Speaker 1: Alright, let's bring in Sean Merriman. Of course lights out
Speaker 1: great player, rookie of the Year in the National Football League. Huh.
Speaker 1: Of course is a tough guy. Um. What's shan? First
Speaker 1: of all, Happy Thanksgiving. Second of all, what's your reaction
Speaker 1: to Bruce arians openly criticizing Tom Brady. Well, I just
Speaker 1: don't believe in that in general. Um. And as much
Speaker 1: as I'm a Tom Brady Hayter for life and I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid to make that, UM, I don't think you
Speaker 1: should be doing that because that that just creates turmoil
Speaker 1: in the locker room. I mean, we we all got eyes.
Speaker 1: We can see what the problem is. We we're seeing
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady hasn't completed a good past past thirty
Speaker 1: yards down the field. We can all we can all
Speaker 1: tell that, but we don't need the finger point in
Speaker 1: the locker room. I mean, Tom Brady has never been
Speaker 1: a guy is Again, as much as high like the
Speaker 1: bash and and talk crack about Tom, Tom Brady has
Speaker 1: never been a guy that's calling out anybody publicly, not
Speaker 1: a coach, not a player, um, not anybody on the staff.
Speaker 1: He's never done that. So I will always give him
Speaker 1: credit for that, but also too, you gotta look at
Speaker 1: you knew what you was getting when he got there.
Speaker 1: You knew what type of player Tom Brady was. And
Speaker 1: they got all these people who do the statistics and
Speaker 1: analyze and you know, analytics and do everything like that
Speaker 1: in house, and you saw that Tom Brady is not
Speaker 1: a great pass for the last five to seven years
Speaker 1: over twenty five yards. You know that. So if you
Speaker 1: get down there and you don't have a system in
Speaker 1: place for a guy that's not accurate over you know,
Speaker 1: thirty yards, why would you bring him in? So they
Speaker 1: created the problem. They had opportunities. I mean, they had
Speaker 1: opportunities to go get multiple players during the off season,
Speaker 1: and didn't you know you had an opportunity opportunity to
Speaker 1: get Cam Newton, You had an opportunity to get uh
Speaker 1: you know, I think Jamis was there. And I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that any one of these guys better
Speaker 1: than Tom. I'm just saying that that if you have
Speaker 1: a system there requires you to throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field and make big plays, go get that guy.
Speaker 1: Don't be mad at Tom because he's not accurate over
Speaker 1: over twenty yards. You you created that problem. Sean what also,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in that game where they lost to the Rams,
Speaker 1: walked off the field, didn't shake Jared Goff's hand, and
Speaker 1: and and I get it. Tom has won a lot
Speaker 1: six Super Bowls, a lot of people of crown the guy.
Speaker 1: I just think it's class list because he's done it before.
Speaker 1: When he when he beat Jared Golf in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: of course he was there to shake his hand, But
Speaker 1: he walked out on Nick Foles during the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: when Nick Foles played an unbelievable game and won Super
Speaker 1: Bowl m v P. And earlier this year when Nick
Speaker 1: Foles beat him again, Tom Brady was a no show,
Speaker 1: you know, to shake his hand. What do you make
Speaker 1: of that? And isn't that a bad look for a
Speaker 1: guy of his his stature? Yeah? Absolutely, And and you know,
Speaker 1: I got a theory and I don't know him right,
Speaker 1: but I've been saying this now. Um, I always thought
Speaker 1: that he had something against Nick Foles. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that something is that what Nick Foles said or did.
Speaker 1: I thought he had something to personally getting against Nick Foles. Well,
Speaker 1: I felt he also ran off the ran off into
Speaker 1: the locker room again to make it not about Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: because that's what he talked about with his past year's
Speaker 1: So so let me can can we can? We let's
Speaker 1: just flush this out here. Sean Merman joining us, uh,
Speaker 1: Rob Parker, Doug Gottlib. We're all just for for just
Speaker 1: for radio world out there. We all know each other
Speaker 1: and generally like each other. So like, let's let's pretend
Speaker 1: this is like a little zoom call um Sean, do
Speaker 1: you think it's he doesn't view Foles on his level?
Speaker 1: He's like, are you kidding me? This is the guy
Speaker 1: who wins the Super Bowl? Like I know who Nick like,
Speaker 1: and I mean, is it is? It? Is that? Possibly? It?
Speaker 1: I mean what I'm trying to get into his mind
Speaker 1: of what he could have against Nick Foles, who's by
Speaker 1: all accounts seeing as a really good dude. Like I
Speaker 1: know Nick a little bit. He lives near me. In
Speaker 1: the off season, I played hoop with him. He seems
Speaker 1: like a guy that everybody likes. He's a very religious guy,
Speaker 1: but warm and friendly. Doesn't seem to be a phony.
Speaker 1: And Dougie had him he had an unbelievable super Bowl game, right,
Speaker 1: he had unbelievable super Bowl But like, do you think
Speaker 1: he's sitting there going like, wait, we didn't play Malcolm Butler.
Speaker 1: This guy is not that good, and he has this
Speaker 1: unbelievable he wins the super Bowl and if you remember
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl, others the Patriots actually never punted in it.
Speaker 1: Brady turned it over to really end the game. He
Speaker 1: misread the defense and got hit. But they missed a
Speaker 1: field goal, they missed an extra point. Whatever. I my
Speaker 1: My only thing I can think of is maybe he thinks,
Speaker 1: here's the guy who won a super Bowl against me
Speaker 1: and he's not on my level. Do you have any
Speaker 1: hypotheses as what it could possibly be. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. Because you gotta understand that
Speaker 1: Nick Foles won a game. I mean people are talking
Speaker 1: about him like he was the best thing since like bread, right,
Speaker 1: I mean we we we all put Nick Foles on
Speaker 1: the pedestal that he shouldn't have never been. He just
Speaker 1: played the perfect game. They ran perfect play calling. I
Speaker 1: mean they caught to these guys off guards and the
Speaker 1: Patriots on their hills the entire time. It was a
Speaker 1: perfectly called at and after that game, everybody wanted to
Speaker 1: crown Nick Foles as as some great quarterback which he
Speaker 1: was nowhere close to being. Now, you know tom Brady,
Speaker 1: uh looking at looking at from his standpoint, I would
Speaker 1: be I would be piste too, but not pissed enough
Speaker 1: to go and just shake the man's hand. So when
Speaker 1: when that happened, I just feel like it was something
Speaker 1: a little bit more personal, maybe something nick Foles said
Speaker 1: or did. And like you said, I've I've seen him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's had great religious rants right after the
Speaker 1: game until I can tell what kind of guy he is.
Speaker 1: But you know, there has to be something else there
Speaker 1: in order for him to do that, because it can't
Speaker 1: be because you just won one game against them. It
Speaker 1: has to be something more. And then, my I just
Speaker 1: have this strange villain that it was always about Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: always about Nick Foles, and now Tom Brady has to
Speaker 1: run off the field of someone else to take it
Speaker 1: not about nick Foles. I just don't believe. I just
Speaker 1: don't believe that. Uh, Tom Brady, with the spotlight on
Speaker 1: him and him knowing that the backlash he's gonna get
Speaker 1: by not shaking another guy's hand, were continuously doing so
Speaker 1: I just have to feel that he has to do
Speaker 1: something to mix it up and and Sean. There's no
Speaker 1: way Tom. People say, the minions who will support Tom Brady, Oh, well,
Speaker 1: he's just frustrated. He didn't play well and he's just mad.
Speaker 1: My point is, if they lose to the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chiefs and Tom Brady doesn't play well, do you think
Speaker 1: he'll run off the field and not shake Patrick mahomes hand. No,
Speaker 1: no way, no, not at all, not at You can't
Speaker 1: give me no waiving day morning happened. Look, he's gone out,
Speaker 1: He's gone up to Drew, to Drew Brees, He's gone
Speaker 1: up to other great quarterbacks. He's gone up some guys
Speaker 1: who are not great quarterbacks. I just think that Tom
Speaker 1: has a certain level of respect for certain guys um
Speaker 1: and and it's not anything uh you know, he's not
Speaker 1: like the store loser. I just believe that he had
Speaker 1: he picks the chooses who he's so respect to. And
Speaker 1: if that was anybody else other than Tom Brady, we
Speaker 1: will be slamming him all over the place. But you know,
Speaker 1: his supporters and people just love him to death, will
Speaker 1: support him no matter what. But it's it's at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it just it's not right. You know,
Speaker 1: there's something I want to ask you about Sean Merriman,
Speaker 1: our guest Rob Parker, Doug got Lieben for for for Dan,
Speaker 1: and the Dan Nettes. Um. One of the things lost
Speaker 1: in that game is the Rams appeared to be really good, right,
Speaker 1: And what the Rams did to the Buccaneers is kind
Speaker 1: of similar to what the Giants did to the Patriots
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl both times, which is the ability
Speaker 1: to get to Tom Brady without blitzing. Right. And by
Speaker 1: the way, this is what the Rams did to the
Speaker 1: Seahawks is they could they could get to Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: without blitzing. And a lot of this comes down to
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and his his dominance, which attracts a double
Speaker 1: team and sometimes even more. Um. Look, you are great
Speaker 1: at what you did, Seohan. You came off the edge,
Speaker 1: you weren't the interior pass rusher, but you weren't able
Speaker 1: to sustain it for nearly as long because because of injury.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering from a guy who's been down in
Speaker 1: those trenches, who, who Who does Aaron Donald compared to
Speaker 1: because he's so he's unbelievably dominant at a position that
Speaker 1: we don't normally recognize as such, you can't compare with
Speaker 1: anybody because we haven't seen anything like this, and I've
Speaker 1: played with some great D tackles. You know. I played
Speaker 1: with a guy by the name of Jamal Williams who
Speaker 1: was a who was more of a big guy who
Speaker 1: took up two blockers in the three four scheme. And
Speaker 1: then I went to Buffalo and play with Kyle Williams.
Speaker 1: And Kyle Williams, I mean, look, if Buffalo had a uh,
Speaker 1: you know, winning years and they had more TV games,
Speaker 1: we would put Kyle Williams up there in some of
Speaker 1: the greatest D tackles of all time. But he's not
Speaker 1: talked about enough because they didn't get to shine so
Speaker 1: and I just he's you know, he's a Pro Bowl player,
Speaker 1: but he would have won multiple Pro Bowls if if
Speaker 1: Buffalo had more visual and things like they have more
Speaker 1: TV games that we haven't seen anything like Aaron Donald before.
Speaker 1: Because this guy is doing this, people don't understand be
Speaker 1: the houtside linebacker to have you know, double did sacked
Speaker 1: every year if you're really good, you know that seems
Speaker 1: about right. You kept doing what he's doing for the
Speaker 1: interior and knowing that you're coming into the game and
Speaker 1: he's gonna get double and triple teams. And the way
Speaker 1: he gets so creative to get skinny, uh, between that
Speaker 1: guard and that center, to turn his hips and explode
Speaker 1: through guys and play mind games and run stunts and
Speaker 1: go and hit an opposite guard on the other side
Speaker 1: that's not looking just when you can blow another guy
Speaker 1: up and get there still. It's just he's gotten so
Speaker 1: creative and so dangerous that he like Lawrence Taylor did long,
Speaker 1: long time ago, man, and the way people block him
Speaker 1: and how he you know, the reason why the short
Speaker 1: pass game and quick game was created was because of
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor. And what's happening what we're seeing right now
Speaker 1: with Aaron Donald. They're about to ain't the game. They're
Speaker 1: gonna start having to do something that they've never done
Speaker 1: in the history of football. And notice of blocking Sean
Speaker 1: today is of course Thanksgiving, and one of the traditions
Speaker 1: in the NFL is that the Detroit Lions play Doug
Speaker 1: and I are gonna talk about this later on in
Speaker 1: the show, but uh, and this has been going on.
Speaker 1: The Lions first play the Thanksgiving their game back in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, so it's long standing. I covered twenty
Speaker 1: years of those games. But is it time for the
Speaker 1: Lions to be off and and maybe somebody else should
Speaker 1: we end this tradition of the Lions being our Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day pre game because pre meal game that we've watched
Speaker 1: all these years. They have to you know, they have to. Look,
Speaker 1: I stopped watching the lines of things given when Berry
Speaker 1: Sam is retired, you know, like, um, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And I love watching Megatron and Matthew Staff
Speaker 1: and and things like that. They've been excited, but I
Speaker 1: just like, man, what do they sign a fifty five
Speaker 1: year deal? I just don't know and understand how the
Speaker 1: games aren't more competitive because, as we all know, people
Speaker 1: watch the games for stars, right. I mean, the NFL
Speaker 1: has kind of turned into the NBA as far as
Speaker 1: the stardom and while being in the watch a Patrick
Speaker 1: and Holmes and being in the watch uh you know,
Speaker 1: big time quarterbacks and running backs and playmakers. I mean,
Speaker 1: we that's what the NFL is now. So when that's
Speaker 1: the case, you have to have them on one of
Speaker 1: the most important parts of the year, um and make
Speaker 1: it enjoyable. For these especially these times we're going through.
Speaker 1: We need to see some we need to see some stars.
Speaker 1: And some excitement. I don't I just don't think that
Speaker 1: enough people are gonna be sitting in front of the
Speaker 1: TV to watch the watch the line. Sean Merman, join us.
Speaker 1: You got the lights Out podcast? What's what's on the
Speaker 1: latest lights Out podcast? Yeah? We just had Tyron Whitney Man.
Speaker 1: We you know, as you guys go rout. We talked
Speaker 1: about it. Uh, you know, I'm heavy into the m A.
Speaker 1: I got my my lights Out Extreme Fighting mine in
Speaker 1: May League, which should be getting backed up here as
Speaker 1: soon as our our government getting stuff together in California. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I had Tyron william We just talked
Speaker 1: about his last his last fights man and him wanting
Speaker 1: to fight everybody lost again. So, um, I'm interested. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what what's gonna happen here when
Speaker 1: we get back up and going again. You're gonna buy
Speaker 1: Tyson And no way, no how, you're not gonna buy
Speaker 1: that show? I am? I am because you know look
Speaker 1: I oh and I always said this, right, I don't
Speaker 1: care how old Mike Tyson is. He always gonna have
Speaker 1: one punch. It's gonna be able to knock you out.
Speaker 1: And that I'll pay for. So uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: then also you know, I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: into it, but Jake Paul, Jake Paul is also fighting
Speaker 1: Nate Robinson, I think on that card. And I got
Speaker 1: a chance to train with with Jake Paul train dj Okay,
Speaker 1: can he does he have any chance? Jake Paul is
Speaker 1: gonna probably knock Nick Robinson out somewhere in the late
Speaker 1: first early second. I just now n Nate, I mean Nate,
Speaker 1: I mean Nate was known in NBA circles as a
Speaker 1: dude who you didn't want to mess with. That part
Speaker 1: of it is little guys have nothing to lose exactly right,
Speaker 1: like nothing to lose, but but they was the was
Speaker 1: the guy who could flip the switch on you. But
Speaker 1: you really think Jake Paul is really gonna get him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: after Jake Paul win, I mean we're pushing him in
Speaker 1: the go pro. I think he should turn to be
Speaker 1: a pro box He's that good. I think he has
Speaker 1: a shot. Um. He has a former pro trainer and
Speaker 1: they not watched him over his last two years in
Speaker 1: personal workouts and spawn matches against some of the pros.
Speaker 1: I think he should go pro. After this flight Wow
Speaker 1: fight anybody in the media who would you fight. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's there's there's several. I thought, so, okay, we connection.
Speaker 1: We're having connection issues with John Merriman. It would have
Speaker 1: been would have been best talking crap with me when
Speaker 1: I was playing. I'm good with everybody now, but back
Speaker 1: when I was playing, I had got a couple of
Speaker 1: I would have loved to lay out, Hey, Sean, happy
Speaker 1: thanks to give, thanks for Happy thanks Giving. Thank you alright,
Speaker 1: Sean Merriman, Uh, John flunk