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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's bring in Now I'm trying to be friendly with Nick.
Let's bring in Nick Stevens we E I and the
Six Rings Podcast talk some Patriots?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Nick, what's happening? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Boys, First of all, you know, it's not my fault
that the name of your podcast should have been keep
It in Bounds? Casey okay, although although I promise you
he is a regional hero and will never buy a
sandwich or studs on anyone else's but my dime if
I ever see him, and take take okay, and take
comfort and sleep easily at night knowing we will not
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be changing the title of Six Rings and Football Things anytime.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That is fair. That is fair.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh man, hey, we you know you should give the
panther's credit. We kind of early on may have made
Tom Brady who he is, although he already had a robbue.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
But yeah, you guys, you absolutely were. That was sneakily
one of the great you know, like, oh, guys, I
know so many Super Bowls, so many parades, so many banners.
It's hard to pick your favorite. But I got to say,
super Bowl thirty eight, what a matchups like? I don't
want to live in I don't want to live in
the past. Even that's what we're really good at doing
in New English like man that well that blame that
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and blaming our problems on other people, mostly our parents and.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Lost the rolls, lost roles. That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That Yeah, yeah, well you can. You can get him
called with Mayo. You can get him hot and butted. Uh,
there's a million different ways, but we can all agree
the only kind of chatter is the one that is thick,
premium rich. Kick that Manhattan red stuff to the curve.
I would tell it to as you got, tell it
to you as you guys like to say, keep pounding
because that stuff sucks.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right? All right?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh uh, let's uh, let's talk about Drake May. He's
a Charlotte native. We got a soft spot for Drake May.
He talked this week about growing up as a Panther fan.
What do you think of Drake May's start and what's
the vibe in Boston about Drake May?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Uh? You know, Drake May is a he's a real
sweet guy. I think everyone around here, you know, was
sold on the idea that with the right uh, the
right program, enough time in coaching, and now he's working
with Brady's old OC Josh McDaniels, that he might be
able to, you know, if not become a top five quarterback,
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at least become like, you know, the dollar store version
of Josh Allen, somebody who's got a big arm, someone
who can create plays with his feet and display his
hyper athleticism. I think one of the only issues people
had with him is that he just doesn't seem to
have like he is so nice. We interview him every
Monday on Wei and every question he answers with like yeah,
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golleg gee, oh oh yeah, and we're just like, I
get to the freaking point. Come on, aren't you mad
about something? Didn't somebody screw up your dunk in order today?
Weren't you caught in traffic? Come on, be angry like
the rest of us. But he's just so polite and deferential.
People wonder if he has the killer instinct. He's got
the tools, does he have the killer instinct to get
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it done on the field?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Nick, what's been the reaction to Rabel's coaching so far?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Man? People love Mike Rabel so much because one obviously,
back in January twenty twenty, Mike Rabel was the one
who kind of you know, adopted the dark sorcery of
Belichick to beat him in the playoffs, and then Tom
Brady out of a Patriots uniform permanently, excuse me, until
he came back and famously wore his daughter's jersey at
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his own retirement night for four years later. But Brabel
is he's smart, He's not girod Mayo. That was another
thing people were excited about. But I gotta say people
are disappointed thus far in the Mike Rabel era because
the Patriots, I mean, we lead the lead twenty seven
penalties in the first three weeks. Last week, you know,
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the above the fold on the newspaper should have read
like New England Patriots beet record, lose to Dealers and
beat themselves in the same game, like it was just
such a brutal, brutal affair. So I think people are
surprised that Brabel, who is so polished, who's so mart
who's so tough, who promised to eliminate entitlements and take
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advantage of bad football. I think people are surprised at
how much bad football the Patriots have played. That said,
it is over a fifty percent new roster at this point,
so people are a little disappointed, but there could be
a get right game on the horizon this Sunday.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Boys, Oh, how dare you have? No sir?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on, let's let's look
at this. I mean, you want to talk about getting
your money's worth more bang for the buck this Sunday.
But Carolina Panthers two and seventeen and they're last nineteen
on the road to travel to Chattertown to take on
the Patriots three and sixteen and their last nineteen at home.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Someone's gotta win, some's gotta give or do we tie?
Or does this end up being such a halftime they enjoy?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Seriously, if this game like this, like if a tree
falls in the forest, is anyone here, like if somebody
wins this game, can anyone prove it? I mean, my god,
who absolute? What a what a mess? Nobody else? No
one ever thought it would have twenty years after one
of the greatest Super Bowls, we would get down to
a game like this. And you know, Robert Kraft made
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headlines this week when he put eight percent of the
team up for sale and sold five percent and then
three percent, respectably, to two private equity firms and people
called into the radio station and they were like, yeah,
can you sell the eight percent of the team that
keeps fumbling and ruining my frigging sun Dawn.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's a good line. That is a good line.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh man, We're talking to Nick Stevens from a WI
in Boston sixty.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
People love his negativity. They say it sounds like us.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, I do feel like, well, one guy's mad because
he took a shot at us, And I'm like, but
did you catch the seven shots on his own damn
team that preceded that. Nick, you talked about, We talked
about Drake May. What about the defensive side of the ball.
Seems like the run defense has been tremendous, but my lord,
teams have been passing all over you. But it does
sound like Gonzales is coming back. Like what do you
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expect from the defense?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I expect the defense someday to stand like stand the
Panthers up to a point where and you know, like
your offense is a little bit challenged as well. And
that's me putting it kindly Carolina style. I mean Pet McMillan,
who looks like he could be you know, Southern fried.
Megatron is a little bit banged up. You've got Xavier Lagett,
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who's the five below version of Deebo Samuel. He's a
little banged up. You trade away Adam Thiel and Cocher
still on IR it's Cuba Bryce and pray for rain. Right,
So you guys might be one dimensional enough, or so
it feels that maybe guys like Milton Williams, who's been
worth every buck, Robert Splane, Christian Barmore can get the
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job done. So that Christian Gonzalez, who's finally coming back,
and there's been a whole row over how long it
took him to come back from a tweet hamstring. But
you know, cornerbacks like wide receivers, they're divas. They have
to have only brown m and m's in the dressing room,
pink toilet paper in the special bathroom. The Mariah Carey
rules apply. But all things being equal, like when he
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gets back out there, they are such a better defense
because that kid, you know, he's part of the uh
the Patricks detaining the second J. C. Horn, Christian Gonzalez,
like the new wave of shut uh in, the guy
up in New York as well, Sauce Gardner, Like that's
the new wave of shutdown.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
He's tremendous, yea.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And if he can slow TAMAC down to your point,
m V Corps, you know who's going to step up
that is, although I will say those corners that have
been playing without him there, I mean, I'm thinking I
might be able to beat him on a go round.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Those other guys, oh you.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Know, Oh my god, they are they are just like
honestly they should be. Those guys are all like clowns
outside the window. They should be working at a halloween shop.
Because it's terrifying for Patriots and whatever. They're in one
on one coverage. It's bat alex, I mean, because they're
all they're all glorified flots that are playing on the
outside and they're pressing in. Carlton Davis is fine, but
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he's a great number two. But as we all know,
when a number two gets pressed into number one coverage,
especially against some of the bigger, more elite wide receivers
of the modern NFL, you know, that's when trouble bruis.
And if you guys, if you can't get home with
the pass rush, give your quarterback three one thousand and four,
one thousand, five, one thousand, maybe even Bryce finds someone
open and uh, you know, a game we thought could
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be a comfortable double digit wins can go four quarters.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Hey, Nick, we have tar heel fans texting in. They
want they want to know if you'll take Belichick back now,
like the lost Grandfather?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Can he come home?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh my gosh, seriously, seriously, Like every each and every week,
I feel like me and all my fellow Pats fans
get together and have that like what are we going
to do about Grandpa conversation? It is he is out
there wild and right now. I mean the fact that
he the fact that he's dating a girl that every
time she goes to use his apple tay at the
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store to buy like a bag of nerd rope, they
say like, uh, darling, does your father know you're out
here making purchases on your own? Are you lost? Sweetheart?
Are you lost? Sweetheart? Like what a man? I apologize
on behalf of all Patriots fans that saw Bill Belichick
and his glory, and now we have sent you the
Michael Jordan on the Wizard's version of Belichick my apology.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh my god, it is y'all have to be freaked
out by it, though, Like the like the guy that
no nonsense, no distractions, do your job. And it seems
like this woman just kes has some like you know,
hex over him control. Like have y'all been y'all have
to have been freaked out by this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh she's oh no, legitimately, like it's Halloween, we're about
to start watching movies about you know, like Killer Robots,
Demons from Beyond. Jordan Hudson scares me way more than
any other movie. I'll be streaming at midnight with popcorn and.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Beer and hand on. That's what she is.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Oh she is, like she's like hereditary the girlfriend mans
I don't get I don't get it. Like she just
magically appears in his life. She was dating some sixty
five year old financier when she was nineteen. That's not creepy, lolita.
And then when she breaks up with that guy because
she meets Belichick on a plane, she takes over his life.
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Now she's got a real estate empire and she controls everything.
Like you tell me the Bill Belichick that was out
there with some of these masterful game plans, shutting down
Thurman Thomas in the Super Bowl, figuring out a way
to simy McVeigh in, the tenth highest scoring offense in
Super Bowl fifty three. Now he's got Princess Sparkle Pants
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coming out there on the sidelines of UNC giving him
Kisson telling him how to play defense against rich against Richmond.
Like I know, Season five of Stranger Things isn't coming
out for a few more weeks, but the previews it
looks absolutely terrified. My god, we literally now live we
as Patriots fans now live boys in the upside down,
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and it just make any sense. But I guess that's
the price to pay for two decades of excellence.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
She's known there was trouble on the horizon. When he
was dressed as a fisherman and she was a mermaid.
That was a warning sign. That was definitely a warning sign.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh oh, you mean when Belichick was dressed as a
Gordon's fisherman and she was Ariel and they just happened
to be an Instagram photo group.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I also call you back there. Yes, I said the
same thing. There you go. Oh man, Nick, You're right, man.
We had a blast talking to you.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And I will tell the listeners, man, if you guys,
and I would say about eighty percent of the Nick
reviews are favorable.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
There are some.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Elvis did call him pampas Yankee, so you did get
some of that in there. But I have the pleasure
of talking to Nick after the show for his six
Rings podcast as well, so I look forward to that. Man,
you cracked us up. We appreciate it, and I'll talk
to you later. We'll all watch, we'll all watch this
beautiful game on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Listen. It's going to be an excellent home and away
with the radio and the pod boys have a great weekend.
Someone definitely has to win in the end. At least
there's as they always say, there'll be sandwich served for
launch and there's beer in the fridge shop.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Lot would be good, brother, man, that guy's good.