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Patriots beat the Broncos in the AFC Championship! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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You're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not putting 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 George 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 Levon doing that. A game where you got to go
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before I told you, Giant fans Saquon Parker at.
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This point. Whatever you want.
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He's the best quarterback in the NFL, really.
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It's been a crazy, crazy weekend.
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A lot of snow here in Long Island, New York and New York to
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tri-state over there in New England as they're heading off
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to the Super Bowl. If you're a New England fan, I
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feel well, I feel for all the New York fans have to seeing the
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New England, yes, the New England Patriots colors on the
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Empire State Building yesterday or yesterday after moving
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forward to another Super Bowl. And it's it hasn't been since
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2018. We'll get into that a little bit
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in a little while actually. So it's crazy.
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I am not a person that's very, very happy today because I have
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to see two teams, one that had my quarterback, a guy that was
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drafted by the New York Jets in the 3rd as the third pick in the
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first round, Sam Darnold, move on finally to a Super Bowl.
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A guy that I expected to be a star in this league.
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The Jets didn't want to develop them.
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They sent them off to Carolina and I'll get into that.
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I'm not happy about that. And the New England Patriots,
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the hand Free Patriots, as we all say, Robert Kraft knows how
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to shake them, and he knows how to bake them.
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It was a snowy defensive battle in the AFC championship game as
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the New England Patriots outlasted the Denver Broncos
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6:50 to return to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2019.
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It was the second lowest scoring AFC championship game in NFL
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history. The Patriots had just 206 total
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yards in the game to the Broncos having just 181 yards and both
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teams averaged just over 3 yards per play.
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The Broncos defense had five sacks to the Patriots 3 sacks,
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but the Patriots defense forced 2 turnovers including the game
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ceiling interception by superstar cornerback Christian
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Gonzalez. The snow and the wind picked up
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after the second-half and both kickers also missed 2 field
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goals each as a result. The Patriots running game was
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the main difference as Mr. Ramandre Stevenson rush in
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rushed for 71 yards with quarterback Drake May doing most
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of his best work with his legs rushing for 65 yards.
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Meanwhile, the Broncos RJ Harvey had just 37 yards.
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JK Dobbits did not play and and and obviously was not activated
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from IR. The Patriots became the became
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the first team to ever finish nine and O on the road in a
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single season and became the first team to advance to a Super
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Bowl a year after losing 13 games.
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All right, so if you're a Patriot fan, you should be very
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excited. You should be very happy.
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If you're a Jet fan, a Giant fan or an any fan, you shouldn't and
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you wouldn't be happy that the Patriots are moving on to the
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Super Bowl. There's a lot to look at this
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game and wonder what happened. And I I blame Sean Payton for
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this. Sean Payton made a lot of
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mistakes, a lot of mistakes, some mistakes that probably in
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the offseason it's going to come back to him.
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He's going to watch film and he's going to wonder why he
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didn't do that. He knew that there was snow
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coming. He didn't know it was going to
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be as bad of a Blizzard that was coming over there in Denver.
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I'm I'm sure of it. But here's the facts.
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You are a big time sports team and you have guys upstairs.
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You're going to tell me you don't have a weather guy looking
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at the weather and seeing how it's going to hit them and the
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satellites? Because in the second quarter
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they had a chance to put their score up 10 to nothing.
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They had a chance to kick a field goal.
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I think it was in the second quarter, right?
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It was in the second. Goal.
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They missed the field goal in the second.
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They missed 1 field goal in the third.
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Yeah. So in the second quarter, no,
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I'm not talking about missing. In the second quarter, they had
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a chance to kick a field goal and he decided to go for.
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It that was in the second quarter.
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And I remember because a lot of people right before halftime, a
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lot of people were questioning it.
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And, and the reason why is, is because I know he believed in
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Stidham. And I, I heard before the game
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that Stidham looked good in the first.
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I, I think the second time a second time up a second time
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optional when he got a chance to get the ball down the field, he
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got the ball to who, who scored the touchdown, Sutton.
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But I think it was Mims junior that caught the ball 40
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something yards and he got them to the 10 yard line or 12 yard
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line if I'm not mistaken. And then he got it.
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He got the ball of Sutton, but there was a lot of questions
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with the play calling throughout the game.
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And I'm not saying Vrabel was the genius because Vrabel called
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a good game. There's no question that he did,
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but it it really bowled well for him going into the second-half
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of the game, especially with the wind turned on their backs.
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Because in the fourth quarter it worked on the Broncos side.
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But again, I thought it was so bad out.
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No matter if they kick the ball on the 15 or 20 yard line, if
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they're kicking the ball any more than 30 or more yards, it's
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going to be hard to put it through the hashes.
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And I thought that a lot of thought, a lot of thought was is
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they were going to use their running game and they did.
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But I obviously when they fell behind, they started trusting
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instead of throwing the ball in the second-half, instead of made
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a lot of mistakes. Stidham is not Bonex, but Bonex
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is still a young kid. He had a great season.
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I'm not attacking Bonex and his accomplishments.
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He's been a sensational quarterback since he's coming to
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the league. He's been in the league for what
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now two years, Three years? And he's had the opportunity to
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really develop as a young quarterback under Sean Payton.
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Stidham hasn't played a game in years.
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He hasn't played a snap in years.
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He's played four NFL. Games.
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Not a game of this magnitude though either.
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Yeah, well, I I didn't get to that yet.
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But he hasn't played a game in a significant amount of time.
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And to get the call to me is humbling.
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And you know that understanding the position in the quarterback
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position, AFC title game, You want to get your team to the
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Super Bowl. You want to be the savior.
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You saw his wife when he scored his first touchdown of the game.
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She was jumping and everybody was cheering because it was the
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first, first quarter and it looked like they were going to
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put a lot of points on the board.
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But after that, as the snow started to accumulate, there was
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a lot of thoughts on how they were going to run and, and play
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position football and use their wide receivers, use them in
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slants. And the one thing I could say
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about the New England Patriots is their defense is as good as
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any defense in the NFL, especially they're they're
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they're rushing defense. I mean, I'm sorry, they're
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running game defense. They they're the best running
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stop stopping team in the NFL and and their pass rush I think
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is ranked in the top ten, top 12 in all of the NFL.
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And that goes you have to give a lot of a lot of cheer to of
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Rabel. Mike Rabel is a great defensive
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mind, great defensive coordinator.
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He comes from the Bill Belichick era.
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Bill Belichick coached him. He was a linebacker.
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He played some offense over there.
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And that's why it was very interesting how they were using
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a lot of defensive lineman in the offensive style of game.
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And it was interesting. It was cat and mouse Rabel.
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Mike Rabel has been very he's been an accomplished coach.
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He's been a coach of the year before and Sean Payne, who's one
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of the best offensive minds the NFL has ever seen, and you would
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have thought, hey, Drake May is the better quarterback.
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Drake May is going to have a sensational game.
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Drake May has not looked good in three weeks.
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I'm sorry, all you Drake May fans, And I'm not saying Drake
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May is not an accomplished quarterback and he's not going
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to be a star quarterback in this league.
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He's proven to be a good quarterback.
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But to even put him in the same conversation as a Matthew
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Stafford or a Josh Allen or a Lamar Jackson or a Patrick
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Mahomes, that's ridiculous. Because in the last three weeks
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against good, talented teams, teams that are elite teams in
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the AFC, he hasn't looked good. And that to me, tells a lot
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about a player. I understand they won nine
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games, consistent consecutively away.
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Great. Who did they beat?
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Who did the Patriots beat? But you said the same thing in a
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in our group chat. And do you think his his numbers
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were inflated too because of what his schedule was?
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I think obviously, I mean they had the 5th easiest schedule in
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NFL history. Think about that.
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In all the years of the NFL, this is one of the easiest
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schedules any quarterback had to go through in a season.
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And that to me says a lot about the New England Patriots season.
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Now that doesn't. Mean does that show you how good
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Drake May is or? Not no, it shows you that to me
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he's a good quarterback. But to say that he's an elite
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quarterback already and that he's an MVP candidate, No,
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because obviously you play who's ever on your schedule.
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I know a lot of people are going to attack this take.
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Well, it was on his schedule. He had to play The Jets twice.
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He had to play the Miami Dolphins twice.
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He had to play this team once and and Jaguars and all these
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crappy at the time when he played the Jaguars.
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The Jaguars are not playing good football.
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The Jaguars didn't transition their season until the
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second-half of the season. The Jaguars were a bad team.
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It was when when the Gremlin went down was when everything
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transformed for them in Week 10, Week 11.
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Just the spark they needed. Yeah, probably.
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I mean, honestly, when you look at the the tale of two tapes, it
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really was a third string quarterback that hasn't played a
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big game in his career against a quarterback that also hasn't
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played a big game in his career. But guess what?
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When you're looking and trying to compare that quarterback to
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this quarterback, here's there's no comparison.
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Drake May is the elite quarterback as they claimed he
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was. And here's the thing, I hate
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analysts and I and I wasn't Tom Brady.
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Thank God it wasn't Tom Brady. I don't know.
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And I heard there was some of these and analysts that were
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calling the game saying that Tom Brady says that Drake May is so
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much like him. How do you know that Drake May's
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been elite for two years? What do you know about Drake?
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Drake May Tom, unless you're hanging out with them, you're
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eating some, you know, tea and crumpets with them.
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I don't know what you do over there if you hang out in New
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England and Boston still, I know he's traveling every single
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week. He's doing calls every single
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week. He works with the Raiders.
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So I'm I doubt he's on the phone.
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What? Robert Kraft maybe, but maybe
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he's hanging out with Bill Belichick and they're talking
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about how how Drake May is equal to him or something like him.
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Because to me, Drake May strengths is totally different
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from Tom Brady's. Tom Brady was not a mobile
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quarterback, Drake May is. Drake May has speed, Tom Brady
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couldn't run and that's the difference.
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Drake May's dangerous when he gets room to move and use the
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pocket to use his legs. And that's what you saw on
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Sunday. Drake May could not throw the
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ball. He's not been as accurate.
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And you saw it even early in the game when the snow wasn't coming
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down. He wasn't accurate.
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He hasn't been accurate really throughout the playoffs and I
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told everybody that once he plays it gets elite defensive
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teams, it's going to be a problem.
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He really didn't really have that all season long.
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Yes, it's a great accomplishment what the what the Patriots have
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done in breaking records. Mike Rabel, I wouldn't say he
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was shocked, but he kind of looked like that after they won
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and they beat, they knocked off the Broncos after they stopped
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him in the interception by Gonzalez and he knew it was
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over. He was, he was dancing on the
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sidelines. He really thought that Stidham
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was going to get the ball down the field.
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And how about that? How about the I I?
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Was it a punt, A punt block? What was it?
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A muff. Punt.
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A muff. Punt, which I believe, no
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actually it wasn't the muff punt that cost them the touchdown, it
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was Stidham throwing a back. What was that?
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Back across lateral? What was it?
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Oh, you're right. Yeah, it was that weird fumble,
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like read option play or whatever.
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It was AII, whatever it was, but he tried to throw the ball away
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and he, he, he, he tried to get it over with the overhand and he
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threw it backwards. It was a back row, backwards
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lateral. And obviously it was it, it was
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called intentional grounding. And then the referees were
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talking and of course who got the call, The Patriots, they
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always get the call. And I don't know if anybody
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understands this, but that changed the game.
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That one play changed the whole perception of the game, that one
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stupid play. Now, I'm not saying instead of I
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thought he threw his hands were over.
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I didn't. It didn't look like it was a
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back backwards lateral. I didn't look like it, but you
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could call it either way. But I knew as soon as the
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referees got a chance to stand with each other, they were going
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to call it on the Patriots side. As soon as that happened on the
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10 yard line or 12 yard line, I knew the Patriots were going to
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drive the ball in. And as soon as they did, I knew
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that the game was over because I was reading as the game was
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going through from 1/4 to another that the snow was going
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to get worse and worse and worse.
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And they showed it. The analysts showed from from
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the first quarter 3 minutes in to the foot, the second quarter
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with 5 minutes in to the foot, third quarter with eight minutes
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in. They showed you from 1/4 to
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another how bad the the ground was getting and the
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groundskeeper had the the blowers.
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They were trying to you couldn't even spot where the ball was
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when they were kicking the ball. The punt return, the punt
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kickers were kicking it. You couldn't even spot it.
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That's how bad the field was. And Brittany was telling me he
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said they should call the game and they're not.
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I said they're professional football players and the only
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time they call the game and they hold up a game as if there's
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lightning, there's no way they're calling this game.
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There's no way. And I know the Patriots knew
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that as soon as the second quarter came around and they
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could have that lead, they were going to hold on to it because
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the the second-half was just absolutely, absolutely horrible
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to watch. It was horrible.
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Punter kickers were missing. Punters couldn't get the ball
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down the field. It was so bad to watch.
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I understand the snow was bad. I understand that the grounds
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keeping wasn't really as good as I bet you the Broncos thought it
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was going to be with the blowers on the ground.
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I don't think that the Broncos really believed that the ground
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was going to be as bad as it was.
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But here's the facts. Romandre Stevenson was probably
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the best running back, was probably the best player on the
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field the whole day. And a lot of people, a lot of
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Patriots fans told me, why did I draft Romandre Stevenson in my
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drafts? I in two of my drafts, which by
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the way, I won at two out of the three and both teams I had
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Romandre Stevenson. Was he great this year?
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He wasn't great, but I need a Romandre Stevenson in certain
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weeks. He gave me a significant portion
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of points. This guy could either go by the
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bulk or he could be really, really bad.
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He's a fumble guy. But I believe that in the
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second-half of the season, especially the last eight games
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of the season, he didn't fumble the ball once.
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And he was so impressive that in the 3rd and late in the third
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quarter, going into the fourth quarter, they just kept giving
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the rock to Romandre Stevenson. He was getting yard after yard.
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I know 71 yards doesn't really stand out, but in a game like
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that, it stood up a lot because it was not a lot of yards.
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There was not a lot of offense, so the offense had to come
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somewhere and it came from Romanje Stevenson.
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That's what really stood out to me.
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Christian Gonzalez is a beast. He also got beat by Sutton.
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He he was a guy that was defending Sutton when he caught
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that ball. So he didn't look good in the
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first half, but in the second-half, I obviously there's
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no definitely obviously bolded well for for both teams to, you
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know, defensively Gonzalez when he needed to make a play and
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when he needs to make a play. This guy is as good as any
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corner in the NFL. And that goes back to what I
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said last week. A lot of teams passed up on this
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kid for some reason. He fell to what, number 17 #17
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it was Bill Belichick's last pick.
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And and it's a say, hurrah, say Sarah to the Patriots because he
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gave them a gift that is going to be there for the next 10
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years. This guy is going to be, he's as
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good as Patrick certain. He's as good as any quarterback
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that we can compare him to Stingley.
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This guy might win defensive player of the year one way or
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another in the next few years. That's how good he is.
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But it was horrible quarterback play, play calling horrible.
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And, and, and honestly, Drake made did not look good.
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Stidham did not look good, which was expected, by the way.
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And, and to me, if Drake made plays like this in a Super Bowl,
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Oh my God, the Seahawks are can eat them up alive.
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They got to put up points. Seattle is a A-Team that's going
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to put up a lot of points. They're a great defensive team.
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They're going to be able to put pressure on him through the
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gaps. I think this might be one of
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those Super Bowl games as we remember the Rams and the
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Patriots. What a quinky dink in 2018 where
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the Rams were the best offensive team, the Patriots were the best
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defensive team and the Patriots winded up beating him 13 to 3.
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I don't even think it's going to be that close and I'll get into
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the Seattle game and how fun the Seattle game was.
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It went back and forth, couple of mistakes cost.
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I think the Rams a chance to move on to the Super Bowl.
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I will get into that. But I thought the the game, the
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game changing play that changed. The outcome of this game,
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everybody's saying the field goal and Sean Payton should have
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went for that field goal. It definitely affected the game.
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If he kicked that, it goes to overtime.
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The thing that changed the game was the back.
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Back. What do they call that?
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A back lateral. Yeah, a lot of backwards pass
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that. Whatever they call that play,
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which they called it, and into the Patriots favor, that changed
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the game. As soon as the Patriots scored
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there, the game was over. Yeah, two things I think define
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it for me. You mentioned Romandre
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Stevenson, that was one. Even though his numbers are not
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eye popping, he averaged 2.8 yards of carry.
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His second efforts on a lot of those runs were very important
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to wear out that Broncos interior defensive line and even
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the linebackers at the second level out.
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Singleton was not playing 100% as it was and then even their
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safety play with Hofunga, so they had to move him around just
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to make sure that he could stop the outside run.
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But they couldn't stop the inside run.
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And again, I'll give the Patriots offensive line some
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credit too. They were, I thought, outmatched
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on Tal, on talent on paper. That's why I thought the Broncos
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this game was as ugly as I thought.
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So I thought that kind of thing benefited the Broncos to win the
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game. But the Patriots offensive line
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still held their own in run blocking at times.
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But I thought it was really Romandre Stevenson in the second
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effort. And then like you said, their
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pass rush against the Broncos offensive line that was top five
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in the NFL this year and they were number one in a lot of
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metrics, actually got a lot of good pressure.
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Granted, Jared Siddons on his experience of a quarterback as
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his first start since 2023 with the Broncos.
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He was playing when Russell Wilson was benched
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controversially with that whole injury clause contract.
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And I think he beat some good teams in that stretch.
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But he wasn't. He hadn't played in two years
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and he's playing in an AFC championship game in the snow,
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in swirling snow conditions. Like the wind was really bad
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even in the first half before the snow really picked up.
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So that kind of thing is really hard for a quarterback to be
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able to throw in those kind of conditions.
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And like you said early in the game, he had that great throw to
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Mims. He had that touchdown a sudden,
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which looked very sharp, but didn't have any other sharp
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throws after that. But the offensive line I think
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for the Broncos kind of didn't hold their own the way they
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should. The defense I think did well,
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obviously on the on the pressure centric.
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But I think the Patriots, considering their disadvantage
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in the trenches, I thought they had still held their own and.
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Not it's all about rhythm. It's all about rhythm when it
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comes to the quarterback play. And in the first quarter, I
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thought Stidham had great rhythm, but for some reason Sean
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Payton is one of the, the, the God screens when it comes to the
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guy that calls the plays and gets his quarterback in the good
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position. He, I, I don't know what
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happened. I I really don't because Stidham
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is not a star quarterback. He's not a number one.
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He's not really a #2 on any other roster.
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I know the Patriots loved him and, and they wanted to bring
22:56
him. I heard during the game that the
22:58
Patriots made an offer to him last season and the Broncos
23:02
offered him more. So he stayed with the Broncos.
23:04
He's been with the Broncos for three years.
23:07
My thought was is that Sean Payton in the second-half was
23:11
going to get Stidham in the position, in a position where he
23:14
is going to make valuable, important plays, short passes,
23:18
get him back, you know, that rhythm so he can start putting
23:22
the ball down the field. I just never saw it.
23:24
I didn't see it. I know there's no, I know that's
23:26
an excuse. And and like I said, my word,
23:28
God scream, the God scream here was is that Peyton is a God and
23:33
he's screaming on the sidelines trying to make sure that his his
23:36
guys are protecting him. And it's just they weren't.
23:40
He was sacked a couple of times where I thought this is one of
23:43
the it's not the best offensive line and P fit PFF all season
23:47
long. You would have thought that they
23:48
were going to use an extra offensive lineman or use an
23:51
extra tight end to protect him. So we gave him a little bit more
23:53
time. They just couldn't.
23:55
And that front seven of the Patriots put a lot of pressure
23:58
on pressure on him in the second-half because they knew
24:00
that the snow was going to affect the his game.
24:02
They knew that the win was going to affect his game, and it did.
24:05
Yeah, and you look at a coach too, that I know he's with the
24:08
with the Broncos now three years.
24:09
But a coach that's coached all of his other previous playoff
24:12
games besides the one last year with the Saints, a Dome team, a
24:16
southern team and even a lot of the opponents they faced, a lot
24:18
of them besides the Eagles, I think we're all warm weather
24:21
teams too. The Rams who they played, the
24:23
Cowboys, the all the all these teams, the Vikings that they
24:25
played, these are all Dome teams.
24:27
So he wasn't even used to that kind of thing.
24:29
You mentioned him not kind of preparing the weather as much as
24:31
you would think for or a guy that's an experienced coach.
24:33
And I think that affected them definitely.
24:36
And the other thing too is I think getting away from what he
24:39
does best. A lot of those second running
24:40
backs, the tight ends were not involved that Evan Angerman of
24:43
that one nice catch in the first or second quarter and then he
24:45
never used him after. That I'm blaming Sean Payton
24:47
for. This loss, I don't, I don't like
24:49
a lot of the usage of those other guys.
24:51
And when Harvey was struggling like go to Jillian McLaughlin,
24:54
go to some of these other running backs, either or you use
24:57
MIPS. He had too much trust in Harvey
25:00
all game long. And Harvey was not getting
25:02
enough yardage. He was forcing it up the middle.
25:05
And even in the second-half when he couldn't run, if you know
25:08
Harvey hasn't been efficient, you have two other running backs
25:11
that can run the ball. And that's why I thought going
25:13
into the game, if JK Dobbins plays, maybe the maybe the game
25:17
and the score is a little bit different.
25:18
JK Dobbins it could do so many other things that I believe
25:22
Harvey cannot do it. And Harvey's a rookie.
25:24
He's a young player and you put a lot of pressure on him.
25:26
And Sean Payton should have to, should know, understanding the,
25:30
the, the position as a quarterback and even some of the
25:34
rookies that he has in the game that they're going to make
25:36
mistakes and, and made valuable, important mistakes in the game,
25:40
which cost him the game. I I blame this loss for the
25:43
Broncos because they should have won this game even with Jarrett
25:45
Stidham. They should have won this game
25:47
if it wasn't for Sean Payton. Sean Payton is the reason why
25:50
the Broncos are not moving on to.
25:52
Super Bowl 60, and you mentioned Gonzales, too.
25:54
Like they have all three. Two other good corners, too, and
25:56
Marcus Jones in the slot. And Carlton Davis, who played
25:58
very well towards the end of the season, too.
26:00
And you want to attack linebackers and safeties if you
26:03
want to beat the Patriots, and they just didn't do that.
26:04
Get fish. Should have at least been in
26:06
overtime. If they kick the field goal when
26:08
they're on the 6 yard line, it's you can't get a lot of points in
26:13
the snow and the game started out perfect for Sean Payton and
26:17
the Broncos. We talked about it last week.
26:19
What do they have to do? They have to get up early and
26:22
then they have to wear them down with the run.
26:24
But they can't have is a quarterback for pretending he's
26:27
playing Madden, running backwards 30 yards trying to do
26:31
something that's too much and then can't get a grip on the
26:34
ball and does this fumble backwards lateral.
26:37
And then the whole strategy is gone.
26:39
And once it was tied, now they have to take chances with a
26:42
quarterback that, look, Drake May is going to finish second
26:46
probably in the MVP this year. He didn't even get 100 yards
26:49
passing in this game because of the elements that they had to
26:52
play in. So what was Jared Stidham going
26:54
to do? You know what I mean?
26:56
So they really had no margin for error, like, at all.
27:01
It kind of, it kind of reminded me of Speedy of those Giants
27:03
teams a couple of years ago when they just, you know, you had to
27:07
somehow get a lead and then hang on for dear life and hope the
27:12
other team would make more mistakes.
27:13
That's the only way the Giants won games.
27:15
For a couple of years. It felt like that's what the
27:17
Broncos had to do, and they hadn't agree.
27:19
I mean, who's better than Sean Payton at orchestrating an
27:22
opening drive to get a touchdown?
27:24
What a great drive that was with a big shot to Mims and then the
27:28
play that you've seen them do a million times, having sudden get
27:31
inside of get like a little rub and getting to the back corner
27:34
of the end zone. Just a beautiful play and beat
27:37
Gonzales. That's a couple years ago.
27:38
He beat Gonzales, yeah. It's not even about beating him
27:41
like the first drive. They're going to do something
27:44
where like it's confusing how to cover it.
27:46
You know, until you see it the first time.
27:48
So every time you call a play the first time in the game, they
27:51
haven't seen it that game, so it's more likely you're going to
27:54
get it done. That's why you see teams that
27:56
maybe don't have a good offense score on that first drive.
27:59
Brian Dabel had a lot of first drives that scored and a lot of
28:02
games where they never scored again after.
28:04
That except for the one year where the Giants didn't score a
28:06
first quarter touchdown until like Week 10, I think his second
28:09
year in the league or something. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, kind
28:11
of a come down to earth. Why do you always bring the
28:14
Giants? Why are we talking about?
28:16
Oh, it's. Because because I'm a Giants fan
28:17
and I'm played by having. Definitely shows, ladies and
28:19
gentlemen. Every time he wants to compare
28:21
A-Team, he compares them to the Giants.
28:23
Well, it's what I know best, but and they've had the same colors.
28:27
The Patriots, you got to give it to them.
28:29
That's that was just willing themselves to win.
28:31
What a great defensive game plan by just keeping everything in
28:35
front of them, making this guy who they knew was going to make
28:37
mistakes, eventually make those mistakes and they won.
28:41
Great for them. Now they get to go to the Super
28:43
Bowl. Probably the least impressive
28:44
though, Errol like AFC representative we've had in a
28:48
long. It's horrible, but that just
28:50
shows you how weak the AFC is and if you're a Jet fan, you
28:53
should be excited if you're a team that has been so bad over
28:56
the years. The Browns, I don't.
28:59
Right now the Browns can't find a coach, but that's a whole
29:01
nother thing. But I mean, all the bad teams in
29:03
the AFC, it could be wide open in the future because all these
29:07
teams are nowhere close to the talent and the upside of the
29:11
NFC. If you think about it, the
29:13
Eagles didn't play well offensively this year, but they
29:16
were really, really good. I mean, the Buccaneers were up
29:18
and down all season long, but they they're really, really
29:21
good. I mean, Atlanta's going to be
29:23
really, really good next year. You have look at that division
29:26
with San Francisco and Seattle and the Rams.
29:29
I mean, the, the North, the Lions didn't make the playoffs.
29:32
You don't you don't think the Lions are going to be better
29:34
next year? They're going to be really good
29:35
next year. That Green Bay Packers, when
29:37
they get Mica back, they're going to be really good.
29:39
So the NFC is loaded and the AFC is weak, and that's why the
29:42
Patriots are where they are. Say whatever you want if you're
29:45
a Patriot fan. I'm not knocking down the
29:47
Patriots. Here's the facts.
29:49
The Patriots had an easy schedule, just like The Jets
29:52
did. Now, The Jets obviously have a
29:54
lot more to a lot more, a lot more positions they need to fill
29:59
in than the Patriots do. And, and again, Aaron Glenn is a
30:02
new coach. Mike Frabel was a successful
30:05
coach in Tennessee, 1 coach of the year, built A-Team to make
30:09
the playoffs almost every other year.
30:11
So it's not like tennis, you know, Mike Frabel's never been
30:14
here before anyone multiple, you know, Super Bowls with the New
30:18
England Patriots as a linebacker.
30:19
So I am not, I'm not going back and forth and forth and saying
30:23
that the AFC is as bad as I'm making it out to be.
30:27
I'm just saying that if you're a fan of any team in the AFC over
30:31
the over the next couple of years, I'm going to tell you
30:33
guys this right now in in football, there could be a quick
30:37
transition, a quick one. And the New York Jets, the
30:41
Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers with their Mike McCarthy, we'll
30:44
get into that a little bit later.
30:46
A lot of these different teams that are start trying to crawl.
30:49
Even the Kansas City Chiefs, if they get Patrick Mahomes back
30:52
and they add some pieces in the offseason, why couldn't they go
30:55
to the Super Bowl next year? I am guaranteeing you the Pat,
30:58
the Patriots will not be in the Super Bowl next year, Not the
31:01
way they've played in the playoffs all since they've
31:03
gotten here. So they have been as bad of a
31:06
team in the playoffs since the the defense has played well
31:10
offensively. They've been putrid.
31:12
They've been really, really bad. And that's all I'm going to say
31:14
about that. I don't want to hear about the
31:16
snow. I don't want to hear about both
31:17
teams had to play that way. There's no excuse.
31:19
You're Drake May and you're an MVP candidate.
31:22
You're going out there, you're stepping into your passes and
31:25
you're making your passes. He did not Three weeks in a row,
31:28
he did not. I'm sorry he did not.
31:31
That's all I'm going to say all. Right before move on to the next
31:33
game, we have the Legend of the Geese on the phone, Mr. Kenny.
31:36
Kenny, what's up, buddy? You're my How you guys doing?
31:39
I remember there was a producer on my show crazy for picking the
31:43
Pats of the Seahawks when? Would you stick of?
31:48
Errol, Errol got it right. Josh and I got it wrong.
31:51
We both have. The I called him.
31:53
You're the experts. All right, Hold on, Hold on,
31:56
hold on. Errol won the pick em.
31:57
This year I I did the pick em and and by the way, by the way,
32:02
hold on, hold on Mr. Big Mouth over there and don't don't
32:06
attack me on my show and say that I didn't.
32:08
Pick the right. Well, you just.
32:10
No, he will. Hold me.
32:11
All right, but all right, so just so you know, you.
32:13
Were right. He was wrong.
32:14
I didn't know. All right.
32:15
So I picked the Patriots and I picked Seattle to go to the
32:18
Super Bowl this year. That's what I picked.
32:20
When the playoffs began, in my head I predict the same thing
32:24
because I'm like Rams and Broncos, best ones on paper in
32:28
the first season, not going to be the best in this season.
32:31
The other two, those two are going to be the best.
32:33
I'm going to tell you this right now.
32:34
If Buffalo played in that game, Buffalo wins.
32:38
They go to the Super Bowl. If, if Josh Allen, if.
32:42
Hold on, Hold on, Kenny. Team, so they were a little
32:44
whacking. Kenny, if Buffalo played in that
32:48
game and it wasn't the Broncos, Josh Allen would have put up at
32:51
least 20 something points in that game.
32:53
And if he did, they win that game because I've seen Josh
32:55
Allen play in the snow and I've seen him play bad in the snow,
32:58
but he wouldn't have played that bad.
32:59
I've never seen Josh Allen play that bad in the snow in a snow
33:02
game. And I've seen and I remember
33:04
when Diggs was on that team and they lost in that game in a
33:07
snowstorm against the Bengals. They weren't if he didn't look
33:10
that bad in the Bengals. 1st of like 6 hissy fits he had.
33:13
Yeah, but I, I remember. It this does prove that the
33:17
experts aren't always right. All of them.
33:19
Some of them. Here's the thing.
33:22
I am always right. I'm going to tell you this like
33:25
I've told everybody, and now everybody's starting to believe
33:27
it. I think sports is rigged.
33:30
I've been saying that for a very, very long time.
33:32
Look, look what changed that game.
33:34
What changed the outcome of that game?
33:36
Speedy, What have I been saying? Yeah, you were talking about the
33:38
backwards. Past the back.
33:40
Hold on. Hold on, Kenny.
33:41
Let me speak. Stop cutting me off.
33:43
How much do you smoke tonight? How much do you smoke?
33:48
All right, let let me finish the the first thing that I said on
33:51
my take, my monologue was what do I believe changed that game?
33:56
And that was the call that the referees took back.
33:59
They called it intentional grounding.
34:02
And then all of a sudden the referees came together because
34:04
Frabel was complaining and crying on the sidelines.
34:07
And then all of a sudden, within 3 minutes, oh, it was a
34:10
backwards lateral. It goes to the Patriots on the
34:13
12 yard line that changed the game and that one play help the
34:18
Patriots move on to the Super Bowl.
34:20
That one play. It's the referees.
34:22
It's it comes down to the referees and the calls.
34:25
Why do you think the Buffalo Bills are not in the AFC title
34:28
game? Because of that horrible call.
34:30
Horrible call. Cooks caught that ball and he
34:33
got it ripped out of his hand. That was the.
34:35
Change in the game. It was freaking terrible and I'm
34:37
like, I was rooting for the Bills too, and I'm like, damn
34:40
it, they can't even win. The fact here is, Kenny, in the
34:45
NFL, the referees have every bit of the power to change the
34:50
outcome of a game. And I don't think it's a
34:52
coincidence that what changed that outcome of the game was
34:56
that backwards lateral, and it was that was the outcome of the
34:59
game, that one play. Because if they don't score, if
35:02
they don't score that touchdown, they never score a touchdown and
35:05
the game ends 7:00 to 3:00. That's that's it.
35:09
I've I've thought even if they don't play the best guarantee,
35:14
by the by the time we get them, they're going to make the Super
35:17
Bowl. Calls are going to go their way.
35:19
Something's going to go their way.
35:22
We all know so. That's why I figured when I
35:23
picked up picked them right at the beginning of the playoffs,
35:25
I'm like when they are in the right game, it always goes their
35:29
way. All right, How are you doing,
35:31
Kenny? Before we let you go, where have
35:32
you been? You disappear off the face of
35:34
the. How's everybody doing?
35:36
We're good, man, We're good. Job is good.
35:38
I don't know what happened. Man, the internet's been glitchy
35:40
all night. That doesn't.
35:41
Sound. How's fish?
35:43
Fish is good. He was in and out.
35:45
He's been out, in and out of the camera.
35:46
He's good. We're all good, man.
35:48
What's up, Kenny? How's.
35:49
The how's the break time sports guy doing?
35:52
He's one of my favorite segments.
35:55
Which one is that? That's also fish.
35:57
Oh yeah, fish. Fish is in and out.
35:59
He can't. Obviously you can't hear him,
36:02
but he said what's up to you? He said.
36:03
What's up to? You.
36:04
That's cool, man. Yes, he loves you and hopefully.
36:07
Have you been chasing anything? Dogs, cats.
36:10
What have you been chasing? Right, Moose.
36:11
For the first time this many seasons, Blush is joining me for
36:16
the Super Bowl game. Who?
36:18
What? One of his coach.
36:20
What the hell is Blush? Blush.
36:21
It's. His friend.
36:22
So he works for The Jets? He works for The Jets.
36:25
I've never heard. Of him he does.
36:26
He does part of their Twitter page.
36:28
OK, so Blush is going with you to the Super Bowl, is that what
36:32
you're saying? No, no, he's going to join my
36:33
show. Oh OK, so blush and you are
36:36
going to hang out and shoot the you know what with each other.
36:39
And talk about the Super Bowl game coming up.
36:42
Just make sure he's not wearing any robes on the show or any of
36:45
that. Stuff he's definitely not as
36:47
he's real professional. And we're going to talk a little
36:49
bit about his new book. OK, briefly and we're going to
36:53
talk about. Smoking weed.
36:56
No, we're going to talk about that.
36:58
Conference finals, all that the bag I.
37:01
Mean you're you're all about that.
37:02
I mean, how's, how's everything going?
37:05
Are you I the last time we had you on the show, you you weren't
37:08
drinking. You stopped drinking.
37:10
Are are you back to drinking? Just vacations, special
37:15
occasions and holidays. Oh yeah, What?
37:16
What a holiday? What Monday?
37:17
Holidays. All right, so where?
37:19
Where? Was the.
37:20
Discovery Where was the last weekend?
37:21
Where was the last vacation you were at?
37:25
I visit my sister last year. So you haven't drank since last
37:30
year? What?
37:32
So you haven't drank since last year?
37:35
No, I do special occasions and holidays.
37:37
Oh yeah? What do you drink?
37:38
A bottle? 2 bottles. 3 bottles.
37:40
What do you drink? No, I'm drinking a full bottle
37:43
of of liquor or anything. Well, what are you doing
37:46
tonight? Are you hanging out?
37:47
You know, smoking a little weed? So I know you get home, so you
37:52
get high I. Go to my dinner so.
37:54
There you go. You smoke a little bit, you
37:57
know, get a joint, you know, smoke a blunt, whatever you do.
38:00
And then you go out there and you eat yourself a nice steak,
38:03
right? What are you eating for dinner
38:04
tonight, Ken? No, I mean chicken.
38:07
Chicken parmesan. Oh.
38:09
With sweet potato fries. Oh, I like sweet potato fries.
38:12
You got to have that honey mustard, baby.
38:14
You got to have that honey mustard.
38:17
I can't work in plain with cancer.
38:19
EW EW, sweet potato fries with ketchup.
38:25
It tastes great. Oh, stop.
38:27
You do not put you do not put ketchup on sweet potato fries,
38:31
Kenny. Why not?
38:33
Because it gets it's, it's got a bad after taste to it, Kenny,
38:37
it's. Not for me.
38:38
I, I, I mean, maybe you're buying them and.
38:39
Stuff. You're right, Kenny.
38:41
How many times do you brush your teeth every single week, Kenny?
38:44
Twice. A week, Twice a week, Kenny.
38:47
That's cool. No.
38:48
A day. A day.
38:51
I love you, Kenny. Yeah, I love messing with you,
38:54
Kenny. When are you going to come up
38:55
here? When are we going to see you
38:55
again? You don't know well that that
39:00
speaks very highly of who you are.
39:02
I don't know. I just smoked enough today.
39:05
How many bags have you smoked? My question to you guys is
39:11
you're not doing a show. You ever go out to Redondo
39:14
Beach? I've been to Redondo Beach, yes.
39:17
Why? Is there something there?
39:18
No, I don't mean Redondo Beach. I mean Rockaway Park.
39:22
Ever go Rockaway Park? Yeah, of course, I've been to
39:24
Rockaway Park. Why?
39:26
Maybe I can meet you at the beach this summer, because.
39:28
All right, let's go. All right, so listen.
39:30
Cool bars I've been to I've been to a week before and I got
39:35
friends that live around there so.
39:38
That's a pretty good picture, fish.
39:40
It's too cold to go to the beach.
39:41
It was in the. Well, first of all, first of
39:43
all, you want to go to a beach We have to chase.
39:45
We got to chase geese. You have to do that.
39:48
We have to accomplish. Cool bands near there.
39:50
Like really my my favorite band. The hardcore scene.
39:53
Butter Brain was right. Butter Brain.
39:55
There is a band called Butter Brain.
39:58
Yeah, not Corbett. One and only, Yeah.
40:01
What do they scream like? And they're like ready to rip
40:04
your head off. Or something.
40:07
They've got like 4 horns. It's quite a lot.
40:09
Wow, 4 horns. That's 4 horns I don't want to
40:12
hear. Yeah, 2 saxophones, 1 shrum.
40:15
I like the saxophone. Speedy plays the saxophone.
40:17
Yeah, it did. I didn't remember.
40:18
All through high school I played this both Alto and tenor.
40:20
Yep. Alto, tenor, asser, all that
40:23
stuff. Yeah.
40:23
It's not a saxophone, but OK, keep talking.
40:25
One of the sax players also sings.
40:27
She's a singer, and maybe. Oh, so she sings while she blows
40:30
on the saxophone. I've never seen that that.
40:31
Plays pretty longer. He plays throughout the whole
40:34
song. Oh wow, so she sings and plays
40:36
the saxophone all throughout this?
40:38
How is that possible? They have two sax players.
40:42
OK, so she sings and plays the. Sex with They've toured and
40:46
recorded with Angelo Moore from Pistol.
40:49
I'm all right. I like that.
40:51
They even played a free show of the Bowery with them as a
40:55
special guest. All right, Kenny, all right,
40:57
listen, enjoy your Parmesan. All right, enjoy your sweet
41:00
potato fries with ketchup, which is about to make me hurl.
41:04
OK, enjoy it. Enjoy it my friend.
41:06
And smoke a lot of trees for all of us tonight.
41:09
And make sure you just blind side yourself and you can doze
41:12
off wherever you want to doze off.
41:13
By the way, do you have that girl?
41:15
I mean, I know you were talking to a girl at that time.
41:17
Are you you hook up with her or something?
41:19
What's going on with? That I think she might have
41:21
scammed me. On that where did you meet her
41:25
on Plenty of Fish? Nobody.
41:29
Nobody. Tried Tinder, Bumble.
41:32
Did she sting you in the ass somewhere else?
41:38
Man Caddy fishes roasted you in our private chat.
41:39
Her name was bought Taiteo. Maybe you were talking about
41:43
Taiteo. I mean, I know he's out there on
41:45
a social media market looking for a nice, beautiful woman.
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I mean things. I mean it.
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Thank you. Thank you, Kenny.
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We love you. I'll be out there listening
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somewhere. Keep to, keep to.
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I don't keep to or keep it up and use it too.
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That's a good slogan for him. Keep it up and use it too.
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All right. You like that, All right, Kenny?
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From where? Where is he?
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From White Plains. White Plains keep it up and and
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smoke it to. How's that?
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Is that good? All.
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Right, keep it up and smoke it to keep it up and smoke it to
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what's that band called? Blonde What blonde?
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Blonde heads, Blonde butts. Elfa, get that from him.
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Over blonde finger in his ass. Thank you to all the fans on all
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the platforms from Spotify and Apple, TikTok, Instagram X
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YouTube, Jabba in the mouth and all the different platforms that
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we're on. We really appreciate you guys
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and stay tuned for some great shows this year and great
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opportunities to see what we're going to be doing.
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And, and I believe it's sometime this year, we're going to be
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positioned into maybe a huge announcement.
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So just looking forward to a great year and I hope everybody
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enjoys our show. We put a lot of time and effort
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and work into this and it's not you're just going to throw slop
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on the and hopefully it sticks. It's not like that.
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This show is not like that. It's hard work, dedication, all
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the guys, speedy and fish and all the guys that work on the
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back end to help this show really, you know, become
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something of not only just, you know, I believe one of the best
43:17
shows in America, but one of the shows that I think people are
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copycatting and and trying to make their own, which is
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pathetic. And, and you know who I'm
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talking about? I don't even have to mention it.
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All you people out there that are trying to copycat us because
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you're just shamefully shameful enough to know that you have no
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create, create creativity, ability to go out there and and
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put the the time and effort into working and figuring out how you
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could be yourselves. So that's all I'm going to say.
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I almost stuttered on that, but that's it for our show.
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Speedy, who do we have on tomorrow, Thursday?
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Time to be determined. Still on, but he is coming.
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Come on. He just converted two hours ago.
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He's be good to go. Our friend Mr. Foyer, Luke and
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Jaguars. Linebacker.
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All right, Foyer is going to be joining us.
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We'll talk about the Jaguars, their season.
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Obviously, you know Travis Hunter, the Gremlin, you know,
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his quarterback that's had a pretty good second-half of the
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season. So a lot to get into it with
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Foyer. I'm sure he's going to laugh as
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he always does when he comes on the show.
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All right, that's it for a show. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll see
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you Thursday. Goodnight.
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