PHOENIX -- Cleaning out the New England Patriots' Super Bowl notebook:

1. Caught up briefly with starting center Bryan Stork, who prefers to keep a lower profile. Asked his thoughts on if he might be able to play in Super Bowl XLIX after missing the AFC Championship Game with a right knee injury, Stork said, "I'm working with the trainers every day, working hard, doing my best and getting better."

2. For those curious how cornerback Brandon Browner''s background with the Seahawks (2011-2013) might aid the Patriots, this comment from quarterback Tom Brady caught our attention: "Pete Carroll's run the same defense for a long time ... we've had a little insight from Brandon, who has talked to us about how he coaches."

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3. Speaking of Browner, he shared his viewpoint that the secondaries of the Seahawks and Patriots are "probably the one and two best groups" in the NFL. His opinion is that whichever team wins the Super Bowl can stake the claim as No. 1 defensive backfield.

4. Browner was a fun interview on media day, at one point looking out at reporters and pointing out that only a handful were actually asking questions. His thoughts on a matchup between Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski and Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor? "That's going to be one for the ages," he answered. "Gronk is a beast and Kam is a beast."

5. In a moment of self-reflection, Browner also said he's working to "clean up my image a little bit." While acknowledging that everyone makes mistakes, he said those mistakes are magnified when playing in the NFL and he'd like to give elderly fans and kids who watch the game a reason to look at him differently.

6. Third-year Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones spent time talking about growing up in Endicott, New York, referring to it by its area code of 607. He pointed out that he and former Seahawks and Harvard linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski are from Endicott, and he'd always smile when seeing Kacyvenski in the gym back in the "607."

7. Patriots second-year linebacker Jamie Collins, who is usually elusive with the media, explained his approach. "It’s not something I look forward to, I can tell you like that," he said at media day, when attendance was mandatory. "It’s just not something that I get excited about. If I had a choice, I wouldn’t do it. I don’t really need all the publicity.”

8. Running back Shane Vereen kept things light. The most unique question he received at media day? "I was asked earlier how many times I was going to be ineligible this game," he relayed. "I thought that was pretty funny.” Vereen later said he doesn't know the answer because it's early in the week.

9. For the record, Vereen was a fan of last year's Super Bowl halftime show. "Bruno Mars killed it," he said. "This year, thank God, I won’t be able to watch it. I’ll be hydrating trying to get ready for the second half."

10. Who knew? Receiver Brandon LaFell said he likes to listen to R&B "slow jams" to calm himself down before games. It's usually Luther Vandross for him.

11. No Luther Vandross for quarterback Tom Brady, however. "Something to get me hyped up so it’s usually Jay-Z. Been a big fan for a long time," Brady said.

12. Special teams captain Matthew Slater reads his bible and chews gum before games as a way to calm himself.

13. Cornerback Darrelle Revis might not be the most impartial judge, but when it comes to free safeties in the NFL, he didn't hesitate to mention Devin McCourty. "Devin's outstanding. I feel like he's the best free safety in the league," he said. "He has so much range out there. He’s so fast. I think the biggest thing I respect him for and appreciate him is how he studies the game and how he knows the game so well. He’s a student of the game and he works so hard at it."

14. Veteran defensive end Rob Ninkovich, who turns 31 on Super Bowl Sunday, is a big fan of the movie "Rudy." It often motivates him. “I’m not going to lie, I watched it last week before the game just to get me going," he said. "I’ve been watching that movie since I was a kid.”

15. The Patriots had the alarm in their hotel go off around 1:25 a.m. local time on Tuesday, but tight end Rob Gronkowski shrugged it off. "I actually heard about that, but I didn’t know the alarm went off. I slept right through it," he said. "I slept great [Monday] night. Glad I didn’t hear it.”

16. Defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, however, doesn't really know about a good night's sleep. "Four hours is a good night. I enjoy sleep, but there’s just not a lot of opportunity to get it," he said. "It depends [how long he sleeps]. It could be a couple hours or an hour. It could be three. Four hours is nice, but it doesn’t happen all of the time.”