 Live from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE covering VTUG's New England Winter Warmer 2016. Now your host, Stu Miniman. Welcome back to theCUBE. I'm Stu Miniman with wikibond.com. We are here at the 2016 VTUG Winter Warmer at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots and very excited to have a Patriot Hall of Famer three-time Super Bowl champion, number 80, Troy Brown. Troy, thank you so much for stopping by. No, man, thank you for having me on, I appreciate it. All right, so Troy, we got a bunch of geeks here and we talk about their jobs are changing a lot and the question I have for you is, who did so many different jobs when you're on the Patriot? How do you manage that? How do you go about that from a mindset? I mean, I think so many of the jobs you did were so specialized and never spent years doing it yet. Do you excelled in a lot of different positions? I think first of all, I think the coach, Bill Belichick, you know, I think he does a good job of evaluating his people and his players and the people that work for him. And the thing about him, he never asks an individual what to do more than they can handle. And I think I was one of those individuals that he saw that could, you know, didn't get rattled by too many different things. I didn't get, it seemed like I was overwhelmed at any moment with the job that I had already asked to do. And if I had to do multiple jobs, then I would probably be one of those guys that could handle that type of situation. So it started with him. And then me, I guess it was just my personality and my work habit and my work ethic. And just never letting the opponent know that I was a little bit shaken, I was a little bit weary, a little bit tired at times. And I just continued to chip away and do my job. And, you know, I took a lot of pride in being able to manage and do a lot of different things at one time and really excel at it. Yeah, so you saw the transformation of the Patriot Organization. I mean, you know, a great organization here in New England, but, you know, we were living in a phenomenal time for the Patriots over the last 20 years. And what do you attribute that transformation to? Well, I think it started, you know, you look at when Robert Kraft bought the team in 94, which I was here a year before he bought the team in 93. I was drafted with Drew Bledsoe and Parcells out of the first year. And that really, Parcells really kind of got people around here excited about football. I think for the first time, they were having, you know, capacity crowds at training camp, out at Bryant College, something they never did before. I mean, you're talking about a team that won two games the year prior. They were two in 14, I think, with Scott Zollack. It was one of those two games in 1992. So you're bringing a guy that's, you know, won a couple of Super Bowls with the Giants, how a profile guy gets everybody excited about the possibility of winning. And I think things started to change then. And then you're bringing a hands-on owner, because I believe James Arthur Wine was the previous owner that he bought the team from and lived in St. Louis. It can't be hands-on when you, you know, live half the country away from here. So he bought the team and bought the local guy. And again, the enthusiasm goes through the roof and expectations are through the roof. We make the playoffs in 1994. And, you know, things happen, they don't get along. And then you go through another Coach Pete Carroll for three years and you bring him Belichick. And he drafts a young quarterback by the name of Tom Brady. And, you know, those types of things, those people, those guys, they're able to handle different things and different jobs as well. You know, and you couple that with, you surround them with good people like myself, David Pat and Antoine Smith, Tyler Laws of the Lawyer Molloy's, the Rodney Harrison, guys that kind of embodied the Patriot way, and you get what you have today. And it all started with the fact that Mr. Kraft and Bill Belichick now have been together with 15, 16 years. And I think you look across the NFL or across any sport, you don't see the type of longevity and the type of continuity that those who have, and you throw on Tom Brady into that mix who's been along for that entire ride as well. You just don't, you're not gonna find that in any other sport, in any other team. Maybe a couple here, you know, the San Antonio Spurs. You know, longevity, I believe it is the key and you have to build that. You know, you see too many owners that throw in the towel too quick, you know, with the young coach that's trying to build a team and a system. Yeah, so I have to ask you, if you had to choose one for 15 years, Brady or Belichick? For 15 years? Yeah. For 15 years, maybe Brady because, you know, eventually it would come to an end. You know, Belichick and probably coach on and on and on and on for longer than 15 years. But if you had to choose one for 15 years, I guess I'd go with Brady. But you know, I don't think, I don't know if one works or not the other, you know. So that's kind of, that'd be a question that people would be asking for many, many years to come. Yeah, so personally for you, when you look back at your career, you know, any favorite moments that they have? I mean, there's so many, just for the franchise for yourself. I mean, I could think of all the ones that I had the pleasure to see. That was a big punt return against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah. On the AFC Championship game. I know it well. It's a super bowl to start off the scoring for us. Yeah. That was a big moment. The strip in 0-6, even though we won the Super Bowl that year, kept us alive, it was a big play to get us into the AFC Championship game. Just all the Super Bowls that we were a part of and then were able to win. You know, all those moments are just so treasured and valued by me that it's kind of hard to place one over the other. But you know, it was all a lot of great and fantastic moments for us. All right, so last question I have for you. Looking at the Patriots today, what's your prediction for the Patriots, you know, going on in the playoffs here, going to the AFC Championship? I think it'd be a difficult task. Denver has not been a friendly place for the Patriots over the history of this franchise. It has not just now, but it has been... Any specifics as to why it's so tough to play there? I don't know. I don't know what it is. I mean, you could say the altitude, but we've been out there and we played well at times. Even this team this year, they played well the first time they went out there had an unfortunate drop punt, you know, that kind of changed the complexity of the game and things just changed. I mean, that's the kind of luck that we had the last time I played out there was, I think, old five, I think, or something in the division around. And I fumbled, Kevin Faulk fumbled, Tom Brady threw a pick six, basically. And it was like, you know, three of your most dependable players that turned the football over and didn't play well, you know, and how often that would have happened. So Rob Grant-Kowski gets hit in the knee this year. So, and then lose him for a couple of games and then season starts to turn. So just so many unfortunate things that happened out there, but you have to give Denver a lot of credit as well because, you know, they come out and they play hard. They have a really good defense. Quarterback that can be really good. You know, he's a game manager at this point in his career. That's a great job of doing it. You know, and they seem to rally behind his presence on the field. So it'll be a tough task for the Patriots, even though I think the Patriots do have the better football team overall. It's just been a difficult place for the New England Patriots to get wins in the past. So do you have a match-up for the Super Bowl that you're picking? I'm picking the Patriots for sure. And from what I saw from Carolina last week, I got to go with Carolina playing at home against Arizona. I think that defense is just too tough. And Cam Newton and that run game, that offensive line has just been pretty remarkable and surprising after losing probably the best offensive weapon in Kevin Benjamin. Well, you know a little something about a Carolina versus, you know, New England Super Bowl. So hopefully things will turn out like it did last time. Troy, really appreciate you stopping by. Thank you so much for joining us on the program. We'll be right back here with a wrap-up of theCUBE's coverage of the VTUG 2016 Winter Warmer. Thanks so much for watching.