Pats Chat: A Patriots podcast with Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley

The combine is rolling along in Indianapolis and Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley are back for another Pats Chat podcast. Doug has avoided getting into any fights at Starbucks and shares some tidbits from Indy, and Eliot Wolf's press conference is dissected. The Patriots' ugly showing on the NFLPA report cards is discussed before some idiotic musings on the passing of time.

Things are HAPPENING. Mike Vrabel spoke to the media at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, and Doug Kyed was there to talk with the Patriots' head coach. Michael Hurley was not there, so he saved his questions for Doug, and they did it all with the microphones running for this very podcast episode.

It's already time for the NFL Combine, where Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and EVP of player personnel Eliot Wolf will speak to the media. What are Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley expecting from this important week in the offseason? That's one of many questions tackled in this episode, before entirely too much Disney World/Universal Studios talk at the end.

It's an end-of-the-week episode of the Pats Chat Podcast, and while not a ton is happening with the team, everyone is wondering what the team should do in free agency and the draft. Doug Kyed shared some leftover questions from his mailbag, and he and Michael Hurley did their best to explore the Patriots' best path forward. Then they got to the real point of their podcast: Disney World and New Found Glory album rankings.

Patrick Mahomes was AWFUL in the Chiefs' Super Bowl loss to the Eagles, which was the opening topic for Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley this week. Anyone who seriously entertained GOAT talk last week should be ashamed. How big of a hit to this to the Chiefs' dynasty? Will the Chiefs start to fall back to the rest of the league? What can the Patriots take away from this game? Will they be inspired to go offensive line with the fourth overall pick? Or is defensive line just as important? All of that, plus some discussion of the best Super Bowl commercials, the FOX broadcast crew, and why Stitch is such a popular Disney character. Then there's some private stuff toward the end of the podcast that doesn't count because it happened after the 55-minute mark. Shh.

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN after a week away from the podcast mics, and though it hasn't been the BUSIEST week in Patriots history, there was plenty to discuss. From Deron Mayo still being on Mike Vrabel's staff, to trade possibilities with Cooper Kupp/Myles Garrett/Tee Higgins/etc., to the upcoming Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl, to Eli Manning being a Hall of Famer, Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley were busy in this one.

Mike Vrabel continued building his Patriots coaching staff, hiring Terrell Williams, Doug Marrone and Thomas Brown. Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley talk about the impact of those hirings before recapping championship weekend, where Tom Brady called the NFC Championship Game and Patrick Mahomes beat Josh Allen and the Bills yet again. That sets up a whole lot of Brady-Mahomes GOAT debating for the foreseeable future -- isn't that a little premature?

It's an EMERGENCY PODCAST as the Patriots are hiring old friend Josh McDaniels to be the offensive coordinator under Mike Vrabel. Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley evaluate how McDaniels will impact the growth and development of Drake Maye, and they weigh the potential positives and negatives with the hiring. Then they randomly start talking about Tom Brady and the Snow Bowl and Ticketmaster service fees. Just your standard EMERGENCY PODCAST stuff.

Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley discuss the coaching changes Mike Vrabel has made to the Patriots' staff, the NFL playoffs and talk the best strategy for the team in the 2025 NFL Draft and free agency.

Mike Vrabel has officially been introduced as the head coach of the New England Patriots. Doug Kyed and Michael Hurley were at Gillette Stadium for Vrabel's introductory press conference, and they're ALSO here on PATS CHAT to share with you their thoughts on Vrabel's second first impression in New England. This one understandably has some more fanfare than his arrival in 2001. There's also some more discussion about potential offensive and defensive coordinators, how the front office will shape up with Eliot Wolf and Ryan Cowden, speculation about Bill Belichick and the Cowboys, and some thoughts on the NFL playoff format.