1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: Morning everyone. While a good excited you know, hopefully we've 2 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: less I've been privileged to own the paths, you know, 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: for thirty one years, and the last two years have 4 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: been really, really difficult, the worst two years of our ownership, 5 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: and so we've tried to create a foundation of a 6 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: new beginning and I'm pretty excited about what we have. 7 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: So I've been told to calm down, but I really 8 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: am the what's going on, you know, the chemistry and 9 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: the building and reaching out and signing a lot of 10 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: hopefully good free agents. We have the found I hope 11 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: that we're never drafting number four again in my lifetime, 12 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: but today it's a great opportunity. And in the end, 13 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, if you want to build a team that 14 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: is going to win and sustain winning, you have to 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: have good drafts. And unfortunately, over the last few years, 16 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: we have not done a good job in that area, 17 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: and I think the organization has reshuffled how we do 18 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: things on priorities and how we value and I hope 19 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: we start to see the impact of that over the 20 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: next couple of years. 21 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: Robert, you would in some ways is a team still 22 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: kind of at ground zero in its rebuild boat. I mean, 23 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 2: this huge core of players, and you know, it's not 24 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 2: as if progress as you have to meet. In other words, 25 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: this could be another rebuilding kind of season, even though 26 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: it's optimistic. 27 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: I'll get chastised for saying it, but I think we're 28 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: we're ahead of that. I think, you know, we've we 29 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: have some real talent in the locker room, and I 30 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: think we're privileged now to have a head coach who 31 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: has learning curve experience and has really come in and 32 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: created a great atmosphere. I remember him as a player 33 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: and his competitive attitude, and you know he he's grown 34 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: as an individual in terms of having that edge but 35 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: also being able to, uh build a sense of team 36 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: and cooperation. And it's unusual when you have every part 37 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: of the building feels that he's someone who they can 38 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: relate to and he's cooperating and is putting team first, 39 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: and it's it's really created a great sense of common Robert, would. 40 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 3: You say your expectations are greater at this point now 41 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: than they were at the same point last year for 42 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: what your team can accomplish. 43 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: I think that's fair. Yes. You know, ever since I've 44 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: owned the team, the objectives what was to have the 45 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: team make the playoffs and uh, cause once you make 46 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: the playoffs, anything can happen. And I think we have 47 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: experience over the last few decades of seeing how that happens. 48 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: And I know, I don't want to get ahead of myself, 49 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: but you know, after my family, this team is the 50 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: most important thing in my life, and the bottom line 51 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: is winning games. And these last two years have been brutal, really. 52 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 3: And. 53 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,799 Speaker 1: So I wanted to try to do whatever I could 54 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: to get back to a system and a situation where 55 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: where we had hope and a chance to do anything. 56 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: And I really think we're on that path. Now. 57 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 4: You've talk a lot about the importance, you talk a 58 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 4: lot about the importance of the draft. 59 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 3: What makes you confident that Elliott and Elliott and Mike 60 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: can get it right this year? 61 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I've learned in every organization it's it's 62 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: the culture that matters, and people have to be comfortable 63 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: speaking up and saying I don't agree. And sometimes you 64 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: can be in a business environment where people are afraid 65 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: to do that. And I think this. I think the 66 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: the culture now is an open culture where uh people 67 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: are free to express opinions. There's a lot of different 68 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: points of view, and it's healthy. I mean, in life, 69 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: it's important to know what you don't know and then 70 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: get the best people around you. And I I think, 71 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: you know, having the infusion of the new people and 72 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: having a plan and being able to neck the dots 73 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: and put it all together. I see it happening, and 74 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm probably too excited, but I am. The truth is, 75 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this coming year and I can't 76 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 1: wait for the games to begin. 77 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 5: This has been another big spending year, similar to twenty 78 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 5: twenty one. How do you feel about how the team 79 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 5: has been spending its money and how much of his 80 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 5: reaction to maybe not spending it last year. 81 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: In producency, Well, we're just to correct something. There's never 82 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: been a case in thirty one years where people have 83 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: come to us to spend and we've said no, never 84 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: one time. So we've always been willing to spend. When 85 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: we do it, we want people to feel they've done 86 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: their homework and feel confident that we're doing it and improving. 87 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: I mean a lot more those people would say, given 88 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: coaches experience that what we've done on defense and his 89 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: knowledge of that area and the personnel that we've improved greatly, 90 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: and you know, I think that's so. I know, I 91 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm excited. And we've always had a 92 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: strong defense, and I think any of us that are 93 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: fans of the team know we want to try to 94 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: strengthen the offense a little, you know, on the line 95 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: and in the receiver area, maybe a speed running back. 96 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: But I'm talking as a fan, but I have confidence 97 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: that this group is all on the same page and 98 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: the most important thing is everyone who's putting team first, 99 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: and that in this business you can't have little groupings 100 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: who have their own ideas. And the fact that it's 101 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: starting fresh and everyone expresses how they feel it, it's 102 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: been very exciting for me. 103 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: What would make what would make the season of success? 104 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 2: What would make the season of success for you? 105 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: For me to make the playoffs? Robert, what was your 106 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: reaction to the team's low marks in the NFLPA report 107 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: card and survey? Well, you know, it was eye opener 108 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: for me, and then I put it in context that 109 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: you know, in thirty one years, going through these last 110 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: two years and the way things were and the culture 111 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: was there, it really opened my eyes in a way 112 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: because we we think we're bonded and we have things, 113 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: but it just was not a good environment and and 114 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: we want to do everything we can to make this 115 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: the feeling is one of the best places you can go. 116 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: And I think we had that for quite a while 117 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: in terms of winning and people wanted to come here, 118 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: and then the last couple of years changed it. And 119 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: now it's management and ownerships job to do everything they 120 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: can to create the culture that this is a place 121 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: that people want to come to. And I really believe 122 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: it's happening. And now we gotta produce on the field 123 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: and want people have got want to come to be 124 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: in this environment, and we're trying to do the different 125 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: things we can to make that happen. 126 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 6: Four in June, some NFL owners like Ralph Wilson Dan. 127 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 4: Rudy's stuff Aside, took a step back around the similar age. 128 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 6: Are there have there. 129 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 2: Been any discussions, any succession planes? 130 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 6: Things like that? 131 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: Are you telling me? Uh? First of all, I think 132 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: I'm thirty five, and you all will laugh when I 133 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: say it, but I really y you know, in life, Look, 134 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: I was a little kid sitting on those benches dreaming 135 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: about owning this team and bringing a winning culture here. 136 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: I said, after my family, this team, and this foundation 137 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,599 Speaker 1: to combat hate and anti Semitism. Those are my passions, 138 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: you know. I as far as succession, succession is there, 139 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: I have my eldest son, Jonathan, has been part of 140 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: every key decision I've made for the last thirty odd 141 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 1: years and is a full partner in everything. He stays 142 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: out of the limelight. But we we have a plan 143 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: that is in place for all of our businesses. And 144 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, were you suggesting something that you know 145 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: that's a bias Sometimes with age you have experience. But 146 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: let's see what happens this year. Let's see, let's see 147 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: what happens over the next two to three years, Robert. 148 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 6: But before you go, last year you had the Tom 149 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,439 Speaker 6: Brady Hall of Fame thing that was a big deal. 150 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,239 Speaker 6: We had a meeting coming up. We had a narrow 151 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 6: down an amazing list of candidates for a Patriots Hall 152 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 6: of Fame. Uh Any advice you might give uh with 153 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 6: Vinitary Edelman, Mankin's others that it's get in challenging. 154 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: Well, you're I don't know. S. People probably get mad 155 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: at me for what I'm about to do. But uh, 156 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: I know Thursday, we have a uh A meeting of 157 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: our Patriots Hall of Fame group, and I decided the 158 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: end of last week, UH to make a call to Sorry, 159 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: good things happen in the bushes. I call Bill Parcell's 160 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: who and Uh, I asked him if he would uh 161 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: be kind enough to accept going into our Patriot Hall 162 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: of Fame. He had been a finalist five years and 163 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: going back to your question, while both of us are 164 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:10,599 Speaker 1: alive in our late thirties, you know, I thought it 165 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: would be great, given me what he's done for the team, 166 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: if he would accept entry as a contributor into the 167 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: Patriots Hall of Fame. And he accepted. I actually wanted 168 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: to meet with him in person, but he was on 169 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: his way to Saratoga, where he goes. So he's sort 170 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: of so I'm excited. Uh, we'll have him at our 171 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. And I'm sorry if 172 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: I messed up the Thursday meeting of the people. 173 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: Can I squeeze one off on news wise idy updates 174 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 2: on the Evert Stadium and where things stand and how 175 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 2: it's coming. 176 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I go back, I think back to him. 177 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: I bought the Patriots. I had gone out to Saint 178 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: Louis and met with James Orthwine and knew we had 179 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: a stadium that was inadequate. And I called the then 180 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: governor and said, I'm gonna keep the team from moving 181 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: to Saint Louis, but I need your commitment that you're 182 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: gonna help me get a stadium in downtown Boston. And 183 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: he said, I'm there, You're in. And of course we 184 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: all know what happened, and the political environment here is 185 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: a little different. So we built the only stadium in 186 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: America that's one hundred percent private, and we're willing to 187 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: do that for soccer, cause fans to go. You know, 188 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: usually twenty twenty five thousand is what comes to a 189 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:06,119 Speaker 1: soccer game. And we're willing to do this privately financed 190 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: stadium and ever, but politics takes over it in Beantown, 191 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: unlike most places. So we're willing to do it. We 192 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: just need the political people and get all the agendas 193 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: putting team first, and we hope it happens, but we 194 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: can't force it. 195 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 2: Robert the NFLPA. 196 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 4: Before card you've announced for training facility, you've been asked 197 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 4: a new training facility in twenty twenty six. We should 198 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 4: address some of the concerns about the weight room the 199 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 4: players had. They also raised a team plane, astrays no 200 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 4: Wi Fi. Are there any playans to buy or have 201 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 4: a new. 202 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: Team plane for the team, Well, we've been First of all, 203 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: let me just correct. There are no astrays on the plane. 204 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: I mean that goes back thirty years ago. I don't 205 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: know anyone gone on a plane with ashtrays. There's no ashtrays. 206 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: And I'm willing to take a bet with anyone who 207 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:11,479 Speaker 1: says that. You know, I think we bought those planes 208 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: to make it easier for our team to travel. It 209 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: was very hard, uh pre COVID to get planes, and 210 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: we're in the process of trying to update and improve that. 211 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: And we want everything we do to be top of 212 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: the heap and first class and rather than having to 213 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: go out and chatter and everything we wanted to control. 214 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: We've let the planes be used by different charities and 215 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: they they've done a lot of good, but we do 216 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: need an upgrade. 217 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 4: MM. 218 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: Thank you all, Thanks all you too.