00:00I would like to begin with gratitude for the way in which A.J. Brown met the New England fans
00:07and
00:07media yesterday because that was awesome. I think I'm cynical at times and maybe I'm just an easy
00:15mark with A.J. Brown because I love the deal and I want him to do well here but it
00:18was really cool
00:19to see someone who arrived here. A lot of players arrive here and they have different views of what
00:25Boston and the fans here are and then they grow to love them whereas it appears that A.J. Brown's
00:30been in love from afar and now he's here and I just thought it was refreshing to hear a guy
00:38who
00:38I know fought his way out of a town that was winning Super Bowls and I'm sure Eagles fans have
00:44a different view of him and Red Sox I mean a Patriots fan would have a different view of him
00:47if he was leaving here but I really thought that he was spectacular yesterday. Obviously I know this
00:51ain't heaven but you know it's close to it. You can also relate to those who get fooled by
00:58A.I. Jen photos and in his case it's a photo of himself in a Patriots jersey at the age
01:04of 12.
01:05But who has no time to say the Nike jersey didn't come out until 2018? It's like can anything just
01:12be good? Can we just say great cool? No. I mean he did have I mean let's be honest he
01:17had the Patriots
01:18rug in his man cave so I mean I take him at his word that he's been been a lifelong
01:24Patriots fan and
01:25this is a dream come true for him and it was nice it was it was it's nice to see
01:30a legit free agent
01:32a big money well a guy he got by a trade but a guy who makes big money right who
01:36wants to be playing for
01:38your football team. I absolutely love it I think he's gonna do spectacular here and you know when you
01:45start to look at it I just love how we as fans we're so hypocritical when it comes to certain
01:52things especially like people we love or people we have this admiration for because the way Philly
01:59fans see AJ Brown he's a quitter I don't know why you'd want a guy like that if he went
02:05somewhere
02:05else we would be like how can you want a guy who quit on his team in the biggest game
02:10of you know of
02:13his career and the in the fact of the Super Bowl and all this other stuff I love it when
02:17we get our
02:17guy and we can embrace that love uh and when he's getting hate from other places you see a Philly
02:23fans we had one calling yesterday and go why would you want a guy who quit or was a problem
02:28in the
02:29locker room because he wasn't getting the football who wants a diva it's like you know a few years ago
02:35with Tyree Killers like we don't want that guy. I probably have blinders on but I that doesn't
02:39concern me because of Mike Rabel does you feel the same way like I absolutely feel the same way Greg
02:45and it's funny to me because it's also like I do think this is the first time that AJ Brown
02:50is where he wants to be because he was very clear if you believe him that he wanted to be
02:58drafted by
02:58the Patriots and then ended up in Tennessee didn't exactly get off on the right foot with Mike Rabel
03:04he admits when he was there and then they grew to have this really great friendship and then he
03:09gets tossed out of town by the front office and yeah he had a great friendship with Jalen Hurts that
03:15ran its course I'm not worried about this being like a honeymoon phase especially because you saw
03:20almost like pretty much the same exact staff handle Steph Diggs last year and that locker room could not
03:27have been in a better place in terms of the way that the guys felt about each other and felt
03:31about
03:31the coaching yeah I mean I'm not worried one bit I think Rabel even if he didn't have a relationship
03:36with AJ Brown I think Mike Rabel is kind of when you you look around the league and if you
03:41were to
03:41ask players who play for other teams you know what they would think about playing for Mike Rabel I
03:46think a lot of guys in the league would be like I'd love to play for that guy you know
03:50just from afar
03:50he looks like that type of coach I think Sean McVay looks like that so I never had an issue
03:56with
03:57any player that the Patriots might be looking to get because I think players respect the hell out
04:03of Mike Rabel and they'll come here and they'll understand like okay here's how we do things in
04:09New England and it's amazing looking at you know the desire that he had and how crestfallen he was
04:13that the Patriots didn't take him the sliding doors of instead of Nikhil Harry you have AJ Brown in 2019
04:20in the change to the history of the NFL if that happens because I that Tom probably doesn't leave
04:27because he's throwing to AJ Brown you know what I mean yeah Bill's not North Carolina but then
04:32again Jordan is still cheerleading Curtis if AJ Brown comes here he's probably Nikhil Harry and
04:38Nikhil Harry is AJ Brown and we're like why the hell did we draft Nikhil Harry I don't I don't
04:42think
04:42you're saying the Patriots ruined Nikhil Harry well no no I'm just saying like he could have been
04:46AJ Brown if he went somewhere else no no no that's kind of what you just said he needed a
04:50better
04:50coach and quarterback and Shime knows this better than anybody else because he's into you know he's
04:56into the draft and everything else he's all 22 at that time is AJ that guy on the show no
05:01at that
05:02time is AJ the ex no I don't know I don't think he's yet but please I'm getting it at
05:06work and home
05:07he's he's less like a sub stacker more like a sub eater but go ahead no but at that time
05:14there
05:15were a lot of analysts that had Nikhil Harry above AJ Brown so it's like you know no one knows
05:20who a
05:21guy's gonna be the mockery it's like it's Chris Hill he's here he can't get on the field because
05:26you know he's he can't even ride a bike in Atlanta he's like lights out but if he was here
05:32it'd be like
05:32we wouldn't have that same Chris uh Chris Hill so who the hell knows what AJ Brown would have looked
05:37like if he came here yeah I just think it would maybe like you I wouldn't go so far as
05:42to say the
05:43situation New England would have ruined AJ Brown coming out of the draft I don't I don't know because
05:48you think what's a better situation to go to New England in 2019 when he when the whole Nikhil
05:55Harry situation with Tom Brady and how the staff looked like or Tennessee at that point in time
06:00AJ strikes me as a guy who like rises to the occasion with pressure if anything and I know
06:06Philly has a million stories about who he was there but I think the biggest problem that they
06:12seem to face was that he would rip guys in public like he would rip guys in public he would
06:18rip the
06:18coaching staff Sirianni in public to the point where they were like hey can we take this behind
06:22closed doors and he's like no I'm keeping it 100 because guys aren't tapped in in the right way
06:27like I think Brady would have been into that yeah no I know that I know there are players
06:31that would be be into that right but it's all about earning that stripes to get there you know what
06:36I
06:36mean you just as a young player and I'm not saying this is AJ Brown I think where he is
06:40his leadership
06:41what he's going to do for this organization is spectacular I think we're all like trying to play
06:46you know go back and saying playing the what if game but I love the fact that you get a
06:51guy that not
06:52only is good on the football field but I think is going to be a huge leader in that locker
06:57room
06:57alternate opinion from a 617 texter on the Subaru of New England text line who says you guys are all
07:05high no just wiggy you have one of your own wide receivers who is holding out right now what leads
07:14you to believe that Mike Vrabel will be able to handle AJ Brown a corner you mean no he's talking
07:20about
07:20booty oh booty oh because like I just fell five spots in the depth chart I'd hold out too
07:26yeah booty don't want to be here well I think if they wanted booty he would be getting massaged by
07:31the coach oh sorry he would be getting treated properly by the coach and the team doesn't
07:36care about him right now you know what I'm saying so if they wanted booty here I think he'd be
07:40here
07:40yeah yeah I mean they
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