July 22, 2025 • 51 mins
Only on 97.9 Unity Radio, we bring you Moneyline, back with an all-new episode. We have senior producer Anthony joining us from the Felger & Mazz show, Catching up on all the top Sports news stories of the week. Anthony will give us his expert insight and analysis on several hot issues from last week.
We talk about Anthony's leadership being a Quarterback and how it has grown tremendously over the last few years. Football starts for his team and Anthony is excited for the season. Also, learning the offense diligently, as football has grown into his favorite sport, despite being an extremely talented at several. What an amazing feat because it takes a tremendous amount of work to be a special athlete.
During games, Anthony is calm, cool, collected and earned respect from his teammates. He always stays positive, encouraging kids the next play is right around the corner. Anthony also will lead by example, rising to the occasion in big moments.
Anthony is a huge Boston Celtics fan and injuries during the playoffs derailed their chance at repeating as NBA Champions. However, he does believe they will be a formidable opponent in the Eastern conference and selected them as one of the top 3 teams from the East.
Still a big Patriots supporter, with the NFL training camps beginning, Anthony has grown more of a fan for the Philadelphia Eagles. Anthony likes what he sees from Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, along with a strong variety of weapons, he has high hopes for the defending Superbowl Champions.
Moving to Baseball, Anthony is an outstanding infielder, playing shortstop and second base, while being able to hit the ball exceptionally well. What I am most impressed with is Anthony is not a whiner, complainer, or a gloater, regardless of the sport he is playing at the moment. Quiet, focused, and most importantly respectful, he understands improvements do not happen overnight. Putting in work to become better each day, he has a natural desire to reach his potential
Anthony has interest in becoming a sports broadcaster, yes, I know, so do a million other kids. We are not going to reveal his age, and I promise if we did, our listeners would be shocked. For his first radio/podcast Co-Hosting appearance, this young man performed admirably. He can host better than I can, I would have no problem letting Anthony take the reins for our shows. The only problem, I would Wally Pipp myself out of a job! Well, I hear Starbucks is hiring! Anthony threw a TD pass, nailed a clutch 3 pointer, and hit a Grand slam homerun! Phenomenal episode with a kid who handled himself like a pro.... much more than I did!!!
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Hello and welcome to 97.9 Unity Radio, the best sports talk show
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special guest all the way from Boston from the Felger and Mash
show, special correspondent and producer.
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Anthony has come to us because we provide you the best on Money
Line on 97.9 Unity Radio and he is going to OfferUp his
expertise and insight is the football season approaches.
Anthony, welcome. Thank you, Steven.
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Yes, yes, we're thrilled to haveyou.
We're thrilled to have you. I know you got a lot going on.
It's a very busy day I'm sure atthe offices and we appreciate
you making time for us. Yeah.
So, you know, I, I was talking with you and I got to learn that
football was, was one of one of your top sports.
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So I think like football is justa great sport to play and
playing football just makes you feel happy and calm and I can
just let out all of my energy just playing football and I
think football just honestly a great sport to play.
Well, you mentioned being calm and especially since you're the
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quarterback, you're the leader out there.
Everyone's looking to you. So if they see you get nervous,
then they're going to get nervous.
Yep, that is correct. So it's important to stay calm
in the face of the storm so yourteammates don't overreact.
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Have you had any moments when you've been in the huddle and
you may have said, you know, we're in a tight situation right
here, but don't worry, I got this.
I'm going to get you out of it. Yeah, there have been some
moments like end of game, like stuff at the goal line and
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you're trying to get the game ending touchdown or the final
play of the game or like the playoffs, stuff like that.
But I just really say try your best.
If you lose, you lose always next season.
That's just playoff laws. But the regular season doesn't
really worry as much. Right.
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Still like just try your best, do whatever, just run the play
right, Just try to win the game and follow the plays.
Now I, I, I coached at the college level for several years
and I struggled immensely to coach probably 9 through 12 year
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olds. They wanted, they made me want
to pull my hair out. And as you see, most of it is
gone. What has been your strategy to
keeping yourself so composed andreserved and calm?
And then I think that resonates with having that calming effect
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over your team mates because they see you, you're the
quarterback, you're the main leader out there and you're not
nervous, so they're not going tobe nervous as a result.
When do you think that started to develop with you kind of
having those leadership skills? So first year probably tackled,
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that's when it really started. When you're like in flag, you're
still kind of young, but when it's tackled, that's when it
starts to get like bigger. So when I had to develop, I just
had to start developing confidence in myself and
learning how to like morally, like play betterly.
And if I just had to like learn.Do you?
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Feel you know the offense prettywell.
Yeah, I think, I think I know the plays, like every season
there's some new plays I still kind of have to learn, but
there's some new plays and I tryto and I try to learn those
quickly. But yeah, I think I developed
the offense pretty good. Do you not to put you on the
spot, This is a random Anthony. Do you, do you feel you have a
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good rapport with the head coachto where like if you don't want
to run something or if you don'tthink you know this may not be
the best play in this situation,do you feel that you have input
that you can speak up and say maybe we should go with this
instead of that? Yeah.
But since we have like more of alike a offensive coordinator
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kind. Of you do, you do have so.
He'll so if I want to change theplay, I'll let him know and
he'll probably tell him, say if it's OK or not.
Right, but you have no problem going to him.
No, I really don't. But I think, yeah, I could let
him know if I really wanted to, but sometimes I won't just do it
just like because I'm not an expert at like play making.
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Very smart. So I so I just most of the time
I will just let him like let it go.
But if I if I know that he will like I can change the play, then
I know what to do. Yeah, yeah.
And you're right. It's very good that you have
that mindset that you don't knowwhat you don't know.
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And they're the experts and you're listening to the experts.
And if they give you a play, they're giving you a play for a
reason. And it's your job to go out and
and execute it. That is correct.
What I've noticed is you, you really have leadership skills
that are above your age group and that especially, no offense,
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your generation. It's difficult to develop
leadership. Most kids will complain.
Most kids are more entitled. Most kids don't want to put the
work in. What do you think has made the
difference for you to develop those important leadership
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skills that everyone looks for? Well, it's kind of hard, like as
you said, this generation like they sometimes don't want to do
it or stuff like that. But when you when you're a
quarterback and you know that you have to develop a leadership
skill, it's kind of like saying that you have to carry on with
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it for as long as you play football.
So I'm, so my advice is just keep on trying to develop it
every year, offseason, in season, whatever, but keep on
developing it. Would you say you're more of a
lead by example guy as opposed to a rah rah guy?
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Or do you try to combine both? Like if someone needs a pat on
the back and hey, we'll get themnext play, you'll do that.
Or do you lead more with your play?
Like, you know, if there's a badplay, you'll go out and you'll
make a great play the next time around and that'll rally the
guys, rally the troops. So I try to think of both.
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Like sometimes they'll get upsetabout a play that they didn't
make or they didn't run it right.
So I'm like, hey, just move on to the next play.
Maybe you'll make a play next play, you know?
So you're very supportive to everyone.
Now I know you are the quarterback.
You have good size for a quarterback.
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Have you had experience playing defense?
I have. My first year I was not the
starting quarterback. You were not a tackle.
Yeah, I end up playing defensiveend.
Defensive. End Yeah, I was that was pretty
fun. I I really did like it.
That's quite the transition. Yeah, it was.
It was actually really fun playing.
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I got a lot of. I got to know a lot on defense.
I could. It's fun.
Defensive end, Yeah. And you know, they always say
this, what makes you a better offensive player is playing
defense. Yeah, that it, yeah, it's a big
clue in football, yes. And I would say that for every
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other sport too, like baseball. If you if you could play
baseball, you can hit. I mean, if you could play
defense, you can hit basketball,play D, steal the ball, get a
layup. And so yeah, defense.
And you know the famous quote, Offense wins games, defense wins
championships. And that's no more true than the
past couple years. You know, the the Eagles have
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had a good defense, and they wrote that all the way.
Kansas City was suspect the yearbefore, but they turned it on
there in the playoffs. But I also know you had
mentioned you're a massive Boston Celtics fan.
I am. I love New England sports.
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Yes, yes. How long have you been a Celtics
fan for? Probably since I've been
watching basketball, yeah. Yeah, you just fell in love with
them. I did.
Now the cliche is going to be did you fall in love with them
just because they happen to be the hometown team, or did you
fall in them in love with them because their historic legendary
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organization that wins championships, that does things
the right way? Yeah, that, yeah, that's
probably why I like a full Time Team is kind of like mid.
But yeah, I like their organization.
They've always had a great, great, great organization.
Don't forget you have all time greats like Larry Bird, Bill
Russell, Bob Cousy, stuff like that.
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But yeah, I like it because they're historic hometown team.
They they've had like a lot of championships, most
championships. But yeah, I think it's a great
team. Impressive.
You know. You know those names, you know
your history. You haven't forgotten the
legends of the past. Yep, I have not.
So I coached the Holy Cross and Bob Cousy went to Holy Cross and
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every day when we would be in the gym working out, I would see
Bob Cousy. That's awesome.
Shooting his free throws in the gym.
That is great. Every day, 80 something years
old. That would be awesome.
And he and he wasn't missing anything.
Whoa, 80 years? Old shooting not.
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Missing is insane. And I think he shot him with one
arm if I can't remember. If I remember correctly, he
wasn't missing anything. Actually, I think he used to do
that in the NBA too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I walked in and I saw Bob Cousy and I immediately tried to
walk out. And then he saw me and he had a
conversation with me. And I, I I very rarely get
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starstruck. I was starstruck.
I was starstruck. See Bob Cousy.
Yeah, that's that would be me. If I'm like an NBA player like
that, that'd be really cool. So you you have like the Celtics
this season was was a little rough because they got down to
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them and New York and everyone was surprised by New York's
performance. So I'm going to ask you a couple
questions here. Were you surprised that New York
was able to go as far as they were at the time?
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Very, very surprised. As a Celtics fan.
It was like, there's like a hugerivalry between the Knicks and
the Celtics. So obviously I was named for the
Celtics. But yeah, it was really
surprising. But as a team that they were
this year, they didn't have likethe worst players, but they were
like mid, like they weren't the worst.
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So I think that they were, it was really surprising as a as a,
as a champion before that, the same year or the year before
they yeah, it was really surprising in the playoffs.
Yeah, because I I had not known this.
They won three straight playoff series in the last three years
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for the first time in decades. So that was huge.
And I am not an NBA fan. I haven't watched the NBA in a
while and I even watched the Knicks, Pacers rivalry, so to
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speak, because back when I was watching it was Reggie Miller,
it was Spike Lee, John and each other.
They were wars. Yeah.
Charles Oakley out there and they were so entertaining to
watch and the Pacers got close so many times.
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Yeah, back in like the 90s, Yeah, Reggie Miller was just
frying the whole league. Yes, exactly.
I was actually kind of happy forthe Pacers.
They made it to the series. I want an OKC to win that.
But I was pretty, I felt pretty good for the Pacers making it
into the Finals in like I would,I want to say a good 30 years.
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They they shocked, they shocked a lot of people.
But as we spoke about on the carride over and we spoke about
yesterday. So I'm I'm going to give you a
hypothetical and it's only because you brought it up.
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Jason Tatum doesn't get injured.What do you think happens?
I say that, yeah, I was really mad.
I was like, I mean, being him being out for the year, him
being out for the year was just,I don't know, as like a Jason
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Tatum fan. I don't, I don't know, like he
doesn't get injured as much, buthe, I want to say that was
probably his first time getting injured, probably his NBA
career, yeah. And do you think that, do you
think that they clearly would have won the East?
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Yes, yes, I do. Yes, Yeah, I think they would.
Have and the other debate sparked?
One of the shows I do is with a UConn women's basketball legend.
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It's awesome. And she contends that this was
Oklahoma City's year. Nobody was going to beat them.
Do you think the Celtics with Tatum could have given Oklahoma
City a run? Yeah.
If they were, if they were end up being in the same position, I
mean division, they probably would have.
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That probably would have been a good playoff run.
Yeah. Definitely.
Yeah, and was it? Was it last year they played the
Nuggets? I think this year it was either
this year and last year. OK, OK, you're, you're right.
Technically you're right, you'reright, 'cause I know Denver had
made it. And Boston.
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Boston won last year the championship.
Right, they did, yeah. OK, so the other question is
with the Knicks, a lot of controversy.
Tom Thibodeau was fired after the season.
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He guides the Knicks again. Three straight playoff berths,
wins three straight series in the last three years, which
hasn't happened in decades. Gets them to the finals for the
first time this century, Gets a pink slip his next day, loses
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his job. Do you?
And first of all, I thought thatwas wrong.
Second of all, OK, you're going to fire Tom Thibodeau.
You bring in Mike Brown. Really.
I know. I honestly, I didn't even know
that they fired him, but yeah, yeah, when when he like now
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hearing that, I think that's messed up.
Well, he, he's a, he was a Boston assistant coach, right?
I think so, yeah. And the, the rap on him was he
wasn't necessarily a warm and fuzzy guy.
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He wasn't necessarily a player'scoach, as they say.
Do you think that definitely made a difference?
Because from the whole reason I,I kind of fallen off of the NBA
is the, the, the, the, the players seem to want to be
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coddled a little bit more. It's not his crazy as it used to
be. You know when when we were
growing up and we saw Jordan play and we saw Bird and Magic
and those guys and they wanted like.
They all won a championship. If you if you gave Michael
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Jordan an axe, he probably wouldhave murdered his opponents,
yeah. Probably right?
That that was that was the levelof competition, the level of
intensity that he had. Yeah.
LeBron James wanted to go out and make super teams with Dwyane
Wade and other other people. That's what he would do.
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And you know, the Lakers are in a situation now and that's why I
wanted to transition and ask you, what did you think about
the the Luca trade? Honestly, I, I knew the vows
would go down, but the Luca trade, I don't know.
I really don't. I don't think it was a good
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trade at all. And you didn't really get like
anything back. They said that and if you read
it online, it said that he was out of shape and he couldn't
play defense. That's what it had.
That's exactly what if. You want, if you want the player
for offense, that'd be like probably one of the best players
in the league right now for the offense.
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So if the Lakers accepted that, yeah, LeBron and Luca, it's not
a bad duo at all. No, no, it's not.
And I think they're going to do very well.
I thought like there was almost collusion.
I thought The Mavericks got fleeced.
They they they truly believe that the team of Kyrie with
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Anthony Davis was going to be good enough to.
Win them the West or have them go further in the West.
And again, I'm not a basketball guy.
From what I know, Anthony Davis has had injury struggles most of
his career. He hasn't been when he's played,
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he's been sensational. But he's missed so much time
with injury. And then they make that trade
and Kyrie goes down with the torn ACL and he's out.
He's going to miss significant time going into next year.
So I, I, I didn't understand it.I didn't understand it.
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And I know are you are are you aware of Mark Cuban, the owner
of The Mavericks? I'm not really aware of him.
Like I don't know much about theMavs, like managers hours.
But yeah, the guy who really traded Luca, I thought they, I
thought they should have really fired him.
Nico, Yeah, yeah, Nico Harrison was the GM.
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Yeah, I don't. I didn't think he was a good GM
either. I, I don't, I, I agree with you
there. So Mark Cuban bought The
Mavericks and he was one of the youngest owners.
His mantra was I'm going to transform this team.
I'm going to transform this organization.
I'm going to transform this city.
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And he came in and he really didthat.
You know, they, they won their first finals championship under
him. But what ended up happening is
what always happens with greed. Greed sometimes is good.
And he sold off a majority stakein the ownership group.
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So a lot of Mavericks fans were upset because they they often
say had Mark Cuban been, you know, the majority owner, he
never would have okayed that trade.
And they think that trade was going to set them back years.
So this brings my follow up question to you.
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The Mavericks had the lowest percentage chance to get the
number one pick in the NBA draft, and they got it.
Now the picks are done in secretnow, so nobody can see it, but
they got it. And that was all about the
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Cooper Flag sweepstakes. Are you familiar with Cooper
Flag at all from Duke? He was one of the best players
in the country. Yeah, I actually actually had
Duke going all the way in March Madness.
OK, so you. Know big Cooper flag fan.
I thought he was great in college, but I think maybe if he
stayed a couple of years, I don't know.
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I mean, I think it's good. I think he just said he stayed
in school for a little bit more.You know what?
That's a good mindset to have. You make sure you stay in
school. But yeah, Cooper flag.
So we we believe that there was some sort of collusion between
maybe NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and The Mavericks because
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they made this God awful trade and they traded Luca Don, the
best player, and they were rewarded with the number one
pick in the draft. They get Cooper flag and Cooper
flag is one of those generational players who can
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come in like Dirk Nowinski and and start for you for 20 plus
years. And do you believe in that at
all? I know it's probably a little
bit above your pay grade being aspecial correspondent for Felder
Mezz, but do you think that there could be some sort of
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collusion there with the commissioner saying, you know,
Dallas made a mistake, let's tryto right the wrong, We'll give
him a little nudge. We'll give him the number one
pick so he can get Cooper flag and be back on track.
I don't know. Personally, I think yeah, you
could be right, but I don't think that he would just give
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them the number one draft pick because the lottery it's like a
wheel basically it is and you put and it's like random.
Yep, so very true. That could have just been luck,
or they could have set it up butand.
It's happened before, it's happened before, true.
But that that's what bothered mea little bit by it because
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obviously Dallas made a stupid mistake in making that trade.
And I don't think stupidity should be rewarded.
I think one of the other teams should have gotten that pick.
So going into this coming year, this coming fall, who do you
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like? Let's start in the East.
Do you still like Boston? Do you still think New York has
a has a good chance? Do you like Indiana?
Who if you were to list a top five in the East, who do you
like? For the championship I would
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probably go either Indiana one. Wow.
New York 2. Boston 3.
God, I'm trying to think of Chicago.
Anyone there? I think no, I don't think
Chicago will be top five. I'll probably put a like top 10
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or top 11, but. Those would be your three main,
yeah. In the East, yeah.
And, and you're, you're, I, I love it because you're obviously
a big Celtics fan and you're notbeing biased, you're being
realistic. And you're picking them in the
top three. They're not one, they're three.
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I like that in the West. Who do you like in the West?
People have criticized Oklahoma City for not doing more.
You know, since free agency has started, people is all have also
said LeBron may end up traded, which I can't believe he just
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signed an extension. Who do you like in the West,
would you say right now, do you think, do you still think it's
Oklahoma City, maybe Denver? Do you think it's their
championship to lose? Do you, do you obviously think
the the West is obviously more talented than the East?
Yeah, I think over the past years, because don't forget,
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back in like before the 21st century, the East ruled the
East. Looked very good they did.
But now it's the West. You got Yokich Gilgeous, you
should have shit FDA you have, you have Jada, you have so many
people in the West. So I think that OKC, Denver,
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maybe the Mavs, I don't know, that trio could be good.
If the Mavs I think stay healthy, I, I, I think they
could definitely come around forsure. 100%.
So NFL camps are opening. Yep.
They're they're, they're starting soon.
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And you had mentioned being a Patriots fan.
Yep. And you have become more of an
Eagles fan. How many years would you say
have you been an Eagles fan for?Probably about a year and a half
maybe. 2 So you just became an Eagles fan?
Yeah. OK, so I'm going to ask you, do
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you think the Patriots made a mistake when they drafted the
quarterback from Alabama? His name was Matt Jones.
He started for them. He led them to the playoffs.
I believe he he made a Pro Bowl appearance and then he kind of
fell off a Cliff. Do you think that he was a
mistake or do you think he can turn it around?
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At the beginning I thought he was going to be great.
I thought he would lead the Patriots first year.
I thought next year we'll make the playoffs when they lost the
Bills, right? The year after.
He's he just like it looks like he just took like a downhill.
He did. So after, after the first year,
I was like, oh, he it was probably a mistake.
Yeah, but in college he was pretty good.
He. Did he won national
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championships? Absolutely.
Yeah, but um, yeah, I thought itwas like, it's going to be a
great first round pick, but after the first year I was like,
yeah, no, I don't think so. Let's just get it.
Let's just get rid of him. I argue with my Co host all the
time because I think quarterbacks are put on a much
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be because of the salary structure.
Now in the NFL, the contracts are a little bit shorter and
they can get rid of guys withoutthe financial ramifications of
before. So I I believe personally, I
think Matt Jones can play. I think that they gave up on him
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in New England. I think that he had different
offensive coordinators. I don't know if you remember the
coach by the name of Matt Patricia.
I think I've heard of that, yeah.
OK. So Matt Patricia was the
defensive coordinator when the Patriots won several of their
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Super Bowls. When there was the dynasty.
Very good. Yep.
So Matt went to Detroit and became a head coach.
And what's it's it's funny because what's kind of happened
with the Patriots, anyone who's coach for Belichick, who's gone
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off and has had an opportunity to be a head coach has kind of
failed. Yeah.
And failed an epic fashion and Matt Patricia was one of them.
So Matt Patricia gets fired by Detroit, New England brings them
back. And this is This is why I think
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Matt Jones kind of got a raw, raw deal.
Josh McDaniels was the offensivecoordinator.
He took the head job at Las Vegas.
Matt Patricia comes in. Matt Patricia is never called an
offensive play in his life. He was a defensive guy.
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They made Matt Patricia the offensive coordinator, and I
think Bill Belichick did that. Basically to say, I'm Bill
Belichick. I can make anyone a great coach
at anything I think he can make.He can make you a great coach of
bowling if you wanted to. Yeah, he had he had that mindset
where like if he just hired likeany coach, any type of kicking,
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defense, offense, certain position coach, he thinks that
he could just make him a great coach.
Absolutely. By winning.
Absolutely. But after the past like couple
of years as Bill was coaching, he he, I don't think he made
them great coaches. Yeah, I agree with you.
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I think. I think he kind of lost this
magic. I think he started to read into
his own headlines a little bit. You personally were you Were you
a fan of Belichick? Yeah, you were.
I was so you, you thought, you thought and I agree with you to
win the number of titles that hewon.
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I mean, he was obviously was a great coach.
Yeah, he but as someone I know said one time they he said that
Tom Brady made Bill Belichick just a great coach.
I didn't agree with it, but after Tom Brady left, I started
like, oh, maybe he was right. I, I agree with, I agree with
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you there, but I think they madea poor decision.
You lose Tom Brady, so your replacement for him is Cam
Newton. That's a That's a pretty seat
drop. Yeah, definitely.
All day, every day. You know, there were other
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options out there. They Belichick has always been
very tight with the salary cap and he doesn't spend on free
agents. And I thought that was a mistake
with with Cam Newton. I I thought that they could have
developed and gotten more out ofMac Jones.
They didn't do that. So going forward, do you like
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Mike Vrabel as the new head coach?
Actually, I didn't at first. You didn't at first.
No, no. Then as like as it went on and
he's been, he's been actually, Ithink he's been.
I think he's going to do good intraining camp, maybe pre season.
That'd be pretty cool. But I think he's going to be
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actually not a bad coach, I think.
I think he's going to be a great.
Coach, Yeah. I, I, I definitely think, you
know, when they, when they, theyannounced Jerrod Mayo is being
Belichick's successor, I thoughtthat was a little premature and
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I thought, you know, he had never, he, he, he just didn't
have enough experience to step into that position.
I mean, you're stepping in for the greatest NFL head coach in
the history of the league. I would think you would want
someone with a little more experience, right?
Yeah, definitely. Right.
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So you're happy with Rabel, Do you?
I I know you're an Eagles guy? Yep.
Do you still keep an eye on the Patriots?
Do you still try? Do you still root for them in
the sense? Yeah, if they make the playoffs,
I'll probably root for them. But you don't cheer for them to
lose. No, OK, no.
It's your hometown team. Yeah, hometown baby.
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Have you have you been to? Have you been to Gillette?
Have you been there for games? Yeah, I've been going since I
was. Oh wow, Yeah, I've been to about
God at least 6-7 games maybe. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Wow. And.
Are you someone? I mean cause college football
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has changed so radically. The NFL is the NFL.
Do you like? Would you say you prefer the NFL
over college? Do you like college at all?
I. I think college is so much
better. Oh, you do like college?
Better. Personally, I think the NFL is
kind of fake. Like I think they just go there
for money. They that's very true.
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The college go there for college.
Yes, we try hard and I think college teams are so much
better. I'd rather watch college
football on Saturday and watch NFL on Sunday.
So what are your what are your favorite college teams?
I'm a big Georgia fan. I like Penn State.
Right, 'cause your cousin goes to Penn State, right?
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Yeah, I liked Alabama for a little bit back when Bryce Young
was the quarterback. You like Bryce Young?
Yeah, I thought Bryce Young was a good college player, but yeah,
those are my top three teams. Maybe I like Michigan.
I like go like LSUA little bit, but it's like it's like very
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little. So you would say, though, that
you you prefer if you had a choice this season.
You can only watch college football or the NFL.
You're thinking college football.
College. You're not even thinking twice.
Oh yeah, no, definitely not. OK, OK.
And can do you have a specific favorite team?
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Can you name one or you, you, you?
It seems you like the SEC. I do like the SECI, like SEC and
Big 10 are my two favorite divisions all day, right, right.
But the Big 12 has kind of made a big change with Colorado and
stuff like that, but. They have.
I think SEC and Big 10 two greatest divisions.
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They are. They are.
They are. They're also the the largest
division. What do you think about the
college football expanding the playoffs?
So you know, they expanded it this year to 12 teams.
They're going to 16 teams comingup the the Co host I normally do
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the show with thinks the more teams the better.
He wants 32 teams. He wants it to be like the NCAA
tournament. Do you think that 14 to 16 teams
is the right amount of teams? Do you think that they should
try to expand it more? I think that 14 to 16 teams is
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just about right, I think because if they did it like a
bracket, I feel like it would just be so bad.
Like, it just would, it would just be so boring to watch.
But now you have all the Bulls, and that just makes it even more
fun to watch. But yeah, I think the Bulls like
expanded college football so much.
But like, I, I personally just love watching like college
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football. I think that the Bulls just made
it so much better. The Rolls, Fiesta, orange,
everything. Very true.
Is there anything in particular that makes you like college
football more? Is it just the style of play
that makes you like it more? I think it's just because they
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try hard, like, and it's just more fun to watch when you try
hard because when you don't, yeah, the effort they give is
just so I just love ethnic watching with so much effort and
the effort that the the college football players give is just
awesome. Who was and you?
You mentioned Bryce Young, You, you got to be a little surprised
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that his play hasn't translated to the NFL.
Yeah, I was very, very surprised.
Shocked that he hasn't had the success.
Yeah, because I've always said that he could have that if he
won a national championship and got drafted, I think he'd be
make the Hall of Fame. But his first year in the NFL
was just bad. Then he got like mid the second
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year and then this third year inthe NFL and he's going to be
kind of good. I think so too.
I think they they put some pieces around them.
What a lot of people don't understand and what a lot of
teams give on, give up on quarterbacks.
They're getting drafted to the worst teams in the league.
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So people don't understand that.You know, just because you, you
got Bryce Young, he's not going to be your savior there.
There's eleven guys out there. He's one of 11.
Can't do it all. So they got to put the pieces
around them. And the example I use for that
is Brock Purdy from the 49ers. Brock Purdy, average arm.
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He he's, he's smart, he's above average athleticism, but he is
what I call a facilitator. He gets the ball in the
playmaker's hands, He doesn't make bad decisions, he doesn't
turn the ball over, and that's what's made the difference with
someone like him. And that's what a lot of these
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guys need to do. When you look at Bryce Young,
who does Bryce Young have aroundhim?
He doesn't have a lot. Yeah.
He doesn't have a lot at all. So that's why I think, you know,
these teams bank on these quarterbacks.
It it, I call it the Tom Brady effect.
Tom Brady never had star receivers other than the year he
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had Randy Moss and Wes Welker. But otherwise he had very, very
limited receivers and was put onhim to succeed.
And other teams have adopted that philosophy where I'll just
get a good quarterback and he'llhe'll figure it out, right?
Yeah, yeah. So that's what I like about
about Brock pretty. He his decisions are just
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awesome. They.
Are when he when he has to run, he knows he has to run.
He does and. When it's like a RPO or
something like that, then he. Will wait a SEC.
Did you just say RPO? I did.
You know what an RPO is? I do.
Oh good God you don't. Please tell me you don't run
RPO's. No.
OK, but you know what? An RPO.
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Is I do. OK.
I actually know for video games.They have RP OS and Madden now.
Yeah. OK, All right.
So how does that work in Madden?If you call an RPO, what do you
have like 2 seconds to throw theball or hand it off?
So if you're like on like controller, then yeah, there's,
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there's going to be like a like a button for the certain
receiver. So you have to like, hold that
down. Before you that ball, OK.
That's how, that's how like connect to that.
You know that you want to throw the ball.
Oh, wow. Because I, I, I was always, I, I
played MAD my whole life and I always thought about how in the
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hell they could ever incorporatean RPO in the MAD.
Yeah, so they have incorporated into it.
And you heard an RPO is. Yep, I do.
So let me ask you this as as a quarterback, do you think you
could execute an RPO? Probably a little older, yeah.
Probably when you're older. I could, I could probably try
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and practice it a lot more, yeah.
But since we don't do it a lot, probably not.
It it it, but you do do it. Is it in your offense?
No. Oh, it's not OK?
Good. It shouldn't be.
Yeah. And if, if your coach does put
it in your offense, just run it.No, call me.
We'll put it into that real fast.
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Yep. So wow, that's crazy that you
know that. But so you you do like college
football. You do think they should expand
to 1416 teams Max? Yeah.
And beyond that, it'll just be amess.
Yeah, I think that 32 teams way too.
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Much, way too many and it would go too long.
Yeah, I think it would go at least two to three months.
The last thing I wanted to ask you about was baseball because
you you do like baseball and you're also a very good baseball
player. Yep.
What? What position do you play?
I play 2nd and shortstop. You play 2nd and shortstop, so
you're an you're an infielder. I am.
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Do you pitch it all? Sometimes.
And as a starter or more of a reliever.
Relief. Relief.
Yeah. OK.
I think I'm a better infielder than I am in the pitcher.
I would agree that mean you got a, you got a bigger body for it,
and you probably got a strong arm.
What about hitting? Hitting it's it's OK sometimes,
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but I think I'm pretty good at it.
You think you're good at it? Yeah, Good, good.
And it's always something you can work on.
Yes. And I also understand you play
basketball. Yeah, I do play basketball.
So three sports. What would you say your favorite
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is? I'm putting you on the spot.
Yeah, football is your favorite.Yep.
OK, then baseball, Basketball. Yeah, football, baseball,
basketball. Football, baseball, basketball.
OK, Yep. OK.
And you have played football forthe last three years, correct?
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Tackle. Yeah.
Tackle. OK, this will be my 4th.
OK. And you're 11.
I am going to be 11, yes. You're going to be 11.
OK, so 1213. Alright then.
Then you'll be playing on the school team and do you have a
core group of friends that has stayed with you throughout the
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whole time and play? Yeah, so some of my friends kind
of new to the school, but we've created a core group.
OK. And you do like the Red Sox.
Yeah. What What is your opinion of the
Red Sox this season? I think they're actually going
to make it to the playoffs, but.They're they're on a good run
right now. Right.
They are, yeah. Yeah, I think they've done
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better. I think they're doing better
this season, in the past two seasons.
So this year I think the Red Soxcan make it kind of mid middle
playoffs, I think. But if they don't, I won't even
be mad. There's like a million other
teams out there you could root for.
Right, right. So you, you're not one of those.
Like when I was growing up, I was a Giants fan.
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If the Giants lost the game, I'dgo in my room and cry for three
hours. You, you, you, you.
Move on from it. Yeah, I move on from it.
You want that next season. Yeah, I got that.
So Celtics, Eagles. Yep.
And basketball or baseball? Red Sox.
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Yeah. Those are those are the three
teams. Yep, OK.
So the only non home team is really Philadelphia.
Yeah. Just out of curiosity, what made
you fall in love with Philadelphia?
Well, like having family there and I guess that I guess that
gives me an option to root for them.
That's true. That's true.
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I forgot about that. Yes, that's right, that's right.
Have you ever been to a game in Philly?
No, I've never been to Lincoln Financial.
OK. But you they're still number
one. Yeah.
And you don't see that changing.No, at least for the next year
and a half or two. So the last thing I'll ask Drake
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May if he goes off and throws for 40 touchdowns this year, is
he going to win you back to New England side?
Are you going to be a Patriots fan again?
It depends. If the team does good, I'll
probably go back to New England.Yeah, yeah.
OK, OK. Well, I understand also that you
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want to be a broadcaster. I do, yeah.
You. Have you known that for years?
So I started changing it about probably last year when I, when
I watched like a lot of more sports.
So, and I just thought that, well, if I could be, if I could
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do this, I can make a lot of money.
You can. You can make a lot of money.
Very good. Yes, yes.
And especially in this area, because there's so many sports
teams, there's so many colleges,you could absolutely make a lot
of money. And it's something you could
work on in college. But especially for someone your
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age, it's very easy to do your own podcast.
You have the knowledge, you knowyour teams and it's very easy to
to set up and it's something that could get you going.
So by the time you're at the high school level, you already
have experience doing it and, and you already know how to set
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it up. You already know how to prepare
a format. You already know the topics, the
questions you're going to talk about.
Yeah. So I I think for sure you
should, you should definitely look into doing that.
Do you have a friend that likes broadcasting?
I don't think I do, no. Do you have a friend that you
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think would come on and talk with you about it?
Yes. OK, that's all you need.
You need it's more entertainmentand banter and having a buddy
that you can play off of. And that's what builds your
audience. That's what builds your follow.
Yeah. So how would you describe your
first show experience? I loved it.
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Being on a podcast is awesome. Yeah, you like it?
Yeah, I this is my first time onany podcast before, so yeah, I
think it's great. Good, good.
So what we'll do, I'll show you how you can set it up so you can
do it yourself from your iPad and I'll show you everything you
need. But I, I, I, I know you got to
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get back to, to Felder and Maz. I it's Tuesday.
So I don't, I don't know, I don't know what they're going to
do without you. I mean, they, they, they don't,
they won't know how to produce their show.
They won't know the topics or the format.
I mean pretty valuable so. Yeah, because they talk about a
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lot of advanced stuff. Oh, you got a, You got a
comment. You're very cute.
Oh, thank you. That's cool.
All right, so for for Anthony from special correspondent from
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the producer from Felger and Maz.
This has been money line on 97.9Unity Radio.
This is out of Worcester, MA. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, Worcester's not as popular as Boston,
unfortunately. That's OK, I think Worcester's a
great town. You may be the only person who
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who says that, but thank you, weappreciate it.
You're welcome. So Anthony, I have a signature
close when I end my podcast. I just want to let you know,
when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade.
Take two oranges, throw them right back at life.
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Anthony, welcome. Thank you, Steven.
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Yes, yes, we're thrilled to haveyou.
We're thrilled to have you. I know you got a lot going on.
It's a very busy day I'm sure atthe offices and we appreciate
you making time for us. Yeah.
So, you know, I, I was talking with you and I got to learn that
football was, was one of one of your top sports.
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So I think like football is justa great sport to play and
playing football just makes you feel happy and calm and I can
just let out all of my energy just playing football and I
think football just honestly a great sport to play.
Well, you mentioned being calm and especially since you're the
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quarterback, you're the leader out there.
Everyone's looking to you. So if they see you get nervous,
then they're going to get nervous.
Yep, that is correct. So it's important to stay calm
in the face of the storm so yourteammates don't overreact.
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Have you had any moments when you've been in the huddle and
you may have said, you know, we're in a tight situation right
here, but don't worry, I got this.
I'm going to get you out of it. Yeah, there have been some
moments like end of game, like stuff at the goal line and
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you're trying to get the game ending touchdown or the final
play of the game or like the playoffs, stuff like that.
But I just really say try your best.
If you lose, you lose always next season.
That's just playoff laws. But the regular season doesn't
really worry as much. Right.
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Still like just try your best, do whatever, just run the play
right, Just try to win the game and follow the plays.
Now I, I, I coached at the college level for several years
and I struggled immensely to coach probably 9 through 12 year
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olds. They wanted, they made me want
to pull my hair out. And as you see, most of it is
gone. What has been your strategy to
keeping yourself so composed andreserved and calm?
And then I think that resonates with having that calming effect
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over your team mates because they see you, you're the
quarterback, you're the main leader out there and you're not
nervous, so they're not going tobe nervous as a result.
When do you think that started to develop with you kind of
having those leadership skills? So first year probably tackled,
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that's when it really started. When you're like in flag, you're
still kind of young, but when it's tackled, that's when it
starts to get like bigger. So when I had to develop, I just
had to start developing confidence in myself and
learning how to like morally, like play betterly.
And if I just had to like learn.Do you?
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Feel you know the offense prettywell.
Yeah, I think, I think I know the plays, like every season
there's some new plays I still kind of have to learn, but
there's some new plays and I tryto and I try to learn those
quickly. But yeah, I think I developed
the offense pretty good. Do you not to put you on the
spot, This is a random Anthony. Do you, do you feel you have a
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good rapport with the head coachto where like if you don't want
to run something or if you don'tthink you know this may not be
the best play in this situation,do you feel that you have input
that you can speak up and say maybe we should go with this
instead of that? Yeah.
But since we have like more of alike a offensive coordinator
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kind. Of you do, you do have so.
He'll so if I want to change theplay, I'll let him know and
he'll probably tell him, say if it's OK or not.
Right, but you have no problem going to him.
No, I really don't. But I think, yeah, I could let
him know if I really wanted to, but sometimes I won't just do it
just like because I'm not an expert at like play making.
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Very smart. So I so I just most of the time
I will just let him like let it go.
But if I if I know that he will like I can change the play, then
I know what to do. Yeah, yeah.
And you're right. It's very good that you have
that mindset that you don't knowwhat you don't know.
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And they're the experts and you're listening to the experts.
And if they give you a play, they're giving you a play for a
reason. And it's your job to go out and
and execute it. That is correct.
What I've noticed is you, you really have leadership skills
that are above your age group and that especially, no offense,
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your generation. It's difficult to develop
leadership. Most kids will complain.
Most kids are more entitled. Most kids don't want to put the
work in. What do you think has made the
difference for you to develop those important leadership
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skills that everyone looks for? Well, it's kind of hard, like as
you said, this generation like they sometimes don't want to do
it or stuff like that. But when you when you're a
quarterback and you know that you have to develop a leadership
skill, it's kind of like saying that you have to carry on with
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it for as long as you play football.
So I'm, so my advice is just keep on trying to develop it
every year, offseason, in season, whatever, but keep on
developing it. Would you say you're more of a
lead by example guy as opposed to a rah rah guy?
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Or do you try to combine both? Like if someone needs a pat on
the back and hey, we'll get themnext play, you'll do that.
Or do you lead more with your play?
Like, you know, if there's a badplay, you'll go out and you'll
make a great play the next time around and that'll rally the
guys, rally the troops. So I try to think of both.
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Like sometimes they'll get upsetabout a play that they didn't
make or they didn't run it right.
So I'm like, hey, just move on to the next play.
Maybe you'll make a play next play, you know?
So you're very supportive to everyone.
Now I know you are the quarterback.
You have good size for a quarterback.
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Have you had experience playing defense?
I have. My first year I was not the
starting quarterback. You were not a tackle.
Yeah, I end up playing defensiveend.
Defensive. End Yeah, I was that was pretty
fun. I I really did like it.
That's quite the transition. Yeah, it was.
It was actually really fun playing.
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I got a lot of. I got to know a lot on defense.
I could. It's fun.
Defensive end, Yeah. And you know, they always say
this, what makes you a better offensive player is playing
defense. Yeah, that it, yeah, it's a big
clue in football, yes. And I would say that for every
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other sport too, like baseball. If you if you could play
baseball, you can hit. I mean, if you could play
defense, you can hit basketball,play D, steal the ball, get a
layup. And so yeah, defense.
And you know the famous quote, Offense wins games, defense wins
championships. And that's no more true than the
past couple years. You know, the the Eagles have
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had a good defense, and they wrote that all the way.
Kansas City was suspect the yearbefore, but they turned it on
there in the playoffs. But I also know you had
mentioned you're a massive Boston Celtics fan.
I am. I love New England sports.
(09:52):
Yes, yes. How long have you been a Celtics
fan for? Probably since I've been
watching basketball, yeah. Yeah, you just fell in love with
them. I did.
Now the cliche is going to be did you fall in love with them
just because they happen to be the hometown team, or did you
fall in them in love with them because their historic legendary
(10:16):
organization that wins championships, that does things
the right way? Yeah, that, yeah, that's
probably why I like a full Time Team is kind of like mid.
But yeah, I like their organization.
They've always had a great, great, great organization.
Don't forget you have all time greats like Larry Bird, Bill
Russell, Bob Cousy, stuff like that.
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But yeah, I like it because they're historic hometown team.
They they've had like a lot of championships, most
championships. But yeah, I think it's a great
team. Impressive.
You know. You know those names, you know
your history. You haven't forgotten the
legends of the past. Yep, I have not.
So I coached the Holy Cross and Bob Cousy went to Holy Cross and
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every day when we would be in the gym working out, I would see
Bob Cousy. That's awesome.
Shooting his free throws in the gym.
That is great. Every day, 80 something years
old. That would be awesome.
And he and he wasn't missing anything.
Whoa, 80 years? Old shooting not.
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Missing is insane. And I think he shot him with one
arm if I can't remember. If I remember correctly, he
wasn't missing anything. Actually, I think he used to do
that in the NBA too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I walked in and I saw Bob Cousy and I immediately tried to
walk out. And then he saw me and he had a
conversation with me. And I, I I very rarely get
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starstruck. I was starstruck.
I was starstruck. See Bob Cousy.
Yeah, that's that would be me. If I'm like an NBA player like
that, that'd be really cool. So you you have like the Celtics
this season was was a little rough because they got down to
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them and New York and everyone was surprised by New York's
performance. So I'm going to ask you a couple
questions here. Were you surprised that New York
was able to go as far as they were at the time?
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Very, very surprised. As a Celtics fan.
It was like, there's like a hugerivalry between the Knicks and
the Celtics. So obviously I was named for the
Celtics. But yeah, it was really
surprising. But as a team that they were
this year, they didn't have likethe worst players, but they were
like mid, like they weren't the worst.
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So I think that they were, it was really surprising as a as a,
as a champion before that, the same year or the year before
they yeah, it was really surprising in the playoffs.
Yeah, because I I had not known this.
They won three straight playoff series in the last three years
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for the first time in decades. So that was huge.
And I am not an NBA fan. I haven't watched the NBA in a
while and I even watched the Knicks, Pacers rivalry, so to
(13:40):
speak, because back when I was watching it was Reggie Miller,
it was Spike Lee, John and each other.
They were wars. Yeah.
Charles Oakley out there and they were so entertaining to
watch and the Pacers got close so many times.
(14:05):
Yeah, back in like the 90s, Yeah, Reggie Miller was just
frying the whole league. Yes, exactly.
I was actually kind of happy forthe Pacers.
They made it to the series. I want an OKC to win that.
But I was pretty, I felt pretty good for the Pacers making it
into the Finals in like I would,I want to say a good 30 years.
(14:27):
They they shocked, they shocked a lot of people.
But as we spoke about on the carride over and we spoke about
yesterday. So I'm I'm going to give you a
hypothetical and it's only because you brought it up.
(14:47):
Jason Tatum doesn't get injured.What do you think happens?
I say that, yeah, I was really mad.
I was like, I mean, being him being out for the year, him
being out for the year was just,I don't know, as like a Jason
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Tatum fan. I don't, I don't know, like he
doesn't get injured as much, buthe, I want to say that was
probably his first time getting injured, probably his NBA
career, yeah. And do you think that, do you
think that they clearly would have won the East?
(15:30):
Yes, yes, I do. Yes, Yeah, I think they would.
Have and the other debate sparked?
One of the shows I do is with a UConn women's basketball legend.
(15:50):
It's awesome. And she contends that this was
Oklahoma City's year. Nobody was going to beat them.
Do you think the Celtics with Tatum could have given Oklahoma
City a run? Yeah.
If they were, if they were end up being in the same position, I
mean division, they probably would have.
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That probably would have been a good playoff run.
Yeah. Definitely.
Yeah, and was it? Was it last year they played the
Nuggets? I think this year it was either
this year and last year. OK, OK, you're, you're right.
Technically you're right, you'reright, 'cause I know Denver had
made it. And Boston.
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Boston won last year the championship.
Right, they did, yeah. OK, so the other question is
with the Knicks, a lot of controversy.
Tom Thibodeau was fired after the season.
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He guides the Knicks again. Three straight playoff berths,
wins three straight series in the last three years, which
hasn't happened in decades. Gets them to the finals for the
first time this century, Gets a pink slip his next day, loses
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his job. Do you?
And first of all, I thought thatwas wrong.
Second of all, OK, you're going to fire Tom Thibodeau.
You bring in Mike Brown. Really.
I know. I honestly, I didn't even know
that they fired him, but yeah, yeah, when when he like now
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hearing that, I think that's messed up.
Well, he, he's a, he was a Boston assistant coach, right?
I think so, yeah. And the, the rap on him was he
wasn't necessarily a warm and fuzzy guy.
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He wasn't necessarily a player'scoach, as they say.
Do you think that definitely made a difference?
Because from the whole reason I,I kind of fallen off of the NBA
is the, the, the, the, the players seem to want to be
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coddled a little bit more. It's not his crazy as it used to
be. You know when when we were
growing up and we saw Jordan play and we saw Bird and Magic
and those guys and they wanted like.
They all won a championship. If you if you gave Michael
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Jordan an axe, he probably wouldhave murdered his opponents,
yeah. Probably right?
That that was that was the levelof competition, the level of
intensity that he had. Yeah.
LeBron James wanted to go out and make super teams with Dwyane
Wade and other other people. That's what he would do.
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And you know, the Lakers are in a situation now and that's why I
wanted to transition and ask you, what did you think about
the the Luca trade? Honestly, I, I knew the vows
would go down, but the Luca trade, I don't know.
I really don't. I don't think it was a good
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trade at all. And you didn't really get like
anything back. They said that and if you read
it online, it said that he was out of shape and he couldn't
play defense. That's what it had.
That's exactly what if. You want, if you want the player
for offense, that'd be like probably one of the best players
in the league right now for the offense.
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So if the Lakers accepted that, yeah, LeBron and Luca, it's not
a bad duo at all. No, no, it's not.
And I think they're going to do very well.
I thought like there was almost collusion.
I thought The Mavericks got fleeced.
They they they truly believe that the team of Kyrie with
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Anthony Davis was going to be good enough to.
Win them the West or have them go further in the West.
And again, I'm not a basketball guy.
From what I know, Anthony Davis has had injury struggles most of
his career. He hasn't been when he's played,
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he's been sensational. But he's missed so much time
with injury. And then they make that trade
and Kyrie goes down with the torn ACL and he's out.
He's going to miss significant time going into next year.
So I, I, I didn't understand it.I didn't understand it.
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And I know are you are are you aware of Mark Cuban, the owner
of The Mavericks? I'm not really aware of him.
Like I don't know much about theMavs, like managers hours.
But yeah, the guy who really traded Luca, I thought they, I
thought they should have really fired him.
Nico, Yeah, yeah, Nico Harrison was the GM.
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Yeah, I don't. I didn't think he was a good GM
either. I, I don't, I, I agree with you
there. So Mark Cuban bought The
Mavericks and he was one of the youngest owners.
His mantra was I'm going to transform this team.
I'm going to transform this organization.
I'm going to transform this city.
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And he came in and he really didthat.
You know, they, they won their first finals championship under
him. But what ended up happening is
what always happens with greed. Greed sometimes is good.
And he sold off a majority stakein the ownership group.
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So a lot of Mavericks fans were upset because they they often
say had Mark Cuban been, you know, the majority owner, he
never would have okayed that trade.
And they think that trade was going to set them back years.
So this brings my follow up question to you.
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The Mavericks had the lowest percentage chance to get the
number one pick in the NBA draft, and they got it.
Now the picks are done in secretnow, so nobody can see it, but
they got it. And that was all about the
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Cooper Flag sweepstakes. Are you familiar with Cooper
Flag at all from Duke? He was one of the best players
in the country. Yeah, I actually actually had
Duke going all the way in March Madness.
OK, so you. Know big Cooper flag fan.
I thought he was great in college, but I think maybe if he
stayed a couple of years, I don't know.
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I mean, I think it's good. I think he just said he stayed
in school for a little bit more.You know what?
That's a good mindset to have. You make sure you stay in
school. But yeah, Cooper flag.
So we we believe that there was some sort of collusion between
maybe NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and The Mavericks because
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they made this God awful trade and they traded Luca Don, the
best player, and they were rewarded with the number one
pick in the draft. They get Cooper flag and Cooper
flag is one of those generational players who can
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come in like Dirk Nowinski and and start for you for 20 plus
years. And do you believe in that at
all? I know it's probably a little
bit above your pay grade being aspecial correspondent for Felder
Mezz, but do you think that there could be some sort of
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collusion there with the commissioner saying, you know,
Dallas made a mistake, let's tryto right the wrong, We'll give
him a little nudge. We'll give him the number one
pick so he can get Cooper flag and be back on track.
I don't know. Personally, I think yeah, you
could be right, but I don't think that he would just give
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them the number one draft pick because the lottery it's like a
wheel basically it is and you put and it's like random.
Yep, so very true. That could have just been luck,
or they could have set it up butand.
It's happened before, it's happened before, true.
But that that's what bothered mea little bit by it because
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obviously Dallas made a stupid mistake in making that trade.
And I don't think stupidity should be rewarded.
I think one of the other teams should have gotten that pick.
So going into this coming year, this coming fall, who do you
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like? Let's start in the East.
Do you still like Boston? Do you still think New York has
a has a good chance? Do you like Indiana?
Who if you were to list a top five in the East, who do you
like? For the championship I would
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probably go either Indiana one. Wow.
New York 2. Boston 3.
God, I'm trying to think of Chicago.
Anyone there? I think no, I don't think
Chicago will be top five. I'll probably put a like top 10
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or top 11, but. Those would be your three main,
yeah. In the East, yeah.
And, and you're, you're, I, I love it because you're obviously
a big Celtics fan and you're notbeing biased, you're being
realistic. And you're picking them in the
top three. They're not one, they're three.
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I like that in the West. Who do you like in the West?
People have criticized Oklahoma City for not doing more.
You know, since free agency has started, people is all have also
said LeBron may end up traded, which I can't believe he just
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signed an extension. Who do you like in the West,
would you say right now, do you think, do you still think it's
Oklahoma City, maybe Denver? Do you think it's their
championship to lose? Do you, do you obviously think
the the West is obviously more talented than the East?
Yeah, I think over the past years, because don't forget,
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back in like before the 21st century, the East ruled the
East. Looked very good they did.
But now it's the West. You got Yokich Gilgeous, you
should have shit FDA you have, you have Jada, you have so many
people in the West. So I think that OKC, Denver,
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maybe the Mavs, I don't know, that trio could be good.
If the Mavs I think stay healthy, I, I, I think they
could definitely come around forsure. 100%.
So NFL camps are opening. Yep.
They're they're, they're starting soon.
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And you had mentioned being a Patriots fan.
Yep. And you have become more of an
Eagles fan. How many years would you say
have you been an Eagles fan for?Probably about a year and a half
maybe. 2 So you just became an Eagles fan?
Yeah. OK, so I'm going to ask you, do
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you think the Patriots made a mistake when they drafted the
quarterback from Alabama? His name was Matt Jones.
He started for them. He led them to the playoffs.
I believe he he made a Pro Bowl appearance and then he kind of
fell off a Cliff. Do you think that he was a
mistake or do you think he can turn it around?
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At the beginning I thought he was going to be great.
I thought he would lead the Patriots first year.
I thought next year we'll make the playoffs when they lost the
Bills, right? The year after.
He's he just like it looks like he just took like a downhill.
He did. So after, after the first year,
I was like, oh, he it was probably a mistake.
Yeah, but in college he was pretty good.
He. Did he won national
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championships? Absolutely.
Yeah, but um, yeah, I thought itwas like, it's going to be a
great first round pick, but after the first year I was like,
yeah, no, I don't think so. Let's just get it.
Let's just get rid of him. I argue with my Co host all the
time because I think quarterbacks are put on a much
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be because of the salary structure.
Now in the NFL, the contracts are a little bit shorter and
they can get rid of guys withoutthe financial ramifications of
before. So I I believe personally, I
think Matt Jones can play. I think that they gave up on him
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in New England. I think that he had different
offensive coordinators. I don't know if you remember the
coach by the name of Matt Patricia.
I think I've heard of that, yeah.
OK. So Matt Patricia was the
defensive coordinator when the Patriots won several of their
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Super Bowls. When there was the dynasty.
Very good. Yep.
So Matt went to Detroit and became a head coach.
And what's it's it's funny because what's kind of happened
with the Patriots, anyone who's coach for Belichick, who's gone
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off and has had an opportunity to be a head coach has kind of
failed. Yeah.
And failed an epic fashion and Matt Patricia was one of them.
So Matt Patricia gets fired by Detroit, New England brings them
back. And this is This is why I think
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Matt Jones kind of got a raw, raw deal.
Josh McDaniels was the offensivecoordinator.
He took the head job at Las Vegas.
Matt Patricia comes in. Matt Patricia is never called an
offensive play in his life. He was a defensive guy.
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They made Matt Patricia the offensive coordinator, and I
think Bill Belichick did that. Basically to say, I'm Bill
Belichick. I can make anyone a great coach
at anything I think he can make.He can make you a great coach of
bowling if you wanted to. Yeah, he had he had that mindset
where like if he just hired likeany coach, any type of kicking,
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defense, offense, certain position coach, he thinks that
he could just make him a great coach.
Absolutely. By winning.
Absolutely. But after the past like couple
of years as Bill was coaching, he he, I don't think he made
them great coaches. Yeah, I agree with you.
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I think. I think he kind of lost this
magic. I think he started to read into
his own headlines a little bit. You personally were you Were you
a fan of Belichick? Yeah, you were.
I was so you, you thought, you thought and I agree with you to
win the number of titles that hewon.
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I mean, he was obviously was a great coach.
Yeah, he but as someone I know said one time they he said that
Tom Brady made Bill Belichick just a great coach.
I didn't agree with it, but after Tom Brady left, I started
like, oh, maybe he was right. I, I agree with, I agree with
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you there, but I think they madea poor decision.
You lose Tom Brady, so your replacement for him is Cam
Newton. That's a That's a pretty seat
drop. Yeah, definitely.
All day, every day. You know, there were other
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options out there. They Belichick has always been
very tight with the salary cap and he doesn't spend on free
agents. And I thought that was a mistake
with with Cam Newton. I I thought that they could have
developed and gotten more out ofMac Jones.
They didn't do that. So going forward, do you like
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Mike Vrabel as the new head coach?
Actually, I didn't at first. You didn't at first.
No, no. Then as like as it went on and
he's been, he's been actually, Ithink he's been.
I think he's going to do good intraining camp, maybe pre season.
That'd be pretty cool. But I think he's going to be
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actually not a bad coach, I think.
I think he's going to be a great.
Coach, Yeah. I, I, I definitely think, you
know, when they, when they, theyannounced Jerrod Mayo is being
Belichick's successor, I thoughtthat was a little premature and
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I thought, you know, he had never, he, he, he just didn't
have enough experience to step into that position.
I mean, you're stepping in for the greatest NFL head coach in
the history of the league. I would think you would want
someone with a little more experience, right?
Yeah, definitely. Right.
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So you're happy with Rabel, Do you?
I I know you're an Eagles guy? Yep.
Do you still keep an eye on the Patriots?
Do you still try? Do you still root for them in
the sense? Yeah, if they make the playoffs,
I'll probably root for them. But you don't cheer for them to
lose. No, OK, no.
It's your hometown team. Yeah, hometown baby.
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Have you have you been to? Have you been to Gillette?
Have you been there for games? Yeah, I've been going since I
was. Oh wow, Yeah, I've been to about
God at least 6-7 games maybe. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Wow. And.
Are you someone? I mean cause college football
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has changed so radically. The NFL is the NFL.
Do you like? Would you say you prefer the NFL
over college? Do you like college at all?
I. I think college is so much
better. Oh, you do like college?
Better. Personally, I think the NFL is
kind of fake. Like I think they just go there
for money. They that's very true.
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The college go there for college.
Yes, we try hard and I think college teams are so much
better. I'd rather watch college
football on Saturday and watch NFL on Sunday.
So what are your what are your favorite college teams?
I'm a big Georgia fan. I like Penn State.
Right, 'cause your cousin goes to Penn State, right?
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Yeah, I liked Alabama for a little bit back when Bryce Young
was the quarterback. You like Bryce Young?
Yeah, I thought Bryce Young was a good college player, but yeah,
those are my top three teams. Maybe I like Michigan.
I like go like LSUA little bit, but it's like it's like very
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little. So you would say, though, that
you you prefer if you had a choice this season.
You can only watch college football or the NFL.
You're thinking college football.
College. You're not even thinking twice.
Oh yeah, no, definitely not. OK, OK.
And can do you have a specific favorite team?
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Can you name one or you, you, you?
It seems you like the SEC. I do like the SECI, like SEC and
Big 10 are my two favorite divisions all day, right, right.
But the Big 12 has kind of made a big change with Colorado and
stuff like that, but. They have.
I think SEC and Big 10 two greatest divisions.
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They are. They are.
They are. They're also the the largest
division. What do you think about the
college football expanding the playoffs?
So you know, they expanded it this year to 12 teams.
They're going to 16 teams comingup the the Co host I normally do
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the show with thinks the more teams the better.
He wants 32 teams. He wants it to be like the NCAA
tournament. Do you think that 14 to 16 teams
is the right amount of teams? Do you think that they should
try to expand it more? I think that 14 to 16 teams is
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just about right, I think because if they did it like a
bracket, I feel like it would just be so bad.
Like, it just would, it would just be so boring to watch.
But now you have all the Bulls, and that just makes it even more
fun to watch. But yeah, I think the Bulls like
expanded college football so much.
But like, I, I personally just love watching like college
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football. I think that the Bulls just made
it so much better. The Rolls, Fiesta, orange,
everything. Very true.
Is there anything in particular that makes you like college
football more? Is it just the style of play
that makes you like it more? I think it's just because they
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try hard, like, and it's just more fun to watch when you try
hard because when you don't, yeah, the effort they give is
just so I just love ethnic watching with so much effort and
the effort that the the college football players give is just
awesome. Who was and you?
You mentioned Bryce Young, You, you got to be a little surprised
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that his play hasn't translated to the NFL.
Yeah, I was very, very surprised.
Shocked that he hasn't had the success.
Yeah, because I've always said that he could have that if he
won a national championship and got drafted, I think he'd be
make the Hall of Fame. But his first year in the NFL
was just bad. Then he got like mid the second
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year and then this third year inthe NFL and he's going to be
kind of good. I think so too.
I think they they put some pieces around them.
What a lot of people don't understand and what a lot of
teams give on, give up on quarterbacks.
They're getting drafted to the worst teams in the league.
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So people don't understand that.You know, just because you, you
got Bryce Young, he's not going to be your savior there.
There's eleven guys out there. He's one of 11.
Can't do it all. So they got to put the pieces
around them. And the example I use for that
is Brock Purdy from the 49ers. Brock Purdy, average arm.
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He he's, he's smart, he's above average athleticism, but he is
what I call a facilitator. He gets the ball in the
playmaker's hands, He doesn't make bad decisions, he doesn't
turn the ball over, and that's what's made the difference with
someone like him. And that's what a lot of these
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guys need to do. When you look at Bryce Young,
who does Bryce Young have aroundhim?
He doesn't have a lot. Yeah.
He doesn't have a lot at all. So that's why I think, you know,
these teams bank on these quarterbacks.
It it, I call it the Tom Brady effect.
Tom Brady never had star receivers other than the year he
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had Randy Moss and Wes Welker. But otherwise he had very, very
limited receivers and was put onhim to succeed.
And other teams have adopted that philosophy where I'll just
get a good quarterback and he'llhe'll figure it out, right?
Yeah, yeah. So that's what I like about
about Brock pretty. He his decisions are just
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awesome. They.
Are when he when he has to run, he knows he has to run.
He does and. When it's like a RPO or
something like that, then he. Will wait a SEC.
Did you just say RPO? I did.
You know what an RPO is? I do.
Oh good God you don't. Please tell me you don't run
RPO's. No.
OK, but you know what? An RPO.
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Is I do. OK.
I actually know for video games.They have RP OS and Madden now.
Yeah. OK, All right.
So how does that work in Madden?If you call an RPO, what do you
have like 2 seconds to throw theball or hand it off?
So if you're like on like controller, then yeah, there's,
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there's going to be like a like a button for the certain
receiver. So you have to like, hold that
down. Before you that ball, OK.
That's how, that's how like connect to that.
You know that you want to throw the ball.
Oh, wow. Because I, I, I was always, I, I
played MAD my whole life and I always thought about how in the
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hell they could ever incorporatean RPO in the MAD.
Yeah, so they have incorporated into it.
And you heard an RPO is. Yep, I do.
So let me ask you this as as a quarterback, do you think you
could execute an RPO? Probably a little older, yeah.
Probably when you're older. I could, I could probably try
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and practice it a lot more, yeah.
But since we don't do it a lot, probably not.
It it it, but you do do it. Is it in your offense?
No. Oh, it's not OK?
Good. It shouldn't be.
Yeah. And if, if your coach does put
it in your offense, just run it.No, call me.
We'll put it into that real fast.
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Yep. So wow, that's crazy that you
know that. But so you you do like college
football. You do think they should expand
to 1416 teams Max? Yeah.
And beyond that, it'll just be amess.
Yeah, I think that 32 teams way too.
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Much, way too many and it would go too long.
Yeah, I think it would go at least two to three months.
The last thing I wanted to ask you about was baseball because
you you do like baseball and you're also a very good baseball
player. Yep.
What? What position do you play?
I play 2nd and shortstop. You play 2nd and shortstop, so
you're an you're an infielder. I am.
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Do you pitch it all? Sometimes.
And as a starter or more of a reliever.
Relief. Relief.
Yeah. OK.
I think I'm a better infielder than I am in the pitcher.
I would agree that mean you got a, you got a bigger body for it,
and you probably got a strong arm.
What about hitting? Hitting it's it's OK sometimes,
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but I think I'm pretty good at it.
You think you're good at it? Yeah, Good, good.
And it's always something you can work on.
Yes. And I also understand you play
basketball. Yeah, I do play basketball.
So three sports. What would you say your favorite
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is? I'm putting you on the spot.
Yeah, football is your favorite.Yep.
OK, then baseball, Basketball. Yeah, football, baseball,
basketball. Football, baseball, basketball.
OK, Yep. OK.
And you have played football forthe last three years, correct?
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Tackle. Yeah.
Tackle. OK, this will be my 4th.
OK. And you're 11.
I am going to be 11, yes. You're going to be 11.
OK, so 1213. Alright then.
Then you'll be playing on the school team and do you have a
core group of friends that has stayed with you throughout the
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whole time and play? Yeah, so some of my friends kind
of new to the school, but we've created a core group.
OK. And you do like the Red Sox.
Yeah. What What is your opinion of the
Red Sox this season? I think they're actually going
to make it to the playoffs, but.They're they're on a good run
right now. Right.
They are, yeah. Yeah, I think they've done
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better. I think they're doing better
this season, in the past two seasons.
So this year I think the Red Soxcan make it kind of mid middle
playoffs, I think. But if they don't, I won't even
be mad. There's like a million other
teams out there you could root for.
Right, right. So you, you're not one of those.
Like when I was growing up, I was a Giants fan.
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If the Giants lost the game, I'dgo in my room and cry for three
hours. You, you, you, you.
Move on from it. Yeah, I move on from it.
You want that next season. Yeah, I got that.
So Celtics, Eagles. Yep.
And basketball or baseball? Red Sox.
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Yeah. Those are those are the three
teams. Yep, OK.
So the only non home team is really Philadelphia.
Yeah. Just out of curiosity, what made
you fall in love with Philadelphia?
Well, like having family there and I guess that I guess that
gives me an option to root for them.
That's true. That's true.
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I forgot about that. Yes, that's right, that's right.
Have you ever been to a game in Philly?
No, I've never been to Lincoln Financial.
OK. But you they're still number
one. Yeah.
And you don't see that changing.No, at least for the next year
and a half or two. So the last thing I'll ask Drake
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May if he goes off and throws for 40 touchdowns this year, is
he going to win you back to New England side?
Are you going to be a Patriots fan again?
It depends. If the team does good, I'll
probably go back to New England.Yeah, yeah.
OK, OK. Well, I understand also that you
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want to be a broadcaster. I do, yeah.
You. Have you known that for years?
So I started changing it about probably last year when I, when
I watched like a lot of more sports.
So, and I just thought that, well, if I could be, if I could
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do this, I can make a lot of money.
You can. You can make a lot of money.
Very good. Yes, yes.
And especially in this area, because there's so many sports
teams, there's so many colleges,you could absolutely make a lot
of money. And it's something you could
work on in college. But especially for someone your
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age, it's very easy to do your own podcast.
You have the knowledge, you knowyour teams and it's very easy to
to set up and it's something that could get you going.
So by the time you're at the high school level, you already
have experience doing it and, and you already know how to set
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it up. You already know how to prepare
a format. You already know the topics, the
questions you're going to talk about.
Yeah. So I I think for sure you
should, you should definitely look into doing that.
Do you have a friend that likes broadcasting?
I don't think I do, no. Do you have a friend that you
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think would come on and talk with you about it?
Yes. OK, that's all you need.
You need it's more entertainmentand banter and having a buddy
that you can play off of. And that's what builds your
audience. That's what builds your follow.
Yeah. So how would you describe your
first show experience? I loved it.
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Being on a podcast is awesome. Yeah, you like it?
Yeah, I this is my first time onany podcast before, so yeah, I
think it's great. Good, good.
So what we'll do, I'll show you how you can set it up so you can
do it yourself from your iPad and I'll show you everything you
need. But I, I, I, I know you got to
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get back to, to Felder and Maz. I it's Tuesday.
So I don't, I don't know, I don't know what they're going to
do without you. I mean, they, they, they don't,
they won't know how to produce their show.
They won't know the topics or the format.
I mean pretty valuable so. Yeah, because they talk about a
(50:13):
lot of advanced stuff. Oh, you got a, You got a
comment. You're very cute.
Oh, thank you. That's cool.
All right, so for for Anthony from special correspondent from
(50:34):
the producer from Felger and Maz.
This has been money line on 97.9Unity Radio.
This is out of Worcester, MA. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, Worcester's not as popular as Boston,
unfortunately. That's OK, I think Worcester's a
great town. You may be the only person who
(50:55):
who says that, but thank you, weappreciate it.
You're welcome. So Anthony, I have a signature
close when I end my podcast. I just want to let you know,
when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade.
Take two oranges, throw them right back at life.
(51:18):
All right, brother.
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