David Andrews (25:41)
Well, I think this, look, Mike's very big on. He never worked with Bill Belich as a coach. Brable didn't obviously. Right. But he played with him or played under him for whatever it was 10 years. I, you know, eight years, I forget. And had a lot of success. And you don't, you don't, you know, there's a lot of stuff, you know, people are talking about Bill and that, that is what it is. But you don't, to me, you can't look at Bill's 20 something years and say what's happened the last four years, five years has ruined those. No, you still, we still did all that stuff. And, and you know, Tom, like the whole Bill and Tom versus Tom thing, I look, it makes great talk radio and TV and all of that, but Tom, to me, when he went to Tampa, he took everything he learned from Bill and just instilled it into Tampa with a great roster that was missing one piece, the quarterback. And so when I look at Vrabel and some things that this team does and Vrabel believes in, I see the obvious Bill Belichick influence, right. And I think these Patriot teams, especially the ones I played on, we were a chameleon, right? You need us to go throw it 45 times. Great. Tom will do that. You need us to run it, you know, in 18. That was our big identity, was running the football. We were built for it. We had Gronk, Dwayne Allen, two huge tight ends. James Devlin at fullback, who was just a moose that we had great running backs, a really good offensive line. So we went into games like, all right, we're going to line up and play in two tight ends and a fullback. Which that's when the league I felt like started shifting to more of these fast skill, you know, the Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City with all these skilled guys was Coming on the scene, it was like, well, we're going to throw one receiver out there who's, you know, white Julian Edelman and you know, we're just going to bully ball you and, and then. But what we did, we could manufacture things so well. And like in the super bowl versus the Rams, that's what we were doing. We were lining up, letting them dictate what for. You know, if you guys are putting out base defense, which is harder to run against, easier to throw against, all right, we're going to spread the ball out. And now we get Julian lined up against a linebacker. Good luck. Linebacker can't cover Julian. So we were just able to do all these different things. Look different. Hey, you know, and we go to Kansas City the week before in 18, it was a shootout, right? Overtime, outduel Patrick Mahomes and that high scoring offense. And then we go play the rams and it's 13 to 3, you know, like we could do it however we wanted to do it. We scored one touchdown. Defense played their ass off. So that to me is always a great sign. I think when you're a one trick pony and you're living off, hey, we just got to score 45 points. That's, that's great. It's fun to see. I enjoy watching it. Who doesn't, right? We all love seeing scores on anything. But, you know, being able to win games in different ways, that's the only thing that matters. You got to find a way to win, you know, and I think that's what great teams do. They don't, they don't care who gets the credit. If it's Drake may throwing for 400 yards, great. If it's him throwing for 86 and win a messy snow game, great, we'll move on. You know, and I think there, there's guys, like, I look at Stefan Diggs, right? Like he's had this reputation. I'm sure there's guys like that in hockey, right, where they get some type of reputation for whatever reason and then they come somewhere else and just, you know, look, he's older, he's at the back end of his career. He gets put in an opportunity and I think he's done a great job for this team. And he's had obviously his big, you know, first thousand yard receiver in a long time since the Patriots. But then there's games where it's like he's not even out there. Like he had a few catches yesterday, but that doesn't matter. I saw him one drive yesterday, they were coming off the field, Pats were stalled again, struggling in the first half. He's getting going up, the guys picking up their chins. You know, it's stuff like that you need as a veteran. And I think he's done a great job for this team, you know, and they've kind of put all that other bullshit and all that personal bullshit aside and said, no, we're going to come together, wear this helmet and jersey and find ways to win. And that to me, that's what a football team, that's what teams are, you know, that's what it's about. That's why I think we all get into this eventually.
