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Super Bowl 60 Preview: PATRIOTS or SEAHAWKS? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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  Why not pulling in one of the top three offensive players in
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  the league? We're going to be looking at
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  Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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  Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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  You don't see the fun doing that.
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  A game where you got to go for four.
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  I told you, Giant fans, Saquon Parker, this
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  Listening to Jabba and the Mouth, we are back.
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  City. He will be joining us a little
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  bit later in the show. As you know, this is Jabba and
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  the Mouth. Again, my name is Errol Marks my
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  Mr. Aaron Fish, fisherman on the board.
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  Mr. Tommy poops no NIF tonight. He's hanging out in San
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  Francisco at Super Bowl 60. Lot to get into today.
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  I want to wish a very happy birthday to my boy, my friend, a
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  guy that listens to the show religiously.
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  He's hanging out with the fam tonight, his beautiful wife, Mr.
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  Kevin. So a shout out to Kevin.
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  Happy birthday to Kev and happy birthday to everybody.
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  Tonight is been a weird, weird night.
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  It's it's just be gone and I'm sure you're going to hear a lot
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  of weird takes on the Super Bowl as we're going to preview
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  everything with the Super Bowl tonight.
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  But it's crazy because I know a lot of fans sit here and they
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  listen to the show and and, and again, you might not be a fan of
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  the show. You might be a fan of the show.
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  I I have been a fan of the show even before we even started job
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  in the mouth and what I do when I listen after the show, after
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  the after we post the show, I listen to the full show.
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  And there are things about the show that I kind of contradict
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  or I point out in many different ways that some people after the
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  show, even myself, I'm listening to my take and I'm like, I agree
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  with it, but sometimes I don't. And at that point everybody
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  says, well, then you're contradicting yourself.
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  I am not contradicting myself when I am giving you my take.
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  I am telling you what I think at that point when I'm listening to
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  the take and then I get a chance to hear it and be a fan of it.
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  Sometimes I agree to it and sometimes I don't.
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  And a lot of people are going to say that that that's weird.
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  But that's me, ladies and gentlemen.
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  You might not agree to it and I am a weirdo.
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  If anybody knows me off air, Speedy knows me very, very well.
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  And anybody on the show that has met me knows that I'm a little
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  bit crazy. I, I do look at things a
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  completely different way and might shock you about my
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  personality just because you hear it on the show.
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  And you might say, wow, this guy is, is interesting, interesting,
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  but a little weird. If you think I'm weird on the
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  show, boy, oh boy. If you meet me in person, you
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  probably think I'm really, really weird.
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  So I, I just, I don't want to turn people off when I tell you
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  this, that after I give you my take, I will listen to it.
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  And sometimes I will go back and I say, yeah, I agree with it.
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  Even my picks, I pick, I pick the Super Bowl and I pick the
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  Super Bowl tonight. And I could say I'm not going to
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  tell you who I'm going to pick until a little bit later, but I
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  might pick Seattle. I might pick the Patriots.
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  And then after the show, I'll be like, yeah, you know, there I
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  am. That's perfect for me.
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  That picture, it just, it expresses who I am, ladies and
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  gentlemen. And yeah, that, that too.
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  Fish. Quit playing games with my heart
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  a little. What is that?
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  Backstreet Boys. That's got to be Backstreet
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  Boys. Yeah, I I figured it, I knew it
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  was something with the Backstreet Boys, but I I'm not a
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  Backstreet Boy fan. I am more of an instinct fan, so
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  I, I like No Strings Attached. It's actually one of my likable
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  pop albums. If I'm, if I'm working out and,
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  and by the way, when I work out, I don't listen to heavy metal.
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  I don't listen to rock or house music.
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  I listen to soft tunes. I need to mellow out.
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  I need to hear the music and feel the weight.
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  I got to feel it. You know, you know, when you're
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  hanging out with your girl, you got to feel it.
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  You got to feel it. That's how I, that's how I work
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  out. I got to feel the weight in my
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  hands. So I, I, I, it might be a little
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  weird again, but I listen to 80s music.
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  I listen to some 90s music, CNC music factory, that kind of
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  stuff. I have to be pumping up, man.
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  So I, I, I, it's funny because my uncle the other day, I, I
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  didn't bring my earphones and I was playing the music under the
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  weights. So I, you have your phone, you
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  put up as high as you can and you can listen to the music and
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  he says, what are you listening to?
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  You actually listen to this garbage and I said, yeah, I
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  listen to it. And and for you to say that it's
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  garbage, you know, you were born in the 60s and and you are you
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  definitely were listening to CNC Music Factory or New Kids on the
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  Block. Come on, who doesn't like the
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  New Kids on the Block? Hank Tuff, Remember that?
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  Remember that song? Does anybody remember that song?
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  Hank Tuff? You know, how about this, Every
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  little step I take, you will be there.
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  You know, little, little that Bobby Brown.
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  Come on guys. Or how about some Janet Jackson?
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  I love her too. I'm not a big Michael Jackson
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  fan, but there's other reasons why I'm not a big Michael
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  Jackson fan. But I like Janet.
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  I like her. I like her music.
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  I listen to some of that stuff too.
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  All right, at 8:45, we will be talking to former New York
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  Giants tight end Howard Cross. He played from 1989 to 2001 and
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  won a Super Bowl ring, Super Bowl 25.
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  So he experienced winning a Super Bowl with the New York
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  Giants. So I'm very excited to have him
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  on for the first time. Thank you, Nathan, for landing
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  this very special guest. And I'm, I'm interested to hear
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  what Howard's going to say about the Giants organization.
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  He's been working with them over the last couple of years as an
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  analyst on the sideline. So Howard, interesting
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  personality, very intriguing as a as a football fan when it
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  comes to the X's and O's to the game and especially the New York
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  Giants time. I'm interested to hear what he
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  thinks about John Harbaugh higher because I wasn't too fond
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  of it. That's just my all right.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, Super Bowl 60 will be this Sunday with the
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  Seattle Seahawks. Take it on the New England
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  Patriots in San Francisco. It will be a rematch of one of
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  the most infamous ending endings in Super Bowl history, in Super
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  Bowl 49 between the Patriots and the Seahawks, when all the
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  Seahawks had to do was give Marshawn Lynch the ball on the
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  goal line and they would have won the game.
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  This year, the Seahawks opened as 4 1/2 favorites and the line
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  has barely moved since then, staying at 4 1/2.
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  Both teams quarterbacks are banged up heading into the game.
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  Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold is dealing with an oblique
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  injury, while Patriots quarterback Drake May has been
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  battling a bad shoulder injury. Seahawks star rookie safety Nick
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  Amanori sprained his ankle in practice this week but is fully
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  expected to play, according to head coach Mike McDonald.
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  Both McDonald and Patriots head coach Mike Rabel, who is in his
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  first year as head coach, are in their first ever Super Bowl
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  appearance as a head coach. Although Vray Bull has won three
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  championships with the Patriots as a player, both coaches are
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  expected to be finalists for Coach of the Year.
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  I know everybody's looking at this game and we can go on the
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  insurance and the outs. These teams are very matched up
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  very, very well. Now, obviously the Seattle
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  Seahawks are the better team. They I believe they have the
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  better running game. I think they have the better
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  talent. They have Najiba, who I think is
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  the best offensive weapon in this game.
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  And Sam Donald, As much as everybody says that Drake May is
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  an MVP candidate, I would say that Sam Donald is just as good
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  this year as Drake May was. Now, Drake May had 31 touchdowns
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  to Sam Donald's 25. Sam Donald did throw 14
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  interceptions to Drake May 8. Drake Mays fumble the ball more
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  than any quarterback in the NFL this year.
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  And when you look at both teams and you look at the strengths
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  and the weaknesses of these teams, both teams have very good
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  defenses. But when you look at both teams
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  and the experiences that these teams have, these are young
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  teams, the Patriots that were not expected to be a Super Bowl
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  contender this year, obviously with a new coach and Mike Vrabel
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  taking over for the team, losing, losing a coach in the
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  offseason. And Mayo.
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  Mayo only was there for a year. Vrabel got an opportunity after
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  he was let go by the Tennessee Titans.
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  And Vrabel has had success. He's been a coach of the year
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  with the Tennessee Titans. Has he ever been to the Super
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  Bowl as a head coach? No.
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  And either as Mike McDonald, well, what's so interesting
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  about this matchup between these two young coaches?
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  And I think Mike McDonald is obviously younger than Mike
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  Raybould. Mike McDonald is been the best
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  coach all season long, especially when you look at
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  second-half statistics. The Seattle Seahawks are one of
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  the best second-half teams in the.
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  League in the league. And what they've done so very
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  well this year is they had Chabonnay and they had Walker.
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  Walker has been in and out this season.
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  He hasn't been 100% healthy all season.
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  And Chabonnay has been, you know, obviously he's out for the
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  playoffs. I think it was a torn ACL.
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  What did he. Yeah.
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  He's going to be missing half a lot next year.
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  Yeah, so he tore, I think it was a torn ACL.
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  He injured himself at the end of the season.
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  When you look at both of these teams in Henderson and, and what
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  Henderson has done as a rookie this year has been absolutely,
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  you know, successful what they thought he was going to be when
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  he came out of the draft. Now Henderson, it took him a
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  little while, took him a second-half of the season and
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  Stevenson going down to giving him a shot and giving him more
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  slicks. And, and there were a lot of the
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  guys on the the the New England Patriots this year when
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  Henderson wasn't getting the ball enough, they sat down with
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  Henderson and gave Henderson a little bit more of a lecture and
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  told him your time will come. You'll get your slacks and
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  you'll get your opportunity to go out there and run the ball
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  well. Henderson, it took him a little
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  while, but eventually got comfortable and played pretty
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  well in the second-half of the season.
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  But Romandre Stevenson has been the go to guy for the New
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  England Patriots throughout the playoffs.
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  He has been their horse. He was their horse against the
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  Broncos and and you can see why Romandre Stevenson has been so
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  very important to this team and why the Patriots decided to
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  extend him a year before the guy has.
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  First of all, he's 230 lbs. He runs not only a 4-5, but the
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  guy can run you down. He can go east and West.
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  He does so many things right and he blocks very, very well.
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  Walker is almost impossible to take down.
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  Both guys are very hard to take that Walker is not as big is
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  Romandre Stevenson, but he's elusive.
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  He has the ability to move in many different ways and
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  different steps. He he has the ability to run
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  routes. He can do everything.
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  I would believe that Walker and I would say that Walker isn't
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  every down back to Romandre Stevenson.
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  He's more of a 2 down back and I believe the experience would go
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  to Romandri Stevenson and the Patriots.
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  But again, this is a young Patriot team and practically
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  every single one of these players have not been in the
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  Super Bowl. I don't know how many guys on
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  the Patriots have played in the Super Bowl, but this is not the
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  old Super Bowl championship teams of Bill Belichick and Tom
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  Brady and the variable teams. And we could go on and on and on
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  of the players that were on those teams.
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  The Edelman's of the world, the Gronkowski's, that that is not
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  this New England Patriot team. They do have stuff on takes.
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  This is the first time he has been in a Super Bowl.
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  He's been in a couple of AFC and NFC title games, never got over
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  the hump. And he's dating.
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  You know who Mr. Misses Cardi B, that after the game, she was
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  dancing and prancing around with her.
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  What was it, green hair? I mean, it was absolutely pink
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  hair. Whatever the hell she had on
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  her, whatever. I I mean, I believe that this
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  game is going to come down to who's going to be able to run
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  the ball and control the line of scrimmage.
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  You know, the Patriots are one of the best run stopping teams
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  in the league, in the league. So they're going to try to clock
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  up the middle and they're going to make guys like Najigba get
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  into places. And they have guys like Gonzales
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  that can play one-on-one with Najigba.
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  But Najigba, every single week we've seen this year against top
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  end corners dominate. There were what, maybe two or
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  three weeks he didn't get, he didn't score or he didn't land
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  100 yards or more in those games.
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  He has the ability to take over games as we saw in the NFC title
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  game. I believe that Najigba was the
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  best player on the field besides Sam Darnold.
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  Sam Darnold, who threw 340 yards.
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  And I, I'll say this, when you look at the defensive side of
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  the ball, there's a lot to talk about with both sides of the
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  ball with both teams, with, with the, the Seattle Seahawks, their
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  secondary. Amanda, Ori and I always mess up
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  his name. He's been a great young player
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  for them and I I think with what their secondary has done for
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  them this year as controlled, the man on man type of defense.
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  They play a lot of zone in the games.
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  Seattle likes to play the zone game, but they could play man on
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  man. They could do a lot of different
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  things. They have great safety play and
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  they could get at you with their front 7.
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  They've got two really competent linebackers and obviously we
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  know one in Williams who has played for the Giants and played
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  for The Jets and has been successful everywhere.
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  He's gone now. When The Jets decided to move on
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  from a guy like Williams, they decided to move him and I think,
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  I think they traded him to the Giants. 2019.
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  A2 and A4 that was. Very rarely do you see The Jets
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  and the Giants make a trade with one another.
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  And they traded Williams and Williams became a pretty decent
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  player for the Giants. And then obviously the Giants
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  traded him to Seattle. And a lot of people were
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  questioning because at the at the end of the season, his last
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  season with the Giants, he wasn't as good as he was the
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  year before. The Giants extended him, gave
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  him a little bit more money and the Giants winded up trading him
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  to Seattle. And since McDonald has been
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  there, I think Williams has been a completely different player.
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  And I remember when he was drafted, I remember when The
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  Jets, Jets drafted him from USC and this some people thought he
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  was a top three pick. Some people thought he was a #1
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  prospect in the draft. But he just didn't accomplish
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  the things that he wanted to accomplish with the New York
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  Jets because The Jets had Wilkerson and they had all these
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  different defensive lineman. I think The Jets stacked up too
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  much on a defensive line when Williams games was drafted, but
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  you can't pass up on a talent like Williams.
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  And now you're starting to see the the fruits of what Williams
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  has turned into a pro ball player, an all pro player and a
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  dominant force in the middle of the field.
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  And and again, Seattle's strength this season has been
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  the ability to do everything right.
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  They can stop you on the run. There are games that they've had
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  problems stopping the run, but they the one weakness that that
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  I believe Seattle's had problems with all season long with
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  stopping tight ends. And I, I have news for you guys.
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  I don't know who the starting tight end is for the Patriots.
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  Oh, it's Josh's boy hunter Henry.
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  Yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
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  He's an old Hunter Henry. He's what?
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  He's the oldest player on the team.
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  He's got to be about 3435 years old.
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  He's at the tail end of his career.
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  You don't see a lot of Hunter Henry and you haven't seen a lot
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  of Hunter Henry throughout this playoff run.
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  Now, they might use Hunter Henry a lot because Seattle on paper
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  has had problems stopping tight end type of talent.
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  It's speed, guys on the outside. But I don't think country Henry
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  is going to be that dangerous. Guys like Stefan Diggs, guys
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  like Hollins, those are the guys.
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  Hollins coming coming back in in the AFC title game play
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  dividends for the New England Patriots because he made a
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  couple of big catches against the Broncos in the snow, which
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  eventually sealed the deal for the New England Patriots.
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  But it's, it's going to be warm. There's not going to be any
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  snow. There's not going to be any rain
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  on Sunday. So we're going to see what Drake
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  May is made of in a big game. And we're going to see what Sam
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  Donald is made-up in a big game. I, I'll tell you this, we saw
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  more out of Sam Donald throughout the playoffs than
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  we've seen of Drake May Drake May has not looked like the MVP
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  candidate he was all season long.
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  And and that could be because of his schedule, the way the
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  schedule was set up for the New England Patriots.
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  I've said it. The New England Patriots had one
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  of the easiest schedules in the NFL, in the NFL since 1999.
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  They had one of the easiest schedule and they have one of
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  the five easiest, one of the top five easiest schedules in NFL
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  history. The the the last time a schedule
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  was was this easy, I think was the Indianapolis Colts in 99
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  that was. Jim Harbaugh era.
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  That was the Jim Harbaugh era, era and all that other stuff.
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  But here's the thing, I look at Sam Donald, Sam Donald obviously
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  being pushed away by the New York Jets, being pushed away by
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  the Carolina Panthers, by being pushed away by the 49ers.
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  Then the Minnesota Vikings who eventually just fired their GM
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  because of the the fact that they should have kept Sam
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  Donald. This might have been Minnesota
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  this year if Sam Donald was still playing with Justin
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  Jefferson. And and that's happened.
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  That type of defense, Brian Flores has been sensational all
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  season long. With all the injuries the
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  Minnesota Vikings had all season long, they were a top 10 defense
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  and that says a lot about who Sam Donald is and what Sam
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  Donald has accomplished this year as a starting quarterback
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  for Seattle and Mike McDonald coaching him up and then getting
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  a chance to see all the all the talent that Sam Donald brings to
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  the table. And, and again I go back and,
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  and I could go back and forth with who is going to be better
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  in this game and who do I think is going to make make the bright
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  play and, and the perfect play that might win this game for
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  both teams. I don't think this game is going
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  to be even close. I really don't when I look at
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  this, the way these teams are set up, look at the schedules.
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  When you look at the Seattle Seahawks and who they had to
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  play all season long, and then you look at the Patriots.
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  The Patriots played their best schedule in the playoffs and
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  look what they did in the playoffs.
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  Who did they dominate against in the playoffs?
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  I understand it was bad weather throughout the playoffs, but
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  guess what? Sam Donald played in bad
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  weather. Sam Donnell played in bad
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  weather against the the Rams, the Rams.
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  It it wasn't it wasn't great weather the the week before Sam
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  Donnell had to play in bad weather.
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  I I'm not going to sit here and make excuses on well, this guy,
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  this guy had to play in snow every single weekend.
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  To me, Drake May has been sensational all season.
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  He's a two year player. He's playing in his first Super
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  Bowl in his second year. There's a lot of pressure on
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  him. Sam Donald's been in the league
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  for eight years. Sam Donald has never been here
• 21:08
  before, but Sam Donald has accomplished a lot.
• 21:11
  And and again, when you think about Sam Donald, Sam Donald, a
• 21:14
  lot of people gave up on The Jets, gave up on him.
• 21:17
  Carolina after making the trade, giving up a second and a fourth.
• 21:21
  They gave up on him. And that's, that's why this
• 21:24
  story is, is so incomplete until we find out what's going to
• 21:28
  happen in Super Bowl 60. I know everybody can't wait
• 21:32
  until Bad Bunny and the halftime show.
• 21:34
  I, I'm, I'm not watching that. I, I, I can't wait for this game
• 21:37
  because to me, this is the worst option.
• 21:41
  And over the years, I got a chance to see the Patriots play
• 21:44
  the Giants in a Super Bowl, not once, but twice.
• 21:46
  And who was I voting for? I was, I was voting for the New
• 21:49
  York Giants, even though I couldn't stand the Giants.
• 21:52
  And now I look at this game, I look at Sam Donald, who was a
• 21:55
  Jets draft pick. He was the number three pick in
• 21:58
  the draft of Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen, Lamar
• 22:03
  Jackson. When you look at that draft now,
• 22:05
  this could go down as one of the greatest quarterback drafts of
• 22:08
  all time. The first guy out of that draft
• 22:12
  to go to the Super Bowl is Sam Donald, and Sam Donald might be
• 22:15
  the first quarterback out of that draft club.
• 22:18
  When you think about Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, two of these
• 22:22
  this century, what really this era's greats.
• 22:25
  When you look at what Sam Donald has done over the last two
• 22:28
  seasons, I wouldn't say he's accomplished as much as Josh
• 22:32
  Allen and Lamar Jackson, but he's right there with them.
• 22:34
  Think about it. Sam Donald was practically
• 22:37
  thrown to the wolves. Everybody gave up on him and
• 22:40
  then Seattle saw one season with Minnesota, maybe a lucky season.
• 22:44
  Gave him a three-year, $100 million contract.
• 22:47
  Took a chance with Sam Donald and hit a home run, hit a Grand
• 22:51
  Slam because in McDonald and Sam Donald's first year as coach and
• 22:56
  quarterback, they're playing in a Super Bowl.
• 22:59
  And that goes to the same thing with Drake May.
• 23:02
  This is Drake May and Mike Vrabel's first year as coach and
• 23:06
  quarterback, and they're playing in a Super Bowl.
• 23:08
  So when you're talking about a connection, this Super Bowl is
• 23:12
  very highly connected in many different ways.
• 23:15
  Think about it this how many Seattle Seahawks have played for
• 23:18
  the Patriots? How many Patriots have played
• 23:21
  for the Seattle Seahawks? And again, there's a lot of Jets
• 23:26
  in this game, a lot of Giants in this game.
• 23:30
  So when you look at the optional thought of this game, you're
• 23:34
  kind of as a Jet fan or even a Giant fan, you're wondering,
• 23:37
  well, this could have been us. Or Sam Donald could have been
• 23:40
  starting quarterback for the New York Jets.
• 23:41
  And if The Jets didn't give up on Sam Donald as quick as they
• 23:44
  did, maybe Sam Donald takes The Jets into the playoffs for the
• 23:47
  first time in 15 years. Maybe Sam Donald's the guy.
• 23:50
  Maybe Sam Donald is an MVP candidate with the New York
• 23:52
  Jets, or Drake May. How many people were questioning
• 23:56
  Drake May when he came out of North Carolina A.
• 23:58
  Lot more than I would have thought.
• 24:00
  I mean, how many North Carolina quarterbacks were drafted in the
• 24:02
  first round? We remember one of them, Mitch
• 24:04
  Trabinsky, Was he successful as a starting quarterback in the
• 24:07
  league? No.
• 24:10
  So when you look at you these two teams and you can, you can
• 24:14
  contradict a lot of these options that these teams have
• 24:18
  and look at the growth throughout this season.
• 24:21
  Look at what the Patriots have done all season on say whatever
• 24:24
  you want. And I say it because I think the
• 24:26
  Patriots had the easiest schedule in the NFL.
• 24:28
  They won 10 games in a row. It's not easy to win 10 games in
• 24:31
  a row in the NFL. It's not you play who's on your
• 24:34
  schedule. It just so happens you had to
• 24:38
  play The Jets twice and Miami twice, which is pretty damn
• 24:41
  easy. But again, when you look at
• 24:44
  these two teams and and again, the talent when we going back
• 24:48
  and forth and understanding where these teams lie and why I
• 24:51
  think that the Seattle Seahawks are just a little bit better or
• 24:54
  maybe could win by 7 to 10 points in this game is because
• 24:59
  one, I think their kicker is better.
• 25:02
  I think we all know their kicker kicker was from the New York
• 25:05
  Jets and he was very. He was accomplished kicker for
• 25:09
  the New York Jets before Seattle gave him an extension.
• 25:11
  Yeah, they let him go and then they to bring your favorite
• 25:13
  kicker Greg, Sir Line. Yeah, don't get me started about
• 25:16
  that. But we have seen these teams and
• 25:20
  if it comes down to kicking, the advantage goes to Seattle.
• 25:26
  This isn't an infinitary and I'm not taking shots at the Patriots
• 25:29
  kicker. The Patriots have a competent
• 25:31
  kicker. But if it goes to field goal to
• 25:33
  field goal, I'm going to trust in Seattle's offense then the
• 25:38
  Patriots offense. Also, I don't think the Patriots
• 25:42
  have a player like Najiba on their roster now.
• 25:46
  Stefan Diggs has been a player like that.
• 25:48
  He has been a great player for many, many years.
• 25:50
  He's not the same player he once was.
• 25:53
  A lot of people gave up on him in fantasy.
• 25:56
  As a matter of fact, if if you play fantasy this year, a lot of
• 25:59
  people dropped him in the 4th for 5th week because he wasn't
• 26:02
  playing good football. I picked him up in two of my
• 26:04
  leagues and he helped me get into the playoffs and make a run
• 26:07
  and win 2 out of the three playoff championships that I won
• 26:11
  in fantasy. I I look at both teams and, and
• 26:15
  you go back and forth and, and there's a lot of questions and a
• 26:18
  lot of a lot of injury reports that have come out.
• 26:20
  Sam Donald is in healthy Drake May They're going to say that
• 26:24
  I'm in. How do you pronounce his name?
• 26:26
  Aman Wari. I'm in Wari, a guy and I, I mess
• 26:29
  up his name. You were 9 out of 10 on the 1st.
• 26:31
  Two, I'm going to call him E man, OK, Because I, the, the
• 26:34
  fact here is these guys, some of these names are just ridiculous,
• 26:38
  But I, I, I believe that there's a reason why these teams are
• 26:43
  matched up. I It would have been maybe the
• 26:45
  Patriots and the Rams, and that would have came back to 2019
• 26:49
  when the Rams played the Patriots, 2018-2019 when the
• 26:52
  Rams play the Patriots and the Rams lost 13 to three against
• 26:55
  the Patriots. When they shouldn't have even
• 26:56
  made. It I think that when you look at
• 26:59
  this game there when you're trying to compare both teams, I
• 27:02
  don't know if you can compare both teams, but both teams are
• 27:06
  considerably the best teams in their conferences.
• 27:09
  The Seattle Seahawks were the best team in the NFC and the
• 27:12
  Patriots were the second best team in the AFC.
• 27:15
  The AFC was much weaker than the NFC this year and the NFC was
• 27:19
  surprised by the success story of the Seattle Seahawks.
• 27:22
  And has a lot to do with Sam Donald, has a lot to do with his
• 27:25
  accomplishments, has a lot to do with Mike McDonald, who I think
• 27:27
  is coach of the year. And I think what they have done
• 27:30
  Seattle, what they have done in such a short time after Pete
• 27:33
  Carroll, Russell Wilson and the Legion of Boom are gone now and
• 27:38
  Marshawn Lynch rebuilding this team, I got to give a shout out
• 27:41
  to Schneider. I believe the second or you can
• 27:44
  argue the best GM in all the football, he's been there a
• 27:46
  significant amount of time. I think he's been there over 16
• 27:49
  years. He's built teams from top to
• 27:51
  bottom. And he made the choice to bring
• 27:53
  in Sam Donald. He was the one that gave Sam
• 27:56
  Donald that three-year, $100 million contract.
• 27:59
  And it's changed the fortunes of the Seattle Seahawks.
• 28:01
  There's no more Russell Wilson screaming, asking for his own
• 28:05
  locker room and, and all that crap that we've heard in the
• 28:08
  past and his own teammates not liking him.
• 28:10
  Everybody likes Sam Donald, everybody loves Sam Donald.
• 28:13
  And Sam Donald is is happy where he is.
• 28:16
  And it it's the first time I can honestly say that the Seattle
• 28:19
  Seahawks are one. It's not about one set of the
• 28:23
  team or the Legion of Boom that's going to dominate the
• 28:26
  game. This team is fully talented from
• 28:29
  top to bottom, from special teams, the defense, the offense,
• 28:32
  and they have a quarterback now. This team is as low as a as a
• 28:35
  team going to a Super Bowl than any of the teams that have been
• 28:38
  in a Super Bowl the last five. Seasons even on their defense,
• 28:41
  there's like a levels of it that's a little different than
• 28:43
  even their their legion of boom defenses.
• 28:45
  The secondary got all the rave with the legion of boom and
• 28:47
  obviously Bobby Wagner was great too.
• 28:48
  But you look at the levels of the Patriots of the Seahawks
• 28:51
  defense now you talk about Leonard Williams.
• 28:52
  They also they also have defensive tackle depth with
• 28:55
  Jaron Reid. They brought back it was Pete
• 28:56
  Carroll draft pick and they brought him back.
• 28:57
  Byron Murphy was a good first round pick for them.
• 28:59
  They have all these edge rushers that are all all different
• 29:01
  types. I think you have that and then
• 29:04
  you have you look at the Steve Weiss was talking about when he
• 29:06
  was on the show too. A secondary that is just super
• 29:09
  versatile when you look at Witherspoon is a #1 corner that
• 29:12
  can play both slot and outside at a really high level.
• 29:15
  And then you got Woolen, who we talked about with the blunder
• 29:17
  last week, but he's a big physical guy that I've been
• 29:20
  curious on the match up with him versus Jabba's boy Keshaan
• 29:22
  Booty, because they're both big body guys.
• 29:24
  If those two are matched up on each other, who can win?
• 29:27
  Who can win out in? There, Woolen made the final
• 29:28
  play of the game that pretty much kept them out of.
• 29:31
  Played really well after that and I think it was very helpful
• 29:34
  for a Seahawks team that was looking to get these corners
• 29:38
  really going in their scheme for a while.
• 29:39
  The first year. Last year when McDonald came in,
• 29:42
  it took a little while especially to get going in that.
• 29:45
  Kobe Bryant's another one rotated around that's played
• 29:47
  well. Who was soft Gardner's team in
• 29:49
  Cincinnati? It kind of did well in Pete
• 29:51
  Carroll's scheme and then took a while with this scheme.
• 29:53
  Then you got the pass rushers too.
• 29:54
  We were Errol and I were calling DeMarcus Lawrence like doomed
• 29:57
  for the last three years with Dallas.
• 29:59
  He didn't, except for the one year he didn't really play well.
• 30:01
  He's played really well in that scheme and coming over as a free
• 30:03
  agent of Shannon Nosu, A34 hybrid versatile pass rusher on
• 30:07
  from the Chargers who's played well in that scheme.
• 30:09
  And then those Pete Carroll draft picks they drafted later
• 30:12
  have all played their role of getting, I think the second
• 30:14
  highest pressure rate in the NFL this year in.
• 30:16
  Seattle and been one of the better offensive lines in the
• 30:18
  NFL as well since they added Cross and that was the draft.
• 30:22
  They brought in Cross in the first round where the Giants
• 30:25
  passed up on him. They decided to bring in Evan
• 30:27
  Neil. If you remember they had a
• 30:29
  chance to bring across, they chose Evan and then if you look
• 30:33
  at it, they drafted another offensive lineman, a tackle in
• 30:37
  the third round of them not mistake.
• 30:38
  Is Abraham Lucas the right? Tackle and, and, and it's
• 30:41
  changed the fortunes because if you remember those Seattle
• 30:44
  Seahawks teams, their offensive line were as bad as an offensive
• 30:49
  line. I think they were like in the
• 30:51
  20s in the NFL for many, many years.
• 30:53
  Even when they won the Super Bowl, I think they were ranked
• 30:55
  like 21st or 22nd in the league. They're one of the top ten
• 30:59
  offensive lines in the league. And they done it in drafting
• 31:03
  players. They really did not go into free
• 31:04
  agency and bring in a lot of free agent free agents.
• 31:07
  They built it around the draft and that's what you have to do.
• 31:10
  You have to build around the trenches.
• 31:11
  That's what and, and, and that's the one thing I I could say
• 31:14
  about Seattle has done on the defense side of the ball.
• 31:16
  They have used the trade deadline and they've used free
• 31:21
  agency to build that defensive line.
• 31:22
  They really didn't go into the draft as much as they've done in
• 31:26
  the past when they drafted Wagner and all those other guys.
• 31:30
  They did it a different way with McDonald and with a new, with
• 31:34
  this, with the, I guess you could say this new regime.
• 31:37
  So I, I think that what is different about this team more
• 31:40
  than ever is they have a, a quarterback that's not
• 31:43
  backlashing the coach. You're not hearing things that
• 31:45
  are going on in locker room that the defense doesn't like the
• 31:48
  offense. Everybody likes each other.
• 31:50
  They're all dancing around and prancing around.
• 31:52
  And you can tell ownership trust in Schneider, ownership trust
• 31:56
  that Schneider is going to make the right decisions when when it
• 31:59
  comes to this organization and putting these players in the
• 32:02
  right positions to succeed. Yeah, I was going to mention
• 32:04
  too, like you mentioned, the free agency built to defend the
• 32:07
  kind of these like one year Flyers or two year Flyers that
• 32:10
  they took on a lot of these younger players on defense and
• 32:12
  the Patriots kind of did the same thing.
• 32:14
  It's weird to think a lot of times you see in past years in
• 32:16
  the NFL with probably outside of the Chiefs, where you look at
• 32:19
  defenses that have really built homegrown being the better
• 32:21
  defenses. And now you look at these two
• 32:22
  defenses, Seattle building a lot of new guys.
• 32:25
  Ernest Jones another one, the linebacker that was with the
• 32:27
  Rams bumped around the league too.
• 32:28
  And then on the Patriots side, they bring in Harold Landry.
• 32:30
  They bring in Carlton Davis as a free agent.
• 32:32
  Robert Spillane, who's one of the linebackers that's hurt
• 32:34
  right now was a Steelers, a Raiders guy.
• 32:36
  Like they don't have a lot of even homegrown guys either.
• 32:38
  Gonzalez was homegrown in bar more.
• 32:40
  Those are their two big ones that are homegrown.
• 32:42
  But a lot of the Patriots guys are not like that either.
• 32:44
  And same kind of thing with the offensive side of the bull
• 32:46
  instead of booty and and Andre Stevenson, like you have a
• 32:49
  offensive line that's patchworked with Garrett
• 32:51
  Bradbury and Morgan Moses and all these guys.
• 32:54
  Like outside of Campbell, they don't have a lot of there
• 32:56
  either. And Hunter Henry journeyman
• 32:58
  arson Hooper journeyman at tight end.
• 32:59
  Like it's crazy to think we we're in an era now where just
• 33:02
  because of the way free agent works, it's a lot of times it's
• 33:04
  just scheme adaptable guys at this point, which usually don't
• 33:07
  see that usually takes a year or two to gel.
• 33:09
  If you try to build your team in free agency, that.
• 33:11
  Way that's that's the amazing thing about this story is both
• 33:14
  teams have young coaches and I I'm Vrabel's not a young coach
• 33:18
  but he this is his first year with the New England Patriots.
• 33:21
  He was with Tennessee and he has experience.
• 33:23
  McDonald's only been here for a couple of years and he's built
• 33:26
  this from scratch, which Schneider.
• 33:28
  But what makes it amazing is this is the first year he's with
• 33:31
  Sam Donald and this is Vrabel's first year with Drake May and
• 33:34
  how this is such an an amazing thought when you're going to a
• 33:39
  Super Bowl where you have two coaches that have never been in
• 33:42
  this situation before playing against one another with a
• 33:45
  quarterback that they've only had for one season.
• 33:48
  And Raybould has a younger quarterback, a 2223 year old kid
• 33:52
  that has never played in a big game like this.
• 33:54
  He never played in a national championship with North
• 33:56
  Carolina. He's never been in a position
• 33:58
  where the pressure is on him that that to me is going to make
• 34:01
  champions. We saw it with Tom Brady.
• 34:03
  Tom Brady, his first year he went to a Super Bowl.
• 34:06
  Remember that he took over for Drew Bledsoe.
• 34:09
  He took that team all the way to the Super Bowl and beat the
• 34:11
  Rams. And he was a young kid and they
• 34:14
  chose Tom Brady over Drew Bledsoe, a guy that they paid
• 34:18
  $100 million to the year before that.
• 34:21
  And that was because of coach Bill Belichick and obviously
• 34:24
  Robert Kraft saying that we're going to let the kid do it.
• 34:27
  He won seven games out of the 8 or 9 games that he played, and
• 34:31
  we're going to ride or die with this guy.
• 34:32
  And he took him all the way to the Super Bowl to win.
• 34:36
  I remember what Super Bowl it was, but knocking off the great
• 34:39
  Rams team now, yes, by gate was going on and all that other
• 34:42
  stuff where everybody thinks that the Patriots cheated and
• 34:44
  they probably did. But with a young quarterback
• 34:47
  going into a game with a first year, think about it, it was
• 34:50
  Bill Belichick first year with Tom Brady.
• 34:54
  I mean, if you crossover now, this is Mike Vrabel's first year
• 34:58
  with Drake May think about. I never even thought of that.
• 35:01
  When you think about the past of the accomplished New England
• 35:04
  Patriots teams to now, it is amazing to think that Mike
• 35:08
  Vrabel's first year, he took this team all the way to the
• 35:10
  Super Bowl. Yeah, he played a, a third
• 35:12
  string quarterback in the AFC title game and they played the
• 35:15
  Texans and CJ Stroud, who is not I, I would say I do not believe
• 35:19
  CJ Stroud in my eyes is a competent playoff quarterback
• 35:24
  yet. And I, I haven't seen enough of
• 35:25
  CJ Stroud. And maybe we'll see one more
• 35:27
  year of it. And if he fails to be an
• 35:29
  accomplished quarterback in the playoffs, maybe the Texans look
• 35:32
  other, you know, look other, other ends, maybe Davis Mills if
• 35:37
  they decide to bring him back, or maybe they draft another
• 35:39
  quarterback because you you have to buy in to the coach.
• 35:44
  You have to buy in to the quarterback play.
• 35:46
  And I don't know if the the New England Patriots have proven
• 35:49
  enough of that yet in the playoffs.
• 35:51
  They got a chance to do it against a very good Seattle
• 35:53
  Seahawks team. If the Patriots beat Seattle,
• 35:56
  Drake May is going to have to play at an MVP caliber.
• 35:59
  Because if he don't and he plays like he has been throughout the
• 36:03
  playoffs, fumbling the ball, making mistakes and forcing the
• 36:06
  ball into places that he feels uncomfortable in, I think it's
• 36:09
  going to be a long, long Sunday at Super Bowl 60 in San.
• 36:13
  Yeah, I think both teams are going to lean on running game
• 36:15
  pretty early as it is. I think especially with both
• 36:17
  quarterbacks dealing with injuries, I don't think they're
• 36:19
  going to want to rush them in and try to force feed
• 36:21
  everything. And Drake May, we've talked
• 36:22
  about, it's been kind of turnover prone at times.
• 36:24
  And Seattle, if they're going to be able to rush the passer the
• 36:26
  way they have so far in the first two playoff games against
• 36:28
  a good Rams offensive line and a pretty good 49ers offensive
• 36:31
  line, that's going to be a lot of pressure on May and then
• 36:33
  McDonald's. So we've know we've been prone
• 36:35
  to mistakes at certain points. And even with Charbon a out, you
• 36:37
  saw a good workload with Walker in the beginning of that Rams
• 36:40
  game. It took it took a little while
• 36:42
  to get going. He got better in the
• 36:43
  second-half, but expect both teams to be able to do that.
• 36:45
  And then like I said before, the secondary receivers are to be
• 36:47
  the difference in this game and jig buzz the star, obviously.
• 36:49
  But can the Patriots get somebody to break out random?
• 36:52
  And then can the Seahawks, their number two guys, get any of the
• 36:54
  guys going like they did against the Rams?
• 36:56
  This is a very fascinating game, guys, because Sam Darnold in his
• 37:00
  entire career has been known as a turnover machine and he still
• 37:03
  turned the ball over, at least with interceptions above average
• 37:07
  in the NFL, although had a great year for, you know, wasn't a bad
• 37:10
  year. He just takes chances with the
• 37:12
  ball and sometimes there's a defense he gets confused.
• 37:15
  The McVeigh got him for four interceptions earlier in the
• 37:19
  season. He had some struggles.
• 37:21
  Obviously, he solved McVeigh in the last and he's really proven
• 37:24
  in these two playoff games that he's right, that he deserves to
• 37:28
  be exactly where he is right now in power to Sam Darnold for
• 37:31
  that, you know, guys like it's just really impressive.
• 37:33
  Now, Drake May hasn't looked great in the playoffs, but
• 37:37
  they've won because he's made winning plays.
• 37:39
  It's that game manager type of player that he has to be.
• 37:42
  But if he turns the ball over, they've got no chance.
• 37:46
  So you're asking Drake May to be perfect, And I don't think Sam
• 37:49
  Darnold needs to be as perfect for Seattle in this game because
• 37:52
  this defense, guys, this defense is crazy.
• 37:55
  Errol, Errol, it's like they swarm and contain.
• 37:58
  I showed a clip of it earlier where Christian McCaffrey had
• 38:02
  nowhere to go that entire game. They had him contained.
• 38:05
  And if you think Drake May's running out if Christian
• 38:07
  McCaffrey can't, I got news for you that he's not going to have
• 38:10
  those long scrambles. That's what they're going to
• 38:12
  have to stop. They're not going to be able to
• 38:13
  run the ball. Romandre Stevens is not going to
• 38:15
  be able to run the ball like he did against the Broncos in the
• 38:18
  snow. There's no way that he's going
• 38:20
  to be able to do that. They're going to have to use
• 38:21
  more Henderson in this game. East West type of runs, they're
• 38:25
  going to have to use them in the backfield, a toss in the ball, a
• 38:28
  lot of slants, maybe use them in the as a wide receiver, a spread
• 38:32
  spread the offense out on the line at the line of scrimmage
• 38:34
  and, and, and use these guys as weapons because honestly, the
• 38:39
  Patriots don't have a lot of weapons.
• 38:40
  Stefan now Booty, he's he's a good player.
• 38:44
  He's been an optional player for, for a guy like Drake May
• 38:48
  all season long. He's been a touchdown machine,
• 38:51
  especially in the second-half of the game.
• 38:53
  You know what, what Seattle's going to do, They're going to
• 38:56
  play one-on-one on the secondaries.
• 38:57
  They've got 2 competent great corners.
• 39:00
  They have great safety plays. They're going to use different
• 39:03
  blitz packages. You know, McDonald's comes from
• 39:05
  that Baltimore Ravens style of game.
• 39:07
  They're going to use those kind of plays.
• 39:09
  They're going to try to trick and make Mike Vrabel
• 39:12
  uncomfortable and put Drake May on a comfortable uncomfortable
• 39:15
  position like the Texans did in that game where they forced how
• 39:19
  many fumbles in that game and thank God they pounced on top of
• 39:22
  it. It might not be so lucky against
• 39:24
  a young, fast Seattle Seahawks team that have been very, very
• 39:29
  good all season long. When they knocked the ball out
• 39:31
  of a running backs hands or a wide receiver's hands, they
• 39:34
  pounce on it. This this is a young, fantastic
• 39:36
  team. And remember the Seattle
• 39:38
  Seahawks when they were at the top of their games with the
• 39:40
  Legion of Boom, They were a young roster that was a young,
• 39:43
  young team. Legion of Boom.
• 39:46
  You talk about Richard Sherman, we talk about the guys that they
• 39:49
  had over there and the talent that they had over there.
• 39:52
  I I remember it and remember when they won the Super Bowl
• 39:55
  when they completely dominated against that Broncos defense.
• 39:58
  I mean that Broncos offense which was one of the best
• 40:00
  offensive teams in NFL history with Peyton Manning and and that
• 40:04
  talent with if I'm not mistake. Decker, Demarious Thomas.
• 40:08
  Yeah. It was in New York, it was
• 40:11
  before a snowstorm. I remember it, and they
• 40:13
  completely dominated the game. As a matter of fact, the first
• 40:15
  couple of plays of the game was a safety.
• 40:17
  I I'm telling you right now, this game is not going to be
• 40:21
  like that. And I do believe there there's
• 40:23
  going to be offense in this game.
• 40:25
  I could see this game 2724. I, I think they'll be offense in
• 40:29
  this game, but I think you're going to see more offense in the
• 40:32
  second-half. Both coaches have not played
• 40:34
  against one another this year. Seattle has not played against
• 40:37
  the Patriots this year. So they haven't seen enough of
• 40:39
  them. And the Patriots could watch
• 40:41
  film all they want. They haven't been on the field
• 40:43
  with Walker, They haven't been on the field with Nijigba.
• 40:46
  They haven't been on the field with Sam Donald, and Sam
• 40:49
  Donald's playing the best football of his career.
• 40:51
  The last three games of the playoffs has been absolutely
• 40:55
  dominant. He's dominant his last two
• 40:58
  games, actually, he's been as dominant as any quarterback in
• 41:00
  the league. So he what, 8 touchdowns?
• 41:03
  I think he has in the playoffs so far.
• 41:05
  He has been as good as anybody. So.
• 41:07
  And now you're going into a Super Bowl.
• 41:09
  Yes, he's never been here before, but he understands what
• 41:12
  it takes to win ball games. Drake May doesn't.
• 41:15
  Drake May has never been in a position like this in his whole
• 41:18
  career. Maybe in high school he did, but
• 41:20
  not in his whole career. And yes, he has four other
• 41:22
  brothers or five other brothers that beat him up when he was a
• 41:25
  kid. And you hear all these stories.
• 41:27
  It's not the same thing when you're on the football field
• 41:29
  with £350 defensive lineman trying to take that off.
• 41:33
  So this game is going to be very, very interesting.
• 41:36
  It's going to come down to, I believe, the running games.
• 41:39
  Who's going to be able to push the lines and what offensive
• 41:43
  line is going to open up holes for the running game to dominate
• 41:47
  the line of scrimmage? I just want to respond to Jeff's
• 41:49
  comments. Seattle's go to play a lot of
• 41:51
  cover six. Yeah, it's interesting because
• 41:52
  Seattle's defenses had a high percentage of zone throughout
• 41:55
  the year, but I forget. I forget if it was Cynthia
• 41:58
  Freeland or one of the other. It was Cynthia.
• 42:00
  Yeah, I think she was saying that Seattle in the playoffs has
• 42:04
  played a higher percentage of man than any other team, so they
• 42:06
  kind of change it up on him. Because of their secondary, they
• 42:09
  have 4 competent secondary players, they have two corners
• 42:13
  that could be ones on any other team and they have one safety
• 42:17
  that has been one of the top five safeties in the league.
• 42:19
  So and, and their other safety is pretty damn good.
• 42:21
  Their strong safety is pretty damn good too.
• 42:23
  So they have they have the capability to shut you down in
• 42:27
  the open field where the only way you're going to beat them is
• 42:30
  using different packages, short passes.
• 42:32
  And I think that's what the Patriots are going to do early
• 42:35
  in the game. Short passes give Drake May a
• 42:37
  little bit more confidence in the open field.
• 42:39
  So he could step into some of the passes and use that running
• 42:42
  game to to his to expose or he'll he'll try to expose that
• 42:47
  front seven of the Seattle Seahawks.
• 42:49
  Yeah, I'm curious, curious. Drake May running too.
• 42:51
  I think Fish, you put that in with the read off as well.
• 42:53
  Drake May running was an X Factor in that Broncos game
• 42:56
  because they needed to run. Now again in the snow.
• 42:58
  It's obviously different circumstances, but I'm curious
• 43:00
  to see if they have designed plays with Josh McDaniels, which
• 43:02
  is kind of out of his void normally like what Drake May.
• 43:06
  I think most of his runs this year have been less designed
• 43:08
  runs except maybe in the red zone.
• 43:10
  So I'm curious to see if Josh McDaniels goes to that in the
• 43:12
  middle of the field to try to stretch it out if they know
• 43:14
  Stevenson's having trouble because Seattle's going to.
• 43:16
  It's tough to run inside on Seattle and then Henderson, too,
• 43:20
  trying to get it going in the playoffs as it is.
• 43:22
  It's tough to do anything against Seattle.
• 43:24
  That's the problem. They're they're this isn't on
• 43:27
  paper, it doesn't seem like a fair fight, the Seattle defense.
• 43:32
  Versus it never does. It never does.
• 43:34
  It doesn't look like a fair fight.
• 43:36
  And I here's what I what I'm seeing, I'm seeing really
• 43:39
  physical secondary guys as physical as they've had since
• 43:43
  the Legion of Boom. It I mean, Devin Witherspoon is
• 43:46
  a missile at cornerback. He's been an All pro every year
• 43:51
  he's been in the league. Nick, Amanda, Wari.
• 43:55
  He's a blitzing, strong safety like you used to see back in the
• 43:59
  day when they had they, they would just walk him up.
• 44:02
  He's coming. A man of war.
• 44:03
  He's like AI. Remember when the Don't worry
• 44:05
  that with Amanda Wari. I'm sorry, I had to.
• 44:07
  I had to correct. Like man, like man of war, like
• 44:10
  the old like. Maybe I should just call him the
• 44:12
  Man of war. How's that?
• 44:13
  That's look, he he is a man of war standing at that line
• 44:17
  coming. On Amanda Wari.
• 44:19
  Like, I just love safeties that play that way.
• 44:22
  It's great to have like a traditional box safety, but then
• 44:24
  he also plays more coverage than a traditional box safety.
• 44:27
  He's a great piece. Leonard Williams, you already
• 44:29
  talked about him. DeMarcus Lawrence.
• 44:31
  I could have sworn he was done two years ago.
• 44:35
  There was that playoff game between Dallas and Green Bay,
• 44:37
  and Green Bay lit them up for like 49 points or something like
• 44:41
  that. And I remember after that game,
• 44:44
  Micah Parsons pointed fingers right at DeMarcus Lawrence and
• 44:48
  basically saying he quit on the team and it was awkward for
• 44:51
  them. The whole next season they were
• 44:53
  terrible defensively. McCarthy gets fired and then
• 44:57
  obviously DeMarcus Lawrence left.
• 44:59
  I, I, I don't know. Parsons is gone too.
• 45:01
  Toxic situation. I think Lawrence has been great
• 45:04
  this year. I think it's Mike McDonald.
• 45:06
  I think McDonald has brought this team together.
• 45:08
  Even when they won the conference and a lot of people,
• 45:12
  I said it last week, a lot of people didn't like that they
• 45:14
  were celebrating and jumping for joy like they won something just
• 45:18
  because they won the conference. It was an accomplished an
• 45:20
  accomplishment for a young team that has we really been put
• 45:24
  together in in two years time, draft picks and free agency and
• 45:29
  putting this team and and getting them to work together
• 45:32
  and then bringing Sam Donald in to me.
• 45:34
  It's an amazing story because again, when we when we go back
• 45:38
  to the the Seattle Seahawks when they had Russell Wilson there,
• 45:41
  this guy was a third round draft pick who was taken, who was
• 45:44
  taken in the third round and wasn't going to start.
• 45:47
  They brought in Matt Flynn from the the Green Bay Packers and he
• 45:51
  had one great season taking over for Aaron Rodgers because he
• 45:53
  broke his collarbone, if you remember that.
• 45:56
  And I, I remember it very, very well.
• 45:58
  And Matt Flynn had a sensational year and he was a free agent.
• 46:01
  They gave him an extension that people were shaking their heads.
• 46:03
  And before the preseason was over, they gave the the reins to
• 46:07
  Russell Wilson and, and it took him two years, but two years
• 46:11
  with a young team and a young Russell Wilson, it took him all
• 46:13
  the way to Super Bowl and showed you why what Schneider did and
• 46:17
  why a young team could take that next step if you have the right
• 46:22
  pieces in place. And here's the thing, Mike
• 46:25
  McDonald is not Pete Carroll. He's not.
• 46:27
  But they're both defensive guys. And a lot of people say the way
• 46:31
  he coaches his team is a little bit different than Pete Carroll.
• 46:35
  Pete Carroll was a player player's coach.
• 46:37
  He would do what the players needed, wanted him to do as a
• 46:41
  coach and he would put them in the right position.
• 46:43
  Mike McDonald is more of a drill Sergeant.
• 46:45
  When he's on the football field, you can tell he's out there.
• 46:48
  He's telling these guys to put, you know, to play in the right
• 46:51
  positions. He's calling the plays and he's
• 46:53
  he's putting them in a position to succeed.
• 46:55
  And I think that to me has said a lot about Mike McDonald.
• 46:58
  And, and if you look at the Baltimore Ravens ever since Mike
• 47:03
  McDonald has left, their defense is not as accomplished as it was
• 47:07
  when he was there. Think about it.
• 47:09
  They were one of the top five defenses in the league when Mike
• 47:12
  McDonald was there. I think they were even the best
• 47:15
  defensive line in football in. 2023 they were #2 in football.
• 47:18
  Yeah, yeah. And it was because of Mike
• 47:20
  McDonald. He leaves and they drop a week.
• 47:23
  Every single week after that, all the way from two years.
• 47:26
  They got worse, worse, worse. Last year, everybody thought
• 47:29
  they were going to be a top 10 defense.
• 47:31
  They went from a top 10 defense the year before.
• 47:34
  They fell all the way out. They were one of the worst
• 47:36
  defenses in the league. I think they were ranked 25th or
• 47:39
  20. 6th They got better after the bye week, but it still
• 47:41
  wasn't enough. You mentioned something earlier
• 47:42
  about that defense playing a lot of cover 6.
• 47:44
  I always called it 42. You got cover 4 principles on
• 47:47
  one side, cover 2 principles on the other side of the field and
• 47:51
  all I saw that happen because it was the cat and mouse game of
• 47:55
  the two best coaches calling plays.
• 47:57
  I think in the league between McVeigh and McDonald last round,
• 48:01
  McVeigh caught him on that touchdown to Karen Williams on a
• 48:05
  what do you call a running back mesh play.
• 48:07
  Basically all the receivers from the left run to the right and
• 48:10
  then Williams. It's usually another receiver
• 48:12
  coming the other way, but they did with the running back, which
• 48:14
  is. What is dirty?
• 48:16
  But the reason why that was so successful is because I
• 48:20
  guarantee you This is why McVeigh did it, because he knew
• 48:23
  that they're playing in man, which is what they were doing on
• 48:26
  that play. The linebacker would be at the
• 48:28
  exact same depth as the safety and they'd run into each other
• 48:30
  and they wouldn't. And the linebacker wouldn't be
• 48:32
  able to get to Williams. Williams was wide open for that
• 48:34
  exact reason. So what, they were going back
• 48:37
  and forth playing more Cover 6. I don't expect as much cover 6
• 48:41
  this week, Speedy. I would say I think the athletes
• 48:45
  on the Seattle defense are better than the athletes.
• 48:47
  Yes, Stefan Diggs included on the Patriots offense.
• 48:51
  I expect a lot of man and them saying you're not better than me
• 48:55
  get open. I do believe, I do believe Mike
• 48:58
  Frabel is a smart coach and he has a game plan for everything
• 49:01
  McDonald's going to throw at him early in the game.
• 49:04
  And McDonald's not one of those guys that are going to throw you
• 49:06
  a trick play. He's not one of those guys.
• 49:09
  He does everything by the book and that's what makes McDonald a
• 49:12
  very unique coach because like we were talking about guys like
• 49:15
  Sean Payton or even Sean McVeigh.
• 49:18
  These guys are going to throw everything at you that you
• 49:20
  haven't seen on film. He's not one of those guys.
• 49:23
  He's the guy that plays it by the book.
• 49:26
  He plays the same defense, he plays the same offense and he
• 49:29
  likes to run the ball. The old Baltimore Ravenway is
• 49:33
  run, run, run. That is what the that is what
• 49:36
  the Seattle Seahawks like to do. You're going to see a lot of
• 49:38
  Walker early in this game. They're going to try to control
• 49:41
  the line of scrimmage and what they call their behemoths, those
• 49:44
  big beasts in the middle. They're going to use those guys
• 49:47
  to push the line and see how strong and how tough this
• 49:51
  defense, this front seven of the Patriots, who has been in elite
• 49:54
  defense all season long, especially stopping the run, how
• 49:58
  they can, you know, how they can edge up against that defense,
• 50:02
  which they haven't seen all season long.
• 50:03
  And that's another thing, by the way, Stefan Diggs got a lot of
• 50:06
  attention in his first Super Bowl appearance with him listing
• 50:11
  all the kinds of favorite serials and somebody else
• 50:15
  holding up a poster, a poster asking him to rank his favorite
• 50:19
  Cardi B song. So everybody's making jokes
• 50:23
  about this, Stefan and Stefan Diggs.
• 50:25
  This might be the last time we ever see him in a Super Bowl
• 50:29
  because he's never been here before and he's at the tail end
• 50:32
  of his career. He's got what, how many kids
• 50:33
  now? He's had four kids in the same
• 50:35
  year. So I don't know what he's named
• 50:36
  him and where his money is going, but we know where his
• 50:39
  money is going. I I mean honestly, but the fact
• 50:42
  here is him and Cardi B are dating and I don't know what she
• 50:45
  colored her hair for the Super Bowl, but I think her hair was
• 50:48
  green. I was it green or was it pink?
• 50:51
  I don't know what it was. Pink would fit that substance he
• 50:54
  was taking. Well, they are playing the
• 50:56
  Seattle Seahawks. So maybe, maybe they're wearing,
• 50:59
  maybe she's wearing green because she thinks she's, I
• 51:02
  don't know. But it's a very, I think Stefan
• 51:05
  Diggs is an interesting personality.
• 51:07
  I, I really do, I think he's, he's great for football.
• 51:10
  I, I think him and his brother have been one of those two of
• 51:13
  those guys that wherever they've been.
• 51:15
  And obviously Stefan Diggs, Trayvon Diggs has been with the
• 51:18
  Cowboys. He had a lot to say about the
• 51:20
  Cowboys organization and Dak Prescott over the last couple of
• 51:24
  years. And that's why he's no longer
• 51:25
  with him. I think he played for the
• 51:26
  Broncos. He played with the Packers after
• 51:28
  that and then he they already cut him.
• 51:29
  And they also. Got a lot to say with the bills.
• 51:31
  For the Broncos. Oh yeah, they might have signed
• 51:33
  him for like a week or so, but. I think he was on the Broncos.
• 51:35
  They were playing the Patriots. They already got, they already
• 51:37
  cut him too again after that. And then he also had a lot to
• 51:39
  say about the Bills organization, too, with Josh
• 51:41
  Allen. And then Stefan Diggs is no
• 51:43
  longer with the Bills because he had a lot to say.
• 51:45
  Then he went to the Texans and he had a lot to say about the
• 51:47
  Texans organization. And now he's with the New
• 51:50
  England Patriots. We haven't seen a lot of Stefan
• 51:52
  Diggs in his attacks to the New England Patriots.
• 51:55
  Maybe because Robert Kraft is is a little bit more quiet and Mike
• 51:59
  Frabel likes to control his players.
• 52:01
  But the fact that he's dating Cardi B, the fact that he has
• 52:05
  four kids with four different women in the same year says a
• 52:08
  lot about Stefan Diggs and what he likes to be in in the public
• 52:13
  eye. I, I don't know anything about
• 52:15
  what Cardi B, what his favorite Cardi B song is or what Syria
• 52:19
  likes to eat. I could care less.
• 52:21
  But I think it's good for football.
• 52:23
  I think it's good for the Super Bowl to have Stefan Diggs there
• 52:26
  to show his personality speaking.
• 52:28
  Speaking of personality, Sam Donald got involved in a food
• 52:31
  movement too, being given a foam hat of ham, starting a ham for
• 52:38
  Sam movement that created both hats and shirts.
• 52:41
  Now I seen a lot of different people and I I think it's Jimmy
• 52:45
  Kimmel that's walking around him and his his producer or whatever
• 52:49
  that guy is that Spanish guy walking around interviewing
• 52:52
  people. Yes, all these players wearing
• 52:55
  this ham, this ham hat and they've gone around all Super
• 53:00
  Bowl week so far. And I've seen all different
• 53:02
  players. I've seen Smith wear it.
• 53:05
  I've seen high Smith wear it. I've seen all different football
• 53:08
  players wearing it. And maybe, maybe it is Sam and
• 53:11
  I, I, we all remember suck for Sam with the, the New York Jets
• 53:15
  and why The Jets landed Sam Donald.
• 53:17
  Sam Donald should have been the first pick in that draft.
• 53:19
  It was Baker Mayfield and then Saquon Barkley and then Sam
• 53:22
  Donald and, and, and now we're starting to see what Sam Donald
• 53:26
  can do. And, and honestly, Sam Donald's
• 53:28
  a quiet guy. He's a ginger.
• 53:29
  His his, I think his grandfather was a Marlboro Man.
• 53:32
  This is a guy there it is. This is a guy that has been very
• 53:37
  quiet to the media. And the one thing that I could
• 53:40
  say about Sam Donald that he was happy about was when he left the
• 53:43
  New York Jets because of the way the fans treated him at the end.
• 53:46
  But even the fans of the New York Jets have been behind Sam
• 53:49
  Donald. And what Sam Donald has done
• 53:51
  throughout this season is been such an A great, such a great
• 53:55
  accomplishment. And I was a Jet fan and any Jet
• 53:58
  fans out there not rooting for him that shame on you.
• 54:00
  He he deserves a lot of credit Speedy for the accomplishments
• 54:04
  he accomplishments he has made all season long.
• 54:06
  Yeah, and it's interesting with this kind of thing like you
• 54:08
  always see Sam Darnold, reason a lot of Jets fans liked him at
• 54:11
  the time was he was also very humble to The Jets and all these
• 54:14
  outspoken quarterbacks, all these crazy media personalities,
• 54:17
  especially in that Sanchez, Tebow same year era.
• 54:19
  And Darnold was a quiet guy. It's cool to see him get that
• 54:23
  kind of personality going, kind of start a little thing, fun
• 54:25
  thing with his teammates too. And some of these, like you
• 54:27
  said, other other football players.
• 54:29
  Didn't Darnold like it was a few years ago?
• 54:32
  I think it was with Carolina. He had like 5 rushing touchdowns
• 54:35
  in the first few weeks of the. Season.
• 54:36
  Oh yeah. And and they were.
• 54:38
  Four and one. They were four and one.
• 54:40
  They came out hot out the gates with Sam Darnold.
• 54:44
  I don't remember the reason it fell apart.
• 54:46
  I think he got banged up and he came back and he wasn't hot
• 54:48
  anymore or something like that. But he's been unstoppable the
• 54:52
  last two seasons. I mean, I mean, he got the
• 54:54
  Minnesota GM fired because he didn't believe in him.
• 54:57
  And he should have because he won 14 games within the previous
• 55:01
  year, as we said on Monday show. But look, the guy is incredible.
• 55:06
  He he's done every proved everyone wrong.
• 55:08
  He was given up on by multiple teams.
• 55:12
  Well, they didn't. Develop him right?
• 55:14
  And even when he went to Carolina, they had no weapons.
• 55:16
  They had no wide receivers there.
• 55:18
  Carolina didn't get a wide receiver until recently in the
• 55:20
  draft. They never gave him weapons.
• 55:22
  The Jets never gave him any weapons over there.
• 55:26
  I, I, I mean, honestly, if The Jets just held on to him for
• 55:29
  another 5 or 6 years and drafted a Garrett Wilson and added some,
• 55:33
  you know, secondary players, maybe The Jets would have the,
• 55:37
  the more accomplished, a more accomplished team and more
• 55:41
  credible team offensively, which they haven't had.
• 55:44
  And now they bring in Frank Wright.
• 55:45
  And I, I mean, I wrote a story about it and it's very
• 55:47
  interesting, interesting to think that maybe Frank Wright
• 55:50
  can fix this offense, or maybe not because they, they have a
• 55:53
  lot of cleaning up to do. But Sam Donald is a guy that I
• 55:57
  believe just needed some time, needed some time to develop.
• 56:00
  I think that it helped him going to Kyle, Kyle Shanahan and Kyle
• 56:04
  Shanahan, giving him a little bit of time under his offense.
• 56:07
  Then going to O'Connell, who kind of is running the same kind
• 56:12
  of offense as Kyle Shanahan. And then getting a chance to go
• 56:17
  to Minnesota and learning under one of the, I believe one of the
• 56:20
  best young offensive coordinators in all the football
• 56:23
  right now who's going to get a coaching job after the season,
• 56:26
  after the playoffs, after the Super Bowl, because he's lined
• 56:29
  up to get the Raiders job. So I mean, and, and again, you
• 56:33
  have a defensive coordinate that shouldn't even be there with the
• 56:35
  Patriots. The defensive coordinate that
• 56:37
  was there in the beginning of the season was sick and he's out
• 56:40
  for the season. He takes over and this defense
• 56:43
  becomes one of the best run stopping defenses in the NFL and
• 56:46
  that goes to the the Seattle Seahawks and their offensive
• 56:50
  coordinator. He's been there for what, 2
• 56:52
  years with McDonald's? Three years with McDonald I.
• 56:54
  Think he was there before McDonald last year with Carol
• 56:57
  so. Yeah, so and getting a chance to
• 57:00
  really run his offense, his style of offense and and getting
• 57:03
  the opportunity to do it with Najigba.
• 57:05
  No more of that. You know, the craziness from
• 57:08
  different wide receivers where which they sent over there to
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  Pittsburgh and and, and and just an opportunity to open up the
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  offensive book. And I think that's the
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  difference right now. You have a competent quarterback
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  that can throw every single pass, something they had when
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  they had Russell Wilson at the early time of his career.
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  Russell Wilson after he lost his ability to move inside and out
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  of the pocket and he became more of a pocket present quarterback.
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  He wasn't the same quarterback. Sam Donald is a pocket present
• 57:38
  quarterback. He can use his legs.
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  He's been doing that all season long.
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  But his strength is his stepping into the pocket and making the
• 57:45
  throws. We see him.
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  We seen him do it in the USC. We seen him do it or when he was
• 57:49
  with the 49ers and we saw it last year with Justin Jefferson
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  in the Minnesota Vikings just obviously didn't have a very
• 57:55
  good playoff run. They lost in the first round.
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  So I he's been as accomplished as any quarterback we've seen
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  over the last couple years. Drake May was asked about some
• 58:05
  pregame superstitions from which his wife's famous baked goods
• 58:09
  are his favorite to standing in the same spot during the
• 58:13
  national anthem. And then even said offensive
• 58:18
  tackle Will Will Campbell will look good in a swimsuit as a
• 58:22
  swimsuit model. I don't know what he he's doing.
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  I don't know what him and and will Campbell do on on in their
• 58:27
  private time or whatever the hell they're doing.
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  I don't know. I It's pretty unique that Drake
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  May would come out and talk about Will Campbell, who's what,
• 58:35
  300 and something pounds. 12 was like 6 five or something.
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  And I'm looking at him in a swimsuit.
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  Errol, you were there. We were there last year.
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  It, it there's a lot of downtime, a lot of dumb
• 58:44
  questions can get asked. We interviewed some guy in a
• 58:48
  sparkling Chiefs technical. Yeah, you guys who's a Patriots
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  fan? You guys forced that on me, by
• 58:54
  the way. You guys absolutely forced that
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  on me. And when he.
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  Had like a Taylor Swift like mega fan type of deal going on.
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  He's probably wearing a Patriots nice coat this year.
• 59:05
  He'll. Be safe with Cardi B socks.
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  I don't know. I mean, he's a very unique
• 59:10
  individual. That was no doubt about.
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  He certainly was. I agree.
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  I think Darnold being competent and being able to run that
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  offense and him being great is just a plus because I think
• 59:19
  that's a team that's designed to just stop him defensively.
• 59:22
  Can the Patriots set the edge against that swarming defense?
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  And I I just love how they play outside in the, like I said, the
• 59:31
  safeties like just coming like knifing in from the edge unless
• 59:35
  you have like a great blocking tight end.
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  And I don't know if Hunter Henry is a great blocking tight.
• 59:39
  End. He's old, man.
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  He's old. Look, I don't really know.
• 59:42
  I don't have the PFF score up at that, but you're going to have
• 59:45
  to be a pretty darn good blocking tight end.
• 59:47
  We have one coming on the show soon, yes, to talk about Cross
• 59:51
  coming on the show soon. I will say this, I will say
• 59:54
  this, I like Drake May. I like his personality.
• 59:56
  I like what he stands for. Anybody that knows the story
• 59:58
  behind him, he's the youngest of five boys.
• 1:00:01
  His brothers used to pick on him.
• 1:00:03
  All his brothers play. I think all of them play college
• 1:00:05
  sports, some of them play professional sports.
• 1:00:08
  And he slowly but surely has become an elite quarterback.
• 1:00:13
  Elite quarterback. I didn't think he was going to
• 1:00:15
  be that as quick as he has now. Obviously the schedule bowls
• 1:00:18
  well for him. We'll see what he does.
• 1:00:19
  Next year, with the schedule being a little bit harder, they
• 1:00:22
  won the AFC, so they have to play all the number ones next
• 1:00:25
  year and I think they're matched up against the NFC West.
• 1:00:28
  AFC West and NFC North. North, so I'm interested to see
• 1:00:34
  how he matches up against better competition next year.
• 1:00:37
  But nevertheless, nevertheless, you you have to give him a
• 1:00:40
  little bit of credit for what he has done in such a short time.
• 1:00:44
  And that goes to the coaching. That goes to the the players
• 1:00:46
  believing in him and the offensive lineman, the young
• 1:00:49
  offensive line that the Patriots have with Will Campbell, who has
• 1:00:52
  been sensational all season long.
• 1:00:55
  A lot of people question his arm length and his hands size and
• 1:00:58
  all that other stuff and his footwork.
• 1:01:01
  Well ladies and gentlemen, now you know why the Patriots
• 1:01:04
  drafted him so low and why they have been so good on the run all
• 1:01:09
  season long. Running the ball through
• 1:01:11
  Henderson and running the ball through Remandre Stevenson.
• 1:01:15
  One of the main reasons why is because of him Jackson Smith.
• 1:01:19
  Najigo said that he would want to dunk on former Ohio State
• 1:01:23
  teammate CJ Stroud and said that his Buckeye teammates could
• 1:01:28
  create a 2028 Olympic football team that could win a gold
• 1:01:33
  medal. Well, if anybody doesn't know,
• 1:01:35
  in 2028, they're bringing flag football.
• 1:01:38
  Thank you, Tyree Kill, thank you very much.
• 1:01:41
  As Tyree Kill might be able to obviously compete because he's
• 1:01:46
  always wanted to win an Olympic gold medal and he wanted to do
• 1:01:49
  it in track and field. But we all know that he probably
• 1:01:52
  can't do that, but especially now after doing what he did to
• 1:01:55
  his leg. But Jackson Smith Nejigba is
• 1:01:58
  been such a fun player to watch. I didn't think he was going to
• 1:02:01
  be as good as he was this year, but CJ Strout and him have a
• 1:02:05
  very good relationship. CJ Strout, who's a pretty good
• 1:02:08
  basketball player, as I've I've heard over the over the last
• 1:02:11
  couple of years that CJ Strout was the best basketball player
• 1:02:15
  on that Ohio State Buckeyes team and he played in the NBA All
• 1:02:19
  Star, you know, celebrity game. We've seen CJ Stroud on a couple
• 1:02:23
  of these basketball things. So the three and three
• 1:02:26
  tournaments with ice cube, he played in that too.
• 1:02:29
  So CJ Stroud is a guy that loves the game of basketball and, and
• 1:02:32
  Jackson Smith, the jig, the jigbar has been as acrobatic.
• 1:02:36
  I mean, how many times have we seen him dunk over the hashes
• 1:02:39
  for, you know, with the field goal kick?
• 1:02:41
  And so I I mean, he has been unbelievable all season long.
• 1:02:45
  He's such an acrobatic offensive option.
• 1:02:47
  The guy has like sticky hands. I mean, he catches the ball how
• 1:02:50
  many times with with one hand all season long and he does it
• 1:02:53
  with ease. He makes it look so damn easy.
• 1:02:56
  And and now, now with the Olympics right around the corner
• 1:03:00
  in 2028, which is I I'd say right around the corner because
• 1:03:03
  that's two years flag football. These NFL players are going to
• 1:03:06
  want to have an opportunity to do that.
• 1:03:08
  Don't be surprised if you see some of these X tracking field
• 1:03:12
  players trying to play flag football with the speed that
• 1:03:16
  they have. Maybe we will see one of these,
• 1:03:19
  these 40 or 55 yard dash guys that can run, you know, they can
• 1:03:23
  run it with lightning speed. Maybe we see one of these guys
• 1:03:25
  actually play in an outlast Tyree kill in a, you know, a
• 1:03:28
  race all the way down the field. So I'm interested to see.
• 1:03:31
  I wouldn't be surprised if you see CJ Strout, Jackson Smith,
• 1:03:34
  Najigba and another Ohio State Buckeye teaming or joining
• 1:03:39
  forces to try to win Olympic gold medal.
• 1:03:41
  Yeah, why not? That's a loaded team already for
• 1:03:42
  Ohio State standards. Then you're dealing with a
• 1:03:45
  competition that it's going to be as much already as it is with
• 1:03:47
  football around the world. Even though it's growing, it's
• 1:03:49
  just still going to be harder as it is.
• 1:03:51
  That Will Campbell, Drake Bay on the other hand, yeah, that's a
• 1:03:53
  whole other story. JSN would be the world's
• 1:03:57
  greatest flag football player of all time because you can't touch
• 1:04:00
  him and you would just get dusted by him.
• 1:04:03
  He, it's like his hands are great, No one's saying they're
• 1:04:07
  not, but he runs. He gets open on deeper outs
• 1:04:09
  better than anyone I've seen in a very long time.
• 1:04:12
  Like he just cut people. It's like kind of like Odell
• 1:04:15
  type stuff. There's a lot of good route
• 1:04:17
  runners, young Odell. There's a lot of route good
• 1:04:19
  route runners in this league now.
• 1:04:20
  I mean, we used to talk about we we used to talk about so many,
• 1:04:24
  so many guys in the past and, and even tight ends.
• 1:04:27
  We have one good tight end coming on with us in just a few
• 1:04:30
  moments. I and he could say there are a
• 1:04:32
  lot of great tight ends in the past.
• 1:04:34
  Gonzales, remember him? Tony Gonzales had great hands
• 1:04:38
  and he was a basketball player. He played power forward in
• 1:04:41
  college and could have played in the NBA.
• 1:04:43
  He decided to play in the NFL and look, he's a Hall of Fame
• 1:04:45
  tight end. Gronkowski played basketball and
• 1:04:48
  and decided to play and start decided to play college football
• 1:04:53
  as well. And then obviously went into the
• 1:04:56
  NFL as a second round draft pick with the New England Patriots
• 1:04:58
  and was drafted that way. So I mean the, the great, the
• 1:05:03
  great hands that some of these guys have.
• 1:05:04
  And, and these guys, there are tight ends now that are running
• 1:05:07
  4 fives, 4 fours and they're 6 foot 66 foot five.
• 1:05:11
  You have offensive lineman running 4 sevens in, you know,
• 1:05:16
  in, in, in, in the 40s. You have defensive lineman,
• 1:05:20
  which we defensive lineman that ran a four six, I think it was,
• 1:05:23
  or 45I mean these guys, you guys are not human anymore.
• 1:05:27
  They're athletically gifted and it's amazing with the talent
• 1:05:31
  that some of these guys have. It is pretty damn amazing.
• 1:05:34
  So very interesting story. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:05:39
  our deuce of the day, the deuce of the day you log.
• 1:05:43
  Not a log. I don't have a log but.
• 1:05:52
  Ladies and gentlemen, you're waiting me for me to speak about
• 1:05:54
  hockey, and we do talk about hockey on the show.
• 1:05:56
  This isn't WFN, this isn't ESPN. This isn't Stephen A Smith or
• 1:06:01
  Craig Carton saying nobody gives a crap about hockey.
• 1:06:04
  Well, ladies and gentlemen, big story.
• 1:06:06
  If you're a Ranger fan, maybe you have your pom poms waving up
• 1:06:10
  in the air. Gavin McKenna was arrested this
• 1:06:13
  past week and the story coming out at Penn State, he's been
• 1:06:18
  partying a lot, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:06:20
  And Gavin McKenna was a lot of people believe was the
• 1:06:23
  predominant #1 pick of this year's NHL draft and and after
• 1:06:28
  the World World Hockey Championships didn't play very
• 1:06:32
  well for Team Canada, some people believe he's fallen 4
• 1:06:36
  spots, 4 spots, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:06:39
  And now some people believe after being arrested like this,
• 1:06:43
  he could fall maybe even 5 or 6 spots.
• 1:06:46
  And what does that spell for the New York Rangers?
• 1:06:48
  Maybe and, and the Rangers have three first round draft picks.
• 1:06:51
  They could still get the defenseman they want and move up
• 1:06:55
  and get Gavin McKenna. What a drift that would be.
• 1:06:58
  But ladies and gentlemen, that's not going to happen because you
• 1:07:01
  have AGM as dumb, as stupid as Chris Drury.
• 1:07:05
  And as long as Chris Drury is there, there is no way they're
• 1:07:09
  drafting Gavin McKenna or anybody good.
• 1:07:11
  So good luck to the New York Rangers as Rangers or Ranger
• 1:07:15
  fans are raving, waving and raving about Gavin McKenna
• 1:07:19
  falling in the draft and waving their pop pops high where they
• 1:07:22
  can land not one but two superstars in this year's draft.
• 1:07:26
  It's not going to happen because Chris Drake, Chris Drury is a
• 1:07:29
  complete moron. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:07:32
  is my deuce of the day. Thank you to all the fans on all
• 1:07:36
  the platforms for Spotify and Apple video and audio.
• 1:07:40
  Thank you to the fans on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook X YouTube.
• 1:07:44
  Jabba in the mouth. Shout out to Jabba Chamberlain.
• 1:07:48
  He's traveling all the way to Kansas City getting ready for
• 1:07:51
  the season for Hutch and his son Carter.
• 1:07:55
  Chamberlain has a lot of division ones.
• 1:07:57
  Schools are looking at Carter and hopefully he picks the right
• 1:08:01
  school and eventually becomes a top and first round draft pick
• 1:08:05
  like his dad is. So we're rooting for him.
• 1:08:08
  A shout out to Carter. I hope you have a great season
• 1:08:10
  this year with Hutch and and in your future is very bright like
• 1:08:14
  your father's was and we'll be back next week on Monday.
• 1:08:18
  Who do we have on speed? Nothing yet for Monday, but we
• 1:08:20
  do have a guest for Thursday. Nathan was able to get him a
• 1:08:23
  linebacker that also played with Howard Cross.
• 1:08:25
  Gary Reasons will be joining the show at 8:45 on Thursday.
• 1:08:27
  Right. New time, right guys?
• 1:08:30
  Yes, Sir. Next week our show will be
• 1:08:33
  starting at 6:45 Eastern Time, so it will be 7.
• 1:08:40
  The main show will be from 7:00 to 10:00.
• 1:08:42
  I'm sorry, 7:00 to 10:30. We might go a little bit over,
• 1:08:45
  but we're going to try to stick to the time 7:00 to 10:30.
• 1:08:48
  So for all the fans out there that are tuned in at 7:30 at
• 1:08:52
  night, we're going to move it to 7:00.
• 1:08:54
  It'll start at 6:45 because we do our spiel in the beginning of
• 1:08:58
  the show as we always do, but at 7:00 we will start the content.
• 1:09:03
  So get ready. New time and new year guys.
• 1:09:07
  It's going to be a great year for us.
• 1:09:08
  We're working on some big things.
• 1:09:10
  We're going to have some new segments and a lot of new
• 1:09:12
  content for you guys and new guests.
• 1:09:14
  So looking forward to it. Nathan's over there in San
• 1:09:16
  Francisco. I hope he's enjoying the nice
• 1:09:18
  weather. I, I think he said this morning
• 1:09:20
  it was like 40 something degrees over there, but it's going to
• 1:09:23
  hit its highs at 73. So it's, it's beautiful right
• 1:09:27
  now. He's enjoying the the beautiful
• 1:09:29
  weather at 70°. So enjoy the the time with
• 1:09:33
  Shador Sanders as you're sharing, whatever that is,
• 1:09:37
  whatever that. Is Wham chowder.
• 1:09:39
  I don't know what, it looks a little bit different to me.
• 1:09:41
  I wouldn't share anything with Shador Sanders when it comes to
• 1:09:44
  eating, that's for sure. Anyways, that's it ladies and
• 1:09:47
  gentlemen, we will see you next week.
• 1:09:49
  Have a very good weekend, enjoy the Super Bowl.
• 1:09:52
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• 1:09:55
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