00:00Do I think that he helped himself today?
00:05I don't know if I would go there.
00:07I would say he did what he had to do.
00:09And if he's, in fact, correct about he addressed the team first,
00:15I thought that was important.
00:18As far as the story goes, I don't really care about it until,
00:22or I haven't cared about it unless I had some sort of information
00:27that it would affect the team on the field.
00:29I do know that at least some people in the organization were not satisfied
00:35with his initial quote to the New York Post and thought that Mike needed
00:40to go further, needed to be accountable, at least to the team.
00:45And I think if he can be taken at his word as far as he addressed it with the team
00:51and was accountable to the team, and I have no reason to believe at this time
00:56that he wasn't telling the truth, then I think he needed, I would put it,
01:01I think he needed, he did what he needed to do for the team and the organization
01:07to move forward from this story.
01:08Did he help himself or hurt himself, Mass?
01:10Helped.
01:11He helped.
01:12And I say that because you can't move beyond this until you address it and face it.
01:18So it helped.
01:19They should have done this a long time ago.
01:22So just as an aside, I'm not blaming Greg for this,
01:24but the idea that the Patriots wanted him to come clean earlier, oh, that's rich.
01:30You mean like the Wells Report in context?
01:33So because they set the standard for how to come clean?
01:38Well, let me just say.
01:39I'm not picking on you, Greg.
01:40No, no, I know.
01:41Let me just make it clear.
01:43You know, because you were insinuating that I was saying the team wanted,
01:47I'm just saying some people in the building did not like his initial response to the story.
01:54I know, and I'm extrapolating from that, which is probably unfair, but nonetheless,
01:58it's like I just all of a sudden now the Patriots know how to handle crisis.
02:02But anyway, that's an aside.
02:05Vrabel helped himself.
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