Patriots Unfiltered 5/16: Breaking Down the Patriots Schedule, Expectations for 2023 Season

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
The world's a big.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to Patriots Unfiltered.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
So he will not be taking a limo to his
fifth grade dance. It'll probably be my wife driving him
in my pathline herself. Sorry, buddy, that's kind of.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Like a lemo.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
You'll be coming up on his therapy session in about
fifteen years, right.

Speaker 6 (00:30):
Fifth grade, Dad.

Speaker 7 (00:31):
I'm mainly reason why I called in is because I'm
actually kind of upset by the fact that they're gonna
celebrate Tom Brady.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
In the with all serious Why would that in any
way upset you?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Would it be back to comparison, to say, somewhere in
the in the realm of juju, Tom Parrison, comparison.

Speaker 7 (00:50):
Doesn't filtered from the time, you don't want from town
fit filter. If you don't today get off like Math
would not leave heavan, Are you really trying to piss
you off?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Well, the first interaction with Aaron back in the eighteen
when I first started, I thought he was in pr
I didn't know who he was. That's the perfect thing
that would piss him, all right, So I went up
to him and I asked him if he had a roster.
He looked at me like, I, why.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Would you assume I'm not in pr.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
This is Patriot's Unfiltered fueled by Dunking.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
All right, I'm coming in hot here, Welcome the Patriots Unfiltered.
It is Tuesday here at Gillette Stadium, and it's Taylor
Swift week here, Holy mac leap, let's go. I mean
this place is buzzing. They're getting ready for this concert
that is three nights. And if your daughter is not going,

(01:47):
she's feeling pretty bad about it. You don't love her,
You didn't get her tickets. You're a bad, bad.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Poor Yeah, that's ten grand ready right now, and just
put it up and get her here the concert.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
What's wrong?

Speaker 6 (02:00):
It's crazy, But yeah, we're going to talk Patriots. And
we haven't had a show since we had our schedule
release on Thursday night. So the reviews are in.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
People liked it, yeah, glad response positive.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
A lot of people that worked hard on it. I
know everybody here did and and did our part and it.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
Was all of us.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Come on, everybody did.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
I didn't have a huge roles, showed up.

Speaker 8 (02:22):
A couple of times.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Paul liked it was weird.

Speaker 9 (02:26):
Yeah, lunch and weird, funny story taken. He's reading his
own old pf W article.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
And crinkling, cranking it. We go back to the Patriots
a tentacle, oh man, Paul. But it was fun. We
had a fun few days shooting in in Walpole. I
don't know why people are obsessed with trying to figure
out what house it was.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
It's just a random house special about it.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
We just ran.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
This house, you know, where is it? But but it
was fun.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I think everybody's really proud with with how it came out.
And I think, you know, to echo what we said
this morning, just getting Brady kind of made it as
much as I wanted to be the guy with the
hand in the bottle and the TV twelve shirt on,
and you know that just made it.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Having him at the end.

Speaker 6 (03:10):
Yeah, and you know, thank you to Brady for doing it.
You know, he came through at the end last minute.
I mean it was I remember you walked out, big
grin on your face.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Like we got Brady.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
So yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
It was good.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
And then watching all the ones around the league too,
it's so much, so much goes into all these videos.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
I thought there was a lot of good ones. My
personal favorite with the Jaguars, I thought they did a
really good job.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
So I really like the one where they like recast
what was it like Trevor Lawrence? Who was that guy
playing Trevor Lawrence in that video? I assume I was
supposed to know who it was. It was someone else playing,
but there were a lot of really clever jokes in
that one.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, I enjoyed it long.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
Doug Peterson was Doug Peterson was like I used to
be one of the actors. It was mostly an understudy.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
He was funny, like act They did it well.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
That's why I asked Fred the guy who sort of
ran the whole show like director, like he was so good,
you know. It turns out that he was actually a
professional actor. So that kind of lessened it a little
bit for me because I really thought, Wow, this is
a guy who works with the Jags content and he's
really good, Like he just made that really go But.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
Even the owner.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Mustache, that was funny. I thought, I gotta give prop
So I thought Bob Bob Socy was an awesome did
an awesome job acting like just seems so engaged in it.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
And Steve Nelson, I thought, just delivered first.

Speaker 8 (04:32):
That was Steve Nelson's first and like only take it.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
He nailed, nailed, nail it.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
But for Steve Nelson, if there was one person that
no one knew who he was, it was Steve Nelson.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh, I thought it was what's his face?

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Earlier, the guy with the name.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I thought Pete Rock was the one.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
That was was was a little well, you know somebody
from mass Live like, oh, Patriots did to release and
you know two players weren't in it, Edelman and Patrick
Chung tweeting blah blah blah, and you know they had
Pete Rock reading the newspaper. No, it wasn't Pete Rock,
it was Steve Nelson.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Screwed it up.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey, we tried to get as many ass you know who.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Fred wouldn't be good at ignoring the noise. Fred doesn't
ignore the noise.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Well, it was brought to my attention. But anyway, so yeah,
if people want to talk about the schedule release, we
could do that.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Players are here Riley right now as we speak.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Evans over there looks like a big burly dude, good beard,
solid beard.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Solid offensive line look right there, right yeah, Iowa. I mean,
he's just he's just now it's the Great Iron.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
So you know, the it's it's it's a tough preseason
if you're a Patriots fan right now, because you know,
the Patriots really aren't included in these really early prognostications
about playoff contenders. But we'll see what happens. We'll see
what happens. I really do think that Bill O. Ryan

(06:01):
is the biggest pickup of the season for them up
to now anyway, and I think he's gonna make a
big difference. I think the offense is going to be
that much better where they might surprise some people. They
might surprise some people.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Fred, I've reached this point too.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
I've reached the point where, you know, the all off
season like this is what I want them to do.
I want him to add these pieces X, Y and Z.
And then I feel like you get after the draft
and you kind of realize this is it. And so
then I just felt like this change and I'm like,
all right, I think we got something. You know, even
though if you wanted to go two months ago, of
all the things that I was hoping that they did,
they didn't do. But now I'm like, well, that's Riley Reef.

(06:39):
I mean, he maybe has another year and a half.
I mean, Mike SICKI that guy can move pretty good,
you know. I just I've kind of talked myself into it.
I don't know if this is just the thing that
fans do. But when when the fan when when the
team's kind of set and you know it, but.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
You know you're all right. I think my point is
that even with last year's cast, if you add Bill O'Brien,
it would have been better. Sure, And so now you know,
I think they might do some things.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
I feel a little bit.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't know, I just have a little optimism. I
don't know if it's reasonable or not. But you know,
I think you just get to that point where you
accept what you got and it is.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
What it is.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
I think it's to me, it's all dependent on what
exactly you're optimistic about. Like, do you think that they'll
be better offensively?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
For like reasonable questions?

Speaker 5 (07:23):
No, Like with friend's talking about I agree with I
think that they'll with Bill O'Brien, I think they'll be
they'll look like an NFL offense. They didn't most of
the time last year. So I think, like it's very
reasonable to suggest they'll be better offensively because Bill O'Brien
is here.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
I think what I want to see is in December,
we're in the mix and not like, well they'll make it,
but they'll get bounced out in the first round. Like
we're in the mix and maybe you got a chance
to win a game or two, you know.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, I think, I mean, and we can you think
that that's going to happen.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
That's what I'm hoping for. Yeah, So like.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
That's what I would I would ask, like when you said,
like I think they're going to surprise, some.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
People said they could surprise them.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Right right, No, And like I think that you can
make the argument, like I could make the argument. I
think they could be they could surprise, like my expectations, right,
but my expectations I don't think are probably starting at
the same spot that Fred Zee.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
I'm choosing. I'm choosing to enter in I'm choosing to
end season with no expectations but with hope.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Okay, that was like I'm choosing to no expectations.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
But but I'm going into the season with hope, not expectations. Hope.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, I just and I think as a fan, if
you really do enjoy football, how can you not no
matter what team you are, conjure up some kind of
hope of you.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Know, every every team has hope today right now.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
But I laugh, like, you know, Paul shows, you know,
early in the Red Soex season, they you know, they're
they were terrible. They're terrible. Then they started getting hut
like wow, this team really growing. Now they're back in
the bottom. So like you don't know, you just don't know.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Now, and that's uh.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
And we can talk about the schedule too, But I
think to your point was, you know, just get to
that get through that Germany game and be in the mix.
You know, I think for this team, like if you
can just still be kind of in the mix at
that point, and now it's it's a tough finish to
the schedule over that last month, you know, a few
tough places to play.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
So that's why I'm asking about the surprise element, Like
what do you think that most people think they won't
be in the mix, like at the bye, like by
week eleven they're going to be out of it. I
don't feel like people think like that they weren't out
of it last year.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
I think people think I think a lot of people
and you know, think that they're going to have a
worse record than last year and obviously would and not
be in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
I don't know about the record itself. I don't think
people think they'll be as strong in the AFC as
they were last year because other teams, you know, the
Jets specifically, have improved. I think that would be more
accurate to say then, But I don't. Maybe I think
too much, And this is kind of me, you know,
surprising you, I'm sure for it. Maybe I think too

(10:05):
much of Bill Belichick to think that. I don't see
a scenario where they're out of it in week eleven.
I can't conjure up a scenario. I suppose, you never know,
you'd lose like ten guys, ten ten key starters to
injury and it falls apart. That could happen to anybody.
But I don't see a Bill Belichick coach team being
out like all right, completely out of the mix.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
Well, let's look, let's talk about the schedule. Like, you know,
what did you think about the schedule as it was released?
You know a lot of people think that I think
it's that September is going to be really tough.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
I think it's it's hard really kind of top to bottom.
Like there's a couple of games that they quote unquote
should win in the middle, like Washington and Indy.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
I don't think there are a lot of layups.

Speaker 6 (10:47):
I like Chargers here at one. That's a good that's
a good spot.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
For the page.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, I agree that if you had to play the Chargers,
that's the ideal time to play East Coast at one o'clock.
That's I agree with you. But that's gonna be a
tough game too.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
I just think they're all tough, and like you look
at people, what do you think of the schedule, and
I'm like, every week is an absolute war. And that's
you know, where this team is at right now. I
think when you talk about, you know, expectations, it's just hard,
like because I think that they could be better than
they were last year, but it's still not enough to
crack that top seven, you know, to make the playoffs.
So starting to Yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Mike, Mike, I think that they could be better and
not have a better record and not be higher in
the a FC, but they could be better and That's
why I think they have better play.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
It just boils down to can they beat the good teams?
Can they beat the playoff team? Straight up?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
This team's coming in. You know, they've got all their weapons.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
I mean, and you know we're looking at the Chargers
right now on our screen, like you know, like I
still just hesitate to like, well, that's the Chargers. We've
always beat them, and you know, like I like, even
that would qualify for you know, a significant win I
think at this point with you know, just where they're at.
But I think that's what we've all come around to.
Bill O'Brien, how much can what.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Is the Chargers game?

Speaker 5 (11:57):
That's that's sort.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Of late right that Yeah, that's that's a week. Yeah,
that's uh, the second game after the bye, so after
the bye week.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
So it's the Chargers are in the midst Let's say
the Chargers are eight and four and the Patriots that's
a good win. Yeah, that's a that's a solid team
that's played well. Now we know the Chargers they just
as easily could be four and eight. You never know
what you're gonna get from them. They're as big a
trick or cheat team as there isn't the league.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, but I just don't have that feeling. And I
don't know if last year I had.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
I gotta make a phone call. Be right back.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
You can't leave.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Tell Taylor Swift what happened. Taylor calls Fred directly. She's
got she knows the line to the Boss Mansion.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
In all seriousness, this this is like we would talk.
We had a big meeting before we do the show
every Tuesday, and we were talking about the Taylor Swift
stuff and Freddie and I have been around forever. This
nothing that compares to this in terms of like demand
just overall buzz. I've had a lot of people obviously

(12:56):
I'm sure everybody else has too, that try to get tickets,
and I have been able to get some. But there's
no such thing as a sellout, Like that's a you know,
a dirty little secret in the entertainment industry, whether it's
a sporting event or a concert, there's no such it's
always a ticket. There's an actual sellout. If you know
somebody and you ask the right person, you generally can

(13:17):
get a ticket. You can't get any tickets for this anymore,
like for all three nights.

Speaker 9 (13:24):
And not only that, but like, I mean, we saw
what happened in Philly with like twenty thousand people.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Else was talking about that in.

Speaker 9 (13:31):
The meeting to seeing and dance outside, and like we're
at the point where, Okay, we can't handle this. If
you don't have a ticket to this concert, you are
not getting into the parking lots because we just don't feasibly,
it just wouldn't work.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
And on Root one, I'm kind of scared now, like
what time is. I was like get there early and
kind of thing, like you're not.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Going to tailgate a little bit. But I mean, you
know how much I mean, how much tech like I
got in me.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
I'm I'd like a man to be around, you know,
from my wife and my nieces. Take sure that there's
no riff wrath. You know how those unruly Taylor Swift
I know, I know the Taylor Swift crowd. It can
be a rough crowd there. They're insane, but it'll be.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
It should be fun.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
I just you know, I hope it all goes smoothly
and everybody's able to get in and out.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
But yeah, they're setting up outside.

Speaker 8 (14:15):
It's uh, they're like rabbit the fan base.

Speaker 9 (14:17):
I went to go get lunch up at the commons
up on the concourse that we have for employees, and
I was like, Oh, let me go check out where
my Taylor Swift seats are because the stadium is just empty.

Speaker 8 (14:26):
It's a nice beautiful day. Get some vitamin D.

Speaker 9 (14:28):
I just take a quick pan video of the view
from my seat and post it to TikTok, like ten
days till Taylor Swift. It did one hundred fifty thousand
views in like maybe five hours, just instantly blew up.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
Comments.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
I think you're given credit for the Taylor Swift. That's you,
that's you, that's that's you.

Speaker 9 (14:49):
I don't know about that, yes, but it just it
just speaks to how again Rabbid her fan bases to
come see her, to take in any content she offers.
They support her in so many ways that it's just insane.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Do you think that I'd be curious because I like concerts,
but I'm not like one of those concerts are life,
And I know there are a lot of people out
there like concerts are life, and certainly there are people
that Taylor Swift like after the concert, do you get
that action? Because I just found it so hard. Yeah,
Like that's what I never feel like I got out
of a concert and was like that was amazing. You know,
it's just always like that's over, and I kind of

(15:24):
feel a little disappointed and.

Speaker 9 (15:26):
Not I'm sad because I'm not in the moment do
you feel fulfilled?

Speaker 5 (15:29):
But I find this really interesting because I'm not a
concert person, as you guys know, but just the differences
in experience that you you you both want to listen
to live music and you're interested in going, but you're
never really there's only been a couple of ID is
just depressed that it's over. She wants it to last longer, right, Yeah?

(15:51):
Is that accurate?

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Interesting to me?

Speaker 3 (15:53):
I would say eighty five percent of the concerts I've
been to, I'm ready for them to just be over
by the end. Like there's never been oh, just one
more song. I've never like, maybe once at the Greek
Theater in La which I just love because you could sit,
You're in a beautiful place. I saw, you know, a
band that I liked at the time, and it was
and it wasn't like a huge crowd rush. But I
know everybody there's you know, there's just people who love

(16:14):
concerts and it's like their whole life, and I don't
know that's never been quite neat as much as I like,
maybe I.

Speaker 9 (16:18):
Haven't been to enough, and I like when I go
it's someone I really love their music, I really support them,
So maybe it's a little different.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
Right at the end of a concert when you go
to do you go to concerts? I know you used
to blow off, like editing the paper to Eagles it
was Pink Floyd. Actually, no, it was the Eagles at Fenway.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Wasn't it take it easy?

Speaker 6 (16:37):
No, it was staying. It was this police. It was
the police at Fenway.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
It was the police that right there encapsulated Paul relationship police.
It was the police anyway, So it was game when
you had done well, okay, so those papers didn't matter.
I guess when you're done listening.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
To the concert, you should know how to do it,
but they go ahead.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
When you're done with.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
The concert, do you have a feeling of like satisfaction,
that was great, that was exhilarating, or do you have
a feeling of sort of depression that the concert is
over and you wanted more or somewhere in between.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
I don't know. I've never been to a concert where,
like I I think I walked out and was like, oh,
I wish there were more. Yeah, like I'm I'm kind
of like that's enough.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
So you're more like Mike.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
But but I'm exhilarated, but like, yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
You're probably more enthusiastic, but more like Mike. Whereas Alex
says a lot of times she leaves a concert and
she's bummed that it's over.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
She like she wants more, she's hopped up on drugs.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
That true.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
I don't do drugs. Oh my god. We had Chris
gogloss Is going away party.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
What was the bill anymore?

Speaker 8 (17:49):
What was the bill?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (17:51):
I don't think we could say, because I only drink.

Speaker 8 (17:53):
Water the entire time.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Do not know.

Speaker 8 (17:56):
I don't know. I used to drink. I used to
do that. I went to you, you know, like, yeah,
I used to drink.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
I can't trust people.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
It's just zoom ass they call it.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
But no, they had we had a going away thing
for one of our people, Chris, and I could only
stay for like the first forty five minutes, so I
gave I gave my card. I said, you know, just
put it on the card, so you know, ten o'clock
at night, I get a fraud alert, you know, so
and it was like, you know, for six hundred dollars
six drinks. I'm like, oh, okay, you know, I approve it.

(18:28):
The next day I see two postings each for over
eight hundred bucks. So the whole thing was over sixteen
hundred dollars. And like who showed up? Because when I
left there were like, you know, like twelve people.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
I left there, five thirty had water and like three
could we like buy the whole bar drinks?

Speaker 5 (18:43):
And before the call start coming in asking how many
mill of lights I had, I was not there. Yeah,
I had a lacrosse game for TJ, so I could
not attend. So I do not want to take any
blame for the sixteen hundred.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
So Neil, our social media guy, wasn't ards in my
car and I said, so, you know who showed up?
He goes pr three people.

Speaker 8 (19:04):
Stacey walked over. Stace Nicolette at first was in charge.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
Of the card and she didn't want that retard and I.

Speaker 9 (19:10):
Obviously were sitting next to each other and Stacy comes
over and it's like, hey, Nicolette, I heard who's who's
covering this?

Speaker 8 (19:18):
And she's like, oh, I have Fred's card, and he's like, okay, cool.
I just wanted to make.

Speaker 9 (19:21):
Sure like someone was in charge of the tab, like Stacy,
you just wanted to make sure this was free, right, right, right,
But it was.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
That's ah, it's a big tab.

Speaker 8 (19:33):
It didn't feel like that many people. It couldn't have been.
Don't feel more than twenty.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
But you must have got a lot of food, right,
But I'm not complaining.

Speaker 8 (19:40):
I didn't personally order anything.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
I'm happy everybody had a good time. But I'm just a.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Little just washing her hands experience, Like how much.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Food did I had? Water?

Speaker 8 (19:51):
There were a couple a couple of people ordered burgers
for themselves, and then there was like two things of
like those egg rolls. We had some wings.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, there was a little app assortment at the table.
There was like a little this.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
Way, like I don't know how many how many people
would you say, we're there under twenty Okay, let's say
there were sixteen people. That's a hundred bucks ahead.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
They were drinking those seltzers.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
I wonder if we got screwed, I would like it.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
And if that's all the people that were in, I
was thinking there was a lot of other people.

Speaker 8 (20:21):
I wasn't six o'clock too.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
Oh so there was definitely people that stage.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
I left before that.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
But if there's twenty people, like one hundred bucks a person,
that's a lot.

Speaker 9 (20:31):
People were really just drinking, like beers and seltzers. Who know,
one was really drinking. I think had a glass of
wine and just one and then because then.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
It was there were two different charges, each for like
eight hundred and change.

Speaker 8 (20:40):
I would look into it.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
I guess what happened is.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
I wonder they were supposed to be one eight hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
No, no, no, I checked into it. They were in one
place in the bar, had to move them, so they
closed that one out and started a new one.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I would have been like, it's eight hundred bucks. I
think we're done.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Yeah, No, I figured when I got the first thing,
I was like, oh, okay, you know, but then it
was more than double.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
But I've been part of many of those, unfortunately, because
we've lost a lot of good, good workers, you know,
good coworkers over the years. I don't remember like the
bill being sixteen hundred dollars. I don't remember a crowd
big enough for that's.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah, that's more than an almost Yeah, So that was
that's kind of weird. Anyway, Well, after that great schedule
release video, you.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Know, Yeah, so the one thing about the schedule that
I you know, like I'm not a huge like you know,
oh thank god the schedules out now, you know, other
than professionally so we know what we're doing. I didn't
think there were any like really overly interesting sequences. You know.
Sometimes it's like, did you guys see the Giant schedule?
I think they have something like seven of their first

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nine games around the road. It's like that's insane, Like.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
There must be stuff going on at the stadium that
they had to avoid.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, I mean I didn't, you know, I didn't look
into it that much. But like that's that to me
is going to be tough for the Giants to overcome.
Like I didn't the Patriots had anything like that, Like.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
Well, they made three primetime in a row late in
the season. It is gonna be tough.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, but why but a little bit of a break?

Speaker 6 (22:08):
But why?

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Why? But why is that tough? I don't know.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
Enough because they're three primetime games in a row.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
I mean, they had four in a row last year
scheduled and it help one of them but that's not
why never mind. Yeah, I mean like they didn't have
like a you know, four you know, four out of
five on the road in the middle of the season,
which can be really you know, a really tough stretch
or you know, you know, five games and twenty five
days kind of deal in the you know, I don't

(22:35):
I didn't like go back and look at it. I
didn't see anything like that.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Ever.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
It seems pretty managed in those situations though with the
short weeks like pile up on top of each other
sometimes can make the spot of the game, yeah, more difficult.
I didn't see anything that made anything really easier for
the Patriots or harder. No, I just thought it was
a run of the mill. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
They only a little interesting thing which neither easier nor harder,
was just the all the division games were grouped together
in little two packs, you know, And that's why I
just thought was interesting. I always look at the AFC
East games first and how do those kind of match up,
and you know, it's a little bit more spread out,
but just all those are three different pockets of it.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
And I didn't go back and look, I know, Mike,
Mike Reese wrote something about none none of the teams
that are playing are coming off of by. Sometimes those
little things can be factors where you know you're you're
facing a team coming off of by three or four times,
and that could could be an advantage, it could be
a disadvantage because sometimes teams coming off of bye or
rusty and they don't play well.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
Yeah. I think they got a good draw playing the
Colts in Germany.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, Paul had a good point on that.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
That's I mean, if you're a Patriots fan, I think
that's the game that you would have picked. Yeah, you know,
like I think I could make an argument for Washington, Indie,
New Olens. This is probably three of the weaker out
of the nine scheduled home opponents. But Washington and New
owns you don't get to regularly see Indy, you know,

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they're here a lot.

Speaker 10 (24:03):
Yea.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
The only thing is if that's week ten or nine,
something like that. Yeah, Anthony Richardson will probably be playing
by that time. And I think, you know, if an
average fan you go to a game, I wouldn't mind
seeing him play.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Sure, Yeah, Evan's here, Hey, Evans we go. Hey, what
did you think of the schedule? Evan?

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Uh? I think that this year. What I found interesting
was that they did break up the west coast of
it all. You know, there's no Vegas Broncos double.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
I was happy to back that. Yeah, I've had enough
of that long road.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah, from what I understand, we asked for it to
break it up, No, to have oh really interesting. Oh
but that's that's unofficial buttons for Puny people that I've.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
People I've talked to in the organization. Interesting.

Speaker 9 (24:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
I I went with Fred on that I felt like
there are too many trips last year, and especially when
you throw Germany in this year, that having another in
season week long escapade might have not been the best
for the team. But I think the main thing is
you look at this schedule. There's a lot of great
quarterbacks on the schedule, which we knew beforehand, but I
think just looking at it in order, it really shows

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how many great quarterbacks they do play. And we did
our little schedule release video yesterday with me and Deuce,
and I think the biggest thing is you look at
that back half of the schedule and those games where
they're playing quarterbacks that aren't Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen
and Aaron Rodgers, there's a couple, you know, Daniel Jones,
Russell Wilson, will see what he ends up being and
who was the last one that I'm blanking on, but

(25:45):
back out how Sam Howell or whoever it is starting
for the Commanders. You know, those are games that I
feel like now the Patriots kind of are must wins
looking at the schedule, and you don't want to get
into a position certainly coming out of the gate too.
That's that's a tough four games to start with than
we know. Statistically, you start zero and two, you start
owing three, you can forget about it. I mean, even

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though in two is a very difficult hole to get
out of. So they're gonna have to find a way
to at least split the first four games of the
season to really give themselves a chance.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah. I mean, it's good that the first two games
are at home, but yeah, Miami Eagles, you're playing.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
The Yeah, and the fact that you play in Miami
so early. And I know this is an awful thing
to say, but I don't mean it to be like
disrespectful and insensitive. But two was probably going to be healthy. Yeah, right,
It's only it's only week two. Whereas if you played
them week nine. The way he's been going for the
first quarter, you know, like you know, the chances of
him being healthy eight nine, ten games in a row

(26:43):
probably not as big. You know, the week two, you
know you're probably gonna have to face Miami close to
full strength.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yeah, first like six d eight weeks of the season.
Last year, they had the best offense in football right
until he got hurt. So it's a it's a tough draw.
I think, Filly, youre out of the gate. I said
it last week. I think when we kind I heard
the rumors that that's what it was going to be.
We want to tell you, want to tell Fred what
you just said last week. It's a bad matchup. There's
no way they I didn't say there's no way they
can win that game. I said that I would be

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surprised if they won that game.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
Well, they definitely will go in as the underdog.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
It's a really tough matchup.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
You know, that's not a shocker.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Who are you picking?

Speaker 6 (27:20):
We'll see how ty can't look.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Let me put you this way to be put to
put a positive spin on it. If the Patriots defense
goes out there and is very, very competitive against that
Eagles offense and the way that their personnel fits together.
I'm going to be really intrigued and optimistic about the
defense for the rest of the season. They can shut
down a guy like Jalen Hurts, who's that that type

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of player at quarterback has killed them for a decade.
If they can go out there and and shut down
Jalen Hurts, then I think that defense is not, you know,
to Paul's point, is not the defense last year that
that got beat by most of the good quarterbacks that
they play. That's a defense that I can now stand
up to some of the better quid.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Flip it to the other side of the ball too.
If the offense can hold up against you know, that
Eagles front, you know, and all the pieces that they have,
and they've added that they are good test for you know,
maybe Riley Reef.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, we just talked to Riley Reef, and you know,
I was like, so, Hassan Reddick week one has that
you know. I know I didn't ask him that, but.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
That didn't retire that.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
That's something that you look at, you know, certainly with
both they have bookend rushers and then they have guys
on the inside too. So It's not like you can
chip and double all game long on those outside guys. Otherwise,
you know, Jordan Davis is gonna be Jordan.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Davis against Cold Strange. I mean, talk about a guy
that's gonna give cold Strange at least rookie cold Strange problems.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
You know that with his son. They got Jalen Carter too.
So yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
So one other schedule note that we learned today is
that the preseason game in Tennessee is on Friday night,
twenty fifth. I want to say, yeah, so that's a
little bit of good news because there was some I
mean for us, let me, I understand the fans don't care.

(29:02):
There was talking originally that that was going to be
a Saturday night game. Yeah, so it's going to be
Friday night.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
I think there's still a Proach Engstein concert going on here. Yeah, no,
not till Saturday Thursday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night. That's weird.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
What do we think about for you?

Speaker 5 (29:15):
And if you're coming, I.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Was thinking, I go out for a little you know,
born to run and you'll pump my head out if
if we had the chance.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
I just meant like postgame, being able to actually drive home, right,
it's it's a night, that's a game change.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
What do we think about the Brady announcement that week
the season opener will be Brady halftime.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Well, I had to talk a few people off the
ledge because I think people didn't hear like this is
just the beginning of it, and you know that's it.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
We did.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
We did talk about I think they should do.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
More, said this is the first of many.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
I went on the New England Football Journal podcast last
night with those guys and they asked me a question
about it, and Kevin Stone, who's you know, great guy,
covered this the team around here a lot. He was like,
you know, Mike, like, I just remember going back to
you know, when Larry Bird and they had this set
and he starts like kind of describing the Larry Bird
thing to me, and I was like, look like I
can't really say anything, but just trust me. Everybody understands

(30:08):
that this is Tom Brady and that halftime is not
going to just cut it with and there he is. Okay,
get him off the field. We got to play the second.
Like everybody understand. Only way something like that would end
up being it is if that is specifically the only
way that Tom will do it right, he doesn't want
because I can promise you that the organization wants to
do it quote unquote right, oh.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yeah, yeah. I like that it's in week one. I look,
I love Tom Brady. I'm glad he's coming back. I'm
I'm going to be there and we're all going to
be happy about it. But just spinning it to actual football.
I remember that Bucks game and it was in week four,
and it felt like the whole first month of the
season was just all about building up to week four.

(30:49):
So in week one, I think it's good you get
it out of the way. It doesn't linger into your
season as something that you know is going to come
down the pipeline, and you kind of move on from
it quickly. And I feel like the head coach might
have influenced to say, hey, let's not do this like
in the middle of the year. Let's do this right
out of the gate and get it over with respectfully.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
And you know, like I'm sure the fans, well, there'll
be some carryover from the ceremony, but it's at halftime
and the team is in the locker room. They don't
have to like sit there and watch it. It's not
like pregame or anything like that. So I don't I
think it'll have minimal effect on, you know, the players themselves,
which some people said was kind of a worry that,

(31:29):
oh Brady's gonna overshadow and Max's gonna you know, it's
going to affect Mac. I don't think it should.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
I agree with you. Yeah, no, I don't think it
has anything to do with the current team.

Speaker 9 (31:38):
If anything, it should just be motivation to uphold the
tradition we have here. And yeah, like I don't know,
it's not like no one's jersey's been retired during a
game or no one's had a ceremony before.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
What did you think about? So the announcement comes out,
Robert Craft announced it on Good Morning Football, and then
maybe a day later or a couple of days later
it was revealed or was that night. There's a report
that he's in talks with Vegas to be part owner.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, I mean, I I mean, based on what you've
heard from the Raiders about their money situation, and I'm
sure Tom Brady he got some money, so I I mean,
it kind of makes sense from a business standpoint to me.
It seems like he wants to be involved at that
level of the NFL.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
I mean, he poked around with Miami to the point
where the Dolphins got in trouble over it. And I
think Mark Davis is I don't think he's not married.
He has no children, Like, there's no heirs to the
throne here, like you know, is maybe that a well
chosen owner to try to siddle up with He just
I mean, I know that it's not the same, but

(32:36):
he just bought a steak in the the w NBA
team right in Vegas.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
Oh did he?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Right?

Speaker 5 (32:42):
Alex the w NBA talk Because I'm a mail but
I mean, I think it makes a little.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
I don't think it's interesting though, because all right, let's
just say he becomes the owner of Vegas. What happens
to his broadcasting career? You can't have a part owner
of well, there was already laying an objective. But like
a week ago or two weeks ago, Andrew Mashant had
a I think New York Post the story saying that
he is hearing that there's a very good chance that

(33:10):
he will never do it. I said that the minute
they signed he signed that off. Yeah, he'll never do it.
But then you know, beyond that, so he's got this
Brady brand, which he doesn't want just people from Vegas buying.
Does it hurt his marketing, you know, to the world
if he's part owner of an individual team. I don't know.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
It seems like I mean, and this is kind of
goes back to the last couple of years with his
career where he just kind of felt like he's been
wishy washy on all lot of stuff, and he's in
on things and then out on things, and you know,
even with players like I'd like.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
To see the numbers on the Brady thing, on the TV.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
Twelve thing, Yeah, I would. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
I wonder if that's d.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Is he trying to unload it?

Speaker 6 (33:48):
Is that maybe? Yeah, it could be speaking of numbers
and this is just off topic. You just made me
think of it. Everybody likes the new rules in Major
League Baseball. How is it affecting ratings? Because everyone said
and more people gonna watch. But I don't hear MLB
coming out and say, look at the ratings, and that's
always a red flat to me that they're not that
much better than last year.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
That's a good question. I don't have the answer.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Have you watched any of the Paul, because I know
you're like kind of out on them.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
I watch almost every game Red Sox that I can't.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
I don't watch a ton, but I am every night
like I always watch the Red Sox kind of the
same way since you know, since they started winning championships.
And I got that because I mean there was a
time where I was a psychotic. But I watch now
in passing and I will click it on to see
what the story of the game is, because that's the
beauty of baseballs. You don't have to sit there and
watch every pitch to know the story of the game.

(34:40):
And it's amazing. Every time I do it. It'll be
like in the commercial of one of my random sitcoms
that I'm watching Mike, and it's like the top of
the seventh inning, like you look, it's like nine to ten,
and it's the game's almost over. It's it's working. Now Again,
I'm not the target audience because I'm not watching every
game the way a lot of people do. But I mean,

(35:02):
in terms of the times of the game, it's absolutely
But have ratings.

Speaker 11 (35:05):
Improved that scene They've improved seven percent since last year.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Okay, seven percent that's good, and it's also not yet
at a time. I mean, is that I wonder if
that is.

Speaker 6 (35:15):
Is that here or overall that year.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
That's overall MLB? Each team is showing different numbers?

Speaker 5 (35:20):
Is that from last year to this point? So it's
year to year over year?

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Because the Yankees are up nine percent?

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Because I do think it's it's interesting that, you know,
like for Boston as an example, the Bruins got knocked out,
the Celtics are still going strong. That's got to cut
into the Red Sox ratings. People haven't turned their complete
attention to the Red Sox yet, not to.

Speaker 9 (35:40):
Mention watching the Red Sox is more difficult with the
nests in three sixty and the packages you have to have.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
I haven't did anything. I get all the games.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, he's just talking about streaming and stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
I don't have cable, so I, oh, you don't have cable.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Well, I mean, you know you don't want to pay
for anything.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
You know I pay for plenty of trust me.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
No, the I think there's like one game, right, it's
like a Friday. There's like random Friday Night on Apple TV.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Yeah, that doesn't happen very often.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
It's but most of the games are on regular You
don't have regular nesson.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
No because she doesn't have cable. She streams and he's
not on like FU and stuff like that. Actually, I
take that back. It is on Fubo. It's not on
on YouTube TV anymore, I don't think, right. Yeah, so
all these people have been telling me to cut the.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
And then you build back up to what you're on
and eventually you get to where you were paying comcasts.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
But you just never know. That's what it sounds like
to me, that one channel you want, you know, like
that one channel you're like.

Speaker 9 (36:45):
Oh my mom got rid of cable. My stepdad is
three months later beside himself still.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
Plus he's really good white because of all.

Speaker 8 (36:53):
Of the channels.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
But you're right white like nessing. To me, that would
be a deal breaker.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
Like I watched I watched the Bruins, I watched the
the Red Sox. You know, I need lessen.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Yeah, Charlie Moore, Uh, we watch a lot of baseball
in our house. And at first in April, the new
pace of play was fantastic. I was like, oh, this
is great, Like this is exactly what you want now
that we're you know, in mid may the the newness
of it is sort of worn off a little bit
where I'm starting to feel like games are missed, the

(37:23):
game are dragging, but they.

Speaker 5 (37:25):
Still feel like they're they're over quick. They're not, they
are but even last night it's.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
It's certainly way, way, way better than it used to be.
But I just think now I'm like, this is becoming
the norm, right, so now it's it's yeah, did you
watch the last thing last night with a position guy pitch?
I think now we turned it off. At that point, I.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Was literally throwing in the forties.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah, yeah, he's throwing pitches up there. I think the
biggest thing for baseball now that this is a baseball show.
But and Mike and Paul you have you know, kids,
and that are that Like my cousins could not watch
a second of baseball, Like and my cousin, you know,
they're they're teenagers. And my cousin played baseball in high
school four years on varsity at Hoffington High shout out

(38:09):
and uh yeah, Hiller's and he doesn't watch the second
of it. I'm like, what do you you play in college?
You're you're a baseball player.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
Like, the only time my kids watch it is if
they go yeah, like every one so, and they were gonna,
my will was gonna go Sunday night because I guess
they have tickets for high school kids that are like
eight bucks. So a bunch of a bunch of his boys.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
We're gonna go in.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
And then we're like, you know what, by the time
the selicks are over and you get all the way in,
it's not gonna work, right. So they ended up not
doing it. But that's the only time that either one
of my kids watches the game as if they go.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, and that's a that's their big problem. But I
think with the pace of play they're trying. I think
what baseball needs to recognize is that it's got a
certain demographic that it's always gonna have because we're all
gonna watch baseball. But just you kind of have to
forget about trying to appeal to the kids. Like the
kids are just not gonna watch it.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
They can't forget or else they're dead. They're gonna figure
it out.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
Watching it as a kid. It's hard to imagine all
of a sudden when they're forty they just say, you
know what, I'm gonna stop watching.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
It, right right, But you know. They The reason why
I feel like a lot of sports like that do
appeal to kids, appeal to kids is because you know,
the highlights right on TikTok on Twitter, Like you're scrolling
on your phone and there here's this Jason Tatum dunk, right,
and then you just watch the ten seconds of the
you know what I mean. But with baseball, they just
do do not do a great job as a league

(39:27):
of playing into that. And I think a lot of
the problem is that some of their players are on
obscure teams that nobody cares about. Like, you know, the
best player in maybe all of sports is show Heyo Tani.
Nobody is better than that guy in terms of what
he can do on a baseball field. And he plays
for the Angels in the middle of nowhere in Anaheim,
and and there's no fan fa with another superstar who's

(39:50):
also died in Anaheim, and there's no it's on the
West Coast, it's it's you know, ten o'clock is there
is their first pitch most nights, and nobody's an Angel
fans like, there's no fan base regardless.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
And hockey's got similar problems with you know, Edmonton being
on it. What last game was ten pm?

Speaker 4 (40:07):
The game, right, but at least that was that. But
at least in Edmonton, the fans are rabbit, you know,
are crazy about the Oilers because it's Canada, it's hockey.
But when I lived out in l A. And I
know you lived out there much longer than I did, Like,
did anybody talk about the Angel La.

Speaker 9 (40:22):
Talk about any other sports the Red Sox were in town.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
There's Lakers, Dodgers, Lakers.

Speaker 8 (40:28):
Dodge like in a playoff run though no.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
No, no, no, Lakers, Lakers Dodgers is there's.

Speaker 8 (40:33):
Always Lakers are legit? Are there really rabid? I don't know. Dodgers, well,
they have like regular season game.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
Like early, but they do care. Yeah, if that makes sense.
The only difference I would say about the Lakers and
the Dodgers was that when I would go to Dodgers
Red Sox games, Boston would take over the park. When
you go to the point when you go to Celtics
Lakers games, you're outnumbered significantly by the Lakers. And actually
it's it was to the point where it was it's

(41:00):
almost hard to get tickets to Celtics Lakers.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
That's the difference to Yeah, it's the size of the buildings.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Clippers like Celtics was. You know, you could walk in
and get a ticket right, go right over to the right.
But when in terms of you know, real passion, I
think you got it. It's the Lakers for sure.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
All right, lots of stuff on the table. Web radio
at patries dot com is the email address. Let's start
with the emails because we usually start with calls, but
we'll start with the emails today. This one caught my eye.
For those who remember Eric, this is from Alec who
was from Plymouth, mass via the UK, San Antonio, New Zealand,

(41:39):
Australia and Delaware. I guess I started following your show
just before leaving Australia for Germany in May twenty one.
Eric Scalavino was still part of the lineup, and boy,
it did not take long the first five minutes of
the show to realize that Eric is and was the
pompous one, somewhat inflated sense of self and for no
particular reason, owing to any not owing to any noteworthy accomplishments.

(42:02):
He has come up a lot lately in your show,
so I decided to see what he's been up to
these days. It's not immediately apparent what he is doing
from his LinkedIn page, but my eyes were drawn to
two things. First, he gloats writing has become prominent in
my career, in which I consider myself an artist who
frequently paints with words, which to me is ironic. This
is me talking because when he paints, he paints by numbers,

(42:24):
so anyway, so eloquent. But then again his name. He
named his animal charity Nutmeg. Second, it appears he has
run out of paint, as LinkedIn tells the visitor that
Eric hasn't posted lately ten months. I guess the great
artist is awaiting his muse. I must admit I do
miss Eric on the show, but only for the comedic
gold that he brought into his banter with Fred and

(42:46):
Paul as the butt of their piss takes. In this sense,
I do miss the scale character, especially during the off
season on the football side of things, where Eric was absent.
The addition of Evan has been great. His character is
definitely that of a no nonsense x'es and o's guys,
but he's been showing more of his personality lately. As

(43:07):
for Alex and Tamara, I'm still waiting to see how
they're on air. Personas will develop. So there you go,
there's a little Eric update.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
You want to take over. You hate Tom Brady, you
can have that one for me if you want. You
could be the Tom Brady resident. Tom Brady hater.

Speaker 8 (43:21):
My dog's named Brady.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
But nobody would do that.

Speaker 8 (43:24):
Well, we have.

Speaker 9 (43:25):
Listeners that are stalking people's LinkedIn to see so they
would go to my Instagram, they would see Brady.

Speaker 8 (43:30):
It would instantly get through.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
What was the line that Eric grot in his bio
on LinkedIn? He's an artist with people think I.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
Have, Yeah, you don't even know how to spell you.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I mean, I will say Eric is a really good writer,
though you know, like's it's one thing like he certainly
that's a little bit much. But but he's doing well.
I I had I gotta get together with him. We've
been texting a little bit. We've talked about maybe going
down to Providence Salmon some breakfast something. But I know
he did really well on Fiver. He got he was like,
you know, part of like a writing program among amongst Fiver.

(44:07):
That's like kind of next level, I think, And he
was like writing speeches for people and doing all kinds
of writing.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
And now I know he's working.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
At a hospital in Great Rhode Island and loving life.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
That's exassance man.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
Oh yeah yeah, just ask him. Duncan in Boston, UK,
Isaiah Winn has left the building for a shot with
the Patriots reserve team known as the Miami Dolphins. When
flattered to deceive, he was never all in a waste
of talent who appeared to prefer doing anything but actually
playing football. Good riddance. The Patriots' schedule appears is tough,

(44:48):
a tough one, especially early season matchups Denver away on
Christmas Eve is an absolute shocker. What a great idea
of sending them to the West Coast. Well, somebody had
to go. Surely a matchup.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Against coast they could have had, like Vegas go. That's
a brutal beat.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
Surely a matchup against an East Coast team would have
been more logical. A totally crappy NFL decision, not gonna
blow smoke up your asses. You all know you all
make Patriots unfiltered gray keep being great. So that's Duncan
in Boston, UK.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
I appreciate Duncan understanding how ridiculous Christmas, even primetime on
the road is on the West Coast, I thank you,
duncan do we know is.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
That flexible or not? Do we ever come to us
as I've asked.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
I've asked a few people, and our assumption is that
it's not flexible, but nobody knows for sure. Everybody is
quick to say, I don't know the answer to that
with certainty. So because if it, if it's flexible, I
think there's a really good chance of that game gets flexed.
But I don't. It's not a Sunday night football game.

(45:51):
It's a game that's being played on Sunday night.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
I gotcha.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
It's on NFL network.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
It's a special it's a special occasion. So I'm not
positive for ruining our holiday. And I know, yeah, your
special occasion, I believe me. I yeah it is. Now,
wait aren't they playing on the first side of I can't.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
I can't even explain to you how disappointed I am
about it. I really can't.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
I actually don't even know what hankakah is anymore. I
just I've been and turned to the dark line.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
Like I was figured. Like obviously there's a full slate
of games on Christmas Eve, so I knew we were
going to have for the second year in a row,
game on Christmas Eve. But I didn't think they I
didn't think they would have a night game. Yeah on
Destmas Eve.

Speaker 8 (46:30):
Yeah yeah, it was like one o'clock.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
It doesn't matter where it is. If they play at
eight fifteen, you don't have any Christmas Eve, right, doesn't
matter if it's here or New York or Denver.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
I'm just gonna get home on Christmas Day morning and
just go right to the tree and be like, all.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
Right, let's I'll be coming in hot with Santa.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Yeah, here we go.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Put together present when you get in Sean and Vancouver.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
I agree that the Patriots should be better. My expectations
are not as high because the rest of the AFC,
and especially AFC East, are better. I am predicting so wins,
but the Patriots are a better team than twenty twenty two.
The schedule is very challenging. I don't see any gimmes.
I'm more likely to pencil in losses than wins. My
real hope is that mac Jones looks better and the

(47:12):
team can grow in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
So that's what's funny.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
I mean, I think last year we all ak. You know,
you're just hoping that no matter how that season kind
of went that or maybe this was even more the
rookie year, you just wanted to feel like there was
some hope.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
We talk about you know that season Paul with with.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Bledsoe that you know, like they won what a bunch
of games down the stretch, and you.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
Felt like they had the makings of something.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
And I feel like these last two seasons are the
furthest thing from that. The last two seasons have ended,
You're like, thank God, it's over. Like they got nothing
this year. You know, there was no real like excitement
to carry over from them. Maybe that's why I've got
that excitement now.

Speaker 5 (47:45):
And that's why I agree with the way that email
based on the way we talked at the beginning, Like
I think that they could win seven games and you
feel better about the team than we did last year. Yeah,
Like to Fred's point, where you're looking at them potentially
mach up better against some of the higher level competition,
and if that happens and mac Jones looks better, the

(48:06):
offense looks better, and they just appear more competitive in
those situations, I think you can live with the fact
that Okay, they didn't make the playoffs and they didn't
have as many wins asy did last year, but they're
hitting in the right direction.

Speaker 9 (48:19):
The arrow was pointing up, especially with the quarterbacks we
played last year, like maybe we squeezed out more wins,
but okay, it's a third string quarterback that's not gonna.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Year probably will with that many what happens. Everyone negative,
but he he's negative with a smile on his face.
So it just comes off different than I have no
hope about this team.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
Steph Gilmour.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Yeah right, Oh, he's so.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
He's trash talker like most of those corners.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
He doesn't say anything about because I know I'm about
to you know, I'm about to put the seeds out,
like you know, I'm about to fertilize the field, and
you guys are all.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Going to know.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
But I think that you know, like Kevan talked about
that Philly game, you go into Philly and that's an
offense that's a little different, can be high powered if
you look better against a mobile quarterback and maybe confuse
him a little bit, and you know, don't allow you know,
Smith and Brown to really control like that'll be really
they might lose the game because the other team's just better, right,

(49:19):
they have better players, but they're competitive against it.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
I think as we're talking about this more, it's coming,
like our earlier conversation about how you feel, it's coming
clearer to me, and I feel like I just I
want to feel good about the young guys, you know,
Like I want to come out of the season feeling like,
you know, just as an example, not saying like these
are the guys, but if you're to come out of
the season and say, Wow, Taekwon Thornton's we've got we
got something going there, you know, if you could say
Thornton to Mario Douglas and Christian Goanzalez and you say

(49:43):
those three guys and problems, you know. But I'm just
I'm throwing a random you know, I mean a random
little like wow, out of nowhere. This kid, he's a
nice little slot receiver that's gonna play.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
Like I think that's that's what you're looking for, is like,
can we can we get a significant jump from a
guy who you know was a young player, Like I
think Borton's a great pick with that got it, got
it too well.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
If he doesn't, if he doesn't do well, then they'd
really need to again reassess how they assessed that position
and how they coach that position, because at some point
you have to think about development. And you know, I
know Nikhil Harry probably was never going to be a
great player, but he certainly could have given you more
than what he gave you on his rookie contract. And
then if Tykwon Thornton goes down a similar path, then

(50:30):
you're having a bigger picture conversation about that position. I
think at that point.

Speaker 6 (50:34):
Mowen Rhode Island says, don't sleep on the Patriots team.
We were a stupid lateral away from the playoffs last
year with that so called NFL offense. I still cannot
believe we bought in a d C as our oc.
But on to twenty twenty three.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
Mike, you want to handle that one. You're so good
at it. Paul, I'm gonna let you know.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
I figured you were going to say yeah, and you
were a quarterback injury away from being further under five
hundred Skyler Thompson, you're a sky Thompson away from yeah.
And just the only thing I'll push back on, and
I know it's not the point of the email, it's like, okay,
so if they did in the lateral, it they would
have been an overtime. I know everybody in New England
is completely convinced that they actually won that game until
the lateral. But it was tied when the lateral happened, that.

Speaker 6 (51:19):
They were They were a bad review away from just
outright winning. It wouldn't have had to have the lateral.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
I actually talked to the director or something. I thought
that they still don't have an angle.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
No, they had the angle. We saw it. It's toes
on the white. Okay, I'm sorry, I just remember didn't
have it, but I saw it. It was on the internet.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Sorry, Frank.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
You have an open air press box in Vegas, which
is awesome because it's a dome so it's open air,
and I think all of us were just it's tie,
you're but all Patriots fans are completely convinced. No, no, no,
they were actually winning when they did that. I agree
with the other email, though, like when you really I
did the wins and losses thing the other day, just
on you know, in my head, and I was like, okay,

(52:08):
I could realistically see seven wins on this schedule right now,
and in some weird way you that might actually end
up being better. I think you could be better and
win less games.

Speaker 6 (52:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
And I also would say that I'm gonna I'm reserving
my official record judgment until I see Mac Jones in
a training camp with Bill O'Brien, because that could change
everything if we get out to training camp. And I
would say, mainly enjoint practices with Green Bay and Nashville
and Tennessee. Excuse me, in Nashville, those are the that's
the real, the real deal, Like, that's when it really

(52:42):
starts to show itself. And if we get there and
by the end of the week in Nashville, I'm like,
you know, Mac Jones looks like a different guy. Yeah, Fred, No, hear.
I'm not over because you because you don't do that.
I'm just saying they will in general, because he looked

(53:02):
good last spring. Last spring in OTAs, he was dropping
dimes to trade Nixon down the field.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
I remember, No, you don't remember, Yeah, no, I remember
the place to trade Nixon. I just don't remember that
I was up right.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
That's the one thing that I've learned in my young
career is spring practices mean mean Jack, they mean you know,
my first year, Maurice Harris had this great mini camp
in Ota, and I was all in on Marie too.
Yeah yeah, nineteen Washington, Yeah, and I thought I was like, oh,
this guy's going to be not not a you know,
a thousand yard receiver, but it contributed there. And then

(53:36):
all of a sudden he was off the team like
two weeks into training camps. So it means nothing.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
I just wonder what are the what's the fallout of
a looked better.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
But only won seven games?

Speaker 6 (53:46):
Again?

Speaker 4 (53:47):
You know that that's the question. What are the crafts
think about? That's what I don't hate the cop out.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
But if we go out of twenty twenty three saying
we've got our quarterback, I think that's huge.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
That's what I was. I think the cop out if
you when you look at it and you watch it,
you know, like you have an idea.

Speaker 6 (54:03):
If we go out of twenty twenty three and we're
looking for a quarterback, that changes.

Speaker 10 (54:07):
Ever.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
So let's say, for arguments sake, you win seven games,
but you know, just randomly you almost have Buffalo. You're
down ten going to the fore almost No, No, you're down
ten going to the fourth quarter in Dallas and mack
leads two touchdown drives. That's one of your seven wins.
And then you know, a few weeks later, you know

(54:28):
they win like forty one thirty eight over another really
good team, you know, Kansas City. Okay, but you're not
that good. So you ended up seven and you know,
seven and ten. At least you could look at it
from Fred's point of view and say, well, Bill O'Brien
did what we all hoped he would. He fixed the offense,
and Mac Jones looks like he's definitely worthy of picking

(54:49):
up that fifty year option, and you got your guy. Yeah,
but maybe you're just not quite good enough to beat
all of those teams. You can pull up sets now,
and you can pull up sets not because the other
team team had to play in them monsoon, not because
the other team had to play with their third string quarterback,
but because your quarterback, I'll play the other team stud
who was healthy?

Speaker 6 (55:09):
Right, And now that it changes the draft, it changes
free agency. If you know Mac is the guy, now
you're just stocking up David and Bethlen says, what if
the Patriots beat the Eagles? Do you think the Patriots
could go ten and seven? If they start off the
season by.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Beating the Eagles.

Speaker 6 (55:27):
Could that propel them to a ten and seventh season?
Because now you're getting one that you probably thought was
a loss.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Well, I think that's the biggest thing is when I
was doing the wins losses thing, I always do. Definite
games I think are L's. Definite games I think are
wins and then coin flip games and the games that
I think are L's. It's just like, it's hard to
talk to yourself. How are you? How is mac Jones?
Are we going to see an offense that can go
out and go toe to toe with Josh Allen and

(55:55):
beat Buffalo? Like? Is that going to be different Dallas
his rookie year? They couldn't stop Dak Prescott at all.
You know, the defense got shredded in that game. They
gave up like six hundred yards. And so where where
are those tides going to turn in their favor? Can
they win a game that I am saying in May

(56:16):
fifteenth that they shouldn't win? Can one of those games
be flipped to a win?

Speaker 5 (56:20):
And do you ever do that the exercise that the
wins losses? So when I do that, believe it or not,
I tend to put more wins down than my head
actually thinks, because I've seen it so many times with
this team. They find like if you go into a season,
there's six games that you think, or like Evan's thinking
about Philadelphia, this is a loss. This is a lot

(56:43):
that it never works out that you lose them, all right.
Usually you know, something happens, you win a game that
you weren't expecting to win maybe two. But now like
the last year or two, you've been able to do that,
You've been able to say, they're gonna have a hard
time winning at Dallas, they're gonna have hard time beating
Kansas City or Philadelphia. You know, I used to split

(57:05):
those games. I used to say they have five six
you know when you know in the heyday, they have
five or six quote unquote hard games. And I would say, oh,
they'll go at least three and three in the hard games,
and then they'll beat up on everybody else into it
twelve and four and.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
The AFC Championship.

Speaker 6 (57:18):
And that's how it worked.

Speaker 5 (57:19):
That's how that's how it went.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Yeah, I had Philly, Dallas, Kansas City, and the two
Buffalo games as the as the losses, so that they're
already if if that, if it ends up going chock,
then you're already five games behind the eight ball.

Speaker 5 (57:35):
I personally would add two losses to Miami and the Jets,
not both of them. So those are saying the best.
I think, the best you can hope for is splitting
with those two.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
So I had those as coin flip games because I
figured they will split them in some order, so I
had them as coin flip games. I had the Raiders,
the Giants, the Chargers, the Broncos, and the Steelers as
the other coin flip games. And then the the wins
are saying Commander's colts.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
So I would largely agree with every every prediction on that.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
But that's just three games. I mean that's three games.
That's seven and ten, eight and nine, depending on it's
nine coin flip games. So whenever you give him the half,
you know that that's you know.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
And this is again May fifteenth. I'd like to see
what New Orleans looks like. Yeah, well, the quarter and
they haven't had a quarterback in a while.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
They don't have a quarterback, probably probably.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
Don't, but he's better than what they've had.

Speaker 6 (58:25):
Yeah, Neil and new Brunswick writes in if you were
to look at the schedule based on last year's team,
I think we could all agree that there are no
Pencilton wins. However, I too, am excited to see what
Bill O'Brien can design and if mat can execute it.
I find it comical and a little sad how everyone
on this show and all the listeners have basically publicly
admitted that last year's offensive coaching was the worst in

(58:47):
the league in decades. We just made jokes about it now,
But how are we not more embarrassed by this? We're
the Patriots.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
I was pretty embarrassed by what am I to know?

Speaker 5 (58:58):
He's I didn't have anything to do with it, IMBs.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
I was embarrassed, and I thought it was gonna work.
I thought it was gonna work.

Speaker 5 (59:06):
I don't take any pride over winning the Super Bowl either,
because I had nothing to do with that either.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
I mean, I think there's a lot of decisions and
things that have happened around here over twenty years that
are debatable, and I don't think that this is one
of them.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
This is a bad decisions in the store was not debatable.
Mike and Charlotte, it looks like the Titans bye week
is ten twenty two and the Patriots are playing the
Bills at home. Could this be the week they induct
Rabel in the Hall?

Speaker 4 (59:36):
I'd be grave if he's up for it.

Speaker 6 (59:38):
Did we even talk about the fact that Mike Rabel
was the winner of the the.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Fan vote that was last week?

Speaker 4 (59:44):
Is the show?

Speaker 8 (59:44):
You were in here?

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (59:45):
You didn't talk about it? I did, okay a little bit.
Congratulations finally to Mike.

Speaker 5 (59:51):
I think we did.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
But yeah, that would make sense, Yeah, that would make
some sense.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, if he's willing to come up here and spend
his bye week. Yeah, getting sell raided.

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
Yeah, So Mike Rabel is the newest inductee into the
Patriots Hall of Fame. Congratulations, well deserved ten touchdowns? Yeah,
ten ten catches, ten touchdowns. Isn't that something?

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
It's unbelievable. I watched some of them. We were talking.
I think maybe we talked about it on the show,
but just you know what was some of the best there?

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
I mean he had some. He had some tough catches.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Too, Like some of those. I always think of the
one in the Eagles where he talked about it on
his conference call where he didn't really pick it up
till late. It's just and it felt like it was
coming through a cras getting he was getting, he's getting
had and he kind of like bopped it into the air.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
And I mean, he just was such a phenomenal athlete.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
And they only saw the flag because he caught it anyway,
Fred right, if he had got knocked away, they would
have thrown it for it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
All right, Paul's foods here, So we're going to take
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Speaker 7 (01:10:45):
History.

Speaker 6 (01:10:46):
I got my tonsils out and I had a back
then you stayed overnight, but this was planned. I mean
back then I sucked my thumb and I had a blanket,
and uh, I did it. You know, I stopped that
last year. But we know, so you're in this crib
at night, and of course if you need anything, you
had a button to, you know, get the nurse there.
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So I remember, I remember being this little kid, but
you know, so I pressed the button and the nurse
comes over and she says, well, you know, what do
you need? I said, in that suitcase, there's a blanket.

Speaker 4 (01:11:19):
I need it.

Speaker 6 (01:11:20):
And this thing was like tattered because I had literally
had it since I'd been born, you know, like where
I rubbed it, it was all worn out and everything.
So the nurse goes in, she goes this thing and
I remember to I said, just give it to me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
I was just give it to me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
That's another great moment from.

Speaker 6 (01:11:41):
Yeah, I just gave up that blanket recently.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
Congratulation.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Yeah, you're still suck your thumb.

Speaker 6 (01:11:45):
Oh yeah. Oh. My grandmother threw it in the garbage
once and I had to go in and get it.
She's like, you're gonna get buck teeth because your thumb's
in your mouth all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
It's true. They put the bumper on there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
My sister had to get it, uh so that every
time you put her back in it would like bump
your front thumb away. But she just found it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
She just like circle her thumb around it all right.

Speaker 6 (01:12:05):
Eight five to five past five hundred is the Ace
Takeing Hotline web radio at Patriots dot com. We got
a couple of people that have been holding on since
the beginning of the show. Todd's in North Carolina. What's up, Todd?

Speaker 7 (01:12:16):
Well, I think you kind of hit on it. And
I'm glad Evan's back because I was listening to Patriots
beat his old show their gung hole for the for
looking at the difference that Clem and Bob can make.
Billy O'Brien and to the point that they said that
Kenrole Brown is going to have the best season as

(01:12:38):
a yet as a Patriot. They figured that going to
be a big game, said everything was positive about the
old So I want to ask you a question Brown, different,
do you think for wins losses that this coaching can make?
And also how many points per game? That's my two questions.

Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
Thanks guys.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
Okay, I don't know about Cambrell Brown.

Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
What did they finished last year? Points a game?

Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
We know not the time?

Speaker 6 (01:13:03):
Like low? Was it like eighteen?

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
It's probably, yeah, I think it's I think it was
over twenty, but oh, not very much, not that much.

Speaker 4 (01:13:11):
I believe there's during the defensive touchdowns, right, that's true,
and twenty one point four was the exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:13:18):
They had a couple of blowouts.

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
They had some defensive touchdowns in there, though. Yeah, how
many at the seven? Six? Six? Yeah? What was the question?
And Paul's what do you call it when they like
set them up already in field goal range?

Speaker 10 (01:13:32):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:13:32):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:13:33):
The do it?

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Do it? The four and outfield goals?

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
Yeah, so they had a bunch of those four which
don't get counted into the defensive points obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
So that's like you get an interception at like say
the twenty, you go three and out and then you
just kick the field.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
That happened at least twice, if not more Like I'm
not making that. I know that definitely. I know I
play a role on the show, but sometimes I'm being serious.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
Yeah, I mean, I hope that it if you look
at real offense of scores, you know, and kind of
do it that way. I hope you know you're getting
like an extra three or four points per game, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
I mean, I think thirty points is where you want
to be. I mean, that's where the good team thirty
points a game.

Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
That's nobody does that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
Yeah, top teams in the league, the team to go
to the.

Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
Super Bowl really averaging thirty average.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
So the Kent City led the league last year at
twenty nine point two, Okay, they're the best, and Philly
was twenty nine point one, Buffalo twenty seven point seven.

Speaker 6 (01:14:28):
Wasn't to the Super wasn't scoring, So nobody gets thirty
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:14:32):
Maybe I think scoring was generally down last year too.
I think so twenty one, I understand Dallas led the league.
We're scoring in twenty twenty one at thirty point four,
so all right, right right around thirty It's like what
the lead offenses do?

Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
Uh, Patty's an agawan? What's up? Patty?

Speaker 7 (01:14:50):
What is up?

Speaker 17 (01:14:51):
Everyone?

Speaker 6 (01:14:51):
How are you all right?

Speaker 19 (01:14:55):
This is Holly, this is diet Miller's by the pool
with a with a fresh line in it type of weather.
I'm loving it. My time of year.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
Too much to put together. He's got gazebos and what else? Paul,
Have you added anything to your grotto yet?

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
Or is that still I have no grotto.

Speaker 19 (01:15:11):
I got a two part question.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
To take the cover off the pool last week, though, Yeah, I.

Speaker 19 (01:15:16):
Just did that for We did that for Mother's Day
for my wife.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
You made wait, you made your wife take the cover
off the pool for Mother's Day?

Speaker 19 (01:15:25):
No, me and me and my son Kyle did. And
I powerwashed our deck or both of our decks and
stained our pool decks for That's that's.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
All she wanted, she asked from manual labor for Mother's Day.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
Sir, Yes, sir.

Speaker 19 (01:15:42):
Sounds like two part questions regarding a player that hasn't
garnered bunch of buzzs, with the exception of maybe Day
two of the twenty twenty one draft and that's Ronnie Perkins.
Do you guys think we get anything out of them
this year? Anything? Even a slipper? And why do you
think I know he has some like conditioning issues last year,

(01:16:03):
but why do you think it hasn't worked with him
so far? And that's all I got. I'll take the
question off the.

Speaker 6 (01:16:08):
Air, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
I just think he's kind of in the mold, like
like I was off of him on the draft just
because I felt like he's a four to three defensive end.
Then he just he got hurt.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
He never really gets high impact reps.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
He's never really made a play in training.

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
I really don't think he's ever made a play in
a practice that we have watched. And I mean that
with all due respect, but that is somebody you know,
at least we've seen instances of, like Anthony Jennings, like
playing and being.

Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
I think that's a good somewhat.

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
Ronnie Perkins. I don't remember ever once writing in my
notes like, oh you know it's fifty one, right, fifty
one made a play today. I don't never anything Nope
with conditioning problems. That doesn't mean I don't I don't
think there.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
Weren't any Yeah to me, that the biggest thing is
at least with who was quiet this first couple of years,
you did see what Evan's talking, right, You saw him
get some reps with frontline players. Perkins has gotten very
very few reps with guys that are going to be
on the team in his two training camps. And maybe

(01:17:12):
this year will be different.

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
And I think on that, Mike, I think hit the
nail with the four three end. I think that's been
his issue is that he's at Oklahoma. He was a
hand in the dirt player. He was somebody that was
a four three end that reduced inside and he got
at two sixty. He could do it at the college level,
and they've tried to make him into a three four
outside linebacker that plays up on his feet, and I

(01:17:34):
just don't think that he's got the explosiveness or the
athleticism to be able to do it. So he's not
really in a very good fit for him. And it
hasn't really the transition hasn't worked out. They're just missing
those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
I mean, you know, I'm looking at the depth chart
you mentioned, Jennings is maybe the only depth piece, but
at Zucce and Judahn, Jennings DeMarcus Mitchell. I mean, he
did play outside linebacker in college, and I mean he
kind of has that body type, although I don't think
he's quite as long as you would like. But and
then Perkins, I mean, it's it's five guys, and you
kind of know what you're getting with most of them,
So it's just it's weird that it's such a thin.

Speaker 5 (01:18:06):
And I agree with you guys on the position. That's
what I think, that's what he is. But I don't
understand why they won't let him try to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
And that's why I like, ifj gets hurt, like, could
he be that guy?

Speaker 12 (01:18:17):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
I mean, I think in a perfect world maybe that's
what he does.

Speaker 5 (01:18:20):
But I think that they ask him to stand up
and play, you know, off the edge like judea on
and why not let him play like Chandler Jones played?

Speaker 4 (01:18:28):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:18:29):
Is there too.

Speaker 4 (01:18:30):
Small for what that? I don't know, but La Jones
isn't that big. But I think maybe Chandler Jones is longer,
like you know, he's probably longer. I mean, Chalda Jones
can't be much more than two sixty. Yeah, I think
that that's a fair point. And I think looking at
that depth chart a guy like they probably view a
guy like Jolani Tavai as capable of doing both things
off and on the line, so he adds some depth

(01:18:52):
in that and that's where you get back. Like, I
think if they felt like he was talented enough, they
figure it out.

Speaker 5 (01:18:57):
Because I do trust their ability to say, Okay, this
I could do this, this guy could do Now. Maybe
their talent evaluations coming out of college, and just like
everybody else's, you have.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
Swings and misses.

Speaker 5 (01:19:06):
But I do think that if he was worthy of
more than he's getting, he'd have gotten it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
Yeah, not that it's that Winnovich ended up being this
great player, but at least he was a player that
could play for you, and and he was a guy
that was a four to three end at Michigan that
they that easily kind of made that conversion, especially early on.
He had some really good play early on as a
pass rusher, and he was able to make that transition

(01:19:34):
to playing up on his feet and being more of
that stand up outside linebacker. And it just it seems
like Perkins is just not not that. I wonder even
if he went someplace else that does run a four
to three if all of a sudden. He's a rotational player,
not saying he's going to be an All Pro someplace else,
but it wouldn't surprise me if he was like a
serviceable player in a different system. That's why I just.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
Said, like, I mean, we're all kind of joking about
it that we have no expectations for him, but I
do just given the and what he did as a
pass rusher and kind of you know, had had some
juice at least as far as you know strength, I
would say, you know, maybe there is an opportunity that
opens up for him. Who knows what's gonna happen with Uch,
but you know, if he were to get out there,
maybe just be a designated pass rusher, challenge the edge,

(01:20:15):
you know, be kind of consistent.

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
He might he might get a chance if something happens
to Uch or Jennings. I mean, it's not much there.

Speaker 6 (01:20:21):
Eight five five past five hundred is the as ticket
Hutline web radio at Patriots dot com. It's the email
address Christian rights in Fred and Mike. Please don't try
and give me false hope. I convinced myself this is
an eight to nine team. In our last year with Bill,
I think our biggest surprise will be we win one
of the Bills games. Besides, besides that, I see nothing more.

(01:20:43):
I say that because we got better while other teams
actually improve themselves. I think he meant we didn't get better. Well,
but anyway, so he's not hopeful.

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
Well, if you can't be hopeful at this point, I
don't know what you're really doing at the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
Point, know, like like and I'm like hopeful, like there
might win the super Bowl, like they just they might
be better and they might win some big games that
they have.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
Won the last few years, that that would that would
make it.

Speaker 6 (01:21:06):
I choose to temper my expectations but go into the
season with hope. That's how I'm going into this season.

Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
Because as soon as the train starts rolling, you don't
really have a choice. Like it's gonna present itself to.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
You and you're gonna see, all right, this is a
dysfunctional often, you know, like last year and it was like,
well I'm not optimistic anymore?

Speaker 6 (01:21:25):
Why why? But at this point why in May am
I like writing off the season? Come on, what's the point?

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Excited for training camp, Excited to get a look at
atas and see a little bit of quasi football.

Speaker 4 (01:21:36):
And you know, and then and then, and then you'll.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
Let reality kind of slowly set in during training camp
in the preseason, and you know, and then you'll get
punched in the face with what's really gonna.

Speaker 6 (01:21:43):
Happen Matthew and Nebraska. This might be a question.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
Cheerfully, I just I was just like, I'm just gonna
keep going with this, but it's incredulous, and then then
we get all the flat for being the negative ones show.

Speaker 6 (01:21:59):
This might be a question for Alex. I'm curious to
know what Celtics podcaster shows you guys recommend. I like
something similar to your show. I know you can't compare
the World's original podcast to others, but something that has
more than X and O analysis. Any help.

Speaker 9 (01:22:14):
The Geno Time podcast used to be really good with
Tom wester Home, Nicole Yang and Chris Grenham. They no
longer do it, but that gives you, like the lightheartedness.
I honestly don't really listen to any Celtics podcasts these days.

Speaker 8 (01:22:26):
If I had to pick, it would be Jay Kings.

Speaker 4 (01:22:28):
Yeah, I like j Kings podcast. I like Locked On
with Corrals me too.

Speaker 9 (01:22:32):
But Carlos played professional basketball in Europe.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
Yeah, you can tell a rotation a lot, which I
I obviously eat up. It's good.

Speaker 8 (01:22:43):
I have learned a lot, and I worked with corrals.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
Too, So yeah, because I can't, I can't. I can't
do it without the ex like I need to know
and I'm not good enough with basketball OX and O'SE
to do it in my own head, like I know
a lot about basketball and played growing up.

Speaker 6 (01:23:02):
I on his first date when he slept with him.
I need to know how this.

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
Works, so object a will I'm going to tell her
not to listen to the show. No, but yeah, I
I like to. I like the xs in all sports.
I'm I've been learning a little bit more, you know
that now that hockey is such a religion in my
house about hockey, a little trying to learn more. So

(01:23:26):
basically absolutely because well and plus with the Celtics. What
I love about the Celtics right now is that, uh
is that coach Joe is really analytical and and and
really x's nose heavy, especially even in his answers at
press conferences. He he doesn't like give away too much.
I wouldn't say, but he gets into the analytical thought
of you know, of what what you know went down

(01:23:49):
and so I I I'd like to be on that level.
I like to know that. I like to know what
you need to know.

Speaker 6 (01:23:54):
Why you're a why guy? You're a why guy?

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
Yeah, very important.

Speaker 9 (01:23:58):
So the answer there is it's that anything is Poutible
podcast by the athletic J King, Sam Packard. And then
as Evan said, John Carlos, does I like that title?

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
And uh, I think probably everybody like every time it
comes up in a meeting, like and so we got
to come up a name for this, like you have
to name a Patriots Like I think I'm at my
ropes end with like trying to name Patriots podcasts or
Patriots shows like NA podcast. But I tried to and
I got good idea.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Yeah, Vanilla, I've more terms easy. I just having to
think about it, like I don't know what the Pats
you know.

Speaker 8 (01:24:36):
It's like you come up with the name, and then
pr is like could this be interpreted this way?

Speaker 6 (01:24:40):
We'll find out that like Deuce's father came up with coke?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Is it that was?

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
Oh that was sitting there if it was? Yeah, I
like I like J King, but I have a bone
to pick with J King about his game five Twitter analysis,
you know, spend more time talking about the crowd noise
and the lack of of energy in the building and
the fact that the Celtics imploded on their own, and
some people.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
Really came at him for that.

Speaker 8 (01:25:06):
I don't know, energy was crap.

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
It wasn't a good anti crap. But this is the
crowd energy is It's a chicken or the egg, complete
product on the product, exactly like you can't expect. So
I was at game five and we were ready to go,
as every Boston crowd is going into a playoff game,
especially that wanted that magnitude. It didn't sound it because
they played like crap, like what do you want us

(01:25:29):
to do? And then every single time they tried they
made like even the mini mini mini ross, the place
got loud. But then you know, Tyrese Maxi hits a
three and it's a fourteen point game again and the
place just deflated, like what do you I don't know
what people like Jay King expected the crowd to do
in game five, and then game seven was electric. So
when they played well, the crowd is going to be great.

(01:25:50):
When they don't play well, the crowd's going to be bad.
I mean like sports.

Speaker 5 (01:25:53):
When Tatum played like that was like an otherworldly performance. Yeah,
of course you're going to have an electric response to that.
I'm like, you guys make fun of me all the time.
He's never I was like on the edge of my
seat watching him in the third quarter, Like that was ridiculous.
What he what he did, Like, can you imagine being
there and watching him just drain shot after shot after shot,

(01:26:15):
Like I've seen a lot of guys score fifty points,
and quite honestly, most of them bore me. But when
you get fifty points on seventeen or twenty eight shooting,
that's ridiculous. And then you add in the fact that
it's game seven, coming off the last couple of games
that he had before that, that was like a ridiculous performance.
How can you not get into that?

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
As in all fairness, I've seen you get on the
Matthew's Arena crowd.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
That's the truth, that is true. All four of us
get out.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
He's got his rally, let's go, let's come out.

Speaker 4 (01:26:43):
What are you sitting down for?

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
He looks at the fans, Let's go, And that's just
women's volleyball.

Speaker 6 (01:26:51):
I mean, got his three quarters zip he's got his
three quarters zip Huskies pull over.

Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
Yeah, you know what, it's funny that you mentioned that
on Sunday. My brother and I like, because you're getting there.
The season ticket renewals. Yeah, I don't think we're doing it.

Speaker 6 (01:27:04):
We're not doing it. The secondary market's falling apart.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
I think we're doing it out.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Maybe they should offer free pumps again.

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
We didn't go to a ton of games last year,
so we're just figuring we'll go to a handful of games.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
We'll just get the tickets.

Speaker 6 (01:27:16):
You might get a cough of the tip, Paul. What
can we do to get you back into right now?

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:27:19):
Fred?

Speaker 9 (01:27:19):
They do?

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
They do?

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
You know what times the game start? What time can
you get you?

Speaker 5 (01:27:25):
You know, like they do they because if we don't,
because my brother's famous for not sending it in on time. Yeah,
and they always they always call us. Oh just I mean,
how many season ticket holders you think they have?

Speaker 12 (01:27:35):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
It's you and your father, right. I love the season
ticket holder perks are nice, though, you know, but I
feel like this year to the shout, you know, shout
out to the Celtics. They did a good job this
year for for season ticket holders stuff. Yes, got some the.

Speaker 6 (01:27:52):
Full package in one of the Limpings partial packages.

Speaker 4 (01:27:55):
We have twenty games, half seasons, twenty games. Yeah, we've
had them for since I was I don't know, seven
years old, eight years old. Me and my dad have
probably been to I.

Speaker 6 (01:28:04):
Went to a guy who had season tickets for the
Salt for years and years, real veteran going to the game,
and he had this really great idea. He brings a
hefty bag folded up. When you get to the game,
he opens it up and you put all your winter
jackets in it and he stuffs it under the seat
so they don't get dirty and you don't have to
hold your jacket all game.

Speaker 4 (01:28:24):
It's great. I just freeze and just leave the jacket
in the car.

Speaker 6 (01:28:28):
And and well this is before the you know they
had the underground parking and everything. You know, this is
back at the Old Guard. I thought it was a
great idea. The Old Guard. I mean, as much as
we love the Old Guard, that place was filthy, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
Can I ask you a quick question, Paul, what are
you looking at me like that?

Speaker 9 (01:28:46):
For?

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
I'm fascinated by this concert?

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
Yeah, can you bring your little your little those little
sash bags to the some.

Speaker 8 (01:28:54):
You can't hear you can't you have to have a
clear bag.

Speaker 9 (01:28:56):
Yeah, like I can bring the little Fanny Park want
bags I can bring to garden.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
And but yeah, he can bring it with the at
the garden.

Speaker 9 (01:29:06):
I mean you can bring whatever you want and with
your badge, like just be like, hey, I work here,
this is my briefcase.

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
I try not to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
I try not to pull that.

Speaker 6 (01:29:15):
Let's see, George writes in he says, don't be surprised
when cunning him makes the squad as the third quarterback
and the main reason why we are uh, why we
beat every mobile quarterback that we see, because of the
looks he gives our defense in practice during those weeks.
I can guarantee that George and Marrill.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
Well, can we just keep him on the practice squad
to do that? I think that would that's.

Speaker 6 (01:29:36):
What he's saying.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
I did watch some Molie cunning him yesterday, watch some
film on Malik. I would leave him a quarterback. I
think he showed enough in college a quarterback that at
least for a year or two and see how he develops.
I wouldn't be so rush to switch positions with him.
I know there was some murmurs about that potentially him
switching positions just because he's such a good athlete and
allowing him to play running back or receiver. I think

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there's enough there a quarterback to leave him at quarterback
for the time being. He's he's got enough natural instincts
for the position that I think it's worth developing.

Speaker 6 (01:30:08):
Do you think that they picked him up for the
sole reason of, you know, the looks he can give
you in practice or it was.

Speaker 5 (01:30:14):
Like I did never know.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
I think it's certainly a lot of it, but yeah,
there's always a little you never know.

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
But I just I mean, it goes back to what
you said about Jalen Hurts right off the top. There's
a style of quarterback that has given them fits.

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
Be funny, after week one they release them.

Speaker 3 (01:30:29):
Right, But I mean, Lamar, you know last year with
Chicago and all of a sudden, justin fields, Oh, look
who decided to run their quarterback and we got no
answers for it. I think I think you could help.

Speaker 5 (01:30:39):
I mean, you're not going to be surprised if Malie
Kenningham makes the team. They generally have three quarterbacks, and
I'm sorry, I give him a much better chance than
Trace mcsorly.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
Yeah, I think with him, he the one thing that
you do have to make sure you're you're clear on
that he's not an off script, off platform. He's not
going to roll out to his right and flick the
ball forty yards down the field like he's Patrick Mahomes.
That's not his game. But he definitely has a mobility
that that is rare and has that ability to either

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within design he can run the football and he can also,
you know, do a little bit of the extended play thing,
but he's more like extended to play to find a
check down or extended play and it pulls a guy
out of his own because he's reacting to him and
he dumps it off to a you know, a crossing route.
But it's not He's not one of these like Josh
Allen types that's gonna chuck it sixty yards down the field.
He doesn't have that.

Speaker 5 (01:31:32):
He's a really good runner.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
I mean, that's just the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
It's like, would you rather have Jonathan Jones giving you
a look because he runs a four to three or
do you want an actual guy who plays quarterback who
has that burst like Lamar you know, not the Lamar burst,
but has that burst that you know, just seems like
and I think a lot of people connect their struggles
with this to their kind of sticking with guys like
Bentley inside. I don't think it's totally an apt criticism

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of it, but I do think that there's there's they've
had problems, so there's no designing they struggle with these
guys now.

Speaker 5 (01:32:00):
I think it's obviously better to have Malie Cunningham doing it,
but I think they've had some versatile guys over the
years that have served as that kind of guy, like
like a Lee I always call him Lee Lee boat
on it from from last year, you know, and there
have been guys like that over the years. I don't
necessarily think that's the sole reason they struggle because they

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always have, you know, pocket passer quarterbacks. I don't think
that's as simple as that.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
You also met, you know. It's an interesting point because
they released Lin Boden yep, and so they signed Malie
Cuttingham and then they immediately released limb Boden, So maybe
that is signaling that he was that for them last
year and now they have an actual quarterback doing I'm
interested to see Malie cutting him in the preseason. He's
one of those guys that in second preseason game, right,

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he could light it up.

Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
He really perfect for me. Yeah, that's my time to shine.

Speaker 19 (01:32:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
Now you'll have Mac people, you'll have Zappi people, and
you'll have Cunningham.

Speaker 4 (01:32:56):
Oh there's already cutting Ham people. But when Max out there,
they don't let me talk. There's already kind of when
no one knows who's.

Speaker 6 (01:33:02):
On the field, that's when they go to meet Jacket
and Abba. I have hope about this Patriots team because
I have hope about the Patriots defense. Gonzales, White and
Maphu will make the Patriots d significantly better, especially on
passing downs. And I'm hopeful the Patriots will win a
lot of close games because of their improved D.

Speaker 4 (01:33:23):
Okay, I mean I didn't see.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
They put out some pictures from rookie mini camp over
the weekend, and I don't know, I didn't see any
of map who and I'm assuming he's still in recovery,
and I just I'm you know that that's a little
bit of a bummer. I would like to see him
get involved in I don't know if he's going to
do anything until hopefully training camp is what he said.

Speaker 4 (01:33:40):
But we'll see. Did you see the picture of Drod
Mayo watching Christian Gonzales, like, come on, pick your jaw
off the Florida Yeah, it looked like when we had
him in here and I was, you know, gazing into
his eyes when you're doing the interview. That's what a joke.

Speaker 8 (01:33:54):
But I have a picture.

Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
Oh no, yeah, I fully admit.

Speaker 6 (01:33:58):
You guys want to do some general and fell trivia
Enrique from Monterey, He sends in some questions. Question one,
what coach took the longest to win his first Super
Bowl with one team? And he has in parentheses? Andy
Reid took twenty one years, but he won it with
his second team. So what coach coach took the longest

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to win his first Super Bowl with one team?

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
Tom Landry, Tom Landry's number two.

Speaker 6 (01:34:28):
He did it in twelve years.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
Chuck Noll, No, Mike Shanahan, No, Bill Cower.

Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
Took him fourteen years. From second question, only one team?
Only one teams he has that have played four or
more Super Bowls have done it with four different quarterbacks
in each game. Raiders in Washington have played with four
different quarterbacks, but Plunket and thisement played.

Speaker 5 (01:34:59):
In two of them, so only I don't understand the question.

Speaker 6 (01:35:03):
Yep, only one team has played four or more Super
Bowls with four different quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
To sum it up, Okay, the Philadelphia Eagle.

Speaker 6 (01:35:15):
I was just gonna say that, correct, Yeah, Juwarski, McNabb,
Foles and Hurts. That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:35:20):
They seem to always make a random Super Bowl every.

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
Five years or so, right, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:35:27):
Third question, Tom Brady was the second player ever to
play a Super Bowl in three different decades the Ats
the Tens in the twenties. Who was the first second player,
not quarterback, second player to ever play at Super Bowl
in three different decades?

Speaker 4 (01:35:44):
Jerry Rice No. I was thinking eighties, nineties, and no,
I guess he didn't go in the nineties.

Speaker 17 (01:35:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:35:53):
The answer is Gene Upshaw with Oakland sixty seven, seventy six,
and eighty.

Speaker 5 (01:35:58):
I was thinking sixty, seventies and eighties. But think of
a guy.

Speaker 6 (01:36:02):
Two more questions, Who is the only Canadian born player
ever to win a Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
MVP?

Speaker 4 (01:36:10):
I don't. I don't know, are supposed to know that.

Speaker 6 (01:36:14):
I'll give you a hand. It's a quarterback. Oh, if
I give you the the year could you get it? Yeah,
nineteen ninety one see Mark Ripple gripping yep, Calgary. He
was born in Calgary. Uh And final question, only one

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team has played four or more conference championship games and
never hosted any of them. Only one team has played
four or more conference championship games and never hosted any
of them. Baltimore correct, Baltimore is the right.

Speaker 5 (01:36:52):
Jacksonville good, good, they they hosted one though.

Speaker 6 (01:36:58):
Good. Those are good questions.

Speaker 4 (01:37:00):
That's a hard question.

Speaker 6 (01:37:01):
Yeah, good stuff. Let's see Kristin and Houston writes in
I know you've talked about some of the newest Patriots
connections to other NFL or x NFL players, but not
sure if you mentioned this one. Christian Gonzalez's brother in
law is Arizona Cardinals backup quarterback David Blau. Gonzales and

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Blau are both from Carrollton, Texas, where Blow and Melissa,
Christian's sister, started dating. The pair are now married and
expecting their first child. So it's a big year for
Christian as you will soon be an uncle. Same, okay,
I think I think tease flag that you're related to
Blow too.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
Now I assume be an uncle.

Speaker 6 (01:37:43):
Oh okay, well, the.

Speaker 9 (01:37:44):
Lions put out that really cool video during the Olympics
of blow cheering on his wife Melissa qualifying full circle.

Speaker 8 (01:37:52):
That's Christian Gonzalez's sister.

Speaker 9 (01:37:54):
Yeah, hopefully sister is in the Olympics and the next
Olympics we can create that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
No, Evan, when you become an uncle, how old will
you require your niece or nephew to be before you
stop breaking down film?

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
With breaking down film? I'm not sure, but the Patriots
gear has already been bought, so that that'll be I
there's a spot and everybody would hit my sister, says
a couple of weeks ago, and she's got the nursery
I'll set up and everything like that. And I was
looking on the walls and I was like, so where
do we hang?

Speaker 6 (01:38:28):
I could see in the delivery room. I like the
length of record. It's good length good.

Speaker 4 (01:38:33):
No, it's actually it's sad because they still have COVID
rules at a lot of at hospitals, and she's going
to mg H and you're only allowed besides her husband.
You're only allowed to other people that can come back
at a time. So obviously I'm not going to kick
my parents out, So I was like, all right, I'll
do the twentieth so any day.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
Else, Okay, Yeah, I'll talk to you off here.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
That's why I look at my phone a lot. These
should take delivery. Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 8 (01:39:05):
It's never sold out.

Speaker 4 (01:39:06):
Well, I don't want to kick my parents obviously it's
their first grandchild. Like, I'm not going to kick my
get you back. Yeah, Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 6 (01:39:16):
It's tough, U Ryan in Atlanta, A lot of Patriots
fans seem to be ready to move on from Bill Belichick,
like there is another Hall of Fame coach in the
waiting and the wings. I understand that he hasn't had
a lot of success over the past three seasons, but
the alternative Bill could be much much worse. While I
agree that the end is much better, maybe the end
of the season for Bill in New England, it scares

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me to think of what that transition could look like.
What do you think is the ideal succession plan for
when Bill leaves?

Speaker 5 (01:39:45):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (01:39:46):
Not me.

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
I think that Bill.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
I think the first part of it is that Bill
chooses to be done, and that just kind of eliminates
the whole like, how do we, you know, move on
from him and it just takes it out of the
crafts hands.

Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
Yeah, I mean, if we're going to go like the
ideal thing like they would the super Bowl, and he
decides he's had enough, like could it be any more perfect?
Like yeah, But like more realistic is he's going to
want to continue to coach and maybe they don't want
him to coach anymore. That's probably more realistic because it
never ends well for these in these situations.

Speaker 6 (01:40:17):
Right, what about Landry?

Speaker 4 (01:40:19):
He was dumped by Jimmy Jerry Jones, but.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
Like the end was apparent, right, Like I don't remember any.

Speaker 5 (01:40:25):
He struggled down the stretch.

Speaker 6 (01:40:26):
Yeah, and I don't remember Landry ever saying oh I
got done dirty?

Speaker 4 (01:40:29):
Oh yes, oh he did that. The whole league said
that you got done dirty.

Speaker 6 (01:40:33):
Oh Okay, I didn't know. I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (01:40:34):
But but in fairness, like Jerry Jones came and bought
the team and then he fired him. Yeah, it wasn't
Like it's a little different. Yeah, like it's different for
Robert and Shula.

Speaker 4 (01:40:43):
What about Shula because Sula retired, Yeah, but I mean retired.

Speaker 6 (01:40:48):
And Chuck Noll, I'm thinking of guys.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
All these are the same kind of situation. Great careers
kind of petered out at the end.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
Chuck Nolan, Bill Walsh that they retired kind of early, right.

Speaker 5 (01:40:59):
Like Bill Walsh quick, Chuck Nole didn't. Bill Walsh, Yeah,
quit then he came back, like Bill Walsh was was
a little different than all of these. Yeah, Fred, you're right,
Bill Walsh was different than all these.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Chuck Nole was like.

Speaker 5 (01:41:15):
Sixty eight to ninety, no to like eighty. When did
Bill Cower start?

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
They said, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:41:22):
Then the guy just said it.

Speaker 6 (01:41:23):
Took well, it took him fourteen years to win, but
I don't know when he started.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
Yeah, it was like it was like mid like eighty six. Yeah,
Chuck Nole was still there, I think, yeah, like he
was there for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
But like Noel, Shula, Landry, they all kind of struggled
the last three four years.

Speaker 6 (01:41:40):
But you know, you talk about head coaching success, just
getting the right guy. I mean, look at the Steelers,
you know, Noel to Cower to Tomlin, that's it three coaches.

Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
If you settle for mediocrity, then.

Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
You have a pretty good franchise.

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
Snark aside, like that's my point. That would be my
counter to the like, yeah, do I expect to get
a better coach than Belichick.

Speaker 5 (01:42:02):
No, I don't. I think the chances are you're gonna
probably not have a coach that's better than him. But like,
it doesn't have to be a disaster, right, you could
get another guy who comes in and knows what he's doing.

Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
My point was possible with Mike Tomlin was just you know,
not as being snarky, but in all honesty, like those
teams that had big Ben ab Le'Veon Bell, those teams
should have done a lot better than what they did
and he but they were content. Yeah, he gets them
to the playoffs, he's above five hundred every year, and
they were cool.

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
But but now we know what Tomlin had to do
behind the scenes to keep ab probably in line. I mean,
we didn't appreciate that at the time.

Speaker 5 (01:42:39):
I used to be a big time critical of Mike
Tomlin just does what he does. But I've come around
on it.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
On yeah, yeah, he's got great culture and he's got
a great program. But those defenses, they they sit in
the same thing the entire game, and Brady used to
just tear them apart in big games because of that,
and offensively they always underachieved in the playoffs, and maybe
it was better Pittsburgh got the Patriots.

Speaker 6 (01:43:07):
Overall franchise over no.

Speaker 5 (01:43:09):
No, no, Like when Brady was on the Patriots and
they were playing those Pittsburgh teams, who did you think
had the better team?

Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
What the time, you was scared of Pittsburgh until we
beat their asses?

Speaker 5 (01:43:17):
So who did you think was better?

Speaker 6 (01:43:19):
Now I know my fault. I thought at the time
that Pittsburgh was, you know, more season playoff team, scarier
to play.

Speaker 5 (01:43:26):
You're talking about like in two thousand and one. Yeah,
I'm talking Mike, like Mike Tomlin, Like I'm not talking Bill.

Speaker 4 (01:43:32):
Co team like when they played in the I thought
the Patriots.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
Had vastly more talent than the Steelers in this era. Like, yeah,
I think the Patriots were a lot better than Pittsburgh,
and I don't disagree. But the one of the AFC
Championship game Sea, Yeah, Like, I don't even think they
were comparable. Thought, I thought it was amazing that Tomlin
got him that far and the fact that they got
ripped to shreds by Brady made him one of many

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teams that got ripped red by You.

Speaker 6 (01:43:57):
Give him credit to Tomlin.

Speaker 5 (01:43:59):
Yeah, I think he's a good I just it's like
people love to like rip the Colts, and they they
ripped Peyton Mannings for being a choking dog. I think
the Patriots. I think the Patriots were better. Like, yeah,
I think they were better than Peyton Manning's Colts. And
when they played him at home, they always beat him
because I think they were better.

Speaker 4 (01:44:18):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:44:19):
Like, I think to say that the other team stunk,
or the other team choked, or the other team didn't
have a good coach is only belittling what your team did.
I think the Patriots were better, and that's why those
other teams look bad.

Speaker 6 (01:44:32):
Caleb and Knoxville Once in a while, I just read
that Devonte Adams is not seeing eye to eye with
McDaniels over the offensive plan moving forward. Can any of
you speak to Patriots? Can any of you speak to
what you know about the situation? And if there is
some riffed in Vegas? Do you think we can make
a move for Adams before the trade deadline?

Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
I think I'd be more worried about Adams making a
move to New York than I would be him making
a move here. Oh God, don't even put that in
my mind, I just did.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
He was so good last year Like watching him, there's
there's not a lot like I remember like really fun
last year of terms of just watching the actual games,
but getting to watch him.

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
In Vegas practice.

Speaker 3 (01:45:15):
It was just that is what a stud receiver looks like,
that can do it all, that has pull away speed,
that is just always open.

Speaker 19 (01:45:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
He gave everybody fits that he went up against that
first practice I think it was in whichever one it was,
I think it was the first one that was like
the best practice I've ever seen a receiver have in
training camp. Oh my goodness. I mean, because it wasn't
just it wasn't just that he was burning guys. He
was also making like these acrobatic catches too when he wasn't.

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I mean, he must have had him like he must
have had like ten for two hundred in that practice.

Speaker 3 (01:45:48):
Like he was just there was one rep up the
sideline against Jalen Mills where it was like they're even,
and then all of.

Speaker 4 (01:45:54):
A sudden, he's leaving it were not even and and
he just you know, an easy catch down the field.

Speaker 6 (01:45:59):
So he's a good player, Mark says Fred Paul and
the rest of the gang. Do you guys know of
any meeting between Mac and Bill so far? If you do,
could you speak of it. I don't know of anybody.
I'm assuming and hoping that they're gonna hold they haven't

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already had one.

Speaker 4 (01:46:20):
They're going to like an ice cream social or something.

Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
They're gonna sit down. Yeah, gona hash it all out
over some vanilla.

Speaker 5 (01:46:28):
Have that little sprinkle I was reading. I was trying
to find out any strife between DeVante Adams and Joshua,
which I don't see.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
By the way, I haven't heard anything about that yet.

Speaker 4 (01:46:37):
That was I mean, they traded his best friend, like
Derek Carr was, Oh, yeah, his best friend. I wouldn't
say that that was like the sole reason why he
went to the Raiders. There's other family connections that that
brought him west, but I mean, obviously that was a major,
major reason why he decided to go to the Raiders
to begin with.

Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
So it is pretty funny though that josh got rid
of it. I mean, I get why he done. He
did it again, but just like you would think that
when getting rid of of David Carr and I know
that's different, but to compare it to Cutler, you know,
like you just he did kind of the same thing
twice and like.

Speaker 5 (01:47:07):
Absolutely, you know that. He just said, you know, I'll
take them, I'll take him. Okay, I don't want him. Okay,
I did it your way.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
I don't want Like it's like he'd rather jump into
the fray.

Speaker 5 (01:47:16):
I think this will be the last year for Josh
mcams with the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (01:47:19):
Really, yeah, okay, So let's play this out. If you
think Josh McDaniel's last year with the Raiders. Let's say
Bill O'Brien has a great year with the Patriots and
takes a college job next year. Do you bring Josh Black? No,
I wouldn't.

Speaker 6 (01:47:32):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:47:33):
I'm sure they will.

Speaker 4 (01:47:34):
I can't. I'm done, I can't out.

Speaker 6 (01:47:36):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:47:37):
Did you just say I can't?

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
Can't.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
That's how exhausted the kids are saying, because that seems
like that's a very realistication.

Speaker 5 (01:47:45):
If Bill's here, it absolutely is.

Speaker 4 (01:47:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:47:48):
Oh god, you know he'll be saying if that happens, MAO,
what do I need to do?

Speaker 4 (01:47:55):
No, he's got to compete.

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. You're saying, bring him back
as offensive?

Speaker 6 (01:48:00):
Okay, I just wanted to clarify, Okay Stacey from Indiana.
With Kendrick Bourne and Mac Jones having an obvious good
rapport with each other on the field, how do the
Patriots get and keep Born on the field this season?
Juju boute Booty, he's putting him in their No Douglas

(01:48:21):
Thornton Parker. A lot of these guys have similar playing styles.
I just don't see how they keep him on the
field unless he can truly outperform the rest of the receivers.

Speaker 4 (01:48:29):
That's how he gets on the field.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
Well, right, I do think he's unique, though, you know,
just compared to those those top starter guys. I mean,
I think he's got, you know, some gadget ability, some
stuff to you know, do a little bit after the catch,
stuff that maybe the other guys can. I mean, I
think he's totally redundant, but I do think that. I mean,
I think we said it here. If both those six
rounders kind of pop, does it make him expendable?

Speaker 4 (01:48:51):
Maybe that may have been part of my profile.

Speaker 6 (01:48:55):
Floyd and Redford Michigan says Evan, why don't you find
Malie cunning him into At the beginning of the most
recent Catch twenty two episode, you indicated you didn't find
Malik Cunningham an interesting storyline. Tracy Below reportedly Malie Cunningham
was among the most sought after undrafted free agents. Malie
came from the same school as Lamar Jackson, and though
he wasn't Camarene Kats Lamar Jackson was, there was still

(01:49:18):
the comparison. The elaee could represent a welcome change in
QB philosophy.

Speaker 4 (01:49:23):
How is he not interested because he's just you lost
me at Lamar.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Jackson, undrafted Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 4 (01:49:29):
He's not even remotely close to anything close to Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 5 (01:49:32):
Like when I said, I don't understand some of our
like some of our fans don't you get it, but
you get it. But why because the guy is a
sought after undrafted free agent, does that make it more interesting?

Speaker 4 (01:49:46):
Like he must be good?

Speaker 5 (01:49:47):
So I'm glad that they have a mobile quarterback that
potentially could be a developmental guy.

Speaker 4 (01:49:53):
I'm glad for that. Yeah, that's kind of where I started.

Speaker 10 (01:49:56):
End.

Speaker 4 (01:49:57):
So I said some nice things about Malie Cunningham a
few minutes ago, but just for the record, but where
I was at with that was that, like it's like
the Jeff Thomas thing, right. It's like it's the undrafted guy,
not the not the guys that they've actually invested in,
not Juju Smith Schuster, not even Kayshaun Boute. Are they
drafted in the sixth round or tomorrow Douglas. But Malik
Cunningham is gonna be this diamond in the rough that

(01:50:19):
I'm sleeping on that is gonna cut good teams don't
have Malite Cunningham's matter like, that doesn't that doesn't matter
to the Eagles. The Eagles and the Chiefs are not
going into camp and being like, oh, we signed this
undrafted free agent quarterback who's gonna play receiver, and now
he's gonna be the answer to our our our middling offense.

Speaker 5 (01:50:42):
Like I said, I liked the idea of finding a
quarterback with a different skill set that we haven't really
had and seeing if there's anything there. You know, does
that qualify as interesting? Okay, maybe I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:50:54):
I just it's not. And that's more interesting to me
than him switching positions, by the way, like I want
to interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:51:00):
Yeah, I'm not interested at all. Like in general, I'm not.
I'm not expecting at all, I should say, like some
undrafted free agent coming in and all of a sudden
being a significant part of the team's success. Like will
will there be an undrafted free agent? Yeah, every team
has them. There's unwrapted for because you only get I
mean most teams only. There's only seven rounds.

Speaker 6 (01:51:21):
If Malie Cunningham lights it up in preseason and Mac
Jones doesn't play well to start the season, are they
yelling for Cunningham or Zappy Cunningham?

Speaker 5 (01:51:31):
I think, well, the fans. Yeah, I can't control with
the fans, but just throwing it out there, I think
they'll be yelling for Zappy. I would just do it.

Speaker 4 (01:51:42):
It just tells you where where we are offensively is
the like that that's the guy that we should be
excited about. Please, I mean to your point, Fred, you know,
twenty five years ago it was Michael Bishop, right, the
clamoring that's right, right, yep. After Michael Bishop was a
hell of a lot better college quarterback than Malie Kenningham.

Speaker 6 (01:52:04):
Was Franklin and Baltimore. I wanted to chime in on
the concert talk and say that how quickly I went
I wanted to end depends on the artist. Like, for instance,
I recently saw Anita Baker in concert, and I honestly
could have gone on for another hour for me. Yeah,
but that's because since I'm in my thirties, I didn't
have the opportunity to see her in her prime. So
seeing her at this stage is an opportunity that may

(01:52:25):
not come around again in my lifetime. I wouldn't extend
that same grace to newer artists, though, So can I
just say When I first glanced at this email, I
thought he was saying, Anita Bryant, Paul will understand. Who
remember Anita Bryant? She was like the Orange the lady
for Tropicana Orange Juice.

Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
And I was like, okay, I do know the name,
but I don't know the reference really sense Anita Baker
Need a Bit Sweet Love? Right?

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
That was the song? Yes, you're right to Baker, need
a Baker.

Speaker 5 (01:53:04):
That's way too high to imitate Baker.

Speaker 4 (01:53:08):
I know the name, but I couldn't tell you anything
that she sings.

Speaker 6 (01:53:12):
Okay, So he wanted another hour of that concept.

Speaker 4 (01:53:18):
Is sweet? Can you give me another song?

Speaker 8 (01:53:24):
I don't listen, but my mom.

Speaker 9 (01:53:26):
I grew up on my mom's Anita Baker, Whitney Houston,
Tony Braxton, all those CDs like Your.

Speaker 4 (01:53:33):
Cake Out in the Rain. That's that's Donna's song. I
know that that's another one of those documentaries coming out soon.
They're all in the same category for Love to Love.

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
You Donna Summer coming up on HBO.

Speaker 8 (01:53:44):
Max.

Speaker 6 (01:53:44):
I believe fred In Lymington, may I'm here for it.

Speaker 4 (01:53:48):
I used to get her and Whitney used and confused.

Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
Fred says, I see that some of you were involved
just filming the new schedule release video. It was excellent.
After watching it a few times, I still couldn't figure
out for the play. The Philly fan, he wasn't a player,
he was actually a real Philly fan. The fish feeder
that was Pete Rock. The couch sleeper, we're.

Speaker 4 (01:54:10):
Not saying who that was, mysterious man.

Speaker 6 (01:54:12):
And the guy reading Patriot Football Weekly that was Steve Nelson.
Uh well, and so there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:54:18):
Yeah, yeah, the person who was sleeping shall be named
shall remain.

Speaker 8 (01:54:24):
But we will take your best guesses at who it was.

Speaker 4 (01:54:26):
Yeah, reddits already guess just for fun.

Speaker 9 (01:54:28):
Yeah, it might be totally bantacamp you set.

Speaker 4 (01:54:34):
There are some weird ones. I was like, that's definitely
not dead.

Speaker 5 (01:54:39):
So you used to confuse Donna Summer and Whitney Houston
all the time. I have an issue like that, Donna
Summer older oh much.

Speaker 4 (01:54:48):
Yeah, I was like six first of all, and I'm
you know, my parents listen to all the all that
type of stuff, and it starts to blend together when
you're half paying attention.

Speaker 5 (01:54:57):
And I can definitely see that Tony Braxton Anita Acre
cross over for your mom, good stuff. Tony Braxton was
aspite the fact that she broke up about five different
NBA teams, did she date Curtis for a while and
that that was bad for us too?

Speaker 8 (01:55:16):
She was so young for all that.

Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
Jimmy Jackson apparently Jason kim k is buying a house
and Tom Brady.

Speaker 9 (01:55:25):
I will be so disappointed if that's an actual thing,
and like really credible celebrity gossip accounts.

Speaker 4 (01:55:33):
That you know, me and the girls Kardashian, I'm sorry
what Fred is.

Speaker 9 (01:55:40):
I agree with Fred because I was like kim k
who because it was just so inconceivable in that Tom Brady, how.

Speaker 4 (01:55:47):
Do you go from just I'm sorry, I just wouldn't
be surprised at all. I would I wouldn't either think
it's a huge different what you.

Speaker 6 (01:55:55):
Want about about but I think she went authentic.

Speaker 5 (01:56:00):
Yeah, I think if you wanted to say, how could
you go from like Bridget moynihan to Kim, that I
could see another one.

Speaker 10 (01:56:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:56:09):
I don't think she's as bad as Kardashian.

Speaker 6 (01:56:10):
Stay away from that family as far away as he can.

Speaker 4 (01:56:13):
Well, so they've been the Kardashian jenders have been in
a lot of Laker games in this playoff run, and
Kim came like two games in a row, just like
by herself to a Laker game. So then the whereas
Okay won the Lakers, is she hating is the obvious question.
And then this came out that that she was buying
a house or in talks of buying a house in

(01:56:35):
the same uh you know rich area, that that Tom
Brady lives in his golf cart. She's too thick for
him photographed. That's a good point, maybe missing, that's true,
very different.

Speaker 8 (01:56:48):
I think Kim is on the ozembic now too, so
they're all getting thin again.

Speaker 14 (01:56:54):
That is.

Speaker 6 (01:56:56):
Just filled for type two diabetes that rich people take
to lose weight.

Speaker 4 (01:57:00):
Yeah, I believe you.

Speaker 6 (01:57:03):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
Yeah, it's like looks.

Speaker 6 (01:57:06):
Great, like insurance doesn't cover it. So it's like fifteen
hundred bucks a month to take it.

Speaker 4 (01:57:11):
Well, she's single, so she's got you know. Oh, she's
ready to make money.

Speaker 9 (01:57:14):
Isn't an object except for the poor people on toys
that need their diabetes medication can't get it.

Speaker 6 (01:57:20):
Yeah, who was somebody said this morning? You know what
they say about celebrities. You're not ugly, you're just poor.

Speaker 8 (01:57:25):
Yeah, that's my favorite mod host.

Speaker 4 (01:57:27):
Yeah it's true.

Speaker 5 (01:57:29):
I heard that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:29):
Yeah, curt Morning, Curtis.

Speaker 6 (01:57:32):
All right, that's going to be it for this edition
of Patriot's Unfiltered. We'll be back on Thursday with another edition.
We'll talk to you then.

Speaker 1 (01:57:42):
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