WEBVTT - New OT rules; Lamar's contract complications; Belichick's gamble 0:00:05.058 --> 0:00:07.778 NFL Inside Report is the production of the NFL in 0:00:07.898 --> 0:00:21.658 partnership with I Heart Radio. I'm Red Lewis and this 0:00:22.018 --> 0:00:26.338 is NFL Inside Report. The NFL Annual League Meeting down 0:00:26.338 --> 0:00:29.258 in Pump Beach, Florida has now come and gone with 0:00:29.418 --> 0:00:35.378 some major actionable items. Perhaps chief among them over time 0:00:35.898 --> 0:00:39.978 is in fact changing you get a possession, You get 0:00:39.978 --> 0:00:44.258 a possession. Everybody gets a possession at least one, but 0:00:44.378 --> 0:00:46.498 only in the postseason. We're gonna dig into all of 0:00:46.498 --> 0:00:49.058 it with my good pal friend of the program and 0:00:49.098 --> 0:00:53.538 of course our NFL media colleague here, Mike g rd Michael, Hello, rhet, 0:00:53.658 --> 0:00:56.858 how are your sir. I'm wonderful, Um, watched your great 0:00:56.898 --> 0:00:59.818 work on NFL Now all this week and excited to 0:00:59.898 --> 0:01:02.658 chat about some of these things that we saw go down. 0:01:02.658 --> 0:01:06.738 I mean, like the NFL League Meeting is like a 0:01:06.778 --> 0:01:11.098 treasure trove of headlines and news worthy items that come 0:01:11.178 --> 0:01:15.498 from just about every single owner GM head coach. I mean, 0:01:15.778 --> 0:01:18.698 the head coach photo has become a news item. Like 0:01:18.778 --> 0:01:21.258 that's the kind of stuff we're dealing with here, Um. 0:01:21.298 --> 0:01:23.658 But look, I think that one of the biggest things, 0:01:23.858 --> 0:01:25.938 you know, in addition to the NFL forming a new 0:01:26.458 --> 0:01:30.058 committee to review diversity and hiring practices in the NFL, 0:01:30.138 --> 0:01:32.938 and some other amendments to the Rooney Rule that we've 0:01:32.938 --> 0:01:35.578 been talking about and keeping that rolling and trying to 0:01:35.658 --> 0:01:40.618 keep fortifying it was the amendment to the overtime rule, which, 0:01:40.618 --> 0:01:44.778 as I mentioned, now guarantees each team a possession um 0:01:44.938 --> 0:01:48.138 only in the postseason. Everything that you saw last year 0:01:48.178 --> 0:01:50.698 about overtime in the regular season will remain in the 0:01:50.698 --> 0:01:53.538 regular season, but in the postseason we will, I guess 0:01:53.658 --> 0:01:56.338 no longer have what happened in the Chiefs Bills game 0:01:57.098 --> 0:02:00.098 right where you know you had Josh Allen guide the 0:02:00.098 --> 0:02:02.618 Bills down through another touchdown past the Gabriel Davis in 0:02:02.658 --> 0:02:04.698 the final minute of the fourth quarter, and then with 0:02:04.898 --> 0:02:08.298 thirteen seconds left, the Chiefs got themselves into field goal 0:02:08.418 --> 0:02:10.578 range Harrison, Butker kicks the field goal. We go to ot, 0:02:11.018 --> 0:02:13.778 Chiefs win the toss, score in the first possession, game over, 0:02:13.978 --> 0:02:17.578 and everybody's like, uh, you know what we were robbed of, 0:02:17.698 --> 0:02:20.178 Josh Allen, Let me ask you this to kick kick 0:02:20.218 --> 0:02:23.578 start this conversation here, Mike, the way that both defenses 0:02:23.578 --> 0:02:25.898 were playing late in that game. Chiefs go down and 0:02:25.938 --> 0:02:28.178 score first possession of overtime, kick it to the Bills. 0:02:28.658 --> 0:02:32.338 Bills go down and score first possession of overtime. It's tied. 0:02:32.978 --> 0:02:38.018 Chiefs get the ball again, score again, game over, same result. Yeah, 0:02:38.298 --> 0:02:42.058 I think so, and I mean so so. I I 0:02:42.178 --> 0:02:45.178 understand why people wanted to see this continue and wanted 0:02:45.258 --> 0:02:46.658 you know, you got caught up in the moment, you 0:02:46.658 --> 0:02:48.218 want Josh Allen to get the ball the way it 0:02:48.258 --> 0:02:50.738 was going. But I just go back to the original thing, 0:02:51.538 --> 0:02:53.578 and I understand the coin toss. Hold them to a 0:02:53.618 --> 0:02:55.618 field goal, at least with the original rules that were 0:02:55.618 --> 0:02:57.538 in place, hold new field goal. You get the ball back, 0:02:57.738 --> 0:03:00.498 your defense has to make a stop there. And to 0:03:00.578 --> 0:03:04.178 your point, now, these defenses are pretty tired by that 0:03:04.258 --> 0:03:06.978 point and haven't been exposed in that game in particular, 0:03:07.258 --> 0:03:09.778 like there's no question that both teams, in my mind, 0:03:09.898 --> 0:03:12.338 we're gonna go down and score touchdown. So then it's 0:03:12.338 --> 0:03:14.898 gonna be Kansas City's ball. To your point, with you know, 0:03:14.938 --> 0:03:17.098 like go thirty yards kick a field goal, games over 0:03:17.138 --> 0:03:20.258 and that's that. So I didn't see the need really 0:03:20.338 --> 0:03:23.018 to change it. And I know Siciliano had a point 0:03:23.018 --> 0:03:26.538 on NFL Now yesterday about I think it's fifty of 0:03:26.578 --> 0:03:29.258 the teams that won the coin toss have won the game, 0:03:29.298 --> 0:03:31.738 which is not a stark number. I know, it's a 0:03:31.738 --> 0:03:34.298 lot different in in the playoffs, where it's like ten 0:03:34.338 --> 0:03:37.458 and two. I think, if you won the coin toss, time, yeah. 0:03:37.498 --> 0:03:40.578 But but to me, just make a stop. Just that's 0:03:40.618 --> 0:03:42.698 part of football. You gotta make a stop. And now 0:03:42.738 --> 0:03:44.938 we're kind of extending it out. I think the other 0:03:44.978 --> 0:03:47.258 thing here, and I guess I understand now why they're 0:03:47.298 --> 0:03:49.338 not gonna do it in regular season is you're just 0:03:49.378 --> 0:03:52.538 adding more playing time. Which we talk about players safety 0:03:52.538 --> 0:03:55.258 all the time, and you can say whether they're really 0:03:55.258 --> 0:03:57.738 into player's safety or not. But now you're adding that 0:03:57.818 --> 0:04:00.098 element where the game is dragging on longer. We've added 0:04:00.138 --> 0:04:02.458 another game in the regular season, and now you're just 0:04:02.498 --> 0:04:05.498 exposing these guys are just a little bit more over 0:04:05.538 --> 0:04:07.938 the course of a very long season. And that's a 0:04:07.978 --> 0:04:12.178 good point too, because that's probably the biggest um, the 0:04:12.218 --> 0:04:14.578 biggest red flag on a potential Well let's just let 0:04:14.618 --> 0:04:16.458 him play another ten minutes. Let's just play the whole 0:04:16.458 --> 0:04:18.618 ten minutes and see what happens. Well, because you know 0:04:18.698 --> 0:04:20.298 we could be tied again at ten minutes, and then 0:04:20.338 --> 0:04:22.938 what play another ten, you know, and we're into you know, 0:04:23.018 --> 0:04:25.298 seven overtimes here at some point, so like we get 0:04:25.538 --> 0:04:28.658 I I understand that part of it too. Um. But 0:04:29.978 --> 0:04:32.978 Brandon Bean GM of the Buffalo Bills, who you know, 0:04:33.018 --> 0:04:36.058 has done a phenomenal job rebuilding that franchise and building 0:04:36.058 --> 0:04:39.098 them into a consistent winner and a dominant force now 0:04:39.098 --> 0:04:40.738 in the a f C East, which is certainly saying 0:04:40.818 --> 0:04:44.058 something considering the Patriot's reign of success in that division. 0:04:44.098 --> 0:04:46.658 Said he first thought of the rule chains actually when 0:04:46.658 --> 0:04:50.618 the Patriots played the Chiefs back in surely, you know, 0:04:50.938 --> 0:04:53.778 seeing Josh Allen not get a possession in his quarterback 0:04:53.778 --> 0:04:56.538 in overtime, you know, this past year certainly played a 0:04:56.538 --> 0:04:59.458 big role. So I don't know our Bills fans happy today. 0:04:59.498 --> 0:05:00.858 I mean they're happy for a lot of reasons, but 0:05:00.858 --> 0:05:03.618 are they happy about that about overtime? I mean, I guess, yeah, 0:05:03.698 --> 0:05:05.418 you get your guy to have the a ball one 0:05:05.418 --> 0:05:07.258 more time, so you get to see that part of it. 0:05:07.298 --> 0:05:09.898 But you know, I don't know that again it really 0:05:10.258 --> 0:05:13.298 necessarily solves everything, right, And it's funny that you mentioned 0:05:13.298 --> 0:05:15.938 the Chiefs thing, because the Patriots Chief's game, there was 0:05:16.018 --> 0:05:19.378 big outcry after that because Mahomes had been on fire 0:05:19.378 --> 0:05:21.418 in the second half of that game, and you're like, well, 0:05:21.618 --> 0:05:23.458 now you took the ball out of his hands. But 0:05:23.618 --> 0:05:26.418 their proposal didn't go anywhere in the aftermath of that, 0:05:26.458 --> 0:05:28.658 so it took a few more years to to get 0:05:28.698 --> 0:05:30.978 something punched through where at least both teams get the ball. 0:05:31.058 --> 0:05:32.738 I mean, we'll see how it plays out. I mean, 0:05:32.778 --> 0:05:35.098 I don't hate it. I just I still am of 0:05:35.178 --> 0:05:37.858 the mind of just just make a stop, hold them 0:05:37.898 --> 0:05:41.498 to three, not seven, and give your guy a chance. Okay, 0:05:41.578 --> 0:05:45.898 let's talk about the other big news where the item 0:05:46.298 --> 0:05:49.258 surrounding the Buffalo Bills that comes out of the annual 0:05:49.338 --> 0:05:51.978 league meeting, which was the announcement from the Pagoula Sports 0:05:52.018 --> 0:05:55.578 and Entertainment Group of an agreement on a new one 0:05:55.698 --> 0:06:01.338 point four billion dollars stadium, thirty year lease. Groundbreaking set 0:06:01.418 --> 0:06:04.618 for next spring and would tentatively be set to open 0:06:04.858 --> 0:06:07.218 and be ready to play in two thousand and twenty six. 0:06:07.298 --> 0:06:10.258 Will still be an open air stadium and will still 0:06:10.258 --> 0:06:12.898 be there in Orchard Park. I think we all knew 0:06:13.178 --> 0:06:16.538 that a new stadium was desperately needed there in the 0:06:16.538 --> 0:06:18.818 Buffalo area, and now they got it. It seems like 0:06:18.858 --> 0:06:21.458 a pretty good deal. It certainly doesn't to me. The 0:06:21.498 --> 0:06:23.898 big thing about it, read is the thirty year lease, 0:06:24.058 --> 0:06:26.778 right because the Bills have been one of those teams 0:06:26.818 --> 0:06:29.298 every few years you get rumblings, well, if we don't 0:06:29.298 --> 0:06:31.818 get this or you know, we we can't improve the 0:06:31.858 --> 0:06:34.778 infrastructure here, maybe we think about going somewhere else. I mean, 0:06:34.778 --> 0:06:36.218 I think it was just a couple of years ago 0:06:36.458 --> 0:06:39.938 where that sort of was floating around the NFL about 0:06:40.018 --> 0:06:43.738 potentially yeah, about potentially moving. And now I think obviously 0:06:43.738 --> 0:06:46.738 with a thirty year lease, I'm assuming that's ironclad and 0:06:46.738 --> 0:06:49.058 they locked in pretty good and that that's great because 0:06:49.498 --> 0:06:52.458 that's a terrific region. They love their football team. But 0:06:52.578 --> 0:06:55.338 let me just say this, Red, I am gonna miss 0:06:55.938 --> 0:06:59.978 the old stadium. I think that there are very few 0:07:00.018 --> 0:07:03.498 places in the National Football League that are as unique 0:07:04.098 --> 0:07:08.538 as that stadium is. They give such a great home 0:07:08.618 --> 0:07:11.298 field advantage by the way it's built. It's sort of 0:07:11.298 --> 0:07:13.058 into the ground and you've been there, you know what 0:07:13.138 --> 0:07:17.058 it's like. I've told people this before, and I've been 0:07:17.098 --> 0:07:19.818 down every stadium except for the New Los Angeles one, 0:07:19.858 --> 0:07:22.258 in the New Vegas one, and the loudest place that 0:07:22.298 --> 0:07:26.738 I've ever been is in Buffalo. Those people when their 0:07:26.778 --> 0:07:30.418 team is winning, particularly considering the ribbalry of the Patriots 0:07:30.538 --> 0:07:34.978 when they're beating the Patriots, is is. It's incredible. And 0:07:35.018 --> 0:07:38.178 I remember a game, I think it was they intercepted 0:07:38.178 --> 0:07:41.978 Brady four times. Ryan Fitzpatrick was the quarterback and to 0:07:42.098 --> 0:07:46.858 quote out Michael's that's when um sound had feel. It 0:07:47.018 --> 0:07:49.738 hits you in the chest and it absolutely just went 0:07:49.818 --> 0:07:52.378 right through your body. It gave me goose bumps. It 0:07:52.498 --> 0:07:55.498 was just one of those things. Um. I think that's 0:07:55.498 --> 0:07:57.418 as unique a stadium as there is in the National 0:07:57.418 --> 0:08:00.338 Football League. And I know that there will be better 0:08:00.378 --> 0:08:03.018 amenities and bigger locker rooms and all these things that 0:08:03.018 --> 0:08:05.818 that the modern NFL and the modern LEAD wants, but 0:08:05.898 --> 0:08:08.978 there's something about that place that's very, very special, and 0:08:09.018 --> 0:08:12.978 I'll be curious to see if they can replicate the 0:08:13.018 --> 0:08:16.178 advantage they had in that stadium with the fans being 0:08:16.258 --> 0:08:19.058 right on top of you, and um, it really is 0:08:19.098 --> 0:08:23.058 something there. Yeah. So, like you're covering Patriots there, Bills 0:08:23.098 --> 0:08:26.378 beat the Patriots and you walk into the smallest and 0:08:26.578 --> 0:08:32.298 most like egregiously outdated visitors locker room with a like 0:08:32.418 --> 0:08:36.298 despondent group of players that are, you know, devastated, and 0:08:36.338 --> 0:08:40.058 you're trying to step over them literally too and try 0:08:40.138 --> 0:08:42.938 to like you're hiding in someone's locker to talk to 0:08:42.978 --> 0:08:45.938 someone next to the in the locker. I mean that 0:08:46.098 --> 0:08:48.458 I will not miss. No, I'm not high Mark Stadium 0:08:48.978 --> 0:08:51.218 for sure, but I don't know. Maybe they could just 0:08:51.258 --> 0:08:53.178 bring that back and just be like, hey, it was 0:08:53.218 --> 0:08:56.178 one of its part of the nostalgia of Mortal Ralph. Yeah, 0:08:56.178 --> 0:08:58.298 I mean, think about think about how some of these 0:08:58.338 --> 0:09:00.778 away locker rooms are anyway, right, they're not trying to 0:09:00.818 --> 0:09:03.218 make you're not getting the creature covert something. We're not 0:09:03.258 --> 0:09:05.418 making this spacious. We're gonna put you top. We want 0:09:05.458 --> 0:09:07.538 you to hate each other by the time you're done 0:09:07.538 --> 0:09:09.658 in our locker room. You know, they expanded that locker 0:09:09.738 --> 0:09:11.938 room about five years ago and they made a second room, 0:09:11.978 --> 0:09:14.618 which is about just as small as the first room. 0:09:14.658 --> 0:09:17.098 But now they're there two rooms offense, defense. You know, 0:09:17.618 --> 0:09:23.058 I got you. Yeah, that's nice. So on the bills though, um, 0:09:23.178 --> 0:09:27.178 Josh Allen obviously catalyst for that team, face of that franchise. 0:09:27.738 --> 0:09:29.938 But then they go and sign a Super Bowl MVP 0:09:30.298 --> 0:09:32.658 and a guy who could become just the second player 0:09:32.738 --> 0:09:37.738 ever to get a third ring with three different teams 0:09:37.738 --> 0:09:41.018 in von Miller, what does this do for this team? Like, 0:09:41.098 --> 0:09:44.538 does this more so than the overtime change? Does this 0:09:44.578 --> 0:09:46.338 allow them to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the 0:09:46.338 --> 0:09:49.138 playoffs and finally make that move, you know, into real 0:09:49.258 --> 0:09:52.578 Super Bowl contention here? Well for starters, I mean that's 0:09:52.578 --> 0:09:54.938 an issue that as they've built this team and done 0:09:54.978 --> 0:09:57.138 such a terrific job as you mentioned Brandon Bean and 0:09:57.178 --> 0:09:59.378 this five year bill with Sean McDermott and how they've 0:09:59.378 --> 0:10:02.578 done it, the thing that they have lacked pretty much 0:10:02.578 --> 0:10:05.338 this entire time is that guy screw him and off 0:10:05.338 --> 0:10:08.218 the edge that's capable of changing a game. And Von 0:10:08.298 --> 0:10:11.538 Miller is that guy. So from from that vantage point, 0:10:11.578 --> 0:10:13.618 I think it's made all the sense in the world. 0:10:14.098 --> 0:10:16.858 But to me, I dig deeper with this, and I say, 0:10:17.058 --> 0:10:18.578 you know what, I was reporting it around the time 0:10:18.578 --> 0:10:22.338 of the combine that there were some agents of prominent 0:10:22.338 --> 0:10:24.538 defensive players that had reached out to the Bills, not 0:10:24.698 --> 0:10:27.458 vice versa. They had reached out to the Bills and said, 0:10:27.898 --> 0:10:31.938 my guys interested in your franchise and your team. And 0:10:32.098 --> 0:10:38.018 to me, Buffalo has become a destination, and it's part 0:10:38.098 --> 0:10:40.418 of the build right and putting this team together that 0:10:40.458 --> 0:10:42.578 has now been in the playoffs four of five years 0:10:42.938 --> 0:10:44.778 and has given the Chiefs a run for their money 0:10:44.778 --> 0:10:47.698 in each of the last two. But it's Josh right 0:10:47.858 --> 0:10:50.138 that that people look at that guy and say, Josh 0:10:50.138 --> 0:10:53.418 Allen is the dude, he's the guy. He can run, 0:10:53.458 --> 0:10:56.138 he can throw, he leads, his teammates love him, like 0:10:56.298 --> 0:10:58.298 I want to be on that guy's side because when 0:10:58.298 --> 0:11:00.218 I look at that guy, I think they're gonna be 0:11:00.298 --> 0:11:04.458 multiple Super Bowl titles Ian Buffalo. And you know, there 0:11:04.458 --> 0:11:06.858 are some people, especially where I'm located in New England, 0:11:06.858 --> 0:11:09.538 and say he just took the money. He took the money. Well, 0:11:09.658 --> 0:11:11.938 in reality, it's a two year deal. They can get 0:11:11.938 --> 0:11:14.858 out of it after two years, certainly free for no 0:11:14.858 --> 0:11:18.538 no cost. So three years and fifty one million dollars 0:11:18.618 --> 0:11:22.138 for someone who um is playing still at a high level, 0:11:22.138 --> 0:11:24.138 and maybe that third year you don't get the sort 0:11:24.138 --> 0:11:26.418 of production you want from him. But I think they 0:11:26.458 --> 0:11:28.178 got to feel pretty good about what they're gonna get 0:11:28.218 --> 0:11:30.298 from him in year one and year two. And I 0:11:30.338 --> 0:11:33.178 think it just it singles to everybody if you didn't 0:11:33.218 --> 0:11:36.098 already know that we're someone to be reckoned with. We 0:11:36.178 --> 0:11:40.618 are now and we're attracting people. Took Buffalo to play 0:11:40.658 --> 0:11:43.578 for the Mafia to play with with with Josh Allen 0:11:43.658 --> 0:11:46.218 and um, I don't know, you know, I know there's 0:11:46.218 --> 0:11:47.738 a lot that's happened here in the off season and 0:11:47.738 --> 0:11:50.058 there's still plenty more to go. But to me, they're 0:11:50.138 --> 0:11:53.018 they're the best team in the a f C right now. Yeah, 0:11:53.098 --> 0:11:57.058 especially if they keep those primary core pieces together, right. 0:11:57.418 --> 0:11:59.578 You know, obviously it's not just Josh Allen, but it's 0:11:59.618 --> 0:12:03.018 his number one targets. How do you think Brandon Bean 0:12:03.138 --> 0:12:06.858 was taking to a Little brothers recruitment of big brother 0:12:06.938 --> 0:12:09.498 to come down to Dallas talking about Trevon Diggs is 0:12:09.578 --> 0:12:12.418 twitter recruitment of his brother, Yeah, prahas probably didn't go 0:12:12.458 --> 0:12:15.178 over that great, um. And I think the interesting thing 0:12:15.218 --> 0:12:18.258 with Diggs is that now he's criminally underpaid, right because 0:12:18.298 --> 0:12:20.818 of what happened to the receiver market, uh in the 0:12:20.898 --> 0:12:24.418 last two years really, but certainly this offseason. Um. And 0:12:24.458 --> 0:12:26.978 it's been something that has been brought up a number 0:12:27.018 --> 0:12:30.058 of times to being about you know, do you feel 0:12:30.098 --> 0:12:32.138 the need to get an extension done with Diggs and 0:12:32.178 --> 0:12:34.418 I think obviously they would love to. As he said, 0:12:34.458 --> 0:12:35.738 you know, it's got to be something that works for 0:12:35.818 --> 0:12:39.138 both sides. So I guess no. Steph can be pretty 0:12:39.138 --> 0:12:40.898 private about this stuff, but I guess we'll have to 0:12:40.898 --> 0:12:43.738 see where his head is at. But certainly to this 0:12:43.818 --> 0:12:46.138 point he has loved playing in Buffalo and and love 0:12:46.178 --> 0:12:48.818 playing with Josh so um. But that's certainly something we 0:12:48.858 --> 0:12:50.778 I think we definitely read half to keep an eye 0:12:50.818 --> 0:12:53.658 on moving forward. You know, will there be talks, what 0:12:53.738 --> 0:12:55.658 all those talks look like and can they get close 0:12:55.778 --> 0:12:58.538 enough to to convince him to stay or does he 0:12:58.618 --> 0:13:00.738 does he have that longing to go play with his brother? 0:13:00.778 --> 0:13:03.858 I mean, that's not's not you know, I wouldn't be shocking. 0:13:03.858 --> 0:13:07.098 I know the mccordis they eventually united. That's something that 0:13:07.138 --> 0:13:08.858 they wanted to do at some point they did it. 0:13:08.898 --> 0:13:10.818 We'll see if the Digs just want to do that 0:13:10.858 --> 0:13:14.138 as well. Yeah, but certainly a huge piece of a 0:13:14.218 --> 0:13:18.578 now back to back run as a f C East champions. 0:13:18.618 --> 0:13:23.018 That a distinction usually reserved for the New England Patriots, 0:13:23.418 --> 0:13:25.978 who have now not won a playoff game in three years, 0:13:26.258 --> 0:13:29.898 as we were made aware of by their owner Robert 0:13:29.938 --> 0:13:33.138 Kraft down at the annual league meeting this week, and 0:13:33.218 --> 0:13:35.858 we will get into that and the Patriots pursuit of 0:13:35.898 --> 0:13:38.898 regaining that a f C S crown, as well as 0:13:38.938 --> 0:13:44.098 some interesting moves but not unfamiliar along that Patriots coaching staff. Next, 0:13:59.938 --> 0:14:02.218 all right, back here with you on NFL Inside Report, 0:14:02.658 --> 0:14:04.298 talking about the a f C East a little bit 0:14:04.618 --> 0:14:08.818 with Mike Gardi certainly covered this division for a long time, 0:14:08.858 --> 0:14:11.778 knows the Patriots inside and out. We were just talking 0:14:11.818 --> 0:14:14.058 about the Bills and as the Patriots now trying to 0:14:14.058 --> 0:14:16.498 get back to the top of the division, they're doing 0:14:16.498 --> 0:14:18.938 so in some unique ways. UM. They've lost a bunch 0:14:18.978 --> 0:14:21.138 of coaches and executives so over the course of the 0:14:21.258 --> 0:14:24.178 last few years price of success right, most recently Josh 0:14:24.258 --> 0:14:27.978 McDaniels leaving UM to become the new head coach of 0:14:28.018 --> 0:14:30.778 the Las Vegas Raiders. Matt Patricia and Joe Judge, though 0:14:31.178 --> 0:14:36.018 are back after unsuccessful runs as head coaches outside of 0:14:36.058 --> 0:14:38.578 New England. But what we do have now is the 0:14:38.698 --> 0:14:43.178 lack of title, which again is nothing new in New England. 0:14:43.498 --> 0:14:47.898 Uh No d C, no offensive coordinator. Still not totally 0:14:47.898 --> 0:14:51.338 sure who's calling plays right on either side. What do 0:14:51.378 --> 0:14:52.938 you what do you make of all this shake up 0:14:52.978 --> 0:14:56.218 here by Belichick? Uh, this to this, to me read 0:14:56.338 --> 0:15:02.018 is a um, it's a gamble because you you transition 0:15:02.098 --> 0:15:04.138 from Brady, you know, you had the one year with 0:15:04.218 --> 0:15:06.738 Cam Newton as the sort of the filler, and then 0:15:06.778 --> 0:15:09.218 you've reset essentially with Mac Jones. And he had a 0:15:09.258 --> 0:15:12.498 promising rookie year. And now we always talk about in 0:15:12.538 --> 0:15:16.978 Belichick primarily the leap between year one and two. That's 0:15:16.978 --> 0:15:18.658 what you want to see, this big jump, and that 0:15:18.658 --> 0:15:21.018 that there should be a big jump for good players. 0:15:21.378 --> 0:15:24.098 And Mac Jones is a good player. So um. He 0:15:24.178 --> 0:15:27.738 was shepherd along nicely by Josh McDaniels, who met with 0:15:27.858 --> 0:15:30.178 him after every drive, you know, the right to the bench, 0:15:30.458 --> 0:15:33.378 right with the tablet, talk things over. Um. One of 0:15:33.418 --> 0:15:35.338 the things they loved about Mac his ability to adjust 0:15:35.378 --> 0:15:38.218 on the fly, those conversations being able to translate into 0:15:38.218 --> 0:15:41.258 the field. Well, now who's doing that with him? And 0:15:41.298 --> 0:15:44.498 there is no clarity from from Bill Belichick on that front. 0:15:44.538 --> 0:15:46.498 In fact, when he said are you gonna work with 0:15:46.578 --> 0:15:49.138 quarterbacks more? Bill Belichick, he said, yeah, I'll continue to 0:15:49.138 --> 0:15:50.898 work with him as he's done. He needs with the 0:15:50.938 --> 0:15:53.618 quarterbacks at least once a week. But then he said 0:15:53.858 --> 0:15:58.418 Matt as in Matt Patricia will do some and Joe Judge, 0:15:58.898 --> 0:16:02.818 who's an offensive assistant, he will do some. Um, And 0:16:02.858 --> 0:16:06.058 then you know, internally, I know there are some people 0:16:06.098 --> 0:16:07.978 there that were hoping that Nick Cayley was the tight 0:16:08.058 --> 0:16:09.978 ends coach and has sort of been on this nice 0:16:09.978 --> 0:16:12.178 path that he would be the one in charge of 0:16:12.258 --> 0:16:14.658 at least the passing game, if not the offensive coordinator. 0:16:14.738 --> 0:16:17.738 So is somehow he involved in this? We don't have 0:16:17.778 --> 0:16:20.218 any answers, and as Belichick said, we don't have to 0:16:20.258 --> 0:16:23.698 call plays for a while. UM, so we're gonna be 0:16:23.738 --> 0:16:26.178 waiting and seeing how that all plays out. But to me, 0:16:26.258 --> 0:16:30.858 it's it's massive because you can't afford to step back here. 0:16:31.138 --> 0:16:33.778 I think your owner just made it clear he doesn't 0:16:33.818 --> 0:16:39.858 want to step back. He expects them to contend this year. So, um, 0:16:39.898 --> 0:16:41.538 that's critical to me. And I think there are people 0:16:41.538 --> 0:16:43.498 around the league that are sort of scratching their heads saying, 0:16:44.538 --> 0:16:47.098 should they have done more for Mac in terms of 0:16:47.138 --> 0:16:49.578 the coaching, Should they have gotten in a real offensive coordinator? 0:16:49.618 --> 0:16:51.858 Bill O'Brien's name that was kicked around, And I think 0:16:51.858 --> 0:16:54.818 there was some mutual interest. But there's also the relationship 0:16:54.858 --> 0:16:57.578 between Belichick and Saban and do I want to poach 0:16:57.618 --> 0:17:00.218 your guy only if you give me, you know, your 0:17:00.418 --> 0:17:04.738 your approval. So, um yeah, I think it's it's fast 0:17:04.858 --> 0:17:06.378 it and I don't I don't you know. We look 0:17:06.418 --> 0:17:08.378 oftentimes we look at the head coach, right, Well, how's 0:17:08.378 --> 0:17:11.858 this new head coach gonna handle the situation his first job? Kenny? Well, 0:17:11.858 --> 0:17:13.778 now we're gonna be looking at these assistance and how 0:17:13.778 --> 0:17:16.618 it all breaks down, and are we seeing improvement and 0:17:16.858 --> 0:17:20.618 important players to the Patriots Because if we're not, Um, 0:17:20.658 --> 0:17:23.178 I don't know. You know, the division's gotten tougher and tougher. 0:17:23.218 --> 0:17:25.218 You're now chasing the Bills. The gap between you and 0:17:25.258 --> 0:17:28.778 the Bills is fairly sizeable based on the last two 0:17:28.818 --> 0:17:30.938 meetings when you did not force them to punt. In fact, 0:17:30.938 --> 0:17:33.498 you have en forced the punt in ten quarters now, 0:17:33.578 --> 0:17:36.818 So um yeah, there's there's some work to do, for sure. 0:17:37.458 --> 0:17:39.418 So who do you think the leading candidate is to 0:17:39.578 --> 0:17:42.418 call plays at least offensively? Right, because we've seen you know, 0:17:42.618 --> 0:17:47.018 Steve Belichick, we've seen Gerd Mayo called plays, you know, defensively. 0:17:47.618 --> 0:17:50.418 What about it offensively? Like could it be Joe Judge. 0:17:50.738 --> 0:17:52.858 You know, I think it could be Joe Judge, or 0:17:52.858 --> 0:17:54.538 I think it could be a combination of Joe and 0:17:54.618 --> 0:17:57.658 Nick Keyley sort of. You know, you're the passing game 0:17:57.698 --> 0:18:01.338 guy in the running up. Yeah, and again, is that 0:18:01.538 --> 0:18:03.938 is that an effective way of doing things? I mean, 0:18:03.978 --> 0:18:06.778 you look at my me this past year. At one point, 0:18:06.778 --> 0:18:08.818 they had three different guys calling plays. They had their 0:18:08.818 --> 0:18:12.378 co offensive coordinators and their quarterbacks coach. I believe they 0:18:12.378 --> 0:18:14.538 were what they wanted eight or one and seven at 0:18:14.538 --> 0:18:17.258 one point. So um, you know, it took a long 0:18:17.298 --> 0:18:21.018 time for that to sort of um serialized and be effective. 0:18:21.098 --> 0:18:23.658 So you know, I don't think the Patriots gonn afford 0:18:23.658 --> 0:18:26.218 to be in that sort of hole. So again, I'm 0:18:26.218 --> 0:18:28.538 really curious to see how it works out. And if 0:18:28.578 --> 0:18:32.338 you're looking at you know, Joe Judges history obviously the 0:18:32.378 --> 0:18:35.658 head coach, but the offense with him as the head 0:18:35.658 --> 0:18:40.138 coach was pretty putrid over two seasons with the Giants. 0:18:40.138 --> 0:18:43.298 And you know, I threw out a stat yesterday Daniel 0:18:43.338 --> 0:18:46.858 Jones rookie year, twelve games, twenty four touchdown passes. In 0:18:46.898 --> 0:18:49.458 the next games with Joe Judge as the head coach, 0:18:49.538 --> 0:18:52.138 he threw one touchdown passes. Now, that's not all on 0:18:52.258 --> 0:18:56.258 the coach. There's all kinds of different pieces. But if 0:18:56.258 --> 0:18:59.658 you're looking for progress, you didn't see it there in 0:18:59.738 --> 0:19:05.498 a on a Joe Judge team with a young quarterback. Right. Uh. Then, 0:19:05.618 --> 0:19:07.858 you know, as you mentioned and as we talked about 0:19:07.858 --> 0:19:10.458 with with Robert Kraft coming out and talking about he's 0:19:10.498 --> 0:19:13.858 a fan of the New England Patriots first and like 0:19:13.898 --> 0:19:16.498 many of the fans, realizing that they have not won 0:19:16.538 --> 0:19:19.338 a playoff game now in three years after making you know, 0:19:19.578 --> 0:19:21.858 quite frankly a habit of that over the previous you know, 0:19:22.018 --> 0:19:26.218 eighteen years if you will, seventeen um. Last year he 0:19:26.258 --> 0:19:28.218 came out and said that he was kind of critical 0:19:28.298 --> 0:19:31.698 of the way that the Patriots had drafted about this time, 0:19:32.018 --> 0:19:34.938 and then this year it's like, no, I didn't feel 0:19:34.978 --> 0:19:37.578 like we I like what we did in last year's draft. 0:19:37.698 --> 0:19:39.658 I feel like this is a tactic. He wants to 0:19:39.698 --> 0:19:42.538 be here next year in at the annual meeting talking 0:19:42.538 --> 0:19:44.578 about how they want to playoff game. Right, it worked, 0:19:44.858 --> 0:19:47.738 calling him out for the calling out the drafting better draft, 0:19:47.978 --> 0:19:50.058 call him out for not wanting a playoff game. We 0:19:50.098 --> 0:19:53.578 went a playoff game. I mean it's all gonna happen, right, Yeah, 0:19:53.658 --> 0:19:56.578 well it has a potential to happen, read if they 0:19:56.618 --> 0:20:00.058 get the jumps from players like Matt Jones that I mentioned. 0:20:00.098 --> 0:20:02.418 But also I think and you're looking at their relative 0:20:02.458 --> 0:20:06.058 in activity and free agency. Um, they spent a time 0:20:06.178 --> 0:20:09.898 last year and some of those players, Nelson aghalor Jhono 0:20:09.978 --> 0:20:12.778 Smith in particular, did not play to the level of 0:20:12.778 --> 0:20:15.178 the contract that they were getting, uh and did not 0:20:15.298 --> 0:20:18.658 make the impact I think necessary for this team to 0:20:18.738 --> 0:20:21.938 take that next step. So to me, and this is 0:20:21.978 --> 0:20:24.338 part of you can say this a spin or this 0:20:24.418 --> 0:20:27.538 is the truth. Well, something lies in between. But this 0:20:27.618 --> 0:20:30.938