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"Veep" Anthony Weaver back in the building

When the announcement was made Friday as to the hiring of Anthony Weaver as the team’s new defensive line coach, I’ll admit, I was a little more excited than usual. I can’t wait to meet Sean Ryan, the team’s new receivers coach, and Larry Izzo, the former Patriots captain turned special teams coordinator, as I've never met either one. But, Weaver and I, well, we go back a ways.

In the fall of 2008, my radio station, all of one year old at the time, wanted to capitalize on the upcoming U.S. Presidential election. As ideas were bandied about, Raheel Ramzanali, one of the most creative people at any station I’ve ever met, came up with an idea.