WEBVTT - Patriots Playbook 9/6: Eagles Preview and NFL Week I Predictions 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.640 Fans. If you want Toyota's best offers, including those not 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.600 seen on TV, go to buy at toyota dot com. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.799 It's Toyota's official website for deals from the official vehicle 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:18.400 of the New England Patriots, Toyota. Let's go places. This 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:21.680 is Patriots Playbook The Legend. I got one of those 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:23.880 updates this week from Facebook. You know how they send 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.360 you memories. They sent me one from fifty freaking years ago. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:34.920 You know what my action was, you mother, good, golly, 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.360 miss Molly. The depth is terrible, boy. We love revisionist 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:39.440 history around here, don't. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.400 We started out the program that they said, you know, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.440 you know, I think we're talking tackle back in April, and. 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:49.239 Everybody said, nah no, if they draft to tackle, I'm 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.200 gonna screen bloody murder. Oh I'm gonna jump off the train. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:57.200 Oh now, here's your host of Patriots Playbook, John Rook. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.800 A camera person just jumped off the train. Right. Wow, 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:08.120 is all I can our Our apologies for coming on. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.720 Uh well, let's see Evan, I'll see you. You'll be 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.039 out of here in about sixty two seconds, right well. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.440 As long as the quarterback takes his sweet time coming 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.520 to the we got some time. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.360 Be all set right, Okay, everybody, welcome into the playbook. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.839 It is our maiden voyage. I'll be just a little 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:30.440 bit of a of a of a slow start anyway. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.520 Here on Week one of the NFL regular season, John Rook, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.679 Evan Lazarre's here coming up on the program. Chad Graff, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.240 who covers the Patriots for the Athletic. He's gonna give 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.160 us his spin. Coming up in a bid. Davis Podero 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:46.080 from Philolphia Eagles dot Com at Eagles Insider, or as 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.600 I like to call him, he's the Paul Perillo of 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.440 the Philadelphia Eagles. Although I think what we need to 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.840 have Marina and I talked about this, Okay, one thing 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.760 that I have to deal with. Wait a second, I 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.640 gotta move this now. This is gott to go. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.200 You need. We don't want to, We don't want any more. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:06.960 John Rook's running around. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.040 Yeah, they well you think somebody would like yes really? 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.480 Oh yeah, absolutely. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.200 That's a security thing. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.239 It is wow looking screenshot and I use your ID wow. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:19.519 Yeah. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:19.399 Yeah. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.679 They tell us an orientation like if we're like going 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.000 out for lunch or something. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.880 Like that, to leave it in the car. Yeah. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:26.639 Yeah, it's a real thing. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.160 Okay, I listen. I want to just I want to 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.040 get along. I want to be a friend of everybody 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.680 around here. Since we're doing this new fangled thing called television. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.040 After twenty two years of doing a radio show, now 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.520 it's a television. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.360 Show too, How do you feel about it? Do you 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:39.640 like it? 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.560 It's fine, it's good to get you get the YouTube comments, you. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.240 Get the interaction, which which I feed. Yeah, which is great. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:48.679 I don't I don't mind it at all. But you know, 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.120 when you've been doing radio for as long as I 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.680 have been, and of course we've been doing radio here, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.200 as I've said many times before. So those that have 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.320 heard this are all like going, oh, here you goes again. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:02:59.799 Uh. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.280 This is the twenty third year that we've done this show. Wow, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.239 twenty four years of Patriots dot com radio. We launched 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.880 in two thousand and then the first year of the 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.560 playbook was two thousand and one. Of course, two weeks 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.080 after we launched a playbook, nine to eleven hit and 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.280 that was another story altogether, but we managed to keep, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:19.800 you know, appiling forward. But this is the first time 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.799 we've ever you know, streamed it, you know, with the 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.480 the television aspect of it. So it's good. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:24.919 It's good. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.520 It's good for the numbers that it works out. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.480 Some people really like watching on YouTube. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.040 D only knows why. I'm old man. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.320 It's the it's the platform, like they like the way 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.320 that the the player works better than sure. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.680 Yeah, sure, I get that. Yeah, And it is all 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.680 about a visual medium. And let's shoot, that's part of 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.920 what we teach at school and all that kind of stuff, right, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.320 all right, So we need to jump into this right 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.560 away since we're a little delayed to the process. But 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.640 first and foremost, I gotta get your thoughts on Jack 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:58.480 Jones and his issue largely being taken care of to 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.920 our knowledge, because we still have and heard definitively from 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.400 the NFL, and if there's going to be any kind 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.840 of a suspension or any kind of a punishment that 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.800 he will have to pay for his shall we say transgression. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.080 By the way, before I'm going to digress right off 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.560 the bat, I heard someone to say earlier today that 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.640 carrying guns inadvertently into airports is not an uncommon occurrence. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.840 Yeah, somebody called into PU and said that in the 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.680 Pittsburgh I think it was Pittsburgh. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.240 Pittsbury I heard that call earlier today. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.400 Yeah, Airport, there is twenty seven similar cases in the 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.920 last year, but I think where a lot of it. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:36.840 I don't want to comment too much on the legal 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.640 proceedings with Jack Johnson. I'm not a lawyer, but I 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.960 think a lot of what happens is is that there's 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:46.320 there's strict guidelines and rules. You can transport guns on 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.479 a plane, but it just has to be done correctly, right, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.720 There's rules and guidelines of how they have to be checked. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.000 They have to be in a little bot you know, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.640 one of those Pelican cases, lock box whatever, all that stuff. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:03.479 But I think that that's where a lot of this 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.000 comes from. I'm not saying that's necessarily what's happened with 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.400 Jack Jones, but sometimes it's just pure confusion of Oh, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.680 I thought I could do this, which I know sounds crazy, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.280 but I think that that's where a lot of it 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:14.760 comes from. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.400 Okay, be that as it may. How does he figure 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.000 into the rotation? Does he start? Yeah, does he come 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.719 in off the bench? As to Nickelback, what does he 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:23.600 do well? 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.000 I think you know, obviously it's game plan to game 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.400 plan with this team, so it's hard to say is 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.080 this guy starting cornerback? 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:31.360 Is it? 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:31.640 You know? 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.719 Where is he factor into all of this? I think 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.839 in this week and in this game, the Eagles they're 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.400 a run heavy team. They run a lot of twelve 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.320 personnel to tight end. They want to come downhill at you, 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.640 they want to run the football. So is a Jack 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.719 Jones type of cornerback really the guy that you want 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.440 in the game for that sort of game plan? Probably not. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.719 They have all these safeties the Patriots do, and my 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.600 guess is this is going to be a pretty safety 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.880 heavy plan. I think you could at times see now 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.960 depending on what you call everybody, but I think you 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.839 could see four safeties on the field at times in 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:15.479 this game. So is this necessarily the game for Jack Jones? 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:15.599 No? 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.880 I also think that just in general, I maybe I 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.159 differ from some other people on Jack Jones in my 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.160 opinion of him as a player. I think he has moments. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.719 I think he's got a ton of talent. But I 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.200 think he's a risk taker. I think he's a ballhawk. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.520 I don't think he's a real man to man live 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.440 in your hip pocket. No pun intended that was bad 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.080 sort of thing, Like, I don't think that that's that's 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.719 really his game. Like, I don't think that he's really 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.920 a strappy cornerback in that sense. But that's I don't know, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.520 Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I have a different opinion on 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.479 that than that on other people. I just I guess 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.800 my whole point is is I I'm not totally convinced 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.440 that Jack Jones is is this great cornerback yet. I 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.360 think there's been too much inconsistency in his game. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.280 We've seen the flashes, we've seen the physical ability, we've 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.120 seen the speed, we've seen the ability to cover, we've 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.280 seen the ability to make plays. And really that's what 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.320 you need on defense, you know, last couple of years since, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.000 especially since the last Super Bowl, the cry has been 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.240 for playmaking ability on the defensive side of the wall. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.320 Forget offense for a second, but you need guys that 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.760 can make stops and make plays when a play is needed. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.160 Jones showed last year as a rookie that he might 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.880 have the potential to do that. And you do want 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.600 playmakers on the field. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:35.800 You do. But I don't know. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.200 He's a good ballhawk, right, Like he'll go out there 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.440 and have a couple of interceptions that are really impressive, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.200 like last year in Green Bay against Detroit. It's really 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.840 impressive plays, but the consistency, to me, down to down 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.520 is not necessarily there. He had lapses last year in 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.160 terms of, you know, knowing what coverage they were in 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.760 man to man, lapses things like that. I just I 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.920 am not trying to be super down on him as 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.320 a player. See the potential, I see the talent. He's 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.200 a fun player to watch because he can turn the 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.640 ball over. But he's a boomer bus player right now. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.440 There's just no other way around. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.000 It about to say, you're just you know, deflating the 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.239 tires a little bit on him. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.760 I just don't think that he's the type of guy 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.120 that is a down to down, lockdown corner. And I 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.680 get that he was a fourth round pick and right 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.120 like Christian Gonzalez, to me, is a very different breed 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.640 because Christian Gonzalez is going to stay with his guy 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.760 for seventy snaps a game. He might not have the 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.040 ball production that Jack Jones has, he might not have 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.439 the plays on the football, but he's gonna live in 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.800 the kitchen of the opposing receiver for sixty five seventy 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.760 plays a game, or at least that's the hope, right, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.959 Whereas I think with Jack Jones, he's a much more J. C. Jackson, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.160 Like he's much more of a ballhowker, chance taker, whatever 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.160 you want to call it. And there was just a 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.360 lot of instances last year where he didn't necessarily always 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.599 get burned for it because the quarterback didn't throw the 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.160 ball his direction. But you know, he lost a lot 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.880 of reps last year and especially and I felt over 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.880 committing to things, trying to jump things and then they 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.120 hit him with double moves or they just run by 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.960 him or whatever the case may be. And I just 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.000 I guess I'm not you know, I hear a lot 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.720 of people that are saying, oh, Jack Jones is you know, 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:26.360 his legal situation, like huge win for the Patriots, Like, yeah, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.079 it's a good thing that Jack Jones is going to 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.360 be able to play football for the Patriots versus him 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.560 not playing football, right, Like that's a good thing. Yeah, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.360 But I think that you're some people are maybe just 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.719 overrating the player what he currently is a little bit. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.600 All right, Let's leave that and set it aside for 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.280 a moment, because clearly time is going to tell on 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.160 that one. If that's issue won the n issue one 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.440 A has to be the offensive line, and who's going 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.120 to show up healthy to play and able to play 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:57.000 and able to keep Philadelphia's ferocious defensive front somewhat off 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.280 of Mac Jones to where he has a chance to 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.680 actually throw the ball the Patriots have a chance to 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.960 actually run the ball decently. Yeah, and I'm kind of 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.800 curious as to your thoughts of what you think that 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.920 offensive line might look like on Sunday. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.520 Well, so there's a couple of different scenarios here. One 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.320 the offensive line, in terms of what I think is 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.720 going to be out there, I think there will be 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.640 some rotation because you don't usually go wire to wire 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.760 in Week one anyways, as they're sort of building up 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.880 the endurance and things like that. And I would also 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.600 say this, guys that have been hurt, Guys haven't practiced 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.520 a whole lot. So to expect Calvin Anderson, who I 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.520 do think is going to be the starting right tackle 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.040 on Sunday, but to expect him to play sixty five 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.080 snaps on Sunday is unrealistic. He hasn't practiced enough. He 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.199 was very very ill with whatever the situation was that 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.920 kept him out of training camp. So I would expect 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.480 other guys, whether it was the two newcomers a city, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.040 so somebody else is going to get involved at the 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.400 right tackle spot. But I do think Calvin Anderson will 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.319 start at right tackle, and I think the rest of 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.560 the line is going to be what we expected going 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.280 into the year. I think it's gonna be Tremp Brown 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.880 on the left side, Strange jug left guard, Andrews at center, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.800 and on Winning at right guard. So those four spots 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.160 from right guard to left tackle are going to be 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.280 exactly how we anticipated going into the year. It's right 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.000 tackle that's still the question mark. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:15.600 And do you think Calvin Anderson is one at least 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:16.400 gets the nod there? 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.319 Yeah, I think Calvin Anderson will start. You know, he's 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.079 with it, been with the team the entire time, he's 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.440 with the team in the spring, participated in the spring, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.160 so he has a little bit of a leg up 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.679 on guys like Vederian Lowe and Tyrone. He also has 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.040 NFL experience. He started twelve games in the league over 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.640 three years. Those guys haven't even played it down in 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.240 the NFL yet, so in same with so obviously being 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.240 a rookie, So I think that those guys could spell 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.920 him could rotate in with him, but I think Calvin 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.120 Anderson gets the nod. The other thing with the Eagles 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:46.920 front that I think is going to be really interesting 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.800 is they didn't blitz a whole lot last year. They 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.000 weren't in a very exotic team last year. Then he 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.720 used a lot of stunts, blitzes, you know, all these 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.760 different bells and whistles that we see the Patriots do 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.000 a ton. They didn't do any of that really last year. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.719 It was kind of a you know, Jonathan Gannon is 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.520 one of those guys that got a head coaching job 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.200 out of the Eagles success. But there's been a lot 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.680 of pushback in Philly from Eagles fans and media about 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.160 how vanilla they were in the pass rush last year, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.120 even though they had seventy sacks. Right, So does decide 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.360 their new defensive coordinator. Does he scheme it up a 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.160 little bit more, do they have more blitzeing, do they 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.679 have more creepier pressure, simulated pressure, what do they run 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.559 in terms of their front or are they going to 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.240 still just be a team that's going to try to 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.560 win their one on ones and know that we have 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.400 better dudes than you do and that's just going to 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:33.719 be it. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.040 How much of a factor, Evan, do you think Philadelphia 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.960 not having played their starters at all during the preseason 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.360 is going to have on Week one? Is this sort 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.760 of a calculated gamble maybe that the Eagles have going 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.080 into this And this will be a question for Daves 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.280 Panero from Eagles Insider coming up a little bit, But 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.120 I'm just kind of curious as to your point of 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.560 view and whether or not the Patriots might be in 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.440 somewhat of a position to take advantage of that. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:58.520 I think a little bit. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:58.800 Yeah. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.920 I mean they're gonna have some rusts. I think that 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.600 that's going to be clear. There's gonna be some rust 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.280 early on. And I also would say that they have 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.520 two new play callers, so on both sides of the ball. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.000 So Jalen Hurts. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.200 Is gonna be in a game getting the plays relayed 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.720 to him by Brian Johnson for the first time on Sunday, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.600 and there's going to be a feeling out process there. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:20.920 Now. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.240 I always feel like that maybe lingers in the first half, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.679 then they kind of get into a groove, they get 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.760 into halftime, they maybe make a few adjustments, and I 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.199 would expect the Eagles to be humming in the second half. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.000 So if you can get out to a lead, if 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.160 you can hold it close. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.040 Wait, wait, wait, you know what's coming. If you win 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.800 the coin flip, take the ball. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:46.440 No, no, I didn't say that, but I did a 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.160 damn I will say that. I think that there's a chance. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.640 And hopefully you know, for the Patriots that they are 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.680 in a good position at halftime because the Eagles might 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.400 be working through some rust and things like that. But 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.480 once the second half hits, I think the games. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.400 You had best be in position, I think to steal 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.200 the game from them, Yeah, because they'll make a charge 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:14.000 after halftime, halftime adjustments, whatever it's called. All right, messing 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.040 time is over. Yeah. I mean, this is a super 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.719 Bowl team here that we have that's expected to be 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.280 a Super Bowl contender, could easily be the best team 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.600 in the NFC, certainly maybe the best team the Patriots 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.480 face all season long. And you got them in Week 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.160 one and you get all this emotional hubbub with Tom 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.960 Brady and YadA YadA, and yeah, you know that's to 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.560 me the biggest concern that I have almost is just 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.080 the emotion of the day the fans. We know are 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.880 going to be keyed into what this day is really 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.800 all about because they didn't get a chance to give 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.680 Tom a proper goodbye, and that's what this weekend is 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.280 supposed to be about. But the football part of it 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.720 is enormous for this team when you consider the schedule 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.360 strength over the first half of the season. I mean, 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.640 if you got plus one in this week, huge huge 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.320 difference maker, maybe for the entire seventeen week season. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:02.560 Yeah. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.120 I might be eating my crow on this, but I 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.960 think that they're catching the Eagles at the right time. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:07.080 I agree with that. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:07.520 I would not. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.520 We're gonna agree on this one. You and I don't 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.680 agree a lot. We're gonna agree on this one. They're 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:17.320 catching the Eagles absolutely perfectly. If if there was any 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.640 other time to play them, would be the last game 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.320 of the year when it means nothing. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.960 Yeah, but I think that the playing them right out 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.120 of the gate, you have the advantage of them resting 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.480 their starters in the preseason, you have some advantage of 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.840 the new coordinators and different things that they're dealing with. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.200 In terms of that, I think that there's a chance 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.160 that you might be playing a little bit of a 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.920 of a less you know, not as fine tuned of 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.760 a team that I don't know if the execution is 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.160 going to be quite as clean as what you're going 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.960 to see in a couple months from Philadelphia. And maybe 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.160 the energy in the building does help in that respect 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:50.760 as well. Like I don't think that it's really going 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.320 to matter too much to the Eagles if it's a 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.560 rowdy crowd or not. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.920 No, no, no, that won't matter at all of them. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.120 Maybe the players can feed off some of the juice and. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.960 There will be some juice. And let's let's remind you 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.000 that there will be more juice in the building because 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.840 the opened end of the stadium is now closed with 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.840 the new club and the new scoreboard and the new 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.320 tower and everything else that they've got, which they're dedicating 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.760 actually Friday, I believe they're officially going to cut the 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.680 ribbon on everything, so everything's supposed to be open and 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.080 ready to go. It is going to be a different 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.680 sounding environment, and it's something I think that well many 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.720 of us who have been here for the entire existence 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.560 of Jillette Stadium have been waiting for. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.320 Yeah, it's definitely different. I just know from being out 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.120 there the little bit that we've been able to be 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.200 out there so far this summer, it does feel like 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:40.040 it plays different. It's always on that field for whatever reason, 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.920 for all the years I've been doing it's always windy 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:43.280 as hell. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:44.320 I can't explain. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.040 I think it's because of the horseshoe and like the 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.840 way that the open end of the stadium. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.560 And the wind comes out of the north word. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.160 Yeah, yeah, And it was always windy, Like even in 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.800 the middle of the day on a Wednesday, when we 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.880 were out there shooting videos or whatever the heck we 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.320 were doing, it was windy. So I think this version 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.479 of the stadium with the closed end, the wind's going 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.080 to be held in a little bit more like in 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.920 terms of it's not going to be as wendy. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.440 I guess I should say I believe. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.240 At least of the times that we've stood on field 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.880 level recently, it hasn't been nearly as wendy. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.520 Now, not as breezy as it once was. Now. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:17.680 That's interesting. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.320 That's a big factor. So I don't know. We'll see 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.200 how the issue plays off. I'd be remiss if I 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.639 didn't ask you the one question that I'm going to 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.840 ask of everybody to answer today, as you call in 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.200 eight five to five Pats five hundred the toll for 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.159 e televille number. It says the same as in Patriots 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:36.000 Unfiltered Web Radio at Patriots dot com that's the email address. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.720 You can hit us up at JR Broadcaster that's the 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.760 Twitter handle, or you can hit me up on my 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.440 Facebook page of John dot Rook to converse about the show, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.240 about the team, about what we're talking about. But I'm 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.879 just you know, I've been reading a lot of the media, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.600 which we're going to get to in just a second here, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.280 but a lot of guys and a lot of ladies 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.960 who cover the beat as you do, Yes, like to 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.880 make predictions, you know, because based on their observations over 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.720 the course of the spring, in the summer, in training camp, 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.120 and so I hear you know, five things that will 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.240 happen with the Patriots, the top ten things that should 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:14.400 happen for the paprio. I'm looking for one bold prediction, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.280 just one. I want you to come up with something 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.960 that maybe you've been thinking about, maybe you've seen someone 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.359 mention that you'd like to take a step further, But 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.879 one bold prediction that you think will happen to the 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.000 New England Patriots in twenty twenty three. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.320 How bold are we talking? Does it need to be 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:34.080 real bold? 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.320 No, as bold as you want to make it. I mean, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.040 i'll give you want me to give you mind to 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.159 start with. Oh, now I have to put myself in 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:43.640 the corner on this one. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.639 I need to know the bold meter here? Am I 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.240 going like realistic bold or bold bold? 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.080 Well, you can go as bold as you want. I'm 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:52.920 gonna say the Patriots make the playoffs. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.360 Okay, So I was gonna say the Patriots are gonna 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:56.320 have a top ten offense. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:56.960 Okay. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.119 I don't know how you're gonna idea. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.680 Probably have to have a top ten offense in order 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:03.200 to make. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.880 Or maybe we're on the same page. How you calculate 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.480 offense yards points DV eight like you do it? I 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.479 had on your own time. Yeah, I'm just telling you 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.239 that they're gonna they're they're gonna be better offensively than 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.800 people think. I think they're back to a top ten offense. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.919 Not twenty twenty one. They were also a top ten offense, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.520 but it kind of felt I don't know. They had 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.840 some fifty burgers against the Jets and the Jaguars. They 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.639 had some defensive touchdowns I think that this offense is 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.200 gonna take a big step forward. 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:28.880 I don't. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.239 I'm putting it out there as top ten. I think 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.200 that's the best way to put a tangible thing on it. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:35.960 And I think this offense is going to be better 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:36.560 than people think. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.720 I'm gonna give you sort of a one to a 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.640 selection on that one though, just because I think they've 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.119 got tremendous depth up front. I think key On White 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.240 is a legitimate candidate for Defensive Rookie of the Year. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.760 Oh wow, that is that's bold bold. That's not I 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.879 think that's a good one. It's big bold. 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:56.640 We didn't like it. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:57.399 It's good bold. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.119 That's what I mean, you didn't like. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.320 White is going to be one of those guys. And 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.439 I think Christian Barmore to an extent that was similar 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.280 in his rookie year. Where the advanced analytics are really 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.960 gonna like Keon White, like his like his pressure rate 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.720 and stuff like that. It's gonna be good the sacks 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.080 and like people that just go off the traditional box score. 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:16.520 I'm not sure if he's gonna. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.280 Be I think he might score well in that traditional 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.040 box score, which why it will make him account. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:21.960 Okay, I look at him as more of like a 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.720 guy that might be really disruptive. I just don't know 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.280 if he's necessarily going to be registering on the statute 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:28.960 defensive Rookie of the Year. 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.439 And not get enough reps in that rotation. 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:32.680 We don't know, right, but I think he'll be disruptive. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.200 I do all right, all right, thanks man, appreciate you. 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:36.119 They had a chat for me. 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.720 I will definitely do that. Evan Lazarre, Patriots dot Com. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.440 He's headed out to practice and that brings in Chad Graft, 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.040 who covers the Patriots for the Athletic and the Athletic 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:49.680 dot Com. Hey Chad, how's it going great? Great? Thanks 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.159 for taking a little time today. I'll start with what 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.600 I ended there with, Evan, If you don't mind one 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.879 bold prediction from you for twenty twenty threes New England Patriots. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.920 You want the optimistic one of the pessimistic one. 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.680 I want the first thing that comes in your mind. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.600 All right. The first thing that came to mind was, 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.600 and I truly believe this. I know that the forty 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.840 nine ers are great, and the Jets are very good. 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.399 There's a lot of good defenses, but I think that 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.720 this defense is going to end the year as the 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.920 number one defense. I think that Bill Belichick is kind 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:23.480 of on the cutting edge of what he's trying to 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.399 do here with positionless defense and having guys like Jabrill 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.679 Peppers and Adrian Phillips and Kyle Duger and now Marty 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.520 Mapu a bunch of guys on that back end who 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.400 can do a lot of different things, so that when 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.680 the Buffalo Bills try to run at you with two 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.600 tight ends, you've got guys like Mapu who can play 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.320 in the box and stop the run against them, but 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:45.960 they're also good enough to drop back into coverage and say, 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.520 you know, go ahead, we'll take Marty Mapoo gets Salton 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.480 kid like, go ahead, Josh Allen take that matchup. So 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:54.960 I'm not quite as bullish on the offense as it 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.040 sounds like evidence, But I'm extremely high on what this 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.879 defense is and what I think it's going to do well. 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:02.959 I'm going to tend to agree with you rather than 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:04.560 Evan on that one. I'm a little more bullish on 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:06.520 the defense, and I think that we were sort of 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:09.000 led to believe that would likely be the case this year, 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:13.240 regardless of whatever they did. And look, we've talked about 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.560 it on this show during our offseason program as well, 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:18.320 that I thought one of the bullet points for the 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:20.359 entire season would be the offensive line. I thought they 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.040 draft an offensive lineman, you know, early in the draft, 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:24.800 and silly me, they didn't do that. And now we 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.040 see the kind of offensive line troubles that they're having 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:28.760 with the depth and the injury and everything else that's 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.679 going on. If the offensive line can stay, you know, 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.560 can get together first of all, and then stay relatively healthy, 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:38.040 then I think the offense's chance of improving and being 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:43.840 a top ten offense, as Evan suggested, improve immeasurably. However, however, 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.159 I don't think that's going to happen, because, as we 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:50.439 all know, it's a war of attrition and man alive. 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.159 You know, you got to keep guys healthy, You got 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:55.520 to keep your quarterback healthy. And I'm just I'm having 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.320 real problems believing that through seventeen eighteen weeks that you 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.760 got to play games, that the pages are going to 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.199 stay as healthy as they're going to need to stay 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.040 in order for them to truly be successful. 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:09.000 I'm with you. 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:12.160 I think the offensive line is probably the biggest concern 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.280 more than anything else. On the offense, Like I'm not 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:17.919 terribly high on DeVante Parker and Juju Smith Schuster as 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.159 you're one two, but I'm higher on that than I 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.800 am this current offensive line set up and the fact 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:27.480 that you're then turning to uh day three rookies. Probably 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:29.520 if either of your guards get hurt or if your 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:33.520 center gets hurt at right tackle, I still don't really 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:36.040 know what you have. I'm not even sure who you're 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:37.040 starting right tackle. 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:41.160 Is well, we suspect we suspect Calvin Anderson suspect it. 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.160 Sure, and you know I could see that, and that 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.920 makes sense, but boint it gives me. It certainly gives 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:51.360 me pause, especially against that defensive line. Like Calvin Anderson 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:55.359 hasn't really practiced all summer because of this illness that 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:58.000 he talked about, yep, and so you know he's coming 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:01.439 into a really brutal matchup. Yeah, Hey, we know you 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.720 haven't got a whole lot of practice. But here's the 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:06.600 team that you know, almost broke the NFL sack record 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:07.120 last year. 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:08.000 Yeah, good luck. 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:13.800 Seventy sacks for this team, seventy Chad seven. That's seven, oh, 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:19.120 not seventeen seven. Oh. And the Patriots, they were so good. Yeah, 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:21.800 they were. The Patriots gave up forty what forty forty 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:24.040 one last year and that was a bad year from them, 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.200 and the Eagles had seventy. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:29.760 And so you know, I think that means that you're 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:32.159 probably going to see a ton of quick game and 0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:35.000 a lot of short passes yep. Probably a lot of 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:37.920 run path options yep. Though you know, I'm not sure 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:39.880 that I would turn on the game expecting to see 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:42.959 seventy yard bombs, but no, I think that's probably what 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.359 the offense looks like, at least early on, until you 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:46.760 are more sure about your offense. 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:50.040 This may be one of the fastest games that we've 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:53.040 seen on television in the NFL this year. And this 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:54.720 leads me into the next issue. I was going to say, 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:58.159 how do the Patriots beat a team like Philadelphia when Philadelphia, 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:00.959 maybe top to bottom, may have the most well rounded 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:04.080 roster of any in the entire NFL. And I'm gonna 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:06.760 include Kansas City in that one. I like the Eagles. 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:09.679 I'm very bullish on the Eagles in the NFC. You know, 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:12.200 to get back in the big game. I and as 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:14.760 long as again, health is the key, and I always 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:17.280 have to add that because we know health is always 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.720 a factor. It is every year, and now that we 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:23.040 have seventeen meaningful games to play, it's certainly gonna be that. 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.480 And when the NFL goes to eighteen games and they're 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:29.200 gonna go and maybe sooner than we think, it's gonna 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:30.760 be even more of a factor. You got to keep 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:33.560 guys healthier longer, and so you'll see rule adjustments in 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:36.200 this and that the idea is going to be able 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:40.520 to keep guys healthy on the field. So that being said, 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:44.320 this team, this Eagles team, is really really good in 0:25:44.359 --> 0:25:47.520 the way that the Patriots beat them as a they 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:49.400 get them early, as we just talked about a little 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:51.240 bit as great that you're getting early in the year 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:53.720 before any of their starters have even played a minute 0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:57.919 because nobody played in the preseason and be run the 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:02.639 damn ball. Now, let me codify that for a second. 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:05.439 If you don't have an offensive line to run behind, 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:08.000 you're not gonna run very well. So it's good that 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:12.679 you have Ramandrie Stevenson and obviously Zee Elliott to pound 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:16.000 the ball between the tackles because they're going to need to. Yeah, 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:17.959 you're gonna have to throw it somewhat but if you 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:21.280 can come out and control tempo and get four or 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:23.919 five yards on a first down and leave yourself in 0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:27.040 third in short situations, you got a chance to grind 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:29.199 out some of those drives against an Eagles team that 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:31.200 if you can stay even with them or maybe even 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:34.000 have a slight lead at halftime, Now you're gonna put 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.280 them under pressure. Now you're going to force them to 0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:38.960 feel the pinch a little bit, and then you might 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:42.000 actually force them into a mistake, which again they don't 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:47.240 normally do, and you cannot can not make mistakes yourself. 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:49.360 And of course we all know the offensive line troubles 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:53.080 that the Patriots had trying to avoid mistakes a year ago. 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:56.800 So it lines up to give my whole pointer, Chad, 0:26:56.880 --> 0:26:59.720 is it lines up to give them a shot I 0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:03.320 think more than a legit shot really on Sunday. But 0:27:04.800 --> 0:27:08.160 Philly's talent could still end up winning out unless you 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:10.600 stick to a game plan for sure. 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:13.200 And here's what's interesting to me about that game plan 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:15.520 and what I think we'll see is a lot of 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:18.480 this both roster construction and what we've seen in training 0:27:18.480 --> 0:27:22.240 camp has been built around twelve personnel. Where Bill O'Brien 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:24.760 once again uses a lot of two tight ends. It's 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:27.800 why they brought Mike Kiseki in. And I think what 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:31.080 will be interesting against the Eagles is trying to identify 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:33.880 what the Eagles want to do defensively against that. When 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:36.040 the Patriots come out with their two tight ends, they 0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:38.800 can either stay in their base defense and then if 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:41.520 you're the Patriots, you're thinking, you know, heck, yeah, this 0:27:41.600 --> 0:27:43.240 is great. You're in your base devents. We get a 0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:46.080 linebacker or safety against Mike Kiseki and Hunter Henry, like 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:49.000 Max Jones, will take that matchup all day long. But 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:51.920 to your point about running the ball, what becomes interesting 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:54.600 to me is if the Eagles go to their nickel 0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:57.280 defense with an extra defensive back, as I think they 0:27:57.400 --> 0:27:59.840 probably will, they don't want Mike Kiseki and Hunter Henry 0:27:59.880 --> 0:28:02.680 to eat them. Then the door opens up against a 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:05.320 lighter box to be able to run the ball. And 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:07.800 I think at that point, if you're the Patriots in 0:28:07.920 --> 0:28:10.320 twelve personnel against nickel defense. 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:11.760 You have to be able to run the ball. 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:14.280 It ideally makes things a little bit easier for your 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:18.040 offensive line that does have some questions, and so I 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:20.320 think that's kind of a big mashup to me is 0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:23.359 in twelve personnel when the Eagles are playing light daring 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:26.080 you to run, are you able to run the ball effectively? 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:30.879 And that is a major question, a major question. I 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:33.800 expect the Patriots to also, you know, be in that 0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:36.239 you know, personnel set because they're going to need to 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.800 assist their offensive line. We need, you know, this team 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:44.840 will need blocking. I fully expect. I mean, I'll put 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:47.080 it to you this way. I'll be surprised if Zeke 0:28:47.120 --> 0:28:50.440 Elliott doesn't get more time than Remandre, not because Remandre 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.040 is not better, but because we know that Elliott is 0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:56.800 a renowned pass blocker, and there may be especially in 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:58.720 passing downs, even though he's pretty good at catching the 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:01.719 ball himself, the knee to keep him backed, to make 0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:04.680 sure Mac's you know, not gonna get flattened in the backfield. 0:29:04.880 --> 0:29:07.040 That's the biggest concern that I really have. If Mac 0:29:07.360 --> 0:29:11.560 can stay on his feet long enough. And yeah, I'm 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:15.840 thinking that certainly short passes, slants, tight ends, whatever they 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:17.480 can get to, but nothing that's gonna be more than 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:20.200 twelve to fifteen yards downfield. If he can, if he's 0:29:20.240 --> 0:29:23.200 able to get those passes out and frustrate Philadelphia, then 0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:24.560 I think the pages would be right there at the 0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:25.680 end with the chance to take it. 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:29.120 Yeah, that's that's a really good point about Elliott, and 0:29:29.120 --> 0:29:30.600 I think that you can see some of that with 0:29:30.720 --> 0:29:33.080 play action too, as a way to kind of keep 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:35.720 him in and as a way to give mac Jones 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:38.600 more options aside from just backs protecting all the time, 0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:41.320 because I think often we think, hey, the offensive line 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:44.640 is struggling, they've got a tough matchup, like just leave everybody. 0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:46.000 In and that'll be the way to solve it. 0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:48.040 And then you suddenly look up and he's got like 0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:51.320 three targets downfield and nobody's open, and all of a 0:29:51.360 --> 0:29:54.440 sudden you're in a world of hurt. Right Ezekiel Elliott 0:29:54.440 --> 0:29:56.920 can provide, you know, I think a really big boost 0:29:56.960 --> 0:29:59.640 in that area. And you know, in addition to the 0:29:59.640 --> 0:30:03.480 short ar stuff, I think is a really important part 0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:05.360 of the reason that he's here to begin with. 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:08.960 Okay, all right, so Chad, you know, you know, we 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:12.719 talked a little bit about bold predictions. We kind of 0:30:12.800 --> 0:30:16.040 feel like we know what this team probably should do 0:30:16.680 --> 0:30:18.400 in an effort to you know, have a chance to 0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:22.080 really win this game. The story within the story, the 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:23.720 part of the reason for the three ring circus and 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:26.320 everything that's going on this weekend is obviously Tom Brady 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:30.520 gets a chance to be embraced given the old, big 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:33.800 New England hug, you know, by the fans who will 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:37.160 be in attendance and which have made this ticket the 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:40.760 toughest ticket right now in the regular season for the 0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:45.960 entire NFL to obtain, certainly the most expensive average ticket 0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:49.560 on vivid seats as I saw checked it early this morning. 0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:51.720 The last time I look, so here we are midweek 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:55.640 as we're doing this show, average ticket price was seven 0:30:55.760 --> 0:31:03.280 hundred and thirty six dollars, right, So there's a lot 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:07.400 of who there's a lot of hubbub going on above 0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:12.200 and I'm wondering how well this team can focus and 0:31:12.200 --> 0:31:15.320 stay above it. And we don't know. There are twenty 0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:18.360 new players on this team from as compared to who 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.520 weren't on this roster a year ago. Maybe that's a 0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:24.040 good thing, maybe that's not a good thing. But I'm 0:31:24.080 --> 0:31:26.920 just curious as to your your your you know, you've 0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:31.200 talked to these guys, You obviously know the coaches. What's 0:31:31.240 --> 0:31:34.800 your feeling on this team's ability to shout out noise 0:31:35.400 --> 0:31:36.560 and accomplish a mission. 0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:40.760 Well, it's interesting because even the players who were not 0:31:40.920 --> 0:31:43.600 here when Tom Brady was here, but there's just no 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:47.040 hiding from the overarching presence that he is everything that 0:31:47.080 --> 0:31:49.680 he meant to this organization and the team and the 0:31:49.720 --> 0:31:53.000 sixth Super Bowls and on and on. As Remandra Stevenson 0:31:53.040 --> 0:31:56.680 said today, he feels like he walks past five pictures 0:31:56.680 --> 0:31:59.680 of Tom Brady just going down the hall. So Prady 0:31:59.760 --> 0:32:01.920 is kind kind of ever present, even if he is, 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:06.160 you know, embarking on his first year of post playing 0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:10.000 career now. So it'll be interesting to see how they 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:12.200 kind of handle that. There are going to be plenty 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:15.920 of former players, I think, as Tylas said, lingering around. 0:32:17.240 --> 0:32:18.680 But a lot of this is going to go on 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:22.080 at halftime when the players aren't there, and an opportunity 0:32:22.120 --> 0:32:24.040 for Brady to say thank you, and the fans too 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:27.080 they thank you as well, which should all be very cool. 0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:30.080 But there's no doubt that this is going to be swirling, 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:32.560 like the place is going to go crazy in warm 0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:35.040 ups if Mac Jones comes over and gives Brady a 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:36.440 hug or Bill Belichick. 0:32:36.640 --> 0:32:39.840 That some of that has to be talked about right now, 0:32:39.920 --> 0:32:42.240 right like, Hey, I'm going to do this, and you know, 0:32:42.280 --> 0:32:44.000 we're going to get the fans behind this. We're going 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:45.360 to show that we're all on the same page. I 0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:47.040 thought they alluded to that a little bit when Mac 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:50.400 basically told people that you know, he told the media 0:32:50.440 --> 0:32:53.480 and which is telling everybody now that you know Brady's 0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:57.800 one of his mentors. I'm not sure anybody really knew that, right, Yeah. 0:32:57.680 --> 0:32:59.800 And and it caught people, I think, by a little 0:32:59.800 --> 0:33:02.000 bit surprised when the picture came out of the two 0:33:02.040 --> 0:33:04.720 EVM hanging out at Crafts party this summer to get there. 0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:07.680 So you know, there's plenty of a relationship there. But 0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:10.000 you know, at the same time, we're also talking about 0:33:10.040 --> 0:33:14.160 the head coach who you know minimizes distractions perhaps as 0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:17.200 well as anybody else, and prepares for every little thing 0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:19.240 as well as anybody else. This is the coach who 0:33:19.680 --> 0:33:22.240 you know, was so worried about whether the roof was 0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:25.280 going to be closed or opened for kickoff in the 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:29.080 Super Bowl in Atlanta. So it's a very big deal 0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:31.480 and I think it's gonna be super cool. But I also, 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:35.000 you know, I think that Belicheck will do a decent 0:33:35.080 --> 0:33:38.000 job of just making sure that everybody knows the assignment 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:38.400 a hand. 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:40.800 All right, Chad, Hey, thanks for a few minutes. I 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:43.400 do appreciate it, and I'll look forward to visiting with 0:33:43.440 --> 0:33:44.840 you from time to time throughout the year. 0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:47.160 Excellent, all right, thanks for talking. 0:33:47.280 --> 0:33:50.680 You got it. Chad graph the Athletic. He's the Patriots 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:54.040 beat writer for the Athletic dot com at Chad graph 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:59.960 on X. That sounds so weird? Formerly known as Twitter? 0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:04.760 Is it gonna stay that way? Is? Is he is? 0:34:04.760 --> 0:34:07.520 Is he really gonna say that way? Is Elon gonna 0:34:07.600 --> 0:34:09.520 keep it and leave it? X? I thought the X 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:12.720 was just sort of a placeholder for a new logo, 0:34:13.400 --> 0:34:15.680 that it was still Twitter, but he put the X 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:17.160 in there to get rid of the little, you know, 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:19.279 tweety bird. And they we're gonna come up with a 0:34:19.280 --> 0:34:21.279 new logo, and now they're just kind of leaving it 0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:21.799 as X. 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.719 I had heard that all his other businesses were had 0:34:24.880 --> 0:34:26.680 X in the title or something to do with X. 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:28.239 So they're all trying to imrge him as one thing. 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:31.799 Uh So, so it might be that we end up 0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:35.080 getting another logo here is basically what's gonna happen. Probably 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:38.759 it's possible Okay, Well, who the hell knows anymore? All 0:34:38.800 --> 0:34:41.000 I know is that, you know, I always say, you know, uh, 0:34:41.320 --> 0:34:45.600 post it on X parenthesis formerly Twitter. You know that 0:34:45.680 --> 0:34:48.440 kind of thing because you almost have to, you almost 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:50.279 have to like suggest that because nobody knows what the 0:34:50.320 --> 0:34:53.360 hell we're talking about. X the hell is X. Okay, 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:55.400 I'm just getting used to the little tweety bird and 0:34:55.440 --> 0:35:01.600 now the X really come on. Yeah, the things that 0:35:01.680 --> 0:35:05.360 you know make us go eight five five PATS five hundred, 0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:08.200 the toll free number, web radio at Patriots dot com. 0:35:08.239 --> 0:35:12.239 If you got email JR Broadcaster at JR Broadcaster on 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:17.560 X formerly known as Twitter or Instagram too, by the way, 0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:20.800 you want ig okay at JR Broadcaster it's the same handle, 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:23.640 or you can hit my Facebook page if you'd like. 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:27.680 Let's get to the phones here. We've got Daves Spadero, 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.040 Eagles insider, coming up at the top of the hour, 0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:34.680 and the one and only pro football guru himself, Russell S. Baxter. 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:36.719 He'll join us and our number two at bottom of 0:35:36.719 --> 0:35:39.320 the hour to go over week one throughout the entire NFL. 0:35:39.360 --> 0:35:41.720 So there's a lot of stuff going on right now. 0:35:41.760 --> 0:35:44.719 The main question to you, however, is a question that 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:47.880 I did post to both Chad and to Evan earlier, 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:52.120 and I want you to come up with one bold prediction, 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:56.840 not two, not three, not seven, not ten. I want one. 0:35:57.239 --> 0:36:01.880 What's on your mind, front and set first and foremost. 0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:04.200 What do you think has to happen? What do you 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:07.759 think needs to happen? What is the biggest reason for 0:36:07.920 --> 0:36:13.040 success or failure for this Patriots team? And you know 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:14.440 you can have to do with the team, you have 0:36:14.480 --> 0:36:16.560 to do with the individual. You know it had to 0:36:16.640 --> 0:36:18.520 be Patriots are going to win twelve games? Well, that 0:36:18.520 --> 0:36:20.960 would be mighty bold, you know. And I would say 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:22.960 that most people would laugh at you if you said that. 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:25.759 But if that's what you think will happen, then bring 0:36:25.760 --> 0:36:28.160 that to the table and tell us why it's okay. 0:36:29.400 --> 0:36:31.880 There's no such thing. This is a silly question or 0:36:31.920 --> 0:36:35.399 an answer, or a stupid one. As my students all 0:36:35.440 --> 0:36:37.040 know that the only stupid question out there is the 0:36:37.080 --> 0:36:39.919 one that you don't ask. So let's kind of take 0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:42.960 that attitude with this one and welcome you in the program. 0:36:43.160 --> 0:36:45.359 Tim is in the UK, he gets to lead us 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:49.839 off here. Hey, Tim, you're in the playbook. I'm good. 0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:52.160 How's it going today, Yeah. 0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:55.960 Not too bad to all right, I'll stoll my bold prediction. 0:36:56.160 --> 0:36:56.480 Please. 0:36:57.880 --> 0:37:00.920 This is the take that has kind of earlier in 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:05.000 the summer, when we didn't re sign Jacoby and we 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:09.080 signed Juju, I thought, at best, that's going to be 0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:14.120 a net neutral move. I think, yeah, there's you know, 0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:17.000 there's obviously a big risk with Juju kind of you know, 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:21.040 coming in learning the playbook, learning a new system, and 0:37:21.080 --> 0:37:22.960 they're the injury concerns as well, and you know, we 0:37:23.000 --> 0:37:25.560 haven't seen much of him this summer. I thought at 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:28.600 the time, Yeah, it's going to be at best as 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:33.600 good as Jacoby was last year. And you know, given 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:36.239 that we haven't seen much of him this summer, I 0:37:36.280 --> 0:37:38.880 think that's you know, probably not that bold of a 0:37:38.960 --> 0:37:39.560 take anymore. 0:37:40.120 --> 0:37:42.920 No, I actually like it. Here's another bold take for Jujo. 0:37:43.239 --> 0:37:47.040 He stays healthy in plays you know fifteen games. Well 0:37:47.080 --> 0:37:49.000 that which would that would be? Now that's a bold take, 0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:52.279 I mean, you know, yeah, well I think it would 0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:55.600 surprise everybody. And if you you know, believe the media, 0:37:56.440 --> 0:37:58.200 much of the media thinks that Juju's got a bad 0:37:58.280 --> 0:38:00.480 knee and it's getting ready to explode, and you da YadA. 0:38:00.800 --> 0:38:02.520 I mean I hope that doesn't happen. Who would want 0:38:02.600 --> 0:38:05.240 anybody to have that happen. But at the same time, 0:38:05.719 --> 0:38:07.359 I think we realize that that's part of the reason 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:10.439 why they kept so much younger depth at wide out 0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:14.120 to sort of protect themselves from what they feel might 0:38:14.320 --> 0:38:18.000 be an inevitability. I don't know. I mean time is 0:38:18.040 --> 0:38:22.120 only going to tell. I just I think that if 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:24.160 Juju is able to stay healthy and stay on the 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:26.680 field and play, you know, let's say, if he's able 0:38:26.719 --> 0:38:31.120 to play fourteen of the seventeen, I think that's also 0:38:31.239 --> 0:38:32.720 qualifies as a bold prediction. 0:38:33.960 --> 0:38:36.640 And if he I'd take fourteen out of seventeen. 0:38:36.880 --> 0:38:38.920 Will you take fourteen out of seventeen for any of 0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:39.920 the receivers, wouldn't you? 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:46.440 I mean, that's health that receivers low key kind of 0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:51.319 a really big problem. I think, you know Parker, you know, 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:54.719 dinged up. I think he's back up practice now, but 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:57.680 you know, prone to getting dinged up, and he's up 0:38:57.680 --> 0:39:00.880 there in age. Yeah, Tykwon, it's like he's going to 0:39:00.920 --> 0:39:02.800 be out for a lot of the season. 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:04.759 Yeah. 0:39:04.800 --> 0:39:08.720 I think they've got They've got a lot of depths 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:12.200 at receiver, but a lot of it is unproven. They 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:17.239 rookies recent signings this summer. Yeah, including some that have 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:19.879 come in pretty late in the process. So you know 0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:22.360 how much they're going to realistically contribute. 0:39:22.400 --> 0:39:25.759 I don't know they do. And here's here's an even 0:39:25.800 --> 0:39:28.520 boulder take along those lines. Kendrick Bourne will be the 0:39:28.520 --> 0:39:34.200 Patriots leading receiver in number of catches and yards and touchdowns. 0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:37.280 Why I didn't think that's bold? I think I agree. 0:39:37.280 --> 0:39:38.239 I don't think that the bold. 0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:41.800 I just don't think DeVante Parker and or Juju Smith 0:39:41.800 --> 0:39:44.840 Schuster may be on the field enough. And if Kendrick 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:49.359 Bourne has, uh, you know, the kind of season that 0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:52.440 we anticipate him having, playing with a little bit of 0:39:52.480 --> 0:39:54.400 a chip on his shoulder, you know, and how he 0:39:54.480 --> 0:39:57.160 might have been used or misused let's say, by the 0:39:57.160 --> 0:40:01.279 previous coaching staff whatever, for whatever reason it is. I 0:40:01.320 --> 0:40:03.200 think Kendrick Bourne is the kind of guy that could 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:06.640 become you know, uh, Mac Jones's binkie and and be 0:40:06.800 --> 0:40:11.239 a reliable target for him. And teams will start to 0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:13.120 realize that. And that's when other teams will get in 0:40:13.160 --> 0:40:15.720 trouble if they start, you know, shading over a safety, 0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:18.520 let's say, to help Kendrick borne out. I'll take my 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:21.520 chances with Juju or DeVante Parker if they're healthy in 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:24.040 the game, either one in single man coverage, I will 0:40:24.040 --> 0:40:27.200 take my chances. Yeah. 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:28.839 Yeah, I mean I think if you know, if they're 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:31.360 if they're in the game, it means they're healthy. And 0:40:31.400 --> 0:40:34.080 if they're healthy, I think they're they're the decent options. 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:36.400 I'm not I'm not all doom and gloom because we 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:36.960 didn't get. 0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:37.440 Hopkins, you know. 0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:39.719 I think I think we've got, you know, some some 0:40:40.000 --> 0:40:43.080 half decent options that receiver. But yeah, if they're healthy, 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:46.279 it's going to be the question, right But yeah, he's opened. 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:47.080 For a big season for KB. 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:50.800 Because I also just really think he's a likable guy. 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:52.440 I wanted to. I want to. I want to see 0:40:52.520 --> 0:40:53.120 him do well. 0:40:53.120 --> 0:40:58.400 Absolutely anything else, Tim, I had. 0:40:58.239 --> 0:41:01.440 A couple of real nuts and bolts quests that I 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:03.840 was hoping to ask Evan. I don't know if he's still. 0:41:03.680 --> 0:41:06.880 There, but Evan is offered practice because Mac Jones is 0:41:06.880 --> 0:41:10.759 getting ready to go speak, so he needs to be 0:41:10.800 --> 0:41:11.279 there for that. 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:14.440 But you can call you you. 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:16.640 Can called Evan and talk to him personally because you'll 0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:19.919 do his Catch twenty two show tomorrow at the same time, 0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:21.560 I might. 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.279 Do, but I might ask you if Adam on the line, sure, 0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:28.120 go ahead. So two of the rookies that we didn't 0:41:28.160 --> 0:41:33.960 see much of, Douglas and Mapu Yep, questions about how 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:39.520 we might see them. Use, does Douglas give the red 0:41:39.640 --> 0:41:41.600 zone off? And any kind of juice with this kind 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:44.640 of short area quickness? No, just thinking especially of the 0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:47.279 the Adalman touchdown in Super Bowl forty nine. 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:49.000 If he can you know, if he if he give 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:50.880 the place, Yeah, if he can run roots like you 0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:53.439 know Julian did, then yeah, you might see that because 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:55.440 as we know, you know, that first step is usually 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:58.200 the lulu and you either you know, hang on to 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:00.600 the cliff or you fall off it. So I mean, 0:42:01.840 --> 0:42:04.960 I would initially say no, because you have a tendency 0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:08.719 to go over the top in red zone situations. But 0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:10.719 at the same time, why not set up some kind 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:13.040 of a screen, even a bubble screen, and let him 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:15.480 get behind a couple of blockers and see if he can't, 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:18.000 you know, make chicken saladut of chicken feathers right and 0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:20.200 get into the end zone that way. So I would 0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:24.000 say initially no, but then upon further review, I'm going 0:42:24.040 --> 0:42:25.399 to figure that they're going to figure out a way 0:42:25.440 --> 0:42:28.920 to get him the ball somehow, some way, anyway they can. 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:31.680 And that's part of the reason why we didn't. That's 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:33.279 part of the reason why none of us saw him 0:42:33.280 --> 0:42:35.640 a lot at all, except for what a couple of 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:38.600 snaps in the preseason, because frankly, I think they're, you know, 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:40.920 they're playing poker. They're holding their cards to the vest. 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:42.520 They don't want anybody to see anything. 0:42:43.960 --> 0:42:45.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we'll see him in the 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:48.080 end zone a bit and then finally quickly Mafoo and 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:52.880 I'll get off the line here. Mafu covering tight end, 0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:55.839 something that Doug has struggled a bit with and it's 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:57.760 been a bit of a week foot on the defense, 0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:01.799 does matter give them anything in tight coverage? 0:43:00.719 --> 0:43:03.400 Sure? All right, all right, Tim, thank you for the 0:43:03.440 --> 0:43:06.200 phone call. Uh. You know, I think you'll probably see 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:08.000 Mapoo this week. And the reason that you'll see him 0:43:08.000 --> 0:43:11.040 is because, as Evan mentioned earlier, uh, you'll probably see 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:15.759 more of a hefty, uh safety heavy safety lineup defensively, uh, 0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:19.239 just because of Philadelphia's uh, you know, pension for you know, 0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:25.279 run pass option as well. I think you can give 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:29.120 him every opportunity to win a job and keep a job. Now, 0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:31.040 I think they'll move him back and forth. I think, 0:43:31.080 --> 0:43:33.799 you know, my thought process is that you might see 0:43:33.840 --> 0:43:36.360 him line up in a linebacker slot, even though technically 0:43:36.640 --> 0:43:38.439 you know, he's a safety, and I think that's where 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:41.560 they sort of envision him. But I don't think they 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:45.839 want to to, you know, stickpin his position. I think 0:43:45.880 --> 0:43:48.319 they want him to be that versatile sort of, you know, 0:43:48.440 --> 0:43:51.080 line up anywhere kind of guy where teams have to 0:43:51.120 --> 0:43:53.480 account for him, because if you have to account for 0:43:53.560 --> 0:43:56.480 him and a sign a guy to him to make 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.399 sure that you've got the blocking responsibilities here. If he's 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:01.719 on the line or reviews, you know, playing a linebacker, 0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:05.560 that's one last guy that can pay attention that you 0:44:05.600 --> 0:44:08.560 need to pay attention to on that end of the field. 0:44:10.200 --> 0:44:12.880 I'm anxious to see him. I'm anxious to see how 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:15.399 many reps he gets. I'm anxious to see how he 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:19.200 matches up. Does he go exclusively exclusively with the other 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:24.640 team's tight ends. Does he cover backs coming out of 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:28.520 the backfield? Does he support well in run defense if 0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:31.080 he's caught on the field in a running down situation. 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:34.760 These are all things that we have to learn about 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:36.719 the kids that you know, we haven't seen yet on 0:44:36.760 --> 0:44:39.640 the field, and I think that obviously will start this week. 0:44:39.920 --> 0:44:42.960 All right, Sean and Vancouver, thanks for hanging in. Sean, 0:44:43.000 --> 0:44:43.800 You're in the playbook. 0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:45.080 Thanks John. 0:44:45.120 --> 0:44:47.600 I'm actually in Montreal right now, heading to the airport. 0:44:47.680 --> 0:44:49.600 Fact, you're still on vacation. 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:55.000 I'm still well at ending. But yeah, oh lucky vacation time. 0:44:55.160 --> 0:44:58.160 I could I could have done with about two more weeks, Sean, 0:44:59.040 --> 0:45:01.280 Not for nothing. I couldn't with about two more weeks, 0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:03.120 a couple of more weeks you know, on the golf 0:45:03.120 --> 0:45:06.080 course without any you know, you know, going to class 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:10.680 and you know, trying to you know, improve impressionable young 0:45:10.760 --> 0:45:12.439 minds in this country. I think I could have gone 0:45:12.480 --> 0:45:17.040 with a couple more weeks of you know, swinging it 0:45:17.480 --> 0:45:18.560 often on the golf course. 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:24.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, my bold prediction might 0:45:24.239 --> 0:45:28.360 not be that bold, is I say the Patriots defense 0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:31.080 will be even better. So they were about seven in 0:45:31.120 --> 0:45:34.160 the NFL and points giving up last year. In twenty 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:35.719 twenty two, I say they're going to be top five. 0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:38.839 Okay, top five is a good one. I think that's 0:45:38.880 --> 0:45:43.719 a reasonable goal. Bold, But you know, but it's bold. Look, 0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:47.520 if they're top five, if they have a top five defense, 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:50.000 I would also tell you that for them to be 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:53.000 a playoff team, they need to be a probably a 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:56.040 right at about a top ten offense. Evan said that earlier, 0:45:56.360 --> 0:45:58.680 and I concur with that. It's got to happen on 0:45:58.719 --> 0:46:01.799 both ends. Could they snare in with say a top 0:46:01.840 --> 0:46:04.680 five or a top three defense and maybe a top 0:46:04.760 --> 0:46:07.920 fifteen offense, Yeah, they could, but a lot of that 0:46:08.000 --> 0:46:11.160 is gonna be dependent upon how the teams around them. 0:46:11.239 --> 0:46:15.720 Do you know, Uh, I was just gonna say. Russell 0:46:15.760 --> 0:46:19.040 Baxter wrote earlier this week that you know, it's not 0:46:19.120 --> 0:46:22.399 impossible for four teams from the same division to get 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:25.200 into the postseason. It's happened a couple of times before. 0:46:25.239 --> 0:46:27.040 I'll get him to expand on that in the next hour, 0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:30.240 but you know, he doesn't think that the AFC East 0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:33.680 is that division this year, and I would, respectfully, you know, 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:37.840 disagree with that because I think all four teams largely 0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:41.680 have the ability to beat each other. The Patriots are 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:44.560 the one that everybody's looking at. Everybody's going to assume, 0:46:45.360 --> 0:46:46.920 you know that the Bills are going to be at 0:46:46.920 --> 0:46:49.000 the top, and that you know the Dolphins are still 0:46:49.000 --> 0:46:51.600 going to be good if you know, he stays, you know, healthy, 0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:53.840 and that you know the Jets are going to be improved, 0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:56.799 and okay, that's fine, but you know what happens when 0:46:56.840 --> 0:46:57.680 you assume. 0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.840 Right, yeah, you make an ass you know, And. 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:03.799 I think that could end up happening. So it'll be 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:06.600 interesting to see how that part unfold. I just I 0:47:06.640 --> 0:47:09.120 think that there is a possibility for that to happen, 0:47:09.360 --> 0:47:12.040 and it could happen right in the AFC East. 0:47:12.960 --> 0:47:15.560 Well, the other thing I want to talk about is 0:47:16.239 --> 0:47:21.080 the game that's upcoming to the Eagles, because we learned 0:47:21.160 --> 0:47:23.200 very little from these pieces and we don't really know, 0:47:23.400 --> 0:47:27.719 especially offense, what the Patriots will be. But they've made 0:47:27.760 --> 0:47:30.560 a lot of moves and we're going to see if 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:35.000 those affect what they had deficiencies with last year. And 0:47:35.080 --> 0:47:37.160 one of them is the mobile quarterback. 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:39.520 So right the way, we get that test with Hurts. 0:47:39.760 --> 0:47:42.399 And if you remember back in two thousand and three, 0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:46.440 the Patriots had Damian Fewart, who isn't you know, anywhere 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:49.000 near as good as Peyton Manning, but he was able 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:52.919 to mimic Manning well enough for the Patriots to win 0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:57.239 that season. And Belichick paised him for that. So we're 0:47:57.239 --> 0:47:59.480 going to see, you know, on the practice squad at 0:47:59.520 --> 0:48:03.520 Cunningham could help the Patriots defense. And with that, I'm 0:48:03.560 --> 0:48:09.520 thinking Mapu maybe spy times on the field when he's closer. 0:48:09.200 --> 0:48:09.680 To the box. 0:48:09.960 --> 0:48:12.759 I love the I love the ability to spy someone, 0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:14.920 especially if we've got the the you know, an athletic 0:48:15.000 --> 0:48:17.440 quarterback who is as much a threat to run as 0:48:17.440 --> 0:48:20.040 he is to throw. The Patriots don't seem to like 0:48:20.120 --> 0:48:23.800 to do that, and they've tried it in the past. 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:27.400 They haven't done well with it. Whenever you think that 0:48:27.440 --> 0:48:29.799 you're you're playing one of these, you know rpo you know, 0:48:29.880 --> 0:48:32.719 geniuses at quarterback, and yeah, the Eagles have one. There's 0:48:32.719 --> 0:48:35.040 no doubt about that that, you know, this would be 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:37.960 the perfect thing to do. I'm not sure that anybody 0:48:38.040 --> 0:48:40.120 wants to play their hand in that regard, even though 0:48:40.160 --> 0:48:42.239 it might very well be that that's the case, that 0:48:42.440 --> 0:48:44.319 there's going to be one guy out there that's sort 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:49.120 of spotting him, spying him, you know, just sticking by him, 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:52.239 putting a hit on him, whatever it may be, to 0:48:52.280 --> 0:48:54.239 make sure that he doesn't burn you. When you have 0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:59.080 somebody as talented as Jalen Hurts Okay, and I thought 0:48:59.120 --> 0:49:01.120 he was talented at all. I thought he got the 0:49:01.160 --> 0:49:04.080 shaft at Alabama my own person's health, and then we saw, 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:06.200 you know, how well he could play at Oklahoma when 0:49:06.200 --> 0:49:11.960 he transferred. I he is a definite MVP candidate and 0:49:12.000 --> 0:49:14.320 he should be considered that because he's such a threat 0:49:14.680 --> 0:49:18.040 with you both talents. He's got a better arm than 0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:20.440 people give him credit for, and his legs are as 0:49:20.440 --> 0:49:24.360 strong as any quarterbacks I think we've seen maybe Ever So, 0:49:24.480 --> 0:49:29.080 when you have that kind of a dual threat, I'd say, 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:32.760 you're not doing your job unless you have somebody somebody 0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:37.640 who has an assignment on him. Period. But when you 0:49:37.760 --> 0:49:40.839 do that, you take away from other areas. And I'm 0:49:40.840 --> 0:49:42.960 sure that would be Bill Belichick's explanation on that one. 0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:45.560 You're taking away from other help that you might need. 0:49:46.520 --> 0:49:49.680 So it's almost damned if you do, damned if you 0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:53.160 don't kind of situation, which leads me to say that 0:49:53.239 --> 0:49:55.880 it will probably be situation situation. 0:49:56.239 --> 0:49:58.280 Yeah, well it's not all the time, but it's definitely 0:49:58.480 --> 0:50:00.719 going to be. I would think they need to do 0:50:00.760 --> 0:50:02.799 that to win. But the other thing I think they 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:05.520 might have addressed and well, again, we're going to see everything. 0:50:05.800 --> 0:50:07.520 This is a great test with this team because the 0:50:07.560 --> 0:50:10.680 Eagles are are such a strong team. But you mentioned 0:50:10.680 --> 0:50:14.799 it before with protecting the quarterback end. Yeah, having there, 0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:18.680 and I think you're going to see more twenty two 0:50:18.400 --> 0:50:22.919 and aspects of two running backs and at the same 0:50:23.000 --> 0:50:26.759 time with Zeke and Stevenson both there so you can 0:50:26.800 --> 0:50:29.160 pass and run with the same personnel. 0:50:29.360 --> 0:50:33.200 Yeah, yeah, I certainly think you'll see them like maybe 0:50:34.719 --> 0:50:38.640 I would say every other series. If not, you know, 0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:41.040 like you know, all right, one guy plays two downs, 0:50:41.080 --> 0:50:43.080 the next guy gets two downs, the nextually get two downs. 0:50:43.120 --> 0:50:45.000 I mean you'll see some kind of a rotation, I 0:50:45.000 --> 0:50:46.880 would think. I mean that's why they went out and 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:50.040 got the guy. So you know, Remandre had a compliment 0:50:50.520 --> 0:50:52.920 and so you had help, you know, blocking in the 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:55.920 offensive backfield, and so you had a guy that you 0:50:55.960 --> 0:50:59.040 know obviously knows how to you know, catch the football 0:50:59.040 --> 0:51:00.920 a little bit. Saw. Thank you for the phone call, 0:51:01.000 --> 0:51:03.279 because I want to ask kind of that of our 0:51:03.840 --> 0:51:06.880 next guest here on the program, Dave Sparrow, who covers 0:51:06.920 --> 0:51:11.040 the Eagles for Philodolph Eagles dot Com. He's at Eagles 0:51:11.040 --> 0:51:14.840 Insider on X formerly known as Twitter to get that 0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:17.319 one in. Dave John Rook here in Foxborough. How are 0:51:17.320 --> 0:51:19.040 you today, Hi. 0:51:18.960 --> 0:51:22.759 John, Good afternoon. I'm doing fine things great, looking forward 0:51:22.800 --> 0:51:23.200 to Sunday. 0:51:23.320 --> 0:51:25.600 Absolutely. Hey, we got to get started with this thing, right, 0:51:26.040 --> 0:51:28.319 Let's get in the summer times over time to get 0:51:28.360 --> 0:51:30.319 down to business at hand. So what are your thoughts 0:51:30.360 --> 0:51:33.120 on what we were just kind of talking about a 0:51:33.160 --> 0:51:36.160 little bit there in terms of, you know, here's a 0:51:36.200 --> 0:51:39.320 guy that Ezekiel Elliott, who the Eagles had faced twice 0:51:39.320 --> 0:51:41.560 a year for as long as he's been in the league. 0:51:41.640 --> 0:51:45.120 What are your thoughts on his worth to a team nowadays? 0:51:45.120 --> 0:51:47.560 That clearly he's not the running back he once was, 0:51:48.400 --> 0:51:51.440 but his ability to block and and and and maybe 0:51:51.440 --> 0:51:55.080 provide leadership and get you the tough yards and you know, 0:51:55.239 --> 0:51:57.520 especially when it comes to Eagles front four, I mean, 0:51:57.760 --> 0:51:59.719 how difficult the guy is he do to a sort 0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:01.160 of play for? You think these days? 0:52:01.840 --> 0:52:04.080 Well, he's always done a really good job against the Eagles. 0:52:04.680 --> 0:52:06.759 He's been very tough in the red zone, very tough 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.160 in the goal line, and I think in the right 0:52:09.200 --> 0:52:13.440 situation he can be very productive. I mean, the Eagles 0:52:13.440 --> 0:52:15.880 are a team that is at least at this point, 0:52:16.400 --> 0:52:18.480 it looks like the Eagles goal with a committee approach 0:52:18.560 --> 0:52:21.400 at the running back position. And I don't look at 0:52:21.480 --> 0:52:23.600 Zeke as somebody who's carrying the ball twenty five times 0:52:23.600 --> 0:52:26.000 a game, but I certainly think he can be effective 0:52:26.120 --> 0:52:29.719 in a role, and so I think the Eagles have 0:52:29.719 --> 0:52:33.440 the utmost respect for the guy. And you know, Stevenson 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:37.000 and Elliott in the backfield sounds like a power running game. 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:40.879 And you know, it's very important to control the line 0:52:40.880 --> 0:52:44.000 of scrimmage and give your quarterback manageable situations, and I 0:52:44.040 --> 0:52:46.480 think Elliott certainly helps Patriots do that. 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:50.720 Well. You know, I think it's almost universal. Almost everybody 0:52:50.760 --> 0:52:52.760 I've read when it comes to talking about the Eagles 0:52:52.760 --> 0:52:55.239 this year feels like the Eagles may have, you know, 0:52:55.320 --> 0:52:57.360 the best roster, top to bottom of any team in 0:52:57.360 --> 0:53:00.440 the NFL. You know, I'm certainly not going to argue 0:53:00.440 --> 0:53:04.239 that point. I think it's extraordinarily deep roster, and the 0:53:04.280 --> 0:53:07.799 front four is as talented, maybe as we've seen in 0:53:07.840 --> 0:53:10.200 recent years. Not blowing smoke up your skirt, I'm just 0:53:10.200 --> 0:53:12.960 telling you, hey, look, seventy sacks kind of speaks for 0:53:13.000 --> 0:53:15.720 itself last year, and I think the Patriots offensive line 0:53:16.080 --> 0:53:20.240 undoubtedly will have more than just its hands full on Sunday. 0:53:20.920 --> 0:53:23.560 What's been the Eagles secret to success? Is it strictly 0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:26.640 on the man personality? Is it the way they run schemes? 0:53:26.880 --> 0:53:29.200 And how will any of that change since there are 0:53:29.239 --> 0:53:32.279 different signal callers you know, you know coming from your 0:53:32.280 --> 0:53:32.919 bench this year. 0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:35.359 Yeah, I mean the last part remains to be seen. 0:53:35.400 --> 0:53:37.719 We really haven't seen obviously anything from Sean Decay in 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:41.200 the preseason. I suspect it'll be relatively similar to what 0:53:41.280 --> 0:53:44.080 Jonathan Gannon did. Eagles until the second half of the 0:53:44.080 --> 0:53:48.239 Super Bowl had a tremendous amount of success defensively last year. So, 0:53:49.000 --> 0:53:51.040 but I think a lot of it's just they invest 0:53:51.920 --> 0:53:54.800 in the draft, They invest at the line of scrimmage, 0:53:54.800 --> 0:53:55.600 on both sides. 0:53:55.360 --> 0:53:55.759 Of the ball. 0:53:55.960 --> 0:53:56.480 Yeah. 0:53:56.600 --> 0:53:59.360 In free agency they invest. I mean they made a 0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:01.560 great move a couple of years ago in free agency 0:54:02.120 --> 0:54:05.319 going out and making Hassan Reddick a priority. He fit 0:54:05.400 --> 0:54:09.080 in perfectly double digit sacks last year. He had sixteen 0:54:09.160 --> 0:54:12.319 sacks All Pro Player recognition in the Pro Bowls. So 0:54:12.800 --> 0:54:15.040 and then you keep adding, then you lose what's really 0:54:15.120 --> 0:54:17.680 interesting to me. And I did a piece earlier in 0:54:17.719 --> 0:54:20.840 the spring about this the Eagles lose Javon Hargrave. I 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:24.280 think the highest contract in free agency went to Hardgrave, 0:54:24.280 --> 0:54:26.480 who signed with the forty nine ers. And there's a 0:54:26.600 --> 0:54:30.279 chance that this front will be better because they have 0:54:30.400 --> 0:54:34.439 some young players developing, like Milton Williams and last year's 0:54:34.520 --> 0:54:37.200 number one Jordan Davis. They go out and trade up 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:39.680 in round number one this year and get Jalen Carter 0:54:40.200 --> 0:54:44.120 and at Contavious three and just keep adding pieces and 0:54:44.160 --> 0:54:47.719 winning with depth. And it's like hockey, bringing players over 0:54:47.760 --> 0:54:50.520 the boards and keeping everybody in a rotation and keeping 0:54:50.520 --> 0:54:55.640 everybody hungry fast off the football, and you know, aimed 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:59.799 at the quarterback. So they've hit on the draft, they've 0:55:00.200 --> 0:55:03.080 free agency, They've developed very well, and they play an 0:55:03.080 --> 0:55:03.799 aggressive scheme. 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:08.000 Yeah. Dave Beraro from Philadelphia Eagles dot Com at Eagles 0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:10.520 Insider joining us here in the playbook. If you really 0:55:10.520 --> 0:55:14.120 want to know, Dave, is the Eagles version of Paul Perillo? 0:55:15.000 --> 0:55:17.439 Is that? Is that you think accurate? Dave? 0:55:17.560 --> 0:55:18.160 Well, I'm not quite. 0:55:18.400 --> 0:55:18.799 I hope. 0:55:18.800 --> 0:55:20.480 So, I mean I think Paul's great. I mean I 0:55:20.719 --> 0:55:22.399 think that as a confidence, Thank you very much. 0:55:25.440 --> 0:55:28.760 Yeah, Well, Paul, Paul's ar kidding around here, we defer 0:55:29.040 --> 0:55:31.239 all of the you know that stuff to him. So 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:33.960 I figured, well, you know, shoot, let's let's go that route. 0:55:34.040 --> 0:55:36.279 Let's take that route because somebody's got to step up 0:55:36.280 --> 0:55:42.520 into that role. How important, Dave is it that Philadelphia 0:55:43.239 --> 0:55:46.880 figure out a way to get to the Patriots offense 0:55:46.920 --> 0:55:50.319 and get to their playmakers on offense early in this game? 0:55:50.400 --> 0:55:53.600 Because I kind of think, look, we talked about this 0:55:53.640 --> 0:55:56.200 in the opening hour without your regulars having really gotten 0:55:56.200 --> 0:55:58.160 a lot of time in the preseason, and I know 0:55:58.200 --> 0:56:01.600 a lot of that's overrated anyway, but let's say, you know, hey, 0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:04.239 it would probably be a bit of a surprise or 0:56:04.239 --> 0:56:06.560 an eyebrow raiser of the releast if you guys came 0:56:06.600 --> 0:56:09.279 out clicking on all cylinders from the get go, just 0:56:09.280 --> 0:56:11.319 because there's gonna be some natural rust. I think that 0:56:11.400 --> 0:56:14.279 has to be worn off a bit. So, you know, 0:56:14.800 --> 0:56:17.000 is it important for this team to get off to 0:56:17.040 --> 0:56:20.919 the fast start against the team that you know, man 0:56:20.920 --> 0:56:24.600 for man probably shouldn't be step for step with the 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:27.719 team that you know has the Eagles talent on this roster. 0:56:28.480 --> 0:56:30.839 I think so, I mean, I look, I know it'll 0:56:30.840 --> 0:56:34.480 be emotional up there with the Tom Brady ceremony. I 0:56:34.520 --> 0:56:38.160 think the fans will be jacked up. And I understand 0:56:38.239 --> 0:56:40.440 that the Patriots head it down year last year and 0:56:40.440 --> 0:56:44.120 they've got a lot to prove. And I think defensively 0:56:44.120 --> 0:56:46.000 for the Eagles, when I look at this defense and 0:56:46.040 --> 0:56:48.239 I say, all right, they don't really know what the 0:56:48.239 --> 0:56:50.359 Patriots are going to do, but maybe they do. They're 0:56:50.440 --> 0:56:53.239 very familiar with Bill O'Brien. They know that they want 0:56:53.280 --> 0:56:55.680 to get the ball out of the quarterback's hands quickly. 0:56:55.680 --> 0:56:58.000 The tight end will be heavily involved. They want to 0:56:58.040 --> 0:57:01.840 run the football, they want to eat some call, they 0:57:01.920 --> 0:57:03.880 want to keep Eagles on their heels. All of that 0:57:03.960 --> 0:57:06.400 is important. See, this is a third straight season the 0:57:06.440 --> 0:57:09.600 Eagles are starting on the road and Nick siriy Andy 0:57:09.600 --> 0:57:09.880 has had a. 0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:10.600 Lot of success. 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:13.680 A win in Atlanta, a win in Detroit kind of 0:57:13.760 --> 0:57:16.880 set the tone for the season. I expect the Eagles 0:57:16.880 --> 0:57:20.120 to come out really aggressively offensively. I think that they 0:57:20.160 --> 0:57:22.840 feel that they match up pretty well with the Patriots, 0:57:22.880 --> 0:57:25.400 with all due respect to me a really good defensive 0:57:25.440 --> 0:57:28.440 front that New England has, But the Eagles the offensive 0:57:28.440 --> 0:57:30.280 line is as good as any of the league, and 0:57:30.360 --> 0:57:33.400 the playmakers on the outside with Smith and Brown outstanding, 0:57:33.480 --> 0:57:36.720 Dallas Goddard at tight end, the multiplicity in the backfield 0:57:36.720 --> 0:57:42.320 with Hurts and some really interesting talent traits in the backfield. 0:57:42.720 --> 0:57:43.960 I mean, I think we're all just dying to see 0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:45.240 what the team is going to be all about, if 0:57:45.240 --> 0:57:47.680 it's what wrinkles they'll add. But yeah, for sure, when 0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:49.000 you're on the road, man, you want to come out 0:57:49.040 --> 0:57:51.800 strong and take it to them and not give a 0:57:51.840 --> 0:57:54.320 team a feeling in the second half that it can 0:57:54.320 --> 0:57:56.200 come back and win the game. So it's very important 0:57:56.240 --> 0:58:00.360 for the Eagles to finish and rather to start strong, finish, 0:58:00.560 --> 0:58:02.960 start fast, finished strong, and that's I think whatever every 0:58:02.960 --> 0:58:03.600 team wants to do. 0:58:03.760 --> 0:58:05.920 You guys have had some injury issues at wide out, No. 0:58:07.440 --> 0:58:12.040 Yeah, not really no. I mean the third receiver, Ques 0:58:12.120 --> 0:58:14.600 Watkins has had a hamstring. But for them, you know, 0:58:14.680 --> 0:58:17.320 coming out of camp in the preseason, AJ Brown's healthy, 0:58:17.640 --> 0:58:21.880 Devonte Smith is healthy. Alamide Zechias has had a minor 0:58:21.920 --> 0:58:25.480 injury that he suffered in the preseason game preseason second 0:58:25.520 --> 0:58:28.160 preseason game, I believe, and so, but he's expected to play. 0:58:28.280 --> 0:58:28.600 I don't. 0:58:29.120 --> 0:58:32.240 I don't think there's really any knock on wood major 0:58:32.360 --> 0:58:35.480 injury concerns for the Eagles coming into this game that 0:58:35.560 --> 0:58:38.320 they manage things pretty well coming off of Super Bowl. 0:58:38.360 --> 0:58:41.960 They really made sure to give the players time away 0:58:42.440 --> 0:58:45.400 from the field, get their legs back, get their energy back. 0:58:45.840 --> 0:58:50.200 Tough loss to the Chiefs emotionally, really put that game 0:58:50.240 --> 0:58:52.280 behind them. I think the Eagles committed this game very 0:58:52.320 --> 0:58:54.439 focused and ready to play a good football game. 0:58:54.480 --> 0:58:57.560 What do you think Nick Sirianni learned about that experience 0:58:57.640 --> 0:59:00.880 last year, especially losing in the way that the team 0:59:00.920 --> 0:59:03.960 did in Kansas City, and how that will affect how 0:59:04.000 --> 0:59:06.960 will might it affect him as a head coach going 0:59:06.960 --> 0:59:07.600 into the season. 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:09.720 Yeah, I mean, you know, the. 0:59:09.720 --> 0:59:12.120 Eagles didn't play their their A game in that Super Bowl, 0:59:12.160 --> 0:59:15.520 and that's a credit to the Chiefs certainly, but it's 0:59:15.520 --> 0:59:19.120 also a learning experience for Jalen Hurston and company. You 0:59:19.200 --> 0:59:22.200 can't fumble and have it returned four touchdowns. You can't 0:59:22.200 --> 0:59:25.040 commit penalties. You can't score three points when you have 0:59:25.040 --> 0:59:27.760 an opportunity to score seven. Your defense has to get 0:59:27.760 --> 0:59:30.640 off the field. You cannot give up a big punt 0:59:30.680 --> 0:59:33.600 return that led to a touchdown. These are things that 0:59:33.720 --> 0:59:37.200 you know the Eagles lament. They went into that game healthy, 0:59:37.720 --> 0:59:40.200 golden opportunity to win their second Super Bowl in five 0:59:40.240 --> 0:59:43.720 seasons came up short. And you know, I gotta tell you, John, 0:59:43.760 --> 0:59:45.960 what they did was really interesting. And this is a 0:59:46.400 --> 0:59:49.080 third super Bowl I've been to with the Eagles. They 0:59:49.200 --> 0:59:51.520 reloaded the roster. They didn't they didn't take their foot 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:53.360 off the gas at all. They knew they had a 0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:57.200 bunch of free agents that they could possibly lose. They 0:59:57.200 --> 1:00:00.520 did lose some. There is change on the defense, but 1:00:00.520 --> 1:00:04.360 they were able to retain James Bradberry and redo Darius 1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:08.200 Slay's contract and keep Brandon Graham and keep Jason Kelcey 1:00:08.240 --> 1:00:11.240 for another year, and add Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith 1:00:11.560 --> 1:00:13.840 in round number one, and those young guys get to 1:00:13.840 --> 1:00:15.920 come in. They don't have to be stars right away, 1:00:16.200 --> 1:00:18.920 but they're expected to be contributors. And when you have 1:00:19.120 --> 1:00:22.040 that kind of depth, you know, you just look at 1:00:22.080 --> 1:00:24.680 the seventeen game season and you say, we're pretty well 1:00:24.720 --> 1:00:27.600 equipped to withstand what we know is coming. And there's 1:00:27.600 --> 1:00:29.680 going to be some injuries. But the Eagles do have 1:00:29.720 --> 1:00:33.000 some depths at most positions, But like every other team, 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:35.480 there's some indispensible players and you just hope you get 1:00:35.480 --> 1:00:38.919 through the season unscathe get to the postseason and really 1:00:38.960 --> 1:00:41.520 play your best football. But it was a learning experience 1:00:41.520 --> 1:00:44.080 for sure. You have to play a great game in 1:00:44.120 --> 1:00:46.280 the Super Bowl to win it. Eagles didn't play a 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:48.520 great game and they came up three points short. 1:00:49.000 --> 1:00:50.760 And for a second there where you're talking about some 1:00:50.840 --> 1:00:52.200 of those young guys coming on, I thought you were 1:00:52.200 --> 1:00:53.960 going to list Superman and Batman in there too. 1:00:54.520 --> 1:00:57.240 It's right. Do you talk about the roster, I mean 1:00:57.480 --> 1:00:59.120 you do look at the rush and you go, whoa, 1:00:59.400 --> 1:01:00.200 there's some time. 1:01:00.200 --> 1:01:02.320 Here, That's what I mean. I looked at your two 1:01:02.400 --> 1:01:04.880 d to then I'm like, I forgot that. I didn't 1:01:04.920 --> 1:01:08.320 know that, you know, I'm like, wow, there's some players. 1:01:07.960 --> 1:01:09.760 Yeah, but there's also some questions. I mean, they have 1:01:09.760 --> 1:01:12.720 two new safeties, They've only got three linebackers on the 1:01:12.760 --> 1:01:16.120 active roster. There's two new starters there. The offensive line 1:01:16.120 --> 1:01:19.080 has a new starter at right guard. The punter, it 1:01:19.120 --> 1:01:21.720 appears at this point, will be Aaron Zippoff, who is 1:01:21.720 --> 1:01:25.400 on the practice squad. So like every team, you know, 1:01:25.440 --> 1:01:29.000 there's roster fluidity, there's question The first week or two 1:01:29.080 --> 1:01:32.840 of the season always unpredictable, and the Eagles They're going 1:01:32.880 --> 1:01:36.120 into a tough environment. The Patriots crowd is going to 1:01:36.160 --> 1:01:39.400 be very, very excited for the day and for the 1:01:39.480 --> 1:01:42.160 celebration and for the start of the season. And I 1:01:42.200 --> 1:01:46.040 suspect to see Mac Jones and Bill Belichick get off 1:01:46.760 --> 1:01:49.000 get off the season in the right way. And I 1:01:49.000 --> 1:01:51.160 think it's really important from the Patriots standpoint that they 1:01:51.520 --> 1:01:54.320 Patriots start the season the right way after a tough 1:01:54.480 --> 1:01:56.920 twenty twenty two seasons. So both teams have a lot 1:01:56.920 --> 1:01:59.000 of great storylines and I really think it will be 1:01:59.040 --> 1:02:01.840 a great, great football game. Of course, one of the 1:02:01.840 --> 1:02:04.120 themes here is that the Eagles are going against Belichick 1:02:04.160 --> 1:02:06.640 and what kind of wrenches is he going to throw 1:02:06.640 --> 1:02:09.200 into the plan? And what kind of surprises will he 1:02:09.440 --> 1:02:11.400 will he give the Eagles, and what will he do 1:02:11.520 --> 1:02:14.880 to give devise to do to slow Daleen Hurts in 1:02:14.960 --> 1:02:17.760 his legs? All fascinating stuff. Can't wait for Sunday. 1:02:17.960 --> 1:02:19.880 All right, Then, a final question for you is what 1:02:19.920 --> 1:02:22.200 I'm asking our fans today is to come up with 1:02:22.240 --> 1:02:25.320 one bold prediction for the Patriots for twenty twenty three. 1:02:25.560 --> 1:02:28.200 How about a bold prediction from you for the Eagles 1:02:28.560 --> 1:02:29.320 for this season? 1:02:30.240 --> 1:02:32.640 Okay, my bold prediction is that the Eagles, for the 1:02:32.680 --> 1:02:36.280 first time in the NFC East since two thousand and 1:02:36.280 --> 1:02:39.360 three two thousand and four, will be a repeat winner 1:02:39.480 --> 1:02:42.480 in the division. Okay, and it's a remarkable statistic, no 1:02:42.760 --> 1:02:45.600 repeat winner in the NFC East since two thousand and three. 1:02:45.680 --> 1:02:48.600 Two thousand and four. Eagles won it last year. History 1:02:48.640 --> 1:02:49.960 says it's going to be really tough to do it 1:02:49.960 --> 1:02:53.120 again this year. Dave Spenero says the Eagles will do 1:02:53.240 --> 1:02:56.040 it again and get off that twenty year schneid. 1:02:56.320 --> 1:02:58.520 God, I love it it. Just there's no sitting on 1:02:58.520 --> 1:03:00.080 the fence with you. That's what I love about it. 1:03:00.120 --> 1:03:04.400 That's great, fantastic. Hey, Dave, safe travels this way and 1:03:04.640 --> 1:03:06.600 best of luck throughout the course of the season. I 1:03:06.680 --> 1:03:08.640 look forward to visiting with you again at some point. 1:03:09.200 --> 1:03:11.520 My pleasure. Thanks for having me and should be a great, 1:03:11.560 --> 1:03:13.560 great game. Can't wait for it to start on Sunday. 1:03:13.720 --> 1:03:16.960 Absolutely, good luck. It is Dave Sponaro again. You can 1:03:16.960 --> 1:03:19.920 find him at Eagles Insider on x dot com or 1:03:19.960 --> 1:03:22.600 whatever the hell it is Twitter, formerly known as Twitter 1:03:22.960 --> 1:03:26.040 YadA YadA. But his stuff is good and like I said, 1:03:26.040 --> 1:03:28.320 he's He's the Eagles version of Paul Parellos. So if 1:03:28.320 --> 1:03:29.640 you really want to know, this is the guy that 1:03:29.680 --> 1:03:31.680 you probably you got to read, you probably got to 1:03:31.680 --> 1:03:35.120 get into. All right. So we're roughly fifteen ten minutes 1:03:35.160 --> 1:03:37.240 away from Russell Baxter, who will join us here in 1:03:37.280 --> 1:03:40.800 the program at eight five five, Pats five hundred, Patty 1:03:40.840 --> 1:03:42.880 and aguam oh. He called in because I had his 1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:45.440 email all ready to go. But Patty's right here on 1:03:45.480 --> 1:03:48.240 the phone. Hi, Patty, what's up? 1:03:48.320 --> 1:03:48.560 John? 1:03:48.600 --> 1:03:48.760 Hey? 1:03:48.880 --> 1:03:51.560 Part of the noise. I'm gonna view my phone when 1:03:51.600 --> 1:03:53.480 I'm not talking, But can I get. 1:03:53.320 --> 1:03:54.280 You two bold prediction? 1:03:54.520 --> 1:03:58.000 Shoot? Go for it all right? 1:03:58.120 --> 1:04:02.880 Number one mac Jones, we'll finish, we'll finish third and 1:04:02.920 --> 1:04:06.840 the AFC and QB rating and number the second fold 1:04:06.880 --> 1:04:10.760 prediction is Patriots go five and one in the division. 1:04:10.960 --> 1:04:15.640 Whoa they split against Buffalo, They sweet Miami and the Jets. 1:04:16.040 --> 1:04:21.880 Wow, all right, that's hmm bold. It might might be 1:04:21.960 --> 1:04:24.240 a couple of other things too, but hey, guess what 1:04:24.320 --> 1:04:26.760 if it happens, then you get the chance to come 1:04:26.800 --> 1:04:28.040 on the show and crow about it. 1:04:29.760 --> 1:04:30.840 I love it, I'll do it. 1:04:31.680 --> 1:04:31.840 Well. 1:04:32.080 --> 1:04:35.000 That's that's pretty good though. The mac Jones one third 1:04:35.040 --> 1:04:38.040 in QB rating or top three in QB rating. Look, 1:04:38.160 --> 1:04:40.320 there's a lot of competition in the AFC, and I 1:04:40.320 --> 1:04:43.160 think we realized that, and for the Patriots to have 1:04:43.200 --> 1:04:48.240 a successful season, Mac has to be an upper half quarterback. 1:04:48.640 --> 1:04:52.760 I'll certainly give you that top three e. It depends 1:04:52.800 --> 1:04:54.959 on the other guys and the other teams, but he's 1:04:55.040 --> 1:04:57.919 got to be based on his performance alone and upper 1:04:58.000 --> 1:05:01.400 half quarterback. And he can't be if the guys in 1:05:01.400 --> 1:05:04.040 front of him cannot block, he can't be. There's no way. 1:05:04.560 --> 1:05:08.600 So that would also be especially bold, I think coming 1:05:08.640 --> 1:05:11.000 fromview not that I think Max's gonna fail. I actually 1:05:11.000 --> 1:05:13.200 think this team is going to surprise. My first bold 1:05:13.240 --> 1:05:16.360 prediction was this team makes the postseason, when you know 1:05:16.400 --> 1:05:17.960 there are a lot of people that don't think that 1:05:18.000 --> 1:05:20.800 will happen. But we mentioned this on last week's show, 1:05:20.840 --> 1:05:29.439 on our preseason or offseason finale, that this I mean 1:05:29.640 --> 1:05:35.520 this this team I think you know. I mean, what 1:05:35.680 --> 1:05:37.240 was the over under? It was six and a half. 1:05:37.280 --> 1:05:39.920 It started I think a bet MGM. It started out 1:05:39.920 --> 1:05:41.520 at six and a half wins and it was up 1:05:41.560 --> 1:05:43.880 at seven and a half last week, and that they 1:05:43.880 --> 1:05:47.080 were still bet MGM was reporting that they were still 1:05:47.120 --> 1:05:50.960 pounding the over on that bet at seven and a half. 1:05:51.440 --> 1:05:53.560 So clearly there are a lot of people out there 1:05:53.600 --> 1:05:56.600 that think that this Patriots team can make the postseason. Now, 1:05:56.720 --> 1:05:58.880 of course, if you win that bet, eight wins isn't 1:05:58.880 --> 1:06:01.160 going to get you into the post. But it just 1:06:01.160 --> 1:06:03.440 sounds to me like there's a lot of optimism surrounding 1:06:03.480 --> 1:06:05.800 this team, and I recognize that, and so I'm hoping 1:06:05.800 --> 1:06:07.800 that a little bit of that rubs off on these guys. 1:06:09.600 --> 1:06:11.880 Yeah, and I just think that Mac mac is probably 1:06:11.920 --> 1:06:15.040 one of the smartest quarterbacks in the league. The fact 1:06:15.040 --> 1:06:17.960 that they that they got Billy O'Brien this year, I 1:06:18.280 --> 1:06:19.560 think that's gonna be a fix. 1:06:19.680 --> 1:06:22.440 Pluz. I've said it all along on you. 1:06:23.160 --> 1:06:27.080 I think the tandem epimin atoran Clem Will. I mean, 1:06:27.120 --> 1:06:30.480 they will scheme things to uh, to make things happen, 1:06:30.560 --> 1:06:32.720 especially in the first four weeks of the season, because 1:06:32.720 --> 1:06:34.800 they're gonna be I mean, it's a murderers row of 1:06:34.840 --> 1:06:37.240 defensive lines that they're going to be playing. And I 1:06:37.280 --> 1:06:39.880 don't think they're You're going to see anything stupid like 1:06:40.240 --> 1:06:42.840 Penn shot plays against these teams, you know, I think 1:06:42.880 --> 1:06:44.680 they're going to try and get the ball out quick, 1:06:44.880 --> 1:06:48.000 be smart about it. Run some quick plans from RPOs. 1:06:48.640 --> 1:06:49.960 You know all the stuff that was. 1:06:49.960 --> 1:06:53.680 In Max Wheelhouse in Alabama, and a lot of the 1:06:53.680 --> 1:06:56.240 the EP offense, you know, a lot of the foundational 1:06:56.320 --> 1:07:00.000 East offense that that's predicated on winning over the middle 1:07:00.080 --> 1:07:03.560 of the field. And Yeah, I think this team's gonna 1:07:03.600 --> 1:07:07.160 win ten games. I think they could make the playoffs. 1:07:07.240 --> 1:07:07.600 I don't know. 1:07:07.640 --> 1:07:09.440 I'm sort of on the fence about that, but I 1:07:09.440 --> 1:07:11.920 think I think you might need to win ten or 1:07:11.960 --> 1:07:14.320 more and then ten. You're gonna need ten with a 1:07:14.400 --> 1:07:16.960 tiebreaker to get the playoffs in the AFC this year. 1:07:17.160 --> 1:07:20.000 That might be the case. Yeah, that might be the case, 1:07:20.000 --> 1:07:22.600 but I would tell you largely, you get to ten wins, 1:07:22.640 --> 1:07:26.120 you're gonna be there. Yeah. 1:07:26.160 --> 1:07:28.400 And you got my prediction. You got my score prediction 1:07:28.520 --> 1:07:31.240 for the week, so I won't I won't have to 1:07:31.280 --> 1:07:32.080 stay it on the air. 1:07:32.640 --> 1:07:36.040 Well, see you said, you said, you said the Eagles 1:07:36.080 --> 1:07:41.040 win twenty eight to twenty seven. Yeah, and Chad Ryland. 1:07:40.760 --> 1:07:43.720 Chad Ryland misses a fifty plus yard field goal with 1:07:43.800 --> 1:07:49.320 less than thirty seconds on the clock to lose it. Yeah, 1:07:50.240 --> 1:07:52.760 aren't you a rolling ball of butcher knives? 1:07:53.160 --> 1:07:56.880 I hope I'm wrong, but I don't know. I think 1:07:56.560 --> 1:07:58.560 I think. I think this team is going to surprise 1:07:58.600 --> 1:08:00.000 a lot of people, and I think I think it's 1:08:00.000 --> 1:08:03.240 it's gonna start Week one, and I think they'll carry 1:08:03.240 --> 1:08:05.720 that momentum out throughout the season, and I think they're 1:08:05.720 --> 1:08:08.560 gonna have a good year. You know, fingers crossed, of course, 1:08:08.640 --> 1:08:12.080 but objectively speaking too, I think you look at last 1:08:12.160 --> 1:08:14.680 year's team. I know the schedules tougher this year, but 1:08:15.200 --> 1:08:18.000 if that team can win eight games with a real 1:08:18.040 --> 1:08:21.680 good defense and a crap show on offense, I mean, 1:08:22.240 --> 1:08:28.040 I think Bill O'Brien and just a working, functioning NFL offense, Yeah, 1:08:28.600 --> 1:08:30.559 and can garner them two more with this year? And 1:08:30.600 --> 1:08:31.559 that's all I got DOWNNY. 1:08:31.720 --> 1:08:34.559 Let's hope that that is the case. I appreciate you, Patty, 1:08:34.680 --> 1:08:37.040 thank you. We hit a couple of emails here real quick. 1:08:37.120 --> 1:08:41.200 Brian in North Bay, California, Welcome back for another season, Jr. 1:08:41.360 --> 1:08:44.240 Easy bolt prediction here Patriots will beat the Eagles twenty 1:08:44.320 --> 1:08:46.840 nine to twenty one. As Tom roots for the team 1:08:46.880 --> 1:08:49.160 on and keeps the crowd in a fervor heading into 1:08:49.160 --> 1:08:51.320 the draft, I didn't bother looking at Christian Gonzales because 1:08:51.320 --> 1:08:53.519 I heard pundit after pundit say he was number one 1:08:53.560 --> 1:08:56.760 on their big board including reporters and callers in pre 1:08:56.880 --> 1:08:59.840 drafted this very playbook. Now that Gonzales fell in his 1:08:59.880 --> 1:09:02.479 own on the team, let's get excited. The secondary is 1:09:02.520 --> 1:09:06.400 a secondary no more than the shout out to Eldred 1:09:06.439 --> 1:09:08.960 there and can't wait to watch a leap in ball 1:09:09.000 --> 1:09:12.120 hawking from Marcus Jones out of the defensive slot. Excited 1:09:12.120 --> 1:09:14.880 for the rookie receivers to get early looks. O'Brian keeps 1:09:14.880 --> 1:09:17.680 the veterans fresh for the playoff push. Big fan of 1:09:17.680 --> 1:09:20.920 adding Keon White and Zeke Elliott. Looking for a monster 1:09:21.040 --> 1:09:25.000 year out of Kyle Duggar. Thank you, Brian, appreciate that 1:09:25.960 --> 1:09:30.120 our buddy Howard and Stratford, Connecticut. Let's see glad to 1:09:30.120 --> 1:09:32.120 have you back for another season of the playbook And 1:09:32.160 --> 1:09:36.160 Patriots football. Oh guys are lucky and sounding great. Well, okay, 1:09:37.240 --> 1:09:43.120 there we go, hey looking at me like that. You 1:09:43.160 --> 1:09:49.280 are here on drugs. Can't wait for the Thursday night 1:09:49.360 --> 1:09:52.519 football tomorrow. And here's hoping the Lions are for real 1:09:52.560 --> 1:09:55.080 and they beat the Chiefs. As for the Patriots, I 1:09:55.080 --> 1:09:56.519 know very few people are going to give them a 1:09:56.600 --> 1:09:58.960 chance against the reigning NFC champs. But I think the 1:09:59.000 --> 1:10:01.840 Pats are improved, especially on d and although they will 1:10:01.840 --> 1:10:04.320 not shut down the Eagles, zho, they're gonna slow it down. 1:10:05.320 --> 1:10:06.760 And he says his key in this game is that 1:10:06.840 --> 1:10:10.439 the patso needs to stay on the field, sustain drives, 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:12.759 and allow the Deed to rest so they are fresh 1:10:12.800 --> 1:10:15.760 come the fourth quarter. If the Oak can do that, 1:10:15.800 --> 1:10:17.680 I believe the improved OA can score enough points to 1:10:17.680 --> 1:10:19.760 win the game thirty to twenty eight on a walk 1:10:19.800 --> 1:10:22.960 off field goal by the rookie kicker Chad Ryland. So 1:10:23.000 --> 1:10:25.439 we got one who says he's gonna blow a fifty 1:10:25.479 --> 1:10:27.800 yarder at the end to lose it, and another says 1:10:27.840 --> 1:10:29.920 he's gonna hit a fifty yarder at the end to 1:10:30.000 --> 1:10:34.639 win it. Why do I think we're gonna miss Nick 1:10:34.680 --> 1:10:41.640 Folk at some point? I just saying, just saying. I 1:10:41.680 --> 1:10:43.640 have nothing against Chad Ryland. I know he's got a 1:10:43.640 --> 1:10:46.080 cannon for a leg. I'm anxious to see him as 1:10:46.120 --> 1:10:48.920 just about anybody. But when you're in close games, your 1:10:49.040 --> 1:10:57.200 kicker makes the diff The guy you had is as 1:10:57.280 --> 1:11:02.160 reliable from inside of fifty yards as anybody in the NFL. 1:11:02.720 --> 1:11:06.200 And now he's kicking for Tennessee. So I'm just gonna 1:11:06.240 --> 1:11:09.960 kind of leave it right there with that one. Nancy Vermiaha, John, 1:11:10.000 --> 1:11:12.120 have you missed me? I started a new career. I 1:11:12.160 --> 1:11:13.920 haven't been able to listen, but I am back and 1:11:13.960 --> 1:11:16.479 love the new broadcast. I will try to listen more often. 1:11:16.520 --> 1:11:19.760 I miss the fun conversations, regular callers, everything. I haven't 1:11:19.760 --> 1:11:22.200 read or followed the team very much this offseason. My 1:11:22.400 --> 1:11:24.880 bold prediction is the Patriots will be second in the 1:11:24.920 --> 1:11:28.160 division and make the playoffs. I like the prediction, Nancy. 1:11:29.240 --> 1:11:31.799 What needs to happen. The offensive line needs to step 1:11:31.920 --> 1:11:34.439 up big time. If you're taking scores for a yearbook, 1:11:34.520 --> 1:11:38.599 I will never receive my prediction. Patriots win twenty three twenty. 1:11:40.240 --> 1:11:42.320 I think that was a shot. Marine, I think that 1:11:42.400 --> 1:11:46.320 was a shot still make the playbooks. I think that 1:11:46.400 --> 1:11:50.200 was definitely a shot. Nelson in La Hey Nelson, you're 1:11:50.240 --> 1:11:51.280 in the playbook. 1:11:51.840 --> 1:11:53.000 Hey, how are you doing today? Man? 1:11:53.200 --> 1:11:58.800 What's happening? Good goods? Everything's great, everything's great. We're ready 1:11:58.800 --> 1:12:00.000 for football. What about you? 1:12:01.160 --> 1:12:03.280 I'm excited. I'm excited, all. 1:12:03.240 --> 1:12:04.639 Right, So tell me why you're excited. 1:12:06.240 --> 1:12:08.440 My position is we're gonna win thirty. 1:12:08.160 --> 1:12:14.280 One to twenty eight, last second field goal, yes, sir, nice, okay. 1:12:14.960 --> 1:12:17.280 And then the question. 1:12:17.120 --> 1:12:20.360 That you asked, yeah, the one that you said, I 1:12:20.360 --> 1:12:22.360 don't know what's. 1:12:21.720 --> 1:12:23.840 A bold prediction? What do you think will happen with 1:12:23.880 --> 1:12:24.800 the Patriots this year? 1:12:25.320 --> 1:12:28.160 My boat position is we're not in the Kansas City 1:12:28.280 --> 1:12:30.040 or the ASC Championship and we go. 1:12:29.960 --> 1:12:30.800 Out to the Super Bowl. 1:12:30.840 --> 1:12:37.200 Bearment, Nelson, you're all right, You're all right. Way to 1:12:37.240 --> 1:12:38.920 have that enthusiasm. 1:12:39.560 --> 1:12:42.920 I'm excited a new era and we're gonna be. 1:12:42.840 --> 1:12:43.760 Out there winning games. 1:12:44.000 --> 1:12:47.240 Okay, all right, last year we were all man. Yeah, 1:12:47.280 --> 1:12:49.800 well we know that that's true. Just as long as you 1:12:49.840 --> 1:12:51.280 don't have a repeat of that, I'll be all good 1:12:51.280 --> 1:12:51.479 with it. 1:12:51.520 --> 1:12:53.679 I can't hear you and one long from all. 1:12:53.640 --> 1:12:57.799 You all out there, man, Okay, okay. I appreciate you, Nelson, 1:12:57.880 --> 1:13:00.400 and thanks for listening. It's always good to have that. 1:13:01.600 --> 1:13:03.600 We got a little bit more to get to, But 1:13:04.120 --> 1:13:08.800 first I want to sort of reintroduce before we play 1:13:08.800 --> 1:13:11.240 his show. Open here a gentleman who I've known for 1:13:11.280 --> 1:13:15.040 a long time, and our time goes back to our 1:13:15.080 --> 1:13:19.559 time together at ESPN Radio. Back well, before before we 1:13:19.640 --> 1:13:24.479 hit the two thousands, predating the millennium. We're going back 1:13:24.520 --> 1:13:28.759 over twenty years now, but he's been a relatively regular, 1:13:28.880 --> 1:13:32.439 if not regular, part of this show since the first 1:13:32.520 --> 1:13:35.599 year we started, which was two thousand and one. Year 1:13:35.680 --> 1:13:41.200 twenty three now the Patriots Playbook, Real woman could stop 1:13:41.280 --> 1:13:41.960 you from drinking. 1:13:42.640 --> 1:13:43.920 That's a real big woman. 1:13:44.320 --> 1:13:47.360 It's time to go around the NFL with football guru 1:13:47.479 --> 1:13:48.240 Russell Baxter. 1:13:48.520 --> 1:13:56.120 Now what my name is? Flounder on Patriots Playbook? Hey Flounder, 1:13:56.200 --> 1:13:56.919 what's happening? 1:13:58.520 --> 1:13:59.320 What was when? 1:14:02.880 --> 1:14:05.719 Uh oh, there goes the phone? Son of a gun? 1:14:05.840 --> 1:14:08.040 Would you I'm gonna I'm gonna put it, hold on, 1:14:08.080 --> 1:14:10.320 I'm gonna play it. Claire's day conversation with him. Wow, 1:14:10.520 --> 1:14:13.040 is that amazing? I know, I know because I heard 1:14:13.080 --> 1:14:15.280 you tell I saw you talking to him and then 1:14:15.400 --> 1:14:17.400 all of a sudden bang. So you want to try 1:14:17.439 --> 1:14:18.880 to pick him up on your end and see if 1:14:18.920 --> 1:14:22.920 it comes back. Yeah, just because you know, I don't 1:14:22.920 --> 1:14:25.080 want to waste any good stuff with Russell. We don't 1:14:25.080 --> 1:14:28.200 want to do that. The background on Russell is he 1:14:28.600 --> 1:14:30.599 was For those that don't know. If you're wondering who 1:14:30.600 --> 1:14:31.759 the heck is this Russell, Baxter. 1:14:31.880 --> 1:14:32.080 Guy. 1:14:32.479 --> 1:14:36.439 Russell was the guy in the ear of Chris Berman 1:14:36.520 --> 1:14:41.200 and Tom Jackson during NFL Sunday Countdown and basically feeding 1:14:41.240 --> 1:14:43.080 them all the info that they had on the air, 1:14:43.280 --> 1:14:48.439 which really helped make that program work for decades at ESPN. 1:14:48.520 --> 1:14:52.040 And he sends matriculated onto doing his own thing now 1:14:52.080 --> 1:14:56.320 and covering the National Football League. Let's try him. Now, 1:14:56.360 --> 1:14:59.719 are you there, buddy, I'm here. Oh there you are. Okay. 1:15:00.000 --> 1:15:02.080 I don't know what happened. You said the first two 1:15:02.120 --> 1:15:06.160 words out of your mouth and all of a sudden, Okay, 1:15:06.240 --> 1:15:07.439 I don't know what happened. 1:15:07.479 --> 1:15:09.280 I was talking to you and then all of a sudden, 1:15:09.320 --> 1:15:11.280 Boomer and Tommy, you were asking me questions. 1:15:14.120 --> 1:15:15.719 Do they still ask you questions today? 1:15:16.680 --> 1:15:20.880 Well, we talk on different levels. I actually talked with 1:15:20.960 --> 1:15:22.320 christ a couple of days ago. 1:15:22.160 --> 1:15:25.479 And great one good And then listen. 1:15:25.320 --> 1:15:29.320 Those are they're family members? 1:15:29.479 --> 1:15:33.000 Yeah? Right for life? Okay, right of course. 1:15:34.320 --> 1:15:34.439 Uh. 1:15:34.600 --> 1:15:38.160 You know what, there's a reason you hear the words 1:15:38.240 --> 1:15:39.280 uncle Boomer in my house? 1:15:41.520 --> 1:15:44.360 Hey, and you had you had another family member decide 1:15:44.400 --> 1:15:48.040 to step aside. This week with the retiring of mister 1:15:48.080 --> 1:15:51.320 Mortenson from covering the NFL actively on ESPN. 1:15:52.000 --> 1:15:54.360 You know, I was, I was hoping you'd ask me 1:15:54.400 --> 1:15:59.120 about more because and you're gonna have to bear with 1:15:59.160 --> 1:16:03.360 me because when I found out yesterday, he's one of 1:16:03.400 --> 1:16:06.120 the kindest and actually one of the funniest human beings 1:16:06.160 --> 1:16:12.400 that ever met by life. Always such perspective, such professionalism, 1:16:13.400 --> 1:16:15.599 and I'm not even doing them justice and stuff, but 1:16:15.680 --> 1:16:19.160 you know, the the what he brought to our meetings, Uh, 1:16:19.479 --> 1:16:22.479 it was more than just information, you know, it was 1:16:22.960 --> 1:16:26.479 the love, the respect for you know, what he did 1:16:27.240 --> 1:16:29.439 and so on, and you know, he's one of those 1:16:29.439 --> 1:16:31.640 people I really miss. I got to see him at 1:16:31.680 --> 1:16:33.920 the Hall of Fame a couple of years ago. He 1:16:34.000 --> 1:16:36.439 made me laugh. He always makes you laugh and so 1:16:36.880 --> 1:16:40.600 and you know, he's uh, you know, I posted I 1:16:40.680 --> 1:16:42.680 posted a picture of that we took at the Hall 1:16:42.680 --> 1:16:48.120 of Fame three or four years ago. He's uh, he was. 1:16:48.240 --> 1:16:52.920 He was a pivotal part of the business. And you know, 1:16:53.360 --> 1:16:56.280 you know before the before that, you know, John, before 1:16:56.320 --> 1:17:00.599 this day of cell phones okay, which I'm dating myself, 1:17:00.760 --> 1:17:03.960 you know not you know, listen, I'm not talking you know, 1:17:04.080 --> 1:17:07.200 wireless communication and ticker tape or anything like that. But 1:17:07.800 --> 1:17:10.360 you know, I can remember being in the studios when 1:17:10.360 --> 1:17:13.040 we used to do the Monday night show, which was 1:17:13.280 --> 1:17:15.680 actually called NFL Prime Monday if you. 1:17:15.760 --> 1:17:17.639 Remember sure originally yeah. 1:17:17.560 --> 1:17:19.640 Started in nineteen ninety three. It was kind of like 1:17:19.680 --> 1:17:23.400 in a trailer outside the main complex and so on. 1:17:23.479 --> 1:17:26.439 That was the step we used, and and then we 1:17:26.479 --> 1:17:29.160 moved inside, you know, with you know, running water and 1:17:29.600 --> 1:17:30.320 all that stuff. 1:17:30.479 --> 1:17:31.799 Yeah, they invited you in the building. 1:17:32.000 --> 1:17:38.000 Yeah, but I can remember many an instance where again 1:17:38.160 --> 1:17:41.360 before cell phones and more than the studio being paged 1:17:42.520 --> 1:17:45.080 that you have a call, and you know, it was 1:17:45.080 --> 1:17:48.640 a who's who who people who were calling more. Yeah, okay, right, 1:17:48.840 --> 1:17:52.320 So he commanded that much respect. He still commands that 1:17:52.400 --> 1:17:55.040 much respect. And I know he'll I hear from him 1:17:55.040 --> 1:17:57.559 on Twitter and every once in a while I'll get 1:17:58.160 --> 1:18:02.960 a nice little message and so on. But what he 1:18:03.040 --> 1:18:07.719 did for ESPN in terms of credibility, he can't be topped. 1:18:08.479 --> 1:18:11.920 And I was, well, he was the original insider Russell. 1:18:11.960 --> 1:18:14.519 I mean, he was Adam Schefter before Adam Schefter was 1:18:14.520 --> 1:18:15.160 Adam Schefter. 1:18:15.920 --> 1:18:19.080 I think in some ways Adam can considers him a mentor. 1:18:20.280 --> 1:18:22.040 You know, those are my words on essay, But I 1:18:22.880 --> 1:18:26.720 think if you read anything that Adam wrote yesterday on Twitter. Yea, 1:18:28.360 --> 1:18:30.599 you know they worked tied by side the last couple 1:18:30.600 --> 1:18:33.439 of couple of years. Adam was at the NFL Network 1:18:33.479 --> 1:18:38.479 and came over and joined us, and yeah, it's, uh, 1:18:39.320 --> 1:18:41.880 you know, communication is so much different now and so on, 1:18:42.120 --> 1:18:46.840 but just what more brought to ESPN and to me 1:18:47.000 --> 1:18:51.719 personally as a human being can't be replaced and won't 1:18:51.720 --> 1:18:54.360 be replaced, because he'll be he'll be around for a 1:18:54.400 --> 1:18:56.800 long time and he'll still be making us laugh. And 1:18:57.560 --> 1:19:01.439 you know, the perspective he has with you know, with 1:19:01.520 --> 1:19:03.599 players around the league, and the respect he has are 1:19:03.640 --> 1:19:06.320 in the league and so on. You know, that's something 1:19:06.360 --> 1:19:09.639 you learn over time, and that's something still never ever right. 1:19:10.000 --> 1:19:12.120 So yeah, it was always so much fun when I 1:19:12.200 --> 1:19:15.320 was doing regular radio stance in Bristol. Uh, it was 1:19:15.640 --> 1:19:18.240 we always look forward to having an NFL segment and 1:19:18.280 --> 1:19:21.200 whether it was you or Mart or whomever else was 1:19:21.280 --> 1:19:24.080 doing it at the time, Susie Cobra a lot. That 1:19:24.200 --> 1:19:26.280 was always a lot of fun. We got energized and 1:19:26.360 --> 1:19:30.160 charged up because they were energized. They were charged up 1:19:30.200 --> 1:19:33.080 and they knew so we knew we were about to 1:19:33.080 --> 1:19:35.760 get an education and Moret was the one that always 1:19:35.920 --> 1:19:38.200 kind of led the way we were there. 1:19:38.920 --> 1:19:40.640 You know, I was talking to Tommy about this not 1:19:40.680 --> 1:19:44.040 too long, but we were there at such a magical time. 1:19:44.120 --> 1:19:46.559 And I'm not saying that the disparage what goes on 1:19:46.600 --> 1:19:49.400 there now it's a different network. I understand that, and 1:19:49.400 --> 1:19:51.760 so I'm long moved in there. I've been going a 1:19:51.760 --> 1:19:54.720 dozen years. I'm not a person to go back and say, well, 1:19:54.800 --> 1:19:57.600 this is that, this and bat, but we happened to be. 1:19:57.920 --> 1:20:03.280 I think what was fortunate for us is when ESPN 1:20:03.320 --> 1:20:06.639 got the NFL contract in nineteen eighty seven and they 1:20:06.680 --> 1:20:12.320 started doing Sunday night games. NFL Draft was already on ESPN, 1:20:12.320 --> 1:20:16.559 and it was originally on ESPN, and then slowly but surely, 1:20:17.160 --> 1:20:19.479 you know, it became the Sunday night game. And then, 1:20:19.520 --> 1:20:21.799 of course I was very, very lucky. You were alluded 1:20:21.880 --> 1:20:24.960 to it of doing NFL Prime time in the studio 1:20:25.040 --> 1:20:28.120 with Chris and Tommy, which I did in the studio 1:20:28.200 --> 1:20:31.000 part of it for seventeen years. Yeah, never missed the show. 1:20:32.000 --> 1:20:36.720 Why would you and the beauty watching those two guys, 1:20:37.439 --> 1:20:41.000 especially John and you'll understand, especially doing the late highlights, 1:20:41.080 --> 1:20:44.280 Oh yeah, because we would sit in what we'd call 1:20:44.360 --> 1:20:47.880 the war room, watch the game, and you know, you 1:20:48.200 --> 1:20:52.800 could pay admission watching the games in there with Chris. 1:20:52.160 --> 1:20:55.160 I believe that. I believe that, Hey, did he ever 1:20:55.280 --> 1:20:58.080 use his calls? Well, you guys were watching all those games, 1:20:58.160 --> 1:21:03.360 he could go all the way. Did you ever say that. 1:21:04.280 --> 1:21:08.880 Chris would allude to stuff and so on? And you 1:21:08.920 --> 1:21:11.960 know the banter that went on because these guys, you know, 1:21:12.000 --> 1:21:15.800 everybody knew each other so well and so on, and 1:21:18.600 --> 1:21:20.439 so I'll just take you through a typical day as 1:21:20.479 --> 1:21:22.600 we got you got ready for the show. You know, 1:21:22.840 --> 1:21:25.519 roughly about six o'clock, the production assistants would come up 1:21:25.560 --> 1:21:28.320 with their highlight packages and what we'd call shot sheets, 1:21:28.560 --> 1:21:30.639 and they would go, oh, we're and you know, produce 1:21:30.680 --> 1:21:33.439 whoever was producing the show would lay out the order 1:21:33.680 --> 1:21:36.040 doing then the beauty. When we had the NFL contract, 1:21:36.240 --> 1:21:38.840 I was there was we could show thirty seconds of 1:21:38.880 --> 1:21:41.439 a game, we could show nine minutes of a game. 1:21:41.560 --> 1:21:44.799 You weren't limited. It depended on how the game unfolded. 1:21:46.600 --> 1:21:49.040 We want to pretty much show you all all ninety 1:21:49.080 --> 1:21:53.200 three points, so you've never got short changed in that regard. 1:21:53.840 --> 1:21:57.160 But again I used the beauty again it was the 1:21:57.240 --> 1:22:00.519 late games, John, when the production assistance would come into 1:22:00.520 --> 1:22:03.920 the set and hand Tommy and Boomery the shot sheets. Now, 1:22:03.920 --> 1:22:06.600 we had been watching the games, but we didn't know 1:22:06.720 --> 1:22:09.679 necessarily what was on the highlight and you would never 1:22:09.760 --> 1:22:11.880 be able to You could never tell that after watching 1:22:11.920 --> 1:22:14.719 these guys do what they did, and they just played 1:22:14.760 --> 1:22:17.920 off each other and the chemistry was unrilled between the 1:22:17.960 --> 1:22:19.920 two of them. And you know, as many people know 1:22:20.000 --> 1:22:25.040 that that that that means studio at ESPN is name 1:22:25.120 --> 1:22:26.840 named after Chris Bernman and Tom Jackson. 1:22:29.280 --> 1:22:30.479 That doesn't shock me at all. 1:22:32.640 --> 1:22:35.479 Well, I mean it was you know set Deon said 1:22:35.560 --> 1:22:39.400 he built the Georgia Dome, Right, Yeah, Chris and Tommy 1:22:39.439 --> 1:22:40.640 built that built. 1:22:40.320 --> 1:22:42.840 That room, no question. By the way, I'm going to 1:22:42.920 --> 1:22:44.880 digress here before we get to the games this week. 1:22:45.080 --> 1:22:48.400 What are the impressions of UH coach Prime in his 1:22:48.520 --> 1:22:51.120 debut at Colorado and what he's done in such a 1:22:51.120 --> 1:22:52.080 short amount of time. 1:22:53.000 --> 1:22:56.479 Well, I mean I'm watching the I watched most of 1:22:56.520 --> 1:22:59.960 the first half UH the other day and it was 1:23:00.200 --> 1:23:02.439 hard to believe. And I don't watch a lot of 1:23:02.479 --> 1:23:07.559 college football, but it was almost hard to believe that TCU. 1:23:07.160 --> 1:23:09.680 Was the favorite guy, and I was listen, I kind 1:23:09.680 --> 1:23:11.560 of knew. I knew going in TC is gonna have 1:23:11.600 --> 1:23:13.920 a hard time for a couple of reasons. Number one, 1:23:14.000 --> 1:23:17.160 the hype behind Dion. Number two, when he's had a 1:23:17.240 --> 1:23:20.160 chip on his shoulder, he always came through as a player, 1:23:20.360 --> 1:23:23.400 I mean always, That's that's why he was who he was. 1:23:23.640 --> 1:23:25.840 And number three, they lost half their damn roster from 1:23:25.920 --> 1:23:31.280 last year, so I wasn't sure they would get upset, 1:23:32.000 --> 1:23:33.920 but I certainly knew it was gonna be a good game, 1:23:33.960 --> 1:23:36.200 and we that that certainly happened. 1:23:37.120 --> 1:23:41.240 And since we're in name dropping territory here, I had 1:23:41.240 --> 1:23:43.439 an opportunity to work with Dion Standers on Thursday Night 1:23:43.520 --> 1:23:46.320 Football in twenty fifteen. Yeah, so I got I got 1:23:46.320 --> 1:23:48.080 to know Dion a little and so and he wasn't 1:23:48.080 --> 1:23:50.439 coaching any of us where he had a coach there 1:23:50.520 --> 1:23:54.559 named Bill Kawers, So you know, I got to know 1:23:54.640 --> 1:23:56.960 him a little a little bit personally and so on 1:23:58.080 --> 1:24:00.920 that fire in his belly, and you know, watching this 1:24:01.000 --> 1:24:06.400 and I think you know people with Dion Standers because 1:24:06.400 --> 1:24:09.920 he is very brash and outspoken and confident and so on, 1:24:10.320 --> 1:24:12.240 you know. And and that was in full display when 1:24:12.280 --> 1:24:15.120 he went in the Hall of Fame as well. I 1:24:15.160 --> 1:24:18.240 think people have mixed opinions about him and so on. 1:24:18.360 --> 1:24:19.479 You can't deny the talent. 1:24:20.240 --> 1:24:20.479 Uh. 1:24:20.560 --> 1:24:23.760 And now he suddenly, uh you know, turns out to 1:24:23.760 --> 1:24:26.879 be one hell of a coach. And again it's one game. Okay, 1:24:26.960 --> 1:24:29.160 so it's one game. But it was very impressive. It 1:24:29.200 --> 1:24:31.639 was it was not so much that they won, it 1:24:31.680 --> 1:24:35.400 was it was the poise in which they. 1:24:35.280 --> 1:24:40.760 Were his son and exactly his son is is is 1:24:40.800 --> 1:24:42.960 a is an outstanding. 1:24:42.200 --> 1:24:48.160 Athlete, right And watching, like I said, watching that contest, 1:24:49.080 --> 1:24:52.040 you know, I think people somehow got the impression because 1:24:52.040 --> 1:24:55.680 he had overhauled the team roster and so on, and 1:24:55.760 --> 1:24:58.200 he was going in here as his first game as 1:24:58.200 --> 1:25:01.240 they head coached, that he was going to be ill. Yeah. 1:25:01.720 --> 1:25:07.080 And uh, you know again, if on face value, if 1:25:07.080 --> 1:25:10.640 you didn't know anything about Colorado and you see you, 1:25:10.640 --> 1:25:13.200 you would have sworn Colorado with a much better football thing. 1:25:14.000 --> 1:25:16.880 Yeah, without a doubt. All right, let's talk about the 1:25:16.920 --> 1:25:18.760 football teams in front of us for Week one in 1:25:18.800 --> 1:25:21.640 the NFL season. I gotta admit I think there's a 1:25:21.640 --> 1:25:25.920 lot of anticipation, more so on the Lion's part. Than 1:25:25.960 --> 1:25:28.840 the Chiefs part tonight or I should say tomorrow night. 1:25:29.000 --> 1:25:32.400 Keep thinking this is Thursday. You know, Hey, these. 1:25:31.040 --> 1:25:33.960 Days these three or four times in the next. 1:25:34.000 --> 1:25:36.800 Yeah, these date changes kill me. I mean we for 1:25:36.960 --> 1:25:39.800 twenty years? How many years? This is your twenty three? 1:25:40.160 --> 1:25:42.600 I think? Were we Thursdays primarily on this show? We 1:25:42.640 --> 1:25:45.000 did that once upon a time. We did three days 1:25:45.040 --> 1:25:47.920 a week, but you always came on with us on Thursdays. 1:25:48.240 --> 1:25:50.840 And then when I started teaching a few years ago, 1:25:50.880 --> 1:25:52.960 we had to cut it back to two. And now 1:25:53.000 --> 1:25:56.280 because my teaching schedule has picked up, it's one day 1:25:56.320 --> 1:25:58.640 a week, but it's always been Thursdays. This year we 1:25:58.680 --> 1:26:00.839 moved to Wednesday's for the first time in twenty years. 1:26:00.600 --> 1:26:03.200 Soon, which is why I want to go Wednesday. I 1:26:03.240 --> 1:26:06.040 wanted to do Wednesday, Adams, because there is no Thursday at. 1:26:06.000 --> 1:26:10.320 Him a bottom. I like that. I like it. It 1:26:10.360 --> 1:26:14.960 works for me. The uh, the anticipation for Thursday's game, 1:26:15.760 --> 1:26:17.960 I think is all about the Lions as opposed to 1:26:18.000 --> 1:26:19.160 the Chiefs. What are your thoughts? 1:26:20.560 --> 1:26:23.120 Well, I agree, I mean, you know, this is the 1:26:23.320 --> 1:26:25.720 second time in four years at Kansas City's opening the 1:26:25.760 --> 1:26:31.000 season as defendive Super Bowl champions We pretty much know 1:26:31.160 --> 1:26:33.479 them and have gotten to know them. I mean, they 1:26:33.600 --> 1:26:35.439 have been in the playoffs eight years in the row. 1:26:35.479 --> 1:26:39.000 They've been the UH three of the last four super Bowls, 1:26:39.240 --> 1:26:42.760 won a couple of titles. You know, we've got I 1:26:42.840 --> 1:26:45.160 know this. We've gotten to know Arrawhead Stadium pretty well 1:26:45.200 --> 1:26:48.800 because every playoff game they've played, except for the Super 1:26:48.800 --> 1:26:51.640 Bowl has been in Arrawhead Stadium. With Patrick Mahomes, they 1:26:51.640 --> 1:26:56.000 have He hasn't played a Roade playoff game yet. So 1:26:56.280 --> 1:26:58.640 I think we know this team. Obviously a lot of 1:26:58.720 --> 1:27:01.519 national exposure and for all the right reasons, Andy Reid's 1:27:01.560 --> 1:27:05.080 and Andy Reid is the longest tenured head coach in 1:27:05.120 --> 1:27:08.760 the league, just not with the same team. Andy's first 1:27:08.840 --> 1:27:11.160 year head coach was nineteen ninety nine with the Eagle, 1:27:11.560 --> 1:27:15.280 one year before Bill Belichick, right little in resting factor. 1:27:15.400 --> 1:27:18.160 So we've gotten to know them. What do we know 1:27:18.200 --> 1:27:22.000 about the Lions? Well, we know the last time the 1:27:22.040 --> 1:27:25.599 Lions won a playoff game was eight years before Andy 1:27:25.640 --> 1:27:27.840 Reid became a head coach of the Eagle. That was 1:27:27.920 --> 1:27:28.760 nineteen ninety one. 1:27:28.840 --> 1:27:29.439 That's crazy. 1:27:29.600 --> 1:27:33.000 Well, the last time they won a division title was 1:27:33.120 --> 1:27:36.760 nineteen ninety three. It was called the NFC Santral not 1:27:36.800 --> 1:27:38.800 the NFC Wars, and there were five teams in that. 1:27:38.920 --> 1:27:42.439 Division the NFC Norris right. 1:27:42.400 --> 1:27:45.000 And thank you very much, be going to Boomer, yep. 1:27:45.240 --> 1:27:47.840 And the last time the Lions won a title, and 1:27:47.880 --> 1:27:51.120 by the way, they won four NFL titles in their 1:27:51.160 --> 1:27:55.160 proud history, was nineteen fifty seven, which is two years 1:27:55.160 --> 1:27:59.120 before I was born, all right, and I just turned 1:27:59.120 --> 1:28:03.720 sixty four a couple of days ago, So he's the 1:28:03.760 --> 1:28:05.760 maths on that one. So we don't know much but 1:28:05.880 --> 1:28:08.920 the years. What we know about the current Lions, we 1:28:09.040 --> 1:28:12.960 know that they were fit in the league and scoring 1:28:13.040 --> 1:28:16.760 last year, John, their defense played better at the end 1:28:16.800 --> 1:28:19.840 of the year one time last year they were one 1:28:19.880 --> 1:28:22.440 and six. They won eight of their last ten games. 1:28:23.479 --> 1:28:26.000 So they knocked the Packers out of the playoffs in 1:28:26.000 --> 1:28:29.080 the final Sunday night game of the year, and they 1:28:29.080 --> 1:28:33.800 did it at lambeau Field. Dan Campbell was obviously drawn 1:28:33.920 --> 1:28:36.360 a lot of attention I think his first year there 1:28:36.400 --> 1:28:38.559 because of some of the wacky things he was saying, 1:28:39.120 --> 1:28:43.200 and apparently it is paying off for that franchise. Now 1:28:43.240 --> 1:28:46.560 they obviously want to take the next step and obviously, 1:28:47.160 --> 1:28:50.640 winning a game against the defending Super Bowl champions on 1:28:50.720 --> 1:28:56.880 open night would be pretty herculean. Now I've lotched the 1:28:56.960 --> 1:29:00.400 numbers here, because Patrick Mahomes usually comes out with a 1:29:00.479 --> 1:29:05.200 bang that the chiefs of one eight eight season openers. 1:29:05.600 --> 1:29:08.120 He's been the starting quarterback in the last five john 1:29:08.600 --> 1:29:11.519 All he's on his throne. Eighteen touchdown passes and zero 1:29:11.600 --> 1:29:15.120 interceptions in those five games. 1:29:15.560 --> 1:29:17.719 I gotta admit, I mean, you know, it'd be pretty 1:29:17.720 --> 1:29:20.160 hard not to root for that if you're going to 1:29:20.280 --> 1:29:23.439 root for somebody in this particular instance, because look, I 1:29:23.479 --> 1:29:25.400 don't root for teams per se, I kind of root 1:29:25.400 --> 1:29:27.720 for stories. Maybe that's just the reporter, the journalist, the 1:29:28.120 --> 1:29:30.479 you know, you know, the media type in me, because 1:29:31.160 --> 1:29:34.320 better stories just make for more interests. As far as 1:29:34.360 --> 1:29:38.720 I'm concerned all the way around, if anybody's gonna come 1:29:38.800 --> 1:29:41.920 close to what Tom Brady has done in his career, 1:29:42.520 --> 1:29:44.880 I've been of the opinion for pretty much the last 1:29:44.960 --> 1:29:49.200 year or so that Patrick Mahomes could be that guy. 1:29:49.600 --> 1:29:54.240 When does that chatter continue to kick up? When does 1:29:54.479 --> 1:29:57.080 you know? And does it? Does it? Does it take 1:29:57.120 --> 1:29:59.760 on a life of itself? If Kansasity finds himself back 1:29:59.760 --> 1:30:01.080 in the Super Bowl again, this year. 1:30:02.680 --> 1:30:05.720 Well, yeah, because it takes on the life of its own, 1:30:05.720 --> 1:30:10.640 because it becomes uh in some ways, there are so 1:30:10.720 --> 1:30:14.320 many people out there who want somebody to be the 1:30:14.360 --> 1:30:19.720 next goat, right, right, right, and because God knows we 1:30:19.760 --> 1:30:22.160 need a goat, you. 1:30:22.120 --> 1:30:23.840 Know, today's coach. 1:30:24.720 --> 1:30:28.000 We must live on a farm. You know, there's got 1:30:28.080 --> 1:30:31.160 somebody has to be the greatest of all time. And 1:30:31.880 --> 1:30:36.080 for people who maybe I don't think Tom Brady was 1:30:36.160 --> 1:30:39.439 the coat. Okay. And by the way, it's so it's 1:30:39.439 --> 1:30:42.720 such a ridiculous concept because it's all matter in any way, 1:30:43.439 --> 1:30:47.240 and so on. You know, you see this this young 1:30:47.280 --> 1:30:51.000 man come in and honestly do some things that we 1:30:51.080 --> 1:30:54.360 haven't seen done. I mean, last year Patrick Mahomes became 1:30:54.439 --> 1:30:57.560 the first quarterback in the Super Bowl era, and we 1:30:57.680 --> 1:31:00.200 need the NFL and tasting yards and win the Super 1:31:00.200 --> 1:31:04.120 Bowl the same year. Now that's not a small tag. 1:31:04.200 --> 1:31:08.599 That's fifty seven years okay. So, I mean, he had 1:31:08.640 --> 1:31:11.040 a lot to do with it. And I found it 1:31:11.080 --> 1:31:15.640 so ironic that in the Super Bowl, in which he 1:31:15.760 --> 1:31:18.040 was named Super Bowl MVP. And don't get me wrong, 1:31:18.040 --> 1:31:21.320 you play the hell of the game, the guy who 1:31:21.360 --> 1:31:23.479 threw for over five thousand yards didn't even throw for 1:31:23.479 --> 1:31:25.720 two hundred yards in the Super Bowl. You know, I 1:31:25.800 --> 1:31:27.599 felt that they won that Super Bowl in the second 1:31:27.640 --> 1:31:31.080 half by running the football against an Eagles defense that 1:31:31.280 --> 1:31:34.920 was tied for sixteenth in the league against the run. Yep, 1:31:35.200 --> 1:31:37.840 you know. It's as you know, and this is an 1:31:38.160 --> 1:31:42.280 unequivocal fact, it is impossible to sack the quarterback when 1:31:42.280 --> 1:31:43.679 the running back had football. 1:31:43.840 --> 1:31:47.400 Yeah, that's also true. That's a stat that won't appear right. 1:31:47.960 --> 1:31:50.360 Think about this, John, The team that had seventy sacks 1:31:50.439 --> 1:31:53.559 during the regular season, yeah, and eight or nine more 1:31:54.240 --> 1:31:56.560 against the Giants, and the forty nine Ers in playoffs 1:31:57.080 --> 1:31:59.360 had no sacks in Super Bowl fifty seven. 1:31:59.479 --> 1:32:06.679 Yeah. That's nuts. That's nuts. Yeah, that's crazy. The lineup 1:32:06.720 --> 1:32:09.759 this weekend seeming to be obviously pretty spread out. Evenly, 1:32:10.280 --> 1:32:12.800 everybody's playing the first one. I think there are a 1:32:12.880 --> 1:32:16.240 couple of intriguing matchups, like the forty nine Ers playing 1:32:16.280 --> 1:32:19.960 at the Steelers. I would say the Cowboys playing at 1:32:20.000 --> 1:32:23.360 the Giants, which is the Sunday night game. But to me, 1:32:23.520 --> 1:32:26.240 the two games other than the Patriots and Eagles that 1:32:26.280 --> 1:32:29.240 I think I might be most interested in Dolphins at 1:32:29.360 --> 1:32:33.160 Chargers Sunday afternoon, which goes up against the Eagles Patriots game, 1:32:33.439 --> 1:32:36.920 and then Monday night bills at the Jets kind of 1:32:36.960 --> 1:32:39.080 anxious to see how Aaron Rodgers is going to look. 1:32:40.720 --> 1:32:43.040 Well, I'm just I was just wrapping up my food 1:32:43.040 --> 1:32:46.960 first thought for full press coverage and of course my 1:32:47.000 --> 1:32:49.720 five key statistics, which we'll see over in the next 1:32:49.720 --> 1:32:53.679 twenty four hours. Ago mine always grateful that Eing Glendon 1:32:53.720 --> 1:32:56.960 gives me a chance to write that for full press coverage, right, 1:32:57.040 --> 1:33:00.920 And I was making the point that do you think 1:33:00.960 --> 1:33:04.320 that Jets, Now think about this for a second. Many 1:33:04.400 --> 1:33:10.040 consider Aaron Rodgers last year, coming off a down season. Okay, now, 1:33:10.160 --> 1:33:13.120 he threw twelve interceptions, don't get me wrong, that's very 1:33:13.200 --> 1:33:16.800 high for him. Okay, he's not a double digit interception guy. 1:33:17.400 --> 1:33:20.840 He only threw twenty six touchdown passes. Now that's an 1:33:20.840 --> 1:33:24.360 August total as well. But when you consider the Jets 1:33:24.439 --> 1:33:28.000 offense in general score twenty eight touchdowns in seventeen games, 1:33:28.280 --> 1:33:30.080 I'm going to take a leap of faith and thinks 1:33:30.160 --> 1:33:33.879 Aaron Rodgers is going to have somewhat of an impact 1:33:33.920 --> 1:33:38.000 on this offense. Now, what's also going to be interesting 1:33:38.040 --> 1:33:42.040 about this game is it's his first game. As with 1:33:42.160 --> 1:33:47.040 the Jets, it's his first game versus an AFC East opponent, 1:33:47.600 --> 1:33:53.320 but not necessarily because remember last year, the Packers played 1:33:53.560 --> 1:33:58.559 the AFC East in the interconference round. They played Buffalo, 1:33:58.680 --> 1:34:02.639 they played New England, they played the Jets, and they 1:34:02.640 --> 1:34:07.240 played So it's not like he's going to see anything 1:34:07.280 --> 1:34:11.439 that shocked him Monday night. He might be more shocked 1:34:11.439 --> 1:34:15.439 at by some of the other teams in the conference 1:34:15.800 --> 1:34:19.360 that he might not have been played in recent years. Okay, 1:34:19.600 --> 1:34:22.559 certainly not the the interconference games the Jets have to play, 1:34:23.240 --> 1:34:26.639 et cetera. So it's not a bad way. And also 1:34:26.720 --> 1:34:29.840 keep mile a year ago the Jets before they got 1:34:30.000 --> 1:34:33.080 you know, fell into that season ending six game losing streak, 1:34:33.520 --> 1:34:40.400 they beat the Bills at eight at eighteen women that life, 1:34:40.560 --> 1:34:41.280 what is it meant? Life? 1:34:42.200 --> 1:34:42.639 Yeah? 1:34:42.760 --> 1:34:48.320 Okay, so they beat the Bills in Josh, So this 1:34:48.479 --> 1:34:51.040 is very it's very intriguing for a lot of different 1:34:51.040 --> 1:34:55.360 reasons because you also consider the Bills off season. Now 1:34:55.520 --> 1:34:58.400 you know, I'm not inside the building, and a lot 1:34:58.439 --> 1:35:02.480 has been made about Stefan Day and Josh Allen's relationship 1:35:02.600 --> 1:35:05.600 and it seems like everything's okay or and when I 1:35:05.640 --> 1:35:08.960 hear that stuff. I have this flashback and you know 1:35:09.000 --> 1:35:11.640 where I'm going here, flashback to the early nineties with 1:35:11.760 --> 1:35:14.120 Mark Levy and the Remember the Bickering Bills. 1:35:15.439 --> 1:35:16.920 Love that team. I love those teams. 1:35:17.439 --> 1:35:20.280 Yeah, and the Bickering Bills. He called them out. It 1:35:20.360 --> 1:35:23.200 was they were playing the Dolphins in Week two down 1:35:23.280 --> 1:35:26.960 in Miami and they got obliterated. And that was the 1:35:27.000 --> 1:35:29.160 Bickering Bill. And that was also the start of the 1:35:29.240 --> 1:35:32.320 four straight Super Bowl appearance. And I'm not saying the 1:35:32.320 --> 1:35:36.360 Bills are going to the super Bowl, but this is 1:35:36.920 --> 1:35:39.960 interesting we have. It's funny because hack the slate this week, 1:35:40.800 --> 1:35:45.599 in Week one is divisional games and you know we 1:35:45.680 --> 1:35:48.280 usually see all those divisional games in Week seventeen or 1:35:48.280 --> 1:35:51.879 Week eighteen as it is now, but half the league 1:35:52.560 --> 1:35:55.360 is indivisional games to start off the season, and that 1:35:55.479 --> 1:35:58.599 they can be very, very big tone setters because as 1:35:58.640 --> 1:36:02.439 you know, in special in this this league now where 1:36:02.439 --> 1:36:04.720 you can go from last to first or last to 1:36:04.760 --> 1:36:07.719 a playoff spot, real real quickly. We saw four times 1:36:07.800 --> 1:36:08.280 last year a. 1:36:08.280 --> 1:36:09.120 Lot yep, yep. 1:36:11.479 --> 1:36:13.200 I'll be interesting to see if the j Justs and 1:36:13.240 --> 1:36:16.240 Giants can hold serve. Now, you know you mentioned the Giants. 1:36:16.240 --> 1:36:18.439 By the way, I have to throw out this number, 1:36:19.240 --> 1:36:21.120 and if you're the Giants, you got to throw up 1:36:23.000 --> 1:36:25.320 last year even though they were nine seven to one 1:36:25.320 --> 1:36:28.519 and Brian Dable with NFL the Coach of the Year 1:36:28.640 --> 1:36:30.479 and the Giants won a playoff game for the first 1:36:30.520 --> 1:36:33.200 time since they beat the Patriots in Super Bowl forty six. 1:36:34.040 --> 1:36:36.799 The Giants within the division last year, John. 1:36:37.920 --> 1:36:40.200 In the one, that's nuts and they still made the playoffs. 1:36:40.400 --> 1:36:43.880 That's crazy. That yeah, that's insane. 1:36:44.400 --> 1:36:47.519 Three of the losses obviously, Tod Yeah. 1:36:46.960 --> 1:36:48.680 Well that that kind of leads me to the next 1:36:48.720 --> 1:36:50.479 thing I was going to ask you because, in all honesty, 1:36:50.520 --> 1:36:54.640 you wrote about it, you know, earlier this week on 1:36:54.680 --> 1:36:57.280 full press coverage, but talking about a division that could 1:36:57.320 --> 1:37:02.120 potentially see all of its members reached the postseason, and 1:37:02.320 --> 1:37:04.280 I know you thought that the NFC East would be 1:37:04.280 --> 1:37:06.960 the likely candidate for this year, but I'm wonnering. Really, 1:37:07.560 --> 1:37:10.320 what's keeping the AFC East from joining that party? 1:37:12.040 --> 1:37:15.920 Well, you know, actually, besides the NFC East, I also 1:37:15.960 --> 1:37:20.120 pushed with the AFC North. You know, that's a division 1:37:20.120 --> 1:37:22.799 at three the free playoff teams last year, but Pittsburgh 1:37:22.840 --> 1:37:26.200 finished strong, Cincinnati and Baltimore. Men. Ye, and I find 1:37:26.280 --> 1:37:30.200 this year the Browns to be very intriguing me, not 1:37:30.360 --> 1:37:32.800 because of the Sean Watson and not because it Keptain 1:37:32.880 --> 1:37:36.280 is the fancy. And here's a name you know pretty 1:37:36.280 --> 1:37:38.559 well because he had a lot to do with the Eagles, 1:37:38.640 --> 1:37:40.760 winner of the Patriots in Super Bowl fifty two, and 1:37:40.800 --> 1:37:44.840 that's Jim Schwood, who is now the new defensive coordinator 1:37:44.880 --> 1:37:47.200 for the brown And they went out and gotten to 1:37:47.320 --> 1:37:50.479 Darius Smith to Pale with milesartt Hair with Miles Garrett, 1:37:51.400 --> 1:37:54.800 Tomlinson up the middle, Shelby Harris up the middle. I'm 1:37:54.840 --> 1:37:58.080 just curious about that, Ran Steep. And the AFC North 1:37:58.200 --> 1:38:01.759 was really interesting last year, John, every team in the division, 1:38:01.960 --> 1:38:06.320 all four went three and three in the division. But 1:38:06.400 --> 1:38:08.439 you bring up a good point about the AFC East. 1:38:08.560 --> 1:38:11.400 And by the way, speaking of AFC East, and it 1:38:11.439 --> 1:38:14.600 was a different AFC East. The AFC East is the 1:38:14.680 --> 1:38:18.200 last division to put four teams in the playoffs. 1:38:18.240 --> 1:38:19.479 And stay there there you go. 1:38:20.320 --> 1:38:22.960 Now, remember it's nineteen ninety eight and those will be 1:38:23.080 --> 1:38:25.759 years of the AFC East with five. 1:38:25.560 --> 1:38:28.960 Divisions, right, I mean five teams. Yes, the Colts were 1:38:29.000 --> 1:38:30.880 in the division, yes, yeah. 1:38:31.080 --> 1:38:34.479 And the Colts went three and thirteen. Yeah, but the 1:38:35.320 --> 1:38:38.759 other four teams all made it, all went into the playoffs. 1:38:38.800 --> 1:38:43.400 Yep, yeah, I'm I think all four teams have a 1:38:43.479 --> 1:38:46.559 legit shot this year. And it would not surprise me, Russell, 1:38:46.600 --> 1:38:48.880 as you just kind of talked about, wouldn't surprise me 1:38:48.920 --> 1:38:51.519 to see the AFC East going three and three. Everybody 1:38:51.520 --> 1:38:53.400 in the division. I know some people who are you 1:38:53.479 --> 1:38:56.080 know that no Buffalo well or thinking that's just heresy, 1:38:56.120 --> 1:38:58.240 it's not going to happen. I could see it happen. 1:38:59.520 --> 1:39:01.160 Well, I guess see. It happened. They were born to 1:39:01.320 --> 1:39:02.320 in the division last year. 1:39:02.520 --> 1:39:05.840 Exactly. You've got to pick them off once. If you 1:39:05.840 --> 1:39:07.960 can pick them off once, everybody's gonna end up three 1:39:07.960 --> 1:39:08.320 and three. 1:39:09.400 --> 1:39:11.880 Listen, holding served in the division is very important when 1:39:11.880 --> 1:39:13.600 you come down to those type breakers and so on. 1:39:13.760 --> 1:39:17.080 And I know Buffalo won the division. I know they 1:39:17.120 --> 1:39:21.040 played one less game them in Cincinnati because obviously more 1:39:21.080 --> 1:39:23.679 hamling circumstances and so on. But again, they were still 1:39:23.680 --> 1:39:26.240 forward to in the division. They lost the Jests, they 1:39:26.280 --> 1:39:30.120 lost at Miami for the first time in a bit, 1:39:30.800 --> 1:39:32.639 or lost to the Dolphins is the first time. 1:39:32.479 --> 1:39:32.880 In a bit. 1:39:33.479 --> 1:39:43.439 So the year before. Yeah, so you know it is 1:39:43.520 --> 1:39:49.960 it is getting somewhat harder to dominate your division. As 1:39:49.960 --> 1:39:52.280 far as the clean season. The Chiefs did it obviously 1:39:52.360 --> 1:39:54.679 last year. The forty nine Ers did it last year. 1:39:54.720 --> 1:39:57.720 But you know, if you look at the improvement and 1:39:57.760 --> 1:40:01.360 maybe some of the slippage a little by San Francisco, 1:40:01.520 --> 1:40:03.960 I mean, they're gonna you know, doesn't look like Nick 1:40:04.000 --> 1:40:07.479 Bose is gonna be around at least one right for 1:40:07.600 --> 1:40:09.680 the Chiefs. Doesn't look like Chris Jones is gonna be 1:40:09.720 --> 1:40:13.400 around tomorrow night. So and we don't know about Travis 1:40:13.439 --> 1:40:18.519 Telson so on. So it's a league. Things can change very, 1:40:18.640 --> 1:40:22.280 very dramatically, and you know, there's been nothing more evident 1:40:22.479 --> 1:40:25.280 than the fact that And think about this, John for 1:40:25.400 --> 1:40:28.880 people who in fact this you know me one of 1:40:28.880 --> 1:40:32.080 my least favorite things when it comes to NFL analysted, 1:40:32.360 --> 1:40:33.599 is the season ended today? 1:40:33.800 --> 1:40:34.519 Yeah? Yeah, I know. 1:40:35.040 --> 1:40:37.439 Okay, if you want the season end today, go follow 1:40:37.479 --> 1:40:39.920 the NBA. 1:40:40.200 --> 1:40:42.160 I thought that wouldn't have been my choice either. 1:40:43.920 --> 1:40:46.519 But think about this for a while and think about 1:40:46.800 --> 1:40:50.880 regardless of what the Tea's record were at the time, Okay, 1:40:51.120 --> 1:40:54.320 Jets seven and four and lost their last six games. 1:40:55.800 --> 1:40:59.599 The Titans were seven and three and lost their last 1:40:59.600 --> 1:41:00.000 moving game. 1:41:00.200 --> 1:41:00.439 Yeah. 1:41:01.320 --> 1:41:04.720 The Chiefs lost, I'm sorry, the Coast Laws their last 1:41:04.720 --> 1:41:05.760 seven games last year. 1:41:05.880 --> 1:41:06.800 Yep, yep. 1:41:07.120 --> 1:41:09.800 The Cardinals lost their last seven games last year. 1:41:09.880 --> 1:41:10.120 Yep. 1:41:11.000 --> 1:41:13.479 The Bears lost their last ten games. 1:41:13.560 --> 1:41:15.040 Wow, last year. 1:41:15.200 --> 1:41:16.000 That's nuts. 1:41:16.360 --> 1:41:20.840 And meanwhile, while you're kissing off certain people, Jacksonville goes 1:41:20.880 --> 1:41:22.639 from four and eight to nine in eight and wins 1:41:22.640 --> 1:41:23.160 the division. 1:41:23.320 --> 1:41:23.559 Yep. 1:41:24.680 --> 1:41:27.920 Okay, So I mean, you know, maybe maybe you know 1:41:27.960 --> 1:41:31.280 who they should get out to instead of carry Underwood, 1:41:31.320 --> 1:41:33.599 they should get Ray Stevens to do the Sunday night 1:41:33.640 --> 1:41:36.439 opening and that way he can sing. Why they call 1:41:36.479 --> 1:41:37.639 it the street, Yeah. 1:41:37.520 --> 1:41:40.559 The streak. That's exactly right, because it's going to take 1:41:40.600 --> 1:41:42.160 something like that, I think again this year. 1:41:42.439 --> 1:41:45.160 Well, I mean maybe getting hot at the right time. 1:41:45.200 --> 1:41:48.240 There's a lot because it certainly him. It certainly happened 1:41:48.560 --> 1:41:51.639 with Tampa Bay in twenty twenty, and to a degree, 1:41:51.640 --> 1:41:53.960 it happened with the Rains a couple of years ago. Right, 1:41:54.160 --> 1:41:56.280 I mean he listen, the Chiefs will talk for the 1:41:56.320 --> 1:41:58.479 best record at the NFL last year. Ye, I'm not gonna, 1:41:58.960 --> 1:42:00.680 you know, not go on that stretching. 1:42:00.439 --> 1:42:01.799 Right, yeah, exactly. 1:42:02.120 --> 1:42:05.680 We saw that, you know, what looked like teams in 1:42:05.800 --> 1:42:09.840 solid positions completely collapsed at the end of the year. 1:42:09.880 --> 1:42:12.040 And I think Tennessee, you would have to say, Tennessee 1:42:12.080 --> 1:42:13.559 maybe the most surprising of them. 1:42:13.400 --> 1:42:17.240 One, probably, So my friend's good to have you back again. 1:42:17.320 --> 1:42:19.680 Thank you for making some time for us on Wednesdays 1:42:19.680 --> 1:42:22.559 this year, and I look forward to our our visit 1:42:22.680 --> 1:42:24.640 as often as you can make it on Wednesday. So 1:42:24.960 --> 1:42:27.400 thank you for clearing your schedule for us and being 1:42:27.479 --> 1:42:29.040 with us a wee can talk a little football. 1:42:29.800 --> 1:42:32.680 I've already I've already put in my Google calendar. Then 1:42:32.720 --> 1:42:35.639 I'm good until six of twenty twenty six. 1:42:36.280 --> 1:42:39.240 Week six twenty twenty six. All right, well you may 1:42:39.280 --> 1:42:42.720 be then working beyond my expiration date. 1:42:46.320 --> 1:42:48.760 Listen, do you have you have enough callers? I'm sure 1:42:48.800 --> 1:42:50.240 I can find somebody who can fill in. 1:42:50.479 --> 1:42:52.400 Uh yeah, I'm no doubt about that. 1:42:53.040 --> 1:42:53.479 Melvin. 1:42:54.320 --> 1:42:57.320 Actually Melvin didn't call in today, but but Eldred did. 1:42:57.320 --> 1:43:01.479 Eldred's hanging on so we can hear you. There you go, 1:43:01.680 --> 1:43:05.400 you want to you want to say hello to Eldred? Absolutely, Okay, 1:43:05.400 --> 1:43:08.280 hold on just a second, Eldred say hello to uh 1:43:08.479 --> 1:43:10.439 Russell Baxter because he wants to say hello to you. 1:43:13.280 --> 1:43:17.320 Hello, mister guru, mister legend. Hey y'all doing I'm good 1:43:17.479 --> 1:43:20.599 for you. I'm doing pretty good. 1:43:21.200 --> 1:43:25.759 Just what's your prediction for the year? What do you think. 1:43:28.080 --> 1:43:33.440 My audition for the year? Yep, I'm even. 1:43:36.200 --> 1:43:37.559 Seven May. 1:43:37.600 --> 1:43:40.400 Didn't ask you where you were getting a slurpy? I 1:43:40.400 --> 1:43:41.000 asked you. 1:43:43.479 --> 1:43:47.479 Wow. Wow, that's pretty quick for a sixty four year 1:43:47.479 --> 1:43:54.880 old brain right there. That's pretty quick. That's impressive. 1:43:58.160 --> 1:44:02.680 Predictions. Well, I'm I got I'm hoping it would go 1:44:02.720 --> 1:44:06.960 to the playoffs. But Jday's Wilfon thing, Jasie, you guess, yeah, 1:44:07.000 --> 1:44:11.839 they played the game first, and that I can do Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1:44:11.680 --> 1:44:17.599 You know, I mean the Sunday against against Philadelphia and uh, 1:44:17.760 --> 1:44:20.360 you know, can they the kid I'm gonna be watching 1:44:20.800 --> 1:44:24.479 I'm in Philadelphia's Jalen Carter because if he, if he 1:44:24.560 --> 1:44:26.960 can help the Eagles stop the run, and they were 1:44:27.120 --> 1:44:31.479 very mediocre against the run, that changes the face of 1:44:31.479 --> 1:44:34.880 that team dramatically. Remember they lost Javon hard Grave in 1:44:35.000 --> 1:44:38.800 the free agency to the forty nine ers, and that 1:44:38.920 --> 1:44:41.400 leads a big hole up the middle. And Carter and 1:44:41.479 --> 1:44:44.120 you know, with this little controversy, you know, off the field, 1:44:44.120 --> 1:44:46.720 et cetera, et cetera. The Eagles made their move and 1:44:46.880 --> 1:44:48.960 Howie Roseman does. I don't think it's enough credit for 1:44:49.000 --> 1:44:51.679 what he's done with that organization over the last five 1:44:51.720 --> 1:44:54.040 or six years and so on. So that's the kid 1:44:54.080 --> 1:44:56.960 I'm gonna be watching on Sunday. But it should be 1:44:57.000 --> 1:45:02.439 a really interesting game on Sunday up in Foxborough because 1:45:02.479 --> 1:45:04.320 you never know what you're gonna get with week one, 1:45:04.360 --> 1:45:06.520 and we certainly have seen our share of surprise. 1:45:08.439 --> 1:45:08.919 Exactly. 1:45:12.120 --> 1:45:14.400 And did you go for the blue Raspberry or. 1:45:18.160 --> 1:45:21.599 Blue Raspberry? I believe I think the blue Raspberry slurpy 1:45:21.640 --> 1:45:23.840 at seven to eleven was known as a gully washer. 1:45:25.680 --> 1:45:30.720 I like the cherry ones. I like the cherry ones. 1:45:30.600 --> 1:45:31.920 Go for the hot dog cherry one. 1:45:34.960 --> 1:45:37.479 That's also true. Wait, Russell, did you say you go 1:45:37.560 --> 1:45:38.360 for the hot dogs? 1:45:38.960 --> 1:45:39.800 Oh? Absolutely? 1:45:39.920 --> 1:45:43.080 Oh my god. I can't believe we are another brother 1:45:43.160 --> 1:45:45.640 from another mother, because that's all I do. You know, 1:45:45.640 --> 1:45:48.080 I go to the convenience story. Miss Robin kills me 1:45:48.120 --> 1:45:49.680 when I want a hot dog in there, but they 1:45:49.720 --> 1:45:51.760 look so damn good in there, I gotta get one. 1:45:52.640 --> 1:45:52.960 I was. 1:45:53.280 --> 1:45:55.960 I was a shameless plug. I was Cumberland Farms this morning. 1:45:56.040 --> 1:46:01.800 Yes, yes, some parking lot. 1:46:02.760 --> 1:46:04.880 I just pulled into the parking lot and out came 1:46:04.920 --> 1:46:08.280 this really nice lady hot dogs loaded to the gills. 1:46:08.280 --> 1:46:13.400 Stop and I said to him, I said, wow, that 1:46:13.520 --> 1:46:16.200 looks really good. I said, now I want a hot 1:46:16.200 --> 1:46:20.360 dog exactly, and she said, yeah, she looks good. I said, 1:46:20.800 --> 1:46:22.679 in fact, how bout if I have yours of wine, 1:46:22.720 --> 1:46:23.880 you go in and get another. 1:46:23.600 --> 1:46:26.960 One, right right, because that way you wouldn't have to 1:46:27.000 --> 1:46:28.880 pay regular price. If you're getting one, you can get 1:46:28.880 --> 1:46:30.120 two for four dollars. 1:46:30.760 --> 1:46:33.040 That's exactly right. And I know that woman. I know 1:46:33.120 --> 1:46:35.080 that woman will never see me again as the longs 1:46:35.120 --> 1:46:38.960 I live, and I know she thinks sometimes. 1:46:40.200 --> 1:46:43.000 I absolutely love that Russell, my friend, is great to 1:46:43.080 --> 1:46:45.360 visit with you. Look forward to visioning with you again 1:46:45.400 --> 1:46:45.840 next week. 1:46:46.640 --> 1:46:49.000 And just remember what the topic will be next week. 1:46:49.680 --> 1:46:52.720 Next week we will talk about the sixteen teams that 1:46:52.760 --> 1:46:56.280 their fans think will go undefeated and the sixteen teams 1:46:56.560 --> 1:46:58.719 where their fans will be saying they're getting the number 1:46:58.720 --> 1:46:59.759 one thick in the draft. 1:46:59.640 --> 1:47:03.200 Exactly because we like to overreact after the first week 1:47:03.400 --> 1:47:07.360 of a seventeen week schedule absolutely, Russell you the man. 1:47:07.360 --> 1:47:10.880 Thank you brother, all right, see you guys, you got it. So, 1:47:12.160 --> 1:47:15.240 Guru Eldred, what did you What did you want to 1:47:15.240 --> 1:47:19.360 talk about today if we didn't already hit that, because 1:47:19.400 --> 1:47:21.360 I'm gonna give you the final word in the show today. 1:47:21.360 --> 1:47:22.080 How do you like that? 1:47:23.439 --> 1:47:23.800 Thank you? 1:47:24.200 --> 1:47:24.360 Well? 1:47:24.400 --> 1:47:27.240 I think I appreciate that, mister legend. The game today, 1:47:27.600 --> 1:47:33.040 game Sunday. I got my towel out and my popcorn, 1:47:33.280 --> 1:47:37.519 the towel to cry in so that that team challenge 1:47:37.520 --> 1:47:39.320 from top to bottom. You heard the guy that covered 1:47:39.320 --> 1:47:41.960 the team right, Yeah, top to bottom. Hit on the 1:47:42.040 --> 1:47:44.800 draft pick and even the guys in free agent. Yeah, 1:47:44.840 --> 1:47:46.360 something that our GM don't do. 1:47:46.600 --> 1:47:48.400 Yeah, so they sat. 1:47:49.320 --> 1:47:53.519 So I'm thinking I won't. I will hope you put 1:47:53.560 --> 1:47:56.759 a twenty points. But to me, that's just a Christmas wish. 1:47:57.360 --> 1:47:59.519 I think they roll because they got something to prove 1:47:59.560 --> 1:48:02.160 from last thirty five seventeen. 1:48:03.280 --> 1:48:07.479 Yeah. And you know, if you're you know, if you're 1:48:07.479 --> 1:48:10.479 trying to think of this thing with a clear mind, 1:48:11.760 --> 1:48:14.639 you know, and not you know, and not for one 1:48:14.680 --> 1:48:16.960 side or the other, I can see where you would 1:48:17.000 --> 1:48:21.720 easily make that choice. I personally think right now that 1:48:21.840 --> 1:48:23.760 you know the Patriots will figure out a way to 1:48:23.840 --> 1:48:26.879 keep it close for that first half until the Eagles 1:48:26.880 --> 1:48:28.920 figure out a way to shake off the rust and 1:48:28.920 --> 1:48:31.280 probably put pedal to medal in the second half. So 1:48:31.479 --> 1:48:33.439 I'm going to take the Eagles twenty four to twenty 1:48:34.400 --> 1:48:37.280 in that one. But but and the reason I'm going 1:48:37.320 --> 1:48:39.439 to do that is because I think the Patriots defense 1:48:39.800 --> 1:48:42.040 is going to keep them honest and in the game 1:48:42.360 --> 1:48:44.400 for most of the game, and they should if they 1:48:44.439 --> 1:48:48.240 can take advantage of mistakes. Look, injuries happen, we know. 1:48:48.680 --> 1:48:50.760 But the one thing that I'm really concerned about the 1:48:50.760 --> 1:48:54.080 most in weak one is self inflicted injuries by way 1:48:54.120 --> 1:48:57.040 of penalty, because we know the offensive line had such 1:48:57.040 --> 1:49:00.880 a hard time a year ago playing together and and 1:49:01.200 --> 1:49:03.719 it was just it was an abomination, is what it was. 1:49:03.720 --> 1:49:06.559 Was like they didn't know what the word discipline meant. 1:49:06.880 --> 1:49:10.840 And clearly we could see that happen with a defensive 1:49:10.880 --> 1:49:13.879 front like Philadelphia has in front of them on Sunday. 1:49:14.160 --> 1:49:17.120 And so if we're revisiting that very thing this next week, 1:49:17.160 --> 1:49:18.880 no one can say, well, told you so, because we 1:49:18.960 --> 1:49:22.439 talked about it, and it is liable. It's certainly liable 1:49:22.479 --> 1:49:24.880 to happen. I'm going to give the Patriots the benefit 1:49:24.880 --> 1:49:28.280 of it out until I see otherwise. That's really all 1:49:28.320 --> 1:49:30.679 I'm doing here. And if it's twenty four to twenty 1:49:30.720 --> 1:49:32.600 and they have an opportunity with the ball late in 1:49:32.640 --> 1:49:35.720 the game, then hey, that's all. That's really all you 1:49:35.760 --> 1:49:40.720 can ask for. But but but the smart money is, yeah, 1:49:40.760 --> 1:49:43.200 the smart money is probably on the Eagles winning going away. 1:49:43.280 --> 1:49:48.640 Yeah, they can rotate, they got fo D you know, 1:49:51.200 --> 1:49:53.160 they got a guy for each guy on that front 1:49:53.200 --> 1:49:58.439 line they can play. Yeah, you know that's yeah, right, 1:49:58.479 --> 1:50:01.240 and outline that is what I'm worried about, mainly if 1:50:01.280 --> 1:50:03.840 mac wa have time to set up throw even due 1:50:03.840 --> 1:50:07.439 to Luke Quick. Yeah, I'm just wondering, right, you know. 1:50:08.040 --> 1:50:11.160 But uh, everybody they're talking about we got guns dollar. 1:50:11.200 --> 1:50:14.000 He's a number, you like, Well, he's a rookie, y'all 1:50:14.000 --> 1:50:18.080 got to give him least eight to nine games. Gilmour 1:50:18.240 --> 1:50:20.360 at eight games before he came out, before he got better, 1:50:20.760 --> 1:50:22.439 So you got. So he's a rookie, you got he's 1:50:22.479 --> 1:50:24.320 getting eight to nine because he ain't gonna be out 1:50:24.320 --> 1:50:27.559 there smothering everybody like like salt. Maybe it's the salt 1:50:27.560 --> 1:50:30.080 headed problems to in the beginning of the year. He 1:50:30.160 --> 1:50:33.639 got better towards the end. You know, So you gotta 1:50:33.640 --> 1:50:34.840 give gun dollars the same way. 1:50:35.000 --> 1:50:35.800 That's just what I'm doing. 1:50:36.120 --> 1:50:38.880 Give him the same benefit of the doubt, right exactly one. 1:50:39.640 --> 1:50:40.640 Is it just a poematim me? 1:50:41.720 --> 1:50:44.560 Well? Yeah, I mean you know, if you listen, I 1:50:44.800 --> 1:50:46.240 don't know how you could be a factor if you 1:50:46.240 --> 1:50:48.200 can't stay healthy enough to stay on the field. And 1:50:48.280 --> 1:50:50.880 right now, that's gonna be the biggest, the biggest problem 1:50:50.920 --> 1:50:53.720 for him to overcome is staying healthy. So you know, 1:50:53.800 --> 1:50:57.040 you can't play. If you can't stay healthy, can't play, 1:50:57.080 --> 1:50:58.719 and you can't make it. You can't make a difference 1:50:58.760 --> 1:51:00.960 if you can't play on the field. 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