Julian Edelman Reacts to AJ Brown Patriots Trade and Offseason News

It might be June, but football season never ends in The Nuthouse! Julian weighs in on the AJ Brown trade and what it means for the Patriots. We dive into Drake Maye's offseason progression, Josh McDaniels We wrap it up with a little game of Rapid React, where Julian reacts to everything from a potential Aaron Donald return to the Mahomes contract extension. Finally, we wrap up with some World Cup 2026 talk. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Games with Names.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Today, we're going to catch up on some NFL news
around the league and talk some old OTA's mini camps
and what we do in the old off season. But
before we get into that, we got a break down
a j Brown troll whole big one, Big one. I mean,
it's been a while when we haven't talked about it,
we haven't had a takeout there.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Let's get into this. Let's get into it. Let's get
in here. It finally happened.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I mean, holy smokes, didn't we all say it was
gonna happen June one.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
We knew it was gonna happen, dude, delaying the inevitable.
But when it finally happened, I felt like a weight
was left. Oh my gosh, unbelievable. First off, Jules, what
were your initial thoughts. My initial thoughts were, the Patriots
have a big It was a big boy move.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
It was a big boy move this, and and it
also tells me that they think they're close.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I mean, look, they were in the super Bowl last year.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
But like you know, you you surround these types of
round Drake May with these types of weapons, like that's
that's a step in the right direction. We haven't had
this kind of excitement since they brought Randy Moss bro
You know what I mean, if you think about it,
I think it opens up their offense. I'm excited to

(01:16):
see I mean AJ Brown he's in his prime, he's
twenty nine years old.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean hungry, he's got something to prove.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Very similar to dig situation last year where he's coming
into this thing pissed off, where people are thinking he's
not him. Now, granted, you know Diggs was coming off
that acl had a very productive year with eighty plus
catches and six touchdowns, like he was a factor, and
he gave that room an attitude. Imagine what that room
feels like when you got AJ Brown coming straight.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
We're sitting up straight.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean this guy in his first seasons eleven touchdown,
seven to touch in, a seven touchdown, seven touchdown, seventeen
yards of catch thirteen to seven, a catch twelve nine,
a catch sixteen to easy. This is this is gonna
open up that offense. But it gives him a lot
of versatility too, because look, you get into the big

(02:09):
boy personnel groups with two tight ends and you got
two receivers, you still have AJ Brown. You get to
manipulate the the you know, the coverage, you get those
simpler coverages. You could give one on one routes with him.
You know, if if they can somehow keep age, or
they can if they can somehow keep.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Booty, that'd be nice.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
And Booty can keep the mindset of playing ball and
being a team player like that.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I think that's a big step because, I mean, Booty.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Bring he can still knock off the top of the
the coverage.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I mean, you saw sixteen and a half yards per
catch last year. I mean that's top five in the league.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
It was crazy. Yeah, and only thirty something catches.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So and you're only gonna get I mean, you're probably
gonna get more looks with AJ. And then you know
AJ being paired up with Josh McDaniels, Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Baby, it's a matchmate and heaven.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Randy Moss first year with Josh twenty twenty two touchdowns?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Twenty leave the record, yep, the record. Brandon Marshall first
year with Josh. I think he had one hundred ten
plus catches.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Devanta Adams DeVante Adams one hundred eighty targets, one.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hundred catches, fifteen hundred Honestly, my first year being featured
with Josh, I had one hundred and five catches and
six seven touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
And you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
He knows how to get receivers the ball, you know,
and all different types of body types. What he does,
you know what I mean. I'm excited to see how
Josh uses Aj. I'm excited to see the growth of
Drake May with AJ and that the other receivers in
that room. This it brings their level of play up.

(03:51):
I remember, you know, it brings me back to when
we brought in Antonio Brown in dar locker room. Everyone
like that week of practice, zero ball touch the ground
because everyone had to bring their game up because Antonia was.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
There ain't that many balls going around clean operations.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
So if you're going to get an opportunity, you got
to you gotta make a stand so that you get
that opportunity in the game. So this could raise everyone's
level of all boats.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Baby, what did you What do you think Josh is
doing to get him comfortable right now?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Look, I think AJ Brown, he's what is his eighth year,
seventh year, He's a veteran, he's a number one receiver.
He knows what he's gotta do. He's heard a lot
of football, He's been in a few different systems. I'm
sure it's just getting the language right, getting the formations right,

(04:41):
getting the motions right, getting the concepts right. All those
little things are probably what they're going over day to day,
just trying to get him comfortable so we can see
him use that big explosive body. You know what I mean,
you got you could. He'll be able to use it
more when when when everything settles down, which you're not

(05:04):
gonna be worried about a J.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Brown.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
This guy, eighth year guy, Come on, this guy, he's
coming on his eighth year and yeah, and he's he's
excited to be a Patriot.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's the cool thing. Like he grew up a Patriot fan,
and he might be the biggest Patriots man of all time.
He could be man Cave rug, the man Cave rug.
You need one of those, I mean, we need one
of those in the year. Might put it on loan
in the nuthouse. My guy had that as a Philadelphia
Eagle though, love it. I mean, you like who you like?
I have nners shit in here. Hey, you got niner ship.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
You stick with her? Who you're raised with man. I
just picture him having like the boys over from the
even back. Oh shit, put the rug. We gotta put
the rug. Put the rug away. Every company over put the.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Man. It's it's gonna be really fun. I think so too.
And I keep going back to that quote.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
I think you said even before this, but Josh was
saying he plays with such a force like ronk, like
like a force.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I just love hearing that.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
He's he's just a big body that can make contested catches,
that can run with it after uh.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Fifty to fifty balls. It's just it's it.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
And you know he can run routes, you know, so,
I mean that's all we saw him do last year.
They had like three routes high school. Now in this
so like maybe we throw a couple of counters in
there with Josh and you're gonna see a lot more explode.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I just like I like Josh with receivers. Me too.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Josh knows how to get the ball to guys and drake.
I mean another year in Josh's system being able to
get everything operated, the communication for the lineman and the protection,
like you're gonna see I think we see another jump.
I think we see another jump and god buried. Everyone
says healthy.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
That brings us to some of our other our other
news that was coming out of OTA's They said they
want to weaponize Drake May's mind.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
What'd you make of that quote?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, I mean they want him to take the step
to being like a Brady a Pace Drew Brees of Mahomes.
That's what they're saying is they want him to be
able to be the coach on the field, get him
in the right play every single time, in the right
protection every single time, getting him out of bad looks,

(07:18):
having that authority to get him out of bad looks,
being able to do everything at the line of scrimmage.
That's what that weaponizing the mind is, because we all
know he's a weapon as an athlete. I mean led
the last year in deep balls. He's very, very sneaky,
fast athletic that that Herbert you know where he'll take

(07:38):
off on you and have a sixty five yard run.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'll turn your back, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
So like those are awesome plays, but like going a
whole game with no ms, no mishaps, no bad throws,
no wrong throws like that is what I think weaponizing
his mind, getting them to that next level, which time

(08:02):
on task, that's what happens.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
That's why this is going to be an even more
exciting offseason for Drake May because he already learned last year.
He had to learn the language's huge, which you know,
you got to learn the language of what Josh is
preaching the zero out slot. Now we need to start
learning the slang. Now, we got to start the swear words.

(08:25):
We got to start. You know, when you learn that
new language with your boys and you drop a motherfucker
right here and there, and it's like, yeah, it's span
or you know what I mean. You know, it's just
we got to get some of that slick slang going.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
That type.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
You're out in public saying and people next rup are like,
these guys speaking what language?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Are the other local?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
This guy?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Local guy?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
You know the Spanish correlates with the local Spanish. Yes,
you know the dialects to get the dialects right.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
I like that. But what's all in the perspective, We're good, bro,
Drake just got to get get.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Some of them swear words down. He just got to
get swear that what it's all about. This year, No building,
baby building, and I mean, I'm hyped up.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Here in that weaponize in the mind. That just sounds
so good.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, I mean, I mean if they're even bringing that up,
that means it's going in that direction.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Seriously.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, I mean, if that's if that's on the table,
and then they're putting it out there for you know, Drake, Hey,
we know what you are. We need you to get
even better.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Would you say, that's the one thing if you'd want
to see Drake work on this offseason or take a
step forward or or kind of add to his arsenal,
would be just like getting all that that lingo down
and it's.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Just everything like yeah, you know late in the season,
you know it was it got to you know, the protection.
I mean, there are so many factors into that, but
being able to use your mind to solve a problem
instead of your athleticism. Right man, we're not getting this
guy block. What the hell can we do?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
All right? This is what I'm gonna do. Hey, We're
gonna slide.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
In line here and maybe go off on a different
tangent to the code. Hey, fuck it, Hey, you know
that's weaponizing your mind.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Slide him. I'm gonna get the ball out quick. Hey, hey, pop, pop,
give me a swing. I can't block ship like that.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yep, that's that's kind of what I think. Weaponizing the
mind is, you know, being operationally correct and being able
to to get out of a problem with the mind,
not the legs or a crazy Caleb Williams throw or.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Something, you know, together, putting it all together.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
And then some other stories that came out of Patriots camp,
the little Ota recap here, Caleb.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Blowmou looked good playing him all over the line, the rookie.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
In the left tackle spot right specifically, I heard no.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Or no, I'm yeah, everything, but I'm thinking kind of
putting them every where swing tackle kind of vibes.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah. I mean, you could never have too many big boys,
especially a first rounder. Never that I like him first rounder. No,
that that's only gonna build depth. It's gonna sharpen those guys.
I'm excited for that.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I was gonna say, And he's he's learned from some
some vets in there. He's got a young buck like
Will Campbell over there to help him out. He's get
Moses to Moses.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Moses is you know, he's got a lot of knowledge
and time on this task.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yep, and you got Vera Tucker in there now as well,
Tucker another vet to help mold that mind.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'll be sick.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
I like this, Like you said, can't have never have
enough alignment, didn't have too many.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
No in those partecular costs.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
If you have a good swing tackle, it can put
you in like those thirteen personnel groups where you bring
in that tackle for the tight end, the goal lines,
the short yardages. It's a it's a weapon. If you
have a guy that can have the versatility to be
able to go back and forth mindset and physical ability,
that's huge, you know. So hopefully he develops himself a

(11:49):
nice little role. I mean, we're not gonna know anything
in ota is about a lineman and fucking yes you
know that's This is all about the organized team activities
and the off seasons, all about getting the minds right
for when we do put on those pads. We can

(12:10):
we don't look like if the YMC a club don't
just slap it out there, you know what I mean?
I am in man, so right now this is all footwork, timing,
no contact, you know, knowing where to go here in
the play, knowing personnel groups, learning the operation of getting

(12:36):
a play called in how much time we have at
the line of scrimmage, identifying what the defense has given us,
communicating to our offense what we're gonna do, getting us
to the play. Like, that's what this is all about.
This is all about the dance and the flow stuff.
This isn't nothing about. This is about like real football
where you're gonna get hit, right, We're trying to get

(12:57):
ourselves where that's all mindless stuff because we know it
so well that when we do get to hit, we
use the right proper technique. And it looks looks like
professional football. Gotta walk before you can run out here.
And I like Doug Moron out there coaching these lines.
I like that. I mean I want I wonder what
kind of baloney they got in the stadium for him?

(13:18):
Does he get is he is he still doing like Baloney's.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Say, he's infamous for that. Whenever I think Doug Moron,
I think boloney.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm gonna go into one of these training camps. I'm
gonna ask for the Doug Moron. You're you're a blooney
guy grown up. My mom liked bloon to my mom
liked Oscar Meyer Bologne, the classic.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
With mustard chips on the Whitebread's American cheese.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Though, you have to have the most processed cheeses possible,
processed on, processed on processed.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
If you're having like genuine whitebread.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I mean, then if you're feeling a little uh, feeling
a little frisky, maybe you throw that thing on the
old pan.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
You gotta slice the edges a little bit so it
doesn't doesn't puff up on you. Oh yeah, Classic, We
gotta we gotta get dug in here, the old Doug
talk some blog fresh Douggie Fresh.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Let's go. Uh.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Other news in there was Christian Gonzalez. The whole inn
was still working out at that contract situation. But get
him paid, Get him paid. Come on, Gonzo, best guy.
I one of the best players on the field in
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, they get they're figuring it out.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
It sounds like as of last night, he did buy
a new house in the Foxboro area.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
All right, that's good news. Probably in Foxboro.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
We were in fox It's a greater Foxborough I think somewhere,
said Walpole.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh, he said, Walpole, that's what that's what the report.
I said. Get over to that bro. What kid moving
them on up.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, we got out, we got attleborrough money, and then
we touched on a little bit earlier. Uh, the wide
receiver rooms getting a little crowded there now with aj
in there, you got some talk that the Booty might
be the odd man out or but as we said,
Boody's coming off a thirty three catch here, sixteen point
some yards a catch he got pop in there.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
I don't know if Booty's handling this correctly. I know,
I know. I mean.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
He had a hell of a ford What do you
have thirty eight six sketches? It was thirty three, I
mean that that was that's production, six touchdowns, eight hundred yards.
I think he had sixteen to seven a catch. But
what round was he drafted in? Uh, he was late.

(15:24):
I think it's like six or seven. So I don't
know what the communication is. But if this is on
him sitting out like that's probably like the last thing
you want to do.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Six rounder at LSU in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Six rounder because we're dealt with the gambling case that
ain't that didn't go anywhere. So, like what leverage does
he have? Is his leverage that he's got thirty six
catches that he wants to get traded. I just I
think that, you know, I've been in that situation where
you bring someone in, you get your feelings hurt, and

(15:57):
you know you but this is national football. There's gonna
be new players every year, every year, and you know,
I think, don't you probably want to be out there
real to see where where you're gonna create your role

(16:18):
because you know, or unless he thinks he wants to
get traded and he has not, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I just probably I would have handled it a little differently.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Like he's a he's a great And the thing is
he's gonna benefit from this, like AJ Brown is gonna
take all the coverage, Yes, and then you're gonna get
real one on one down the field, booty throws all
the time.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
He's gonna have more opportunity.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
And you know, you go into your contract year, you
bump it up to forty five catches for a thousand
or close to nine hundred yards. Then you go into
free agency instead of having all this, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
So I don't I'm with you. You know, right right
now a lot of receivers are coming out. I know,
what do you based on me?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
And he's a good football player, he's a really good
football player. But I just I probably would have handled
it a little differently.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I'm with you, gotta be there.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
I hate that he wasn't around the team that much during.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
He came to the mandatories only or something.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, and then I don't think really had any catches
a last stay or two.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
It didn't sound like yeah, I mean, he hasn't been there.
He's not gonna have any catches. The rapport that they've
had for the last five weeks, it's just I don't know.
I don't know who's advising them. I like, yeah, it's weird.
Is it his agent? Who's his agent? Let's see whose
agent is? Who's his agent? He is?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh, he's a Drew Rosenhowes guy.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh true, all right, I'm off limits.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'm off Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
I mean, if you got Drew, you know all the
hell Gronky had Drew he did, he's still Drew guy.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, I think so. I thought so. Yeah, he's probably
one of the man when the drews it like Drew.
He's a legend. He always he is a legend. Legend.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
He wasn't he was t O and T. I was
doing sit ups in the drave and doing that. I mean,
he's got all the big guys. Yes, classic Roseen.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
I feel like Rosenhau's has looked the exact same since
I was, like, guy has an age, right, what do
you think?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
How old you think he is right now? Drew's probably
fifty five?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Let me look this up. I mean his genetics are insane.
Fifty nine fifty nine. I mean, dude looks like he's
He's looked the same since I've been alive.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
He shout out, Drew Rosenhou shout out to Drew, Drew,
you know, and then boys paid. Yeah, Drew, I know
you're a man of leverage, leverage, leverage, leverage.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I don't know, It's just I don't know. It's tough
because that is a that's a crammed room now it is.
What do you think speaking of that? What do you
think of the room?

Speaker 3 (18:51):
We got Matt Collins, you got Pop Douglas, Kashan Boody
for now, Romeo Dobbs New Edition didn't mention him yet,
Efton Chisholm, Kyle Williams.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's kind of the core right now.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, it's gonna be Chisholm and Pop and William's probably
battling yep, and you know, depending on Booty, those I
would say those are the guys because you look at
mac he he brings a tenacity to the room. He's
also covers a lot of holes on the team and

(19:23):
special teams and blocking blocking he's got. He's got a
niche package that like Josh probably really loves.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
I mean, the two AJ's not you know, he's gonna
be the guy. He's the guy.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Then you got Dobbs who you just paid some money
to so he's gonna be a guy, you know. And
then after that you're gonna have to start fighting to
get on the field. Oh yeah, I mean you still
have Hunter Henry, who's a pass catcher who he's gonna
take targets. So it all depends on how they want

(19:59):
to for their team, what kind of team they want
to be. And that's what this part of the year
is about. Putting your team in all the different personnel
groups and seeing how they gel together. Seeing if you
have a bunch of receivers, let's make a four wide group.
Oh but if we're not there, we're not there. We're
not going to be in the four wide group now,

(20:20):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Maybe it's just I hope.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I hope it goes well because he's if they can
have Booty in there as well, because he that speed,
you can't teach that. And he made plays. He made
some big plays last year. He's a baller, but I
mean not, I don't know, sitting out baller.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
I don't like that. Right now, I'm with you, and
then tell me what I'm wrong. True, give me a call, Bob.
Let me, let me tell me what I need to know.
Let me hit the driveway. You get a couple of
sit ups out.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh my gosh, a major bummer out of Pat's training camp.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Julian Hill tight end season, Indian Indiana. Right there. I
hate that.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Now we got to see this guy gets hurt. Oh shit,
we don't have our twelve personnel group. Let's go into pony,
which is three receivers, two running backs, no tight ends.
Oh let's go into four. Let's go four wide. Let's
go three wide. You know that's when we got to
have these receivers there to plug him play. So hey,
you're you're playing why today? The terminology is gonna be

(21:19):
a little different because in this personnel group. You're gonna
be the Y, or you're gonna be the X or
the F or the you know what I mean. That's
what this is for. That's what OT because then when
we get into training camp where we got to relearn everything,
the fucking train is moving. The train is on the
tracks and it don't stop for nobody.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Right, brother, damn right.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
That was a little bit of the Patriots ot a
b T that ship when they brought it ab.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
What'd you do?

Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's all bad stuff, Bill, Look, Joel's gonna make you
fucking better.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, but it did.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oh man, it brows everyone's level when you bring in,
you know, a real, a real baller.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
You got better in that one week.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
I got better in that week and a half. There's
a fucking flawless It was flawless practice. Flawless practice, which
you know, carried into whatever it did.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
See me from No sucks.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
That we had Julian Hill season ending a c L
free agent, freaking hated.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, they were. They were talking good about him too.
I thought I was really getting hyped up for what
he could do for the run.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
John Josh. If you get Josh a good pat like
a good blocking tight end. You can get real creative
with it. And personal group.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Got fullback in there now too. Gosh loves a fullback.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah yeah, just creates matchups. That's what the exciting, that's
the that's what we're talking about mind games or what
we say, weaponized, the weaponizing the mind.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's what this is.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
This this period is for trying those little things, trying
different personnel group, seeing how the team, how the quarterback,
how the line all like it, the running backs adjust
to it. You know, protections not physical, but mental. Let's
let's see it. Let's see us do it right. Yep,

(23:15):
let's see us do it right. And then when we
throw on the pads, that's when that's when there's another variable.
That's when there's another variable. Everyone's got a plant team
to get push a face, Mike Tyson.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
We'll be right back after this quick break.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Speaking of speaking of training camp in mini camp, yeah,
we're we know it's football is twenty four to seventies days.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
It doesn't stop.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
So Mini camp OT is getting a lot more coverage
than they did in the past.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
And we're in these things.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's June, but we're still talking football duels for the
fans out there can you pull back the curtain a
little bit and take us inside a typical mini camp
we touched on a little bit earlier, but just kind
of what goes down and what are you looking to
get out of this, what makes for a successful mini
camp session.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
So mini camp is like an introduction of what training
camp is going to be. You've been doing OTAs. I
believe you have twelve, thirteen, fifteen OTAs, which is basically
kind of very similar to what the mini camp is.
You install ten ten plays in the morning, you go

(24:22):
out and you drill the ten plays, you individualize the
ten plays, you come together, you do seven on seven
for those ten plays, and you get into team and
you do those ten plays, and then after practice in OTAs,
you go home.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
In mini camp, it's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Then after practice, you watched that practice and you correct
what you did on the field if it was wrong,
or you highlight good things.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, I can't even say that highlight good things.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
It's weird, you know, you know, you highlight the good things,
and then you install for the next day what you're
gonna be doing the next day after practice, so it's
a longer day. It's kind of like an introduction to
what training camp is gonna be, you know, and then
you know, and it's it's a way to introduce to

(25:14):
the new guy on the team, the young guy on
the team, how things are kind of done mentally, physically, operationally,
how it's gonna be in training camp, very abridged, little
baby version. But it's it's more mentally taxing than an
OT day OTA day. So it's it's like that introduction.

(25:36):
All right, we're gonna be here from eight o'clock till five.
We're gonna have you know, you're gonna go through this,
the individuals, the walkthroughs. It's gonna be that same kind
of day format baby, a bridge version of a training camp.
Try to introduce these guys before they have that five
six week break or whatever it is, four and a
half week break till training camp. This is what it's

(25:58):
gonna be like, because once you get back for training camp,
the coaches are automatically assuming that every guy that we
everything that we did in camp is that's foundationed we
could pull from that every time. We'll spend the first
couple of days of camp doing those things to we

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refresh our minds. But now, hey, now we're adding we're
adding and who can add who can go through the
day format of all right, we installed ten plays, We
went over those ten plays. We didn't do them well?
Did we fix them the very next day? We installed
that night after that? All right, what guys can handle that?
You know that this is an evaluation process. That's what

(26:40):
OTAs and many camps are. We're evaluating the team. We're
evaluating the player. Who can mentally adapt to what we do,
who can physically adapt to what we do? Who has
you know, who can install the play and turn those
plays away and then get another additional plays, but be
able to pull two plays from those other plays that
we installed. This is all part of the evaluation process

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of how we build our team. So mini camp is
like kind of an introduction to how training Camp's going
to be very similar to what you've been doing for
the last four or five weeks. Maybe a little longer
at the facility. Get the feet way in there, get
the feedway. I'm with you, what do it inn as

(27:24):
your career? Of all Duorge, what did you personally look
to get out of one of these Well, the number
one thing is getting out healthy, always healthy. I mean
we look at Julian hill Ter's is a kid PCL
and non con like, and there's going to be there.
They know the numbers of how many guys they expect
out of their ninety that are going to get hurt
because they have all the data from the last fifty

(27:45):
years and or now it's really they're they're studying probably
the last six years because of the new schedule of
you know, when the player's back, so they adjust to
like those periods of times where there's high risk of
guys getting hurt, and then you see who's there, and
then you know, I think health is number one. You know,

(28:07):
early in my career it was like a form of competition,
which is it's always a form of competition, but I
was trying to make the team right, so I you know,
I had to I had to know all my you know,
my plays, I had to know all my personnel groups.
I had to know where I had to be in
the building, a certain special teams like all that stuff

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being operation one hundred percent on just that, you know.
And then by the time you get older and you've
had a few camps in the same camps because they're
different at different places. You know, by year five I've
heard the same coach joke. I've heard the same introduction,

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you know, so it becomes how do I get myself better?
And that with that after every year, you know, as
soon as that that game, you guys are eliminated or
you win. You know, about a week after you meet
with your coaches, you have your exit. You kind of
go over a self scout, You look at all your film,
you determine on what you need to get better individually,

(29:12):
if you're in that position in your career where you
sit there, you know, I talk to Chatty, all right, well,
you know a couple of these routes, what do we
we got to work? Are you got to work the
patients at the top of the route on this route? Hey,
let's really work on this offseason. Get your foot, you know,
to the quarterback on those return routes that could really
be utilized as your route.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
You know that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
And then you go through you know, your mini camps
and your your OTAs, and afterwards you really get to
see if all that work that you've been talking about
and kind of putting in since March, if you're seeing
progression in it. So that's what you know, setting those
individual goals. Everything's pretty individual about individually. How do I

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get to be the best I can possibly be physically,
mentally operationally for when we put our pads on and
we have to go do it for real. So Crisp,
it's it's a successful camp if it was a Crisp camp,
if you saw progression in what those those off season

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goals you had were.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
You know, I remember.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Getting to the end line on an uh you know,
red area in cut was something I you know, instead
of getting to that end line, like positioning of those tops.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Of routes, I remember a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
I remember, you know, in my fourth fifth year, I
took a lot of time and on working that the
juke route, you know, really putting your foot in the
ground at the quarterback when you're coming out, like sitting
there a thousand times and doing that movement, you know,
and then seeing it happen in an OTA practice film

(30:55):
or in a mini camp practice film, that's when you
kind of know if it was a successful full camp.
But number one thing is staying healthy and just kind
of retaining and and and and mentally picking up the
new keys for the year, because there's always some kind
of new wrinkle. The OC brings in after they've been
studying for five weeks, six eight weeks away from you know,

(31:19):
the program or the building. Every coach has something they've
been working on and so really being able to digest that.
So I think health, what your goals were, and just
being clean, you know.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
So then when July comes, you're hitting the ground, running river.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
So when July comes, that's that's when the real competition starts.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
No, six weeks, baby, get that body right well.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
That whenever you hear about people like getting out of shape,
it's not right now, you should. These guys right now
are probably in some of the best shape because you know,
the beginning of the off season phase one, everyone comes
back and you condition together or you lift together. That's
like a three week period. Then it goes into like
you you add like a you get one period a

(32:07):
day doing an individual with the coach, so then you
go weightlifting, run, and then you have like one period
and then it rolls into your OTA, so like you've
been compounding weeks of running lifting, you know, and then
you know, by the time camps are done, you're in

(32:29):
pretty decent shape.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, where I wanted to be.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
But I was always in pretty real good shape right now,
you know, and then you have five weeks until training camp.
That's when guys get out of shape, yes exactly. You know,
you go from running every four days a week with
the team and you get you know, you you got
guys that go home and eat a lot and barbecue season.

(32:53):
It's bbqu season, chilling in the r chilling in the art.
And then they come back, you know, five seven pounds overweight.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Oh boy.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
You know, it's more of the younger guys that aren't
really accustom of the free time. And you know, usually
those guys are coming from college. They got this, they
got that. There's so many more things in college, you know,
becoming a professional athlete, a lot of it is how
you deal with your time, you know. And then the
guys that figure that out earlier, the guys that play longer.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Time management, compartmentalization, all that, babe, all about that, all
that all right, And we've been pretty Patriots heavy here,
a lot to talk about out of Foxborough. But we
had a lot of stuff going on around the league.
So you was ready for a little rapid fire rap here.
Let's go rapid fire here, Let's go rapid fire. We
got some hot topics from around the league. Just want
to get your gut reaction high level on them, one

(33:48):
or two sentences. See how you're feeling on this one.
First up, Miles Garrett straighted to the LA Rams. Will
Aaron Donald come out of retirement? What do you think
the whole situation scripted? And it was written. It was
written l A.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Going back the Super bowls in l A again, I know,
I know last.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Time it was in Super Bowl the Rams were there.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Ian ye script the awesome what's I follow on? Kim
Gold Medalist Olympian lives here? Oh he comes here? Aaron
Arnold's coming out this scripted? Bro, No, it's gonna be fun,
I think so. Just you know, God willing everyone stays

(34:32):
healthy and yeah, because you you always hear about these
super teams in the NFL. Is one of those things, right,
you know, I remember those back before I wasn't even
in the league. Remember those old Philadelphia teams and the
c O they never got over the hump, the O
seven Patriots team super like, didn't didn't get it done.
You know there's something about those super what super team

(34:55):
made it? NFL wise, I'm trying to think there's a couple.
I just don't know him off the top of my
head because I know all the ones that didn't make it.
But other league's NBA, some of those. It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Who's it?

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Uh, who's the DC So so for him, it's Niners.
It's Shula Shula, little Shoela Shula.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, in his third year. Do what he's got this year?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
I mean he's he's got the name. Hey, we got
our boy, we got our boy.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Joe Cordon in there too, So admiral and the Admiral
is leling it down speaking of super Team, Super Team.
All right, man, I can't wait to see what happens
there next up Duels. Fernando Mendoza reportedly will not take
any endorsement deals for the foreseeable future. He's focusing only
on football, not commercials, none of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Thoughts on that.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I mean, he probably already has ten million dollars in
his bank. Come from college in Bloomington, Bucks.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right, Like the.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
This is smart, I mean, this is something you expect of.
Fernando Mendoza says all the right things, says all the
right things, does all the right things. I want him
to be so good.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Me too.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
You root for him, You root for a guy that
does like he Literally, anytime I hear him speak, says man,
that's that's what you gotta say, hey man.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Although I did hear he's trying to trademark the nickname
the Nandalalorian weird.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
I don't know if I like that. I like to
Star Wars. It's him, that's him.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
He looks like a little dorky, and you need to
have thirty percent dork in your quarterback.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Right, blending of Star Wars into your nickname as a
slightly dorky grid if.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
If it's like him plays, I freaking love for Nando
Menos gonna be good.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I hope he's gonna be good. I hope so too.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Speaking of great quarterbacks, it gives it gives the template
for all like us parents. Yes, and and you know, hey,
act like him, do it the right way, go to
class guys like a triple major something coal In the
end all that, I think he actually got his walked.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
I think he no. I think he's got like masters
and stuff. I believe it. Dad's doctor, mom, Star.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
He's doing it right, guy, he's got this political refugee
out of Cuba. I mean, he's just this American dream. Hey,
I'm moving form out in the desert. See all right?
Speaking of great quarterbacks with a little bit of dorky
to him.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Patrick Mahomes signs a five hundred million dollar extension to
become the highest paid hugh be in the league, taking
over from Dak Prescott.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Resetting the market there.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
This was expected, expected and and taking a little page
from the old Patriots playbook, doing some gymnastics, the little
little salary cap gymnastics. Let's create a little extra room.
We know this guy's gonna be around a while. Each
we see each, I see of each. What's it called
three degrees? Veach listens, he does, he loves, he loves

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the shout out to each.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I like him.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
We like hey, we like those guys over there. Hey,
I love Andy Reid. I got to meet them at
the Souper b Red. Andy pulled me over and like
grab me, and I just wanted to hug him.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I love seeing them behind Patton like Hawaiian shirt, Like yeah,
just at the side. He seems like a fun, awesome coach.
He'll rip your ass, but you know, like you like that.
He's the last one and Pat deserves it. Oh yeah,
Pat's gonna come back. He'll be back every dollar, every dollar.
Speaking of legendary coaches, Sean Payton signs a five year
extension to stay in Denver.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
What do you think of this? I think it's well deserved.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Man. Look, Sean Payton was getting a lot of getting
a lot of He did a real ballsy move by
just the whole Russell Wilson situation. Ninety million in cap,
gave up seventy points his first year, crazy.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Down in Miami.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Down in Miami. Now they got like top to top
five defense. They go to the damn they're one game
away from the super Bowl. Last year with the rookie
quarterback or se you know, yeah Boses, he's found his
second year quarterback. So it's been real fun to watch
Sean Payton. You know, he he's really all in on

(39:02):
what he believes and it can rub people some sometimes
the wrong way. But look, the guy just went to
the AFC Championship last year.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Darn Wright thirty three and twenty one in three seasons
in Denver, one hundred and eighty four all time wins,
second most among an active codes. What he's doing right
behind Big Red with two seventy nine there, Yeah, shout
out Sean Payton, man, He's shout out.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Denver's going to be a force out there, man, and
he's probably loved out there. That's a that's a cool
football town. AFC West is getting crowded, man. Yeah, Denver
with Sean Payton like, that's a I bet you he
loves it there.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh yeah, they love they love their football. Hime, he
loved the football.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's a beautiful city, great food, cool culture.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Ish weed's legal.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
We leave, I think. I mean, we know Sean, we
know Sean likes to dabble. Ah, we've seen the pictures.
Shout out, shout out. Uh.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
We'll be right back after this quick break, all right.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Next up, Stefan Diggs remains a free agent. Thoughts on this, Yeah,
I mean to probably be expected with all the noise. Yeah,
but he'll someone will get hurt and he'll he'll find
himself in a good situation.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Thirty two years old coming off a thousand looks like shape.
I mean him working on Instagram, grinding baby grinding, Brindan.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Uh, you know you hear the Kansas City rumors here
the Rams rumors.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
I don't know. Either would be interesting. Both would be interesting.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
I mean, he's still got he's still got some some
tread on him, tires.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
The Homer and me wants him to come back to
the Patriots, but I think that ship has sailed. Unfortunately.
I don't know though, Yeah, I don't know. And then uh,
moving on over to Cleveland, we got a QB competition
going down between Shador Sanders and Deshaun Watson.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
This is fun.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
This is fun because Shador, I mean, you could say
what you want about shud Or Sanders. Guy makes plays
and yeah, and moves the ball.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I got it.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Keep on hearing a lot of the analysts and this
that I mean. And the offense looked different when he
was in. Did a little juice to it, a little
like little juice slider to it. And then you look
on the other side, Deshaun Watson, which what Watson were getting?
Are we getting? You know, Houston Watson? Are we gonna
get Watson of? You know the last few years. You know,

(41:23):
he maybe a little time off was good for his mind.
Hopefully get his body right, stay healthy. This is you know,
so he's played a lot of football. He knows the game.
It's in there. We've seen it in there, so this
is this is gonna be a fun one.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Todd Monkin had had support for both guys, said both
are capable of playing winning football. GM Andrew Berry said,
everything is on the table, and we got to deal
with the players. We have Everything's who knows. Nobody's gotten
the the starting label just yet we're in We're in junior.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Come on, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
In a competition, you can't compete yet in diapers, of course,
I mean right now. It's just about learning as much
as you can so when you can go compete, it
looks good.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
This comes a year almost to the day after owner
Jimmy Haslum said that Deshaun Watson trade was a big
swing and a miss.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Jimmy pay still time left, brother.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Sometimes you miss and you can go again and you
miss again, you know, like in the cartoons.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yes you got another a bat. We've got three strikes
in here. This is America.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
You never know, you never know, Amen, I mean shit,
Sam Donald just won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Facts, Baker Mayfield's about to get paid.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Say that three years ago, literally he was seeing ghost
now he's seeing rings.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Crazy.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
So, I mean that's literally that's the cool thing about
this league. Amen, and in fresh start and winning cures everything.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Big facts.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Last, but certainly not least, Caleb Williams is the Madden
Man this year with the jump man, the jump throw.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
The jump throw, that's like a logo literally is he
is he with Jordan would be? I don't think he is, though,
I don't know. I think he's Nike though, is he?
It's it looks like a Jordan throw, like logo literally
should be.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
They're like they're like almost like merging his one.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Yeah, he is Nike, but like the jump throw, the
jump man right there with they It's all great.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
It's a great Madden cover. It's insane.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
It's a great Madden cover. And it's it's deserved. I mean, dude,
Caleb's exciting and the kids love him. They love him.
The kids love him. I see, I'm here in l A.
I see his jersey at like schools him and he's
he's the new age quarterback and he's the first NIL quarterback.

(43:51):
Really if you think about it, so it's been. It's
it's fun. Let's see if he can he could back
it up again.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
It's your you know on you of the first and
then you bring in Joe Toney and look at you now,
Joe Toney all tuned off.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Now you're winning, Baby freakingny.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
How that works out? Who's our our coach? Ben?

Speaker 2 (44:12):
And Ben Johnson Johnson with his kid, Well, you know,
now we got expectations like that Triumvirate different though it's
different when you can't sneak up on folls.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
This is true.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Gotta embrace the bulls eye, Gotta embrace the They're gonna
be bulls eyed. They won it last year, I know.
And you still got a pissed off Dan Campbell and
Lions that Ben. Minnesota is going to be pretty good
with Kyler Millet, Kyler Murray I think. I mean Kyler
Murray is gonna have receivers he's never even seen. Yeah,
we're not. I mean he had Marvin Harris Andre for

(44:46):
a little while to Yeah, he had DeAndre for a
little while.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
He had Marvin Harrison.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
You have Justin Jefferson, didn't have JJ No j Jettis
or Addison Kinson.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
He's got some guys, man, so.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
They're gonna be good. He's got QB Whisper and coaching him.
Who he's got his QB whisper there O'Connell, O'Connell mold
his mine and then Green Bay. That's a tough division,
so tough. That's a tough division. God, I wish football
was here already. We're like eighty something days away.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
HE'SFC North, right, yep, NFC North who routed? I like that.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
There's they've been good for a couple of few years now.
They've been good since those Lions got good because the
Packers have always been pretty good.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
It's running that thing.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
And then now you got the Bears in there because
Minnesota was dipping in there. Like that's a That's a
tough division, really is. Everyone's got something and.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Everyone's kind of taking their little turn at the top
of the heap here and there in the last couple
of years.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
A lot of parody, I have to say that.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
And speaking of we've been talking a lot of football here,
but this is World Cup season.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
We got to talk a little. Oh my god, how
about it? Man?

Speaker 3 (45:51):
You've been loving this or what I have? Where I'm
getting into it? Man, I got a fever.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
I did it too, and it was honestly shout out
to the USA unreal what to start the USA for
one beat Paraguay got some of our results up here.
I know, I don't see I'm not I'm a casual. Yeah,
I'm a casual, but I'm in he grips with guys
that think they're like of freaking soccer, right. Some tacticians

(46:18):
are your tacticians. And I've never seen the United States
beat the shit out of someone like that, ever.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Beat down, start to finish.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
We've never seen the US go out and do what
they're supposed to do. I always remember, like, even when
they're better than teams, it's always kind of a struggle, right,
you know, I like number twenty twenties goal scorer policice
off like you're setting shit up. They just look good,
and then the other right wing guy is good. That
was I mean, it's been fun. And then you look

(46:51):
at all look at all the Middle East teams. They
all been surprising fools. Seriously, people have been like Egypt,
Egypt bro one, no Sola shout out guitar cutter, freaking Switzerland,
Moroccos in their Tayako.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
They wouldn't. They're really good. Great goalkeeping there.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I mean, it's been it's been fun to watch. There's
been some crazy Japan. How about shout out Japan.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
First half parking the bus, eleven men behind the ball,
This is going to be boring. Second half two to
two opens up, crazy scoring, awesome pace with against the Netherlands.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
That's been one of the best matches of the tournament
so far.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Yeah, and there was one of the Caribbean teams.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Oh, Cape Verde with Spain.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Kirasau got their first goal ever going up on Germany
seven to one, but you still got a goal in there.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
It was one oh for I think, yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Dude, like that tiny little nation up against the power
of Germany.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Unreal.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
The Germans slapped the Germans, they did slap them up.
The German's put up seven points.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
That's insane. Looks like a goddamn football score or baseball baseball.
Let's going with.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
A bad picture on the mount nothing nothing, no tying Spain.
Cape shout out shot is huge. Do you see the
goalie and Cape Verdi.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
There's a bunch of cape There's a big Cape Verdian
population in Boston.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Oh, like second biggest outside of Cape Verdio, is it?

Speaker 2 (48:14):
I think I just always remember seeing Cape Verdians and
so they got to be pumped out there. I'm kind
of going for Cape Verdia. Bro, they're goalie forty thousand
Instagram followers, two million. H No, it's up to five
five you tell me. Soccer in the World's game.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I mean it is hotly smokes Man of the match
and with those there's got to be some baddies in
the dms.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
There probably five. Just do the numbers. Just do the numbers.
Do the numbers. Shout out to him. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Tom was in New York at the game, rooting on
Brazil and I got Amar on the side. Rezillion kids
got to baby. He's an honorary Brazilian honorary. He's good
in the favelas bro Ye. I was at the HIT
the game last night in Iran, New Zealand, off probably
going off, Bro Junior. I was at the UH the
game last night Iran, New Zealand. I was over at

(49:01):
so Far Insane electric all time atmosphere protests outside a
little scary whether I was kind of like frozen from
I was like I thought I was in like that
that Curb episode where Larry's right.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Now as long as you're not wearing a Spurs jersey
or no no.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I was gonna, yeah, I haven't seen his spurs the
week that worst fans getting beat up except that one dude,
like one knocking fools out right.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Look like a damn Jason Statham.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Man.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
What's up with the Nick fans? Larre insane? They're the
worst besides see them and the Rizzler. I hate them.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
It's crazy because it's such a likable team.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
And then you see that ship. You're like, get these
guys out of here. You don't know how to what
do we doing? Yet have won fifty three years? I
was gonna say, these nuts. God, oh everywhere the Nick
Banney has been nuts.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
It really has been, man, and we're not even a
parade day. I mean, well, by the time this comes out,
there will be. But like, yeah, that parade might burn
the city of the ground. Take your tape, baby, how
many people are gonna have? You think down the valley
of whatever they call it there, they probably have a
couple hundred thousand out.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
There at least, right, I mean, I think we had
a mill. They might have then they might be in
the mills. They gotta be, they gotta be.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
I mean people even even afterwards, just outside that night,
throwing nuts and then you went it in New York.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
That's gonna be crazy. I'm like actually kind of excited
to see what it looks like. You don't hate the Knicks,
I just don't. I don't understand like beating up school.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
I don't like this stuff.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
No, it's lame, bro, and they were kind of meant
that they were really bad to blamb Bee. Oh terrible
throwing the eggs, Like that's so weak?

Speaker 1 (50:39):
What is that? What is that?

Speaker 2 (50:41):
What You're walking back after a loss, going into a
beautiful hotel in New York? You feel energy? Yeah, and
you just get hit in the back of ahead with
the eggs, just trying to go lay down in your
four seasons bed and he can't hide. He's like five
feet taller than everyone. Throw, Like, what is the bro?
Saw that guy throw the banana? You see the guy
throw the band came back? I didn't see the band.
I only saw the eggs.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
You saw that the banana came back?

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Someone throw I've seen some just it's just been an
absolute shit show and it seems so fun. I'm just
a little sad that you can't wear spurs.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Trying to do the guy wearing a David Robinson Jersey,
Like they're literally just like if there was like a
group of fifteen people.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
I think I'm just taking it off. It's same. I'm
not trying to go a fifteen trying to get fifteen v.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
One.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
I'm three freaking goose eggs on my head. No I'm not.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Keanu Reeves over here and damn John Wick like, no,
we're not. No one's coming out on the right side
of fifteen v one. You're done, gett in your Yeah, no,
no chance. Really really really weak stuff out of New
York fans. Somehow, I expect a little bit better.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
You can't put that on all the New York fans. Yeah,
they're not all It's like it's like the whole city
has turned into one of those sidewalk talks.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
I've had conversations with a bunch of the old New
York Knick fans.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, they're all like pretty cool about it.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Yeah, Like Sam's over here just cracking up on a
bottle of Pappy van Winkle celebrating it is out.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Sam.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
He's like a real fan ham Ham the group.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
It's been really cool because I remember when they got
Brunson Is when we started this podcast, and we're like yeah,
shut up se Yeah, and he was all about it,
and you know he was really all about og love
the dude before this year, Sam has been He's called
it at every step man. I think I think the
I think Dolan needs to call Morrel for some supper
division ship.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
He must ship, Bro, he must and is Dolan looking
right now? Oh god, the fear is killing it.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Just want to chance, I thought after firing Thibodeaux last year.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Yeah, egg on his face. I thought it wouldn't be
wimmy with the egg him. Dolan said, knock everyone, I'm
doing him.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Mike Brown on him. He just got unreal.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Then when they won the N season tournament, he's like, yeah,
we don't hang banners for ND season tournaments. We hanging
for real, real, real championships. And then he goes just
like geez, Luise Dolan up.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Dolan is up.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
After after many years of taking out lots of l
lots of l's, Bro gave us an l just him
in his corner and court.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Side against the Celtics. God, you think that band's been
lifted or now?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
I don't know, but I heard McAfee talking that they
wouldn't let him either, So I think that's his thing.
Doesn't let like opposing people come sit up on the
garden floor.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
We're neutral, We're Switzerland here. No, not against that.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
I'm just saying that's what we can maybe get on
courtside and then take our shirts, take our sweatshirts off.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Then we got our Celtics churches on. I'm out there
looking like Marky mark jersey shirt under it. We're just
doing thea Piers walking. Yeah, well out here, good vibration,
feel it, feel it.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
That's right in your face doing man. Damn. It's a
great summer of sports right now.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Right Hey, that was a pretty crazy weekend of sports.
You got real Cup openings, you got Nick's winning it,
you got Carolina winning it.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Crazy.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Yeah, we didn't even talk hockey. We're pop, I mean,
oh smokes, dominant. Everyone was picking it was going to
Game seven, Carolina said.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
No, I had a feeling. I thought in Vegas, they're
gonna push it talking about it. Let's go in p K.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
And then I saw Avery making fun of p k's outfit.
Talking about a fence has been wild, dude. It's given
Sean Avery some great content though.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Sean Avery.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
I literally just watched Sean Avery to see what he does,
talk about p k's outfits. He'll give him, he'll give
him kudos. Sometimes sometimes he'll he'll throw him under. He's
a he's ahead, Sean, He's gonna be ay, shout out.
Sean Avery's gonna be in the Odyssey opening soon.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Is he really another one? God? They have a line.
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Back to back Nolan bangers for Sean Avery. I think
he's got three holy smokes.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
I don't know. Wow. And he's back in Neighborhood Watch.
Adn't he?

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Oh, full Neighborhood Watch, Full Neighborhood Watch.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
We can sleep at night, We can sleep at night.
That's amazing. We got to get him back on the show.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
We got it. Oh, I would love that. He's the best. Yeah, well, Sean, and.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
We'll have to have him bring his pointer. This guy's
been talking about the pointer for he invented. I saw
that pointer on ESPN. I saw people using an actual
pointer on ESPN. They bit Avery. They're biting our Avery.
Get them trademark that shit. No, that was awesome. Man.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Football season is right around the corner, right around We
got a big summer episodes coming up.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Its given me fire. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Hey, everyone go go to the ballpark. Get at the ballpark,
get a Frank the hot dog, hot dog stretch.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
They kind of got Dodger dog ish ones at so
far nice and thin and long pause.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah, I haven't. I haven't been to a baseball game
this year yet. We gotta get out there, out there.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Last year, last one I went to was probably either
a Fenway or me and Lily on Father's Day went
to the Dodgers versus Giants.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
I was there.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Yeah, you were there. Yeah, it was insane, same TV
maxing out there. The UV was like like eleven. We
had great seeds, great seats, was awesome. Did he didn't
hit one?

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Did he?

Speaker 2 (56:23):
I don't think he did. He got up to bed
a couple of times though. They had a DJ out there.
LA is different. Yeah, it's different than when you go
to the Fenway. Get you a Fenway, Frank, sit up
on that monster.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Lily was in there, full behind enemy lines. Giants out. Yeah,
I don't give a crap. Giants fan baby for the Bay.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Yeah I went.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
I think I went to a Dodgers game when they
played the the Socks too.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Oh yeah, that does. Look we're good neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Two hats that I love that I've never worn Dodgers,
Dogs and Yankees, never will, never will. They are great hats,
so they aesthetically are beautiful hats.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Yes, last for a reason.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
They're they're fucking cool looking. I have not once into it,
not once one one he neither.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Never will, glad to say.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I can't do it, and it sucks because like the Knicks,
the Dodgers are a likable team.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, they spend money on them. They got stars,
guys you can pick out of a crowd. Not putting
any shade anybody here, just saying it's nice to have
some some stars.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
How the sock's doing right now? Terrible dog, absolute dog, dude.
People are mad at the Henry's Yeah, they're mad at him.
There's been any bread firing corn. The managers they got
think did our boy tech dirty? I can't, I'm not.
I'm not pleased with them. I did the cap dirty, Yeah,
bro got him out of there. They got like a
minor league coaching staff. I don't love it, man, See

(57:56):
I don't. I don't know baseball.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
I don't love it.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
I mean, I'm not super super plugged in these days.
Just because I'm so bummed as a socksman. But we
gotta do something.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Man, we got little anthony, though we had a little anthony,
but still anthony.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
Like give me, give me a many, give me a
no time, give me like a guy I can root.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Got one right now in the farms.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
I hope.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
I'm hoping. Bro, God, we need some some guys. You
want to go to the ballpark and root for baby. Yeah,
not like some some four A kind of players, journeyman
guy lined uh, all these weird analytics. I just I'm
like the old guys in moneyball, those old guys like
he's got an ugly girlfriend, he's got no confidence. Like
that's my kind of scouting. Yeah, not this line base

(58:41):
get out of here, drive line. Just hit dingers, get
on base, play some small ball.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Ain't a small ball, no more.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Launch angle like we use Jesus. Once we get overly analyticalized,
you're not you know, we can't. We don't have to
be Billy bean out here. Play some ball, baby. I
mean I feel like that's every sport now. It's absurd,
isn't it kind of absurd? Super analytical taking the fun
out of stuff? Yeah, players win games, but the Jimmy's

(59:12):
and Joe's not the exoses a little bit both, and
the coaches will lose them yep. Facts and the owners
they don't spend money. All those guys two players, they
get it done. Hell of a time of the year
it is. Get out to the ballpark, folks, get out
to the ballpark.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
And just to quick heads up, everyone, we're gonna take
a two week break over Fourth of July, the best holiday,
best in the world, the best. Only reason is because
as a football player, it's the only holiday we got
to celebrate. Like, actually, yeah, we didn't get Christmas or
holiday season Hanukkah. You really don't get Thanksgiving could be

(59:49):
chopped up because of where your game is.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Valentine's the super Valentine's Days soupy.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
But you know, Fourth of July was like always the
last hour roh before you had to get back to
training camp.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
What was your best one? Real quick?

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Here? Just a lake guy, nice, just a lake guy.
Go to the family, Go to the family lake.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
You're laking it this year? Aren't you laking it this year?

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Shout out, shout out, not a bad spot to be
for the fourth shout out on the grid two.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Hundred and fiftieth year of the United States. Shout out
to the US of a coming up. It's fourth of
July and everyone hot dogs, burgers, American flags, fireworks, boats,
water beers, all the best, all the best, shorts, flip flops,
and what's back. We're gonna be back July fourteenth with

(01:00:36):
brand new episodes.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
And we got some good episodes coming up. Let's let's
go football seasons around the corner, Baseball season, World Cup.
Got a lot to be thankful for the summer in
baseball and baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
We'll be right back after this quick break. Let's shout
out to the Carolina What are they? The Hurricanes and
the stall Boro man dared stall whatever, which are crazy?
These hockey teams are all from the South. Now doesn't
really feel Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Has been like owning it? Then Vegas?

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Can we give the Canadians a win? We gotta get
man Mayle lieve somebody ms me and the Bruins. How
about just the Bruins. Come on, it's a Northern.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Team, Canadian team, the Yankee team above Macy Dixon line.
Anything above the Macy Dixon line. They actually play hockey
and and to the right of the Mississippi.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
What's all asking for nothing? Crazy?

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Never mine as puckheads us our one request. Yeah, oh man,
that was awesome. Well that was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Always fun talking ot as in Mini Camp, the World Cup,
everything that is baseball hockey. I mean literally we talked
about them all he did here for the cycle. I
think we need field hockey. Well that's been another episode
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