00:00We wake up this morning to a statement by Mike Rabel, Mike Reese providing a quote.
00:05As I said the other day, I promised my family, this organization, and this team that I was going to
00:09give them the best version of me
00:10that I can possibly give them in order to do so.
00:13I have committed to seek counseling starting this weekend.
00:16This is something that I have given a lot of thought to and is something I would advise a player
00:20to do if I was counseling them.
00:22Mike Rabel going to miss day three of the NFL draft, eight of 11 picks that the Patriots currently have.
00:28He's not going to be in the building for.
00:30City would be available and in contact with the organization, but not going to be in the building for day
00:36three.
00:37Not ideal, right?
00:39You know, it's not ideal.
00:41The situation kind of, Michael, you've been around a lot of these stories and a lot more in depth than
00:47I have over the years.
00:49We're going on like week three now.
00:51Right, week three.
00:52Are you a little surprised that there continues to be more layers to this?
00:58No.
00:58I'm not surprised that there are more layers to it because, and this is, if you go back and say,
01:04how did we get here?
01:05Why are we still talking about this in week three?
01:09You know what it is, McCone?
01:11It really goes back to this.
01:12It goes back to handling it day one.
01:17How do you handle the story on day one?
01:19So on day one, they made a decision, first of all, to talk about it or not.
01:24Yep.
01:24So I thought, and maybe this is naive, but on day one, I thought, all right, New York Post has
01:30this out there.
01:32Neither one of them should say anything.
01:34I would say don't say anything.
01:36Don't even give the Post the statements.
01:38Don't, well, no.
01:40Don't give the Post that statement.
01:41Yeah.
01:42Okay.
01:45Either you say nothing or you're going to come clean.
01:50Instead, he said something that was not coming clean.
01:54We know that now.
01:55I think we can say that.
01:56That's not a cheap shot.
01:58It's clear when he said, this is laughable.
02:02As soon as he said that, oh, that was a trigger for me.
02:05Not for me personally, but I was thinking just from a media perspective.
02:08You know how it is, Paul.
02:09Oh, I thought, oh, he better be right.
02:12He better be right.
02:14When you come out that emphatic, that strong, this is laughable, and I have nothing else to say about it.
02:20Okay.
02:21It either, it better be laughable, because if it's not, they're going to come back.
02:27When you're talking about Page Six and TMZ and all these folks, when they have something, we look at it
02:33and we say, oh, they're just gossip.
02:34That's just gossip.
02:35But they're reporters.
02:36They just, their currency isn't gossip.
02:39And I think that's just gossip.
02:39They all know how the hell it is.
02:39When they're telling people to doodle, it's gossip.
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