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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast needs a hero in the

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Speaker 1: mountain time. So welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas, coming to

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Speaker 1: you from a country filled with heroes in bunkers. Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rose the thought, what is up? Boys? You know

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Speaker 1: we actually have some football to talk about? Here we go? Yeah, bro,

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Speaker 1: Greg with a little bounce in his step. I can

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Speaker 1: tell right now it's pumped up, no doubt. I mean,

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Speaker 1: who who's honked more about Cam Newton on this podcast

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Speaker 1: than me? Believe believing that this man was destined for

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Speaker 1: a greater career than than really he's had. When you

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Speaker 1: when you break it down, now it's time, all right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get into it. Of course, everyone knows the

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Speaker 1: big news that came about this weekend, Cam Newton signs

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Speaker 1: a one year deal with the New England Patriots. The

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Speaker 1: throne of sleeves thriving. And this is so everybody knows,

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Speaker 1: you know, Greg, obviously, Ricky maybe a bouncing our step

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Speaker 1: will get to that in a little bit, but you

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Speaker 1: know what, Mark, you could have a bounce in your step. Two.

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Speaker 1: Because this is our last show before our little mini

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Speaker 1: summer vacation. Don't get angry at as listeners. But we

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Speaker 1: were taking off the rest of the week after today's show,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna celebrate Fourth of July with the family

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Speaker 1: and just get a little bit of a breather, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be back next Monday. But this will be your

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Speaker 1: last show, first and only show of the week. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I know you fought this behind the scenes. You kept

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Speaker 1: on coming back to Greg and I and you're saying no,

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Speaker 1: no more content, more football talk, and during our global pandemic,

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Speaker 1: give us, give us what we want, give us what

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Speaker 1: the listeners need. But we had to beat you back

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Speaker 1: on that one. Yeah, no, I I know, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's to my nature that I pushed to

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Speaker 1: um maybe go five shows this week and get back

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Speaker 1: to that um mode that we were in when Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton um was you know, jettison from the Panthers doesn't

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Speaker 1: feel that long ago, but it's a full three months

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Speaker 1: ago at this point. So we have buzzed through this

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Speaker 1: it for a month and a half. That feels like

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Speaker 1: another lifetime ago. Yeah, it does not feel like yesterday

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Speaker 1: I'm not alone on that front anyway. So, yes, we

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Speaker 1: The great Mike Gara Folo is gonna join us, one

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Speaker 1: of the NFL Network insiders and a guy who is

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Speaker 1: it's like you went, you went from far to Roger,

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Speaker 1: you know, far after Rogers and the couple of mbs.

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Speaker 1: What are the odds that you go from Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: to a quarterback that's better looking? Who would have thought

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Speaker 1: that happens? I'm just yeah, I mean to each his own.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's an opinion, but you can you

434
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Speaker 1: can make the argument. You can make. You can certainly

435
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Speaker 1: make that argument. There's no job. Cam Newton is a

436
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Speaker 1: hot man, but is he hotter than Tom Brady? I

437
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Speaker 1: don't know. That's that's up for everyone's debate. I don't know. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, anyway, that feels like a good time to

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Speaker 1: get to. Mike Garafolo last him that as well. Let's

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Speaker 1: welcome Mike on right now. Let's welcome him in. He

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Speaker 1: is the hardest working man at NFL network, or at

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Speaker 1: least in the top seven. Mike Garifolo joins us, Hey, buddy,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Around the NFL. Just ranking my okay,

444
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, Siciliano's in there. I mean, you gotta

445
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Speaker 1: give it the rappaport even though you don't want to. Um,

446
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Speaker 1: you guys, do you guys got this one or what

447
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Speaker 1: I have? I mean, you can get all our work

448
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Speaker 1: together and count that's one body of work. Yeah. Mike

449
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Speaker 1: Garifolo is also that he's doing the Pat Summer All

450
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Speaker 1: thing now, where he's both host and analyst at once,

451
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Speaker 1: which puts him in kind of rarefied air. So it's

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Speaker 1: great to have. Yeah, listen, the more you can do, um,

453
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Speaker 1: you know, it makes him harder. It makes it harder

454
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Speaker 1: for them to to to get rid of you. If

455
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Speaker 1: you get you know, your hands in and everything. Um.

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Speaker 1: So it's but it's been fun. It's I noticed he

457
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Speaker 1: didn't put like James Palmer on your list late you guys,

458
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Speaker 1: you guess James Palmer. Did anybody work harder down the

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Speaker 1: stretch last year? James, I wouldn't. I wouldn't use an

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Speaker 1: example if it were trying. I've been trying the less

461
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Speaker 1: you can do method and it's um the results are there.

462
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Speaker 1: I love you, James Palmer. I know you're watching. Let's

463
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Speaker 1: get into it. Mike Gara follow because you are as

464
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Speaker 1: plugged in as anybody. When this news goes down on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Was that something that was bubbling and we haven't even

466
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Speaker 1: gotten to the Patriots caught in another scandal and get

467
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Speaker 1: punished for it? Uh storyline to this sixteen minutes apart

468
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Speaker 1: the two news stories. But was this cam Newton to

469
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Speaker 1: the Patriots thing something floating around behind the scenes or

470
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Speaker 1: didn't kind of drop out of nowhere? I mean it

471
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Speaker 1: was always kind of there. Um, But the timing of

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Speaker 1: it was I would say one that not a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks would have expected right around now, But um,

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Speaker 1: you know it, a lot of this stuff is happening

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Speaker 1: now that the virtual off season is over, because it's

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Speaker 1: kind of been an awkward thing for a lot of

477
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Speaker 1: people not realizing whether or not we're gonna have the O, T,

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Speaker 1: A s and mini camps. And now that we're clear

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Speaker 1: through that, it's like, Okay, everybody knows. You know, either

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Speaker 1: we're reporting the training camp on time or this thing

481
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Speaker 1: is gonna continue to get kicked down the road a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But uh, now you at least had your

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Speaker 1: clear direction about whether we're having a spring or not.

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Speaker 1: So um, that's where it was for Cam Newton, whose

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Speaker 1: other option, only other option, and this I've been mentioning,

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Speaker 1: would have been to wait to see if a quarterback

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Speaker 1: got injured and then be the uh the Sam Bradford

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings, I'll via signing, not via trade, but

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Speaker 1: but sametime trade. Don't forget but that that would have

490
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Speaker 1: been the situation where you know, it would have been

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Speaker 1: a little bit desperate, or a team would have been

492
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Speaker 1: desperate and all of a sudden, maybe you get the

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Speaker 1: number that you wanted to get. So it was either

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Speaker 1: signed now for the Patriots pretty much walk in the

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Speaker 1: starter as long as you're healthy, um, or you know,

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Speaker 1: go the other route and and and sit there and

497
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Speaker 1: wait and maybe somebody gets hurt at some point. Do

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Speaker 1: you have any info on like what you think you

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Speaker 1: might see in terms of the contract, because there hasn't

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Speaker 1: really been details out there. I know Ian said up

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Speaker 1: to seven point five, but I'm just curious because they

502
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Speaker 1: you know, part of the reason I, you know, I

503
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Speaker 1: didn't expect him was it was gonna take him being

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Speaker 1: a minimum salary player for the Patriots to get him,

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Speaker 1: unless they made some crazy move like trade Joe Tooney

506
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Speaker 1: because they you know, supposedly they only had about a

507
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Speaker 1: million dollars in cap space entering this weekend. Yeah, and

508
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Speaker 1: that's where the guarantee is going to be right around there. Um,

509
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Speaker 1: and everything else on top of that is going to

510
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Speaker 1: be starts. Uh, you know, performance wins. We have to

511
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Speaker 1: see the breakdown. I haven't quite seen it yet, in

512
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Speaker 1: in part because a lot of times these things don't

513
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Speaker 1: get filed and sent in until they're officially signed, and

514
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Speaker 1: we're not there. With Cam, he still got to take

515
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Speaker 1: the physical um and and that was my question really

516
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Speaker 1: was how did the Patriots make this move not knowing

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Speaker 1: what to expect um from the physical standpoint. And my

518
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Speaker 1: understanding is, you know they've gotten a read on it

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Speaker 1: from afar Um. They still have to take their closed

520
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Speaker 1: look and until that happens, they won't be announcing anything.

521
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Speaker 1: But they are confident that they've got themselves. The Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton from Okay because because and I've been saying this

523
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Speaker 1: on the air today, I don't know that we're ever

524
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Speaker 1: gonna see Cam ever again. But if you see teen Cam,

525
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Speaker 1: this is a team that feels like now they could

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Speaker 1: put themselves back in the championship conversation because he was playing,

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Speaker 1: and that's obviously early before the wheels came off. It

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Speaker 1: certainly sounds like Belichick's uh, you know, interviews with various

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Speaker 1: people around the league, like Norv Turner had an influence

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Speaker 1: on this too, on Cam Newton, the person, Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: the game prepare the whole eight to c But you know, Greg,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the the cap room. Here are there other

533
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Speaker 1: dominoes to fall, Mike, where like you know, you brought

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Speaker 1: in Cam, Um, they maybe still want to add some pieces,

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Speaker 1: or have you heard anything about the Patriots making other

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Speaker 1: moves that might draw headlines in the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Not to this point because some you know, listen, the

538
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Speaker 1: bigger the two big ones of the guys that have

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Speaker 1: already been there, which is Josh Gordon and Antonio Brown.

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Speaker 1: And from what I gather, there are other teams involved

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Speaker 1: right now that would make at least for Antonio Brown,

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Speaker 1: if they're confident in the off the field stuff, would

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Speaker 1: probably make it more worth his while monetarily. So UM,

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Speaker 1: I would be surprised at this point if that winds

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Speaker 1: up being the case. But there, listen, there there'll be

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Speaker 1: um that's via the free agent market. There will be

547
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Speaker 1: opportunities to make trades for guys as it goes along,

548
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Speaker 1: and Belichick has never been shy about doing that. So

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if, uh, if that might be

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Speaker 1: an option for them. But we've got to get back

551
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Speaker 1: to work. I mean, like so much stuff that's on

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Speaker 1: hold until we get back to work. Let's tackett no

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Speaker 1: on what you just said about Antonio Brown, just because

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Speaker 1: I'm curious, what what you think that there's teams out

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Speaker 1: there that are gonna pay Antonio Brown decent money if

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Speaker 1: he gets back into the league. Yeah, I do, because

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Speaker 1: I know they're gonna have to, um, because this is

558
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Speaker 1: a guy that's still and and listen, you think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be back. Basically, let's let's just do a hypothetical.

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Speaker 1: Let's say the NFL has to spend them eight games.

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Speaker 1: You think this guy, you think he's getting back into

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I don't know that they're gonna suspend them

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Speaker 1: eight games because and I know you're just throwing out

564
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Speaker 1: a number, I get four whatever, right, But the tone

565
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Speaker 1: in what Roger Goodell was saying about Antonio Brown when

566
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Speaker 1: asked about him at the Super Bowl, I keep going

567
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: back to that. It was not a punitive tone. It

568
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Speaker 1: was a um, what's the word I'm looking for? It

569
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Speaker 1: was all about really helping Antonio Brown as the person

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Speaker 1: if he's willing to help himself. Basically rehabilitation. Yeah, rehabilitation,

571
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Speaker 1: I guess is the word. I don't. I don't love

572
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Speaker 1: using that word because you know it's tied to other

573
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Speaker 1: things that Alden Smith was dealing with. And if you

574
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,479
Speaker 1: notice in the letter to Alden Smith um when he

575
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Speaker 1: was reinstated, it was all about how the program can

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Speaker 1: work for him, UM, and how he's shown that he

577
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Speaker 1: wants to stay committed to it, and how he could

578
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: be an example for other guys. Um. That was something

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Speaker 1: that they communicated to him. So now it's all about,

580
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: as see here, less about this UH program, this drug

581
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Speaker 1: program and this other UH programs UH as a penalty

582
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Speaker 1: for players, and more about something that can help them

583
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Speaker 1: be better players and better people. I mean, I know

584
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Speaker 1: it sounds corny. I'm just I just the tone what

585
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Speaker 1: I remember hearing that answer and saying whoa, That was

586
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Speaker 1: not what I really expected and it was more of

587
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: a forgiving tone to Roger Goodell. And and the other

588
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: thing too, is these allegations against Antonio Brown, they have

589
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Speaker 1: to be proven. You need a little bit more of

590
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Speaker 1: he said, she said uh in in these cases. Richard

591
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Speaker 1: Sherman had very strong words about the Cam Newton deal.

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Speaker 1: He called it quote disgusting, which is obviously very strong language. Um,

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Speaker 1: is that is that something thing? Are you surprised that

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Speaker 1: someone that's been covering this league for so long how

595
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: this is played out with Newton? And of course as

596
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: long as you've been covering the league, you never had

597
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen to deal. So maybe it's just one of

598
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Speaker 1: those timing situations. But there's also the questions of this contract,

599
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Speaker 1: and I guess we're gonna get more details as they

600
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Speaker 1: go along. But did Cam get anything else out of this,

601
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Speaker 1: like maybe protection from being franchised if he ends up

602
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: having a big season? What have you heard anything about

603
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: the contract? And your thoughts about Richard Sherman's comments. Now,

604
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots have agreed to that before, so if he

605
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: did get that, that wouldn't surprise me. We'll see once

606
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: everything comes in. But um, it's it's I understand what

607
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Speaker 1: Richard is saying, um, and I agree. I agree with

608
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Speaker 1: it to a certain extent. Um. But I would say

609
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Speaker 1: that the reason that teams didn't make this because because

610
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Speaker 1: early on, let's go back early on a free agency,

611
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Speaker 1: Cam Newton had a certain number in his head for

612
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Speaker 1: what he was going to get. The problem is you need,

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Speaker 1: uh what ballpark do you think I mean it was.

614
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it was in the twenty I mean that's

615
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Speaker 1: what you know. Everybody knows. Top starter money right now

616
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: is in the thirties, the low thirties, So I would

617
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Speaker 1: say it would be in the twenties and you look

618
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Speaker 1: at some of the guys making money in the twenties.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's sitting there saying I'm way better than

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Speaker 1: these guys. UM, So I don't blame him for for

621
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Speaker 1: for winning that. Now. It all comes down to situation

622
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: and circumstance too, because uh, even Nick Foles, that's the

623
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Speaker 1: one that people have kind of been holding up against, saying, Okay, well,

624
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Speaker 1: why didn't the Bears bringing Cam Newton instead of Nick Foles.

625
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: Nick Foles had to rework his contract. Okay, he had

626
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Speaker 1: a big number left in the deal and they had

627
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Speaker 1: to work it a way to spread it out so

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Speaker 1: that it's it's not a huge number over the next

629
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Speaker 1: three years. Um. And the other thing is they still

630
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: have a guy in Chicago that they want to win

631
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Speaker 1: the starting job. Make no mistake, the Bears would love

632
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: Mitch Drobisky to win that job to continue as a

633
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Speaker 1: quarterback because that's a guy that they've invested so much

634
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Speaker 1: in and they want to be right in the end.

635
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: They want to be right about Mitch Drabinsky. Whereas in

636
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: this case with New England, it was an opportunity that

637
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: presented itself because they really didn't rushed to go out

638
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: and trade for Andy Dalton or signed Dalton once he

639
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: became free, or plug somebody in. They they took their, uh,

640
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: the more patient approach. Now I did ask this, I said,

641
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Speaker 1: how how quickly did this thing come together with the Patriots?

642
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: And I'm told that it came together really quickly, asterisk

643
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: on that nobody knows how long. Belichick himself was kind

644
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,239
Speaker 1: of monitoring this by himself. So all along we've been

645
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: talking about, Yeah, they seem like they're kind of we

646
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: can't rule it out, you know they but but they're

647
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: not making a strong push for Cam Newton is because

648
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: Belichick was kind of monitoring it the whole time and

649
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: probably waiting to the point where Newton said, you know what,

650
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,479
Speaker 1: I'll take this deal because you know what, I can

651
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: come in and I could play for the best coach

652
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: in the league and re established myself, show everybody I'm

653
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: healthy and now I can hit a big number next offseason.

654
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a note out there from Adam

655
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: Schefter that the Browns those words here. I mean, if

656
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: if Ian was on the show right now, he would

657
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: have just blast you into space. But even with Mike,

658
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: it can be well, another news man out there offered

659
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: this up that the Browns had looked into Cam Newton,

660
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: which the timing, you know it needs to be unpacked,

661
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: would have happened after they signed case Keenum if you

662
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: go by the time when the Panthers said goodbye to

663
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, which I find to be an interesting wrinkle

664
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Speaker 1: now I was. I was also told at some point

665
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: by Andrew Berry, uh because I was asking about something

666
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: and had a conversation with him at some point and

667
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: he said, you don't like where I'm in on everything?

668
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,479
Speaker 1: And he worked with Howie Roseman, who is in on everything.

669
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: You ever noticed how many times the Eagles are linked

670
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: to a player because they're in on everything, because you

671
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: just never know what you're gonna come up with if

672
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: you investigate. So I believe it was more along those

673
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: lines and Berry being new on the job. There there's

674
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: like many other teams tree, but the buglets is from

675
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: the Eagles tree. That's why I picked up the phone

676
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys called, come on, Jamal, And that's a

677
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: smart teams do I think I think they wouldn't It

678
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been. It might have been smart for the

679
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: Jets to be in on Cam Newton. That's the type

680
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: of team where I mean it where it's like you're

681
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: being a little afraid of making a good move. I mean,

682
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: you have a plan, you want to work your Chicago.

683
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: You want this plan that is not working. According to

684
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: our eyesight, it must work, and so you don't go

685
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: out and get the better quarterback. I think that's why

686
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: two thirds of the league are not competitive with New England,

687
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: and I think it's important. Yeah, I just want to

688
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: say to Greg's point, the Jets love Sam Donald. Greg,

689
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't seem to like him so much him.

690
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: You have to understand that. My point is having right,

691
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: But they have to at least maybe they don't, but

692
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: they have to live in a world where there's other,

693
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: you know options A Donald can get hurt, but be like,

694
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: what do we do if we're six games into the

695
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: season and it's going terribly Like have other routes to

696
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: maybe possibly and just be open to, you know, open

697
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: to like would he come in for two millions? But no,

698
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: I can get why Joe Douglas would not be confident

699
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: in Adam Gates to handle that situation. Since then that's

700
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: sort of That's what I mean. You have to play

701
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: afraid when you're not confident in your own building. I

702
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 1: would I would just go back to what Richard Chairman

703
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: was upset about and what other folks might be saying about. Well,

704
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: how did the Patriots let this happen? Could you imagine?

705
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: I mean, gole, let's stick with the Jets. Let's stick

706
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Go back to Tim Tebow coming in

707
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: behind Mark Sanchez. If you don't think that was a

708
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: net negative effect on Sanchez? Really like this circus exactly? Well?

709
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: And what was the line? One one time Sanchez let

710
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: his guard down. It was like on a Friday, and

711
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: that it got a little bit of attention. He said, um, oh,

712
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: selling seats. Somebody asked him about Tebow and he's like

713
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: selling seats, man like basically saying it was it was

714
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: a promotional thing. And you could see the frustration on

715
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: his face when he said that, and it was just

716
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: a little peek into of course, he didn't want this

717
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: side show with him out. But they both weren't that

718
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: great at playing quarterback, and that would have been true

719
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: no matter what. And so you just need to find

720
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback that that is good at playing quarterback and

721
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: have have options and not not be afraid maybe it

722
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: didn't make sense for for this Jets team in particular,

723
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: but I just mean in general, like, why be afraid

724
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: of winning different types of ways having other plans if

725
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: you're a plan is not working. And listen, Uh, Belichick

726
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: is not afraid in ways that other coaches are afraid, right, So,

727
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: and and they could still I mean, this is a

728
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: low guarantee contract. Theoretically, Jared Stidham could still beat out

729
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: Cam Newton Cam Newton for this starting job. But as

730
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 1: I described it on the air earlier, my belief, based

731
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: on the conversations that I have had, uh since this

732
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: thing went down, is it's Cam versus Cam. If Cam

733
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: comes in and is healthy and shows that he can

734
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: play good football again, it's it's Cam in a runaway.

735
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Despite the fact that now

736
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to tweak your offense, okay, and you're

737
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: gonna have to do it in a year where you

738
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: didn't have a spring and you're gonna have maybe not

739
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: maybe you're definitely gonna have some kind of abbreviated training

740
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: camp and maybe uh two to no preseason games. So

741
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: this is a team that's not afraid to do that

742
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: because they've done it for twenty years now. Granted they

743
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: did it with Brady at quarterback, but the point is

744
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: they trusted the guys around Brady to be able to

745
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: make those adjustments, and not only year to year, week

746
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: to week and quarter to quarter, drive to drive, be

747
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: able to make these adjustments if something's not working, scraped

748
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: the game plan and let's go back to some of

749
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: the stuff that maybe we haven't done since training camp.

750
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: That's why the timing thing is is crucial because they

751
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: now have this month to to get that offense ready,

752
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: and of course they're going to be planning like an

753
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: offense into Richard Sermon's initial point. I think we've talked

754
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: about this. Kim has had a lot of bad luck.

755
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: I think in his career. He certainly has with the

756
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: injuries the last couple of years. This offseason was bad

757
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: luck to be any quarterback looking for a job. I

758
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: mean Andy Dalton getting If you had told me at

759
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: the beginning of the officin Andy Dalton was gonna sign

760
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: for two or three million, I would have been shocked

761
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: by that. Now, Cam, I think is another level. But

762
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,439
Speaker 1: if you look back four or five off seasons ago,

763
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of off seasons where Sam Bradford coming

764
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: off an injuries the bell of the ball at quarterback

765
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: and there's seven teams looking or Kevin Cobbs the bell

766
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,479
Speaker 1: of the ball and teams are gonna give up picks

767
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: for a brock Oswilder's gonna get them with like three

768
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: teams going after, whereas this year there was only like

769
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: there's almost no teams looking for quarterbacks and they're actually

770
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: where decent players available. I think it was all combined

771
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: to to hurt Cam. You gotta mention Mike Glennon there too.

772
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: That's actually the best example. I blew it, Mike. What

773
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: are you doing? Um? Fourth of July and Jersey in

774
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: a very strange year. Uh, well, we're gonna be down

775
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: the shore, but I'm trying to think we're gonna have

776
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: a I'll keep it to the bare minimum facts. We

777
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: are going to have a baby review. Um, which I'm sorry,

778
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: thank you, I'm sorry I didn't allow you guys to

779
00:38:55,239 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: break that one again. Awesome the first time around, you

780
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 1: guys had our corner. We got about that. I gotta

781
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 1: I gotta spread it out. I got a lot of

782
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: mouse to feed, So we're gonna do a baby reveal

783
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: over the weekend. We're just trying to figure out where

784
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: and how is there gonna be like a like a

785
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: like a gun involved, you know, where like steamers come

786
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: out of the gun, not a real gun, but like

787
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 1: people get pretty crazy with this stuff. Now. Uh, we're

788
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: working on it. We're working on it. Did we lose

789
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: Did we lose that? What's happening? He is he is returning?

790
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: Are you you're only an audio program, Mike. Just roll

791
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: with the punches here, Mike, you're not one of the people.

792
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: You know, this is happening on both coastlines um that

793
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: have just been setting off fireworks every night since like

794
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: May eight. Are you just that something that I could

795
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: pin on you? Or is that not not accurate? No, No,

796
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: that's not okay. I'm just trying to figure out who's

797
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 1: doing it. We've kind of guilty with this. We've we've

798
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: we've had it and I had a couple of things

799
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: rattling around my head right now. That's fine, and neither

800
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: one of them do I actually want to say? So

801
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna plead the fifth on this one to

802
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: text you offline. How about that? Okay? Mike Gara, Folo,

803
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 1: thank you? So much for joining us. Congratulations on another child,

804
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: by the way, we well, thank you, thank you very much.

805
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: But I like to preach accountability. I gotta follow my sword.

806
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: I've been itching to get back on here with you guys,

807
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: because I think I left you the last time with

808
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 1: Gregg asking me. We were in Indianapolis, and he said,

809
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: is Philip Rivers gonna wind up the quarterback of the Colts?

810
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: And I got too cute because I knew that they

811
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 1: had already had talks with the Jaguars about Nick Folks.

812
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: So I said to you, I don't think so. I

813
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: think it might be another veteran quarterback. And I didn't

814
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: lead on about who it might be, and they did.

815
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: In the end it was Rivers falls, Rivers fault, and

816
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: they decided let's just go with Rivers and not go

817
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: up any draft pick compensation. But that's been eating at

818
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: me because it was right there I had to do

819
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: and say, yes. Nobody would remember, but I bet you

820
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: more people remember that I said no, So none of us,

821
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: none of us would have remembered what your first answer was.

822
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: But that is why year a pro that's why you've

823
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: gotten to where you are. Things like that keep you

824
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: up at night. Thank you for clearing that up, Mike,

825
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: and enjoy the time with the family and we love

826
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: having you with us. Alright, Pwice, thank you very much.

827
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Happy for thanks Mike. Bye bye. See

828
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: there he goes Mike Gara, Folo, gender reveal. I just

829
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: missed that. I think that really got big right after Well, yeah,

830
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it doesn't mean everyone has to

831
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: or well I can. I would never do that. She

832
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: just would not be into it. Yeah, they did it

833
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: on our show. Yeah they did. Remember they poured the

834
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: wine and it was blue. I don't think you know,

835
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: Lakeisha was very organized on the pregnancy front. I don't

836
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: think you were getting through that process without a gender reveal.

837
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: And that was a big moment. Gender reveals were invented

838
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: for Lakisha Jackson Westling to have a child. Basically, Um,

839
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: all right, let us get to some winners losers. Wrap

840
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: up this Cam Newton conversation with some winners and losers.

841
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: I'll start that. I'll start it out. Maybe we'll share

842
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: one or two each a winner. The Bill Belichick is

843
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: playing chess while the world is playing checkers. Mob, I mean,

844
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: everybody was wow. The Pats have done it again. Well,

845
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of like that's the same thing with the

846
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: Patriots drafting Tom Brady with the overall pick. Sometimes it's

847
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: just things work out in your favor, and the and

848
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,280
Speaker 1: the and I don't think the Patriots. The Patriots were smart.

849
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: They would have they would have gotten this guy a

850
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: long time ago and not risked waiting all this time,

851
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: because they really would have been a very good chance.

852
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: Let's face it, unless you really think Jarge Stidham is

853
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: going to develop into a player, there was a real

854
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: chance that Pats are gonna be caught with their pants

855
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: down this season. They wouldn't have got him for one

856
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: million dollars, which they had. I mean, well, if you're

857
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: saying that, like, if this is a quarterback position, the

858
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: most important important position on the field, if they really

859
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: knew thought they needed Cam Newton, wouldn't they have found

860
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: a way that they didn't think they need Cam Newton.

861
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: I think to me, that's that's my takeaway a lot

862
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: with Patriots me. And that's why, like I'm making the

863
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: case for the Bronchers. Just the point isn't that you

864
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: need Cam Newton. The point is, let's just try to

865
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: get better. Um, oh, you know your way off that

866
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: You're right, he would They were ready to go into

867
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: the season with Stidham. They still they still would be

868
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: because they were prepared obviously for any team if they

869
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: had wanted to to sign Cam Newton at any point.

870
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: But at this point it's like you stopped looking, you know,

871
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: you stop ignoring value at the at the behest of

872
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: like whatever they were planning. It's it's such a different

873
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: situation though. I mean to say that the Patriots situation,

874
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: and you can compare the Patriots and the Jets, you

875
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: can't because the Patriots had a clear need at starting quarterback,

876
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: uh and the page and the Jets, and I think

877
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: Mike was getting to that point as well. If if

878
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: their guy is Sam Donald and they bring into a

879
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: star like Cam Newton in there, that creates not just

880
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: makes a roster better, but at what cost? And that

881
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: that's why I think the Patriots it was a slam

882
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: dunck move for them because it makes them better and

883
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: it doesn't have any of that negative stuff that would

884
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: have come with you do you signed with the Jets

885
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: of the Steelers or whoever else. But the only thing,

886
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: I mean, your your initial point was that everyone suggesting

887
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: that Belichick plays chess while everyone else is learning how

888
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: to play checkers still, but he is, and he has

889
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: been for a long I mean, are you actually saying

890
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: that that's not what building I'm saying. I'm saying this

891
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: was a no brainer for the Patriots. They should have

892
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: done they though I don't think they had. I do

893
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,959
Speaker 1: think that there's something to what Greg is saying about

894
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: the fact that like it wasn't like there was a

895
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: stress um in a in an element of panic to

896
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: adding Cam Newton to the roster. I think they waited

897
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: until the price was right. Um there a cap strap

898
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: team and no other team acted, so it became more

899
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: and more of reality. I don't think it was a

900
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: master plan to do that either, but the timing now fits,

901
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: and I think three months ago people did not know

902
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: where we were with Cam Newton's health even more than today.

903
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: There was information gathering. I don't know how much more

904
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: we know now than we did three months ago about

905
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: how well we've seen him working. There's you know, and

906
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: what was built. Bill Belichick knows more than the media

907
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: does if he's talking to people around Cam Newton. But yeah,

908
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think it's a little it's

909
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: underheaded to have the viewpoint that only Bill Belichick saw

910
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: that Cam Newton could make his team better when there

911
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: were a lot of different factors that came into play

912
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: that allowed this to play out this way. But that's

913
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: just mine. How about who's got another one? Well, I

914
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: would give you a loser. And it's similar to what

915
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: you're talking about a little bit, Dan, that we're about

916
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: a month away probably from a devastating quarterback injury to occur.

917
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of the league, and

918
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: you know, we would be great to find out where

919
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: people were on Cam Newton, how close any teams really

920
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: got to signing him. But it seemed to be that

921
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: Cam Newton got slotted into the someone just going to

922
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: sign them, making their starter when you know, quarterback a

923
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: goes down because all these teams didn't want to deal

924
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton the backup create and all the business

925
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: we've talked about, the drama. I mean, that kind of

926
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: planning is now out the window because I really actually

927
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: completely agree with Greg's take that Can Newton being added

928
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: to the right side of team just makes that quarterbook

929
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: back room looks so much better and all these teams

930
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: with if he's situations avoided it and now he is gone,

931
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: He's gone to the team that he's going to thrive with.

932
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: Most so I all these other teams the past, I

933
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: think are going to be a talking point all season long.

934
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: And I'd start with the Panthers because I like Matt

935
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: Rule a ton, but I think that there was an

936
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: element of if you really want a fresh start in Carolina,

937
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: does it make sense to start over with like the Patriots.

938
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: Matt Rule is the leader of that team, not Cam Newton.

939
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: And the split, which was very messy, happened very quickly.

940
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: It was tough. It would have been tough there. But

941
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: but I I also think he would fit into that

942
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: Matt Rule system. I'll throw some winners. How about NFL

943
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: fans who were you know seeing the Patriots in prime

944
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: time four or five times? Because that was a bit

945
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: of a risk here, and so if you if you

946
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: have a cam in prime time, Um, that's a lot

947
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: more exciting. How about a winner Jewel Julian Edelman, Um,

948
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know necessarily, like, hey, he's gonna

949
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: get more balls with with Cam Newton or not. But

950
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: I do think the Patriots are seen, and this is

951
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: where I'm being a homer. I don't think the receivers

952
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: are as disastrous as kind of it's been painted. Now.

953
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: If most of new looks like he did last year

954
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: when he played through a high ankle spraying the second

955
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: he got there, that could be part of it. And

956
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: if Nakil Harry is a total bust, which feels like

957
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: it's on the table because it was a disconcer disconcerting

958
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: first year out of a first round pick, like I

959
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: get it. But Edelman s new Harry a couple of

960
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: rookie tight ends. I don't know. I've seen, I've seen

961
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 1: worst wide receiver groups, and I do think Edelman fits

962
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: pretty well with Cam Newton, who throws well up the seams.

963
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: I would take issue with the primetime thing a little

964
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: bit because I think that there was there would have

965
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: been an audience, a national audience script by the idea

966
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: of Jared Stidham rolled out there and we want to

967
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: watch it burn, right, So if they're just gonna be

968
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: a playoff team with Cam Newton, but it's just fascinating,

969
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: isn't it. Even if you're a relatively and I think

970
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: a lot of Cam Newton fans who hate the Patriot.

971
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who just like watching Cam

972
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: Newton play football, including me, who aren't Patriots fans. They're

973
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: just kind of like, all right, this will be fun.

974
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: You know, let's watch this. If we got a Stidham

975
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: Hoyer poopoo platter and neither guy could play, Uh that

976
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: that kind of enjoyment of watching the Patriots fall flat

977
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: would probably wear off by the time they were two

978
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: and five and they had five playoffs. They have five

979
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: prime time games scheduled right now your house. I think

980
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: you would enjoy that wire to wire. I don't think

981
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 1: you'd be bored. I probably would, but yeah I would.

982
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: I would probably enjoy it all season long. But also

983
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,959
Speaker 1: like every feels that way too after the last few years.

984
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: I mean they're early schedule two is tough. I mean

985
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: they're they're toughest games, you know with the Chiefs, and

986
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: some of them are all early in the season. A

987
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: big winner is the shamelessness meter for the Patriots. It

988
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: busted past the ten meter and it's all the way

989
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: up to twelve. Now. It's just it bursted with it

990
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 1: burst with the announcement sixteen minutes apart, Ladies and gentlemen,

991
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: sixteen minutes apart the announcement of the Cam Newton Newton signing,

992
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 1: sixteen minutes before the Adam Schefter report that the Patriots

993
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,959
Speaker 1: were fined one point one million dollars and we'll lose

994
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: their third round pick for filming the Bengals sideline in

995
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: connection to one of their team produced shows playing the game.

996
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 1: That is, I mean it is. Listen, I'm not even

997
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 1: the publications it is. I'm not even mad. But this

998
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: organization they just they and you gotta you gotta give

999
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: give it to them. And I will say, just like

1000
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: because somebody's got to say it. It's just the latest

1001
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: in what's been a major part of this what this

1002
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: legacy is for this organization. I'm sorry. You could have

1003
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: the greatest code and the greatest quarterback and all the rings,

1004
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,280
Speaker 1: but this is now, by my account, the fourth major

1005
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: scandal connected to this team, and then a myriad of

1006
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 1: smaller ones. But you had a spy Gate No. Seven,

1007
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: you had the a f C Championship game to flake

1008
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: Gate in fourteen. This videotape scandal is not nearly at

1009
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: that same level. But again they got busted for it,

1010
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: and it's a substantial fine, and the draft pick that

1011
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: has a lot of value in patriot Land. I'm not

1012
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: even gonna get into walk through gate in two thousand

1013
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: two before the first Super Bowl, but it's part of

1014
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: their story and it should not be ignored. I know

1015
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: that everyone acts like this latest thing was. I think

1016
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: there's a fair amount of exhaustion when when you hear

1017
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: a news story about the Patriots you're doing something with

1018
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: a video camera anywhere, You're just like, al right, But

1019
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean to me, if the league decided that the

1020
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: penalty for what they um before the wrong was a

1021
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: third round pick in one million dollars, what today? What

1022
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 1: are they claiming behind this behind closed doors happened here?

1023
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: Is it not similar suspects suspicious behavior that looks like

1024
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: other Patriots taping issues, because if it is, shouldn't the

1025
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: penalty have been wholly different than this. I don't understand

1026
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: where they here's the investigation. We've come up with the

1027
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: idea that they've done this and it's only worth a

1028
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: third round pick, and you know, like eight pennies out

1029
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: of Robert Kraft's pocket. Uh, I need to know more.

1030
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: I I think part of it that, at least in

1031
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: the reasoning that you heard, you know, back when they

1032
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,760
Speaker 1: were investigating it, is that they're gonna get punished extra

1033
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: for any infraction because they were a repeat offender essentially

1034
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: in doing this. So maybe if it was a team

1035
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: that had never done it before, it would have been

1036
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just nothing or this is Yeah.

1037
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: I saw the third round pick and I as a

1038
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: I'm I was surprised. I'm surprised more isn't being made

1039
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: of it in the cam news. Is certainly reason? Is

1040
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: there certainly a reason why? Because the third round pick

1041
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: is significant. You know, um, this was kind of brushed

1042
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: off pretty quickly, and if you look into what was happening,

1043
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: you know, no one has a hard take of like

1044
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: what it really meant. But a third round pick is

1045
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: a big loss. No one's given away third round picks

1046
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: just for fun. I mean, that's that's like, that's those

1047
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: are very valuable picks. And anyone who's followed the NFL

1048
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 1: that has a pulse knows that part of the reason

1049
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots have stayed great all these years is because

1050
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: they make the most of those mid round picks many times. Yeah,

1051
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: the Just for the record, the spy gates scandaled Bellichick

1052
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: got fan find half a million. The Patriots got found

1053
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: tifty thousand dollars, and they lost their first round pick

1054
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: in the two thousand eight draft to flate gate. It

1055
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: was a million dollars for the team, and they gave

1056
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: up their first and fourth round picks in seventeen respectively.

1057
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: And now this year it is I guess the highest

1058
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: finally faced. And maybe it's just a pattern, maybe it's

1059
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: basic inflation or just a pattern of escalating behavior. But

1060
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 1: one point one million and the forfeiture of the third

1061
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: round pick, Ricky, this is the team you root for.

1062
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,919
Speaker 1: Immediately afterwards, they fell apart in their offense? Was there?

1063
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: So maybe it was that was bad juju? How do

1064
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: you sleep? I'm wondering, I've wondered that. No, it's it's upsetting,

1065
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: it's it's not a good look for sure, Ricky, do

1066
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: you want to I know you had another thought of Kim,

1067
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:14,919
Speaker 1: might as well share it. Now that's something that's giving

1068
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: you pause here. I just I just feel like the

1069
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: way that he, you know, reacted to that um female

1070
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: reporter saying it's funny. How to hear a female talk

1071
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: about routes? To me? Is it's bugged? Me since the

1072
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: day it happened. And to stand behind someone where, especially

1073
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: if you're coming to play for a for a new

1074
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: England team, where that fan base you say all you want,

1075
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: but like we give everything to our team, like it's

1076
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: such a homer place and like for me, it's like

1077
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 1: you expect half of just females in general in the

1078
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: Boston area to stand behind you and be like, oh cool,

1079
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: like this is I don't know, it's just it's really

1080
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: what we want to play for people that might have

1081
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: forgotten what Camp sling a couple years ago. I don't know.

1082
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: You take a lot of pride in seeing your receivers

1083
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: playing well. Devin Funches just seemed to really embrace the

1084
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: physicality of his routes and and making getting those extra

1085
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: yards because that give you a little bit of an

1086
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: enjoyment to see him kind of trust speaking people out.

1087
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: It's funny to hear female talk about routes like it's funny.

1088
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: But yeah, not not Camp's finest moment. But you come

1089
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: on it. Maybe you just had a maybe had a

1090
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: bad day. You're gonna give him a pass on that

1091
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 1: or is that it for him? Yeah? I mean I'm

1092
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: not it's not all of a sudden, like, oh, canceled

1093
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: culture is so stupid, blah blah blah. But it's like

1094
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: if you're on a podium where you know, like you're

1095
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: blatantly have that much disrespect to embarrass someone who asked

1096
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: a very legitimate, great question. Um, it's not that's not him,

1097
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: you know, locker room talk and he said that like

1098
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: he was on a stage with cameras everywhere, and he

1099
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: literally decided to do that. So to me, it's it's

1100
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: of course, you know, it could have just been a

1101
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: bad day, but I it's not cool. No, it's it

1102
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: was if I can I'm trying to think. But like

1103
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: I've almost never had a problem with stuff Kim's done

1104
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: off the field, and that was a low That was

1105
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: like a low moment for him. That was a very

1106
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: low moment for him. I mean, but the fan base

1107
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: is gonna be into him if he plays well and

1108
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: not if he doesn't. Mean Tom Brady wants you know,

1109
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: I was trying to sell that water could help you

1110
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: with concussions and stuff. It's like it's like people can

1111
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: say some crazy stuff. I'm more interested. It's like the

1112
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: Patriots having had a black quarterback in my lifetime that

1113
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: was like a starter, which is interesting, you know, to me,

1114
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: it's different and it's it's it's definitely different in that region,

1115
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: and I think it'll be exciting. And and a quarterback

1116
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: who's you know, his personality, He's got a big personality

1117
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: and winning, winning is gonna he's gonna make that all

1118
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: go fine. And if they're not winning and he's playing,

1119
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: then then it'll be you know, fascinating to watch. That's

1120
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: a big part of it is what will his personality

1121
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: be in New England will be tempered at all? Because

1122
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: I don't think the sorry, sorry, right, I don't think that.

1123
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: I don't freewheeling press conferences are probably in the past.

1124
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: Um uh to your pleasure, Erika too. I wonder about that.

1125
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: I had that on my loser's list. Um, Cam's fledgling

1126
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: new hieroglyphics language. Um. I wonder if this is a

1127
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: one year contract. And Cam is a guy who's whose

1128
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: career and the way he's played, he plays with a

1129
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: lot of passion. He's a very colorful guy. Um. He

1130
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: is almost exactly the the opposite of what the quote

1131
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: unquote Patriots Way players should be like. And I know

1132
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: they've brought in big personalities in the past, but also

1133
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: we've we've heard from prominent players before that's that went

1134
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: to New England and said I didn't like it there.

1135
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: There is also a scenario where Cam plays well and

1136
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: decides maybe at this place isn't for me, and I'm

1137
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: gonna take this leverage of getting my career back on

1138
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: track and I'm gonna go sign elsewhere. So there's there's

1139
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,479
Speaker 1: there is a bit of assumption here that not only

1140
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: was this a perfect signing for the Pats, but he's

1141
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy and be a star and he's gonna

1142
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 1: be their quarterback for another seven years. Like that, I

1143
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: think you wouldn't look past this season, but it is

1144
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: a perfect springboard potentially for Cam Newton. No, I think

1145
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 1: that's a good point that even if he plays well Dan,

1146
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: that he might not be the long term quarterback because

1147
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna have options and he's not gonna um necessarily

1148
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: be that cheap. The thing I would say, in terms

1149
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: of the Patriot Way that was like they've had a

1150
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: million colorful characters and Mike talked about him talking to

1151
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: North Turner and stuff. It's like, if they want guys

1152
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: that are ultra competitive and like love football to their core.

1153
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: And I don't think anyone's ever questioned that with Cam Newton.

1154
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: And it's different. It's different when your quarterback is is

1155
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: out there and is a little different. But it's like,

1156
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's you know, they shouldn't have questioned

1157
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: that with Cam Newton, and I think that's why they

1158
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: feel like it's a good fit. While we're talking quarterbacks,

1159
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: should should have fallen on that ball in Super Bowl fifty.

1160
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, otherwise I do you're saying I lose her here, um,

1161
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:06,479
Speaker 1: you know those of us on Stidham Corner here back.

1162
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: But for me, I love Cam Newton far more than

1163
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 1: I've ever loved being on Stidham corner. And I do

1164
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: think to your point about Cam Newton that it might be, um,

1165
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, one year thing. It's like a there's a

1166
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: there's a decent chance you'll see Stidham this year anyways,

1167
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: possibly for a lot of the year. I mean, we

1168
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: just don't know. Um, with Cam Newton's health and then

1169
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: and then being like he's a second year, fourth round pick,

1170
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: it's very possible that he's in the mix like at

1171
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: a later date. There's just not much reason to believe,

1172
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: as Mike said, as anything logical. It said that when

1173
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: we're reading these quarterback battles in August, and we will,

1174
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: it's like, there will be no reason to think that

1175
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: a healthy Kim Newton is not their starter. It's like,

1176
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: how is Jared Stidham gonna be a better player than

1177
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: Kim Newton right now? Come on? But all the reporting

1178
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: also talks about how they to your point, they've not

1179
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: given up on Jared Stidham, and I think it's actually

1180
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: just a better situation to find out who Jaron Stidham

1181
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: is um in another year to develop. He's not a

1182
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: first round guy. I don't think he didn't draft him

1183
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: to think he's the heir apparent to Tom Brady. I

1184
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: have one more loser, And Greg, you alluded to it

1185
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: that the Bills a f C East favorite status. Actually

1186
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: saw tweet right before the show started. I don't know

1187
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 1: if it's a Vegas wide, Desert wide thing, but the

1188
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: Patriots are now slight favorites in the ANFC East after

1189
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: the Cam Newton signing, which maybe is the best thing

1190
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: could happen to the Bills, who now probably don't have

1191
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: to worry about falling into that trap of expectations being

1192
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: so high. It's not easy to be the favorite, especially

1193
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: if you don't have any experience with it. Um and

1194
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: now the Patriots, I think there will be a lot

1195
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: of people, especially if Cam looks good. Uh if and

1196
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: when there's a training camp, the Bills get to kind

1197
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: of go back to that. You know, we're hunting for

1198
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: the division child rather than people, and it was wrong

1199
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: to do it in the first place, but you kind

1200
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: of were getting the feeling of people are handing in

1201
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: that title. So um, yes, the favorite status is over,

1202
00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: but that might actually be a good thing for the Bills.

1203
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: I think it is a good thing. Also, there is

1204
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: definitely a like a hipster movement um afoot also where

1205
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't really care what New England did,

1206
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo is still running away with this division head entails

1207
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: nothing like Colleen likes the Bills. It is. It's at

1208
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: least it makes it makes ANFCS more you know interesting,

1209
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: just at quarterback. It's so much more, um interesting than

1210
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: it was a few years ago. I'm not down on

1211
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: Donald because he throws. He's the guy the type of

1212
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: guy usually fall for that he makes three throws every

1213
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: play every game that like almost no one could make.

1214
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: To me, he's just a total wild card where the

1215
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 1: ceiling is so high and the floor, you know, might

1216
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: be fairly low still, and then you have to and

1217
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: then you have Josh Allen who makes people crazy. But

1218
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: to me, in the best case scenario, he's a poor

1219
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: man's Cam Newton. And then you actually have Cam Newton. Right,

1220
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: that's nice, Fitzpatrick. Don't forget about our favorite We got

1221
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: fits magic in the mix. Yeah, the Patriots. Don't need

1222
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 1: to see the Patriots win another division for the rest

1223
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: of my life, but I do as a football fan,

1224
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: I kind of I'm into the Cam Newton in the

1225
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: division thing. It's kind of it's a fun storyline. The

1226
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: Patriots were, they were shaping up as a brutally boring team,

1227
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: and now there's some juice in the building. All right,

1228
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 1: all right, anybody got another one or you want to

1229
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: you want to move on here, Let's move on all right?

1230
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: Before we say goodbye, because again we are going away

1231
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: for a week. Uh so, why don't we do a

1232
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: little eight o'clock lightning, Ricky just to eight o'clock to

1233
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: light excuse me, just to hit any other news and

1234
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: then we'll say goodbye. Mark Davis is unhappy with the

1235
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: decision to sell ads, not seats the fans in his

1236
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: fancy new stadium. I mean, this is just the beginning.

1237
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: If Mark Davis is coming after the league because he

1238
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: thinks like society should be more open, you might see

1239
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: some political back and forth among the owners. You like

1240
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: that A little raiders all there, Matt Rule says to everybody,

1241
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: and maybe me, Teddy will go deep more six point two?

1242
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: Why not? You've got Robbie Anderson. Matt Rule knows Robby Anderson. Well,

1243
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: I think that I think this is a a little

1244
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 1: bit has to do with Rule when he came on

1245
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: our show too and had to answer Teddy questions. Everywhere

1246
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: he goes, it's Teddy questions and typically questions doubting Teddy.

1247
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: So he's telling you stick it. We're gonna throw the

1248
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: ball where Teddy Bridge orders averaged six point two intended

1249
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 1: air yards for attempt last season. In other news, Zekiel

1250
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: Elliott still hasn't worked out two weeks after getting the

1251
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen virus. Greg this is the whole thing with

1252
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: Corona that I think people are under selling. What are

1253
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: the long term impacts gonna be for these players for

1254
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: the thirty seven Clemson guys. Also, the Hall of Fame

1255
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: game and ceremony were canceled. July still the date for

1256
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: training camp. We'll see, Mark, We'll see, we'll see. All right,

1257
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: what are you guys gonna do this week? Anything? I'm

1258
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: still in Texas of course. Um, I'm gonna enjoy it

1259
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: here at the lake Kevin Danger hands Us. My brother

1260
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: is coming into town actually, and he's gonna stay with

1261
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: us in seclusion here at the Lake House. Uh. And

1262
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. That should have a similar

1263
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: Cam Newton in New England effect. He tends to spice

1264
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: things up when he arrives. I could see some controversial

1265
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: press conferences, Hairstyles. It all is on the table for Danger.

1266
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 1: Kevin Danger hands Is and my brother in law, Tanner

1267
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 1: Um are still the only people in the history of

1268
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and the Super Bowls we've covered at

1269
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast where we we go into

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Speaker 1: the stadiums Ricky as well, and we on game day

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Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl, we get there about three hours

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Speaker 1: four hours before kickoff and we're in that building, what

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Speaker 1: three or four hours after the Lombardi trophy is handed

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Speaker 1: over too. When we when we leave, we're sometimes um

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Speaker 1: close to the last people out of the Super Bowl stadium.

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Speaker 1: And to this to this day, only Kevin and Tanner

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Speaker 1: were the only Super Bowl Family guests that were still

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Speaker 1: awake when we got back to the hotel at three

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Speaker 1: odd am in the morning at TJ. Friday's, hammering down drinks,

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Speaker 1: talking to girls getting in trouble. I think they actually

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Speaker 1: convinced um T G. I. Friday's to stay open later

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Speaker 1: because they're like, there is people, there are people coming back.

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Speaker 1: This place is going to be rocking, and uh, you

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Speaker 1: know we closed the place very early in the morning. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: your plans guys for this week and lady my plan.

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Speaker 1: I really have no plans. It's like other weeks. But

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Speaker 1: but last podcasts they do have an update though I

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Speaker 1: don't know Eric if you wanted to share the poll

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Speaker 1: that you put up on your site. She wants, you know,

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Speaker 1: on her Twitter page, she said who's better looking? Settle

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Speaker 1: In argument, Greg says Cam right now over fifty votes,

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Speaker 1: Cam dominating of the vote. Yeah, it's big, it's a

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Speaker 1: big Uh, it's a big loss for me. I really,

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Speaker 1: you know, hit the table that it was Tom Brady earlier,

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Speaker 1: and you know, maybe like Cam Newton, I can I

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Speaker 1: can change, well I will. Let's just give Brady this. Uh,

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Speaker 1: A lot of people are better looking at thirty one

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Speaker 1: than they are at fort well, plus trusting the American

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Speaker 1: public and an open vote isn't always proven to me

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Speaker 1: like you're choosing the right guy. So well, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of we're going to just vote against Brady because

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Speaker 1: they can't stand Brady. But I think the Cam is

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Speaker 1: a fair challenger there. Sorry, I didn't have an answer

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Speaker 1: for what's happening this week. I don't know if marks

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Speaker 1: we're going. We're going to um To Lake Arrowhead is

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Speaker 1: a family for to you go, you gotta be carefully

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Speaker 1: here by there by the way. You're a young lady.

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Speaker 1: And I know what's been happening in l A since

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Speaker 1: I've been gone. You guys can't stop partying, your millennials,

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Speaker 1: and it's caused a spike in the Los Angeles County region.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing here, Texas fingers? Yeah, I know right, Seriously,

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Speaker 1: I rented a house up in Joshua Tree National Park,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go up there for a little bit

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Speaker 1: and get out of the city and see some stars.

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Speaker 1: Very good. I I call no land home anymore. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I don't not Texas, not California, not New York. I

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Speaker 1: just I'm a wander at this stage of my life,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's the best way to do it

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Speaker 1: at this point. I hope that got into the newspaper

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Speaker 1: article that we've not heard anything else about. I'm waiting.

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Speaker 1: We're waiting to find out. Let us know. Tease. That's

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Speaker 1: a nice tease for for next week. Come back, come

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Speaker 1: back to find out the starting conclusion to the Gatesville Messenger.

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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff. Dan has a signing off for

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Speaker 1: Quiet Storm the old Boss Ricky Hollywood. Enjoy the fourth Everybody,

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Speaker 1: do your next week.