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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. If I told you on Friday the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are not going to score a touchdown, that would be

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Speaker 1: probably one of the colder takes you could possibly have.

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Speaker 1: Or Rob Gronkowski is going to score two touchdowns. If

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Speaker 1: there is a blowout, it'll be the Buccaneers blowing out

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Nobody had that. I think if anybody had

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Speaker 1: a blowout, it was Nick wrong and he had him

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Speaker 1: by sixteen. A lot of people had it Chiefs winning

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Speaker 1: by four or five six or if the Patriot or Patriots.

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Speaker 1: I keep saying that with Rady old habits, die Hard,

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers were going to win. It was going to

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Speaker 1: be by a couple of points. I had the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: winning twenty eight, twenty seven. I still think and thought

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Speaker 1: and have thought this way the entire postseason. The defense

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Speaker 1: was the real MVP. I said on Friday that this

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Speaker 1: is a quarterback game, and one quarterback's going to win

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Speaker 1: the MVP and one is going to lose it. And

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Speaker 1: that's what happened. Tom Brady was going to be the

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Speaker 1: MVP if the Bucks won, and Patrick Mahomes would have

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Speaker 1: been the MVP if the Chiefs one. That doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: it went to the right people because Tom Brady was great,

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Speaker 1: but that defense set the tone for everything. Defense was great,

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Speaker 1: bend didn't break, Chiefs had a chance inside the red zone.

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Speaker 1: You come away with three field goals. Shack Barrett wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Devin White. You know how I felt about him all

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Speaker 1: season long. He's only twenty two. But if you're going

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Speaker 1: to put that much pressure on Patrick Mahomes and you

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Speaker 1: that's what happened. He was hurried twenty four times if

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Speaker 1: you follow such stats, But it comes down to can

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Speaker 1: you make some plays? And who would have thought former

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Speaker 1: Patriots Rob Gronkowski and Tonio Brown are going to score

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in the Super Bowl. Leonard Fournette was kicked to

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Speaker 1: the curb by the Jags. He was cut. Leonard Fournette

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Speaker 1: was one full last night. Nobody wanted Leonard Fournette. You

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Speaker 1: already had Ronald Jones, he had a good running back.

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Speaker 1: They brought in Fournette and Fournette was great last night

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Speaker 1: and touchdown run. He rushed for almost ninety yards. He

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Speaker 1: was there for a couple of pass receptions. He kept

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Speaker 1: moving the chains, and that's a big difference here with

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Speaker 1: Mike Evans had a couple of catches, but you know,

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Speaker 1: who would have thought Gronk was going to be a

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Speaker 1: big difference maker there? And then Antonio Brown as well.

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Speaker 1: But even though he's considered the goat, it's still easy

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Speaker 1: to take Tom Brady for granted. We're so used to

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Speaker 1: lose I think we lose sight of how improbable this

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Speaker 1: run is because keep in mind, if you're old enough

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Speaker 1: to understand the Buccaneers organization, it has been the laughing

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Speaker 1: stock of the NFL. I don't think anybody's close to

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, and they do have a Super Bowl. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Lions are bad. The Browns at least had a

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Speaker 1: legacy back in the sixties when they were a championship

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Speaker 1: team before the Super Bowl era. But the Buccaneers, they

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Speaker 1: were the laughing stock of the NFL and they hadn't

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Speaker 1: done anything since two thousand and seven. So you get

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Speaker 1: a forty two year old quarterback who's going to join you.

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Speaker 1: There's no training camp, there's no preseason and we're somehow

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Speaker 1: and he recruits Gronk, he lobbies for Antonio Brown, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I think Brady realized I liked

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Speaker 1: my weapons, I got a coach. I like, we have

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Speaker 1: a fun back and forth. But I think what Brady

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Speaker 1: they're none. I think I even had doubts, and I

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Speaker 1: Even though Brady transformed the Buccaneers, you could and you

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Speaker 1: could say this is his most improbable title. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: But this is different. It's incredible the Bucks team could

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Speaker 1: come together so quickly, and you know, Brady's achieved everything,

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Speaker 1: to him and he does have the title of greatest

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Speaker 1: of all time. Congrats to Brady the Buccaneers. We witnessed

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Speaker 1: NFL history once again last night. Another milestone and Brady's

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Speaker 1: remarkable career, and congrats to the Bucks and the greatest

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Speaker 1: quarterback of all time. Here is Tom Brady talking about

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Speaker 1: that defense. They stepped up to the challenge and you know,

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Speaker 1: you go up against a guy like Pat incredible player

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Speaker 1: and Aaron MVP two weeks ago. They played incredible and

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Speaker 1: They wrote the occasion. He also had this to say

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Speaker 1: about his legacy. Have you given any thought to what

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Speaker 1: this all means to your legacy, all the factors that

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Speaker 1: You know, it's man, We've been grinding pretty hard so

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Speaker 1: i haven't really had a lot of time to think

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Speaker 1: about all the you know, things like that. So I'm

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Speaker 1: just blessed grateful for my teammates, all the people that

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Speaker 1: have supported us all year. My boy, Alex, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been a great year. The Chiefs are us the

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Speaker 1: third team to not score a touchdown in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: joining the Dolphins. They played Dallas in lost twenty four

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Speaker 1: to three, and the Rams against New England that was

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Speaker 1: thirteen to three. Let me run down the guest list.

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Speaker 1: Chris Simms Pro Football Talk will join us coming up.

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Speaker 1: Rick Strout of the Tampa Bay Times. We had Rick

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Speaker 1: on a couple of times when Brady joined the Buccaneers,

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Speaker 1: and we've had him on periodically throughout this season and

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Speaker 1: even after bad games. Where you go, man, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: got my doubts about this team. Tom Curran, who covers

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Speaker 1: was tweeting last night, I'm curious how this is going

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Speaker 1: over in the New England area with Tom Brady. But

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers handled the Chiefs. Brady wins. The MVP. Phone

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Speaker 1: calls are always welcome, as we always do every Monday

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Speaker 1: people have reminded, me, Hey, you said the Chiefs were

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Speaker 1: the better team. Yes, going into that game, I thought

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Speaker 1: I said on numerous times, I'd never been against Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady until he loses where I think that he is

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Speaker 1: not playing well, then I would change my opinion. If

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Speaker 1: I was betting Tom Brady, I'd be a rich man.

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Speaker 1: Even when he lost to the Eagles, he played as

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Speaker 1: well as you could possibly play, maybe the greatest performance

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Speaker 1: in a losing effort in Super Bowl history. Brady makes plays. Now.

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Speaker 1: Did I have questions about the officiating. Absolutely. If I'm

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Speaker 1: say it felt one sided. And there were times in

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Speaker 1: the first half I thought that there were a couple

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Speaker 1: of times they could have picked up the flags and

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Speaker 1: Mike Evans getting tripped, Yeah, you gotta call it off sides,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean there are moments where you go

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Speaker 1: Kansas City didn't look ready. They didn't look ready for

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Speaker 1: what Todd Bowles, the defensive coordinator did, and we knew

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Speaker 1: we said it that. I thought, if Shack Barrett is

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Speaker 1: going against the same tackle that the Denver Broncos and

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Speaker 1: Von Miller took advantage of six years ago, I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: that tackle is not that much better than he was

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Speaker 1: they were missing a couple of offensive linemen and they

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Speaker 1: took advantage of that. When you don't have to blitz

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Speaker 1: Mahomes and you just play zone, you see first down

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Speaker 1: and second down and they really mix things up. Take

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Speaker 1: Away Tyreek Hill, best you can. Kelsey had catches take

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Speaker 1: away Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill is the one where that's

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Speaker 1: the backbreaker. If you let Kelsey catch and you move down,

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Speaker 1: but you move down slower, it's okay, eight yards to catch.

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Speaker 1: We're fine with that. We cannot give up a home

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Speaker 1: run and they didn't secondary that was belittled after what

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Speaker 1: happened Week eight when Tyreek Hill burned him for you know,

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Speaker 1: almost two hundred and seventy five yards. They came back

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Speaker 1: and played well. They put pressure, They hit Mahomes. And

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Speaker 1: that's another thing that I said on Friday, if you

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Speaker 1: don't get to him to sack him, hit him. They

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Speaker 1: hit him twelve times. Tom Brady got hit two times.

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Speaker 1: But it felt like that touchdown at the end of

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Speaker 1: the first half that was it. It was strange because

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Speaker 1: twenty one to three. And as much as you know,

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Speaker 1: we love the magic of Mahomes, it wasn't there. And

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Speaker 1: it reminded me, believe it or not, of Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: in college because I watched Texas Tech football. They weren't

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Speaker 1: in on Monday and tell the Danetts, this guy, he's

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I don't know if he can

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Speaker 1: and he just ran for his life. And that's what

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Speaker 1: And given the circumstances, I mean he had moments he

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Speaker 1: if you don't put pressure on Brady, you don't have

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Speaker 1: any interceptions. They had the one that was called back

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Speaker 1: need one or two of those, and they didn't get it.

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Speaker 1: of poll question do we have? Okay, I have a

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Speaker 1: real poll question, but before that, I have a question

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Speaker 1: for people in the room, and pick the bucks which

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Speaker 1: was a bigger factor, not betting against Tom Brady or

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Speaker 1: the offensive line injuries because you seem to be focused

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Speaker 1: on both of those in the two weeks leading up. Well,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet against Brady. But the most important element

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Speaker 1: with all of this was the offensive line for Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: Plus it's not like they helped the offensive line. They

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Speaker 1: not like they were keeping people in with Shack Barrett

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Speaker 1: Chiefs will be able to hold up a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: And I think the other aspect is Patrick Mahomes was

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Speaker 1: nowhere near one hundred percent and that is a big

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Speaker 1: aspect of the game. His ability not to be able

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Speaker 1: to really run full speed or some of those throws

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Speaker 1: he made where he had to throw the ball away.

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Speaker 1: I would go man five weeks ago, he would have

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Speaker 1: turned the corner there and threatened the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: and now guys would have had to come up to

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Speaker 1: him and make a tackle and he would have thrown

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Speaker 1: a laser by them. That was a big aspect of

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Speaker 1: the game. I think that we all could talk about

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. Yeah, I thought that that would

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Speaker 1: have been Buffalo's game plan or Cleveland's game plan is

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Speaker 1: to make him run, put pressure on him with that

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Speaker 1: toe and hit him. If you don't sack him, hit him.

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Speaker 1: And they had twenty four pressures. They hit him twelve times.

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Speaker 1: Brady got hit twice, and it almost felt like Mahomes

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Speaker 1: was back at Texas Tech. The officiating in the first half.

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Speaker 1: How much how much credence do you give to some

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Speaker 1: questionable calls there? I don't like any of them. Listen,

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Speaker 1: the Bucks were the better team. The Bucks were gonna

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Speaker 1: win the damn game no matter what. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: sitting here trying to make excuses or do anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking as a football fan and everything. We

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Speaker 1: watched the playoffs. This is to me one of the

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Speaker 1: issues in the NFL. Right now we get the regular season,

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Speaker 1: all those were called past interference all regular season. I

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Speaker 1: wrote this on Twitter last night. I just kind of wrote,

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Speaker 1: these are penalties, but the problem is they haven't been

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Speaker 1: the penalty. They haven't been penalties all playoffs. That's where

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Speaker 1: it bothered me about it. And now it's wait, it's

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Speaker 1: four minutes left in the second quarter, and the show

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Speaker 1: of the game's going to become the referees, you know,

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Speaker 1: on some very tickie tack questionable calls. I thought it's

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Speaker 1: just one of those moments where I'd go, that hasn't

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Speaker 1: been consistent with what we've seen in the playoffs. Just

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Speaker 1: let these guys play. I thought that was a little

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Speaker 1: bit a little bit bad on the NFL's part. He's

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Speaker 1: Chris Sims Pro Football Talk Live co host. Should a

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Speaker 1: team trade for Carson Wentz? Yes, Well, I mean I'll

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Speaker 1: state at first to go, Carson Wentz needs to get

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Speaker 1: the hell out of Philadelphia period. He's in a no

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Speaker 1: win situation. Jalen Hurts is still there. So what they

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Speaker 1: brought in coaches that like you, as soon as you

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Speaker 1: play bad, the whole city of Philadelphia is gonna go.

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Speaker 1: You stink, Get the hell out of there, so he's

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Speaker 1: got to go. And I do think, Hey, the Colts,

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Speaker 1: Chris Ballard and company, Frank Reich has history with them.

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Speaker 1: I would think they have Carson Wentz towards the top

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Speaker 1: of their lists as far as acquiring quarterbacks. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: just don't know how much you trade for him, because

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Speaker 1: you are, you're taking him. It's like Jared Goff. You're

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Speaker 1: taking him off your hands, You're taking him off your

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Speaker 1: salary cap. Right. I was told that the Eagles were

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Speaker 1: asking too much, and that's a couple of first round

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Speaker 1: picks and maybe a player. But I don't know. It

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Speaker 1: feels like if I'm the Colts are the Bears. If

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Speaker 1: I'm going in on Carson Wentz, why don't I go

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Speaker 1: all in on de Shaun Watson. Listen, I hear you.

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Speaker 1: I think you make a good point. And what I

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Speaker 1: would want to tell you Dan is go like, why

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Speaker 1: would Chicago want Carson Wentz? Why? I mean to me,

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Speaker 1: they're they're playing with fire with wanting him too. If

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Speaker 1: he doesn't play, they're just gonna go. Look, Matt Nage

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Speaker 1: and Ryan Pace can't evaluate a quarterbacks. Philadelphia didn't even

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Speaker 1: want this guy. Why did we bring him in here.

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Speaker 1: To me, there's too much of a negative conversation about

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Speaker 1: Wentz to want to be in Chicago. And I agree

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Speaker 1: with what you're saying. They gotta be careful about how

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Speaker 1: much they ask the trade for him. One, you're right

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Speaker 1: about the money situation. You're taking him off the hand

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Speaker 1: because of that, and too Listen, there's a negative connotation

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Speaker 1: around Carson Wentz right now, So you're taking a little

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Speaker 1: gamble and taking him on anyways, because if it doesn't

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Speaker 1: work out, everyone's gonna go. Philadelphia didn't want him. Why

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Speaker 1: the hell did you, guys? And that's why I can

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Speaker 1: understand teams saying we're not going to give up the

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Speaker 1: house for Carson Wentz any chance Drew Brees doesn't retire,

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Speaker 1: and if he does, are they set at quarterback? Well,

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Speaker 1: I would expect Drew Breese to retire. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: an amazing career, but I think we can all see

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Speaker 1: the skills have clearly diminished and it's he's and without

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Speaker 1: you know, being shy here, he's one of the negative

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Speaker 1: aspects of their team really the last few years. So

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Speaker 1: I would expect him to not be there anymore now.

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Speaker 1: The quarterback on their team. Yes, I think that he's

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Speaker 1: a believer in Kaysom Hill. And I think he really

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Speaker 1: likes Jason you know what, James questioned exactly, couldn't think

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Speaker 1: of his damn name there. I think he like Sean Payton,

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Speaker 1: likes both of those guys. So yes, I think the

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Speaker 1: quarterback of their team is on their team right now,

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Speaker 1: and they'll try to resign Jamison Winston in free agency. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming on this football season, and we appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time. And what do you do now? Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean I was gonna say, why are you saying goodbye

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Speaker 1: to me? I mean, are you gonna call me in

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Speaker 1: the quarterback draft or free agency? I mean, I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of good at that stuff. I mean, jeez, I didn't

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Speaker 1: know I just gonna toss me into the trash. Well,

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Speaker 1: this was just sort of a you know, hey, thank you.

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Speaker 1: The season ended, but you know we're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 1: call you. I promise we'll call you. All right, good,

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Speaker 1: I'm still in the circle of trust. We're still friends

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Speaker 1: and the trust tree and all that. M yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, as long as I am with you, the

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Speaker 1: hell with Fritzie and the rest of the grid. I

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Speaker 1: don't care about that. Well, I can't guarantee Fritzie won't

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Speaker 1: bother you, but you know I'll try to keep it

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Speaker 1: to a minimum. Okay, thank you, many thanks. That's Chris Sims,

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk Live co host. Be sure to catch

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Speaker 1: the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show week days

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Speaker 1: at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio and the iHeart Radio WAPP. We were fortunate to

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Speaker 1: have Rick Stroud on the Buccaneers beat writer for the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Times throughout the season. We started before the

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Speaker 1: season started when Brady's signed there, and Rick has been

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Speaker 1: with us throughout the season, kind of the highs and lows.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know where he was when that team

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Speaker 1: seven and five, and I wondered if they were going

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, and here we are as Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champs. Rick joins us. Now, Rick, what were you

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Speaker 1: expecting to happen last night? You know, I got to

548
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Speaker 1: be the pool of porter and we're not allowed to

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Speaker 1: say anything about that what we see, but look, this

550
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Speaker 1: was a confident football team and I Dan, I heard

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Speaker 1: you say it during the week. They had an entirely

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Speaker 1: beat up offensive line. I didn't know how the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs were going to stop that front Ford and

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Speaker 1: I knew that Todd both was going to rush for

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Speaker 1: he was going to drop seven right, and that math

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Speaker 1: is in his favor because they only got five eligible

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Speaker 1: there to keep the safeties deep. You didn't know what

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes was going to do, and after a while

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Speaker 1: it kind of looked like a Texas Tech spring game,

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Speaker 1: you know. Or he's just running around out there trying

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Speaker 1: to find anybody over well and explain by as the

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Speaker 1: pool reporter, like what access did you have that other

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Speaker 1: reporters didn't have? Well, I was. I mean they assigned

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Speaker 1: one for each team, and I was the only guy

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Speaker 1: that got to go or the only reporter got to

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Speaker 1: go and watch practice, and we got to watch the

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Speaker 1: whole practice and it wasn't anything different than normally during

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Speaker 1: the year. I mean, we don't get to see that much.

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Speaker 1: But this was a confident football team. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: if those guys on defense, they're like, wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: We went into New Orleans and yeah, everybody was talking

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Speaker 1: about Drew Brees after the game, but they had our

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Speaker 1: number and we beat those guys down. Then we went

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Speaker 1: to Green Bay and took down the most valuable player

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And when they're sitting around and they

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Speaker 1: get a bunch of young guys on defense, sitting around

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Speaker 1: on social media and watching television and listening to the

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Speaker 1: shows like yours, and they're hearing everybody come on and

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Speaker 1: say that Kansas City is going to hang thirty seven

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Speaker 1: on them, and they just they couldn't believe that. They felt,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's bulletin board, right, it seems simplistic,

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Speaker 1: but they really did feel like nobody was giving them

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Speaker 1: what they had earned, what they had done on the field,

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Speaker 1: even in the postseason. Go back to November. What kind

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Speaker 1: of doubts do you think, I mean, you lost to

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Speaker 1: the Saints, what was that thirty eight three got blown

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Speaker 1: out there? What kind of doubts do you think Tampa

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Speaker 1: had about themselves? Well, I mean, if you talk to them,

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Speaker 1: you know they stayed together and that's a hard thing

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Speaker 1: to do when you're in that position. I think Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady said it today. You know, with this pandemic, they

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Speaker 1: really couldn't get to hang out and know each other

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Speaker 1: very well. This is a close knit team that did it,

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Speaker 1: you know, without being able to go to dinner or

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Speaker 1: all those extra things, But it was sort of a

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Speaker 1: like if you're a football junkie, you got into it,

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Speaker 1: and that's what they did. They just went to work.

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, Bruce arians got together with

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Speaker 1: Byron Left, which it really started coming together at the

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Speaker 1: end of the second half of Kansas City game to

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Speaker 1: bye week really speak for him. So they never really

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Speaker 1: got down. And in fact, before this game, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady texted everybody on the team and said simply,

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Speaker 1: we will win, I mean before this game, and that

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Speaker 1: that's a powerful message. I mean, I'm covering this guy.

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Speaker 1: It's like he's the Gridiron Gandhi. Like I don't even know,

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Speaker 1: like when you're when you're watching it. It's just amazing

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Speaker 1: the impact that he has on so many players and

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Speaker 1: so many guys in the in the administration. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that that's, you know, an understated aspect of Brady

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Speaker 1: that if I'm a younger player, I look at him

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Speaker 1: and I know that anything's poss that he came back

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Speaker 1: from twenty eight to three in the Super Bowl, that

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Speaker 1: confidence level can't be understated. But I'm wondering who was

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Speaker 1: the MVP in your opinion? Well, I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: could give it to a whole defense, or you could

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Speaker 1: give it to the Todd Bowls. You would because I

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Speaker 1: had a vote, and not that I feel bad voting

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Speaker 1: for Brady. I mean he's won five of these. The

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Speaker 1: numbers weren't very impressive other than the three touchdowns, but

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Speaker 1: it was hard to pick one guy. I think Shaq

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Speaker 1: Barrett had a big game. I think, you know, Devin

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Speaker 1: White certainly did. It's just that nobody stood out so

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Speaker 1: much above the others. I mean, he didn't even make

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Speaker 1: a case for a Rock Gronkowski. You had a good game,

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Speaker 1: but I think the defense was the story of this game,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. And you keep a team like

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Speaker 1: that from scoring a touchdown, I mean that's just remarkable. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to like, what are the odds that

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Speaker 1: you're going to get Gronk, Antonio Brown, and Leonard Fournette

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Speaker 1: to all have big performances in the Super Bowl. If

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Speaker 1: you would have said one is going to have a

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Speaker 1: big performance, I would have said, Okay, I never would

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Speaker 1: have thought all three would. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 1: see that. I mean, Gronk has kind of been mostly

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Speaker 1: a blocker of late, you know, but that's another thing too,

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Speaker 1: And this is about trust, not that he didn't trust

638
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: the other guys. He did. I think the ball just

639
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: kind of went that way with the defense. But look

640
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 1: at who he went to in big moments, Rob Gronkowski, right,

641
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: you know, Antonio Brown, even Leonard Fournett. None of those

642
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: guys were on this roster when Tom Brady got here.

643
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: And that's not an accident. I mean those guys came

644
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: here because of Tom Brady. Every one of them were

645
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: somebody that he lobbied for and he felt could help

646
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: their football team and they all did in a big

647
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: way in Super Bowl. So Brady's coming back. Arians is

648
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: coming back. Gronk says, he's coming back. I'm assuming Antonio

649
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: Brown is gonna want to come back. But there's a

650
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose a couple of players, or the potential

651
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: for losing a couple of players. What's the off season

652
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: going to look like for the Buccaneers. Well, they're gonna

653
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: have to hope that some guys want to win more

654
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: than the want to earn some money because they just

655
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: don't have enough for all of them. I think that,

656
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: you know, you look at Shack Barrett, who they franchise.

657
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 1: They need to do a long term deal with him.

658
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: If not, if you use a franchise tag on him,

659
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: what about Chris Scottlin. You don't want to lose that receiver.

660
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: You know, They've got some tough decisions to make. It

661
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: won't be the same football team. It never is. That's

662
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: why teams can't repeat. We haven't seen it since four

663
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: or five or whatever the Patriots did. But you know,

664
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: there will be other guys around the NFL that see

665
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: what happened here in Tampa and at various points of

666
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: their career, much like Furnette was, and want to come

667
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: down and be with a team that could win a

668
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And so I think Brady's impact will have

669
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: a lot to do with how they're able to keep

670
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Speaker 1: this team together and whether even guys like in domakan

671
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: Su want to keep playing or not. You know, I

672
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 1: go back, and there were some strange moments the entire year,

673
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: remember with the high school practices and surveillance cameras and

674
00:35:54,440 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: Tom's trying to get guys together surreptitiously. Hey man, I

675
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: was the one that found that practice. Okay, it took

676
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: me a lot of people. Were you hiding in the bushes?

677
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 1: Rick Were you hiding in the bush? You know what?

678
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: That is urban myth. That did not happen. I was

679
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: actually wait, you told me it did. You said you

680
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: were bushes, But it wasn't hiding. It was on a

681
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: public street. I was kind of peering over there were

682
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: some vegetation, not shooting that. Okay, I just had to

683
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: get above it. Okay, yeah, we found it. Uh. Well,

684
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: it's been a long run. I told people, if you

685
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: are of a certain age, then you know what the

686
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: Buccaneers have been. Aside from the Super Bowl win, They've

687
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: been the laughing stock of the NFL for a long, long,

688
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 1: long time. And you're gonna I hope these fans appreciate

689
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: this for a long time. I mean they may think

690
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: you're coming back again next year, but I hope they

691
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: appreciate this one for a long time, and they should. Well, Dad,

692
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: I walked out onto the field afterwards and confetti was

693
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 1: still there, and I looked up and no one had left,

694
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: And then I realized they were cardboard cutouts, that it

695
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: was actually just the people that were still there. But

696
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's Champa Bay now. I mean, it's incredible

697
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: what has happened this year with the Lightning, winning the

698
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup in the raising, the World Series and all

699
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: of that. But I think, yeah, for the fans is great.

700
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: I mean, twelve years without playoffs, eighteen years without winning

701
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: a playoff game, you get Tom Brady and you win

702
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. I mean, this is really Maybe we

703
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: can't have nice things. Maybe maybe Tampa Bay can't have

704
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: nice thing. And we almost got sued by Tom Brady

705
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: for Tompa Bay T shirts that we put out. Yeah, well,

706
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: you know we got a season desist or I think

707
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,959
Speaker 1: we were threatened with a season desist with Tom's law firm.

708
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 1: Have you seen the seven clothing line? Now? The seven,

709
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: that's that's the next that's the big thing. Don't put it.

710
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: Don't put a seven on anything. He owns the number seven,

711
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: apparently the whole number. It's like Sesame Street. You know

712
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: that that's Frady's number. Now is seven. I'm go eight.

713
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead to eight so I can bypass

714
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: the seven and not worry about Tom Hey. Thank you,

715
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: thank you very much for all your contributions there this

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00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: year and your senti humor. We appreciate it. Rick Hey, Dan,

717
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. It's been a pleasure. Man. That's

718
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: Rick Stroud. He covers the Buccaneers for the Tampa Bay Times.

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00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be

720
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until

721
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,

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00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 1: and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at

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00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: FSR or stream us live on the Peacock Apple Spring

724
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: in Tom Kern. He's a Patriots insider NBC Sports Boston.

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Speaker 1: Let me start with the snarky poll question, who feels

726
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: worse today, Bill Belichick or Robert Kraft? Bill Belichick and

727
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: he should. He's the one who didn't know what he

728
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: was looking at over the last five years, and the

729
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: guy was standing right in front of him. So now

730
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: he's mine the draft and mid tier free agents to

731
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: find a replacement that will pay more than he was

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00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: willing to pay the guy who won the Super Bowl.

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00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: Craft at least Dan said, we'd really like to have

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00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: him stay. But I was wondering about that that he

735
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: and maybe this is credit to Robert Craft that he

736
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,479
Speaker 1: allows his coaches to coach, or you know, he gets

737
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: out of the way, but at some point it's your

738
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: team that he never thought of big footing Bill Belichick

739
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: to say, I can't let Tom Brady play in another uniform.

740
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: And I think that Bill convinced him that the trepidation

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00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: of a guy at forty three years old, Robert, what

742
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: are we gonna do? We're gonna pay him this much money,

743
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: and if he starts to go over the cliff, then what?

744
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: And Robert had to look at it and say, look,

745
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: who's easier to replace the quarterback? That I think Bill

746
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: can do because I saw him do it in two

747
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: thousand and eight with Matt Castle. Or replace Bill and

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00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: his scouting staff and his coaching and the special team's

749
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: acumend and everything else. The easier thing to do is

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00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: say goodbye to the forty three year old. As much

751
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: as it tears my heart up, if I would have

752
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: told you eleven months ago this was going to be

753
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: the result, what would you have said? It wouldn't shock me.

754
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: I mean at the beginning of the year, I said

755
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: that Tampa would win the Super Bowl. They would go

756
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: thirteen and three and win the Super Bowl. And it's

757
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: because of how good Tampa kind of wash. I mean,

758
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: there was seven and nine last year, their quarterback through

759
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: thirty picks. They lost six games. I think it was

760
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: by a touchdown or less. Just bring somebody in with

761
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: a level of competency and you're going to be good.

762
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 1: Bring the best there's ever been who can confuse discipline

763
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: into everybody. You're gonna be really freaking good. So I

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00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been surprised him. You know, the last two weeks,

765
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: Brady has taken the high road when it comes to

766
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, like verbal bouquets and like, what do you

767
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: think he really feels about how this ended his relationship

768
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: with Belichick Because he said what you would want him

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00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: to say, so he didn't draw any more attention to

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00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 1: this fractured relationship. I think he imagines now or feels

771
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: now that this is for the best and he's not

772
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: looking back. And for us who were continuing to chase

773
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: the car like a bunch of dogs were nipping at

774
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: the bumper, he's just driving along. He doesn't even know

775
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: we're back there. I mean, he has moved on, And

776
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things there is a

777
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: whole different world out here that I can enjoy and

778
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: do things differently. And I think it was painful as

779
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: hell for him, but Bill kind of made it easy

780
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: to divorce himself from New England by allowing him to

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00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: picture himself someplace else. You know, I'm telling a story

782
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: and the calumn. I'm writing about how I sat with Guerrero,

783
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: Alex Guerrero last year two days before the Super Bowl.

784
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: We were flying out of Miami, and I was looking

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00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: back at some of the notes I took and what

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00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 1: Guerrero had said at that time January thirty first, twenty twenty.

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00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: All he wants is the coach to signal that he

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00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: wants him to stay. That's all he wanted. But he

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00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: never got that. I never did. Yeah, if you look

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00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: at the accomplishments for Brady, his last night rank, to me, Dan,

791
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: it's a validation. It's you know, I think twenty eight

792
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: to three is greater. I think that the Super Bowl

793
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: in two thousand and fourteen was more high level football.

794
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: But I think this is a validation. He is now

795
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 1: the greatest team sports performer in pro sports history. He's

796
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: not the greatest athlete. I don't even know if he's

797
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: the greatest football player of all time, because you still

798
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: have Jerry Rice sitting out there with some absurd numbers.

799
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: But he Trump's Jordan and Russell and Gretzky as the

800
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: greatest team sports performer able to go into a fifty

801
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: three man roster, an eighty man team with coaches and

802
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: infuse it. It's not basketball like Lebron and Jordan. It's

803
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: one guy impacting almost a hundred people. And what I've

804
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: said all morning long is that there is if you're

805
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: a young player, you just look at him. He's the

806
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: most animated. He's you know, in people's faces, whether it's

807
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: the opponents or you. There's accountability. You know, it's what

808
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: you want in a leader. You know, he doesn't play

809
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: at a high level the way he once did, but

810
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: that confidence level I don't think can be understated, certainly

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00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: for a team that was probably impressionable like Tampa, was

812
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: that they were looking for something. They were looking that

813
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: if things go bad, he's not letting us go, you know, South,

814
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: and I you know, there's something to be said about

815
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: that in his ability to lead. I wonder what those

816
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: days were like after he had the four fingers up

817
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: and confused the downs. I mean, that's if Jamis Winston

818
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: does that, or Nick Foles or whoever. I mean, the

819
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: whole team probably is like, oh my god. And they

820
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: were probably guys looking at a Brady and go, this

821
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: guy's I mean, come on, he's screaming at us if

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00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: he kick up the downs right. Yeah. But whatever it

823
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: is that he does to infuse that team with, don't

824
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: worry about it. I got it. It's amazing. And you

825
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: talk about the performance, it is the same as it's

826
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: always been, Dan, It's it's whatever you need. If you

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00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: need five h five against Philadelphia to give you a shot,

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Speaker 1: he'll do that. If you need what he brings it

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00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,919
Speaker 1: at twenty eight three, he'll do that. If it's five

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00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: for nine for sixty yards in the second half last night, fine,

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00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,240
Speaker 1: that's fine too. You created some headlines saying that Matthew

832
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: Stafford did not want to go to New England. Recap

833
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: that story and was there any fallout after that report.

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00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: I was told Sunday, hours after Stafford had agreed to

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Speaker 1: go to Los Angeles, that a team in negotiations with

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00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: Detroit was told that Stafford was willing to really go

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00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: anywhere but New England. He had said I don't want

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00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: to go to New England. So that was noteworthy. The

839
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: person thought who had been in negotiations to share with

840
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: me the fallout. I think was interesting because to me,

841
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: it legitimized what we look at the Patriots post Brady

842
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: as being it's a team in rebuild mode, and it's

843
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: a team that's not a lot of fun to play for.

844
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: It's a team that talks about no days off. When

845
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: you're thirty three, you want some days off. I mean,

846
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: that's not a picnic to come up into the Northeast. Jr.

847
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. You've been playing inside. You're thirty three years old,

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Speaker 1: you haven't want anything, and you're gonna go rebuilding the

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Speaker 1: cold and play in Buffalo and the Metal Lands whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. That doesn't sound like a good time. And

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Speaker 1: that's why I think it's hard for the Patriots to,

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Speaker 1: you know, say we are who we were when Brady

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Speaker 1: was here. Also have the Gronk situation that he chose

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Speaker 1: retirement over possibly playing again. I guess with the Patriots

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Speaker 1: if they wanted him back, just the fact that he

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Speaker 1: could have fun, that freeing feeling. I guess does that

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Speaker 1: surprise you though, that Gronk wanted to come back, but

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Speaker 1: only wanted to come back if he's going to have

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Speaker 1: fun and play with Brady. No, Because in two and eighteen,

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Speaker 1: before they won their final Super Bowl. The Patriots were

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Speaker 1: trying to trade Grount to Detroit. I mean that was

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Speaker 1: damaging to him, and then they spent that whole season.

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Speaker 1: I mean he was mentally racked by uncertainty about whether

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Speaker 1: he could play where his body was at. And you know,

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Speaker 1: as he explained to me at the Super Bowl, you're

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Speaker 1: doing things to your body that are unnatural, and they

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Speaker 1: keep asking you every week to go out and practice

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Speaker 1: all week and do it again on Sunday. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he wanted to be managed at that point. He felt

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Speaker 1: his body was so beat up that he wanted to

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Speaker 1: have himself managed in a different way, and the Patriots

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Speaker 1: were not acceding to that. And that's where Bill is.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's on the same level, everybody's on the same plane,

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Speaker 1: no special favors, especially for guys who are making fifteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars or twelve million dollars. But there comes a

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Speaker 1: point where the point you're trying to make is going

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Speaker 1: to lose some people. I also wondered about this, and

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Speaker 1: that is, if I'm New England, if I'm Bill Belichick,

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Speaker 1: how do I aunt Not that he's competing with Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: but if I want to re energize this franchise. Can

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Speaker 1: they go all in and get to Shawn Watson. I

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Speaker 1: think Deshaun Watson is going to be the same mind

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Speaker 1: that Matthew Stafford was, and that is I don't want

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Speaker 1: to go and honestly to Dan, think about this. In

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Speaker 1: this age of players who are making so much money,

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Speaker 1: especially in the NFL, and finding their voices in a

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Speaker 1: way that they happen previously, Clearly DeShawn Watson is most

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Speaker 1: pissed off because they didn't get a seat at the

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Speaker 1: table to converse. There's not a seat at the table.

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Speaker 1: You're not even in the room in New England. So

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Speaker 1: he's still going to want to come up here and

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Speaker 1: just you know, be a workaday guy hitting the punch

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Speaker 1: punch in his time clock every day and coming in

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Speaker 1: him Leaven. He wants to be in there. And Belichick's

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Speaker 1: gonna cool. But but but Brady never had any input

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Speaker 1: on personnel decisions in New England at all. Nope, no

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Speaker 1: one does. The personnel guys barely do. And then here

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Speaker 1: he is. He should get GM votes GM of the

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Speaker 1: Year with what he did in Tampa that you get

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Speaker 1: in he recruits and Tonio Brown somehow gets same. Leonard

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Speaker 1: Fournette comes in and Gronk comes in and all three

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Speaker 1: score touchdowns last night. I mean, it's wild, It really

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Speaker 1: is to see, you know, that performance. And it's funny

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Speaker 1: because throughout these playoffs and I think there's been this

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Speaker 1: pushback that Brady is carrying the Buccaneers. It's Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: and he just did what was necessary. He staked the

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Speaker 1: team to a lead against the Packers, played fine. You know,

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Speaker 1: the picks in the second half. People took that as

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Speaker 1: a smoking gun that he's not very good. You know,

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Speaker 1: the same thing with New Orleans. It was the way

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Speaker 1: they undressed Drew Brees. It wasn't Brady, And I think

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Speaker 1: it was a straw man argument. No one was saying

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Speaker 1: that Tom Brady was out there putting up triple doubles.

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Speaker 1: He was just playing the game as it needed to

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Speaker 1: be played in the postseason, which is kind of what

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Speaker 1: he's always done. Do you think Belichick watched the game

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Speaker 1: last night? Boy, that's a great question. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: he probably did. I would imagine he probably did. When

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Speaker 1: do you see Belichick again? When's the media get in

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Speaker 1: front of Belichick to ask that question? Yeah? Normally it

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Speaker 1: would be at the owners meetings at the end of March,

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Speaker 1: but I would see the chance of that happening are

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Speaker 1: very slim, So probably not until a pre draft audience

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Speaker 1: City gives us, because I can't imagine he's going to

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Speaker 1: ring us up and see how we're all doing. I

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Speaker 1: just don't see that coming down the line. Will you

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Speaker 1: ask that question, if given the opportunity, would you send

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Speaker 1: me a coffee? If I did? Yes? Done? All right,

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Speaker 1: that's easy. It's a large. It's an extra large hot

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Speaker 1: coconut with milk and three splenda, oh, three splend Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'll take care of it. It It might be

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Speaker 1: a little cold by the time it gets to you,

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Speaker 1: but it will get to you fair enough. Thank you, Tom,

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Speaker 1: Good to talk to you, buddy, All right, enjoy the

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Speaker 1: rest of you here. That's Tom E. Curran, Patriots insider

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Speaker 1: friend BC Sports Boston, who joins us on the program.

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