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Patriots Unfiltered 1/13: Wild Card Weekend Picks, Bills Preview, Thursday Practice Update · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Patriot's Unfiltered. Yeah, I'd rather stop. I'd rather stop because
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  Speaker 1: now you know how I have the hammer, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: the other thing, like the ball. They weren't prepared the
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  Speaker 1: last time because they had a terrible plan. No, no no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: What game do you go in and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I hope the other team scores first today. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to make it easier for I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you the ball first, like Miami did it on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and then they did it again. They did it again, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's send They closed the game and did it again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, sir, may have another. I didn't mean into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mike Sematory, right, he's the negative one on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Pall literally took dirt and from here the practice field
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  Speaker 1: and they grew potatoes and then make chips. Just just
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  Speaker 1: knowing what goes into that dirty practice field, it makes
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  Speaker 1: me want to like bodily down a little bit at night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know this is Patriot's Unfiltered, fueled by dunking. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're on. Oh we're onesome. Oh jeez, I was, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna say something else. I was
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  Speaker 1: busy listening to Bill Belichick's press conference and everything else
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  Speaker 1: that's going on here. But welcome to Patriots Unfiltered. It's
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  Speaker 1: Thursday here at Gillette Stadium, and we not really we
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  Speaker 1: got um. This is basically the same as a Friday
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  Speaker 1: because we've got a Saturday night day, got a Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night game. So Bill's doing his Friday press conference on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday, although the timing today is still Thursday timing
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  Speaker 1: for practice and the press conference, is that right? Think
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  Speaker 1: of what you will, So they'll have some sort of
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  Speaker 1: walk through you think tomorrow before they leave. Probably they
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  Speaker 1: usually do. I would imagine, yeah, yeah, I would think, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go out in a little bit. But keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on Kyle Tugger. It listed as limited. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't see him out there earlier yesterday. Interesting thing of
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean my mind, and you guys tell me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that happened before, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: are they hidings? Like he's got a giant cast or
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  Speaker 1: something on his hand and he comes out after the
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  Speaker 1: media ends and and I'm thinking that you were right
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  Speaker 1: yea week. Yeah, it's gonna have one of those big
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  Speaker 1: old I think Too snailed it last week when he
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  Speaker 1: just said, oh he just got a broken hand. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, right, wait, wait what Yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think Mike was right. Yeah, we'll see. I guess we'll
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  Speaker 1: see in a few minutes. And I head out, Well
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  Speaker 1: maybe you will maybe or they'll do the same, the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. I know. Well, I always, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: always check to see who you said wasn't there and
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  Speaker 1: to make sure it lines up, and every time it has.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the first time this year where it's like
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  Speaker 1: and then you rack your brain. They're like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I scanned it. He wasn't there. So some people
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  Speaker 1: tweeted at me, ask him, but we'll see, they added you, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they added, but what happened because he came out or something.
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  Speaker 1: But there were there. We know there were a few
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  Speaker 1: of us scanning it, so I don't think all of
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  Speaker 1: us would have missed him. All right, Well you'll be
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  Speaker 1: going out to practice. So we've got them. What we've
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  Speaker 1: got anything anything since yesterday? Any any new tidbits? Anybody
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  Speaker 1: the official signing of Craven. Yeah, the Bills haven't listed
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  Speaker 1: anyone on their COVID. No move people on either side
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  Speaker 1: on the COVID list. That's a good good thing. Sozo
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  Speaker 1: saying there are still good seats available for the games
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  Speaker 1: supposed I was hearing. I heard like down low seats
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  Speaker 1: or like sixty bucks and you can get up high
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  Speaker 1: for fifteen. What you can't even get into a movie
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  Speaker 1: for that much? Yeah, is because of the cold that
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  Speaker 1: they're expecting. I don't know, I wouldn't even think about it,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, just me whatever hotel rooms are cheap, well
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  Speaker 1: they usually are. Yeah, but you know, like sometimes if
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  Speaker 1: if there is the demand, you you raise the prices.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't a demand. Nothing interesting to hear. What the
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  Speaker 1: pregame atmosphere is like there, if it's small but rowdy,
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  Speaker 1: or if it if it's a little I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just as things have piled up this week with the
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  Speaker 1: weather and stuff, it gives me more and more pause
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  Speaker 1: that I think the Patriots could have a chance with
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  Speaker 1: this game of you know, just how it's gonna unfold
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  Speaker 1: with the weather and you know, just kind of being
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  Speaker 1: a mental toughness. See, I don't know, I mean the building.
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  Speaker 1: But I know, I mean, I think that that the
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  Speaker 1: bad conditions, and you know, it's just it negates some
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  Speaker 1: of the home field advantage a little bit. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it's a small crowd, it's not quite as high.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to be a small crowd. It will
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  Speaker 1: be sold out. We'll see my guess they know what's coming.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to see it. Friends and families, the
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. I'm all with you. There will not be
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  Speaker 1: any seats available. Yeah, I find that hard to beat.
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  Speaker 1: An that's what they're saying. I mean, who's say, who's
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  Speaker 1: they than nobody? It's just nothing. No if nobody other
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  Speaker 1: than zone right, no, but everybody they're getting it by
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  Speaker 1: going on the site right and on secondary right. So
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  Speaker 1: what you could do everywhere right, seats are sold, but
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  Speaker 1: now people are trying to sell them, they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of them, they're trying to unload them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well maybe because they're saying that it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: negative five degrees over there, and they're like, well, I
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  Speaker 1: think that hurts the crowd anyway, because I think it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to get as much into the game when you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely frozen. Well, actually, I was. I was at the
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee game back in what was that over I remember
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  Speaker 1: seeing you in the crowd. Yeah, and uh, that was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the coldest sporting event I'd ever been to.
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  Speaker 1: And it didn't end up being as bad as I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was, because it says the guy who was
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the press car, right, but we were outside too. No,
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  Speaker 1: but you know where we pause. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: but like the walk to Sharon is long. You had
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  Speaker 1: like the eight hundred layers on to begin with, and
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  Speaker 1: like everybody who was in the crowd was sort of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of like bouncing up and down, creating
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  Speaker 1: body temperature, body heat, and it helped that the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: were winning most of the game. It was an exciting game.
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  Speaker 1: So like it, it was cold, but it wasn't as
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  Speaker 1: like when you think about it in your mind, like
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  Speaker 1: that froze that it didn't feel as bad. Collective fans, Yeah, collective.
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  Speaker 1: I just remember that Tennessee lineman on the sideline they
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  Speaker 1: had him miked up or whatever, and he's like, I
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  Speaker 1: can't feel my hands. I'm freaking out. I remember that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm freaking out. I can't feel my toes. To be
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen on. So yeah, yeah, evidently he's got an issue. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: why would you tell people that? Well, why not? Idiots?
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  Speaker 1: I don't really cares about any of that. They only
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  Speaker 1: care about how he plays. I mean you can, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can put on those electric socks. They've got them,
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  Speaker 1: battery powered socks that warm up your feet. You know
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  Speaker 1: they have them. You know, like like if I was,
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  Speaker 1: if I was a player, right, I would not go
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  Speaker 1: out and I would do whatever it is so that
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  Speaker 1: I can perform at maximum capability. Absolutely, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: long underwear, long sleeves, I would do whatever it takes
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  Speaker 1: for me to feel like I can perform my best. Right,
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  Speaker 1: There's no need to be a part to be a
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  Speaker 1: hero and go. I mean, you know, some of the
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  Speaker 1: offensive linemen are going out there, like some not some,
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  Speaker 1: all of them because because they bullied the backups into
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  Speaker 1: saying you got to wear no sleeves. I remember that
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  Speaker 1: that night that Eric is talking about against Tennessee and
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  Speaker 1: UM post game, you know, one of the touches, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, one of the touchdowns in that game was
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  Speaker 1: a bomb to Bethel Johnson. And I remember after the game, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Bethel Johnson said, you know I was I no sleeves
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  Speaker 1: for me, and I was out there and I remember
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  Speaker 1: like an hour later. You know, we're doing all the
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  Speaker 1: proof proofs for the for the paper and stuff. Back
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  Speaker 1: then we had to you know, it was still a
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  Speaker 1: long process. Fred has the cover and we have Bethel
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  Speaker 1: Johnson on the cover like going into the end Zoe
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  Speaker 1: with the ball under one I'm in the in the
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  Speaker 1: in the arm, and the other with the long sleeve sleeve.
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  Speaker 1: Right like he just blatantly lied. Right. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them do, is they they come out
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  Speaker 1: and warm ups without yeah, short sleeves, and then they hell,
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  Speaker 1: am I thinking no, no, but it's just to show,
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  Speaker 1: oh the other team I'm tough. And then they come
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  Speaker 1: out and then they Steve Nelson told a great story
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  Speaker 1: about Miami for that. Um. You know, Steve Nelson was
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  Speaker 1: a linebacker and he had to go against the fullback
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  Speaker 1: who at the time for Miami was Don Nottingham. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and Nottingham came out pregame no sleeves, you know, big
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  Speaker 1: tough Miami guy or you know, like like Eric says,
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  Speaker 1: you know hard, oh the sheriff right probably then goes
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  Speaker 1: then he goes back in the locker room, comes back
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  Speaker 1: out for the game where he had sleeves on, and
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  Speaker 1: now he goes, I knew I had him. I owned him.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I was going to own him the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: I had him. Back then it wasn't as cold. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but like like they but even the guys
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  Speaker 1: that don't wear sleeves, like there's things that they do
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  Speaker 1: they put, um, oh, what what's hot or something. It's
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  Speaker 1: not icy hot. It's vasiline all over the ski in
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  Speaker 1: and it kind of closes up the pores for wind
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  Speaker 1: and it keeps them a little warmer. Yeah. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: one time I had to play a really cold outdoor
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  Speaker 1: hockey game in New Hampshire. They told us to put
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  Speaker 1: vasoline on our faces. But I thought, I mean part
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  Speaker 1: of it, they said was windburn because with that cold.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it protects you. It's like a coating. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a little thing as tough as you think
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  Speaker 1: you are. Offensive linements up, trying to lie ye and
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  Speaker 1: then they run to the sideline and they get the
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  Speaker 1: big jackets and they immediately put the big It wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be so cold if you pour some sleeves and then
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  Speaker 1: and then you have the uh, the glass the Doug
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  Speaker 1: Fluty glass cutter gloves that he made famous. These are
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  Speaker 1: like really thin gloves that glass cutters wear that gives you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the dexterity that you need, but also keep
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  Speaker 1: you a little bit warmer. Yes, yeah, Doug Fluty with
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  Speaker 1: the glass cutter gloves. He threw with the glass gloves. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember on the throwing hand. Oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember that. I know what he's talking about. With
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  Speaker 1: the gloves that rings a bell. I just didn't realize
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  Speaker 1: Fluti was the one. I mean, he it's ironic because
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't throw. I'm sure he wasn't the but it was.
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  Speaker 1: I remember he famously wore them. Yeah, yeah, no, I
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  Speaker 1: know the story you're talking about. I'm with you, okay, solidarity, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, a story. Just didn't realize it was Fluty. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: web radio at Patriots dot Com. We got a big show.
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  Speaker 1: We got picks later on wild Card Brown. Not as
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  Speaker 1: many games, no, No, maybe a little extra time for
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  Speaker 1: some analysis and some discussion, yeah perhaps maybe, yeah, or
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  Speaker 1: some thoughtist. Who I'm gonna pay, I'm gonna do the
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  Speaker 1: Eric three second. I got it a little late now
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  Speaker 1: the radio seas overdue. Um, and you say, who's leading
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  Speaker 1: them anymore? Coaching carousel news that we have to catch up.
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  Speaker 1: There were a couple of party that was about it.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw that, you know, little a little going
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  Speaker 1: away party for himself. But Elliott Wolf now being talked
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  Speaker 1: about as both Vikings and Bears general manager uh linked
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  Speaker 1: linked to both of those teams as far as just
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  Speaker 1: an interview, not that he's you know, the leading candidate
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  Speaker 1: or anything, but um, that's that was the only other
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  Speaker 1: change that I saw. I mean, there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of other people who aren't Patriots related, but um no,
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  Speaker 1: there was one GM mentioned that I was like, what
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  Speaker 1: did he ever do? I forget I might have heard
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  Speaker 1: it this morning. I forget who it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for another job, and I'm like, really, you know it was,
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  Speaker 1: remember who it was. It was one of those like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard his name, but he's never been a GM before.
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  Speaker 1: Oh like Elliott Wolf at least he works in a
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  Speaker 1: personnel department. Oh he's not even Yeah. This was like
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  Speaker 1: somebody outside the guy from the Browns, the Quaisiadopho men. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: never mind. I don't want to bo people, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to bore people with me trying to remember.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a name that like, oh, people know
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  Speaker 1: who this guy is, but I had no experience whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Alongoes lines Freddy, I've noticed more names that I I'm
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  Speaker 1: not familiar with in this round. Now. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's because like these betting things, these betting props
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  Speaker 1: are becoming more and more prevalent. So there's a list
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  Speaker 1: of ten twelve guys for every opening, so they have
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  Speaker 1: to come up with different names. But I would say,
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  Speaker 1: out of these names, this is a good five to
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  Speaker 1: ten that I've never like. And I like to think
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  Speaker 1: that I at least have an idea of who people
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  Speaker 1: are in the league. Yeah, but there's some names that
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard. There's a woman being considered for the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings GM job Eagles vice president of football Ops, Catherine Raish.
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  Speaker 1: Hadn't heard her name before, but that would be history
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  Speaker 1: making if they decided. Yeah, you wonder like if if
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  Speaker 1: it's just for show titular? Oh, I see what you
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  Speaker 1: did there? Yeah? Ever hear of Jonathan Gannon? No any
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  Speaker 1: relationship Nannon. I think he's the offensive coordinator for the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not positive on that one. Brian Callahan never
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  Speaker 1: heard of Billy barr Allahane to Bill, I think he
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  Speaker 1: might be. There was, There was Mike McDaniel. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit a lot of going around with him
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  Speaker 1: because he kind of looks like a hipster. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of days a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of memes of that guy. Clint Kubiak Vikings offensive for
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  Speaker 1: it has to be related to the the Broncos Kubiak after write,
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  Speaker 1: he's the only person in the world I know named Kubiak, right, yeah, yeah, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Kubiak, the baseball Mike, Mike grow it's got to
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  Speaker 1: be an al. Yeah, well doesn't he work for us?
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  Speaker 1: That's Matt Matt Grow Yeah, Okay, differs a lot of grows.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Downing. I don't know who Todd Downing is. Yeah, So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like there's a list of probably twenty five
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  Speaker 1: names here and these various props, and there's four or
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  Speaker 1: five like literally, I I'm not familiar with. Oh did
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  Speaker 1: you see the what was the post yesterday about Josh
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: that went out? There's somebody Houston thing the Houston thing
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: we talked, sorry, something different where uh he said he
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  Speaker 1: was not produced and not not pursuing opportunities at this time.
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  Speaker 1: Did you oh, he did not see that. He's I
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  Speaker 1: love him, Yeah, I love him. There's like eight openings.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't been tied to any of them. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna put out a statement he actually, I mean not
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  Speaker 1: physic him. There was Dard Greece grd. Wow, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see if I can find real quick. You know
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: what I look for, well, I mean, I don't mean
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  Speaker 1: to sound like I'm being like insensitive, but I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to, like in a few weeks when Josh is up,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: you know, when he comes up and he walks around
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  Speaker 1: our area a little bit. Yeah, you know, like I yeah,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: those are some of my favorite times of the year.
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  Speaker 1: That was still one of Yeah, it's coming up. It's
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  Speaker 1: still one of the most surprising moments of my work
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  Speaker 1: time here coming up and standing in falls door and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I ran, I thought he was in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: It is so weird. It's like when you're walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street and you see a fifty dollars bill, like
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  Speaker 1: immediately like it's so out of place it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: the ESPN commerce. Yeah, when you see when you the
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  Speaker 1: rare times that you see somebody from downstairs upstairs, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I don't know what I do, but that
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  Speaker 1: was it was, you know, that was extremely funny. Like
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  Speaker 1: Mike often, you know, like I'll go over there and
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  Speaker 1: Pump comes over and just pop in, like he's getting
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  Speaker 1: a drink or whatever. And he stops in and he
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: turns to the corner and he was like, oh, I
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: didn't know this because you didn't realize it was John right,
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  Speaker 1: and Josh is just like standing there, you know, but
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: talking about random Well, I remember the time you said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was talking to Josh and I thought
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you were the whole time you were talking. I thought
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: you were referring to Josh Kraft, like who also comes by.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, I'm like, yeah, you know, no
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  Speaker 1: disrespect to Josh Crapp. And I'm like, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: what right next to see him every day. I did
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: find the tweet. It was from Aaron Wilson Um and
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: it says highly regarded Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is
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  Speaker 1: focused solely on preparations for the playoffs, and he has
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  Speaker 1: not expected to pursue any head coaching opportunities during the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Per league sources, McDaniels does have significant interest around the league. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's what everybody's writing, but no one's request,
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  Speaker 1: not one, not one. Jeff Hayle wrote a glowing tribute
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  Speaker 1: to Josh too that he is h his stock is
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  Speaker 1: on the rise. How was saying today that he had
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  Speaker 1: some news to drop this morning? Do we know what
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: it was? Who? Jeff Hafford? He had news, he had
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: news that he was dropping personal news. No football. Yeah, yeah,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They don't really, I don't really follow there. No,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: we haven't heard anything. Okay, all right, probably reporting that
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the Patriots qualified for the playoffs. If unless they do
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: unless they don't. So Patriots could win Saturday night, unless
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: they could win if they scored more points than Buffalo,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: or or they could lose if they don't score as
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: many situations and his fluid. I'll keep you posted and
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: mac Jones will play unless something happened, lesthing happens, unless
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: something changes between now and then. All right, let's get
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: to the phones a hurry. We'll start with Todd in
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: North Carolina hate Todd. I'm gonna head out. Sorry, Todd,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, Yeah, it's all you. It's all you, Todd.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: You drove through side of the building. You got a
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: little snow coming. Do we a little bit just a
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: little bit coding, you know, Douce. I think one of
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: the things with our defense is we don't have that
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: anchor defensive lineman that just always is there and is
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: always his presence problem, not for a lack of trying paying.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I think Barmar might grow into that. But I went
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: back and I was thinking, and I think even in
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: two thousand they had like there was a guy that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: was just he was just consistent. I think his name
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: was Peasant, No, not Peasant, um Pleasant, Anthony Pleasant. He was. Yeah,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: he was a three four end. He was a good
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: solid player. Yeah. Yeah, that anchor, That's exactly, Paul. That's
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: what we we're missing. We don't have that anchor. And
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: when you have that anchor, you know, people like Seymour
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and Rabel and all these other guys that are around him,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the linebackers, that that front core, that that that initial
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: partners just they can be flexible, they can do stuff,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and they can be playmakers. But we I think we
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: missed that. You know, well, I mean you're talking about
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: like an into, like a Willfork, like an interior like
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: knows that don't have to be interior, just has to
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: be somebody on that front line that's just solid, that's
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: supposed to be liked Davin, gotcha, Lawrence guy, right, Carl Davis.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Those are the guys that are supposed to be doing
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: But I think what what Todd and correct me from
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: wrong type. You're looking for the guy that the other
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: team has to game plan for. Oh is that what
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you're saying? Well, they have to take into account like
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: they have to block him after no worry. Is the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: guy that's just there, like Wilfork, you couldn't run it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: will work, good luck, you were just gonna stop. Yeah,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: you know. And I'm not saying we could get somebody
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: that quality, but we just need somebody that they just
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: can't they can't, they can't ignore that. Yeah, exactly, Fred,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: That's exactly it. And I don't think we have that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: because and I think without that the rest for a
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: while it was Judean. Yeah, you know, but he's talking
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: about running. If he's talking about running, they've struggled like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: stopping the run. I mean it's been a problem all season.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and Jude, you know, always on the edge, right,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: he's not really coming out the guts of that. So
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you're looking for that central lot Yeah, yeah, I haven't gotcha.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And Carl Davis supposed to be that, yeah, and they
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: just don't seem to be this year. And you know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I was hoping Deuce was being you can still be here,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: but you know, that's what I think we missed. And
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you think Barmore could go into that that's my final Yeah,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I'll take it off there. Absolutely. I don't think he's
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: that kind of player. I think he's a versatile interior
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: defensive lineman, but I don't think he's a big, huge
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: run Oh no. No No, I don't think he's gonna be
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: like a zero technique Ted Washington type talking about. But
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I think he can be an every down player. Oh
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I he virtually is. Yeah, I mean I mean not
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: every game, but he's he's one of their best defensive lineman.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: He's out there more often than not. He's I think
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: he's terrific. Yeah, uh Nickson, Ohio, what's up? Nick? Nick? Hey?
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: You guys, how you doing that good? All right? UM,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I just have a personal question for you guys, just
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: something simple. I gotta get back to work. I'm an
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Amazon driver, so I'm out here delivered. Thank you for
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: your service. But away from that, I appreciate that. UM.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I just have a question for you guys. If you guys,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: uh wouldn't mind answering. Um, what's your favorite just part
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: of the season, just in NFL or just in the Patriots,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: just in general? That's it. What's the favorite part of
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the season. Okay, thanks for the call, u. UM. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: love the playoffs. I mean, the playoffs are great. When
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you're when you're winning in the playoffs, there's nothing like it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: There's a different excitement about it at work for sure.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: You know. I just be like, as a as a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: fan off in general playoffs, playoff times, it's just it's different. Yea, Yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: it's different. YEA love it, especially like Wildcard weekend when
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: there's it's the beginning. There are so many games. It's
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: kind of like the first weekend of March Madness, you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: when you've when you know you've got all the games
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: for like three four days. It feels like that a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: little bit. And it's it's really cool when you have
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that buy and you can sit back and you can
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: watch the other teams and like figure out who you're
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: gonna play, and that's fun. Yeah, you know, Um, this year,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: obviously we're in the mix, so we don't have that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: week off, but it's all right. And then you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: training camp is kind of fun too when it first starts.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: But then that gets old when you get into week
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: three and you know, but when it first starts, it's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: good to be out there. First weekend training camp is yeah,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you know, because it's it's it's the start. Now for
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the players, they wouldn't agree with that, but now the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: start of the regular season I always find very exciting too.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Then it's sort of like, right then you get into
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and see what's going on. Right, it's a grind. But
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the way the NFL season is set up and and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and designed is it's really perfect for the fan. It's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: you know, you you you have a couple of days
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to talk about the game, the game happens, you have
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a couple of days to rehatch the game, and then
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a couple of days to talk about the next one,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and then the game comes. It's a great Yeah, it's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a great cadence. Yeah, it's perfect. And while you're talking
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: about it, there's a game on the Thursday that you
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: can kind of look forward like get your like it's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: an advertiser perfect in everyone. And you know, and I
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: think the game of football lends itself not only because
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of the physicality you really couldn't play more often than that,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: but but the complexity of the game can hold your
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: attention for a week. Like the NBA, if you only
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: had one game a week, there wouldn't be enough to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: talk about with it for the game itself, you know,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: after you analyze that one game, there wouldn't be a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: lot left, right, you know that's interesting. Yeah, I wonder
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: if that would be like that. Yeah, I wonder if
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: we would talk about games more if they were less
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: of them in the other sports. Yeah, I don't know.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I think friends, right, there's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: only so much you can say. Football is such a complex, Yeah,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: but would would football be like that? If you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: obviously it's for obvious reasons, you can't. But if there
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: were four football games a week, would we talk about
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: them like that? Maybe we wouldn't, because I personally think
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of people think they can talk about football
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: for a week, but they can't. I certainly can't. Yeah,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make fun of other people. I
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: don't know enough about the intricacies of the XS and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: oos to break it down the way the way a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: lot of people try to. Really only need a couple
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of days to like exhaust your talking points for any
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: any game. Like I can sit here and I can
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: tell you that I agree with your premise on Josh
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Allen Freddie right, Like Bill is going to need to
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: do something a little bit different. I can't tell you
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: how he's gonna you know, hey, how he's going to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: do it, be how he should do it, you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: or see when I'm watching necessarily if there was a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: huge change or if they just played differently right, you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: or better. And and the other thing that comes into
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: that conversation is who's available. Is tell me if duggs
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: on the field and he's one hundred percent, because I
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: think that that's a big key in Josh Allen too.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, so yeah Mills, Mills, Barmore, yep.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: You know, we might not know about Jalen Mills until
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Saturday comes, right, you know, if he's able to get activated.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Dave in Canada. It's a big country.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Where whereabouts in Canada you're from, Dave Manitoba, Manitoba. Alright, alright,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: lose a peg Manitoba. One opinion and one question I'd
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: like to leave with you guys. Topic of conversation is
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: all year been what are we satisfied with? What would
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: be enough if we could knock off the Bills that
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: would be completely satisfactory than he if we take them
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: down and then go down to the Chiefs or the Titans,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I would accept that. Okay, So one win in the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: playoffs is something that I would believe that going well
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: done boys. Okay, all right, I've already dune. I had
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: already funny that Paul say, I can't talk about football
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: for a week. I was as our friends and that's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: all we do is talk football. And the topic that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: came up on as if you could have one player
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: guaranteed for the next four years off of any roster,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And we actually got four different answers Mahomes, Aaron Donald, Russell, Wilson.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: And my answer was justin Jefferson like to hear what
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you guys think would serve the Patriots the test over
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the next four years. Take off the thanks guy Patrick,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. I wouldn't really even give it much much thought. Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, Donald's a close second if you're focused on
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: your defense. Yeah, yeah, Like he's a monster in the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: middle there. But Paul's right, you take the best quarterback
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: there is, you know at the age Yeah, you know
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: like the next four years, right right, yeah, because you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: wouldn't maybe expect. And I also don't want to roll
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: anybody by saying Tom Brady, right, yeah, the guy did
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: just throw one hundred and eleven touchdowns at lead the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you can touchdown passes this year, oldest ever to do it.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Not bad, not bad. Bruce Arians says it'll be a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: travesty if he doesn't get MVP. Can you imagine Bill
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: saying that in season about one of his players, like
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: like totally different, the bigger, like much bigger than saying
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it is even given any thought to any second of
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a day right to. It just tells you that Bruce
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Arians has a lot of time in his hands down there.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's being just work worrying about awards
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: for the actual principles involved. I think is foolishness, not
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: like agents people that are trying to promote their client. Absolutely,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that's that's important stuff. And the player himself to say,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I'd like to be the MVP, totally get it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: But to waste any ounce of thought saying, you know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I really should be the MVP. Yeah, instead of worrying
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: about playing the game. Like but wait, did somebody ask
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Bruce arians about this? They must have. I mean, if
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: somebody asks him about it, I appreciate his honesty. It's
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: his quarterback. He's had a you know, he's had a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: great season. Why wouldn't he stick up for his quarterback.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I didn't have any problem with that. Yeah, I don't
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: know the guy. By the way, the guy's won a
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: super Bowl, so it's not like there's only one way
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to do it, the Belichick way. No, I just think
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it's dumb to worry about Like, why would you worry
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: about it? That's all. But he's not worried about it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: If somebody asked him directly, what do you think about
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the MVP race, and he gave it I'm not really
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: concerned about that. Yeah. Well, which should be the answer,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: because he shouldn't be concerned about it obviously he is
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to answer it the way. I don't think it's that
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: big a deal to take five seconds. It's not a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: big deal. I just think it's odd. I'm with Fred,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Like I can't imagine Bill Belichick
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: has taken any time of his preparation to say, oh,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you know what, I've been thinking about that. It'll be
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a travesty if he didn't. He's a different person. He's
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: sitting he has a media he hasn't. I didn't say
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: it's going to affect the game, though, But I just
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: think it's kind of odd, that's all. I don't think
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it's odd at all. I think he was I assume
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: somebody asked him the question. I don't know for sure.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just yeah, I don't know how he came out. Yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know how he know the answer. I like
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: he could have brought it up on his own. If
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: he brought it up on his own, and that's totally different.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: But if somebody asked him the question, I have no
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: problem whatsoever with him entertaining it. He has to sit
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: there and answer questions for a certain amount of time. Anyway,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that was the question, he answered it. I appreciate his honesty,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: just like you know, how many times have we had
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to sit there through You remember in the past when
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: whenever Bill would be asked about like personal records, yeah,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and he'd be like, oh, we don't really care about
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: personal records here. And you know, because we work here,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: we can't stand up and say, oh, really, how about
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the Flutie drop kick, how about the Vinie test of
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Verdi touchdown pass against Tennessee? How about Brady kneeling forward
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: so he doesn't lose the yard to gain the thousand
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: yards in the season. Of course, you care about personal records,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: but we work here, so we're not allowed to ask
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: those questions follow ups. Okay, Paul's not interested anymore, Tony
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: writes in in five games, the Patriots have apparently only
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: turned over Alan twice. On the other hand, in temperatures
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: below freezing, Alan has a fi point three percent completion
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: rate in just one hundred and sixty six point six
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: yards per game, with six touchdowns and seven interceptions in
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: five games. Which how many points they average in those games?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know, thirty, which probably meaningless. The Saturday stats
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: should we, as Patriots fanatics believe is the more likely
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of the two, I think he could be um affected
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: by the weather. Josh Allen, I think that's more likely
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: that he will be negatively impacted by the weather. I
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: don't know how many points that means the Buffalo is
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: going to score, because they scored twenty nine two three picks. Yeah. Uh,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: what was that second stat or is already deleted, already deleted?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: All right, it was, you know, fifty points something completion rate.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And it's also a cherry picked below freezing so like
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: when it was like thirty five in New England and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: he threw three touchdowns and three counts because it was
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: like I think, difference between below freezing and below degrees Ye,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a difference, and that's going to affect everybody, not just
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Yeah. I mean you have to isolate it
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to frigid conditions, and I think you need to. That's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: why I said, I think he'll be negatively impact and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I think the Patriots quarterback will be negatively impacted by
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it as well. Yeah, well he could be. We don't know. Yeah,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: we've might ever seen him play in temperatures like this
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: right ever, Yeah, he has been so far. If we're
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: going to do what we do to Josh Allen right,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I hasn't played well in December, uh Dexter and Santa Rosa.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I can't stand the idea that some Patriots fans fall
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: into the narrative of let's find something new for the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: offense at this stage of the season. It all stems
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: from the desire to get the ball into playmaker's hands.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Instead of throwing the screen passes to John hu Smith,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: how about throw some slip screens to rumandj Stevenson and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: get him in space. He is great after contact and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I think he's special. Instead of heaving it to Nikkiel
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: for a guaranteed batted ball in the air right for
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: an interception, how about throw it to the people who
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: make plays for us consistently for this game. I'm emotionally
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: prepared to lose. Hell, I'm prepared to lose to anybody,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: but I am going to root the whole way. Good
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: for you, But I will be disappointed if I watch
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: three to four targets go to Harry out of stubbornness
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and one ends up in a game changing interception. Let's
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: stick with what works and whatever happens happens. Also, let
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Ouch and judeon loose on Allen. Forget the QB spy.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Just pressure Allen and if he carves us up, so
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: be it. Patriots seventeen Bills sixteen. I think you have
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to remember that the only reason Nikil Harry had seen
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: any sort of action in the passing game down the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: stretch here was because they were down a couple of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: receivers and he had to kind of you know, he
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: had one or two more passes thrown to him than normal.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So I think with Agalore back, Warren coming back off
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: of the COVID list and recovering from that, I think
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna have to worry about passes being thrown
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to to kill Harry. He's out there again for what
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: he's been out there for all season, and that's the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: run block. Yeah, I agree. Uh, Let's go to Charlie
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: in Lancaster, UK. What's up, Charlie? Hi, guys, I'm quite
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a while. Can he okay? Oh yeah, just pull the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: string at the other end of the uh chord there
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you'd be all right? He is he still there? Yeah?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, try Charlie. Yes, yes, yeah, just a quick one,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: just basic covered dist not a female kind of Thomas Fund,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: but just really got to going to John Smith. It's
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: really frustrated. I know he's not grown, but it's part
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that not throwings him at all and he's just blocking.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: We need some kind of spottedness on the offense. So
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: wouldn't what you guys thought about that? And then that's
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: told you guys, all right, thanks Charlie. I mean, I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: just don't think Smith gets open. You know, I don't
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: know why they're not throwing it to him, but you know,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: is he is he having trouble getting open? I don't
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: know are we talking about I think he doesn't have
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of It doesn't look like he has a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: lot of comfort in what he's doing. Yeah, but he
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: showed he has some getty up once he has the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: ball in his hand, and everything they do with the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: ball in his hands is something designed to get the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: ball to him, right, Yeah. Yeah. It's like you know
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: how we always say like there isn't an intended receiver
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: in this offense, Well there is less it's a screen
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: or something like that. Like most of the passes he
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: catches us screens or they hand him the ball. I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: think we were a little bit on his hands. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: think we were a little bit um swayed this summer
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: when we saw or even in the spring, when we
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: saw him running a couple of those crossing patterns and
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you know, in open space. He put on an extra
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: gear and we were like, oh, this is right as right,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and I thought we were going to see more of that,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and we really haven't. I think that's where a lot
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: of people maybe got their hope up a little bit
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: with him. You know, in order to have running of
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the catch, you have to get him in the open.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And yeah, maybe he's just not getting open. I don't know,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and they've kind of given up on it, right, It's like,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: let's not spend any more time thinking about this. I
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: don't I just don't think he looks comfortable doing what
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: he's doing. I don't even think it's a matter of
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: being able to get open. I'm not sure he knows
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: where he's supposed to be. Like, I just think that
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: he's having trouble with that. And that's you know, And
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: when I say that, I'm thinking of when Josh a
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: few weeks back, we're like, you know, talking about the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: second year familiarity in the system. It was almost like
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: they were saying, you know, he ain't getting it this year.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: We have to wait till next year. Hopefully he'll be
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: more up to speed. And I think that's why. Like
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I just looked at the stats, you know, in addition
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to his thirty catches and I think it's twenty eight catches,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: they also handed it to him nine times, so I
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: mean that's like thirty seven catches and again not far
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: off of what he normally does. Yeah. Um Matt writes
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: in from Devon, UK a question from last weekend. After
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: seeing two A play for a few seasons, it's my
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: opinion that he isn't very good and isn't the long
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: term answer in Miami, do you think that when teams
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: switch their offenses to an RPO based one, that it's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: an admission that the quarterback isn't that good and isn't
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: a competent enough passer to run a conventional offense. So
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: it's almost the last resort. I know that it usually
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: has short term success, but then other defenses catch up
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and then the quarterback isn't there for much longer. Examples
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: are TWA, Nick Foles, RG three, etc. I know that
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has had a regular seasons success with it.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Inf in Baltimore, but it's never translated to the playoffs.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Just an observation for me. I'm sure Paul will tell
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: me that I'm wrong. Paul, Well, it is kind of
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: hard to ignore it. Kansas City do they run RPOs
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: more than anybody? Yeah, you know, and they completely change
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: from the West Coast offense to Patrick's mahomes to suit him. Yeah,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Robert Griffin got hurt, so that's completely irrelevant. It's not
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: because of defenses caught up to it. He ripped up
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: his knee and was never the same. Nick Foles is
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a career backup, so that's not the same. Yeah, you know,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: you could make an argument that two is not good enough.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that that like the original premise
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: of his email, I totally. I also have a hard
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: time ripping two when he's completely shredded you three times
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: in a row. Yeah, that's a good point too. Yeah,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: you know, everybody's like, you know, they only threw for
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: one hundred and nine yards. That's because that's all they
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: wanted to throw forward. They didn't need to do anything
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: else but run the ball that game. They just milked
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the clock and that's why they won. Like, right, when
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you're up seventeen points in the second half. Why are
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you going to throw it all over the place? Let's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: see Alex and Charlton. I don't feel very optimistic heading
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: into this game. We absolutely can't pull out a win,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: but like Paul has mentioned numerous times, it seems like
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: in order for that to happen, the Bills and Josh
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Allen need to have an off day. I have an
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: observation and a question I'd like to hear your thoughts on.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: For the past two years at least, the Patriots have
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: had a really hard time stopping the Bills passing attack,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: though during the same time period they have been able
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: to contain the Chargers passing offense quite well. I know
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the Bills have more quality depth at wide receiver, but
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the Chargers clearly have a good passing game, and Herbert
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: to me, seems like a similar, big arm fairly mobile
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: guy like Alan. I'd like to hear your thoughts about
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: why the same defense has had more success against the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Chargers than the Bills. Is the difference Allen's development the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Bill's familiarity with the Patriots. Do you think the Bills
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: passing game is that much better or something else? I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: think Herbert is. Yeah, he's two years behind Alan in
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: his development, that's part of it, he is, Yeah, And
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I would say Herbert looked a lot better the second
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: time around than the first time around. Me. Can I
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: also say that, like the Chargers don't have anywhere near
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the talent that the Bills do on offense, right, they
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: have Keenan Allen, right, Eckler's not bad. No, yeah, he's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I mean he's not bad, but he doesn't have Stefan Diggs,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: who's an all Pro, Davis Cole Beasley, Dawson Knox, Emmanuel Sanders.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's no comparison between the depth of weapons
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: that Buffalo has as compared to the Chargers. Yeah, and
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I think they they completely caught the Charges by surprise
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: last year, just like that was one of those like
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: every team has them, like they have a game. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Eric's right too, I mean Herbert looked like Josh Josh
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Allen looked like Herbert when they when he first got there,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: right right, he was holding them back at first, and
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: then he developed and but now I think, even now,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I think Allen's a better runner than Herbert. I'd say
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: different yea power, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But Can run.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I think Herbert is maturing into a good quarterback. He's
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: going to be like one of the better one too,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: just like just like Alan is right, and can I
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: just say on that And I kind of agree if
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I if you put a gun to my head, now,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I'll be on Eric's side. But maybe I'm a little
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: worried about him. Herbert, Yeah, reason if he's one of
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: those guys it just kind of finds a way to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: be just good enough, to not quite be good enough.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Puts up numbers. Yeah, like you can't play any better
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: than he did down the stretch of the Raiders game
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the other night, and had absolutely nothing to do with him.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: It was dare I say, Drew esque like I can
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: give you and you know that I can. I can
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: give you a catalog of games like that, where right,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: they just he just kept scoring in the defense just
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: kept allowing it and they couldn't win and had nothing
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to do with justin Herbert. But I do wonder if
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: maybe he's one of those guys that they lost a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: ton of games his rookie year that they had a
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: chance to win and they just couldn't quite finish it off.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: And this year, sorry, you get to December in this
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: position that they were in and not find a way
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to win any of those games, especially the Houston one.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: That's kind of on you, you know, and as a team,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and you know, whether it's Herbert's fault or not, I
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: don't know, but I am watching. I'm watching that, like
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I think there might be one of those things that
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: people kind of look at it and say Herbert is
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: more physically gifted than X or Y Borrow or whoever.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: But I'll take the other guy, you know. And I
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not saying that yet, but I'm just
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: wondering if that's one of those things to keep an
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: eye on. Mitch and Albany. I keep seeing people online
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: saying that the Patriots are one star receiver from truly
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: being contenders. Do you guys believe that's the case for
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: our offense? And if the Patriots look into free agency
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: in the offseason, do you see them getting a young,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: talented receiver like Calvin Ridley. I think he'd be a
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: great fit in our offense. I have an interesting thought
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: on the subject. If Malcolm Mitchell had never retired after
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: his first season, do you guys believe he would have
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: developed into a young star that made a significant impact
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: in our offense. From what I remember, he was very
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: good and consistent his rookie year and had tons of potential.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: He seemed like the one receiver the Patriots had really
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: hit on in the draft. I don't remember. I don't
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: remember Mitchell being the kind of player that I thought,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: even at the time, was going to be a number
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: one receiver. I remember thinking this guy would be a
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: great complimentary receiver, you know, like a nice yeah, nice
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: two or three guys. And I think you've got enough
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: of those already. Yeah, um, but probably in this offense
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: more of a three maybe. Yeah. I think he would
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: have been, you know, a good player for them. Yeah,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, Chris Hogan, Brady Fell, Yeah, yeah,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that maybe born Yeah, after after you're you know, if
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you have a WR one and then your possession receiver,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Mitchell would be a good complimentary guy. I wrote about
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: a little bit in the mail bag this week because
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: we had a couple of questions on and I mean,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I would I love really, I think he's a really
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: really good player, and he's he's twenty seven. Would absolutely
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: be interested. But you have to I mean, you have
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: to figure out why he like the mental issues, um,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: you know, dealing with anxiety, especially now, um, now more
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: than ever, we're you know, learning more and more about
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: how these things can impact athletes. And you have to
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: be sure that he's going to play. Yeah, And that's
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the number one thing to to get to get down
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to here is whether or not Ridley wants to keep
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: playing or if he just has an issue with Atlanta
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: and what's the And I'd like to know. I don't
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: know if we'll ever know, but I'd like to know
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: what the issue is that he's dealing with, you know,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: is it bipolar, is it an addiction? Is it something else? Like?
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: What what is it that? Why was it so bad
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: that he had to leave Atlanta? You know, to Paul's point,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: was it like yeah? Yeah? Um? And pss Mitchell. Now
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: that sports gambling is legal in New York, I'll be
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: taking every pick Fred makes over wildcard weekend because he
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: really does have a feel for the league. Good for you.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Please don't do that, yeah, please don't do that. Just
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: set it on fire. Uh. Deuce is back from practice,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: has returned practice has I wish everyone could see the
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: hand motions that my colleagues are performing during that Usually
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: it's just me dancing, but now everybody's a very good
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: tune for interpretive dance. It really is performance art. It
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: is it is. Uh. So we had a return eat today.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Mister Jamie Collins was back out there. However, no Isaiah Win,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: no Isaiah Win, no Doug and no Doug, no Doug
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: so something something. Yeah you thought he did. No, I
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: didn't think you'd be OK. Yeah, I think I think
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you nailed it. He's gonna have a club on, got
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: a giant club and I think he might have like
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: surgery last week or something. I don't know what happened.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: It's one of it. It's gonna be one of the
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: great mysteries at the end of the season, especially he's
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: popping up that he's that he limited. Ye know, I
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sure you guys, maybe Eric, you've experienced
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: this before. Oh yeah, it's rare, but it happened. It
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: does happen. Yeah, it's a little disconcerting at first because
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: you're like your immediate reactions, but everybody else ever else,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: when it's a consensus, you feel a little bit better
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: about Yeah, yeah, you know for sure, Well, especially today
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: were we just had stretching, So it was like and
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I mean by the time we walked in and I
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: got a little bit of boost because I'm coming out
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: of the tunnel, but it's already going. I mean, you
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: have you know, it's just frantic, like three minutes in
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the stadium, guys there in this day of the stag Yeah, yeah,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: for the second day of the frozen still frozen. I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: guess kind of mild, but uh yeah, I was a
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: little a little bit. Harry got a brief look at
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Christian barn where he was back out there, but I
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: don't know, it's he looks like it's hard to tell
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: with him because you know how he's always moving. But Christian,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I love the you talked about interpretive dance. I love
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the interpretations of how a guy who's injured. Yeah, yeah,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: because you get I mean, you literally can hear five
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: different but we'll give you five different impressions. Yeah. I
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: thought he was looking okay. Oh, I thought he was
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: really dragging. He was laboring. Yeah, yeah. Reesa texted yesterday
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: He's like, what did you think to how he looked? Um,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: And at first it looked like he wasn't doing anything yesterday,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: but then he did hop into a drill, and I
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: mean it was you know, legitimate participation, um, not just
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: kind of like a walk through where they stand up.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: So um, I'm I'm a little bit optmistic now. I
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: really thought after how he went down that we weren't
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: seeing him again until like that was it? You know,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: but probably a positive sign. But how do they fill
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: in for Win? I mean, it doesn't look like he's
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: gonna play. So do you swap Trent over to the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: left and put on when you at the right? Do
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you put her on at left and keep on when
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: you because you want that jumbo package and have the
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: ability to play him as the third guy. And let's
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: not forget the reason why Carris was in there at center.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: It's because Andrews is kind of nursing his injury. Yement.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Oh I thought he had a he does, but he
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: had a change of cleat. Yeah, okay, he clarified that
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: one to Mike the weeks. So some questions how how
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: they handle that, And I guess we'll see with Dougger.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: But you know, same kind of thing with you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: do they have to elevate practice squad Sean Davis again
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: to you know, play kind of that three safety package
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: that they've you know, played a great chunk of the
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: year in and has been such a key part. Didn't
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: he get he got bang? He got too. But he's
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: been out here, yeah he It was like the first
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: play came in and banged his wrist up, right, and
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be on the injury report because he's back
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: on the practice correct, right, right, correct, So yeah, they
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: could be really shorthanded, I mean even more so than
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: they have. Yeah, and the bills, and the bills are
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: adding to their Yeah, yeah, all right, we're gonna take
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: a break. I'm not wait a minute, waita go, I'm
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: not done with deuce. You know, first we need how
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: was the uh the meaner? Yeah? Pretty good? I mean,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: like I said it was. It was another one of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: those quick practices. I wish we could watch a little
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: bit longer to get a little bit more of a sense,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: because you're so much in your own head trying to
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: check guys off, and your binoculars are fogging up because
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: of your mask and you know, so it's but you know, generally,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I think you can sense a little bit energy. I
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's because you're in the game field though,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: and it seems a little bit more, Yeah, conducive, and
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: it obviously traps a little bit of the sound more,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: but it just feels active out there, feels like, you know,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit of buzz in the air.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's just me because it's the class, but that's
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: how it is. Yeah, all right, now we'll take a break.
• 47:25
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  Speaker 1: I I was wondering um watching the last game, and
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: I noticed that I was as frustrated, if not much
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: more frustrated this season than I was last year. Last year,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: I was frustrated because I was thinking, if this all
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: this personnel can do? Whereas in this year, I'm frustrated,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Is this all we're doing with this personnel? And just
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: the way you you know, the errors, the mental errors,
• 59:45
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• 59:50
  Speaker 1: was just an overall thought. Maybe you guys can discuss
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: later so you think maybe this year they're underachieving. Correct, interesting,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I would say, so, okay, and on a particular attack
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: for this weekend. And I thought about this for a while.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Because we have a set amount of weapons that we
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: trust out there on the field, would that be an
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: accurate statement? Yeah, I think they play a lot of
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: different guys. Yeah, I think I think they have trust
• 1:00:18
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• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: I think there's a I mean, I think they have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys they have trust in. Okay, So
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I was thinking in this particular game, just because of
• 1:00:32
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• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: what do you think about attacking it in a way
• 1:00:36
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• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: gets a first down, the team that's out there just
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: starts accelerating the rate of play, like and maybe not
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: it's the hyper mode that we were a couple of
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: years ago when the office was really clicking. But just
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: keep that person that defensive personnel out there and then
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: just go at them, especially since you can do it
• 1:00:57
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• 1:01:01
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• 1:01:02
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• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I think if we do that and we just don't
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: allow them to make adjustment, I think that actually gives
• 1:01:10
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• 1:01:13
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• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: What do you guys think, Yeah, I mean there's something
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: to be said about playing fast and you know, not
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: allowing the defense to adjust. But then if it doesn't work,
• 1:01:27
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• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: but I mean it all comes down to the quarterback.
• 1:01:36
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• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:39
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• 1:01:42
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• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: you know, you have a couple of successful run plays.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: But I think that they have a good group that
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: they like veteran buffalo defense that I don't. I don't
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: think they're gonna have the communication issues that you might
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: have when you're trying to push the pace on some teams.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: And I also think it's to put a lot on MAC.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I like it in the run sense and trying to
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: pound it when you're having some success and you get
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: them in Nickel. But I just think it's asking a
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: lot and putting a lot on Max played if you
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• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: push the pace constantly. Yeah. To Mike's point, they really
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• 1:02:20
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• 1:02:25
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• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: not really worth looking back at. Yeah. I mean they're
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: like everybody else. They rotate the defensive lineman a little bit,
• 1:02:34
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• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: ten snaps or something like that. Um, but for the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: most part, I think they kind of are what they are,
• 1:02:43
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• 1:02:49
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• 1:02:52
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  Speaker 1: man than the last game. Yeah. Um, yeah. Josh said
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• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: take that off. Yeah, No, I'll say it on there.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: That's why people are saying it because Josh said. But anyway,
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• 1:03:24
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• 1:03:26
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• 1:03:30
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• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: if you just if you get away from the run,
• 1:03:34
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• 1:03:39
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• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: more about physicality on both sides of the ball than pace. Yeah,
• 1:03:45
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• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: there were stretches with Miami's offense where it seemed like
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: they were going fast and it seemed that way and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: it really seemed like the Patriots defense were on its heels. Yeah,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: you know, like they didn't know whether it was coming run,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: our pass or RPO and it just seemed like, you
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: know it, you know, because it was working. It seemed
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: like Miami was really mixing it up well, and you know,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Patriots didn't know what was going on. Well, that first
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: drive it was basically like pass run, pass run, pass run,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: like it was really mixed. Yeah, and he I think
• 1:04:18
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• 1:04:20
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• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: But the other thing about that, did you notice, like
• 1:04:26
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• 1:04:30
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• 1:04:33
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• 1:04:35
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• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: think that that's I don't think they want to do that. No, No,
• 1:04:42
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• 1:04:45
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• 1:04:47
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• 1:04:49
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• 1:04:52
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• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: the Patriots ran the ball eight times in the first
• 1:04:57
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• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: sack in the second I mean it ended up with
• 1:05:03
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• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: was fifty he was eight from fifteen in the first half,
• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:11
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• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: think they feel comfortable just saying, hey, with down seventeen,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Max got to throw with fifty five times today. That's
• 1:05:18
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• 1:05:20
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• 1:05:23
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• 1:05:25
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• 1:05:27
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• 1:05:32
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• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: the yards running in the other game that like, aside
• 1:05:37
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• 1:05:41
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• 1:05:43
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• 1:05:45
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• 1:05:48
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• 1:05:51
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• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: and then you kind of see a stat this yea, yeah,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: he doesn't get stopped for lost squibs and manage at
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: least to get some positive year. Definitely, Mark and Bolton.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: What's up? Mark? Um? Hi Um, Mark and Bolton a
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: proud fifty two years season ticket holder. Paul Yes, Sir, Um,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: would you agree that there has been a passive approach
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: by both Josh and Bill on offense and defense and
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: that it may have rubbed off on your players by
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: reducing their aggressive distance physicality. Um and I also have
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: a sort of a solution after after we talked about that, Um,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: what what do you mean by a passive approach? Okay? Um?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: On on offense earl earl, early down, handing off, you know, uh,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: you know, sort of like everything just you know, up
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: the middle, pitch out, pitch out screens, um, as opposed
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: to maybe on early downs being a little bit more aggressive,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: you know, with a y scene or what's fifteen yard digs.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying deep, I'm just saying something that's up
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: the field a little bit dragged. Um. And I do
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: think they need yeah, I do think they need to
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: throw the ball a little bit more often down the field.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: I think they've been plenty aggressive with mac Jones. I think,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: considering they have a rookie quarterback, I think they've thrown
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: the ball, you know, I think a proper amount of times.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't really had many games where I've
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: come away saying, Wow, they really just would not let
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: them throw. I mean, and they lost. And there's a difference.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm saying games that they lost. Now, there
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: were games they threw the ball twenty times that they
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: won because they didn't need to throw it anymore than
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: they did. But I wouldn't look back at a game
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: plan and say they lost today because they didn't let
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: mac Jones throw the ball. I'm not saying that they
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: they're not throwing enough. I'm just saying situationally, early in
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: the game. I mean, the passes are getting there because
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: they're losing the games. I mean early on, they're getting
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: crushed early on. I think because the other teams are
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: stacking the defense. You know, the Colts were to put
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: their lap the lousiest cover safety in the box and
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: we you know, you're just getting stuffed earlyer. Right, Yeah,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: But I see but that's where that's where I disagree
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Mark. I don't think that they just
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: ran the ball in the first half against Indianapolis, And
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: I just showed you stats from the Miami game. They
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: threw the ball twice as often as they ran it
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: in the first half of the Miami game and they
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: got nothing to show for it. They didn't they didn't
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: do anything with it. So I think part of it.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: I like your idea of throwing the ball on first
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: down early in the game. I had, really I'm on
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: board with you on that. I think I mentioned that
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: yesterday as a wrinkle that I would like to see.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Nothing crazy, just something to get him comfortable early in
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, you know, a nice play action. We're
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: gonna hit Hunter Henry, you know, nine yards or you
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: know whatever, and we're going to be in manageable situations.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: We're gonna move the chains early. We're not gonna go
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: three and out in the first drive. And I think
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: the best way not to go three and out in
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: the first drive is to not hand it off three
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: times because I think you're gonna be hard pressed defense.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: And same thing on on the defensive side. You know,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: at the I was at the Buffalo home game, and um,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: early on, you know, it was just Alan throwing swing
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: pass and then dump downs, you know, to you know,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: a little sit down to the backs. And part of
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: that is that's what that's what they were giving him.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: That's what That's what I mean, Like, you can't just
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: like make the guy do things that he can't do.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: That's what he does, right, It's it's it's quick timing,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: it's accurate throws, it's run after catch, that's what they do. Yeah, well,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: he wants to go. He wants to go dat too,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: and I'd like to force him. How do you know
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: that he's talking about Alan Josh Allen? Oh, you're talking
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: about Josh Allen talking about Josh. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: I thought I thought were still talking about he was
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: talking about Alan. I'm sorry, my bad. That was completely
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: but I thought we were still talking about Mac Jones. No,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: And I think you're you're right marketing, Get comfortable, Yeah,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: get comfortable, and then he and then he just played lights. Oh,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: I mean totally like though, yeah, I think you're right,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Mark in the sense that you've heard a couple of
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: times and jac today kind of echoed it and mentioned
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: yesterday like they were just that Josh Allen was patient
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: and take him what was there. And I think that
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: was based on what the guys are kind of saying
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: this week. It seems like what we speculate on that
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: they want to sit back, make him try to take
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: that stuff downfield and force it and make mistakes was
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: what a big part of their game plan was. And
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: that's what I think going into this one. Can you
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: do that again? Can you just you don't have the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: secondary to hold up for long. I think you gotta
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: go get them. Yeah, well, yeah, you have to reduce
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: the time that the ball is in his hands. Yeah,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: you have to do that somehow. Thanks Mark, You know
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: you can't cover forever. Yeah, I mean I saw I
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: didn't read I didn't read up a dar Road today,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: but I just saw him tweet that was you know, essentially,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Judeon's got to get on track if the Patriots have
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: any hope. And I agree, I think him and Barmore,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: I think those guys just have to have big games
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: where they're dominant, disruptive guys and they take Allen out
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: of his game early and then they're able to close
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: them out late. Once he kind of gets a rhythm
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: towards the end of the game, they start to make
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: their push as they are want to do. You know,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: I just keep thinking, you know, the Patriots were competitive
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: in that last game against Buffalo, right, I keep going
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: back to that fourth one, the game here, game here. Yeah,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: I think Mike just described what they did, like hanging
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: on by us, but they were never really a threat.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: I keep going, I don't know. I mean, it was
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty one, I think it. But and the
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: ball and J C. Jackson if he makes that catch,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: I know, you know, but right, But what I'm saying
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: is like, I'm not expecting a blowout. Can we all
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: agree on that? Yeah? I evidently might can. Actually, I
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: think anything can happen, I really do. I don't. I
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: think the Patriots can win a nail biter or they'll lose.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Those are the two options. I was just that I
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: think the Patriots are gonna blow them out. No, but
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I would just say the Buffalo wins could be close
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: or buy not close. I think those are the three options.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Patriots squeak it out. Yeah, but I don't think that
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: that game here was overly competitive. I know that they
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: had a chance at the end to get the ball back.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: But I mean, right, Buffalo would have had to do
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: something at the end of the game that they hadn't
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: done the entire game. Yeah, I mean, and it's it's
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: classic Patriots. They were on the edge. They had a
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: brief fighting the fight. That's that's the Patriots. You're not
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: going to kill him, you know. I go back to
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: that game and I just keep thinking of that fourth
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: and one play where Collins lined up outside and they
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: needed that someone to make a play and if they
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: get okay, he's the guy that could do it, and
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: he just missed. And and that's the thing. You have
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: to make that play. You have to make that play.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: And you know what the Bills say, we have to
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: make that play in our I know, I know this
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: is Josh Allen. That's what he does that makes him him,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: you know, JC Jackson dove and I don't know what
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: Collins what he was doing. Colin got Collins got juked. Yeah,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: and then Jackson missed the tackle. And then after he
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: missed the tackle, he actually ran into Collins. Yeah. Exacerbated
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: by that time out at that time he had the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: first time U Sean's in Vancouver. Hey, Sean. Hey, guys
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: during the Miami game, both Henry and Myers made these
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: really nice catches. They were open, but they leaped and
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: dautiful catches. Yeah. Yeah. The announcers on the national broadcast,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: let's they said, oh, those were perfectly thrown balls. But
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't agree. I mean, if it was
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: perfectly it's throne wouldn't be better. Yeah. I heard the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: same thing, and I thought the same thing as you.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: They weren't perfectly thrown. I mean they were in a
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: place where only one guy. They were good thrown, you know,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: but they had to extend. I mean they could continue
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: after right, right. Yeah, they weren't perfect. A couple of
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: those Browns throws were perfect, I think, and those were
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: right in the bucket, got out of bounds like it's
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: just in stride. Yeah, I mean I don't know. I
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: would look at it as the guys you're throw into
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: like do they need to do? You know? Is that
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: what was necessary or is that I don't know. I
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: thought they were really good throws, especially the one to Myers. Yeah,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: I mean it was a great catch, but a great
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: throw too. And Paul, I also agree with you in
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: regards to the start. I really love to be a
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: play auction to Henry on the first first place, especially
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: if they bring in like one of those eligible linemen
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: and it looks like they're really going to run seventy
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: one reporting. I don't like it as much doing okay,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I just want to throw the ball.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to try to trick anybody. I just
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: want to say I have faith in my quarterback. I'm
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: gonna let you play this game. Like I don't need
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: to write and like I'm not trying to say, like Mac,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: I think you might be able to make this play
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: if we set it up by doing this, this and this, Like,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: don't pay attention to any of that. But because we
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: have faith in you know, just I want him to
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: get it and get into the game. Yeah. And Mac
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: needs to have confidence in himself. He needs to get
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: rid of the ball on time. Yeah, get a little
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: momentum gone and get a little confidence. And this defense
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: has given the Patriots offense problems now throughout the entirety
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: of the McDermott era. And it's been with Brady, it's
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: been with Cam and and now it's been with Max.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: So there's something about the way they play defense that
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: the Patriots offense their system has yet to figure out. Yeah,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: good fast defense. What is it? Three touchdowns? Four touchdowns,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: seven interceptions and the whatever many years that McDermott's been there,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: you know, Poyer and Hide big part of it, I think,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: and good players, you know. Yeah, it's just every time
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: you time upfront, Jerry Hughes and guys like that. Yeah,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: and they don't get a ton of sacks, but they
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: do get pressure. Yeah. Well, I think there's something appealing
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: about their defense in that it's it's not an overthought defense.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: It's a fast we do what we do. We have
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: some weaknesses, but we're not going to spend every week
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: trying to reinvent the wheel. We're going to just do
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: what we do when we when we when we don't
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: have at certain games, we're not going to have it.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's just it's something with the Patriots,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: which of course you respect, like the game plan approach
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: and all that, but I always you know, circle around
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: that stuff of like do you put too much on
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: these guys? Do they are? They are? They so wrapped
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: up with seventeen different game plans that they've had, you know,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: that hard mentally, that down mental load of each week
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: having to kind of start from scratch. I have to
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: think it is, right, yeah, I mean like reset every week,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: you know where probably goes into every game like all right,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: all right, you know this is what they do, and
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do what we do and let's let's attack
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: it with our strength. It's probably a healthy balance between
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: the two. Yeah, you know that. I mean, you don't
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: necessarily have to do every week and something completely and
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: let's be fair, all right and an objective. Right now,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: the Patriots offense doesn't seem to be the toughest team
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: to gain plan against, right. I mean, it's Matt right,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: he's a rookie like running. That's why I brought up
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: the fact that it was Brady, it was Cam and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: it's now. It's not this is not just about now,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: right Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I think the thing
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: that's hard about the Patriots offense is that in this
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: age where everything is that sucks or it's amazing, it's
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: like they're an average offense. And I think it's hard
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: for people to kind of like the automatic top five.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Statistically in terms of points, they're much better than now,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: but we all know. Yeah, it's skewed. Ye, we all
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: know how those points came to be. Um, you know,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of pick six is a lot of you know,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: piling it up against a couple of you know, vastly
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: inferior opponents, right, but they're inconsistent. And you know, Mac
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: he was. He was good this year. He was an
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: average NFL quarterback, which I think last year at this
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: time anybody would have said, hey, I'll take average for
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: a rookie. Didn't have average quarterback play last year. I
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: had below average now, but it's hard when it's not amazing.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: And difference, the difference you get with the addition of
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: UM personnel. I mean, they have more talent, no question,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: they have more talent on the roster right now than
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: they did last year. And it was worth two and
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: a half games. Yeah right, you won three more games
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: and you lost two less Yep, Yeah, that's the difference
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: drew In Pennsylvania. The fan side of me is excited
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: that the Patriots are in the playoffs, so we can
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: see how some of the new players fair in an
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: elimination game. However, if they lose, I'm not sure how
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: I feel about the season. Would you guys, rather have
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: this season end like it's looking one and four in
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: the last five games, or would you rather have gone
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: six and eleven going four and one in the last
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: five games. I'll take this, Yeah, I would too. Yeah,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs. I mean you need the kid
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: to get some playoff experience, and the sooner the better. Yeah.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: I think the more boxes you check off, the better
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: it is. Drew thinks I think drafting closer to the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: top and trending up might be more encouraging than trending
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: down to end the season. Yeah. I understand his point.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: I just I think that the more things that you
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: can get Mac Jones experience and will serve him better. Yea.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: And not to mention another game against Buffalo. I mean
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: you talked about how tough this Buffalo defense has been, Like,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: at some point, if you want to get back a top,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to knock these guys off in some capacity.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: So it's I mean, yes, playoff experience is great, but
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's just another really good defense and a
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: really good challenge for a rookie quarterback. James Pettigrew, the
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: most interesting Patriots fan in the world, writes in hypothetical question,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: what if rookie Matt Jones came in for an injured
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: Brady and O, wait, from what you've seen this season,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: would he have had a better or worse season than
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Matt Castle? Huh, that's a good question. If Mac came in,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: would Mac have been better than Castle than A wait,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: with Randy Mouston Welker. Probably Matt Castle was better than
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Matt Castle. I don't think. I don't think so, no,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: because I mean, I mean, Castle did have a few
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: years experience in the in the offense to eat even
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: as a backup bus stats too, I mean I think
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: I think that would be through for four hundred yards
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: of back to back games. Yeah, Castle had a really
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: good year, right. Castle was a mobile quarterback. Don't forget
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: he made some plays with his feet. He was a
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: good athlete. People forgot about that too. I think, Oh yeah,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: Now I think that the ceiling for Mac Jones is
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: much higher than Matt Castle. I think, yeah, I probably
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: think he'll be a better player than Matt Castle was.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: But that particular year, don't forget it was Castle's fourth year.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, yeah, that's what I just said. You know,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: he was heads experience in the offense probably played at
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: least what fifteen playoff game, I mean in preseason games,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: and he played and he played well that season, like
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: I yeah, I mean obviously they had Welker and Moss
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: like that's enormous. That's what's just fun to think about
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: is imagining what Mac would do with two Paul Timers.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Cody writes in and Indiana. I know Bolden's been pretty solid,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: but how much do you think this offense missus James White?
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: Considering Max seems to be quick to go to the checkdown.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: Do you think we'd be better about on the offense
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: if James White was on the receiver the end of
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: those short checked downs in screens. I mean Bolden's been,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: I mean bold has been much better than I thought.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: He's made a lot more players than I thought he
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: was gonna make. He's broken a lot more tackle than
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: I thought he would. That said, I still think James
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: White is excellent, and I think Mac had a good
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: chemistry with him and had some of his best throws.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: And I don't Yeah, my short answer is, I don't
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: really know, because I would never have thought that Bolden
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: would be as productive as he's been. And I don't
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: know that White, at this stage of his career, would
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: have done a fair point, would have done any better.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. Yeah, I mean there's no
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: comparison between the two players. But I mean I don't
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: know that White could have done much more than what
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Bolden's done. I mean, there's been a lot of players
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: that he's like. White would have broken that tackle. White
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: would have made that guy missed. I think Bolden's made
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: guys miss to get first downs. All he's been would
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: have had that that touchdown last week, that first one
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: he had where he kind of did and then danced
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: and ran. I mean, yeah, that was a nice play.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: You know. I love me some James White, you know that. Yeah,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: sweet feet. I think Um bold most of his plays
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: start closer to the line of scrimmage. James White can
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: get a little deeper. He can get into that second
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: level a little bit better. I think he can kind
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: of run that swing out and I mean we saw
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: a couple of those, we saw one of those two. Yeah,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: but no, like Paul said, nobody expected Bolden to do
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. He's definitely maybe he's not James White,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: but he's definitely lessened the loss. Yeah, he's picked up
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: some big first downs, some touchdowns. Yeah. Absolutely, Jean and Ottawa. Jean,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: I was watching a war documentary last night and the
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: narrator said that it's an old saying about war that
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: no plan survives for his contact with the enemy. He
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: went on to explain that it's how an army adapts
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: in combat that often makes the difference. Two questions for
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: the group. One do you consider this year's team better
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: than average at making in game adjustments? And two do
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: you think this will be a key to victory for
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: either team? I don't. I mean, I think it's one
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: of my biggest criticisms of this team just overall. And
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't pin it all on coaching adjustments,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: but I just think this team hasn't really shown an
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: ability to shift gears when they're not playing well, to
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: flip the script. You know, Wow, all of a sudden,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: we were terrible in the first half, they came out,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: they were great in a second. They always make a push,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: but I never feel like it's enough to really take
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: control of the game. And I think that's been one
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: of the biggest problems. And it's why I think if
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: the Patriots lose this game, you know what it's gonna
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: look like. I mean, it's not like Buffalo is gonna
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: run out to a lead and the Patriots are gonna,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: you know, go back. I mean, it's it's gonna look
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: like they've all looked right. And it is an interesting
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: point because there's no there's nothing to quantify it, but
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: you kind of feel it. And you know, like when
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: you're talking about those three comebacks, right Indie, Buffalo and
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: now Miami. I agree with the way you just said it.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: They made runs, but I never felt like the Patriots
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: were in control of the game. Like contrast that to
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: like Atlanta in the twenty eight to three Super Bowl,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: Like when High Tower Strips sacked the guy, they were
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: still down two scores, but everybody in the stadium something
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: just changed, Like you felt it. It changed. Now, maybe
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: part of that was because Atlanta was just not tough
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: enough to just say, hey we still we still got
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: to school lead here. You know, we're still okay, And
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: maybe that was why. But I didn't get the feeling
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: that Atlanta was going to be able to go down
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: and do what they needed to do. When the Patriots
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: made that run, they actually did, but they blew it.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: I never they were in field though, Yeah, but I
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: didn't up just telling you how I felt before that
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: drive happened. Now they were going to prove me wrong, right,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: that the Julio Jones catchup was going to prove me wrong? Yeah?
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: But I conversely never really felt like the Patriots were
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: going to stop the Colts, the Bills, or the Dolphins
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. I never felt like momentum had changed in
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: any of those three games. No Christian writes in from Colorado.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to be more worried about moving
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: forward our offense not starting out fast fifty sent of
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: the time, then making a second half comeback and not finishing.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: And the same goes for the defense. Do you all agree,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: in your opinion on a scale of one to ten,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: how worried are you for this third Bills matchup? Me,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting at a six for the reasons above. I
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: have no idea if they're gonna be good or bad
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: in the game. When they have started fast, they've won.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: When they've started slow, they've always put up a fight,
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: at least in the offense. At least the offense has
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: the d is what worries me the most. They don't
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: step up in these situations. Where's my concern for Sunday Saturday? Yeah, yeah,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: it's uh. I go back and forth because there's part
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: of me that wants to believe that Devin mccordy and
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: Dante Higtower and Jamie Collins and Kyle Van Noy are
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: going to come out and finally knock off the nonsense
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: and play play how we kind of have expected them
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: to play in the past. That might be foolish to
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: hope for that because I don't know what we've really
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: seen from them in clutch situations. Got to have a
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: games playoff games two years ago against the Titans. Um.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's it's a it's a it's
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: a narrow ledge like I mean, it's a couple of
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: plays like you know, So there's that's the big question.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: Are they not playing well or is the other team better?
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: Like that's the big question that you just don't know.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: It could be both, Yeah, because I don't know that
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: the defense is not playing well lately. This just might
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: be who they just might be playing some offenses that
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: can move the ball that they didn't see in that
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: seven game winning streak. Yeah, And even if that's true,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: you know, I still think that they just have some
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: key moments where you know, it only takes a couple
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: stops to you know, maybe flip the script a little bit,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: and just even those have been have been hard. So
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: we'll see what these guys are. But I mean, part
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: of me feels like this very well could be the
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: kind of last hurrah for a lot of these guys
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: that were championship players here and you know, how are
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: they going to go out? What is their legacy going
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: to be? Is it gonna because you couldn't get you
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: couldn't stop Josh Allen and you know your patriots are
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: up late and he couldn't get that one stopped like
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: they usually could, or you know, do they have something
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: left in the tank? Right? And I don't you know,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: certainly wouldn't expect Buffalo to not punt like they did
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: the last game. You know, I would think they would
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: be you know, a little bit different than that. But
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: you know, I thought the defense they stopped Miami into
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: three and out in the fourth quarter when they had
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: you know, when one of the times then they couldn't
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: do it again and they stopped Indianapolis. Now, the Indianapolis
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: one was less of a stop. I think Indie did
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: what they wanted to do. They took like five and
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: a half minutes off the clock. But bottom line is
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: they didn't give up any more points there on that drive,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: and then they gave themselves a chance. Like I said,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think Buffalo is just going to run rough
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: shot and not punt like they did the last But
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: I have to be honest, if if this defense was
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: as good as I thought it was going to be
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, they'd be hosting this game,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: you know. But it's like, how much better like they do?
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: You know? They were like the top scoring defense in
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: football until the last week of the season. Yeah, but
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: you know, you know it when you see it. Yeah,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: this is a classic team where the stats don't really
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stats out there that I agree
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: with everything you guys are saying, But the bottom line
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: is they allowed fewer points than everybody else in football
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: except for the team that they're playing on Saturday. And
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: the difference is the team you're playing on Saturday allowed
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: ten and you allowed thirty three. That's that's why you
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: switched spots. Because they were two when we were one. Um,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: and I get it. I don't think that this is
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: like the fifteen Broncos or the two thousand Ravens or
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: anything like that. But in this day and age and
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: this climate, they've been as effective as any defense in football.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: But it's not but it's not been enough. But not
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: enough for a team with a rookie quarterback. You know
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: that we all thought that that's why the running game
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: and the defense that was going to carry this team.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: And it has and I have and I think it has,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: but not quite enough. They also need to That's what
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Is it not playing well enough or not
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: being good enough? Yeah, yeah, right, I think it's a
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: little bit of a question. And then they have to
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: find a way not to sleepwalk through the first half
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: of this game like they have because I think for
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: one out of the past four games, the crap that
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: we all talked about in August, for once has exactly
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: unfolded the way we said, Like, it is a team
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: that's relied on running the ball and playing defense, and
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: when they get a lead early in the game, that
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: defense becomes better. Yeah, they need that confidence boost. Conversely,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: when they don't allow a touchdown immediately in the game.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: The running game has been better. Yeah, you know, uh,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: Travis and West Virginia. It's my understanding that Ian Eagle,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: are I an Eagle? And Charles Davis are calling the
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: game Saturday night. I'll have to emotionally prepare myself for
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: that on CBS. How do you guys feel in general
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: about the overly excited broadcasters such as Eagle. Seems to
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: be a rash of them these days, which I find
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: to be contrived. I don't give them anything. They don't
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: do anything for me. I'm more just listening to Paul Hardy,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: Matt Lapan, not necessarily in that order. Wow, um or
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: equally um. Yeah, it could be Iron Eagle, it could
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: be Joe Smith. I think they're all exactly the same,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: and they all sound exactly the same. They were all
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: trained exactly the same at Syracuse. Um. They just mass
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: produced them all, and every once in a while there's
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: an al Michaels who sticks out and becomes a legend
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: because he's that much better. As much as I personally
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: do not care for Jim Nance, I think his career
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: is you know, yeah, he's a at the top. Bob Costas.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: Hello friends. Um, you know Joe Joe buck On on Fox.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: I mean these guys stand out. Alan Is, there's a
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: list of about another twenty that are exactly the same. Yeah. Um,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: A very pleasant good afternoon to you all, Josh and Hatfield,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: Mass health provided. I'm hoping that Barmar has a monster game.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: In my reasoning is his best game in college probably
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: came in the championship game with his motor. I see
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: him as a guy who puts one hundred and ten
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: percent in when needed most. In your opinion, do you
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: think a college championship like that can be a comparison
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: to a playoff game? No, No, maybe not at the level.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: But I'm hoping like he's got a second chance at
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: life and now he's going to go out there play
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: like Oh, I mean, I mean that could be, but
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, but I think I think there's college it's
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: not the same. But in terms of the atmosphere, yeah,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, absolutely, that was electric of course, especially
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: the national championship game. Yeah, there's got to be a
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: little bit of carry or nothing like a playoff game.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: And you like the speed of a play I'm just
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: going by them. I never played I'm just listening to
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: the player. I don't think they talk about the difference
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: in the speed intensity playoff football over regular season. I
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: think we're talking about other regular season dwarfs college. Well,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: I know, but I and I think that overall the
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: speed of the NFL dwarfs. But I think that when
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: it comes to just be dealing with h Yeah, I
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: think you're as jacked up for that as you are
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: for an NFL playoff game. Yeah. I think the experience helps.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: So are you telling me that any big game that
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: you would play and would be similar? Yeah, like to
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: that level in college, not like it, you know level. Well,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: if we're not talking about the actual play, we're just
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: talking about your mindset. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, you're consistent.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: So like your high school championship game. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: it's the same. I would Okay, No, you guys sold
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: I get what you're saying now. It's a total mental thing.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah right. I can I share a quote
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: I think is topical from Team Survives Contact with It. No,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: I really liked I put this for the notebook today,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: but this was from Ivan Fears earlier this week about
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: just the playoff intensity. Everything on the field goes up
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: and notch. The intensity of the game is up and notch.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: Nobody on the football field is going to be taking
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: a break. You've got to know that not one son
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: of a gun's gonna be looking to take a break.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: You're going to hack to get everything you've got on
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: every play. Guys that have never been in that atmosphere
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: sometimes they're kind of caught by surprise how intense the
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: game is, well, every every game, which you know how
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: I feel. Do you know what the National Championship game
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: was for Alabama? Just another game? Onday track me like,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: as opposed to every week in the SEC. Like to me,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't look at the differences in
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: those games for those teams that play in that like
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: ridiculous atmosphere every week. Yeah, yeah, I have to think
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: there is say something a little bit bigger about a
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: national championship or a playoff game in college. It's bigger
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: than a regular season game because if you lose, you
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: go home, you go and then you're done, you go home.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: Rash from Saint Louis Looking back, what are the high
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: and low points of the regular season? High, as obvious
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: the bye week when the Patriots were number one in
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: the AFC. That's awful. Low point is more interesting. How
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: could you you could say now is the lowest we
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: felt about the team. I would go with the first
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: drive in the third against the Texans, when Mack through
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: that pick and the team was down two scores against Houston. Yeah,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: and I agree. I wrote it. I said this is
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: the lowest point of the season. I think that I
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: wrote it. I think that's a really really good low point.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: I wrote it at the time. Yep, Yeah, I agree.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: And it could have gotten lower because it looked like
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: there was a chance, right, And it could have gotten
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: lower if the punter from the Texans didn't hit his
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: own player in the back of the helmet. Yeah. If
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: they lost that, they come back, I don't think we'd
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: be talking about being in the playoffs right now. I agree. Yeah. Well,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: I mean statistically right, I don't even think they would
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: have gone nine in anything. But I also like the mindset.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: I think that's what I'm saying. I don't think they
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: would have gone nine and eight. Some guys might have
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: checked out, I might say for me, I mean absolutely,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: Paul knows how mad I was during those moments. But
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: that last Bill's game and just how unable they were
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: to do anything call the game over in the second quarter.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: That was That was pretty low for me. That was
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: another one of those those two games. All Right, it's
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: that time of the week and Paul, we're not gonna
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: we're not gonna do a high point. He said, said it.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: They had the number one. I know he said it,
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: but we didn't. We all thought he picked a really
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: good low point. Oh, I think that was it. When
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: Buffalo win. Yeah, I go with the high point. I
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: go with the Chargers really yeah, because there was nothing
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: flukey about that win. I know, but I just think
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: the stand you know where you were after the Buffalo
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: game in terms of the standings, and you know, yeah, yeah,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: that was the all aboard five seconds talking about Los Angeles.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: We've destroyed the Buffalo franchise forever. I mean, you're getting
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: ready to put Can I just state this, you know
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: up front, we got a half hour ago. We'll make
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: our picks and everything. Half hour. We do have about
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: twenty five minutes, yeah, twenty five minutes. Um. If the
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: Patriots win this game, can we just can we learn
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: from the last time and not make it a like
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: a declare that Sean McDermott's days are over. No, um
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: that No, he's not making any of those promises, that
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: making any promises like that. Buffalo sucks. No, like so
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: you buffalo sucks. No, but it might they might suck.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: He's gonna act like it though next week. So you're
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: not gonna learn your lesson. You're gonna do the same
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: thing you did last time. All right. Well, Week eighteen
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: is in the books, and it was not a pretty
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: one for the entire crew. Fred was the best at
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: nine and seven wow, followed by Mike, Eric and Paul
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: at eight and eight. I believe I went nine and
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: seven as well. Here we goes. I don't know what
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: to tell you that these guys I don't I don't
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: even have the picks. I got him right here. You
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: know what happens. It takes him a half hour to
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: make every pick out. I'm just gonna say this again.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this as politely as I can. I'm
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: not keeping tracking from now. You have to submit your
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: picks and a seal downvelope. I've had We've had these
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: four plus three other people, four other Peopleit a minute,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: maybe even five morey Andy m ob. Yeah, he who
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: shall not be named in PARENTI. Yeah, what about this is?
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: This is the only discrepancy I've ever received. Yeah, I
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: shot me. If there was somebody to point it out
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: to me more, Oh absolutely? Oh yeah. Could he'd be
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: the only one who cared, right, and he forgot his
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: picked by the end of the show. Oh yeah, he
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to complain about his pick. So
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: U with the spread it is Fred and Paul at
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: seven and nine, followed by Mike at five and eleven
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: and Eric at four and twelve, except he probably went
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: twelve and four. I had Wait, wasn't the charges game
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: a push? The charge? They lost? Out right? Oh right? Yeah,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: my bad. Okay, there we go, and there it is.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: So overall, Eric is the winner regular seas one seventy five,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: ninety six and one, followed by Paul at one seventy four,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: eighty seven and one, Mike at one seventy three, ninety
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: eight and one, and Fred one seventy one, oh one
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: and one, the only one to lose one to lose
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: one hundred games with the spread. Eric is also the
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: winner WOW with a very impressive total of one fifty
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: three one sixteen and three. That's a good record, yeah,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: followed by Paul and Fred. We tie for second. One
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: forty eight, one twenty one and three also very good. Yeah, impressive.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: Hit me with it and then Mike give it to me.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: I don't even have any just tell me one twenty three,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: one forty six and three. Wow. My apologo, I will.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: I will say this with all sincerity, my apologize for
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Eddie mistabulations, any discrepancies in the records. We're not intentional, Paul.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: I'm a half a moron, Paul. As you guys know,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: I can only tell you what the score of a
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: game was in nineteen seventy nine. I may have mispastulated
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: what the score of a game was last week. It
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: really doesn't matter that much. I just like, because you want,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: because you want anyway, Fine, it's fine by one I
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: won by one point. I won by one. I haven't
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: sentives for this. All right, so we got six games.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Eric, Thank you. This is a good pickup line. Now,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: you know I want two takes contest. I believe it's
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: two times you get away from me, creep. I'm good
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: at spreading in the lane. Yeah, all right, the points
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: that is records don't matter now, everybody zero and zero.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: So tonight, tonight you leave it. I'm just gonna get
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: a PEPSI. Okay, it's gonna I'm gonna give you the yes.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: Four thirty Saturday Night, Vegas at Cincinnati, Cincinnati by five
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: and a half. Cincinnati a so Joe Burrow took last
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: week off a little bit of an injury. We saw
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: them lose to the Browns. Will that affect their team
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: morale as they go into the playoffs for the first
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: time since twenty fifteen and Las Vegas obviously hot, Derek
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: Carr winning that overtime game, feeling good about his first
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: playoff appearance. I just think Cincinnati's got too much across
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: the board. They're at home. I'm going to take them
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: to win and cover. I mean, the Raiders have been
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: a great story ever since Gruden left that they've found
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: a way, and I think Derek Carr in particulars personified
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: you know, what that team has done. I think he's
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: made a great transformation from a quarterback that people kind
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: of thought was as so so whatever into like the
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: clear cut leader of that franchise. It's been a great story.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for them, it comes to an end this weekend.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: The Bengals win the game, but the Raiders have a
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: ton of heart. They'll keep it close. So I'll take
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: the Raider points. Okay, So I'm just gonna double check here.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: You're taking Cincinnati to win in Las Vegas with the points? Okay? Correct?
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: I have Cincinnati slash healthy written down on my sheet.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: I will be with Deuce. I'm gonna take Cincinnati both ways.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: I would echo everything that Eric said about the Raiders,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: especially Derek Carr. Been very impressed with Derek Carr, more
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: so off field than on the field. But I think
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: sometimes you know, you expend, you waste a lot of
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: energy doing that, and sometimes you just run out of gas.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: And I think Cincinnati rested some of their key personnel
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: last week. We'll see if it works. We'll see if
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: they're mature enough to be ready. There's a lot of
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: guys that haven't been through this, but none of the
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: Raiders have been through it either, So I think Cincinnati
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: gets it done. Yeah. Um, I think the smart pick
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: is since he both ways, but I'm not smart, so
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Cinci. But I'll take those points. I'll
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: take those points. Um. Saturday, night eight, Say, what are
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: you doing skip over the Patriots game Saturday night. We're
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: gonna go to Sunday at one when all games should
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: be played. Philadelphia at Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay by eight
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: and a half with no receivers, Tom, Tom, Tom, So
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: do they begin another playoff run? Uh, it's a good
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: home game, but there they were all in the road
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: last year. So this is Brady's first playoff game except
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl, of course, which right correct, But
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: I I think Philadelphia had a good end to the season.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: But it's just I can't. I can't pick against TB
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: against the subpart team in the playoffs. I will take
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: the Bucks and I will lay the points. Uh yeah,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: I will take the Bucks to win at home as well.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: I'm just debating on this point total here because like
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: you said, there they have no receivers anymore. It's gonna
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: be all on Brady and probably Gronk, right, I mean
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: not a Bam Evans will be will play. But I
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: mean for the most part, they guy who caught the
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: touchdown in the last play of the game, even he's out,
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah Scott his name st um So I will give
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: the Eagles a little bit of credit to keep it close.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: So I'll take their points. But the Bucks win. So
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: Bucks win? Yes, stop just double checking, guy, I will
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: take Tampa both ways. I think if the Bucks lost,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: this game would be akin to like Tebow Broncos. You
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: know all the Tomato Can games that we talk about,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: the Osweiler Texans, Mariota Titans, that this losing this game
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: would be like that. Yeah, I don't. I just and
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: I know that Tampa is missing a lot of personnel.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think it matters. They should win this game. Handle. Yeah.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: Plus I think Tampa Bay has the edge and head coach,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: and that Brady is better than Phillies coach. Siriannie. The
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: fact that you got the Sirianni and there was I
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: know that was impressive, But do you get the joke? Yeah,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: you take him Tampa, Yeah, both ways. Don't you think
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: Sirianni looks like a cast member from three hundred? Oh?
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: But Spartan Spartan, well, any of those guys, I mean
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: they all look a lot of the Spartans great abs. Yeah,
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: I've seen them with a shirt off. I'm not sure
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: you're allowed to say that. You know, the beard and everything,
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: he looks like it looks like a three hundred casts man.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: I need to see him with a shirt off. Yeah,
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that, or in a loincloth, yeah,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: Bill BELICHICKI coaches in a cut off hood, loincloth. It's
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: this thing that's always been something I've had a problem
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: with with the NFL uniforms. You know, you can see
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: it with the teams that wear the white pants, like
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: they have this the back of it. It's like a loincloth.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: It's like this thing with a string. It looks like
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: the way but it's not a jock strap. It's built
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: into the pants. Just the stitching. It looks like something
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: Tarzan where, you know. Yeah, next next time, just pay
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: attention to the teams with the white pants from behind.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited. It's all about coming from behind.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: And Sunday San Francisco at Dallas. I think this is
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: the game of the weekend. Yeah, Dallas at three, Dallas
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: by three, three Dallas minus three. Jimmy ge Garoppolo, Yeah,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: that's I mean they put up fifty fifty Burger and
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: that last one there for Dallas. Um, I gotta take
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys at home. I do think Jimmy G played
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: well here down the stretch getting them in UM. But
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: I think that that DA's got something to prove and
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: I think he knows it. And I think they're at home.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: I think they win and cover. I'm with you, Deuce.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: I think you're right. I mean, as much as I
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: love Jimmy G and the fact that he was able
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: to get his team rally them from seventeen down to
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: get them into the playoffs against a good team, I
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: think that they have a lot of flaws and the
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are just starting to I think, find themselves a
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: little bit. So they're at home, they win, they cover. Yeah,
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: I am going to take the Niners outright way now.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: I think the Niners have the kind of team that's
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: really built for playoff football on the road. Like you
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: have to be physical, you have to be able to
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: run the ball and make some plays to score enough points.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: It's not just a one dimensional offense. They can get.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: They can get in the high twenties, which I think
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: it'll take against Dallas, and I think that if they
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: can do that and be competitive, I think Dallas will
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: feel the noose and I'll take the Niners. Jeez, I
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: hope you're right. Paul, but I just can't go with you.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: I gotta go with Dallas. I think this year is
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit different year for them. Dallas is good.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not telling you Dallas thinks Dallas is very good.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: So I think Dallas covers and wins the game. My
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: pick is more of a pick four Kansas for San
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: Francisco than it is against Dallas. Yeah. Sunday night, eight fifteen, Pittsburgh,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: and you know, perhaps Roethlisberger's last game against Kansas City.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: I like those. Yeah, Kansas City by twelve and a half,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: by twelve and a half. They heard Big Ben talking yesterday, Hey,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: we're not favoring We're probably We're just going there and
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: relax and have fun. I don't think it matters. I
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: just I don't think the Steelers have enough. I think
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: I continue to believe Kansas City is back on track,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take Kansas City and I'm gonna lay
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: those twelve points. Yeah. The Steelers surprised me a little
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: bit with the gumption that they showed on the road
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: in that finale. I thought for sure, after the emotional
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: send off at Hinesfield that they were gonna just be
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: spent for that Baltimore game, but they weren't. However, the
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Chiefs are just too good a team and the Steelers
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be there in the first place. Chiefs role both ways,
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: I am with the boys. I'll take Kansas City attempted
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: to take the points, but I think that if they
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: fall behind, it could be some turnovers involved. And I'll
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: take Kansas City to cover too. Yeah. I mean, Pittsburgh,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: they're a proud team, you know, and they defense could
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: you know, help them put up a fight. But I
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: just they just got nothing on offense. And I think
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: that you know, it was a tough game against Baltimore,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: but Baltimore is not the same out their quarterback, right
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: So I mean you can't say, oh, they played well
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: against Baltimore. Baltimore is not that good anymore, at least
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: right now. So absolutely, So that's the last five. So
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not letting that sway me. I'm gonna
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: take Kansas City both ways. Monday night, eight fifteen, the
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: Cardinals at the ROMs is the toughest game of the
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: weekend to pick. I think rom is it on no
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: which game? Which game is Pittsburgh Kansas City game? That's Okay, right,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: I believe so yeah, okay, Although, what's the the Vegas
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: Bengals game? Is that on NBC two that I M
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: m M, I don't know, CBS man, and now we're
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: on CBS, right, Pat's Buffalo CBS. Then I think it's CBS. Yeah,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: it'd be weird to be a doubleheader, CBS doubleheader for
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: the first day that info it could be. Could be
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: a CBS double header and then a Fox double header
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: on NBC for the Vegas game, CBS for the Patriots game,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: Fox Philly, Tampa, CBS San Frandallas, NBRY SHE Pittsburgh, Casey
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: and ESPN. Okay, so Volar by four four. It's a
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: great question, great question this game. I agree with Eric Toughest.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: Arizona great start to the season, had a bunch of injuries.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: I think Hopkins going down and losing him kind of
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: changed their their whole dynamic. Ram signing Wettle, that's an
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: interesting move for them. I think I gotta go with
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: with Stafford and O b J and that group. I
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: think they'll win in the and I think they'll cover.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: Actually know what, I'm gonna take the points, Paul, because
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be it'll be a closet one right
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: down to the right. The Cards have been such a
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: bizarre team because they were number one for most of
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: the year in the NFC, and they were worse at
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: home then they were on the road. They played terrible
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: at home all season, which makes me think they're gonna
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: put up some good numbers in Los Angeles. Um, I'm
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: gonna pick them out right to win the game, because
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: I really Yeah, because you know why I don't trust
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: Paul's guy, Matthew Stafford. He's really a game. He's limped
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: to the question. There's some question here. He's definitely limped
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: to the I'm gonna pick the Cards and Kyler little
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: running around throw them passes. But while Fred is correct
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: that Stafford has limped to the finish line, the Rams
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: still found a way to win five with the last six.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: So I will say that they will win this game
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: and and cover. But Stafford, I think has thrown eight
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: picks in those six games. Yeah, so Fred's right about Staffords. Um,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: I'm with Paul. The Rams win both ways the favorite,
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: right yea, yeah, so they cover? So the Rams cover
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: this game. They I want to see them advanced. I mean,
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: they're an exciting team. They've got a you know obviously Cooper,
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: Cup and Stafford, and they got a great running back.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: I was you didn't let me, you stepped on my line.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: But you're right. Cam Akers is back. Just when you
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: thought you had all the answers. Did well, he did
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: well if you really averaged three point seven yards of well, no, no, no. Um, So,
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, he's been he's been good for them down
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: the stretch. So the Rams, uh Rams win and they advance.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: All right, now we go back a little boy. It's
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: all the way back to Saturday. Oh boy, Saturday night,
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: eight fifteen zero degrees is still the forecast, right, Eric, Yeah,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: that hasn't changed. It's it's in like give or take
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: two or three degrees. But yeah, you're talking about near
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: zero temperature. It doesn't matter at that point. Now, Yeah
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: it's cold. So what do we got? Paul Bills by four?
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: So the line hasn't changed. And I think the touts
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: and the sharps are telling us something that it's going
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: to be a closer game than people think. Yeah. I
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: do think it's gonna be a close game. Um, but
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, based on what we've seen out
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: of the out of the Patriots know what's talking about.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: I never know what he's talking about. I just don't um.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: It's it's just it's hard to pick the Patriots for
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: me to win the game. I think that they will
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: show up and play hard and have something more than
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: they've had here in the end. Um. But I think
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: ultimately Buffalo is too talented. They are clicking, they're ready
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: to go. Um. I'd like Buffalo to to pull it
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: out at the end. I will take the points for
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, but I will take the Bills to win
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: twenty eight twenty seven and the kind of game that
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: will probably leave me apoplectic again and furious. I don't
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: know why I'm but you know, it's it fails to
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: me like a game could take another postgame show off
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: twenty seven twenty one and the fourth and you know,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: and the Bills pull out the last touchdown twenty eight
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: twenty Well, Deuce, I will ease your concerns the final score.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: The final score is going to look closer than the
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: game actually is, so you can rest a little bit easier.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: You can be apoplectic in the first half. If I
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: can give up in the first time, you can give
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: up early the Bills are going to be in total
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: control of this game from start to finish. The Patriots
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: as they as they do, They're gonna fight and claw
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: their way back and make it look like they got
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: a chance, but they really don't. Just a continuation. Yeah,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: I mean a great story for Buffalo. Last year they
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: won the afcast for the first time and forever. They
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: won it again this year. But really to prove that
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: they are now the Beasts of the East, they need
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: to beat the Patriots in the playoffs, and they're going
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: to at home Josh Allen and that offense is going
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: to be too much. They win thirty to twenty three.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: I am gonna take this is This is really gonna
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: surprise I think some people. Yeah, fraud Parolo is going
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: to be checking in. I can't argue with any of
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: the on paper stuff that Buffalo has an edge in.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: I agree with all of it. I think Buffalo has
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: a better team top to bottom, front to back. I
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: think Belichick's a better coach than McDermott, but I think
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: McDermott's a good coach, so I don't even think that
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: advantage is significant. I just feel there's something to this.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: Bill struggles at home this season. It's not just been
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: about whether they haven't played as well at home all year,
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: from the very first week of the season against Pittsburgh on.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think that they I don't think they've looked
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: like themselves all year. And there's something about that that's
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: sticking with me. And I'm doing a little one of
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: those maybe blind faith kind of picks that I generally
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: criticize people for doing. I think the Patriots are going
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: to find a way to win this game. I don't
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: know how it's going to happen. I don't know if
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be because maybe Buffalo miss is a field goal.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: The way every field goal kickers missed against the Patriots
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: all year, eleven missus m tops in the league. Maybe
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Tyler bass miss is a field goal, and that's ultimately
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: a difference. That was the difference in the last game
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: that was played in Buffalo. So I'm going to take
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: the Patriots twenty four to twenty three. Good for you, Paul.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just I just want to say I understand and
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: I will accept all of the mocking and criticism that
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: you want to send my way for being a fraud,
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: because I understand. I think it's a it's a blind
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: faith pick. It is what it is. I think. I
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: I think I literally heard an audible cheer from Patriots
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: Nation when you put down that pick, Paul, I think
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: they were it was more of an audible gasp when
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: I did it on the air with Mike and ever next.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: I think, I think, as you would say, the Fitzias
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: of the world are cheering right now. See that's what
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: I'm looking to avoid. Well, you got it. I'm sorry,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: I call them, I'm sorry, but there we got Parolo.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: We got Parolo. I don't know if it's a good
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: a bad sign. Only in New England is another AFC
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: championship considered a loss. Um, yeah, this this is a
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: tough one for me. It really is. You know, obviously
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: you know where my heart lies. Um, but I've been
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: ten and seven picking the Patriots this year. Eric, Now,
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I think marked differently there, Fred, you
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: only picked him to win ten games. You know, seven
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: times I picked him and they they lost. So I'm
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: not infallible. Um. You know friend friend's record while picking
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: the Patriots this year seven? Uh, you know, so I
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: I just have to look at it. I listen, I
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: love Matt Jones. I'm happy that he's a quarterback, but
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: he's a rookie quarterback. This is his first playoff game.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: The fact that a rookie got to the playoffs is
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: a great thing. That a rookie would win a playoff
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: game would be over the top. So I'm taking Patriots
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: fifty to ten. You know, the Bills. The Bills know
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: what Eric said. The Bills know that. You know, Yeah,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: they won the AFC twice in a row, but this
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: is the first time now they've played the Patriots in
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: the in the playoffs, and they've got to win this game.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: And you know they're gonna come out pumped up, and
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you talk about fast starts, not to say
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: that the Patriots won't come out, you know, pumped up.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: But it's at home, you know, the Bills rookie quarterback
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: and mac Jones. I don't know. I just I just
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't do it. Bills twenty seven,
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: Patriots fourteen. Wow. Yeah, considerable margin. Yeah. I would just
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: waiting to see if he had him covering. There's no
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: way he could pick the Patriots after that pretty amble. Oh,
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: I would do it anyway, but no, I just and maybe, look,
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: maybe it's maybe by my doing that the win. And
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: I hope that's the case. Yeah, I hope that's the case.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: But it just really comes down to, like, you know,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: I just don't already, you know, we've seen this offense
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: against lesser defenses, and you know, I don't think that
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: they can generate enough, you know, because remember, the cold's
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: going to affect them too, It's not just going to
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: affect the bills, you know. And Matt Jones has made
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: incredible strides as a rookie and that's gonna continue next year.
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: But man, I just can't objectively say that he's gonna
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: be able to win this playoff game. But I listen,
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: love to be wrong here me too, h But I mean,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, I feel I'm kind of in
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: the same place where just based on how the two
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: teams are playing, I think it correlates because I feel
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: like they got about a twenty five percent chance one
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: out of four and that's what we pick. So uh,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: I just hope that they come out and go down,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: swing in, and go down with a good football game,
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: and you know, just don't make stupid mistakes. Mistakes happen,
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: But just don't go down and beat yourself. Make them
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: earn it, make them and I want to come out
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: of the game and say, you know what, the Bills again,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: they were the better team. I don't want to come
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: out being like, man, we almost had them. You know
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's probably the case based on my
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: big But I just want them to put forth a
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: good football game and then I'll be happy. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: I'd love to come out of this game even if
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: they lose. Wow. You know, there's there's a lot of
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: hope for the future. Yeah, you know, not that if
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: they get blown out, I'm gonna give up on twenty
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: twenty two. But you know that will be in character
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah. Yeah. But let's just see what Matt
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: can do here. Um, and let's just hope he's not
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: the reason why they don't win this game. Yeah, but
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: they've got to They've they've got to stop with the
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: stupid penalties and the turnovers and all that stuff, because
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: if they do that, forget it, forget it. You know,
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: the Patriots have to play the more perfect game, There's
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Yep. You know, the Bills can
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: make some mistakes and absorb that. Yeah, they've done that
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: a lot this year, a lot. Yeah, you know, and
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: let's see the vets on defense step up a little
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: bit and make some plays and go out swinging. I mean,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: these guys, there's so many guys who have had great
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: careers here, and you know it might be the last
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: game for some of them. I'm just focused on the
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: other team. I just need the other team to not
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: play well. That's what I'm That's what I'm paying. But
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: but them not playing well, we'll have to be in
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: part because the Patriots do something to make them make mistakes.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: I just know. I think it's got to be Buffalo's
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: got to collapse. You think, total brain fart. Yeah, yeah,
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for, and I think it can.
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: You think it could happen? All right, All right, well listen,
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: that's it. Um. I saw one email come in that said,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: you know, this could be the final episode of PU
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: No no no no no, no no no no. Even
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: even if the Patriots lose, we'll be back on Tuesday
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: and then Thursday. So if the Patriots lose, we go
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: back to Tuesday and Thursday. If they win, we continue
• 2:00:57
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• 2:01:03
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• 2:01:08
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• 2:01:13
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• 2:01:16
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• 2:01:20
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