00:00First off, the big coward, Mike Vrabel, no shows for the press conference regarding the draft.
00:06Now, there's a lot of people out there that are going to tell you,
00:08hey, Carden, why don't you do your research?
00:11He told us back in March that he wasn't going to be at the press conference.
00:17And?
00:18So?
00:18And that changes things?
00:20How about the fact that for a guy that claims to be a tough guy,
00:23that bullies people and intimidates people,
00:26whether you planned on showing up or not,
00:28that this would be a good time to, you know, spout your innocence
00:32and to let people know that the pictures we all saw are not what we think they are.
00:37But instead, he had some other guy, like pro personnel guy, show up in his stead.
00:44And I thought, honestly, that the Boston, Massachusetts media
00:49were kind of like the New York media, the Philadelphia media.
00:52Uh-huh.
00:52We pride ourselves that the men and women that cover sports in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston,
00:58are among the best investigative reporters and beat reporters across the board.
01:04Yep.
01:04And the reason they have such a great reputation,
01:06and the reason these three very specific Northeast cities, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston,
01:12have a reputation for being a hard place to play for guys that might come here as free agents
01:19or via trade, is because the media does their job very well.
01:23Well, they suffer no fools.
01:25There are no, what's the word I'm looking for, sacred cows, right?
01:29That's right.
01:29That's right.
01:30Like, if you play like crap, we call you on it.
01:32Not just the fan bases on Sports Talk Radio or the guys that boo at games, but the media.
01:38The media.
01:38So I was expecting the assembled New England Patriot media to show up at this press conference
01:44and start pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa, you know, firing question after question for whoever showed
01:52up to the New England Patriot press conference.
01:54And I'm watching it yesterday, just after 2 o'clock.
01:57And much to my surprise, nothing.
02:01Like, zero.
02:03There was only one question asked in the better part of half an hour that had the name Mike
02:09Vrabel in it.
02:10And the question was kind of innocuous.
02:12Like, so is Mike Vrabel still involved?
02:15Like, the last week or so with things?
02:17I'm going to let you hear it.
02:18This is the only question asked of the New England Patriot front office for their draft
02:24press conference, and Mike Vrabel's name was not mentioned another time.
02:30Check this out real quick.
02:31Very involved.
02:32I mean, you know, business as usual.
02:34He's been in there.
02:35I would say he's been in there with us probably this round.
02:38I mean, he's probably a little bit more than he was last year, just because I know, you
02:40know, there's the coaching staff.
02:43He's probably more comfortable.
02:45This is me putting words in his mouth.
02:46Probably more comfortable just where things stand from that standpoint.
02:50But he's been in there.
02:51He's been contributing.
02:52He's watched a ton of the players.
02:54I think he tries to watch every player.
02:57You get killed right there.
02:57So basically, the question was, is Mike Vrabel involved, as involved as last year, as involved
03:01as normal?
03:02And there's your stock answer.
03:04Not another question to anybody about Mike Vrabel, about the Diana Rossini scandal, about
03:10if there's going to be a comment coming forth.
03:12Should we expect Mike Vrabel to actually answer questions that we have?
03:16And the New England Patriot media, just let him walk away like that.
03:20And then it dawned on me, New England's not like New York.
03:23It's not like Philadelphia, because he's the same people that got bullied by Bill Belichick
03:29for 20 years and took the beating like the softballs they are.
03:34So I'm sorry to say this.
03:36What I once thought, and by the way, I love Boston.
03:39Boston's a great town.
03:40All right?
03:41And I have great respect for the Boston fan base.
03:43I really do.
03:44Like, I'm not one of these guys that, because I'm a New Yorker, I just hate Boston.
03:47I hate Philly, because I also lived in Philly, and I've got a connection to Philly, where
03:52I'm beloved to this day, because I call it the way it is, and Philadelphia's actually
03:56appreciate that.
03:57It makes no sense, by the way, that you hate Philly.
03:59There's nothing logical about that.
04:01I love your pretzels.
04:02I love your water ice.
04:03Outside of that, the people.
04:05Anyway.
04:05But yeah, so what a disappointment.
04:07So I'm sorry, Boston.
04:09Boston, you're no longer a real Northeast sports town.
04:13You're not.
04:14I love the people of Boston, but the media embarrassed themselves yesterday.
04:18Now, the guys on the radio, I thought, did a good job.
04:21Felger and Maserati do a great job there in afternoons, and they were all over this, and
04:25they handled it like the pros they are.
04:27So I have great respect for those guys, and I like those guys.
04:30But man, how do you have a press conference with the Patriots yesterday and not ask a single
04:35question?
04:37How?
04:37Well.
04:38Like, walk me through that.
04:39They've been conditioned.
04:40Like, you've covered teams in your career.
04:42Yeah.
04:42More notably, the Sixers than any other franchise in Philly.
04:45I covered the Eagles and traveled with them for the better part of three seasons.
04:50Sometimes you gotta ask the tough question.
04:52Yeah.
04:52Not in New England, where they ask no questions.
04:55And I don't care what anybody says.
04:57Whether he knew weeks ago that he was not going to attend this press conference or not,
05:02he had a responsibility to Patriot fans and the Patriot organization to try to
05:07put this to bed, unless it can't be put to bed, because she's in his bed.
05:12team's in a bar. And I know that's
05:13tied up. I know that's tied
05:13We have to get into that
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