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Yesterday was 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.000 cut down day in the NFL, and a reminder that 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.000 despite all the talk we have about football and Bloyd, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:53.720 we have a lot of talk and a lot of 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.440 analysts and a lot of insiders. Sometimes we don't know 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.760 what we're talking about. Despite starting him all preseason, the 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.360 Patriots released Cam Newton, named the rookie Mac Jones is 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.480 the starter normally. Bill Belichick doesn't leave a lot of 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.799 clues and might be the greatest coach of all time 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.760 and might be maybe the worst communicator of all the 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.720 great coaches of all time. I know a lot of 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.680 people said they saw this coming. Maybe we should have 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.079 seen it coming. I didn't. I thought Cam Newton was 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.520 going to be the starter. I couldn't imagine Bill Belichick 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.799 was going to say to a rookie, here you go, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.080 come on in. And this is a situation where they 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.280 spent a lot of money. They got starters back from 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.200 last year who sat out due to COVID and there's 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.160 a lot on the line here getting back into the playoffs. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.480 Tom Brady just won a super Bowl in Tampa, and 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.400 we have a chance to draft somebody who has similar 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.160 characteristics to Tom Brady. And oh, by the way, we 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:59.320 host Tom Brady in Week four, and people got all 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.799 upset about this when I said, hey, he's like a 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.359 mini Tom Brady, mini me. We're not talking about the success. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.960 I'm just talking about the style of play. Mac Jones 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:16.400 plays the way Tom Brady plays. Not a runner, doesn't 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.400 use his athleticism. He's a better athlete than Brady is, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.760 but his style and he probably is emulating Tom Brady. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.120 Why not. But I didn't say he's going to be 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.680 as successful as him. It's his style. People are like, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.280 how can you say Tom's the greatest quote? I know 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.480 all of those things. I'm not bringing out a resume here. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.360 By the way, if I did Mac Jones is better 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:46.080 coming into the NFL than Tom Brady is. Tom didn't 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.640 even start in college. Mac Jones won a national championship here. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.000 But I'm not comparing the two. I'm comparing the styles, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.960 not how successful one is going to be. Going to 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.200 pull that last live right, and Patrick says Mac better. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.520 This feels a little closer to when the Seahawks named 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.120 their rookie third round pick Russell Wilson Junior the third. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.680 They had spent all this money to get Matt Flynn 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.800 from the Packers in the offseason. All of a sudden, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.840 it's like, hey, Russell is going to start. We were 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.560 surprised by that move, but Russ has turned out to 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.040 be a future Hall of Famer. Hatriots are hoping the 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.680 same thing happens with Jones. He looked good in preseason, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.680 and now I always look at preseason and go, is 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.760 he seeing complicated defenses? Probably not. Opposing coaches are going 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.400 to test him. Life will be tough, is always tough 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.479 on rookie quarterbacks. He's the main man in New England, 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.760 and we'll see how he handles that kind of burden. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.720 But he's already played for Nick Saban at Alabama and 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:52.160 now Nick's good friend Bill Belichick in New England Bill 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.760 Belichick press conference about a half hour ago, he was 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:02.800 asked about Mac Jones starting and well Cam's vaccination issue. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.560 Good morning Bill, wondering how much did having those three 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.920 days to himself for Matt Jones help him beat out 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:18.800 Cam for that position? Yeah, I don't know, And it's 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.039 just a quick follow up. Did Cam's vaccination status have 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:29.280 anything to do with him being released? No? Alrighty is 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.240 in mid season for him? How does the coach who 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.280 made the decision? Not? No, that's a perfectly fair question. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.839 Is play it again? Just the first part? Good morning Bill, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.240 wondering how much did having those three days to himself 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:51.600 for Matt Jones help him beat out Cam for that position? Yeah, 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.239 I don't know. It's now that's a perfect question to ask, 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.000 a fair question to ask. And this isn't about the vaccine, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.880 it's about practice. Just here. Bill Belichick was also asked 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.839 about keeping Cam on the roster. I was wondering was 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.320 it when it came to Cam, was there a desire 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.640 to have him to stay with the team in a 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.360 backup role or was that never presented as an option? Yeah, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.039 I'm not going to go through all the different things 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.880 that with any player on that So we'll just you know, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.839 leave it the way it is and you know, go 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.840 from there. Was that a difficult decision to make? Bill? Well, 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.520 I mean I don't rank them. You know, we we 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.560 make decisions and then we execute them and go on 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:46.520 and take it from there. So okay, and that clears 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.880 it up. Yeah, Polly, you know how you don't like 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.880 clothes ended questions where the answers are yes or no. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.320 Maybe with Bill Belichick you should only ask clothes ended 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.920 question did you consider yes or no? Keeping Cam on 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.640 the roster as a backup yes or no? Because then 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.640 he could he could say a one word answer instead 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.719 of going, we don't really want to get into the statusfall. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.800 But he doesn't play by your rules. He plays by 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.919 his own, because he would say, I don't want to 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.479 give you a one word answer, so I really don't don't. 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.280 They should just start asking the most nonsensical questions ever. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.720 Don't even ask anything about the team or any like hey, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.120 yeah Bill McDonald's or Burger King, like, just throw out 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.240 any stupid thing just so you can actually really waste 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.840 his time as much as possible. Oh yeah, Bill, good morning. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:30.400 Do you like limericks your favorite form of pros? Bill? 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.240 Can you? In fact, Bill Fritzie has a limerick for 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.560 you about Mac Jones in and Cam Newton out? Fritzie, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.840 would you give Bill Belichick the limerick? Thanks for your time, Bill. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.040 Yesterday we were thrown for a loop. Cam goes from 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.280 starter to out of the group. Max seems ready and calm. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.120 Just don't compare him to Tom. Now, somebody get poor 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:54.360 Newton some soup. Okay, all right? I like that. I 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.480 really like a good limerick and appreciate that. I don't 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:58.880 know if I agree with all of that, but don't 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.440 I do like a good limerick. Why couldn't Bill Belchick 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.200 just say that even it's just throwing Cam Newton a 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.560 little bone, or may hear about this? Just like it's 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.720 always a tough decision. The guy was a league MVP, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.040 you know, want to cut guys instead of just saying, oh, 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.840 I don't rank him, right, we move on. How do 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.360 you think he would do if you had to ask 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.400 Belichick questions in front of everybody. I'm sure it's very intimidating, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.720 but I'm not talking about the question. The question was fine. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.320 I think Bill Belichick's answered could have been a little more, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.160 something more nice about it, like it's that's of course, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.080 it's tough. He doesn't care. He doesn't care about your feelings. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.880 It's not that a little cold towards Cam Newton. I 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.679 don't rank him whatever. He's not on the team now 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.960 he might whatever he say. It's just ridiculous. He has 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:43.320 a chronic middle finger to the media every time he 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.600 meets with him. He just doesn't like this whole process 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:52.239 of getting together and you know, trying to answer your questions, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.280 like I don't want to That's that's just how I 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.400 don't want to answer these questions, but I have to, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.200 so I'm sort of gonna answ to these questions. It 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:06.160 doesn't care. Now you can imagine the offensive coordinator Josh 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.319 McDaniels has to be very excited about Mac Jones being 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.480 the starting quarterback with the Patriots. Well, he had this 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.600 to say. He comes in well prepared every day to 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.520 do the things we ask our guys to do. He's 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.480 generally taking care of the football and giving the other 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.520 guys the opportunity to do their job and make positive plays. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.440 Let's go. We got our leader here. I'm gonna run 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.360 through a wall. Come on, yes, yeah, I should put 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.160 up a big poster watch Matt Jones generally take care 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:44.640 of the football. Mac. Your reaction to getting the job, well, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.240 it's just very happy to do what I can for 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.360 the team and then hopefully make some positive plays and 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.840 make the team better. What a wild twenty four hours 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.679 because yesterday at this time we're talking to the Patriots 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.120 insider Tom Curran, and I know that he said that 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.480 he thought mac Jones should start, but I think we 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.960 were all under the impression that Cam Newton was still 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.640 going to start this season. Question is does Cam Newton 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:17.840 get a job someplace else? And right now, everybody's doing 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.520 their due diligence, Like it was headlines that Cowboys doing 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:25.480 their due diligence. Okay, they should. Their backup situation is 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.040 not that promising right now. You don't have Andy Dalton there, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:34.239 you got Cooper Rush some of these other teams Washington. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.360 Ron Rivera's former coach said, yeah, it came up on 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:42.360 our radar, but Ryan Fitzpatrick is our starter and they 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.760 have a really good backup in Taylor Heineken. They don't 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:51.080 need Cam Newton. Yeah, McLeman, I mean it's it's out 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.400 there a lot, like are people afraid to bring in 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:58.080 an unvaccinated backup? You know, I think everybody's speculating that 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.240 with Ron Rivera, it doesn't help his situation that he's 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.880 not elite anymore and you have to bring that, you know, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.240 the elephant into the room, that he's not vaccinated. By 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.200 the way, urban Meyer is being looked into by the 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:17.120 NFL Players Association because he said the quiet thing out loud. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.640 He talked about that there were some players that not 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:28.360 being vaccinated factored in. Everyone was considered. Urban Meyer told 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.720 reporters that was part of the production and also that 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.920 he was whether he was vaccinated or not to say 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:41.200 that that was a decision maker. It certainly was under consideration. Okay, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.080 urban is saying, yes, this is a small factor, which 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.160 it is, and it should be if you're a head coach. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.280 But urban is used to saying whatever he wants to say. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.079 He doesn't have to answer to a union when he's 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.920 at Florida, when he's at Ohio State and not dealing 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.040 with anybody, I guess the Big ten commissioner. But he's 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.600 still the boss. You don't have to deal with anybody. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.559 But he did say what everybody else knows. You're supposed 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.440 to not say this and play the pr game. But 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.480 urban didn't because that's not how he's programmed. That's not 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.840 how he's done it. He's learning on the job in 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:24.000 the NFL. Well, the NFL says, you know, from what 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:28.400 I'm told, the NFL now has to prove that urban 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.959 Meyer did this to these players that he cut, because 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.480 the NFL Players Association has to back the players. Was 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.600 a player? Were players cut because they weren't vaccinated? The 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.080 hard part is going to be, how do you prove 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.160 that urban Meyer did this? Even though he did say this, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.400 was that the final straw with some of these players 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:56.560 getting getting cut? Interesting twenty four hours here, Interesting, we'll 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.880 check in with the Patriots coming up. And I think 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.160 it came down to this, Well, I know it came 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.400 down to this because I have a source telling me 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.720 that Cam was not going to stay as a backup quarterback. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.360 He was not. That was it. So I'm not starting 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.520 and you know what, release me, release me. That was 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:22.000 important that it was phrased that he got released and 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.480 really that you know, he wanted to be able to 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.040 kind of get out in front of it a little 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.000 bit from what I'm told that I'm not going to start. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.199 Then I'm okay with that. I'm going to go try 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.840 to play someplace else. I don't know where he's going 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.680 to land, and I wonder if he is going to 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.079 find a place anytime soon, because this might be where 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.959 a month from now, somebody decides we can bring in 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.520 Cam as a starter because our starting quarterback is out 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.240 and he would be an upgrade over our backup. But 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.560 I do think not being vaccinated is an issue for 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.320 Cam Newton at that age with those surgeries. He's not 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.240 an elite quarterback. You're not going to bring that into 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:06.360 your team. You're just not the That's the cold hard 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.559 truth about all of this. Mac Jones won the job. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.160 And I was asking my source yesterday. I said, and 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.840 once again, I don't have anybody inside the Patriots organization 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.960 and I don't know if anybody does, so I don't 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.200 want to, you know, lead you down this road that 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.840 somebody in the Patriots organization told me this. This is 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.920 somebody on the outside, and I don't even want to 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.960 hint at what they do or mean to the Patriots 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.840 any of that. But the source said, hey, Mac Jones 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.680 won the job. Plain and simple won the job. It 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.840 wasn't Cam wasn't vaccinate or he missed those five games. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.240 They couldn't deny what they were seeing. Mac Jones won 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.160 the job, and you know, you go back to They're 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:58.200 not afraid of making these decisions. Belichick will make a 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:03.000 tough decision. Drew Bledsoe was getting paid one hundred million 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:07.840 dollars by the organization. They couldn't deny that Tom Brady 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.560 was not the future. I mean they knew that he was. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.160 Bledsoe came back, helped him go to the Super Bowl, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.640 performed well, won the AFC Title game, but Brady won 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.920 the job. He kept the job. They couldn't deny what 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.080 they saw and Brady was going to be their quarterback. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.760 Now it's a little different with Cam Newton because he 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.840 was only going to be there for one more year 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.000 at the most. But mac Jones won the job. And 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.840 my source said, look to pin this on the vaccination 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.480 and not being vaccinated, it's not fair to Mac Jones 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.520 and what he was able to accomplish. Mac Jones won 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.040 the job playing and simple and Cam not being vaccinated. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.520 While it played a little bit of a role, the 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.040 role that it played is mac Jones got to be 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.040 the starting quarterback for about three or four days with 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.560 the first team offense, and I think that crystallized into 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.600 what are we doing here? Like he's right there in 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.200 front of us. It certainly didn't hurt his situation. It 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.000 certainly didn't help Cam Newton. All Right, we'll come up 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.480 with a poll question, play of the day, stat of 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.160 the day, and we'll check in with the Patriots coming 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:22.160 up some other interesting stories. The PGA tour I think 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.880 just made it worse for Bryson de Shambo because now 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.400 you get thrown out if you call him Brooksie. In 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:37.560 regards to Brooks Kepka. You imagine people are gonna go, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.800 I'm not gonna say Brooksie. It was a small problem before. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.840 I think it's gonna be a bigger problem. Now take 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.840 a breaking seventeen after the hour. This is the Dan 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.000 Patrick Show oh Full Sale University. I was just down 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.760 there a couple of weeks ago seeing the students who 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.280 were there in person. 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He just got the starting job 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:55.159 in Philadelphia. Three Alabama quarterbacks, and those quarterbacks were in 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.440 that same quarterback room eight seven seven three d P 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.399 Show email address DPA Damn Patrick dot com, Twitter handle 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.879 at DPS show Boston Globes. Senior NFL writer covering the Patriots, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.960 host of the Ben Volland Football Hour Saturdays from noon 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:13.199 to one on w EEI, and the Great Reporter covering 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.760 the New England Patriots, joins us on the program. How 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:21.480 surprised were you with the news yesterday morning? Ben, I'd 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.920 love to pretend that I saw this all coming, but 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.879 I can't. I was very surprised like everyone else. For 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.440 several reasons. You know, this is a very veteran team 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.800 that Bill Belichick has built here, veteran offensive line, playmakers, 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.399 the defense, and they're entrusting it all now to a 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.639 rookie quarterback. I thought they were going to start the 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.560 season with Cam Newton, go with the veteran. I thought 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.320 that'd be the safer play let Cam kind of sink 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.440 or swim on his own, and then if he does sink, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.600 you can turn the team over to Mac Jones. But 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.920 I think this is just a testament to how good 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.280 Mac Jones has looked throughout the preseason. I think this 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.119 is really about him and pressing Bill Belichick and the 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.960 coaches and showing that he's ready for this. Not necessar 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.240 early that he beat out Cam Newton, because I don't 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.679 think that Cam had that bad of a preseason by 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.119 any stretch. But I think that Mac was the future. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.480 He's the guy they invested in, and he I think 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.720 blew them away with his improvement throughout the five weeks, 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.320 the way he was able to build on one day 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.879 from the next, his performance last week in three practices 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.120 where he was the only quarterback running with the ones 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.520 when Cam Newton was out. I think Mac Jones took 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.560 that opportunity and absolutely ran with it. And then when 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.639 you're gonna make the decision to turn the team over 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.159 to your rookie quarterback and Mac, I just think it 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.880 wasn't tenable to have Cam Newton around as the backup. 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.600 He's a big personality. When you watch practice, Cam is 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.040 the ring leader. He's the guy dancing during warm ups 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:44.320 and getting guys hyped, and guys definitely gravitate around Cam Newton. 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.040 And this is Mac Jones's team now, and Cam's never 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.680 had to take a backseat to anyone before. It's been 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.560 since two thousand and eight when he was at Florida 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.280 that he's been a backup. So to me, I think 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.760 Belichick made the right move just get that element out 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.639 of the locker room, give Mac Jones the space that 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.919 he needs to grow into the leader, and clearly the 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.520 team thinks very highly of him. Do you think Cam 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:09.440 asked for to be released. I think it's probably mutual. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.360 I don't think Cam wanted to be the backup here. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.000 He obviously you know the writings on the wall. He's 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:15.920 not going to get the job back from Mac Jones 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.320 unless there's an injury. And I don't think the Patriots, 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:21.240 like I said, I don't think they wanted that dynamic 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.639 in their locker room where there's two quarterbacks trying to 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:26.520 be the leader. And I don't know if Cam can 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.159 turn the switch off. He's just he's such an alpha 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.720 dominant personality. He's always used to being the guy, and 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:34.760 I just don't think that's a good way to support 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.560 your young quarterback. Nothing against Cam. I don't think it's 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.000 anything personal. It's just who he is as a person, 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:41.720 as a player, and I think it's going to affect 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.720 his ability assuming he wants a backup job. We don't 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:46.640 even know he really wants to, you know, not every 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.960 quarterback who's made one hundred million dollars wants to grind 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.040 it out as a backup for league minimum. So if 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.040 he does want a backup job, I think just his 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.720 big personality is going to work against him with other 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.199 teams the way it did with the Patriots. Do you 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.080 think that there is a seminal moment where Mac won 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.840 this job that you look back and you go, that's 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.959 probably when he said or showed to Belichick and Josh McDaniels, 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.920 I'm your quarterback. I mean, I honestly think it has 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.520 to be the three days that Cam Newton miss due 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.040 to the quote misunderstanding of the COVID protocols, whatever it was, 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.760 you know, Cam not being vaccinated, he had to sit 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.240 out for three days, and of all places to do 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:25.359 it here in New England, where we all remember a 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.640 guy named Drew Bledsoe got hurt. A kid named Tom 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:30.800 Brady came in and we never heard of Drew bledso again. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:32.920 So Mac got his opportunity, and I think he really 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.359 ran with it. Three days in a row, one hundred 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.720 degree practices. He's out there grinding it out, doing a 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.280 great job leading the team. And I just remember multiple 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.200 times in practice, you know, he's leading a series on 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.360 a two minute drill or what have you, and he 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:49.399 completes it with a touchdown. He comes off and he 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.080 gives a high five to Josh McDaniels. Bill Belichick's waiting 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:54.800