WEBVTT - Patriots Catch-22 8/31: Analyzing the 53-Man Initial Roster, Report on Adding QB Matt Corral 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.200 This is the Patriots Catch twenty two podcasts with Evan 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.000 Lazar and Alex bar and Lazarre. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.239 Hello, everybody nailed it, Joined has always by our bar. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.280 Here is Evan Lazar and Alex Bars. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:22.959 Are you focused on this right now or are you 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.520 lost in the in the your your appearance on No. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.280 Sorry, he's saying that I am have a lack of 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.440 height in a bad back. Half of that is true. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.040 The lack of height is definitely true. I didn't know 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:39.960 about the back bark. Everybody that that heard that. Alex 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.400 said that I was the pot calling the kettle black. Yeah, seriously, 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.440 I guess is that's that's fair. I mean, like, I'm 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.080 not people that can't tell from me sitting in this chair, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.680 I'm vertically challenged. I'm not. I'm not exactly six feet 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.920 tall either. But you know, whenever there's a chance to 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.400 take a joke at you, I gotta take the opportunity. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.440 Meanwhile, we end up getting the pit anyway, So shout 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.640 out to David helping us out. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.560 Oh oh at Springsteen you're talking about now. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.880 Because that was that's what where that conversation came. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.800 So I get Bruce Springsteen, also known as the Sports 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:19.000 Writers convention, Yes, which you saw multiple Patriots reporters. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.160 Patriots reporters the reporter so as me and Matt McCarthy 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:26.560 from the Hub. Yeah, saw Mike Reese, Yeah, saw Does 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.640 Sebastian Volmer count as Patriots media? 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:29.000 He does? 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.640 Now, Sebastian Volmer was there. I saw Land Yeah, it 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.920 was actually him and Marcus Kuhne were there together both planned. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.560 Who else did I say? As DJ Bean from NBC 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.600 Sports Boston, Yeah, that was his first ever Springsteen showcase. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.120 Believe there were no it was was there, Tom Giles, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.280 We saw some other people. It was a fun night. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:49.000 It's good night. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.800 How many tickets do you think that media take up 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.400 to a Bruce Springsteen concert? Like, at least at least 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.160 seventy are of somebody in media. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.600 Or seventy five percent of sixty thousand whatever. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:06.080 People the whole media Boston was at that concert. Morell's agreeing. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:07.880 I I think that's really what it was. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.760 That's a lot of people to be working in media, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:17.800 all right, Enough with the pleasant care pandering here to 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.600 the springsteenist, does is that a thing? Springstenie says Springsteen fans, 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.120 it predates the need to have a little kitchen title 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:25.720 for everything. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.520 Yeah, Springsteener's that's better. Uh. So we have a lot 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.000 to talk about. As Alex just mentioned, we have, uh 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.959 the fifty three man roster. We've seen him out of 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.880 practice the last couple of days, along with the practice squad. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.320 And I'll be honest, you know you. I always come 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.000 with an opening take. It's how I like to start 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.440 off the show. I was ready to come in here 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.600 if this show was like yesterday at ten am, before 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.400 waivers happened and before everybody cleared and magically reappeared at 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.920 practice on the practice squad. Yeah, I was ready to 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.560 come in here guns blazing about this whole Bailey Zappy 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:06.520 situation because my my first immediate reaction was to. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.079 Analyze Zappi's role in all of this, right, and how 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.359 we went from what I'm not to take any victory laps. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:17.840 If you want to take a victory lap on this 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.600 you can. I you know, I try not to not 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.800 take any victory laps this show. If you listen to 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:28.080 this show all last season, we never wavered on this show. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.760 We were steadfast in the fact that Mac Jones was 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.320 a better quarterback than Bailey Zappi. Number one and number two, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.360 what they were doing with Bailey ZAPPI was keeping him 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.080 on the rails. Honestly, like in terms of the scheme 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:41.720 and what they were. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.560 At, it was a little smoke and mirrors. 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:48.640 Yes, it was you know, Fugazi. It wasn't real. It 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.640 was it wasn't real. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.400 It was real, it wasn't sustainable. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.160 I think that's You're right, that's a better way of 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:54.600 putting him. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.960 It was. It was more we were saying. I remember 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.280 we had this conversation the week Mac came back. We 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:00.920 had we did a whole thirty minutes on will they 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.120 let Mac Jones run the Bailey's Appy offense? 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.600 That's what it was, right. So there's there's two things 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.200 that play here with with this Bailey's Appy thing. One is, 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.080 for lack of a better phrase, the downfall of Bailey 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.480 Zappy to go from a guy that has his name 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.039 being chanted by the Dlatte Stadium faithful to come into 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:18.479 the game. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.240 I don't I don't think that's fair to Bailey's Appy 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.080 to call it a downfall. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.200 It's a pretty significant turn. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.440 Not but Bailey Zachy, did you go from that Monday 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.279 night against Chicago where sixty five thousand people are going zapy. Yeah, okay, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.440 off the roster, I would just rephrase. But he's the 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:41.279 same guy he's always been, right, he didn't chill. He 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.720 changed some things this summer, but it's more the downfall 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.040 of the people who because we're on the zappy trade. Yeah, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.559 it's more the downfall of them. The fever has broken 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.800 because I don't think Bailey's at like, did he have 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:54.360 a good summer? 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.039 Other puns can we come up with on this? 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.280 Did he have a good summer? 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:57.440 No? 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.520 I also don't think he didn't. I I didn't think 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.320 he deserved to get cut me neither. I didn't like. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.640 I don't think he did anything monumentally wrong. So I 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.120 feel weird calling it his downfall because I think that 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.600 implies significant fault on his part, and I don't think 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:12.640 that exists here. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.960 So there's that conversation which we can have, which I 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.200 think also speaks to some of the things that we 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.520 have talked about on the show during training camp of 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.599 why ZAPPI was struggling in the Bill O'Brien offense, What 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.719 were some of the issues we were seeing and the 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.040 biggest thing And I went back and looked this up 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.400 to make sure I had the numbers correct. His splits 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:42.000 last year with play action and without play action were 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.000 the guy that he is. Like his no non play 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.800 action dropbacks. He was at five point eight yards per attempt. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.760 That's about what I would expect based off of what 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.600 we've seen this summer. His play action yards per attempt 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.680 last year, well, you want to guess the number is astronomical. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:05:59.400 Do you want to guess? 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.520 It's like the best in the league, isn't it? Yeah, 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.480 it's like, what fifteen sixteen yards something like that. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:08.000 Seen seventeen yards per attempt off play action. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.240 And this is not a Bailey Zapp beat. Every quarterback's 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.880 better with play action. That's just true. Across the league. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.000 He was exponentially better. But this is why, again you 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.120 go back to it. His play action rate, the percentage 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.719 of his pass attempts that came off play action was 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:23.520 double mac Jones. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.480 Yeah, it was twenty six to sixteen, so not double. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:27.760 Okay, almost almost. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.920 Ten percent on that sample is pretty. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.920 The three numbers I remember looking up last year were 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.080 play action rate, RPO rate, was forced play action rate 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.159 RPO rate, under center rate, and extra blocker so sixth 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:44.160 seventh blocker. They were all everything was struck. One of 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.839 those numbers is ZAPPI doubled up might have been rpr 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.960 rate YEA doubled up Mac Jones. But and it goes 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.800 back to the point where you that's why it looks 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.440 so different, because they were allowing Bailey Zappy to use 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.880 mechanics that helped the quarterback that Mac Jones didn't get 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.320 to us as much. And then what you saw this 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.440 summer was sort of what that looks like on even footing. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.240 Correct when they put them both in the same system. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:13.120 It was it came crystal clear pretty quickly in the summer. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.160 That it became clear as soon as you sent that text, as. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.640 Soon as I was ragging on Mac on like day 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.640 four of pads or whatever that was, it came it 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:26.880 became very crystal clear that Zappie was not made to 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:34.160 be extremely efficient and uh sophisticated. No bells and whistles, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.440 no play action like let's just roll the ball out 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.560 and play football and the guy that got the got 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.280 the ducks in the row better pre snap, which I 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.400 think is a huge, huge part of this Bill O'Brien offense. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.760 Everything you got to be able to set the protection. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.520 So let me, let me ask you this, you started 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.040 cutting real quick. But like I've said this, and I'm 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.360 curious your thought on it because i don't know I've 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.920 ever said it on the show. Uh, the way the 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.200 Bill O'Brien offense works, Yeah, the result of the plays 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.720 decided before the snap. Once the ball is snapped, it's 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.400 too late. Everything that makes it either good play or 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.360 bad play has pretty much happened before the ball is snap. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.760 I would say at least like like sixty five to 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.440 seventy five percent of the pre snap stuff, it just 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.720 decides that determines the outcome. Okay, So yeah, so the 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.080 more than half you have to set the protection, right, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.480 that's the biggest thing. YEA, you know, work with the 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.960 offensive line. Are we three down? Are we four down? 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.720 Are we you know? Is it an overfront? Is it 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.640 an underfront? Like these are the things that they call 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:38.559 out pre snap, and then you have basically two plays 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.560 most of the time called in the huddle. It's not 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.800 always a run in a pass. Sometimes it could be 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.640 run to run, sometimes it could be passed to pass. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.120 But the point is is that when you read that 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.520 defensive structure pre snap, you need to make a check 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.240 to the better play. Whether it's staying in the play 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.920 that you called or checking to the second play. Once 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.680 get to that point, then the ball is snapped. Now 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.720 you have to read the coverage. You have to remember 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.600 how the play changes to the coverage right, the side 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.320 adjustments and the route options and all that those types 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.640 of things, the conversions of the routes. You have to 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:20.120 remember all those different types of things, and then you 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.800 have to make the throw right. But then you have 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.120 to actually do the action of the football part. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.679 Well, it's not just you have to. I would even 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.240 say there's another step in there. So yes, you have 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.120 to understand how to play it. Just once the ball 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.040 is staffed. You also have to, maybe this is one 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.680 of the same, understand how the other players are going 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.680 to adapt, right, because you it can't be as simple 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.720 as you were. Right, there's an option route here, he's 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.760 good like it's based on the cover. It's going to 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.200 be an out route. You need to make sure you're 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.160 reading it the same way your wide receiver reads it, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.600 because if you read it one way and you're thinking out, 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.560 if he reads it the other way and he's thinking 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.520 in it, get get picked off. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.319 Yeah, that's how that happens. So you have all these 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.800 different elements that go into the the mental part of 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.400 the game for this Bill O'Brien offense, and I think 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:10.120 what became crystal clear is that Zappi really struggled with 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.520 those elements because he was holding the ball for an eternity, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.000 trying to read out the plays and make the right 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.959 plays and things like that, and his decision making completely 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.400 fell off. And the last thing that went was the accuracy. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:25.800 He started spraying the ball up. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.480 Well, that one. I think he was trying to do 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.680 that like side arm stuff. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.360 There, and I think, to be fair to him, like 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.400 the timing with the receivers you're working with like Thyrec 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.840 Pitts and Roley Webb and Scottie Washington, and there's just 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.439 this cast of characters that are continuously rotating in and out. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.760 And then the blocking up front wasn't very good. Like 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.840 all these things played a role, But I think the 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.520 main thing is is that, like, yes, there were real 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.160 causes for concern in the Bailey Zappie camp in terms 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.360 of his fit in the Bill O'Brien offense. He was 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.679 a much better fit in rhythm based offense with locked routes, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.600 where all he had to do was make a play right, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.679 whether it's off of play action or even in the 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.600 spread elements that they used him in last year, it 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.440 was down the field, pick a matchup, and throw the 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.679 ball to the matchup right. Like, it wasn't a whole 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.560 lot of all this different type of minutia that we 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.440 just broke down so that there's that angle of it. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.079 But I actually don't think that's why he was cut. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.000 I don't think that that's why he was cut. I 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.400 don't think that his play warranted him being released from 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.959 the roster, right, I think why he was cut. And 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.960 this to me is like where we talk so much 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:45.120 about quarterbacks and receivers and passing, and like that's the 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:50.079 the quarterbacks draw all the headlines for all the right reasons, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.480 you know, that's the position that we always talk about 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.720 the most on any football team, not just the Patriots. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:01.040 But the reason why the Patriots had to play gymnastics 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:07.000 with the roster was because currently they have six offensive 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.360 tackles on this roster, because they don't have any tackles 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.160 besides Trent Brown Well that can play. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.400 That's part of it. I think you could blow it 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.160 up even a little bigger than that. They have eleven 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.200 offensive linemen. Yeah, because they handcuffed themselves into keeping eleven 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.880 offensive linemen. Going back to the draft, you draft three 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.800 guys in the top one fifty, you're keeping all of 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.360 those guys. They then went out and acquired two linemen 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.880 right before cutdowns. Those are guys that are making the team. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.400 You had Riley Reef with the guaranteed money he was given, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.120 he was making the team. They probably didn't need to 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.400 activate Calvin Anderson right away until it was clear they 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.000 had no other tackles, right so you're not going to 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.079 activate him from NFI and then put him on PEP 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.000 and put him on IR. That wouldn't make sense. So 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:55.359 they I'm not saying they had to keep eleven guys. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.199 Like they they I think they felt like they had 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.280 to keep eleven guys because they had to keep all 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.760 their options open. Well, because if they know and Calvin 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.400 Anderson's a turnstile, they have to. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.200 But a guy like Jake Andrews doesn't keep their options 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:10.800 open in that regard. But he was the guy who 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.960 had to keep because it's just that's asset management, and 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.800 they were going to they put themselves in a corner 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.880 where they were going to have to make a decision 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.880 that was poor asset management. Whether it was cutting one 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.920 of the guys they drafted this year, whether it was 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.320 cutting one of the guys they traded for, whether it 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.600 was going short at another position, in this case quarterback 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.600 and maybe even running back. You can look there as 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.679 well because of the like they could have spread out 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.520 their picks more in the draft, they could have attacked 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:42.080 the position quality instead of quantity and not ended up 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.960 with all of these different offens. Like there's a number 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.040 of places it could have changed. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.199 But that that's my whole take on this, right. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.120 But I think it's it's not just tackles, it's offensive 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.920 line as a whole, because a guy like Jake Andrews 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.600 factors into that. Yeah, a guy like Mafi, a Tonio 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.720 Maffi fact but a Tonio Maffi made the team even 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.640 if they didn't. If they were good at tackle like 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.400 a Toni and he was a seventh round pick the 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.040 way he played in camp, Antonio Maffi should have made 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.680 this team. This Jake Andrew's city. So that's where you 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.360 look and you're like, well, those guys are here because 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.120 of their draft talk. A guy like Tyrone Wheatley. He's 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.000 here because he was recently traded for Darien Lowe. I like, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.080 I liked that move, hand up, I'll say that. But 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.680 they had too many guys that were roster locks for 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.160 reasons other than twenty twenty three talent level, and that's 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:26.080 where they kind of got put. 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.000 Into a corner. Right, So this all I think we're 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.560 on the same page here and we're getting to the 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:31.560 same destination. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.600 Wait, I just think it's bigger than your your miss. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.640 This all comes down to the fact that in the 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.720 off season, whether when I say offseason, I mean March, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.480 I don't mean two weeks before the regular season opener. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:44.720 Well, I think it's both. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.240 No, I think in March and then also in April 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:54.000 during the draft, they had opportunities to spend premium assets 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.720 at the tackles position. Correct, The worst position on the 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.920 twenty twenty two Patriot was right tackle, and I don't 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.880 know if it was particularly close. It was an abomination. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.600 Isaiah Win, Marcus Cannon, Yodney could just Connor McDermott. At 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.800 the end of the season, even Connor McDermott playing like 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.360 replacement level was an upgrade, right, So. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.400 That was how Connor McDermott was the bright spot. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.440 That's how bad tackle was. Right tackle specifically was for 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.920 the Patriots last year. And we get this a lot. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.440 I got this lot. I don't enough. If you did well, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:34.080 what could they have done? What could they have done differently? 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.360 And when I hear that, that and the injury excuse, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.600 like the in camp injury excuse. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.040 Yeah it did. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.160 Those two things just blow my mind that were even 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:53.000 using those as excuses. There were six free agent starting 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.280 tackles in March. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.240 I talked a lot about it, the whole Sodo thing, remember, right, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:03.640 Oh yeah, Orlando Brown. Yeah, you Hadwan Taylor, you had mcglinche, 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.560 you had McGarry, you had Andre Dillard who they tried 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.240 to see and got out bid by Tennessee for not 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.040 a lot of money. And then Wiley, who was the 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.000 starting right tackle for the Chiefs last year in the 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:18.080 Super Bowl. So he Wiley is one that I look 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.680 at and I'm like, that was not a ton of money. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.040 And he started every game for Kansas City last year. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.400 He pitched a shutout in the playoffs, zero sacks allowed 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.840 in three games in the playoffs, including against the Son 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.680 Reddick and the Super Bowl. And that was a guy 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.560 that wasn't going to cost you a Mike McGlinchey eighty 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.320 million dollars to bring in. So they had six free 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.800 agent tackles that were start as five of them changed teams. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.840 Caleb McGarry was the only guy that went back to 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.280 his original team out of that group. So you had 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.880 five movable objects on the offensive line that you could 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.160 have signed, and instead you'd, let's call it what it is, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.280 you cheaped out and you signed Calvin Anderson and Riley Reef, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.800 a thirty four year old Riley Reef who we knew 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:03.040 was over the hill in Chicago. Lastyard didn't even start 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:04.879 out of the gate for the Bears, who had a 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.320 terrible offensive line, by the way, didn't even start until 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.280 like midway through the season when they had injuries. He 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.720 was essentially their swing tackle last year. Calvin Anderson, who 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.040 has twelve starts, he was their uh. Conor McDermott, Yeah. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.480 Twelve starts in three years for Calvin Anderson. He was 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.280 another option that you threw out there. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.800 Which, like signing those guys individually isn't necessarily a mistake, 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.679 but this is so it's it's only signing them and 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.960 not bringing in right, right, right. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.159 See, this is where the depth thing becomes. Like, this 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.240 is where the conversation starts, right because if you have like, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.879 let's just put a placeholder in there. They tried to 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.200 sign Andre Dillard, so let's go with Andre Dillard for 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.320 arguments sake. If you come into the season with Trent 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.800 Brown and Andre Dillard as your tackles and then you're 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.760 telling me that Riley Reef is your swing tackle, fine, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.880 that's about those guys should be. That's how you feel 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.400 out depth, right, Like, that's how you have an established 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.359 pecking order. That's how you have two capable starters. Then 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.520 you have your tackle, and then go ahead and draft 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.359 City So in the fourth round as a developmental tackle 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:06.160 because you like the. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.360 Trades like that, that's that's your four Like, that's how 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.879 you That's how a real team does this, right, Like, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.199 that's how you're supposed to do it. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.719 Instead, they just threw darts. They just started throwing darts. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.280 They signed Reef and Anderson, they draft so now they're 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.960 trading for Tyrone Wheatley and Vaderian Low who I like 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.920 both of their games for separate reasons. We can get 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.400 into that a little bit if we want. But at 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.720 the same time, I'm sorry, but Tyrone, Wheatley and Vaderi 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.280 and Low are also dart throws. Neither one of those 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.640 guys is a sharp eeden starter on your offensive line 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:43.520 for any team. They're also lottery tickets. And all they 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.879 had to do was in free agency because look, I 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.600 will give them this, and I mean this, they did 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.560 a really good job with their first three picks in 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.080 the draft. I can't get on them too much. For 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.920 Christian Gonzales, Kean White and Marty Mapu, all three of 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.320 those guys can play. Was there a better way to 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.359 use those assets? And maybe you're still taken Zaliz in 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.320 the first and you get a tackle on Day two. 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.720 I even look early on day three, Evan, like Dwan 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.200 Jones has kind of being a star. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:15.000 Was headed Dewan Jones. I need I need some Belichick 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.680 Macro truth serum on Dewan Jones. Why was Dewan Jones 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.320 off the Patriots? 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.239 To be fair, it wasn't just them, He was off 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:24.200 a lot of teams. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:25.159 Boards But that's why I need to know. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.359 So that's I do think there's something there, But whether 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.280 it was which, by the way, I need to take 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.680 I was telling you about Dwan Jones in like October. Yeah, 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:33.159 we'll get to it. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:33.600 We'll get to it. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:34.960 We'll get to it. So listen to me this time. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:35.320 J C. 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:36.480 Latham, Alabama. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.680 This is just like you had to do that. Yeah, 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:39.080 I had to. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.080 I had to. Well, because it's it's week to get 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.480 to it's we won. College football starts on Saturday. I 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.040 want to give you a reason to watch. My reason 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.520 being there's no reason to watch now. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:47.000 I'm just kidding. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.919 There is reason. Whether it was Dwan Jones, whether it 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.840 was Blake Freeland, whether it was Warren. I think you 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.760 were big Warren McClendon right from from Georgia guard antack 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:57.639 Jalen Duncan. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.160 Yeah, you had these guys that were tackled, that were 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.200 right so that we're not guards, that you're making a tackle. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.199 It's the mystery box. Well what could city so be 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.159 a big people moving right tackle. Okay, So like he 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.680 could be Dwan Jones or and I know Dewan Jones 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.680 went a little before him, but I think he went 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.520 after Ryland Right Andrews. 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:20.200 So they drafted Jake Andrews a pick or two before 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.760 Dewan Jones. And it's sorted by positions, so he sort 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.440 of drafted. When I say you, I mean the Patriots. Yeah, 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:30.160 the Patriots drafted a backup center to one of their 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:31.240 best players. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.919 Yeah, Jake Andrews went one oh seven, Dwan Jones went 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.320 one eleven, Chad Ryland went one twelve, and then City 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:39.600 So went one seventeen. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.680 So you drafted a backup center to a team captain, 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.639 a pillar of your current team when you had a 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.720 young satit you like on the roster, and Cody rus 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:54.560 Cody rusy and you drafted that over Dewan Jones, who 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.240 might not start in Cleveland this year just because they 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.920 have Conklin and uh, Worf's already not worth. So who's 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.800 there to the other tackle? I can't remember. Uh, it's 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.199 coming to me, it's coming. It's on the tip of 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:07.560 my time. 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:08.400 Oh, I get there. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.000 Jedrick Will's right, yes, yeah, yes, uh and warfs will 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.479 same same draft. I think two really good tackles Conklin 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:17.920 and now Will. So those guys are starters. But Dewan 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.280 Jones is going to be a starter in Cleveland at 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.240 some day. He'd start here right now, easily, day one, 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.400 starting right tackle. I I can't figure that one out. 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.480 So don't don't sit there and tell me that they 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.720 had no other options. Don't tell me that they had 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:35.760 no other option, that there was nothing else that they 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:40.160 could do, because that's baloney. There was There was talent available, 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.199 whether it was in the draft or whether it was 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:44.280 in free agency. If they just spent a little bit 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.800 more money on the tackle position, and then we wouldn't 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.439 be in any of this mess. We wouldn't be worried 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.760 about the Eagles defensive front dominating the game in ten days, 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:58.680 and we wouldn't be worried about Bailey Zappi being on waivers. 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.520 Because if you had a proven. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.080 Right tackle right now on your roster, or even just 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.119 a more high upside, high floor right the guy that 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.200 I can sit here and say I can start Week 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.640 one right pencil the min I'm gonna say that because 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:15.639 we're saying Dewan Jones be the answer. He's not proven, 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.679 but sure he's there's enough there that I don't need 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:18.840 to go. 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:20.680 I would have gone the free agency rode. I guess 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:22.520 that's why I keep saying proven. I means I would 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:23.240 have signed somebody. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:25.320 I was Soto signed one draft one. I wanted both, 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.280 I thought you were talking about like Wan Soto for 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.040 no sign draft one s O d oh, I wanted 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:31.520 both of them. 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:35.320 Okay, So then you have your five starters right that 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.200 you're you're locked in on the roster. You have your 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.280 top swing tackle, you have your top interior guy, and 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.440 then you have one or two spots for development guy. 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.320 Eight or nine is general the number or something like that. 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:48.520 They are at eleven, which is a Belichick era high. 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:50.320 By the way, they've never carried eleven guys on the 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.159 initial roster, and meanwhile they're at a Belichick low. I 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:54.640 don't know if it's Belichick lo. I have the numbers 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:57.200 for the last ten years. Last ten years, fewest running 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:59.240 backs they've carried his three. They did that once every 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:00.000 other year. It's been four. 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.000 Right, so you have one quarterback, which I and I 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:05.280 get it. People are gonna sit here and say, Evan, 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:07.800 what difference does it make they're on the practice squad. 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.120 They can elevate them on game day, they can sign 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.000 them to the fifty three after they put some guys 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.560 on ir like who cares? And I get that, but 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.720 that's not the point. The point is that right tackle 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.800 is still a major question mark on this team. It 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:24.320 was a major question mark last year. It was a 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.320 major question market going into the offseason, and they did 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:31.320 absolutely nothing to solve the problem. And now we're here 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.879 where Bailey Zappi has to be waived. You have to 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:36.960 carry two running backs on the initial fifty three man roster. 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:40.440 You have to carry two tight ends, which I really 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:43.639 don't think they ultimately wanted to do, honestly, because I 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:45.560 think they're gonna play a lot of twelve and I 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:49.359 think they're gonna want some depth at that position. So 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.040 you have to do all these things, and all of 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.439 this could have been avoided if you had just given 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.880 Andre Dillard three million dollars more than what the Tennessee 0:23:56.920 --> 0:23:59.720 Titans offered him, all of it could have been avoided. 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:05.240 And so the story today and yesterday in the shock 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.560 wave on Tuesday, on cutdown Day is that the Patriots 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:13.040 cut Bailey's appy, and that sticker shock is legit. But 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.760 the real crux of this whole thing is that their 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:21.600 offensive line is a complete mystery even to the people 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.479 running the team. And that's why they made two trades 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:28.040 for tackles fourteen days before the start of the season, 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:30.360 and that's why they're carrying a Belichick or a high 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:33.160 eleven offensive lineman on the roster. And that's why your 0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:35.560 backup quarterback was just put on waivers the other day. 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:40.000 Yeah so, but at the same time, at the same time, 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:42.960 and Bill said this when you put it because because 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:44.200 he gets out, Oh, I din't put this player in 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:47.080 the prak squad. When you wave a player, you never know. 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:50.120 You may think you know, but you never know. Right, 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:55.199 they were okay potentially losing Bailey's appy. Doesn't mean they 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:56.679 wanted to lose him. Doesn't mean they wanted to get 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:58.920 rid of him. They clearly didn't. They brought him back. Right, 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:01.399 They were okay losing Bailey's appy. 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:03.280 And that's why I say that it's not about Bailey's 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:06.359 appy because quite frankly, no, but I was okay with 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:06.840 them losing. 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:08.760 But here's the thing. But it is a little bit 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:12.320 because the theories about and maybe he's got put to 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:16.479 rest Thursday night, Friday night in Nashville, but the theories 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:20.520 about Mac being on a super short leash, and we 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:22.879 could see Bailey's appy by the end of September and 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:25.320 it might end up being his if they really felt 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:27.359 there was a chance Bailey Zappy was going to start 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:29.959 in meaningful games for them this year. They would not 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:33.160 have been comfortab. They shouldn't have been comfortable potentially losing him, 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:34.560 and they were comfortable potentially. 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:36.359 I guess my point when I say that, like, I 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:39.200 don't care about Bailey's Zappy, not to be like mean 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:42.520 about it, but is that I think that a. 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:44.280 Lot of them, you think it's a bigger deal. Why 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:46.560 why they had to wave him in the fastest way? 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:48.640 And I also think that bailey'sz appies are a dime 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:51.879 a dozen. I think that Colt McCoy, I think that 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:55.840 Will Greer. I think Brett freakin' Ripping probably could come 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:57.800 in here and back up Mac Jones just as well. 0:25:57.840 --> 0:25:58.199 I don't know. 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:01.880 I that's look, that's what I think. I already gave 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:03.880 this giving other shows. 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:05.760 Who had have been a preseason Will Greener Bailey's Appy. 0:26:05.920 --> 0:26:07.880 I don't really know how I know real good last 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:11.960 game it wasn't okay, uh I Well, Nathan Rourke was 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:15.240 the guy I was looking for former Nathan. What is 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:16.600 Nathan Rourke notable for? 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:17.199 I don't know. 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:18.560 Ask me, ask me what you're about to ask me. 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:20.920 What is the difference between Nathan Rourke and Bailey's appen. 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:24.159 Nathan Rourke has won the Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Player. Uh, 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:27.640 here's the yeah, he he tore it up for the 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:31.160 last year. Why do you not know these things because 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:35.200 you have a life? The difference the thing and here 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:37.320 people on both sides of the Zappi argument hate me 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:39.199 Evan because we've talked about this. Right, you either have 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:41.240 to think he's the starter who should push mac Jones, 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:43.320 or you have to think he doesn't belong in the league. 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:45.480 I am where I have been on Bailey Zappie since 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:49.360 day one. He's a good backup quarter He's probably somewhere 0:26:49.359 --> 0:26:52.600 between the thirtieth and fortieth best quarterback in the league. 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:56.000 If he's your starter, it's not great. There's he's in 0:26:56.080 --> 0:26:59.040 terms of going to an emergency starter, he'd probably beat 0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:01.560 towards the top of that list. Yeah, but he's one 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:04.000 of the better backups and there is value in having 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:06.880 a good backup and being a good backup quarterback does matter, 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:09.080 and that is why I would rather they not have 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:11.600 cut him and burned a rookie contract on a guy 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:14.399 that is a good backup quarterback. So that's where But 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:16.040 I'm also not under the illusion that he's going to 0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:17.280 come in here and take over the team. 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:20.640 Fair enough, and that's the one thing that I will 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:23.879 say that makes it about Bailey zappy to me is 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:27.240 the rookie contract. I hate the idea that they just 0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:30.600 ripped up his rookie contract because, on the one hand, 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:32.320 now they're a year to year with him, right, That's 0:27:32.359 --> 0:27:34.120 just the nuts and bolts of it. He's a year 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:36.760 to year player whether he stays on the practice squad 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:39.000 or he signs back to the fifty three, unless they 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:42.000 give him a multi year deal when they sign, which 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:45.159 is possible. But bottom line is he's a year to 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:48.359 year guy now, and he was anyways because his money 0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:50.200 wasn't guaranteed in year three and four. And I get 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:52.520 all that, but they had team control on the player 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:56.720 for year three and four. So now, and let's just 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:59.119 play this out. You mentioned him like, you know, spot 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:01.800 starting and things like that and being effective. Let's say, 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:04.160 and I hope this doesn't happen. We don't wish injuries, 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.640 so don't come at us about this. But what happens 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:10.440 if the exact same scenario happens that happened last year 0:28:10.880 --> 0:28:14.600 where Mac gets hurt, and I'm not saying that Mac 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:17.120 is playing poorly. Like, let's take that out element out 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:17.240 of it. 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:19.840 Now, Mack gets hurt, Mac cannot play. Mac gets hurt, 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:23.399 and Bailey's Appy comes in for two games, keeps the 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:25.920 team afloat, wins them a couple of games to keep 0:28:25.920 --> 0:28:28.800 the train on the tracks of the season, Mac comes 0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:31.199 back whatever. So basically what happened last year, exactly what 0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:32.640 happened last year minus the Bears game. 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:35.880 Is Bailey's APPI going to get paid in the offseason? Well, 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:37.240 because he's a free agent now. 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:40.680 So this year he wouldn't because he's gonna be an ERFA. 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:43.120 If you have less than three years of team controller 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:45.920 what's called an exclusive rights free agent, which bass in 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:48.400 the RFA. Now he would be at the end of 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:50.000 the season. He don't leave two years, so he's not 0:28:50.000 --> 0:28:57.280 an unrestricted free agent. Oh, currently, when if his deal expires, right, 0:28:57.320 --> 0:28:59.920 his practice squad deal aspires, they would have to sign 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:02.040 to a SUTs deal right in order to have him 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:06.719 under contract. Yes, right, But but if they didn't, he 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:09.040 would be an e r F A Okay. 0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:10.160 So I didn't. 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:13.600 Okay, So as long as he's on the practice squad. 0:29:13.600 --> 0:29:16.200 He's a free agent if he's on the press. Let's 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:18.880 say some team loses their quarterback in Week one, Right, 0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:22.000 they can go and he doesn't have to sign. Yeah, 0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:26.320 but they could go off Bailey offered contract sign uh 0:29:26.400 --> 0:29:28.080 because if he's going to sign and then get cut 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:30.120 when the quarterbacks come, there's a number of reasons he 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:32.360 might not. But like I mean, he's a free agent. 0:29:32.360 --> 0:29:34.160 I would be looking for the first exit door. Fair. 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:37.160 He is a free agent as we sit here today. 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:40.280 Bailey's appy. A team could call and offer they can't 0:29:40.280 --> 0:29:41.920 off from practice squad spot. They have to offer him 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:44.719 a fifty three man rocks spot. But they could do that. 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:48.320 That is true until if and when he signs to 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:50.680 the fifty three. Once he signs to the fifty three, 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:53.040 if that's a one year deal, at the end of 0:29:53.080 --> 0:29:55.000 the year, he would become an eerf So if he 0:29:55.360 --> 0:29:59.080 if he finishes the year on the fifty three, okay, crap, 0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:01.200 if he finished on the practice squad, it would be 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:04.960 futures deal, which is a free agent. Right. Well, if 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:07.239 you can't sign a guy to a futures deal from 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:10.160 your fifty three, so he would become a free agent. 0:30:10.480 --> 0:30:13.200 He would become what's called an E RFA exclusive rights 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:16.400 free agent, which means only the Patriots can negotiate with him. 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:19.000 For other teams to negotiate with him, the Patriots basically 0:30:19.000 --> 0:30:22.120 have to give up rights. They essentially they have to 0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:25.680 without putting them get I didn't realize that we're so 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:27.280 very bogged down in this cause this is what we 0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:29.760 do BRFA. I didn't realize that he was going to 0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:32.280 become an RF. E RFA is two years of experience 0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:34.840 and less after three years, And this is where he'd 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:37.560 essentially be like an undrafted for agent because UDFA contracts 0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:40.160 for three years, then he becomes an RFA. That's trick 0:30:40.200 --> 0:30:42.720 gets really interesting if you get to this point, if 0:30:42.720 --> 0:30:47.200 he's shown some promise, you never see our restricted free 0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:50.840 agent quarterbacks. You never see that. If you drafted a quarterback, 0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:52.480 if you don't think he's good enough, you've cut him 0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:54.719 generally at that point, and then it becomes can you 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:56.880 tender him? Would a team give up a second round 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:59.320 pick for Bailey's appy problem that then not that long 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:00.920 ago a team get up a second round pick for 0:31:00.960 --> 0:31:02.960 Jimmy Garoppolo, And how that got they're still paying for 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:05.960 They're still paying for you. What have they done? 0:31:06.840 --> 0:31:08.640 He's better than him at the time. 0:31:09.200 --> 0:31:12.959 At the time Jimmy Garoppolo was traded, he had started 0:31:13.000 --> 0:31:16.440 two games, won them both played part of a third game. Yeah, 0:31:17.480 --> 0:31:18.920 what what is Bailey Zappy done? 0:31:19.000 --> 0:31:20.000 You've already thought this out. 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:21.480 I know I've given this takeabok. 0:31:21.840 --> 0:31:23.720 This is your your sick o the point. 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:28.040 But whatever they're unless they it's not. I just think 0:31:28.080 --> 0:31:31.520 he's overrated. Unless they signed Jimmy to a multi year deal. 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:33.400 When they signed him back to the fifty three, he 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:36.080 is now year to year. That is the reality of it. 0:31:36.440 --> 0:31:39.960 So that's the Bailey Zappy offensive line take off the 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:43.720 top of the show. I just I want to continue 0:31:43.720 --> 0:31:47.440 to hammer home the point that the biggest issue of 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:51.240 all of this is that the Patriots did not do 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:54.200 enough to address the tackle position in the off season. 0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:56.000 And and now they're overcommentation. 0:31:56.120 --> 0:32:02.160 Yes, and you have to remember that this was like 0:32:02.240 --> 0:32:04.320 the injuries thing bugs me too, Like people are, oh, well, 0:32:04.400 --> 0:32:06.080 Riley Reef got hurt, Like, what do you want them 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.480 to do? This was already going off the rails before 0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:11.520 Riley Reef got hurt. Okay, Riley Reef was already moved 0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:13.920 inside to guard. By the time Riley Reef got hurt, 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:17.160 they already had determined that Riley Reef couldn't play tackle anymore, 0:32:17.400 --> 0:32:21.040 so he's already moved inside to guard Connor McDermott's mia. 0:32:22.040 --> 0:32:25.880 He was also playing poorly going into that injury, so 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:27.680 they knew that this. We all knew this was a 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:32.040 problem already before anybody got hurt. So that's where the 0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:35.600 Patriots are at. And now they have the Eagles, who 0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:38.560 had the second rated pass rushing football last year in 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:42.000 terms of pressure rate. The Jets have had the seventh. 0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:45.560 The Dolphins were not in the top twenty, but they 0:32:45.600 --> 0:32:47.920 have a good bookend ed rushers. I think they're gonna 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:48.520 be better this year. 0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:50.040 In the past game they were well, they didn't have 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:50.880 Bradley Chubb for the. 0:32:50.960 --> 0:32:53.800 Start of the year, and then the number one rated 0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:56.840 pass rushing football last year, the Dallas Cowboys. In your 0:32:56.840 --> 0:33:00.240 first month, so you have one two and seven and 0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:02.080 another team that I think is potentially going to be 0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:03.600 in the top half of the league as well. 0:33:04.640 --> 0:33:08.320 Are you holding out any hope that we get out 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:11.160 there Week one? Riley Reef of he's healthy at right guard, 0:33:11.240 --> 0:33:14.000 Mike Wint right tackle or Antonio Maffi and Mike and 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:15.240 Winno on the right side. 0:33:15.080 --> 0:33:17.240 There I'm holding out a little bit of hope. But 0:33:18.120 --> 0:33:20.920 he did play a snap of right tackle. Why why 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:24.479 why make all of these this? Why jump through all 0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:26.560 these hoops just to be moving Mike on went to 0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:27.120 right tackle? 0:33:27.240 --> 0:33:30.040 Because you're worried about the backups, because you know that 0:33:30.040 --> 0:33:32.560 if you lose trend, you're right. 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:34.240 But if you worry about the backups, like can you 0:33:34.320 --> 0:33:36.040 keep like two layers of depth? Like why do you 0:33:36.080 --> 0:33:36.760 have to keep six? 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:39.480 Because because they're gonna do essentially what you said, they're 0:33:39.480 --> 0:33:42.360 gonna figure it out. Like I don't Tyrone Wheatley daring Low. 0:33:42.360 --> 0:33:43.720 I doubt both those guys are on the team for 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:46.680 seventeen games. They're essentially going to have a September's an 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:47.400 extension of the price. 0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:48.200 So here's the other. 0:33:48.240 --> 0:33:49.960 They're gonna have a competition and one of those guys 0:33:50.000 --> 0:33:53.360 will stick. Yeah, those moves make more sense when you 0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:54.880 look at it through the lens that they brought those 0:33:54.880 --> 0:33:57.040 guys into be backups rather than compete for the starting trick. 0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:59.280 I agree, But at the same time, like this is 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.120 the other my ang on, this is it because I 0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:02.880 wanted to work down the roster and then we're gonna 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:06.480 take some calls, I promise. But running back, they have 0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:09.319 two running backs on the roster, Tome Montgomery and Kevin 0:34:09.360 --> 0:34:14.759 Harris are on the practice squad. They traded Pierre. 0:34:14.560 --> 0:34:16.720 Strong, who, Yeah, I didn't like that trade. 0:34:16.760 --> 0:34:18.960 Maybe they were to cut him anyways, Like maybe that's 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.880 where that was heading. I know that's always the adage, 0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:24.279 right of Oh they were, they just were gonna cut 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:28.040 him anyways. I didn't like the trade either. I did 0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:31.200 not because I disliked Tyrone Wheatley. I think Tyrone Wheatley 0:34:31.280 --> 0:34:34.680 has some really exciting trades. From an athletic standpoint, I 0:34:34.719 --> 0:34:36.359 think he's an athletic kid. I think he's got good 0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:38.560 foot speed. I think he can block in the run 0:34:38.600 --> 0:34:42.080 game using his positional blocking with the foot speed. There's 0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:46.080 things to like about his preseason film, absolutely, but I 0:34:46.080 --> 0:34:48.200 didn't like it for two reasons. One, I really didn't 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:51.120 think Kevin Harris or J. J. Taylor were rosterable running backs, 0:34:51.520 --> 0:34:52.960 so Pierre Strong was the one. 0:34:53.400 --> 0:34:55.520 JJ. I thought you had a really good I didn't 0:34:55.560 --> 0:34:56.120 have a kid there. 0:34:56.360 --> 0:35:02.200 I think that ultimately, unless you're like Darren sprolls quick 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:05.279 and fast at that size, it's just. 0:35:05.280 --> 0:35:09.440 Really tough, you see, fund right, that's. 0:35:08.719 --> 0:35:12.440 A good unless you're one of those guys that's just 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:14.359 different in terms of how they move on the field 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:18.319 at five foot six, it's really hard. So I think 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:21.600 JJ Taylor is like is like the football equivalent of 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:24.399 a of a four A player. You know, he's right 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:27.680 in the middle. So Pierre Strong to me, felt like 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:30.040 the one guy that had the talent and the upside, 0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:33.080 but that really the talent to be a rosterable running 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:34.759 back as your third running back. And the other reason 0:35:34.760 --> 0:35:37.760 why I didn't really like the trade. Where's your speed 0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:40.919 now out of the backfield? Now you can talk? 0:35:41.239 --> 0:35:42.600 You hope it's time Montgomery. 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:45.920 Your other speed's on injured reserve right now, right with Taekwon, 0:35:46.000 --> 0:35:48.759 and who knows what's gonna happen with that. And so 0:35:48.880 --> 0:35:52.000 really you're looking at in terms of bringing guys that 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:55.960 move differently in this offense, that have that explosive gear. 0:35:56.600 --> 0:36:00.000 It's essentially Pop Douglas and that's it. Like Kendrick Bourne 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:01.640 and I think does a little bit, but I don't 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:05.080 know if it's really truly on that elite level. It's 0:36:05.120 --> 0:36:07.160 but it's it's good. You know, Kendrick Bourne is the 0:36:07.160 --> 0:36:09.080 guy that's got good burst and good energy with the 0:36:09.080 --> 0:36:12.640 football in his hands. But that's what I was hoping, 0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:17.360 holding out hope with Pierre Strong. It's not that you 0:36:17.480 --> 0:36:20.640 necessarily need him to carry the ball twenty times and 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:23.359 be this bell cow running back, but four or five 0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:26.200 touches a game on a screen or on an outside 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:29.480 run or a toss player, just something to get him 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:32.640 out in space. He was the one guy that was 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:35.040 dangerous in space with the ball in his hands, and 0:36:35.080 --> 0:36:37.040 I just feel like they lost it a little bit 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:37.720 in this trade. 0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:38.680 We have some news. 0:36:38.800 --> 0:36:41.480 Oh what's the news, Ian Rappaport. 0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:46.080 The Patriots have claimed former Panthers quarterback Matt Corral. 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:48.719 So we have a new quarterback. 0:36:48.840 --> 0:36:50.719 We have a new After all of that, we have 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:52.400 a new so let the plot that get oh wait 0:36:52.440 --> 0:36:55.560 in eight weight. So they claimed him on waivers, so 0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:57.840 that means he's on the fifty three. So that's your backup. 0:36:57.880 --> 0:36:59.840 That's your backup quarterback, Matt Corral. 0:37:00.880 --> 0:37:02.719 So that's the roster spot. 0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:08.200 Uh by Taekwon Thorn probably what I go back you 0:37:08.239 --> 0:37:09.920 said that I couldn't call it a downfall. 0:37:09.960 --> 0:37:12.959 Of Bailey's appy. I'm calling it a downfall. You're gonna 0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:15.799 now I not only better than Ma Correll. 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:18.520 You got cut and you got replaced like they're giving 0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:20.680 Ma Correl a fifty three min roster spot over you. 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:27.160 That's what's happening here. That's shocking. I mac Correl's been 0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:30.360 a disaster in the NFL. Now, granted he's been in Carolina, 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:32.000 right in Carolina. 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:35.920 Uh well no, he he broke his ankle in the 0:37:35.960 --> 0:37:38.640 preseason game here last year and hasn't played the rookie 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:42.319 last year. That was it. Yeah, but he's I don't know, 0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:43.960 he hasn't been anything in the end. He hasn't played 0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.880 in the NFL, but he played in the preseason this year. Yeah. 0:37:47.000 --> 0:37:50.960 Yeah, so that that that's interesting. Well we'll give some 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:52.920 mac correl takes here in a second, but let's get 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:56.200 to the phones. John is in Louisiana. John, thanks for 0:37:56.239 --> 0:38:02.640 hanging on. What's up? John? Hey? Hello, hello, Hey there 0:38:02.680 --> 0:38:04.439 you are all right? 0:38:04.520 --> 0:38:07.279 So uh Evan, first off, ausseems like you are thinking 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:09.400 that victory left one that Zabie seever. 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:11.319 Can't help it. 0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:13.680 But uh yeah, I already know. So I got a 0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:16.840 question about the left tackle situation. So you said a 0:38:16.920 --> 0:38:20.560 free agency would say, do you think that would have 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:24.120 affected the contract that Jabrill Severs and everybody else isn't 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:24.520 brought back? 0:38:26.280 --> 0:38:26.560 Uh? 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:30.560 No, I don't because I think that you can find 0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:34.320 cap space in a million different ways. You can stagger 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:38.520 contracts in a million different ways. So I would I 0:38:38.520 --> 0:38:42.040 have given like an Orlando Brown Mike McGlinchey contract to 0:38:42.080 --> 0:38:44.839 a tackle and been able to afford all the rest 0:38:44.840 --> 0:38:47.080 of it? Like, maybe not U, but I think that 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:49.600 there was options out there, like a Diller, like a Whiley, 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:51.600 like those players at that level that would have been 0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:54.279 better than what you got and would have been able 0:38:54.320 --> 0:38:55.759 to spread the money around just the same. 0:38:57.200 --> 0:38:59.080 So in as far as the draft, who would you 0:38:59.760 --> 0:39:01.960 have placed if you would have drafted somebody? I know 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:04.920 you said you like the first, but like I'm I'm 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:07.359 kind of confused. Who would you have rather not take? 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:12.279 PREDENTI someone at the Dwan Jones from Ohio State. I 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:15.680 would have taken Blake Freelan from BYU. I would have 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:20.120 taken Jalen Duncan, the Maryland guy, any of the Day 0:39:20.120 --> 0:39:21.799 three picks, literally any of. 0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:25.160 Them except Pop Douglas. Oh yeah, of course, except Pop Douglas. 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:27.279 Sure take the receiver for the early day three the 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:29.520 late day three picks. You're telling me that this team 0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:33.759 needs Jake Andrews for what? Like, I'm not trying to 0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:36.799 pick on Jake Andrews. I'm just if David Andrews gets hurt, 0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:40.440 then you're in trouble anyways, right, regardless of who his 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:43.799 backup is. But is Jake Andrews at this stage of 0:39:43.840 --> 0:39:46.800 his career significantly better than Russi or James Ferrence. I 0:39:46.840 --> 0:39:49.600 don't think so, not based off what we've seen over 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:52.600 the summer. I would also say that I like Mafi. 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:55.480 I think Mafi is going to be a starting caliber 0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:57.680 guard the way that they play football here, he'll be. 0:39:57.760 --> 0:40:01.360 He'll be a starting caliber guy next year. But you 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:04.719 had a more immediate need at tackle, so that those 0:40:04.760 --> 0:40:06.200 are the picks that I would have replaced him. I 0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:07.880 think that's that's the obvious way to go. 0:40:09.440 --> 0:40:11.160 Okay, appreciate you guys, Thanks. 0:40:11.000 --> 0:40:14.040 John, Thanks for the call. All right, Patty is an 0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:15.920 agua on what's up? Patty? 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:20.279 Tough guys? Hey, So I got something for each of you. 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:24.000 First off, the college football Minute, for actually half a minute. 0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:27.239 I'll make it quick Evan Alex, Yeah, you're gonna watch. 0:40:27.360 --> 0:40:29.880 I know you're watching college football this weekend. Of course, 0:40:30.040 --> 0:40:34.839 pay attention Boston College wide receiver Joe Grifton junior from 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:38.440 my hometown, from my alma mart Or Springfield Central High School, 0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:41.160 the home of Champion. This kid's going to be a stud. 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:43.600 He's not coming out this is coming year, but he's 0:40:43.640 --> 0:40:47.040 eligible in twenty twenty five. He's like the perfect, the 0:40:47.120 --> 0:40:50.799 prototype guy that's going to replace Davante Partner. Hopefully, I'd 0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:54.719 love to see it, all right, So, Evan, the one 0:40:54.760 --> 0:40:56.800 thing I'll disagree with you with was I was hoping 0:40:56.800 --> 0:40:59.320 that they would like you. I know, you said you 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:03.200 want them to dry tackle and free agency. I'm with 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:05.560 you with those guys with Dwan Jones, and I was 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:07.960 big on Blake Freeland. I mean, I wanted them to 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:12.400 get young guys and develop them and into this system. 0:41:12.719 --> 0:41:16.160 And I mean, both your tackles are going to be 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:19.239 gone next year unless they extend Brown. But that's kind 0:41:19.280 --> 0:41:20.839 of a crap you because you never know what you're 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:22.880 gonna get with them, you know. So I'm just I 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:27.000 feel the frustration. I'm right there with you. Hopefully I 0:41:27.040 --> 0:41:29.800 do have fate that Billy O'Brien and Clem are gonna 0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:33.480 piece this together. I'm not gonna take too much out 0:41:33.520 --> 0:41:35.960 of Week one. I never do anyway. But I mean, 0:41:36.320 --> 0:41:38.520 as long as Mac comes out of the game healthy, 0:41:38.880 --> 0:41:41.440 I'm good, and that's all I care about. And that's 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:42.160 all I got, guys. 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:44.600 Fair enough, Patti, thanks for the call. Look, I don't 0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:47.400 want to. I know I'm sounding like alarmists when it 0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:51.840 comes to the offensive line Situationian, I think it's workable. 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:53.839 I just think that a lot of the things that 0:41:54.440 --> 0:41:57.560 have happened this summer, and that it happened on cutdown day. 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:00.000 I feel like a lot of these things happened because 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:03.360 as they put themselves in this in a hole, like 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:06.200 they created a hole and now they're trying to get 0:42:06.200 --> 0:42:08.440 themselves out of it, and now we have all this 0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:12.520 cat you know, uh roster gymnastics and jockeying and all 0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:14.840 this different stuff going on, and I feel like a 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:17.040 lot of this was so avoidable if they had just 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:21.440 addressed it with a real answer, like instead of throwing 0:42:21.719 --> 0:42:25.000 blind darts at the board and saying, well, hopefully one 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:29.239 of these guys is serviceable, they could have just went 0:42:29.239 --> 0:42:33.440 out and made a real move and solved the problem. 0:42:33.840 --> 0:42:35.719 And that's where we're at. I'm gonn take this last call, 0:42:35.760 --> 0:42:37.719 and then Alex you got to give your your mac 0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:39.799 correl take. We've talked about mac corral a little bit 0:42:39.840 --> 0:42:40.239 off the air. 0:42:40.400 --> 0:42:42.160 I'm learning about Matt Corrow right now. Do you know 0:42:42.200 --> 0:42:44.200 he wants try to fight Wing Gretzky's son. 0:42:44.640 --> 0:42:45.680 Why is that relevant? 0:42:46.280 --> 0:42:46.640 Is it not? 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:49.920 All right? Let's take Tony in Canada. Let's up Tony. 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:55.200 Hey, hi guys. I have a comment, And then I question, 0:42:55.800 --> 0:42:59.280 I guess the comment and is regarding regarding the Patriots 0:42:59.320 --> 0:43:02.360 as I think that this year, my prediction is they'll 0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:05.400 be struggling to make fourth place, they'll be out of 0:43:05.400 --> 0:43:07.960 the playoffs. And I think this year, at best, they'll 0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.080 do as well as he did last year or lose 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:16.960 a few other games. And the question is regarding Bill Belichick, 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:21.239 and I know, like, yeah, I mean, things didn't work 0:43:21.280 --> 0:43:23.600 out with the tight end or not tight end, sorry, 0:43:23.600 --> 0:43:28.759 the offensive tackle position. But Belichick really hasn't spent a 0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:32.400 lot of money this year, so in your opinion, like 0:43:32.440 --> 0:43:35.680 what is the what is Belichick trying to do? Like 0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:38.920 he's obviously not signing players he didn't go crazy this 0:43:39.000 --> 0:43:42.239 year like he did a few years back. What's the plan? Like, 0:43:42.239 --> 0:43:44.560 what is he planning to do? What do you speculate 0:43:44.600 --> 0:43:47.440 on is he planning on maybe possibly extending a lot 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:50.320 of the other players, or what's the reason? I guess 0:43:50.600 --> 0:43:52.200 what do you think is the reason for it? For 0:43:52.320 --> 0:43:55.600 the way he's he's been managing the team this so 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:56.359 far this year. 0:43:56.920 --> 0:44:00.360 Thanks for the call, Tony, I honestly know how you 0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:02.760 feel about this, Alex, so just speak for myself. 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:05.200 Well, second week in a row. Apparently they're trying to 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:07.240 get my attention on the sportshop right now because Felger 0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:08.319 doesn't know how waiver claims were. 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:12.440 Oh my god. Uh. I don't think Belichick's managing the 0:44:12.520 --> 0:44:15.719 roster any differently than he always has. Like that's that's 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:20.160 the thing that I think that maybe doesn't get talked 0:44:20.160 --> 0:44:22.480 about enough or gets missed or something like that. Like 0:44:23.360 --> 0:44:27.400 other than the free agency spending spree in twenty twenty one, 0:44:27.719 --> 0:44:30.920 this is how they've always done it, Like they have built. 0:44:32.080 --> 0:44:37.640 Their whole thing is conservatives, spending solid, miiddle class, build 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:40.719 from within, draft and develop like that. That's that's their 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:43.560 whole thing. Like the twenty twenty one free agency class 0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:45.839 was the outlier. That's not the norm. Now. Sometimes they 0:44:45.840 --> 0:44:48.440 do go out and make like one splash, you know, 0:44:48.440 --> 0:44:52.719 a Stefan Gilmour, a Darrell Revis Uh obviously didn't work out, 0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:54.680 but like a daily as Thomas right, like they they've 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:58.120 done that in a vacuum. But going out and spending 0:44:58.160 --> 0:44:59.840 a ton of money in free agency, like they did 0:44:59.880 --> 0:45:01.479 it a couple of years ago. That was the one 0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:03.799 time they did it, and other than that, they've never 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:06.040 done it again or done it in the past. So 0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:11.000 their methodical approach is exactly how they've always done it, 0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:17.680 and I there's obviously some legitimate reasons for it, Like 0:45:17.880 --> 0:45:20.560 there's some real sound reasoning for it. I think the 0:45:20.600 --> 0:45:26.520 biggest being that the real sweet spot is by drafting 0:45:26.560 --> 0:45:29.480 players and being good in the draft and then developing 0:45:29.520 --> 0:45:31.839 from within. That's how they built the teams in their 0:45:31.880 --> 0:45:33.960 early two thousands for the most part. Like that's how 0:45:34.000 --> 0:45:38.120 you build your roster for sustainability in the NFL. But 0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:40.920 you know, to the caller, like if you're expecting them 0:45:40.920 --> 0:45:43.200 to go out and spend a ton of money on 0:45:43.280 --> 0:45:45.319 free agents, like you got the wrong team, Like that's 0:45:45.400 --> 0:45:47.200 not going to be who they are, at least not 0:45:47.239 --> 0:45:49.560 as long as Belichick is here. If that's truly the 0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:52.920 trigger man of all of this, Like that's never how 0:45:52.960 --> 0:45:55.719 they've operated, that's never how they are. All right, Uh, 0:45:55.800 --> 0:45:59.120 let's let's get your macarel take Alex because you obviously 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:00.960 remember him from Old it's a whole lot more than 0:46:01.000 --> 0:46:01.239 I do. 0:46:01.600 --> 0:46:04.759 So Matt Corral was a really interesting quarterback going into 0:46:04.760 --> 0:46:07.279 the draft last year because his career has been a 0:46:07.440 --> 0:46:13.640 roller coaster. Came out of Southern California in high school, 0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:16.960 was a five star recruit US Army, All American, all 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:20.000 of that stuff, Like this is a guy who's usc UF. 0:46:21.480 --> 0:46:25.040 I don't remember if Alabama was interested in him. Ends 0:46:25.120 --> 0:46:27.120 up going to Old Miss, where they had another top 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:30.040 ranked recruit in Jordan Tamu, who people might remember. I 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:31.600 think he was here on the practice squad for like 0:46:31.600 --> 0:46:35.680 a week once. But really roller coaster his first few 0:46:35.719 --> 0:46:37.840 years in college. Struggled to get playing time as a 0:46:37.880 --> 0:46:40.440 freshman as a red shirt freshman, started to play a 0:46:40.440 --> 0:46:43.359 little more, but was really a run first quarterback his 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:47.120 junior year, there were so lean Kiffin comes his junior 0:46:47.160 --> 0:46:50.280 year in twenty twenty, and there's flashes, but he turned 0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:53.520 the ball over a ton and then in twenty twenty 0:46:53.520 --> 0:46:55.719 one he started to put it together. Thirty three hundred yards, 0:46:55.760 --> 0:46:58.960 twenty touchdowns, five interceptions, ran for another six hundred and 0:46:58.960 --> 0:47:02.680 fourteen yards eleven touch downs. He was a layane kick like, well, 0:47:02.719 --> 0:47:06.239 Lane Kiffen wants his quarterback to be Matt Corral. And 0:47:06.280 --> 0:47:09.200 then that was sort of a down year for quarterbacks 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:11.520 and people start talking about is Matt Carral first round pick? 0:47:12.360 --> 0:47:14.600 And it was kind of trending that way. And then 0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:17.359 he hurt his ankle in the bowl game. A lot 0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:19.239 of people were like, he's not. It was kind of 0:47:19.280 --> 0:47:20.759 consensus he wasn't gonna play in the ball game. This 0:47:20.760 --> 0:47:22.040 is guy who's gonna be a first round pick. A 0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:24.920 quarterback played in the ball game, which people like, this 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:26.879 is great. Look at that leadership, like he's definitely gonna 0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:30.000 be a first round pick. Now. No, But that's the thing, 0:47:30.040 --> 0:47:31.479 you know what I mean, Like when those guys right. 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:33.960 At the fact that people like believe that. 0:47:34.239 --> 0:47:35.879 Yeah, I think teams look at that. Oh, you're willing 0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:37.640 to play the ball game even though your first round pick. 0:47:37.680 --> 0:47:39.520 You can't. You love football, you care about your team, 0:47:39.560 --> 0:47:43.879 your teammates. Hurt his ankle, and it then struggled during 0:47:43.920 --> 0:47:47.319 the pre draft process, goes to Carolina. Last year, the 0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:49.839 Panthers actually traded up with the Patriots to get him. 0:47:50.560 --> 0:47:52.880 The Patriots used those picks later on Bailey Zappi and 0:47:52.880 --> 0:47:56.640 Marte Maphu. So that's that's a good trade. That's a 0:47:56.760 --> 0:48:00.120 very good trade. And then I remember he was so 0:48:00.200 --> 0:48:01.759 they saw him in joint practices and we know this, 0:48:01.840 --> 0:48:04.680 the Patriots like the guys that they see in joint practices. 0:48:05.040 --> 0:48:06.759 I didn't think he's very good here last year that 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:09.200 week and then early on in that preseason game he 0:48:09.239 --> 0:48:11.640 suffered I said ankle injury earlier as wrong was a 0:48:11.680 --> 0:48:14.400 Liz frank injury. That's his foot foot, and missed the 0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:16.880 whole season. So this summer I think he was kind 0:48:16.880 --> 0:48:19.239 of hit and miss. He was never gonna start, right, 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:21.840 They have Bryce Young and he was always going to 0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:26.360 be the guy. But really athletic, he's not. He's a 0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:29.640 different kind of quarterback than what they've had. I'm trying 0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.560 to find his height weight. I know he's on the smaller, 0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:36.880 on the smaller side, moves around a lot, makes plays 0:48:36.880 --> 0:48:39.520 out of structure, Definitely a threat with his legs. He 0:48:39.560 --> 0:48:42.719 can be a reid option guy, but the accuracy is 0:48:42.760 --> 0:48:45.120 an issue. He does have a bit of a quick trigger. 0:48:45.280 --> 0:48:48.480 He doesn't handle pressure super well, so kind of an 0:48:48.520 --> 0:48:51.560 anti Mac Jones. I don't think the things he's good 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:54.600 at are he's as good at as the like Mac Jones' 0:48:54.640 --> 0:48:57.600 best traits. But he's a he's a different kind of 0:48:57.600 --> 0:48:59.840 passer and it's gonna be interesting to see what the 0:49:00.400 --> 0:49:00.719 for him. 0:49:00.840 --> 0:49:04.160 So I what I remember of him is is mainly 0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:07.040 you telling me to watch Alabama ole Miss a couple 0:49:07.080 --> 0:49:08.799 of years ago when it looked like ole Miss was 0:49:08.800 --> 0:49:11.200 actually going to be able to go toe to toe 0:49:11.200 --> 0:49:11.720 with Alabama. 0:49:11.800 --> 0:49:13.600 So that that year, that was that twenty twenty one 0:49:13.680 --> 0:49:16.320 year where he had a year in Kiffin's offense. Yeah, 0:49:16.320 --> 0:49:20.200 he was like a heisman he was a Heisman candidate. Yeah, No, 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:22.640 he was eismen get I'm trying to remember who. They 0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:24.239 had a really good receiver on that team too, I'm 0:49:24.239 --> 0:49:25.080 trying to remember who was. 0:49:25.560 --> 0:49:29.680 So the thing about ole Miss's offense that's that's important 0:49:29.719 --> 0:49:35.600 to mention is that they are they are a modern, modern, 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:40.080 modern scheme under Lane Kiffin. They're an air raid team. 0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:46.200 Is Jonathan Mingos, Yeah, they do a bunch of crazy 0:49:46.239 --> 0:49:50.960 stuff offensively, like we're talking about motions options like a 0:49:51.320 --> 0:49:53.320 want to say it's as new age as you get. 0:49:53.239 --> 0:49:56.239 Read option, they like never punt right, like they're just 0:49:56.239 --> 0:50:01.400 like this aggressive pedal to the medal spread everything that 0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:04.759 you hear about, like you know, where's football going, and 0:50:04.840 --> 0:50:07.520 like new age football like Ole Miss does all of it. 0:50:08.080 --> 0:50:10.760 So in some respects, it was a little bit difficult 0:50:10.760 --> 0:50:13.040 when I did, like do a little bit of an 0:50:13.080 --> 0:50:16.080 EVL on some of those quarterbacks just thinking that maybe 0:50:16.080 --> 0:50:20.680 they would draft one. It was tyficult to project how 0:50:20.719 --> 0:50:23.920 Matt Corrale is going to play in an NFL system 0:50:24.239 --> 0:50:28.840 because Ole Miss is just very, very unique and weird. 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:33.080 So that was a big part of it. But the 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:36.200 one thing that I will say about Matt Corral and 0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:40.600 let me be clear that this is one hundred and 0:50:40.760 --> 0:50:45.480 ten competition for Bailey Zappy, not competition for Mac Jones, 0:50:46.080 --> 0:50:49.520 but with Matt Corral I think, and you you know, 0:50:49.600 --> 0:50:52.520 grieve me or not, Alex, I think that Mat Corel 0:50:52.640 --> 0:50:56.319 has more tools at his disposal than a guy like 0:50:56.360 --> 0:50:58.760 Bailey Zappy, Like I think he's a little bit bigger. 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:00.880 I think he's got a bigger arm. I think he's 0:51:00.880 --> 0:51:04.439 a little bit more mobile, not necessarily, like a little 0:51:04.440 --> 0:51:07.080 bit like I think Billy Zappi's got decent elusiveness in 0:51:07.120 --> 0:51:09.160 the pocket and like he's pretty light on his feet 0:51:09.200 --> 0:51:11.239 in the pocket. But Coral can run, you know, with 0:51:11.320 --> 0:51:15.839 the football, like in designed run fashion. So what this 0:51:15.960 --> 0:51:17.960 looks like to me is that they have these two 0:51:18.040 --> 0:51:22.080 quarterbacks and Mac and Zappi. And we talked about this, 0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:23.640 and I think this is why a lot of people 0:51:23.760 --> 0:51:27.000 latched to Malie Cunningham was because they don't really have 0:51:27.200 --> 0:51:31.000 like the toolsy, developmental upside guy, right, Like, they don't 0:51:31.000 --> 0:51:33.600 have that guy. And I don't know if mat Correll 0:51:33.880 --> 0:51:35.880 is ever going to be anything more than than a 0:51:35.960 --> 0:51:39.360 journeyman backup. I don't think so. But he does have 0:51:39.440 --> 0:51:44.919 a little bit more of that athleticism gene that everybody's 0:51:44.960 --> 0:51:47.799 clamoring for all. You know, the teams that don't have 0:51:48.160 --> 0:51:51.879 a Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen Mahomes type of player, that's 0:51:51.880 --> 0:51:54.880 what everybody wants. That's not ma Correl. Mac Correl is 0:51:54.960 --> 0:51:58.200 a I think a designed runner more than he is 0:51:58.239 --> 0:52:01.360 like a scrambler and a or a out of structure playmaker. 0:52:01.440 --> 0:52:04.000 But he's got some mobility, and he's got a bigger 0:52:04.080 --> 0:52:06.520 arm than Zappy, and he's got some of those tools 0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:10.080 that everybody is clamoring for. So in a lot of ways, 0:52:10.920 --> 0:52:15.000 I think it's interesting because I expected them to be 0:52:15.080 --> 0:52:19.880 looking for a more stable, experienced veteran option, like a 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:23.719 Colt McCoy type of option, or you kind of know 0:52:23.760 --> 0:52:26.279 what you're gonna get. Mac Correll is another is a 0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:29.360 ball of clay like mac Correll is a developmental player. 0:52:30.080 --> 0:52:33.879 He is I think, and again, you know, feel free 0:52:33.920 --> 0:52:37.160 to disagree with me. If they had to thrust somebody 0:52:37.160 --> 0:52:40.680 into a to a game, yeah, I think it's Bailey Zappy. 0:52:41.080 --> 0:52:43.320 I still don't think that you would put mac Corel 0:52:43.480 --> 0:52:45.600 in a game. I get, you know, picking out the 0:52:45.640 --> 0:52:47.960 fact that like he has to learn the system and 0:52:48.000 --> 0:52:49.840 like I'll get integrated and all that kind of stuff. 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:52.640 I just mean in general, I don't really look at 0:52:52.680 --> 0:52:57.840 mac Correll as like a stable steady like Brian Hoyer. Backup, So, 0:52:57.920 --> 0:53:01.960 Matt Correll is, remember when we were going into the 0:53:02.040 --> 0:53:05.120 draft and every there was that take that a lot 0:53:05.200 --> 0:53:06.680 of people had that was like, oh, look at what 0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:09.080 the Eagles did with Jalen Hurts. They had Carson Wentz, 0:53:09.080 --> 0:53:12.320 but they still took Jalen Hurts in the second round. 0:53:12.440 --> 0:53:14.640 Is like a project, right, and I met, we got 0:53:14.680 --> 0:53:16.400 blue in the face telling people that guy does not 0:53:16.520 --> 0:53:20.719 exist in this draft. That might be Matt Corrall. Matt 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:24.240 Corrall might be the this guy's got a ton of tools. 0:53:24.360 --> 0:53:26.160 Let's see what we can turn him into. 0:53:26.280 --> 0:53:26.480 Guy. 0:53:26.719 --> 0:53:28.120 Yeah, but he's not as good as challenging. 0:53:28.160 --> 0:53:29.200 He's not as good as Jalen Hurts. 0:53:29.200 --> 0:53:30.520 No, but he wasn't. Like he wasn't as good as 0:53:30.600 --> 0:53:32.279 Jailen Hurts in college, and he's not as good now. 0:53:32.320 --> 0:53:35.120 Like I'm no, he wasn't as good as Jalen Hurts. 0:53:35.160 --> 0:53:38.000 He wasn't as good as Oklahoma Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts 0:53:38.000 --> 0:53:39.120 at Alabama. 0:53:38.960 --> 0:53:40.680 Was limited as a passer. 0:53:40.719 --> 0:53:43.439 People forget what Lincoln Riley did for Jalen Hurts. 0:53:43.640 --> 0:53:46.359 Well, he doesn't hurt everybody, so that's true. I just 0:53:46.880 --> 0:53:48.920 it's interesting to me that this is the path that 0:53:48.960 --> 0:53:50.840 they took because I think a lot of the reporting 0:53:50.840 --> 0:53:52.520 out there, and I'm not like bashing on the reports 0:53:52.600 --> 0:53:54.279 or anything, but a lot of the reporting out there, 0:53:54.320 --> 0:53:57.520 and and my indication would be, let's go after a 0:53:57.560 --> 0:54:01.040 Colt McCoy. Let's go after like a backup that's like 0:54:01.080 --> 0:54:03.640 a steady presence that can come in and you know 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:06.120 somebody that's like a little bit better than Trace mcsorly, right, 0:54:06.200 --> 0:54:09.319 like basically that kind of guy that is not this guy. 0:54:09.520 --> 0:54:13.880 Macarel is an athlete. Ma Correl is a developmental prospect, 0:54:13.960 --> 0:54:17.960 and uh, it'll be interesting to see what becomes of him. 0:54:18.040 --> 0:54:21.120 You know, I don't think that you're thinking much of 0:54:21.120 --> 0:54:22.719 it right now. The other thing that I would say 0:54:23.640 --> 0:54:26.239 about this that I find a little bit interesting. Now 0:54:27.440 --> 0:54:29.840 it costs nothing to claim a guy on waivers and 0:54:29.840 --> 0:54:30.920 then he gotta pay him. 0:54:30.800 --> 0:54:32.840 Right, so they Now it's funny for all this stuff 0:54:32.840 --> 0:54:34.640 we were talking about the rookie contract, they now have 0:54:34.680 --> 0:54:36.880 a quarter They now have a contract on quarterback on 0:54:36.880 --> 0:54:38.719 a rookie contract from the same draft is. 0:54:40.200 --> 0:54:42.960 For the purposes of facilitation, because that's what I do here. 0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:49.960 Sometimes, Why not Trey Lance, Like why if youn't have 0:54:50.000 --> 0:54:50.879 to give up a draft pick? 0:54:51.600 --> 0:54:53.279 But if you were gonna do this, you didn't have 0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:55.439 to give up a draft pick. He but Trai Lance 0:54:55.520 --> 0:54:59.680 is just enough. Draftick trailiance is just better mac Correl. 0:55:00.000 --> 0:55:04.160 I also wonder if they thought Trey Lance was you wonder. 0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:07.600 I nothing in Matt Corrall, like, yeah, he hurt his 0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:09.600 foot last year. I don't think you look at him 0:55:09.600 --> 0:55:11.520 and you say, here's the guy whose growth has been hindered. 0:55:11.920 --> 0:55:13.440 I think in Trey Lance, you look at him as 0:55:13.440 --> 0:55:16.480 a guy and and you know, did the Niners ruin him? Basically? 0:55:16.920 --> 0:55:18.400 Is he passed? I also return. 0:55:18.680 --> 0:55:20.600 So the reason why I brought this up is because 0:55:20.600 --> 0:55:24.000 my real theory on it is that I think that 0:55:24.080 --> 0:55:28.000 they looked at Trey Lance and they said that guy 0:55:28.400 --> 0:55:31.040 could be looked at as a real competition for Mac Jones. 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:33.640 And I do think that there's something to be said. 0:55:33.680 --> 0:55:36.600 I'm not totally in on the conspiracy that Bailey z 0:55:36.600 --> 0:55:39.399 Appy was cut as a message to Mac Jones. Yeah, 0:55:39.440 --> 0:55:42.480 I don't necessarily think that, but I definitely think that 0:55:42.600 --> 0:55:46.040 they want to make sure that there is no question, 0:55:46.760 --> 0:55:49.840 there's no question who the starting quarterback of the team is, 0:55:49.880 --> 0:55:51.640 and if you bring in a guy like Trey Lance, 0:55:51.800 --> 0:55:53.960 it's gonna be He's gonna be there. 0:55:54.040 --> 0:55:57.560 I honestly my thought was, is this maybe Lane Kiffin 0:55:57.760 --> 0:56:00.760 and we know he's like indirectly in the Belichick with Saban. 0:56:00.880 --> 0:56:03.200 I wonder who knows what his relationship was with Bill 0:56:03.200 --> 0:56:05.759 O'Brien too. It might they might have a relationship as well. 0:56:05.840 --> 0:56:07.799 Well they I would think they wouldn't. The other thing 0:56:07.840 --> 0:56:10.719 about it is Corral. I don't know how much carry 0:56:10.760 --> 0:56:13.719 over there it'd be here. But remember Bill O'Brien didn't 0:56:13.800 --> 0:56:15.680 run his offense at Alabama. 0:56:15.760 --> 0:56:16.200 This was old. 0:56:16.239 --> 0:56:19.160 When he was brought in, Mac Jones taught him the 0:56:19.320 --> 0:56:23.359 lane or the Steve Starkesian but it so he ran 0:56:23.400 --> 0:56:25.640 a lot of his offense at Alabama, but then there 0:56:25.640 --> 0:56:29.080 was a lot of Alabama staples. But those Alabama staples 0:56:29.120 --> 0:56:33.080 came from mine Kiffn. I'm saying. So, I don't think, Matt. 0:56:33.320 --> 0:56:35.480 I don't think the Patriots playbook, even though it's kind 0:56:35.520 --> 0:56:38.160 of three or four degrees removed. Oh yeah, I don't 0:56:38.160 --> 0:56:40.839 think the Patriots playbook is going to be totally foreign. 0:56:40.640 --> 0:56:45.360 Too, like the the RPO stuff, the empty stuff, like 0:56:45.400 --> 0:56:46.000 all that stuff. 0:56:46.000 --> 0:56:48.120 I'm sure as president, but I don't even say. I 0:56:48.160 --> 0:56:50.000 bet even some of the terminology there's going to be 0:56:50.040 --> 0:56:52.239 carryover from what he was doing at or from what 0:56:53.000 --> 0:56:56.040 Corral was doing at Ole Miss with Alabama's former offensive coordinator. 0:56:56.080 --> 0:57:00.400 Yeah, absolutely so very interesting stuff. Matt Corrall on fifty 0:57:00.440 --> 0:57:03.120 three man roster claimed by the Patriots. So on the 0:57:03.120 --> 0:57:06.279 fifty three man roster now Bailey Zappi is still on 0:57:06.320 --> 0:57:08.840 the practice squad. Malie Cunningham is still on the practice squad. 0:57:09.600 --> 0:57:11.520 Last thing on Macrrel because we kind of broke down 0:57:11.520 --> 0:57:14.040 Macarrel enough. I want to get to some of the 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:17.920 other things about the initial roster. I want to go 0:57:18.000 --> 0:57:22.400 back to the what I just mentioned briefly. Week one, 0:57:22.480 --> 0:57:25.960 Philadelphia comes to town. Who's the backup quarterback? Because in 0:57:26.040 --> 0:57:27.520 mcare on the. 0:57:27.480 --> 0:57:30.640 Roster, I think, because you're not going to activate or 0:57:30.680 --> 0:57:34.800 you're not gonna elevate Bailey's Appy, why not and then 0:57:34.880 --> 0:57:37.720 use the third quarterback or your quarterback. 0:57:37.360 --> 0:57:40.120 Cratch mac Correl. He just would be Then why is 0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:43.520 why is mat Corral here developed to develop them? Clearly? 0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:46.960 I guess maybe I think it's Zappy. I think they 0:57:47.000 --> 0:57:48.360 have too many other guys that need to elevate. They're 0:57:48.360 --> 0:57:50.240 gonna need to elevate a running back. They're probably gonna 0:57:50.240 --> 0:57:51.480 need to elevate a tight end. 0:57:52.640 --> 0:57:54.440 Maybe they don't elevate the tight end. 0:57:55.040 --> 0:57:59.400 Mm I'd like maybe I just I think it's too. 0:57:59.600 --> 0:58:01.400 I think you can rule out we we thought it 0:58:01.440 --> 0:58:02.960 was kind of a lock that Bailey's Appy was going 0:58:03.000 --> 0:58:04.720 to end up back on the fifty three at some point. Yeah, 0:58:04.720 --> 0:58:05.600 I think that's out the window. 0:58:05.720 --> 0:58:10.560 Yeah, I'm I'm honestly, this whole thing is really surprising 0:58:10.600 --> 0:58:12.280 to me. How I know, you don't want me to 0:58:12.320 --> 0:58:14.240 call it a downfall, but I'm calling it a downfall. 0:58:14.320 --> 0:58:14.880 I just think it's on. 0:58:15.960 --> 0:58:19.439 I'm so surprised that we've come this far though with it. 0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:22.440 I really am like to I take, like I said, 0:58:23.080 --> 0:58:25.760 you do, but to go aux, to go from what 0:58:25.800 --> 0:58:27.920 we saw on that Monday and I did against Chicago. 0:58:28.040 --> 0:58:31.920 But chanting, is it really take the media thing out 0:58:31.960 --> 0:58:34.680 of it if you're looking at it in the room, Like, 0:58:35.040 --> 0:58:37.840 here's a guy that played really well in two games 0:58:37.880 --> 0:58:40.600 against two of the worst defenses in the league and 0:58:40.640 --> 0:58:42.720 then struggled against the worst defense in the league and 0:58:42.920 --> 0:58:46.040 then had a bad summer. Take the whole Zappi fever 0:58:46.120 --> 0:58:49.280 thing out of it. Yeah, there, it was not that 0:58:49.640 --> 0:58:51.320 hot of a take to say you were worried about 0:58:51.320 --> 0:58:53.520 their backup quarterback situation. I don't know how much Matt 0:58:53.520 --> 0:58:56.800 Correll fixes. It doesn't to me Matt Correll is a 0:58:56.920 --> 0:58:59.080 ball of clubs. I think I think Bailey's Appy right 0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:01.600 now is a better quarterback. Me too, That's what I'm saying. 0:59:01.640 --> 0:59:03.600 So I had him, I had him ahead of Mat 0:59:03.640 --> 0:59:06.760 Corral in that draft. Zappi be the backup in a week. 0:59:07.040 --> 0:59:09.280 That's my point, on top of the fact that you 0:59:09.280 --> 0:59:11.960 have to get more integrated. All right, you might be right, 0:59:12.240 --> 0:59:14.360 you might be right, like I just think Bailey Zappi 0:59:14.440 --> 0:59:17.080 is the floor. Right Like Bailey Zappi is a floor backup. 0:59:17.400 --> 0:59:19.640 Matt Corral is a guy that has a little bit 0:59:19.640 --> 0:59:23.160 of a ceiling, totally different blairer than Bailey Zappi. Jonathan 0:59:23.720 --> 0:59:26.000 emailed in and I wanted to weigh in on the 0:59:26.080 --> 0:59:28.680 Zappi thing, and uh, you know he he plays out 0:59:28.880 --> 0:59:33.120 a compelling argument here about how much Zappi has regressed 0:59:33.160 --> 0:59:36.160 and how you know, we really should be you know, 0:59:36.240 --> 0:59:38.880 talking about that more. I think, without any tools to 0:59:38.880 --> 0:59:41.240 give guy a guy upside, you want a certain floor 0:59:41.280 --> 0:59:43.720 to be happy with that spot, meaning the backup quarterback. 0:59:44.560 --> 0:59:46.640 Last year he gave that, gave you that. This year, 0:59:46.960 --> 0:59:48.880 while a line player was a problem, he also took 0:59:49.560 --> 0:59:51.880 looks like he broke his mechanics, and he misses his 0:59:51.920 --> 0:59:54.320 easy throws without pressure weights too often. If you have 0:59:54.800 --> 0:59:56.960 both a low floor and a low ceiling, you have 0:59:57.000 --> 0:59:59.920 an issue. We've obviously seen. You can do worse watching 1:00:00.040 --> 1:00:05.480 Trace sorely shots fired. But Zappi's regression should hugely change 1:00:05.520 --> 1:00:07.520 their view on him. So this is what I wanted 1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:11.720 to address. Should do you? Is your view on Bailly 1:00:11.840 --> 1:00:14.959 Zappi hugely different than it was a year ago. 1:00:16.680 --> 1:00:20.080 M No, that's all the I said it. For a second. 1:00:20.200 --> 1:00:23.120 He's a good backup quarterback. Yeah, he's not a starter. 1:00:23.720 --> 1:00:26.240 He does belong in the league. He is a good 1:00:26.240 --> 1:00:29.800 backup quarterback. Matt corral may or may not be an 1:00:29.880 --> 1:00:31.960 NFL court He may be a starting NFL quarterback. He 1:00:32.000 --> 1:00:35.040 may be an XFL starting quarterback. Like, I don't know yet. 1:00:35.200 --> 1:00:36.320 I'll watch him in the XFL. 1:00:37.160 --> 1:00:39.480 Yeah, but I'm saying, like, I have zero idea what 1:00:39.520 --> 1:00:41.640 Matt Corrall is an NFL pass. I didn't think he 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:43.960 was great in joint practice last year. Yeah it was 1:00:44.040 --> 1:00:47.320 two days. I'm not gonna give my whole opinion based 1:00:47.320 --> 1:00:49.640 off that. Yeah, I didn't love him coming out of college. 1:00:49.680 --> 1:00:51.800 I thought, all right, this is a guy that's really athletic. 1:00:51.800 --> 1:00:54.560 I don't know what else he does. We'll see how 1:00:54.600 --> 1:00:56.480 they coach him up. He's a lottery ticket. 1:00:56.840 --> 1:00:59.280 Yeah, that's how I feel. My opinion on Billy Zappie 1:00:59.280 --> 1:01:01.960 has not changed. It all because of a couple things. One, 1:01:02.440 --> 1:01:04.280 I think we're both in agreement that we kind of 1:01:04.320 --> 1:01:06.720 thought this is who Bailey Zappi was all along, and 1:01:07.480 --> 1:01:09.560 he was propped up in the situation that he was 1:01:09.600 --> 1:01:13.439 in last year. Get as much as we destroy Matt 1:01:13.480 --> 1:01:16.760 Patricia on this show, and we enjoy doing it based 1:01:16.760 --> 1:01:18.880 off of what he put us through last year. You 1:01:18.960 --> 1:01:20.440 got to give him a little bit of credit, Like 1:01:20.440 --> 1:01:24.080 he made Bailey Zappi look look pretty good for two games, right, Like, 1:01:24.240 --> 1:01:25.680 give him a little bit of credit for that. I 1:01:25.720 --> 1:01:28.120 guess there's one thing that we can give him credit for. 1:01:28.840 --> 1:01:32.360 But my feeling on Zappy hasn't changed. I think that 1:01:32.440 --> 1:01:34.760 this is who he always has been. But I also 1:01:34.840 --> 1:01:37.280 think at the same time that if you put him 1:01:37.680 --> 1:01:41.360 with the starters right, starting offensive line, starting receivers, and 1:01:41.400 --> 1:01:44.000 then you watered down Bill O'Brien's offense to make it 1:01:44.040 --> 1:01:47.160 similar to what he ran last year, if you had 1:01:47.200 --> 1:01:49.160 to start him in a game like the scenario we 1:01:49.240 --> 1:01:51.600 laid out earlier where the exact same thing happens as 1:01:51.680 --> 1:01:54.280 last year. I think that they could put a game 1:01:54.320 --> 1:01:58.600 plan in for Bailey Zappi to be okay, just like 1:01:58.680 --> 1:02:01.439 he was last year. So that's why my opinion hasn't 1:02:01.520 --> 1:02:04.080 changed on him. I think he showed us this summer 1:02:04.560 --> 1:02:07.240 what we already knew to an extent, but he proved 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:09.440 to us this summer that he is not a starting 1:02:09.520 --> 1:02:12.320 quarterback that's capable of opening up the birth of your playbook, 1:02:12.400 --> 1:02:14.040 right Like, he's not going to come in here and 1:02:14.120 --> 1:02:16.440 run all these different things and change all these different 1:02:16.440 --> 1:02:18.080 things at the line of scrimmage and make all these 1:02:18.200 --> 1:02:20.320 checks and these audibles and all. That's not going to 1:02:20.400 --> 1:02:23.280 be Bailey Zappi's game. But if you absolutely if you 1:02:23.360 --> 1:02:26.120 had to start Bailey Zappy in a game, and you 1:02:26.200 --> 1:02:28.080 go back to some of the stuff they did with 1:02:28.160 --> 1:02:30.400 him as a rookie and you water it down and 1:02:30.440 --> 1:02:32.480 you narrow it down to the things that he's good at, 1:02:33.280 --> 1:02:35.920 I think that he would still be serviceable as a backup. 1:02:36.200 --> 1:02:38.200 So I guess my opinion hasn't changed that much. I 1:02:38.200 --> 1:02:41.160 do agree with the email that his mechanics and like 1:02:41.200 --> 1:02:44.040 all the s side arm stuff. I think messed with 1:02:44.120 --> 1:02:48.000 it a lot. He missed a lot more short throws 1:02:48.040 --> 1:02:50.960 in the quick game than I remember him missing as 1:02:50.960 --> 1:02:53.800 a rookie. You know, slance, you know that type of 1:02:53.800 --> 1:02:56.600 stuff a lot more this summer than I remember him 1:02:56.640 --> 1:02:59.320 last year. But again, I don't think my opinion on 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:02.480 him as Drassic change because I still think you could 1:03:02.520 --> 1:03:06.840 make him a competent spot starting backup if you absolutely 1:03:06.840 --> 1:03:09.560 had to. And I still feel that way. Yeah, And 1:03:09.640 --> 1:03:12.320 I think mac Corral is a totally different animal. I 1:03:12.320 --> 1:03:15.320 think that's that's a ball of clay that you're hoping 1:03:15.720 --> 1:03:17.720 it can develop long term into something. 1:03:17.800 --> 1:03:18.320 Yeah. 1:03:18.400 --> 1:03:21.880 All right, let's take this call from Eddie in California. Eddie, 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:22.320 what's up? 1:03:23.920 --> 1:03:24.440 What's going on? 1:03:24.440 --> 1:03:24.640 Guys? 1:03:24.680 --> 1:03:28.200 Hope you guys are doing good today. I kind of 1:03:28.320 --> 1:03:31.720 like the route that the Patriots are taking in these 1:03:31.880 --> 1:03:36.760 three development quarterbacks. Cunningham's at the end now Corral, and 1:03:36.840 --> 1:03:40.400 I think I do prefer that over veterans like Colt McCoy, 1:03:40.400 --> 1:03:41.960 because I feel like if we get a veteran like 1:03:41.960 --> 1:03:45.840 Colt McCoy, it won't it won't light up the offense. 1:03:46.360 --> 1:03:48.880 And I get that these developments won't light him up 1:03:48.920 --> 1:03:51.240 as well, but I think it'll just be more fun 1:03:51.240 --> 1:03:54.720 to watch. And I feel like we know that we 1:03:54.800 --> 1:03:57.240 probably don't have a playoff push, and so taking a 1:03:57.360 --> 1:04:00.760 veteran quarterback probably is just like I just feel it 1:04:00.800 --> 1:04:04.240 won't make the games enjoyable. What do you guys think 1:04:04.240 --> 1:04:04.680 about that? 1:04:04.760 --> 1:04:06.800 Okay, Edi, Yeah, I understand your point. You know, there's 1:04:06.840 --> 1:04:08.360 a little bit of h and thanks for the call. 1:04:08.360 --> 1:04:09.920 There's a little bit of the unknown, right, there's a 1:04:09.920 --> 1:04:12.840 little bit of the upside, and like maybe with corral 1:04:12.920 --> 1:04:16.080 to a little bit of mobility, Like just like Blie 1:04:16.160 --> 1:04:18.720 Cuttingham goes out there for one drive in a preseason 1:04:18.760 --> 1:04:21.000 game against Houston in the fourth quarter against a bunch 1:04:21.040 --> 1:04:24.160 of guys that just got cut, and everybody goes crazy 1:04:24.200 --> 1:04:26.120 because he can run around, right Like, So I guess 1:04:26.160 --> 1:04:28.920 there's there's sort of that element that makes it more exciting. 1:04:29.760 --> 1:04:31.640 We've got a couple of calls, and I was really 1:04:31.640 --> 1:04:34.520 putting on doing this this last week or next week. 1:04:34.600 --> 1:04:39.560 Excuse me, but just quickly, am I a homer and 1:04:39.600 --> 1:04:42.880 am I a good team employee? Alex? If I say 1:04:42.880 --> 1:04:44.720 that I disagree with these people that are calling in 1:04:44.760 --> 1:04:46.520 that say the Patriots have no playoff chances. 1:04:46.560 --> 1:04:48.920 They have playoff chance. I mean they should contend for 1:04:48.960 --> 1:04:52.880 that that fun a wildcard spot. Yeah, I don't think 1:04:52.880 --> 1:04:54.600 it's a guarantee. I don't think it's a lock, but 1:04:54.640 --> 1:04:56.680 like they're not going to be out of it before December. 1:04:56.920 --> 1:04:59.680 I don't right, I agree with you. I don't agree 1:04:59.720 --> 1:05:02.560 with the car say we don't really have a chance 1:05:02.560 --> 1:05:06.920 to make the playoffs this year. I don't agree. Last year, 1:05:07.760 --> 1:05:10.200 this team was eight and nine, and granted we've talked 1:05:10.240 --> 1:05:13.240 about this, it was kind of a fake playoff race 1:05:13.240 --> 1:05:15.600 for them down the stretch last year. They weren't really 1:05:15.600 --> 1:05:17.400 in it. They needed a lot of help and they 1:05:17.400 --> 1:05:21.760 needed to beat Buffalo and have other teams completely fall apart. 1:05:21.800 --> 1:05:24.680 So I get they weren't really in it, but they 1:05:24.800 --> 1:05:28.960 were technically one win shy of the playoffs. Like if 1:05:29.000 --> 1:05:30.640 they had gone nine to eight instead of eight and nine, 1:05:30.640 --> 1:05:32.720 they would have had tiebreakers to keep them out of 1:05:32.720 --> 1:05:37.600 the playoffs. So I think that they have playoff hopes. 1:05:37.640 --> 1:05:41.000 Do they have hopes to win a playoff game? Probably not? 1:05:41.240 --> 1:05:44.000 But do I think that they could make the playoffs? Yeah? 1:05:44.080 --> 1:05:46.200 Why not? Like I think you take an eight and 1:05:46.280 --> 1:05:48.680 nine team last year you give them a real offensive coordinator, 1:05:48.760 --> 1:05:51.720 you upgrade in a couple different spots. I think I 1:05:51.760 --> 1:05:53.280 don't think it's that crazy. Let's get to some of 1:05:53.280 --> 1:05:55.680 the other things about the roster before we wrap it 1:05:55.760 --> 1:05:57.920 up here. I don't think either one of us was 1:05:57.960 --> 1:06:01.760 surprised about two tight ends. I think that I talked 1:06:01.800 --> 1:06:04.200 myself into three at a couple points, but I don't 1:06:04.200 --> 1:06:06.200 think it was totally shocking to see them only roll 1:06:06.240 --> 1:06:10.080 with two. I am interested to see how they block it, right, Like, 1:06:10.280 --> 1:06:12.240 is Hunter Henry gonna be a better blocker this year 1:06:12.240 --> 1:06:15.000 than he was last year? Maybe, like with the coaching 1:06:15.040 --> 1:06:17.600 and the scheme and the angles and all that stuff improved, 1:06:17.600 --> 1:06:20.160 Like maybe he can be KAUZICKI I still view as 1:06:20.160 --> 1:06:22.520 a receiver. I don't think he's gonna block very much 1:06:22.520 --> 1:06:25.280 for you. Do they use like a guy like Tyrone 1:06:25.240 --> 1:06:28.120 Wheatley played tight end in college? Like, do they use 1:06:28.160 --> 1:06:29.560 him as like a sixth offensive I. 1:06:29.520 --> 1:06:31.120 Think you're gonna see a lot of six offensive one, 1:06:31.200 --> 1:06:33.520 especially early on. We talked about the past rushes. I 1:06:33.560 --> 1:06:34.320 think you see some of that. 1:06:34.400 --> 1:06:37.600 I think that's possible as well, So not a huge 1:06:37.600 --> 1:06:41.040 shock there. Their running back situation, we've talked about it 1:06:41.080 --> 1:06:45.640 a little bit. This one did surprise me because, yes, 1:06:45.680 --> 1:06:48.680 I know again similar to the Zappi thing. Yes, they 1:06:48.720 --> 1:06:51.360 have their running backs on the practice squad. Time Montgomery 1:06:51.400 --> 1:06:56.160 and Kevin Harris are on the practice squad. Remember when Belichick, 1:06:57.320 --> 1:07:00.640 there's two years that I feel like Belichick in Belichick 1:07:00.760 --> 1:07:03.040 so bad when it came to running back depth that 1:07:03.160 --> 1:07:05.640 I never thought we would go back there again. It 1:07:05.720 --> 1:07:08.120 was the Stephen Jackson year. What was that twenty fifteen 1:07:08.680 --> 1:07:10.520 I think it was fifteen, Yeah, where they had to 1:07:10.520 --> 1:07:13.880 place Stephen Jackson's corpse in like the last two games 1:07:13.920 --> 1:07:15.720 of the season because they didn't have any other running backs. 1:07:16.280 --> 1:07:18.440 And the other one ended up being something that they 1:07:18.440 --> 1:07:20.400 were kind of ahead of the curve on with Cordell 1:07:20.440 --> 1:07:23.400 Patterson and they actually they discovered he was a running 1:07:23.440 --> 1:07:25.240 back before anybody else did. And now he's a great 1:07:25.320 --> 1:07:27.800 running back in Atlanta, which is kind of ironic. But 1:07:27.880 --> 1:07:29.720 in eighteen, right, it was eighteen that they had to 1:07:29.800 --> 1:07:32.920 use Patterson at running back, and after that I just 1:07:32.960 --> 1:07:35.720 thought there was no way that they would they would 1:07:35.840 --> 1:07:38.760 leave themselves high and try it running back none And 1:07:39.600 --> 1:07:41.440 they're not totally high and dry because they have the 1:07:41.440 --> 1:07:43.920 guys on the practice squad. But I go back to 1:07:43.960 --> 1:07:46.000 the pier strong trade and I wonder, you know, is 1:07:46.040 --> 1:07:48.640 Time Montgomery really the change of pace back, if you 1:07:48.680 --> 1:07:51.440 want to call it that that this team needs, Like 1:07:51.560 --> 1:07:53.520 is he really capable of doing that? Is he going 1:07:53.600 --> 1:07:55.720 to be healthy? Is he going to be ready to 1:07:55.760 --> 1:08:00.280 go that? Those are the big question marks. But how 1:08:00.280 --> 1:08:02.520 surprised were you about two running backs? And like, where 1:08:02.520 --> 1:08:03.400 do you think they go from here? 1:08:03.400 --> 1:08:06.160 At this I thought j Taylor into roster spot. I 1:08:06.240 --> 1:08:09.080 understand them being hesitant giving Time Montgomery one because of 1:08:09.120 --> 1:08:10.880 his injury history, and I think the practice squad is 1:08:10.920 --> 1:08:13.960 perfect spot for him. But they yeah, it's it's well 1:08:14.040 --> 1:08:15.760 under what they usually do. I was, I was pretty 1:08:15.760 --> 1:08:16.360 surprised by that. 1:08:16.600 --> 1:08:18.880 Yeah, Uh me as well. All right, let's go over 1:08:18.920 --> 1:08:20.679 to the defensive side of the ball and then I'll 1:08:20.840 --> 1:08:23.799 we'll wrap with with your kickers, your your rookie kickers 1:08:23.840 --> 1:08:25.920 winning the jobs. I know that that makes you happy. 1:08:26.479 --> 1:08:30.479 Uh well, I guess really quickly. I'm sorry. I know 1:08:30.520 --> 1:08:33.599 I said we were gonna go defense. Was there any 1:08:33.680 --> 1:08:35.879 question in your mind at the end that Pop Douglas 1:08:35.920 --> 1:08:37.880 and Kasehan Boody were both going to make the team now. 1:08:37.920 --> 1:08:40.800 After that, after the way I was a little on 1:08:40.920 --> 1:08:43.439 defense about kash On Booty going into the final preseason game, 1:08:43.520 --> 1:08:46.080 but once they they didn't give him a chance to 1:08:46.120 --> 1:08:49.040 earn a spot, which told me, yeah, he's got one right. 1:08:49.040 --> 1:08:52.000 Right, So you could have read that one of two ways. Obviously, 1:08:52.040 --> 1:08:53.200 you could have read it that they didn't want to 1:08:53.200 --> 1:08:55.120 put any more film out there and have them not 1:08:55.400 --> 1:08:58.120 sneak into the pie. I was with you, I. 1:08:58.120 --> 1:09:00.640 Don't believe in that the whole there trying to bury Hi. 1:09:00.640 --> 1:09:03.519 They're trying to hide him. You give players every chance. 1:09:03.560 --> 1:09:04.360 They can't turn a round. 1:09:04.400 --> 1:09:07.040 The only thing that I thought that maybe they hid 1:09:07.280 --> 1:09:09.800 was Malik at quarterback. They hit that a little bit. 1:09:09.880 --> 1:09:12.720 You can hide things schematically, Yeah, but I don't think 1:09:12.720 --> 1:09:14.200 you're like, all right, we're gonna bench him and sneak 1:09:14.280 --> 1:09:16.080 him on another practice Like that doesn't right. 1:09:16.280 --> 1:09:18.880 I thought sense the second that Kaishan Boody took that 1:09:18.960 --> 1:09:22.160 slant forty two yards of the house at Lambeau, that's all. 1:09:22.439 --> 1:09:24.800 That's when I knew I wanted him on this That's 1:09:24.800 --> 1:09:26.240 when I knew I wanted him on the team. On 1:09:26.280 --> 1:09:27.800 the team, I didn't know if that was going to 1:09:27.840 --> 1:09:29.440 be enough for them, but apparently. 1:09:29.200 --> 1:09:30.439 Yes, and they're like that. 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:31.840 And then he had the good week when they came 1:09:31.880 --> 1:09:32.920 back when they were getting ready. 1:09:32.800 --> 1:09:34.280 For tennis sae. Yeah, and he was good in the 1:09:34.360 --> 1:09:35.559 practices in Green Bay too. 1:09:35.640 --> 1:09:36.160 Yeah. 1:09:36.200 --> 1:09:38.400 So what I love about that that cat sit. 1:09:38.479 --> 1:09:40.439 He's a gamer, dude, I'm telling I wonder if he 1:09:40.520 --> 1:09:42.160 kind of got the feeling that he was maybe on 1:09:42.200 --> 1:09:44.519 the fence and was just like, all right, let's show 1:09:44.560 --> 1:09:45.560 him what I can do. Let's open it. 1:09:45.680 --> 1:09:48.479 Yeah. I love when people are like, all, like the 1:09:48.520 --> 1:09:51.000 safety took a terrible angle in Green Bay. Yeah, like 1:09:51.000 --> 1:09:53.519 it wasn't a good angle, but he also ran through 1:09:53.520 --> 1:09:55.559 the angle like you know, like he took the ball 1:09:56.240 --> 1:09:57.639 and he exploded after the. 1:09:57.880 --> 1:10:01.080 Safety took a bad angle because the margin for error 1:10:01.200 --> 1:10:04.680 was so minuscule because of the way. Yeah, that's what 1:10:04.720 --> 1:10:07.960 he does. I remember the comp for him before the draft, 1:10:07.960 --> 1:10:10.519 like if he maxes Max's maxes out, Oh no, it 1:10:10.200 --> 1:10:11.960 was not mine, Debo. 1:10:12.479 --> 1:10:14.080 Oh man, that's a big comp. 1:10:14.360 --> 1:10:15.759 But like that kind of player. 1:10:16.640 --> 1:10:19.640 I don't know if he's I don't know if his 1:10:19.720 --> 1:10:22.760 breakaway speed is like quite as good as Debos, But 1:10:23.600 --> 1:10:27.840 what he's good at is he's it's weird with him 1:10:27.880 --> 1:10:31.320 because his his straight line speed doesn't show in his 1:10:31.400 --> 1:10:34.000 route running, like he doesn't run by people on like 1:10:34.040 --> 1:10:37.320 a go route or something like that, but he hits 1:10:37.360 --> 1:10:38.840 a different gear with the ball in his hand. 1:10:38.880 --> 1:10:43.240 It's more a you Also, for his size, you don't 1:10:43.280 --> 1:10:45.600 expect a guy to move that fast. And so you know, 1:10:45.680 --> 1:10:48.280 bigger receiver, you think you got to square up, tackle him, 1:10:48.280 --> 1:10:50.960 go low. The smaller, quicker receivers, you give yourself more room. 1:10:51.240 --> 1:10:54.439 You kind of can't with him, yeah, because if you 1:10:54.600 --> 1:10:57.400 square him up, he'll run over you. And if you 1:10:57.479 --> 1:10:59.320 hesitate to get to the point to give him more 1:10:59.360 --> 1:11:03.000 room to cut, he exactly what he saw against Green Bay. 1:11:03.080 --> 1:11:05.280 So it's just he's weird because like when you watch 1:11:05.320 --> 1:11:08.000 him on film, you're like he just has no juice, 1:11:08.040 --> 1:11:10.759 Like he's not running by anybody, and he's not really 1:11:10.800 --> 1:11:13.280 threatening on a vertical stem or Like there's just no 1:11:13.400 --> 1:11:14.479 juice to his route running. 1:11:14.479 --> 1:11:17.400 It's not dynamic like Pop Douglas runs dynamic routes like 1:11:17.439 --> 1:11:20.120 that guy right it was explodes off the line, gets 1:11:20.160 --> 1:11:22.759 into the break like all that with with Kaishawn Booty, 1:11:22.840 --> 1:11:25.519 it's like he just he's like a different guy with 1:11:25.560 --> 1:11:26.599 the football in his hands. 1:11:27.479 --> 1:11:31.000 It's very weird. It's a little Kendrick Bournish like. I 1:11:31.040 --> 1:11:32.920 think that there's a little bit of an overlap there 1:11:33.200 --> 1:11:35.120 in terms of skill set, but it's it's a it's 1:11:35.200 --> 1:11:39.000 kind of a cool, uh study. Let's go over to defense. 1:11:40.400 --> 1:11:42.280 I was happy for Sam Roberts. I thought, I thought 1:11:42.320 --> 1:11:44.519 he played his butt off the entire preseason and made 1:11:44.520 --> 1:11:46.840 the team like he We talk, you know, you talk 1:11:46.880 --> 1:11:49.360 a lot about Alex like the at large roster spots. Yeah, 1:11:49.400 --> 1:11:51.760 he was competing for an at large roster spot and 1:11:51.800 --> 1:11:53.920 he took the dang thing like he he made the 1:11:53.920 --> 1:11:56.639 team like it wasn't like, oh, we need like six 1:11:56.760 --> 1:11:59.240 defensive linemen and to meet the threshold, we're gonna keep 1:11:59.240 --> 1:12:01.120 Sam Roberts. He forced his way on. 1:12:01.240 --> 1:12:03.120 He was too good. He was too good. Love seeing 1:12:03.120 --> 1:12:05.519 guys like that, and you know he's gonna be here too. 1:12:05.600 --> 1:12:07.280 He might play too, He might play a little bit. 1:12:07.320 --> 1:12:09.760 I'm not exactly sure where, but the fact he can 1:12:09.800 --> 1:12:11.680 play pretty much any spot on the defensive line. Like 1:12:11.760 --> 1:12:14.000 last year, I did he he dressed only one or 1:12:14.000 --> 1:12:14.360 two games. 1:12:14.400 --> 1:12:16.720 He played like very spare, Yeah, but he did. He 1:12:16.720 --> 1:12:17.040 did play. 1:12:17.320 --> 1:12:18.400 He might play a little more this year. 1:12:18.520 --> 1:12:23.920 Yeah, edge rushers your favorite. No, Ronnie Perkins back on 1:12:23.960 --> 1:12:25.040 the practice squad. 1:12:24.760 --> 1:12:25.479 Didn't surprise me. 1:12:25.920 --> 1:12:28.880 Yeah, so that's that's the one that you just like, 1:12:28.960 --> 1:12:32.200 can't really take the take the bait of the final 1:12:32.240 --> 1:12:34.719 preseason game beating up on like six string tackles. 1:12:34.760 --> 1:12:37.000 Well, it was more so my when I was doing 1:12:37.000 --> 1:12:40.840 my last roster projection, my last spot was Sam Roberts 1:12:40.960 --> 1:12:43.439 Ronnie Perkins. That's what it came down to. And like 1:12:43.600 --> 1:12:45.800 Sam Roberts was good in Green Bay, he was good 1:12:45.840 --> 1:12:48.040 in the Green Bay game. Ronnie Perkins was hurt for 1:12:48.080 --> 1:12:49.559 most of that and then just came back and had 1:12:49.560 --> 1:12:51.679 a last good preseason game. So it was one game 1:12:51.760 --> 1:12:54.920 versus two weeks. And maybe if he wasn't hurt that 1:12:55.080 --> 1:12:57.000 down that stretch, he makes a stronger case. But yeah, 1:12:57.080 --> 1:12:58.880 just off one game, it's it's tough to give it 1:12:58.880 --> 1:12:59.160 to him. 1:12:59.439 --> 1:13:01.840 Where As Mac Wilson made the team. 1:13:02.600 --> 1:13:06.479 Yes, and no, I no, no, I wasn't. 1:13:06.680 --> 1:13:07.360 I was surprised. 1:13:08.080 --> 1:13:11.040 I was like, what's his role like a special special 1:13:11.080 --> 1:13:13.200 teams Okay, Marte Mophu's backup? 1:13:14.600 --> 1:13:17.960 Do you really need like Marta Mapu as a rookie 1:13:18.439 --> 1:13:21.479 might already be a situational backup, Like, do you really 1:13:21.479 --> 1:13:22.599 need a backup to the backup? 1:13:22.760 --> 1:13:25.040 I think they're playing have bigger plans for map that. 1:13:25.320 --> 1:13:27.120 I hope so, but I'm not convinced of it. 1:13:27.920 --> 1:13:30.479 Leadership, he's been here that kind of thing. I think 1:13:30.520 --> 1:13:32.599 he just made it on intangibles. 1:13:32.200 --> 1:13:32.599 All right. 1:13:32.640 --> 1:13:35.320 I just I I wouldn't have It's one of those 1:13:35.320 --> 1:13:37.680 ones like I wouldn't necessarily have put him on. But 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:40.720 I understand based on the way they operate, why he 1:13:40.800 --> 1:13:41.320 made the team. 1:13:41.600 --> 1:13:44.040 I feel like, and maybe this is just my bias 1:13:44.120 --> 1:13:48.599 coming in. First of all, his run defense film last year, 1:13:48.600 --> 1:13:52.040 in his run defense film in the preseason, is not playing. 1:13:52.080 --> 1:13:53.240 He's only gonna play on third downs. 1:13:53.280 --> 1:13:54.200 He can't play in the run game. 1:13:54.240 --> 1:13:55.320 He's only gonna play on the third down. 1:13:55.400 --> 1:13:58.800 The second thing I would say is that I get 1:13:59.560 --> 1:14:01.680 I do. I get a little bit frustrated when they 1:14:01.760 --> 1:14:04.920 keep guys like this, where you have these younger players 1:14:04.960 --> 1:14:09.800 like a Mapou that are better than Mac Wilson. And 1:14:09.840 --> 1:14:14.160 sometimes I fear that he'll play the veteran guy, right 1:14:14.200 --> 1:14:15.960 like I fear that Bill will play the veterans. 1:14:15.960 --> 1:14:18.160 Oh that's all valid, but I'm just saying like, that's 1:14:18.200 --> 1:14:20.960 the kind of guy they keep for exactly what you 1:14:21.000 --> 1:14:23.200 just said. I I just that's why they want him 1:14:23.200 --> 1:14:23.759 as a fallback. 1:14:24.000 --> 1:14:26.479 Nothing to do with mac Wilson. If he's listening to 1:14:26.520 --> 1:14:29.720 ob he doesn't take this personally. I almost like it 1:14:29.760 --> 1:14:31.519 when they cut those types of guys so that Bill 1:14:31.560 --> 1:14:34.080 doesn't have the option to play the veteran over the 1:14:34.479 --> 1:14:37.160 young guy. That's just where I stand with with Mack 1:14:37.200 --> 1:14:43.400 Wilson corners, no big surprises at the top, right like 1:14:43.479 --> 1:14:46.360 Christian DAWs, John Jones, Marcus Jones, Jack Jones. 1:14:46.520 --> 1:14:48.360 Are we like out of the woods at this point 1:14:48.400 --> 1:14:50.960 that Jack Jones like he's gonna uh no, no he. 1:14:51.000 --> 1:14:53.679 Has is I think the next hearing is in between 1:14:53.720 --> 1:14:54.400 week one and two. 1:14:54.520 --> 1:14:56.280 No, but like at this point he's gonna be on 1:14:56.320 --> 1:14:59.679 the field week one. Yeah, okay, so unless the league 1:14:59.680 --> 1:15:02.240 steps But I'm saying like they usually step in by now. Yeah, 1:15:02.240 --> 1:15:04.639 probably that's what Okay, Yeah, but usually the league also 1:15:04.720 --> 1:15:07.760 lets like the legal stuff right carry through before they 1:15:07.760 --> 1:15:12.559 really get involved. One quick thing on Miles Bryant, take 1:15:12.640 --> 1:15:15.879 your your little your little tweets out of my replies 1:15:15.880 --> 1:15:19.000 on Miles Bryant is on the roster, all right, Like 1:15:19.200 --> 1:15:23.320 I understand that Patriots fans have frustrations with Miles Bryant. 1:15:23.360 --> 1:15:26.600 I get it. We all have the same frustrations. You 1:15:26.640 --> 1:15:29.240 know how many people, Alex, you get their applies to, 1:15:29.360 --> 1:15:33.200 like the initial why is Miles Bryan on this team? 1:15:33.479 --> 1:15:36.080 Like why why can't we move on from Miles Bryant. 1:15:36.320 --> 1:15:40.519 Miles Bryant is not a man cover corner. He's not 1:15:40.600 --> 1:15:43.280 a man to man guy. He's too slow and he's 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:48.080 not capable of keeping up with starting caliber NFL receivers 1:15:48.080 --> 1:15:50.840 in man to man. We know that. But they have 1:15:50.960 --> 1:15:52.880 really really big shoes to fill. And I'm writing about 1:15:52.880 --> 1:15:55.240 this for Monday, so you can check that out. They 1:15:55.280 --> 1:15:57.519 have really really big shoes to fill. With Devin mccordy, 1:15:58.160 --> 1:16:00.240 they're gonna be a little bit more too high. I 1:16:00.240 --> 1:16:03.040 think they're gonna still play some zone like they those 1:16:03.080 --> 1:16:06.120 are the roles that Miles Bryant's gonna be competing for. 1:16:06.800 --> 1:16:10.559 I think, I hope I would assume that he's gonna 1:16:10.560 --> 1:16:14.200 be out of Week one or week two against Miami, 1:16:14.320 --> 1:16:16.559 Like you know, Miles Bryant, you got Jalen Waddle, Like, 1:16:16.800 --> 1:16:19.200 I don't think we're doing that anymore. But at the 1:16:19.240 --> 1:16:22.920 same time, I he's somebody that is really heady and 1:16:23.080 --> 1:16:26.920 zone coverage. He's a sound tackler, he's got good instincts. 1:16:27.720 --> 1:16:31.320 He's a good zone player, zone player, and a smart, savvy, 1:16:31.760 --> 1:16:34.519 veteran type of guy. I have no problem with Miles 1:16:34.560 --> 1:16:36.639 Bryant being on the team, and I think we need 1:16:36.640 --> 1:16:39.000 to stop picking so much on Miles Bryant. That that's 1:16:39.040 --> 1:16:40.839 my soapbox moment with Miles Bryant. 1:16:41.280 --> 1:16:44.720 Miles Bryant. It like Miles Bryant is not as bad 1:16:44.720 --> 1:16:46.680 as he's looked because they haven't used him correctly. If 1:16:46.720 --> 1:16:49.200 they're not a corner, if he's not if they're gonna 1:16:49.280 --> 1:16:51.400 use Miles Bryant correctly, I actually think it makes a 1:16:51.439 --> 1:16:52.560 lot of sense to keep him for a lot of 1:16:52.560 --> 1:16:54.479 the reasons you just said. If they're gonna have him 1:16:54.520 --> 1:16:56.400 try to man up on an island the other team's 1:16:56.400 --> 1:16:59.280 fastest wide receiver, yeah, it's not gonna go well, right, 1:16:59.360 --> 1:17:04.479 Isaam right exactly, So I don't mind them keeping him. 1:17:04.479 --> 1:17:06.400 I think he's a very smart football player. I think 1:17:06.400 --> 1:17:08.760 he's a very physical football player, especially for his size, 1:17:08.760 --> 1:17:11.160 and there's value in having that. He'll play on special 1:17:11.200 --> 1:17:12.679 teams He's a good guy to have on the back 1:17:12.760 --> 1:17:14.559 end who can come forward and make him play. But 1:17:15.280 --> 1:17:18.040 you now have the whole thing's built out of slot 1:17:18.080 --> 1:17:22.920 corners pretty much. John Jones, Marcus Jones, Sean Wade. There's 1:17:22.960 --> 1:17:25.080 no reason Miles Briant should have to play slot corner 1:17:25.120 --> 1:17:26.880 reps this year. As long as they keep him out 1:17:26.920 --> 1:17:29.400 of that role. I'm fine with him making the team 1:17:29.439 --> 1:17:31.320 because I do think that he does bring an element 1:17:31.320 --> 1:17:33.839 of toughness and football IQ to the secondary. 1:17:33.920 --> 1:17:36.280 Let's lay off Myles Brian. That's all I'm saying. 1:17:36.320 --> 1:17:38.479 I just just just understand what you're watching. 1:17:38.920 --> 1:17:42.639 Also, you mentioned Sean Wade, Yeah, made the team, and 1:17:43.080 --> 1:17:45.599 I am I allowed to be like, I don't want 1:17:45.600 --> 1:17:47.200 to use the word excited, because I'm not. You know, 1:17:47.240 --> 1:17:49.040 he's probably gonna be like a fifth defensive back and 1:17:49.080 --> 1:17:52.479 he he he might even be in active honestly for 1:17:52.600 --> 1:17:55.240 game day. But I'm like a little bit intrigued. Is 1:17:55.280 --> 1:17:58.000 that the right word? Maybe by Sean Wade. And the 1:17:58.040 --> 1:18:01.080 main reason is We've talked about so many times with 1:18:01.160 --> 1:18:04.519 Sean Wade that his big season at Ohio State was 1:18:04.560 --> 1:18:08.360 playing slot cornerback. It was not playing on the boundary seasons. Yeah, 1:18:08.400 --> 1:18:11.440 his big The reason why he was on the NFL's 1:18:11.560 --> 1:18:13.920 map was because of how good he played in the 1:18:13.960 --> 1:18:17.280 nickel role in Ohio State, its slot corner role. The 1:18:17.320 --> 1:18:20.360 Patriots have moved him back there this year. They've played 1:18:20.400 --> 1:18:22.559 him there in a little bit at free safety, and 1:18:22.640 --> 1:18:24.400 I thought he had a really good summer. And I 1:18:24.400 --> 1:18:27.000 think between that, the fact that he's really a natural 1:18:27.080 --> 1:18:30.680 slot and not an outside corner, and the fact that 1:18:30.720 --> 1:18:33.599 he actually brings some size to the slot as well. 1:18:34.160 --> 1:18:36.600 Because as much as they're gonna play Miami twice a 1:18:36.680 --> 1:18:38.240 year and they're gonna have to go up against Waddle 1:18:38.280 --> 1:18:39.639 and Hill, and they're gonna have to go up against 1:18:39.680 --> 1:18:42.599 speed slots every week, they're also going to potentially see 1:18:42.600 --> 1:18:46.120 some slots that are bigger, you know, like a guy 1:18:46.200 --> 1:18:48.200 like a Garrett Wilson for example. And I know you 1:18:48.280 --> 1:18:50.920 probably don't want to put Sean Wade on Garrett Wilson, 1:18:50.920 --> 1:18:54.280 but I'm just using him as an example. They are 1:18:54.280 --> 1:18:58.280 going to play some bigger slots too, and they needed 1:18:58.280 --> 1:19:02.280 somebody with some size one two hundred pounds. He brings 1:19:02.280 --> 1:19:04.320 that element to it. I think he can play safety 1:19:04.360 --> 1:19:07.000 and he can play corner. I'm a little bit intrigued 1:19:07.040 --> 1:19:08.880 by Sean Wade. I thought he had a good summer, 1:19:08.920 --> 1:19:11.160 and I think that he's just at home playing out 1:19:11.160 --> 1:19:11.639 of the slot. 1:19:11.680 --> 1:19:15.040 So this is another one like Matt Corral. They love 1:19:15.360 --> 1:19:19.280 signing these guys that were like elite high school talents, 1:19:19.360 --> 1:19:21.880 yeah that didn't pan out, and seeing if they can 1:19:21.920 --> 1:19:24.760 tap into that. How impressive was Shawn Wade in high 1:19:24.760 --> 1:19:28.759 school eleven he won the Game USA D National Football 1:19:28.800 --> 1:19:30.400 Player of the Year for defense. He was named of 1:19:30.479 --> 1:19:33.360 all the defensive players in high school football nationally in 1:19:33.400 --> 1:19:35.720 twenty sixteen. The best other guys who have won that 1:19:36.000 --> 1:19:39.080 Caveon Thibodeaux first round pick Kooyd McKinstry gonna be a 1:19:39.080 --> 1:19:43.200 first round pick. Solomon tulia Pupu is an edge rusher 1:19:43.200 --> 1:19:45.080 for USC. I don't know if you're familiar with him. 1:19:45.120 --> 1:19:47.160 It's the Trojans, are you actually no? 1:19:47.439 --> 1:19:49.200 I think does he have a brother, Tully? 1:19:50.400 --> 1:19:51.760 I think that is him. I think he goes by 1:19:51.760 --> 1:19:54.360 TULLI yeah, oh yeah, he just got drafted. Oh no, no, no, 1:19:54.360 --> 1:19:55.960 so it is his brother, Yeah, sorry, no, because he's 1:19:55.960 --> 1:19:57.080 still there. It's gonna be his. 1:19:57.040 --> 1:19:59.160 Last His older brothers in the NFL, his older brothers. 1:19:59.000 --> 1:20:02.760 In the NFL. Jabrill Pepper's won this, Jadavian Clowney won this, 1:20:03.920 --> 1:20:06.760 Bryce Young, Trevor Lawrence on offense, Kyler Murray, Leonard Fron, 1:20:06.960 --> 1:20:09.439 Like you talk about the guys that Sean Wade's in 1:20:09.479 --> 1:20:12.760 company with. He went to Ohio State, was a really 1:20:12.760 --> 1:20:14.920 good slock owner, really good slock owner. For two years. 1:20:15.360 --> 1:20:17.200 People thought he was gonna be a first round pick. 1:20:17.600 --> 1:20:20.040 And then in that twenty twenty season, and remember we 1:20:20.120 --> 1:20:22.200 loved him going into that drifts, You're like, here's value. 1:20:22.320 --> 1:20:23.720 This is a guy's a first round pick fell to 1:20:23.720 --> 1:20:25.679 the fifth round. Why they played him on the boundary 1:20:25.680 --> 1:20:27.200 and he just couldn't do it. And I think it 1:20:27.240 --> 1:20:29.599 messed him up. Because he's talked about his confidence level. 1:20:30.520 --> 1:20:32.519 It seems like he's gotten back in that groove. He's 1:20:32.520 --> 1:20:34.799 playing back in the slot where he's comfortable, he's confident, 1:20:34.840 --> 1:20:37.759 he's making plays there. There is a ton of natural 1:20:37.760 --> 1:20:40.240 talent when it comes to Sean Wade to tap into. 1:20:40.479 --> 1:20:41.160 I intrigued. 1:20:41.360 --> 1:20:43.880 I really think the last couple of years was all mental. Yeah, 1:20:43.920 --> 1:20:46.160 And if they have him back on the right track, 1:20:46.800 --> 1:20:48.240 you're talking about a guy who can be a top 1:20:48.280 --> 1:20:49.880 three corner. You're talking about a guy who was the 1:20:50.080 --> 1:20:52.760 potential to be we'll see if he gets there, potential 1:20:52.840 --> 1:20:54.759 to be a starting slot corner. 1:20:54.880 --> 1:20:57.360 So I think we saw some of those flashes in camp. Yeah, 1:20:57.439 --> 1:20:59.080 I mean he had that pick on the goal line 1:20:59.120 --> 1:21:00.479 and it would have been a pick six in a 1:21:00.560 --> 1:21:04.320 game that showed some really, really heavy instincts. He sniffed 1:21:04.320 --> 1:21:07.120 the screen out, jumped the pass, and ran it back 1:21:07.160 --> 1:21:09.200 the other way. I talked to him briefly in the 1:21:09.640 --> 1:21:13.200 locker room on Wednesday after they cut downs and officially 1:21:13.240 --> 1:21:16.160 made the team, and when I asked him about playing 1:21:16.800 --> 1:21:18.640 back at home in the slot, I think, is how 1:21:18.680 --> 1:21:21.360 I freez like you could. The relief on his face 1:21:21.520 --> 1:21:23.400 was just like, yeah, like this is where I belong, 1:21:23.520 --> 1:21:23.840 this is. 1:21:23.760 --> 1:21:26.439 Who I am. And I again, I think the theme 1:21:26.479 --> 1:21:29.040 of this show. He's kind of been taking flyers on 1:21:29.120 --> 1:21:31.640 players in those Ball of Clay players. If there's a 1:21:31.680 --> 1:21:33.320 guy you're gonna bring in and you're not really sure 1:21:33.320 --> 1:21:34.640 where you're gonna use him, but you want to give 1:21:34.680 --> 1:21:37.360 him a roster spot because of potential, this is the 1:21:37.439 --> 1:21:39.600 kind of guy you do that with. This is absolutely 1:21:39.680 --> 1:21:41.200 the kind of guy you do that with. Okay, So 1:21:41.200 --> 1:21:44.360 speaking of so shout out and again that he came 1:21:44.400 --> 1:21:46.400 back and made the team after two rough years, like 1:21:46.479 --> 1:21:47.080 super happy. 1:21:47.280 --> 1:21:51.439 Yeah, speaking of balls of clay and making the team. 1:21:51.600 --> 1:21:56.679 And I I gotta admit I didn't see a mere 1:21:56.720 --> 1:21:59.479 speed making the team. And I guess I probably should 1:21:59.479 --> 1:22:02.639 have seen a little bit more once Isaiah Bolden's injury 1:22:02.720 --> 1:22:05.240 happened and that kind of opened the path for him. 1:22:05.640 --> 1:22:08.479 They Belichick what like a week ago, two weeks ago, 1:22:08.560 --> 1:22:09.920 called him a developmental player. 1:22:10.040 --> 1:22:12.599 I think So here's the thing. I don't think they 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:14.840 think he's a corner. I think they see him as 1:22:14.880 --> 1:22:17.800 a Matthews Slater type, as a pure special teamer. Well, 1:22:17.840 --> 1:22:19.759 then in that context, it makes a lot of sense. 1:22:20.000 --> 1:22:22.640 So if they well they they basically listed him I 1:22:22.680 --> 1:22:24.240 think on one of our graphics as a stage. 1:22:24.760 --> 1:22:27.600 So I was going to bring that up. I wasn't sure. Yeah, 1:22:27.160 --> 1:22:30.040 the graphic you guys did, which looked really cool. Shout 1:22:30.040 --> 1:22:32.160 out to the graphics team. YEA, yeah, No, I liked it. 1:22:32.200 --> 1:22:32.559 I liked it. 1:22:32.439 --> 1:22:35.080 It was a cool graphics. All the offensive players had 1:22:35.080 --> 1:22:37.320 read behind them, all the defensive players they blew behind him. 1:22:37.400 --> 1:22:39.519 It was like all the head shots and then the 1:22:39.560 --> 1:22:42.920 special teamers. So Nick Fole not nick Fole, Chad I 1:22:42.960 --> 1:22:45.880 got I'm just defaulting to that. Chad Ryland, Bryce Baringer, 1:22:45.960 --> 1:22:48.559 Joe Cardo, and Matthew Slater had white behind them, So 1:22:48.760 --> 1:22:51.320 did Chris Board would you kind of expect and a 1:22:51.360 --> 1:22:51.880 mere speed? 1:22:52.040 --> 1:22:52.400 Yeah? 1:22:52.439 --> 1:22:55.320 So I maybe that telegrams. I know the graphics people 1:22:55.360 --> 1:22:57.240 are making them football decisions. But did they get like 1:22:57.280 --> 1:22:59.080 a list and he was listed as a specialist. 1:22:59.160 --> 1:22:59.960 I think I think they did. 1:23:00.439 --> 1:23:02.479 So. Yeah, I don't think he's ready to play corner 1:23:02.520 --> 1:23:04.360 in the NFL. Maybe in a year or two he 1:23:04.439 --> 1:23:06.680 could get there. I thought Isaiah Bolden showed me much 1:23:06.680 --> 1:23:09.120 more in that regard. But spend a lot of time 1:23:09.160 --> 1:23:11.240 with Matthew Slater, spent a lot of time with cam 1:23:11.240 --> 1:23:14.000 Ac Cord. Bill Belichick, you know, was complimenting him and 1:23:14.040 --> 1:23:15.639 the way he plays in the kicking game. So did 1:23:15.640 --> 1:23:18.439 Matthew Slater. In that context, it makes a lot of sense. 1:23:18.479 --> 1:23:20.080 We were kind of talking about, Oh they're keeping less. 1:23:20.200 --> 1:23:21.320 This is specialist. 1:23:21.360 --> 1:23:23.800 Brendon Schooler I think is technically like a safety or 1:23:23.800 --> 1:23:24.160 a dB. 1:23:24.360 --> 1:23:26.320 I think Brendan Schooler was he might have had white 1:23:26.320 --> 1:23:26.760 behind him. 1:23:26.720 --> 1:23:29.040 That he is now you know, we know he's a 1:23:29.080 --> 1:23:29.839 special team. 1:23:29.760 --> 1:23:32.400 Right it's a Brendan schooler. But Brendan schooler we knew 1:23:32.439 --> 1:23:33.000 from the beginning. 1:23:33.160 --> 1:23:35.479 Shout out to Dylan and Karina for the great. 1:23:35.280 --> 1:23:39.000 Because he made it. Brendan's schooler who had white behind him, 1:23:39.040 --> 1:23:43.040 Bryce Barrier, Chris Bord, Joe Cardona, Chad Ryland. Yes, Brendan 1:23:43.080 --> 1:23:45.880 Schooler did, Matthew Slater and a mere Speed. So that's 1:23:46.080 --> 1:23:47.000 and that's the full group. 1:23:47.240 --> 1:23:48.559 So they're special teamers. 1:23:48.600 --> 1:23:51.160 Those are the special teamers. So I if they're going 1:23:51.200 --> 1:23:53.000 to play a mere Speed at corner, I'd be spriced. 1:23:53.120 --> 1:23:54.840 Yeah, Oh I would be too. I mean, I think 1:23:54.880 --> 1:23:58.720 that's a long way. I think essentially six guys that 1:23:58.760 --> 1:24:02.040 can play corner that are actual corners. All right, we're 1:24:02.040 --> 1:24:05.519 going to clear the floor. Your your rookie specialist, Your 1:24:05.800 --> 1:24:10.559 your Patriots punter and kicker for the twenty twenty three season. 1:24:11.080 --> 1:24:14.720 Chad Ryland, Bryce Berenger, the young kid, the kids. The 1:24:14.840 --> 1:24:15.920 kids won the jobs. 1:24:16.040 --> 1:24:17.559 The kids are all Alex. 1:24:17.600 --> 1:24:23.040 How close was it really for either of them? 1:24:23.160 --> 1:24:25.639 I think it got a little close with Barringer when 1:24:25.640 --> 1:24:28.280 he had that rough week in Green Bay, if that 1:24:28.400 --> 1:24:31.519 makes sense. This is what it always should have been. 1:24:31.560 --> 1:24:32.680 I know you don't want to hear it. The only 1:24:32.760 --> 1:24:34.320 question of Kicker was whether they were going to keep 1:24:34.360 --> 1:24:38.280 both of them or not. And I honestly believe Evan 1:24:38.840 --> 1:24:40.240 that that was a consideration. 1:24:40.800 --> 1:24:42.640 I'm not going to push back on you on it 1:24:42.680 --> 1:24:46.200 anymore because they didn't do it, so we don't have to. 1:24:46.280 --> 1:24:49.200 But I do think it was something they thought about. 1:24:49.360 --> 1:24:51.519 I think, I'll give you this. I think that it 1:24:51.560 --> 1:24:53.519 was something that they thought about. But I think the 1:24:53.560 --> 1:24:57.040 only reason why they seriously might have considered it was 1:24:57.120 --> 1:25:00.559 because for leverage for a trade like I think that 1:25:00.600 --> 1:25:01.680 they might have looked at it like. 1:25:01.640 --> 1:25:03.880 Made the trade later. I kind of wondered that as well, like. 1:25:03.800 --> 1:25:06.040 They might have looked at it and said, you don't 1:25:06.040 --> 1:25:07.519 want to give us what we want in the trade 1:25:07.520 --> 1:25:09.680 for Nick Folk, well just keep him right, like that 1:25:09.840 --> 1:25:12.559 sort of thing, and then eventually in season like Tennessee 1:25:12.560 --> 1:25:14.720 comes calling and they're desperate and they and they make 1:25:14.760 --> 1:25:18.000 the trade happen. I I was a little bit. So 1:25:18.080 --> 1:25:19.880 were you surprised that all they got was a twenty 1:25:19.880 --> 1:25:21.920 twenty five seventh? I was a little bit. 1:25:22.080 --> 1:25:24.760 I wonder you talked a lot about the reason that 1:25:24.800 --> 1:25:26.559 they were letting Nick Folk rep as much as they did, 1:25:26.680 --> 1:25:29.400 was a respect thing. Yeah, right. I wonder if Bill 1:25:29.439 --> 1:25:31.080 Belichick went to Nick folk and said, where do you 1:25:31.120 --> 1:25:32.559 want to go? Yeah, and that. 1:25:32.640 --> 1:25:35.800 Well, I've talked in Tennessee, I think earlier today. Yeah, 1:25:35.920 --> 1:25:38.519 And he has said that the Patriots initially said that 1:25:38.560 --> 1:25:40.760 they were waiving him or cutting. He wasn't going to 1:25:40.800 --> 1:25:44.040 go on waivers, so cutting him. But I don't know 1:25:44.040 --> 1:25:45.960 if it was the Patriots that came to him then 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:49.960 and said, but Tennessee is showing interest. And I think 1:25:49.960 --> 1:25:52.960 that they asked Nick Folky like, would you rather be 1:25:53.040 --> 1:25:55.879 a free agent or would you rather go to Tennessee? 1:25:56.280 --> 1:25:57.960 Like what? He you know, what do you and he 1:25:58.040 --> 1:26:01.479 said that he I think Frable actually called and recruited 1:26:01.520 --> 1:26:05.080 him to Tennessee and he he said, let's make the trade. 1:26:04.760 --> 1:26:07.400 All right. So I wonder if there was an element 1:26:07.439 --> 1:26:10.760 of that yeah in there. As for this so little 1:26:10.800 --> 1:26:13.679 spoiler alert, I'll have my bold predictions up next week. 1:26:13.720 --> 1:26:16.400 My bold predictions for the Patriots season up on ninety 1:26:16.439 --> 1:26:18.160 eight five of the sports sub dot com. One of them 1:26:18.240 --> 1:26:21.759 is going to be chat ed Ryland and Bryce Bearinger 1:26:21.840 --> 1:26:25.040 both play seventeen games. I hope so well, I'll tell 1:26:25.080 --> 1:26:27.960 you why that's a bold prediction, Evan, I don't think 1:26:28.000 --> 1:26:30.280 it's bold, but the numbers tell us it's bold. 1:26:30.439 --> 1:26:30.639 Yeah. 1:26:32.080 --> 1:26:36.799 The last team to have two rookie kickers start Week one, Yeah, 1:26:37.240 --> 1:26:40.720 was the twenty eleven, twenty fifteen you've already heard me 1:26:40.760 --> 1:26:42.120 do this, Miami Dolphins. 1:26:42.479 --> 1:26:43.200 I stole it from you. 1:26:43.600 --> 1:26:44.880 The last Oh did you use this? 1:26:45.000 --> 1:26:45.120 Oh? 1:26:45.280 --> 1:26:48.639 Of course, well, I stole it from PFR. The last 1:26:48.800 --> 1:26:51.800 team to have two rookie kickers play rookie kicker and 1:26:51.840 --> 1:26:54.840 punter play at least ten games both was actually more recent. 1:26:54.840 --> 1:26:58.360 It was it twenty eighteen than Oakland Raiders because Daniel Carlson, 1:26:58.360 --> 1:27:02.120 people forget started the season Minnesota. Yeah, the last team 1:27:02.200 --> 1:27:04.760 to have two a rookie kicker and rookie punter both 1:27:04.840 --> 1:27:08.240 play a full season. It Actually, it's never surprised. It's 1:27:08.240 --> 1:27:10.640 never happened in the seventeen game season. You have to 1:27:10.680 --> 1:27:14.799 go back to twenty eleven. Alex Henry and Chris Henry 1:27:14.840 --> 1:27:18.120 not related, they're spelt differently for the Philadelphia Eagles, So 1:27:18.880 --> 1:27:24.519 this is pretty unprecedented. You don't see this so in 1:27:24.560 --> 1:27:25.519 that sense, Well, I. 1:27:25.439 --> 1:27:27.160 Mean, I do think it's a little team that draft 1:27:27.160 --> 1:27:28.880 a punter and kicker in the same draft in like 1:27:28.920 --> 1:27:30.040 one hundred years or something like that. 1:27:30.080 --> 1:27:32.320 No, because the Raiders did that like three times under Altavis. 1:27:32.439 --> 1:27:34.120 No, they were the first time team in a while 1:27:34.160 --> 1:27:35.439 to do that, though, I. 1:27:35.360 --> 1:27:37.519 Think it's been done more recently than twenty eleven. 1:27:37.560 --> 1:27:39.960 Though. Oh, they drafted a punter and a kicker in 1:27:40.000 --> 1:27:42.960 the same draft. Yeah, that was like going around, was it? 1:27:43.280 --> 1:27:46.559 Either way? It hasn't happened since twenty sixteen that two 1:27:46.560 --> 1:27:49.560 guys have played a full season. So I'll be interesting because. 1:27:49.360 --> 1:27:52.439 It's our job to be uh, you know, to poke 1:27:52.479 --> 1:27:55.240 holes and everything. Right, that's that's just the gig. 1:27:55.320 --> 1:27:55.519 Yeap. 1:27:56.800 --> 1:27:58.479 What is your biggest fear? 1:27:59.120 --> 1:28:01.479 Oh, sorry, no, it's not twenty eleven. It's twenty twelve. Oh, 1:28:01.600 --> 1:28:04.160 it's twenty twelve, twenty twelve, and it's actually so this 1:28:04.200 --> 1:28:06.679 is a good omen. It was the twenty twelve Saint 1:28:06.760 --> 1:28:12.400 Louis Rams, Greg Zerline and Johnny Hecker, which if these 1:28:12.400 --> 1:28:15.160 guys turn into Greg Zerline and Johnny Hecker, pretty good, 1:28:15.640 --> 1:28:16.719 it's a pretty good draft. 1:28:16.760 --> 1:28:18.640 Get Bill Belichi'm sorry. 1:28:19.160 --> 1:28:21.840 Both of those guys are drafted. Okay, Oh no, Johnny 1:28:21.840 --> 1:28:24.040 Hecker was undrafted, So build and take. 1:28:23.960 --> 1:28:27.800 Him sing, What is your biggest concern, not not about 1:28:27.800 --> 1:28:31.240 the roster decision, Yeah, just their biggest concern about Chad 1:28:31.320 --> 1:28:35.719 Ryland and Bryce Behnger individually their performance this season. 1:28:36.439 --> 1:28:38.519 Uh, like looking ahead or my biggest concern from what 1:28:38.520 --> 1:28:42.320 I saw in the summer. But yes, so it kind 1:28:42.320 --> 1:28:44.679 of almost goes to what you talked about with Mac Wilson. Yeah, 1:28:44.800 --> 1:28:47.280 there's gonna be growing warts with Chad round there are, 1:28:47.320 --> 1:28:49.800 and I think he's an NFL caliber kicker, but there's 1:28:49.800 --> 1:28:52.479 gonna be growing pains. And I hope that they don't 1:28:52.520 --> 1:28:54.800 panic it. They like part of having a rookie kickers 1:28:54.800 --> 1:28:56.479 that you're just that's what you're signing up for. Yeah, 1:28:56.520 --> 1:28:58.000 and I hope that they know that's what they've signed 1:28:58.080 --> 1:29:01.680 up for. So I when that comes one, how's he 1:29:01.720 --> 1:29:03.800 going to handle it? And how's the team gonna handle it? 1:29:04.360 --> 1:29:04.679 Uh? 1:29:04.760 --> 1:29:08.400 My biggest concern with Baringer, I thought it was pretty good. 1:29:08.400 --> 1:29:13.040 I don't know he he It's not even a weather 1:29:13.040 --> 1:29:14.719 thing because he's been in in Michigan. 1:29:15.000 --> 1:29:18.400 I think Bearinger is like a classic. He's a classic 1:29:18.479 --> 1:29:21.400 long ball hitter. Though, like he's gonna have some shanks. 1:29:21.680 --> 1:29:23.960 We saw some shanks and so in the three. 1:29:24.080 --> 1:29:27.280 But I would also say this. I I was gonna say, 1:29:27.320 --> 1:29:30.040 my biggest concern every punter is shanks. My biggest concern 1:29:30.120 --> 1:29:34.240 is touchbacks. Yeah, I think they're gonna be more aggressive 1:29:34.240 --> 1:29:36.400 going for it un fourth down over the fifty. That's 1:29:36.439 --> 1:29:38.240 a Bill O'Brien specialty. 1:29:38.479 --> 1:29:40.639 No, I've been I've been hoping and dreaming of that 1:29:40.800 --> 1:29:43.360 since twenty eighteen. Hasn't happened. 1:29:43.360 --> 1:29:46.800 They did a little bit nick fall early on. Yeah, 1:29:46.840 --> 1:29:50.200 twenty twenty one, they were kind of aggressive. Yeah, no, 1:29:50.880 --> 1:29:54.120 I yeah, there's gonna be a shank. There's gonna be 1:29:54.120 --> 1:29:56.280 shanks with Bearinger, but I don't think it's gonna I 1:29:56.280 --> 1:29:58.479 don't think he's gonna shank the ball more than the 1:29:58.520 --> 1:29:59.080 average punt. 1:29:59.240 --> 1:30:02.000 I actually agree with the you know the shank stuff. Yeah, 1:30:02.000 --> 1:30:04.599 you're probably right, will be pretty look much. 1:30:04.760 --> 1:30:06.800 He's not gonna perfectly hit every pun he's gonna kick 1:30:06.840 --> 1:30:07.280 this season. 1:30:07.360 --> 1:30:10.960 Yeah, touchbacks, I would say, is a big one. And 1:30:11.040 --> 1:30:13.439 like and in the same vein as like I'm kicking 1:30:13.520 --> 1:30:15.840 your coverage is a thing like I did it like 1:30:15.840 --> 1:30:17.439 in life, but like it's a thing to do it 1:30:17.479 --> 1:30:21.880 like in general. Right. Ah, that was good? Can we 1:30:21.920 --> 1:30:26.000 click that and said that home. Uh, it's good to. Uh, 1:30:26.439 --> 1:30:29.240 it's good to you can really out kick your coverage, 1:30:29.240 --> 1:30:32.080 Like that's a thing that can happen. And I we 1:30:32.120 --> 1:30:34.200 saw it a little bit in Tennessee, like you bomb 1:30:34.240 --> 1:30:37.519 one seventy yards and it's like, you know, Matthew Slayer 1:30:37.560 --> 1:30:39.600 has got a long way to go to cover that. 1:30:39.680 --> 1:30:43.600 Look, they kept one of their fastest players in a 1:30:43.680 --> 1:30:46.320 mere Speed. Maybe those two things are related. The need 1:30:46.400 --> 1:30:50.120 for speed is so, I would say. So. The thing 1:30:50.160 --> 1:30:52.919 is he kicks it far, but he doesn't kick line drives. 1:30:53.120 --> 1:30:54.559 No, he gets it. He gets it up there. 1:30:54.640 --> 1:30:57.800 He really does. And this goes back to my thing, Evan, 1:30:57.800 --> 1:31:00.880 what's the proper application of the forty yard dash? Do 1:31:01.240 --> 1:31:03.840 you know this at this point? So the reason they 1:31:03.840 --> 1:31:05.759 were on the forty yard dash when they started the combine, 1:31:05.760 --> 1:31:07.840 it was very simply the average punt at the time 1:31:07.920 --> 1:31:09.760 was forty yards and it was can you get down 1:31:09.800 --> 1:31:12.040 the field in time? Teams would compare the forty yard 1:31:12.080 --> 1:31:14.080 dash to their punter's average hanngtime, and it was can 1:31:14.120 --> 1:31:15.559 you get down the field in time to cover a punt? 1:31:16.240 --> 1:31:20.120 A mere Speed's forty four point three four seconds. He'd 1:31:20.160 --> 1:31:21.760 throw half a second on they're getting jammed at the 1:31:21.760 --> 1:31:24.920 line right dang fast. But that's a guy that's gonna 1:31:24.960 --> 1:31:28.160 get to how many hangtimes did Bryce Bearinger have this summer? 1:31:28.200 --> 1:31:30.040 Even on those boomers that. 1:31:30.520 --> 1:31:34.839 So you think Gunner week one slater a mere Speed. 1:31:35.439 --> 1:31:36.960 I'm trying to think who else they put out there. 1:31:37.520 --> 1:31:40.120 Seems like the schooler played Gunner a little bit last year, 1:31:40.120 --> 1:31:40.639 but he's. 1:31:40.479 --> 1:31:42.040 More of an articular guy. 1:31:42.280 --> 1:31:46.880 Yeah, you need fast gunners if you're gonna have a 1:31:46.880 --> 1:31:49.719 punter like this. But a mere Speed is very fast. 1:31:49.760 --> 1:31:52.800 All right, there you go. That's that's that's what you get. 1:31:52.880 --> 1:31:56.479 On even another one, we connected dots of how a 1:31:56.560 --> 1:31:59.439 mere Speed is on this roster. Pretty surprising that he 1:31:59.560 --> 1:32:01.679 made it, and he's on the roster because he's got 1:32:01.680 --> 1:32:02.360 to cover punts. 1:32:02.439 --> 1:32:03.800 I'll give you one more tay, you want to go 1:32:03.840 --> 1:32:05.800 to another level on this. Yeah, if they're going to 1:32:05.880 --> 1:32:08.640 elevate him at all this year, Malie Cunningham would be 1:32:08.640 --> 1:32:10.639 one of their faster gunners. And we saw him practice there. 1:32:10.720 --> 1:32:13.479 You think Malie Cunningham can play gunner in an NFL game. 1:32:13.520 --> 1:32:15.040 No, But they were giving him off, they were trying 1:32:15.080 --> 1:32:15.599 him out there. 1:32:15.680 --> 1:32:19.160 So all right, Well that does it for this show. 1:32:19.439 --> 1:32:22.599 We're gonna be back next week, hopefully back at two 1:32:22.600 --> 1:32:25.439 o'clock if the schedule permits for the Patriots, but it 1:32:25.439 --> 1:32:27.800 should because it'll be a regular Thursday, and it'll be 1:32:27.800 --> 1:32:32.280 a longer break in between practice and open locker room 1:32:32.720 --> 1:32:37.160 next week, Alex, So Philadelphia the Eagles, h oh. 1:32:36.840 --> 1:32:40.160 Yeah, we're we're We're back in, back in. 1:32:40.200 --> 1:32:44.040 To season mode. We will well, we'll maybe talk a little, Brady, 1:32:44.160 --> 1:32:46.600 but I want to mostly focus on the game. And 1:32:46.720 --> 1:32:49.360 I'm gonna tell you next week. And I've already brainstormed 1:32:49.360 --> 1:32:50.640 this with the Alex off the air, but this is 1:32:50.640 --> 1:32:52.760 a pro tease right here. I'm gonna tell you next 1:32:52.760 --> 1:32:56.559 week why I think the Patriots offense, the offense can 1:32:56.680 --> 1:33:01.960 actually score some points against his Eagles defense. Alright, I'm 1:33:01.960 --> 1:33:05.880 gonna tell you that next week. You're gonna have to 1:33:05.920 --> 1:33:08.479 come back next week and hear why. I'm outside my 1:33:08.640 --> 1:33:10.799 mind thinking that the Patriots are going to hang thirty 1:33:11.080 --> 1:33:13.479 on the Eagles in ten days. But until then, signing 1:33:13.479 --> 1:33:16.479 off for Map behind the Glass, Alex, I'm Evan Lazar. 1:33:16.560 --> 1:33:18.640 Thanks for listening. We'll see you guys next week, and 1:33:18.880 --> 1:33:20.679 thanks for watching on YouTube. Keep that up. 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