that and uh man it's a
07:42blessing to have him for sure you know pop you have this infectious smile you have a mindset that
07:48i would envy every second that you see the positive as opposed to the negative i'm curious growing up
07:53did you ever envision super bowl highlights you know you're running out onto the field getting
07:57introduced did you have anything in your backyard that you're now as greg said pinching yourself that
08:01you're going to be there getting introduced in super bowl 60 man uh i wouldn't say my dream was
08:08like nfl you know uh make it to the nfl i i wasn't thinking as a young as a man super bowl but as i got
08:18older you know watching the super bowl all the time i'm like man it'd be a blessing to be there
08:23and then what's crazy is coming to true it's coming to reality is it's a blessing for sure
08:29well there's a lot of people here that are really happy about that and and we are as well so yeah
08:35final final one for me wiggy wiggy created a little bit of a controversy this week i'm going
08:44to need you to weigh in on it um and you can only pick one so who is the true queen of new england
08:51is it is it ann michael may or is it cardi b stuff if you had to if you had to pick
08:57uh it's that it's ann michael may for sure okay thank you thank you i agree
09:06he's my queen no sorry in my world she's my queen sorry that's all right wow breaking news
09:15hey new england's big enough to have two queens yep it can't have two all right pop listen go get
09:22them and uh the entire the whole hopes and dreams of a whole region rest on your shoulders so go go
09:30get them a week from sunday all right yes we appreciate you all right that is pop douglas on the patriots
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