1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. He's winning on and off 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: the field. Welcome back to another dish of the Round 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hands and I 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: am joined by room billed with heroes, A giant room 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Wesley couter Or and 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: Gregg Rosato Us and the media center super Bowl Media 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: Center in Phoenix, Radio Row, Radio Row, Round the NFL 8 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: Podcast on the road for Super Bowl forty nine. Guys, 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: this is very important. We almost started the podcast while 10 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: Connor was still in the bathroom. We were that's not 11 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 1: the best way to sell our yeah, remember that normally here. 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: It's great to have you, you know, I know, here 13 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: to permanently ruin the chemistry. Chemistry that you guys. So 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: you're off to a great start. Uh. This is our 15 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: first of three shows from Arizona we're doing. This is 16 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: the old the show we'll be doing, uh from Radio Row. 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: But there's a video podcast, so maybe it is not 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: the only show. We're doing another podcast on Thursday, but 19 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: it will be all video. And Greg, do you have 20 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: the details for that because I have none. Well, First, 21 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: it's Friday, right, Well it's Friday, Okay, So we're really 22 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: you know, we're taping. We're taping. We've got lots of 23 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: planned games. There's gonna be some softball pants involved, which 24 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: I'm very excited about. It's gonna be it's probably the 25 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: biggest around the NFL showever. And yes, it's going up 26 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: on Friday afternoon, which is a little different, but you know, 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: you can watch it all week NFL, maybe on Sunday 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: on NFL now before the Super Bowl, maybe just instead 29 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: of the stent. It's it's gonna be the best show ever. 30 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: Remember last year at this time we were operating in 31 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: New York City out of a weapons closet. So this 32 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: is a massive upgrade for the The podcast is growing. 33 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: People have come up to Mark Sessler especially it's a 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: podcast fan really was yelling at Mark Sessler how much 35 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: how much he loves the Quiet Storm, and Mark pretty 36 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: much gave him like that at all. It was day, 37 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: it was we we were working down on the floor 38 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: and a gentleman from Kannada, which is a country north 39 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: of America, uh said quiet Storm, Quiet Star and Mark 40 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: just shot up an icy glare and I said, totally 41 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: not representing Mark, that's you know, that's a fan that 42 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: would happen. Okay, Well, number one, we are next to 43 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: a wild swarm of Seahawks fans that were chanting. I 44 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: had the headache of the decade, and all I heard 45 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: was this person looking down on us. I thought he's 46 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: trying to antagonize us and get us in some sort 47 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: of a scuffle on him. I'm not going there. But 48 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: then I realized later that he was trying to get 49 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: our attention, and we had a nice chat with him, 50 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: and I've gone back and forth with him on Twitter 51 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: multiple times to try to heal this. This is what 52 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 1: you call damage control in the industry, all right, So 53 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: this is this are So we're gonna We're gonna get 54 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 1: into media day, which was an absolute zoo at the 55 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: the whole Marina. A lot of people say, oh, the 56 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: home arena of the Phoenix Suns. I would say in 57 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: the Phoenix Mercury, four time w NBA champions. So we 58 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: were there, uh this morning for media Day, which was insane, 59 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: and uh, We've got a lot of stuff to get 60 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: to also. We gotta you know, we're gonna talk about 61 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: the headlines. We haven't been we haven't talked together in 62 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: a while. It's been the longest we've gotten between shows 63 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: in over a year. So we're gonna get into some headlines, 64 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: what's going on in the League're gonna go talk more 65 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: about deflated balls, which is fun and uh, and then 66 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: we're gonna get it. We're gonna talk a little bit 67 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: about um storylines that nobody's talking about what they should 68 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: be ahead a Sunday's game because everybody's everybody's talking about 69 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: the same stuff. But this is where Wes, you're the scientists. 70 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: We bring a different perspective on the game of football. 71 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: I mean, nice to be actually talking about what happens 72 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: on the Phoenix. That's what we planned to do. So 73 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: let's yeah, let's start with media day that we'll talk 74 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: about what happened before what's become known as the Sessler incident. Um, 75 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: this was the craziest and Mark, you and I've done 76 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: four these together now. To me, moving it from the 77 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: stadium into an arena wasn't that big a deal last 78 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: year in Jersey. It felt like it was more condensed, 79 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: but not too condensed. This year with all this stuff 80 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: going around the Patriots, I imagine, led to a flood 81 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: of additional credentials being handed out. This was a madhouse today. Yeah, 82 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: I just the main takeaway from me was the smells. 83 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: You know, you just have people a large bodies just 84 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: pressed against you and like dollar equipment banging into your head. 85 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: Is people are trying to you know, and I'm not 86 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: a giant guy. I'm an obvious target. These guys think 87 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna move him out of the way and get 88 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: our quote, and I don't like that behavior. There are 89 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: probably other things that happened immediately too. It's a bizarre 90 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: combination of self promoting bozos like the guy in a 91 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: barrel or the pocatives had a big game acting like reporters, 92 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: and then you have actual reporters have you know, the 93 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: manners of barnyard animals muffling their way through because their 94 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: story is more important than yours. So that's basically what 95 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: media day is. What did you learn anything important? Anything 96 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: at all? Football wise? I think Chris Berman is my 97 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: outlieder this year. Oh yeah, I had a run in 98 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: with outlier was a bunker, just pushes his way to 99 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: the front, nudges everyone out the way. Burman pulled the 100 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: same thing today. He's more important than everyone else. And 101 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: then he answered the most inane question media day is 102 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: not a good day for Chris Wesley. It's just not 103 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: a sensibilities. Um. I guess Greg, I'll toss it to you. 104 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: What did you what did you take away from the 105 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: event that maybe he is and maybe not, you're not 106 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: as prickly about the event. I just curious with you. 107 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: I had that Michael Bennett is a delightful uh fountain 108 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: of insanity, Like he is committed like it seems like 109 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: with most guys who are kind of like the wacky 110 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: guy on the team, that it's a it's a bit contrived, 111 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: and I feel like he's naturally just insane because he's 112 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: so committed to each and every answer being from like 113 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: planet Jupiter, that I appreciate it very entertained. My favorite 114 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: of the day when I asked him why we should 115 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: expect Dane Quinn to be a successful head coach, he said, 116 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 1: and he said, I think it's because in big games, 117 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: who continues to drop his lower extremities pretty much what 118 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: you're looking for. Um. One thing that I I took 119 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: away was Russell Wilson. We know that he's he's very 120 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: good at the Derek Jeter School, say nothing at all, 121 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: but he seems like a guy that is a complete ease. 122 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys got to stop by 123 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: his podium at all, but he was very loose and 124 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: very relaxed. And I guess that's you know, I guess 125 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: maybe that's one thing you could look at with the Seahawks, 126 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: that they're in such a better spot in terms of 127 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: they for the last you know, eight days now or whatever, 128 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: have had no distractions. They have not dealt with any 129 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: of that stuff that the Patriots are with the deflated 130 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: ball stuff. I mean, did you sense at all like 131 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: a difference between the teams and how they were reacting. 132 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: I almost felt like they needed it, though, Like the 133 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: Seahawks are like a team that needs to be bothered 134 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: in order to thrive and a city. I like it. 135 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: Maybe they're getting soft right, kind of like they were 136 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game, which people have communiently forgetten 137 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: They got, you know, tossed around the field for fifty 138 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: six minutes. And the Patriots maybe they're the ordinary ones. 139 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: I think the Patriots, like Monday Monday's press conference Monday 140 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: night was tension packed and it was very weird setting. 141 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: I think this was, you know, I I like to 142 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: go over to where the assistant coaches are because it's 143 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: less crowded and you want to be an assistant coach, Well, 144 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: it's their chance to talk. And I thought the most 145 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: impressive guy for me today was Josh McDaniels, who in 146 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: the past has been labeled as something of a disaster 147 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: on various scales, and like he really was. He spoke 148 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: for probably what fifty straight minutes. Connor was over there too, 149 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: I mean, he just nothing stopped him, and the coaches 150 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: seemed focused. If it's all I think Craft and Belichick 151 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: have taken the major brunt of this and Brady, but 152 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: players and younger coaches, assistant coaches did not seem to 153 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: be off their game now, especially McDaniels, who was basically 154 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: asked thirty times, do you remember how bad of a 155 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: head coach you were? You know, just gracefully. Just the 156 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: Denver media who came here. It's close by Phoenix and 157 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: Denver and they have nothing else to do really other 158 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: than talk to mcdaga. I was gonna say, also, I think, 159 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: like Mark said yesterday, got a lot of the bad 160 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: vibes out of the way for the Patriots, and did 161 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: feel like today after a week of talking about deflated balls, 162 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: that we sort of turned the corner. And maybe there 163 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: will be other reports, but I felt like the craft 164 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: and investigator Ted Wells and the Glazer report, which we'll 165 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: talk about later, all that happening on Monday, that was 166 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: kind of the everyone trying to get the last word 167 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: in before we switched to football for the rest of them. 168 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: I think one thing the Patriots benefited from here was 169 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,479 Speaker 1: there was no big turn in the story before immediately 170 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: before media they started, and to me, it felt like 171 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: Belichick and the whole team got off the hook a 172 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: little bit on what could have really been a feeding frenzy. 173 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: You didn't hear about that afterwards. It was more to 174 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: me a lot of the storelines where your typical story lines. Uh, 175 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: you know, Marshawn Lynch didn't talk again this time. He 176 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 1: said the same thing thirty times and then walked off 177 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: the podium. Uh you know. I went over. I talked 178 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: to Gronk and it was like, you know, it was 179 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: there was no edge talking to Gronk because of the 180 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,599 Speaker 1: scandal going on. He was typical Gronk. He told me, 181 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: By the way, Bobby Goons his personal driver. He told 182 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: me this is around the NFL exclusive exclusive that they're 183 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: driving the ground party bus from Foxboro to Arizona. It's 184 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: en route right Well, Dan hands this exclusive, I will 185 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: accept the Pultzer at by the way. I liked when 186 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: someone asked or offered to Belichick to murder someone on Behalf. Wait, 187 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: ye there's a third question, and Belichick said, I'm just 188 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: focused on Seattle. Someone else said Belichick as someone telling 189 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: Katy Perry halftime show, what's your breakdown on the on 190 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,719 Speaker 1: the manxtress trying to do something at halftime? Belichick, I'm 191 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,079 Speaker 1: just focused on Seattle. The guy is unflappable. Would not 192 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: be taken, though flawlessly answer what his favorite Joe Peshi 193 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: moved he was and it was both home alone, had 194 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: to hear, and then he said my cousin Vinnie was third, 195 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: even though he too was awful. Retread Home Alone two, 196 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: was Home Alone one, but put in New York City. 197 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: Maybe that's, you know, a fond memory with Steve Belichick 198 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,599 Speaker 1: his son. Maybe they watched that together. Was that a 199 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: little bit of a tease for the Mark Sessler talking 200 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,719 Speaker 1: about Pulitzers. He's gonna drop a feature on Steve Belichick. 201 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's son, well Good left trying to get the 202 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 1: Patriots to even describe what this assistant coach does. No 203 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: one would say a thing. He's a mysterious man. Speaking 204 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: of bolters, Sessler taking some hotshot photos with his iPhone 205 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: at media Day, put him in black and white, threw 206 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: him up on his Facebook page, people buzzing, both in 207 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 1: his internal social media circle and on Twitter. Yeah, I 208 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: mean our photographer Ben Lievenberg. He I saw him sweating 209 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: a little bit because he produced a photo of our 210 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 1: group that had Dan's head fully obscured. Yeah. I was like, 211 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: you're a professional photographer and you're dropping me off. What 212 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: a jerk? Speaking of jerks, And I don't know if 213 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: I'm speaking out of school here because I didn't have 214 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: a lot of interaction, but I did hear from a 215 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: certain round the league member that around around the NFL 216 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: member that Paul Thomas Media days jerk. Yeah. I think 217 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: that's fair to say. You know, every year you'd find 218 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: some people that are pleasant surprises. I really thought Chandler 219 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,839 Speaker 1: Jones was an interesting, engaging guy to talk to. H 220 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 1: There were a number of Seahawks as well, but Earl 221 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 1: Thomas just he was kind of given everyone in the 222 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: high hat kind of a jerk, and you don't you 223 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: know who took he took the title from last year's 224 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: biggest jerk of the Media Day Matt Crador. Oh yeah, 225 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: that's that was a Dan centric villain. Uh. Last year 226 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: they had like they had like a little pig pens 227 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: the people that weren't as important, that didn't get risers, 228 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: and they stuck all the special teams guys and other 229 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: players that weren't stars. And Prador pretended to be on 230 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: the cell phone whenever somebody tried to ask him a 231 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: question with a big giant diamond earring stud in his 232 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: ear lob. But it was like bro, so many problems there. 233 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: He let us come up, and he did get us 234 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: come up. And anything else from Media Day that we 235 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: want to get to before we move on to the headlines. 236 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: One thing last year, remember coming out of Media Day 237 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: with a pretty clear idea of what Seattle's plan was 238 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: against Peyton Manning that they were really actually right out 239 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: there saying we're gonna get to this guy, hit him 240 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 1: early and shake him up. I mean, we had written 241 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: four stories on that front at this point. I didn't 242 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: hear as specific to take on how to deal with 243 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: the Patriots from Seattle. They're not giving anything away there 244 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: this time. Well, it's it's the same, isn't it. Anyway, 245 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: get quick pressure to him. Uh. One thing I did 246 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: here today on that front, and I'm not even remembering 247 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: who it was right now, but one of the Seattle 248 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: defenders talking about that they thought playing Rogers was really 249 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: good prep for Brady, especially Rogers in his hobbled state, 250 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: because the Packers were so focused on getting the ball 251 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: out quickly and that's what Brady does. And they talked 252 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: about just really being on top of tempo because they 253 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: say Brady is very tough to predict when he's gonna 254 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: snap the ball, and that surprises defenders and keeps them behind. 255 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: So I thought that was interesting that he thought that 256 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: was the best possible preparation. Was Rogers one of the 257 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: smartest quarterbacks in the league, but sort of in a 258 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,319 Speaker 1: state where he was about as mobile as Brady. Although 259 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: McDaniels was touting the newly mobile Tom Brady today, so 260 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: I think that's true. I went back. So I'm serious, 261 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: I went back Patriots narrative like this. I'm gonna do 262 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:36,719 Speaker 1: a piece later in the week you know how the 263 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: Patriots learned how the seahawksman. So I went back through 264 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: my notebooks. What of Dan's favorite things of mine? That 265 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: alwa scratching always sudden in Philadelphia sound was like a 266 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: sign of a So so if I can find any 267 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: common themes, what I looked at the different games, and 268 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: a lot of it was like Tom Brady is making 269 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: more plays with his feet this year, more plays kind 270 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: of late in the down as people say, you know, 271 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: he's not Aaron Rodgers out there, but he was doing 272 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: regular You can feel a big difference between him and 273 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning in that game. One other thing McDaniel said 274 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: was that havings real Revus on the roster. They believe 275 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: that that is a major benefit deal. Richard Sherman though, 276 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: because there's such intense practice players and prepares and game 277 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: walk and game film watters that they think it's just 278 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: helped the entire offense. Another thing, now that we are 279 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: we're still talking about Revis and the secondary and Browner 280 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: now a member of the Patriots. I liked how honest 281 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: he was when they brought up they tried to bring up, 282 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: you know the fact that he said he told his 283 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: wide receivers, you know, take Sherman out, take his elbow out, 284 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: take Earl Thomas out, injure him. He basically just said it. 285 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: And normally a player is gonna walk that back, but 286 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: today Browner just said, that's part of the game. You 287 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: you have an injured ankle, I'm gonna go for it. 288 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: He's like, you have an injured knee. Like we're gonna 289 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: dive at it. And I don't know. I like Brandon, 290 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: but I like Brandon Brown. That reminds me of Brendan. 291 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: But Damage, I told me at the media day, and 292 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: we really should move on to headlines. But it was 293 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: so funny. Uh, Damage, I always asked a great uh 294 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: innane questions these players every year. Last year was uh 295 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: asking players, do you think this is a must win game? 296 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: Really got the greatest of all time this year? And 297 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: he was asking, and I hope I'm not giving away 298 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: his segment, but you know, what are you gonna do? Uh? 299 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: He was asking players? You know who who do you 300 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: think wants us more? Who wants it more? Is this 301 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: game gonna come down to want more? And he asked 302 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: Brandon Brown and Brendan Brenner looked him up and down. 303 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: And said, I can't believe you were they pay you 304 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: at NFL that one. I like your Branner impression more 305 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: than your Sherman impression. Thank you. All right, let's move 306 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: on to the headlines. Uh and we'll Yeah, we do 307 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: to get because we as we've talked about, we were 308 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: we've been out of the mix for a while, so 309 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: let's talk about some of this deflateate stuff. NFL gum 310 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: shoot Ted Wells Mark Sessler back in the mix. He 311 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: is handling the independent investigation of the deflated football scandal 312 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: with tying back in the a f C Championship games. 313 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: So that's an ongoing thing. We got an update a 314 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: few days ago from Welles saying they had spoken to U, 315 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: spoken to forty people inside the organization, not Tom Brady. 316 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: Though Ted Will has also said though don't read still 317 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: don't read into who they've talked to and when, don't 318 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: expect an answer anytime soon. Basically, they're gonna talk to 319 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: everyone behind the curtain. Yeah. So anyway, so then Bob Kraft, 320 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: who's who after initially wasn't really uh in the in 321 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: frame on this story, has popped up now the last 322 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: couple of days, and he uh had a press conference 323 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: in which he said, if here's a quote, and Greg, 324 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: you're just listening because this is your boy. If the 325 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: Wells investigation is not able to definitely determine that our 326 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: organization tampered with the air pressure of the football's I 327 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: would expect and hope the league would apologize to our 328 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: entire team and in particular to coach Belichick and Tom 329 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: Brady for what they had to Here's a key word 330 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: indoor this last week. This is a big story. I 331 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: wasn't that into this story on any level. Initially, I thought, 332 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: you know, it's making a mountain out of a mole hill. 333 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: I started to get into it a little more on 334 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: Monday when the Glazer report came out that we'll talk 335 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: about and the Robert Craft's surprise press conference before Belichick, 336 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: because it's pretty rare to see an NFL owner go 337 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 1: out there and really challenge the league and say that 338 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: he was disappointing how the league and the media has 339 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,479 Speaker 1: handled something and he expects an apology. And it does 340 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 1: raise like the craziest conspiracy theory at all. What if 341 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: the Patriots didn't do anything and people think this is 342 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: crazy to even gonna cry like but just imagine that 343 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: they're coming from that perspective and he and he's saying, 344 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: imagine that that all that these guys had to go 345 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: through all this, and the Patriots are going to use 346 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: it as fuel. Right. I think unless they find a 347 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: smoking gun, crafts not gonna live during recut. Well, it's 348 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: not gonna get any apologies to that. To that note, 349 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 1: Jay Glazer, Fox Sports reported Monday that the league's investigation 350 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 1: has zeroed in on a Patriots locker room attendant who 351 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: was seen on surveillance video taking the footballs from the 352 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: officials locker room into another room at Gillette Stadium before 353 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: bringing them out to the field prior to kickoff. We 354 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: got some more details from another source to write about 355 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: what room it was, right, I mean, there's been there's 356 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: been reports it was on Pro Football talk about and 357 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: they took it into the bathroom, and it just it 358 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: goes on and on. But I think it's a story 359 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: that we're not gonna learn too much more the rest 360 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: of the week unless someone, you know, drops a big 361 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: bomb on Sunday morning that that would be something about 362 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: Belichick suspended Sunday morning for this Super Bowl and every 363 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: Super Bowl in the future. Well, I was at the 364 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: park with my daughter on Saturday when when Belichick suddenly 365 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,959 Speaker 1: they called the surprise Patriots Prescott Prince out of nowhere, 366 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: and that was the the Belichick one where he just 367 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: went on a rant and people loved it, and I 368 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: thought at that point anything is possible. Then you guys, 369 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: when you heard that, it's like, what, what is this 370 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: present conference gonna be? Like? He cops to it, He 371 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: brady suspended. I don't know. It just feels like anything's 372 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: on the table with this. It had the feeling of 373 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: a self imposed like suspension like that. The first five 374 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,719 Speaker 1: minutes was one big hanging clause where I expected him 375 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: to be like, and that's why I'm no longer going 376 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: to be the head coach of the name of the Patriots. 377 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, it was just a 378 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: really long board designs HC of EP. I didn't realize 379 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: that press conference existed. West clearly not plugged into the 380 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: NFL world. It just seemed like the Patriots for one 381 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: wave after another, trying to say this is the last 382 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: time this would be spoken about the craft though it 383 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: was not. That was a master stroke, I mean, because 384 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: he came out and shielded essentially, I think Belichick from 385 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 1: having to total that heat. I mean it is a distraction. 386 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 1: I think if you've got to keep answering these questions, 387 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: it's not easy for New England in a huge game. 388 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: I think Belichick also things what's the best for the team, 389 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: and for him, it's doing that press conference and if 390 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: nothing else, getting all those players fired up or feeling 391 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: like someone standing up for them and basically giving a 392 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 1: big middle finger to the rest of the world. What 393 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: about the Marissa Tomay We mentioned my cousin Anny earlier, 394 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: how it was one of the most surreal press conferences, 395 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: the Belichick press conference on Saturday in recent NFL is 396 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: and that includes today's where he were flip flops. Yeah, 397 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: that's a job. That's just like, that's almost like a 398 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: middle finger to the entire process. But referencing a twenty 399 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: three year old movie and Marissa Tomay's Mona Lisa Vito character, 400 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: that was the point where watching the pressor at my 401 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: home with my son, my infant son bouncing on my lap, 402 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: take that Greg with your park stuff, your daughter, Let's 403 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: just go daughter. No, No, It's like you're trying to 404 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: explain yourself as the greatest that ever and we're trying 405 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: to do a football podcast. Say, and I had believe it. 406 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: I got a lot of I got a lot of 407 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 1: heat on Twitter for saying, I can't believe you left 408 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: the Parks. I have multiple children too, But I'm not 409 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: explaining the Patriots, you know, a situation away with its 410 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: connects anyway. But that was some important stuff going on too, 411 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: all right. So that's the point where I bet it 412 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: went from like a weird, strange Prescott truly surreal, to 413 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: the point where Marissa Tomay is then on the Rich 414 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: Eyes of podcast explaining that she believes that Bill was 415 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: being honest, and then it spins into Super Bowl week madness, um, 416 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: which you know, just the way it is. Belichick is 417 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: clearly also behind the Kennedy assassination and the launder list 418 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: of other issues history. I mean, Mark Tomay though the 419 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: better right there about the wrestler, you know, I love her, 420 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: there's probably an end point to her. I'd be fine 421 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 1: with that stuff. If you haven't seen before the Devil 422 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: knows you're dead. That's a check out that one. All right, 423 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: Before we go, we want to go around, uh, go 424 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: around the couch here and talk about the things that 425 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 1: we're expecting to have that people aren't talking about what 426 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 1: they should be, um, because this is where we step 427 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: in our expertise in the game. And I'm looking at 428 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: the great Connor Or He's gonna get us going, what 429 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: are people not talking about? But they should be the 430 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: fact that, uh, New England hasn't really faced a mobile quarterback, 431 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 1: especially not someone like Russell Wilson. This season, I think 432 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill was the most prolific rushing quarterback they faced 433 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: all season. And now you're now you're gonna face a 434 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: really judicious quarterback that that handles and takes advantage of 435 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: running lanes better than any quarterbacks in football, I think 436 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: right now, um, And I think that could be definitely 437 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: a game change. Well, they also haven't played anyone that's 438 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: really used the read option on them, like in fury. 439 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 1: The Dolphins did sometime in their season, but they didn't 440 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: when they played the Patriots. And I think back to 441 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game was like when the second they 442 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 1: started using the read option a little more, that's when 443 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: they started moving the ball. And that frightens me so 444 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: much as a Patriots fan that that they'll just kind 445 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: of go back to using that heavy when they had 446 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: their best offensive games in the two thousand and twelve playoffs, 447 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: when they got knocked out, it was read option like crazy. 448 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: I think that could give the Patriots a lot of problems. 449 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: Mark alright, quick two points. Number one, Bill Bells took 450 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: a little more handsome than I realized up close. I 451 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: got right up to This is just my opinion because 452 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: you mentioned it on our way down here, and it's like, yeah, 453 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: he's masculine. I think he's a little more handsome than 454 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: I thought. I'm thinking to that. Number two, I'm looking 455 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 1: for what about New England's recent pension for trickery. Not 456 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 1: a team that did a lot of that historically. In 457 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: terms of trick players, they don't need to the up 458 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: points in most games. But you got the Edelman pass. 459 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: It's Baltimore. They're throwing you know, they're throwing the ball 460 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: to offensive tackles that are lining up in crazy ways. 461 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: And I thought that, you know, number one in the 462 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: n f C Championship, Look the cults, the cults. Newton 463 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: had to know some of that stuff was potentially coming 464 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: in and they were disorganized and unprepared for it. That 465 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: won't be the case with Seattle. So how does Seattle 466 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: counter when New England brings on that front a little 467 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: bit of maybe some magic so maddness. Well, today Michael 468 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: Bennett said, if they try to throw the ball to 469 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: Nate's soldier camp, chancer is going to hit him into 470 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: next week. Good luck. But that although I'd like to 471 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: see someone try to hit a Nate Solder into next week, 472 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: that's a large dude, six seven six eight rags A 473 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: little concerned. I can feel it in the air. In general, 474 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: I like the check play idea we have. We are 475 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: not saying who we we think is gonna win the 476 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: game until our final podcast before the game. And to 477 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: be honest with you, even if even if I did 478 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: know it, I wouldn't say it. But I don't know 479 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: who I'm gonna pick up. This is a weird game 480 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: to pick. I had no idea. I don't want to 481 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: give anything away, but I have an inkling of which 482 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: way I'm leaning. Chris lesson this segment is what are 483 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: people not talking about? But I would say, you know, 484 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: we talked about the Patriots ham and faced a running 485 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: co her back. Yet Seahawks offense running game is dominant 486 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: one of the top three run offenses in NFL history. 487 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: But what's being overlooked the improvement of the Patriots run defense, 488 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 1: which ranked twenty six by foot Football Outsiders Metrics at 489 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: mid season and ranks second in the NFL since mid season, 490 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: and runs the Yes, that shocks me. Well, you've got 491 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: Jamie Collins, Johnson Hotel and Chandler Jones, three of the 492 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: best young linebackers in the NFL, and people really don't 493 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: know those guys because they're only in a third well 494 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: then collins second season. They're still young, and they're just 495 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: below like all pro status they are, but they're also 496 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: starting a totally diminished Vince Wilfork, who had a terrible 497 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 1: a f C Championship, by the way, and not really 498 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: a very good game against the Ravens and then seal 499 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: there Seliga. That is the least known starter in a 500 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: Super Bowl in a little when I was I would think, 501 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: and I was watching the It's a lot of times 502 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 1: their defensive tackles right next to each other are Silica 503 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: and Alan Branch and I'm thinking, this is interesting that 504 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: these guys are going to be such big parts of 505 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: a team trying to stop marsh On Lands, so you 506 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: just drove all over my bat and basically don't believe. No, 507 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: I don't know because when I when I think when 508 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: I'm worried about this game as a Patriots fan, that's 509 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: the number one thing I'm worried about is the interior 510 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: that line. And like Jamie Collins is a great player, 511 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: and Chandler Jones is a great player. But I don't 512 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: think of them as like Willie mcguinnis or guys who 513 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: are good at kind of setting the edge and really 514 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: tough against the run. That's not really there is comfortable 515 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: when these two are arguing. In a larger public study, 516 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: people are watching every tuning out like a kid who 517 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: doesn't want to hear they say statistics that you cross 518 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: your leg when you become just disinterested in a conversation. 519 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: Have eleven defensive starters, and according to Gregg, not one 520 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: of them is tackled a running back. Oh year, stop, okay, 521 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: cut it out. I'm I'm looking out for the Seahawks 522 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: pass rush because listen, Aaron Rodgers could not move uh 523 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: in that game and they got six hits on him. Uh. 524 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 1: I think they did a little better near the end 525 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: of the game, but there was a large stretture that 526 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: game where Rogers was untouched. Sack just once again, a 527 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: statue is getting one sack. Seattle's defense isn't known for 528 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: its ability to necessarily pile up sacks. Is that. I 529 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: think Michael Bennett led the team with seven this year. 530 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: But one thing I know, as a said Jets fan, 531 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: the way to get to Tom Brady is to rattle him, 532 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: to hit him, to make him uncomfortable in the pocket, 533 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: make them see shadows and ghosts, as Greg likes to 534 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: point out, sometimes can happen to him. And if they 535 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: don't do that, and they have another bad job in 536 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: terms of getting to the quarterback, Brady is gonna have 537 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: a big day. So people are talking about that, but 538 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: you know, a lot less they should They should be Greg. Finally, 539 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: so many things I gotta I gotta pick one. Why 540 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: would I was gonna go more on the Collins High 541 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: Tower Tandler Joe trio, but that they're uniquely suited to 542 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 1: stop Russell Wilson and keep them inside the keep him 543 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 1: inside the pocket. Whatever I think you're talking more like running. Look, 544 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: I also switched around the other way. One thing I'd 545 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: like as a Patriots fan, everyone looks at the Seattle 546 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: run defense like it's so great. They haven't been quite 547 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: the same since early in the year. Dave Damashek was 548 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: talking about this earlier since Brandon me being left, and 549 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: they've given up some good days on the ground. Edie 550 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: Lacy looked like the better running back in that game 551 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: for three quarters last time. And I think the Patriots 552 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 1: are gonna run the ball a lot more, uh than 553 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: you would expect. I think Blunt's gonna be a big factor. 554 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: It wasn't just a fluke game. I think that was 555 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: like the game of his life. And he looks really 556 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: good right now, and I think they'll stick with him. 557 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: It's not like they're gonna go switch the Doonus Gray 558 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: or Shane Green. There you go. That's pretty good. That's 559 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: pretty good. And this is this is a shorter pod today, 560 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: so I apologize to people whought they were gonna get 561 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: our typical to one hour show. But you'll have a 562 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: lot of juicy pod content the rest of the week, 563 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: starting with Friday and then Sunday night after the after 564 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl from the University of Phoenix Stadium, UH 565 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: and West. Just before we go, you stomach prepared for 566 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: the stuffball fans that will be consumed in three days. 567 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: I got a few exercises that Mark and I have 568 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: been doing um in the hotel lobby the last couple 569 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: of night. I have prepared my stomach for this. Okay, 570 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: that's good. So yes, the Big Show on Friday will 571 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: be on NFL now. So make sure if you're not familiar, 572 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: are wonderful listeners with the NFL now and I would 573 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: hope you are by now, But if you're not, now's 574 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: the time to get in. This will be our first 575 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: video podcast. It's a big deal for us, and we're 576 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: gonna make sure it's a big show, the greatest show 577 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: ever actually by any any group of talent ever associated 578 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: with the entertainment entertainment business. Like kind of use the 579 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: bathroom like well before the right exactly. So yeah, so 580 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: we will be back on Friday, that big show. Thank 581 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: you very much for listening. This is Dan Hanson signing 582 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: off for Connor Or, which we need. We need a 583 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: nickname for the Haunted one Connor Or the Ghost, the Ghost, 584 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the Boss, and t D and 585 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: a truck somewhere. I missed you and I want to 586 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: be with you again. T. D Autre later until Friday. 587 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.