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Speaker 1: Tom, how's it going this morning? Doing all guys? Good

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Speaker 1: morning morning. So I guess you seemed a little frustrate

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Speaker 1: with you the performance of the offense on that Friday.

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Speaker 1: Would that be accurate? Well, it wasn't our most productive half,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I think, like anything, you watched the

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Speaker 1: tape and there's things that are really good and things

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Speaker 1: that you know, keep you from scoring points and offensive football,

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Speaker 1: you've really got to be consistent over the course of

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Speaker 1: the drive. It's you know, to be in long yard

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Speaker 1: situations and then convert is challenging. We did that in

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Speaker 1: the red area. We had like a second and twenty

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Speaker 1: or something like that, second and fifteen. So we're back

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Speaker 1: to work and trying to figure out how to where

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Speaker 1: all the pieces fit. And then you know, we have

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Speaker 1: giants Thursday, and then after that they all count. So

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Speaker 1: it's there's a lot of urgency this time of year.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of you know, us trying to at

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Speaker 1: things right, and when it's not, you know, it's the

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Speaker 1: only thing we can do is get back to work

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Speaker 1: and try to try to fix it. It seems, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously with the deck or stuff, and with Britain and

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Speaker 1: not having a limited. Seems like you're undermanned here heading

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Speaker 1: into the season. Do you feel that way or no? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think there's you go into camp and

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Speaker 1: I think there's things where you're hopeful of situations working out,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, the competition has its way of

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Speaker 1: you know, weeding things out. And we had certainly to

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Speaker 1: start camp, you know, depth, and then we just certain

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Speaker 1: things haven't worked out the way that you know, we

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Speaker 1: had hoped and the you know, certain players would have hoped.

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Speaker 1: But that's football too. You know. I've ha been around

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Speaker 1: a while and long enough to see that. You know,

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Speaker 1: every year is different and you just don't know how

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Speaker 1: things are going to work out. And whether it's injuries

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Speaker 1: or you know, certain things that keep people from being

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Speaker 1: at their very best and competing at their highest. I

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Speaker 1: mean that takes a toll. So, um, we're at where

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Speaker 1: we're at. I mean, I don't think anyone feels sorry

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Speaker 1: for the minim and Patriots. I've said that before. So

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Speaker 1: we'll just try to do the best we can do,

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Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully it's good enough. Obviously has been

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Speaker 1: some guys obviously something been really successful. Some haven't. And

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Speaker 1: I think of guys like even all the way back

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Speaker 1: to Donald Hayes or Ocho Cinco or or Reggie Wayne Britt.

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Speaker 1: Do you know right away or how long does it

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Speaker 1: take for you to realize that nobody specifically, but just

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Speaker 1: in general, Hey, this isn't gonna click, This isn't gonna

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Speaker 1: work out. Is it a process? Are you aware of

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Speaker 1: it pretty quickly? Well, I think it's it's I think

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Speaker 1: anything's over the course of the time we have and

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Speaker 1: the guys who are in here at some point obviously

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Speaker 1: have the talent to be able to play and compete

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. A lot of those veterans that you

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Speaker 1: name have a lot of productivity, m and just this

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Speaker 1: particular situation at that time, you know, for our team,

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Speaker 1: it's it didn't work out. And I think there's just

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Speaker 1: a lot of factors that go into, you know, being

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Speaker 1: successful as a pro athlete and being successful in a

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Speaker 1: particular position on a team. I mean, I would say

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Speaker 1: receiver is a challenging position in our offense. We and

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Speaker 1: we have a very graduate level type of offense, and um,

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Speaker 1: it takes a lot to learn. It's just not easy,

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Speaker 1: not easy for rookie it's not easy for veterans. UM.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of work, it's time consuming, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: if we're going to be effective on offense, we've got

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Speaker 1: to have a lot of you know, people out there

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Speaker 1: that can process information quickly and make adjustments. And everything

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Speaker 1: changes week to week, so everything's a big adjustment. And

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Speaker 1: you know, guys who handle it and can compete and

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Speaker 1: have the skills do a good job. And that's typically

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Speaker 1: guys whom you know, We've had quite a few over

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Speaker 1: the years, but who can you know, pick it up

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Speaker 1: and understand it. And you know, Josh is a very

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Speaker 1: intense coach, and you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: So um, it's not going to work for everybody. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's just the nature of the NFL. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of offenses I could go into that I wouldn't work

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Speaker 1: at very well. But that's just that's the way it is. Tom,

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Speaker 1: speaking along those lines of wide receivers, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you saw Des Bryant going on Instagram saying Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady has always been my favorite player. The first question

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Speaker 1: is is did you see that? In the second question,

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Speaker 1: have you had any communication with him at all? Um?

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Speaker 1: I know thats just a little bit Um you know,

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Speaker 1: I think he's obviously a hell of a player. Um,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I don't make those situations for our team,

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Speaker 1: and I don't, you know, go in there and tell

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Speaker 1: them who I want. I mean, that's not the position

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Speaker 1: I've ever played here. You know. You just respect our

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Speaker 1: team for what they're looking for and our personnel people,

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Speaker 1: and um, you my job to play quarterback in who's

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Speaker 1: ever year. That's so I had to make it work

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Speaker 1: with one sorry him one second. So I saw we

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Speaker 1: saw the reports this weekend that, uh that Alex was

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Speaker 1: on the team plane, which he wasn't for the second

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Speaker 1: half of last year, I guess, and not on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Is that is that accurate? Uh? Yeah, he was. He

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Speaker 1: was with me this last week. So it was yeah,

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Speaker 1: so what what? So what? What what changed in him

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Speaker 1: not being on the team plane last year and this year?

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Speaker 1: Was that? Was that just communication back and forth or

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Speaker 1: was that an understanding of other things? What led to

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Speaker 1: that being able to happen this year? You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to I'm not getting into all that, Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean when I ran at him at the uh,

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Speaker 1: when I ranted him at the Super Bowl last year,

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis I remember talking about at the time a week

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Speaker 1: when I talked to him there, he had said in

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Speaker 1: his opinion that that all this stuff had been overblown,

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Speaker 1: that he in Belichick actually had a pretty good relationship

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Speaker 1: even then. Would you say that was true? I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into it, Okay, go ahead, Evan. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean everyone knows it's well documented. How you know

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Speaker 1: the work that he and I do together? No, I know,

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Speaker 1: I no, no, yeah, no, I understand that. I'm just

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out because I saw the reports this

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Speaker 1: weekend that he's traveling with the team. Was he on

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Speaker 1: the sideline on Friday? Yeah? All right, guys, have a

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Speaker 1: great day. I'll talk to you later.