January 22, 2018 • 33 mins
Doug reacts to the Patriots coming from behind once again, advancing to another Super Bowl and what separates them from every other team in the NFL. He also thinks the Vikings made a big mistake by not playing Sam Bradford in their loss to the Eagles. And former NFL quarterback Chris Simms joins the show to try and tell Doug why he's wrong about Blake Bortles and the Jaguars.
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This is the best of the Doug Gotli Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Boom, What Up America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio, coming to you live from Sonny Windy,
Los Angeles, California, where we have a super Bowl the
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Patriots the Eagles like Eagles. The Patriots and the Eagles
to one seeds play like one seeds. Homefit advantage proves
to be just that, and we got ourselves as super
in the Twin Cities. A week from this upcoming Sunday,
two weeks from yesterday will be no home team super Bowl. Um,
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look we can get to the falls. Uh. Incredible performance
against the Minnesota Vikings, the battle of the backups. In Philadelphia,
Eagles fans are still a bunch of schmucks, even though
um they get the win. Just you enough video, you
talk to enough people who went to the game were
treated poorly by Eagles fans and congrats you one. Nobody
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likes you like no, No, we're Philadelphia, We're like city.
Everybody like no, you're a bunch of a holes the
way you treat people. Okay, you're not kidding anybody. Reputation
earned over time, over time, people fall back on the
they threw snowballs at Santa Right, what kind of a
hole would throws snowball at Santa an Eagle fan? Uh?
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But and which also proves the no one actually people
don't like fans don't actually get what they deserve. Oh,
we get what we just say, like, hey, don't you
get what the team on the field does. That's it
you have. There is no connection between team on the
field and players on the team on the field and
people in the stands um anyway. But I do think
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there is something too, the fact that Folds was able
to produce and Um and his fellow former backup case
Keenum was not all right. I'm gonna get to the
Patriots in one second, but let me just start with this.
We're getting ready for the NFL Draft, and there will
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always be discussion about intangibles and how quarterback is a
neck up position, and it is, okay, there's a lot
of neck up. You gotta be able to handle the media.
You gotta be able to hand the wide receivers. You
gotta be able to handle the coaches, the offens according
to the quarterback coach, the offensive line. You have to
get those guys to compete for you. You have to
get everybody pulling in the same direction, even when their agents,
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their wives, their common sense is telling them to pull
in their own direction. You cannot. It is a neck
up position. But you know what else it is. It's
a neck down position. Right case, Keenum is not a
starter in this league. And it's not because of anything
neck up. It's because of shoulder out. It just doesn't
have He doesn't have the size and doesn't have the
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arm strength and isn't a freak athlete to make up
for not having the size and the arm strength, and
doesn't have the arm strength to make up for not
having the size or as foals, a lot of his
issues were neck up, finding a system that worked for him,
finding the confidence in himself, and having a coach that
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would call flee flickers and letting him throw the ball
down the football field. Keenom didn't throw it down the
field because he couldn't Bulls, wouldn't throw the ball down
the field because he was limited by his own mind
and by the play calling. And the play calling is
how we find a bridge to the Patriots just being better.
Here's the question I have for you. Is there even
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one of you that, at any point in time in
the fourth quarter, thought the Patriots are gonna lose that game. Nope,
And he knew who else thought the Patriots would not
lose that game, the New England Patriots. Right, there's no
bad body language. There was a three and out early
in the fourth quarter and they're downturn. You're like, wow,
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this doesn't look good. But then you're like, yeah, they're
getting back. And the telltale sign that they would get
it back that the Jaguars were not ready for this
moment was at the end of the first half, at
the end of the first half. Do you guys remember
what happened at the end of the first half. If not,
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I'll tell you, Okay. At the end of the one
first half in the second game, the Eagles got the
ball and drove down and kicked the field goal and
added to their lead. At the end of the other
first half, the Jacksonville Jaguars got the ball and chose
to take a knee rank because the Jaguars were they
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were fat girls at the prom. They were just happy
to be there. Right, it's fourteen ten at the half
fifty three seconds ago, and you're like, yeah, we're good here,
We're okay with the three point lead, which signals to
everybody in America, we don't believe in our quarterback. The
narrative of nobody believes in Blake Bortles is in fact accurate,
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because the guys in the sideline and in their own
coaches box didn't believe in him, didn't trust him even
though he was dominating the game and playing a damn
good football game. Didn't trust him to make the right
reads and the right throws even against one of the
worst statistically worst defenses in the NFL. One they were
in the second quarter marching up and down the field
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against Whereas the Patriots they have confidence, they have arrogance.
They did not have Rob Gronkowski, and the last time
we saw them without Rob Gronkowski, they were awful looking, right,
They're like, what do you mean? They play the Miami
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Dolphins and couldn't move the ball and couldn't protect Brady.
But you know what, they've been there before, and they
acted like they've been there before, and look are going
crazy over Brady's throw to Mundola Ago was the catch,
catches it one ft down, going down lean left foot down,
but then moves the ball so that it doesn't hit
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the ground first, because we know at River Run will
do the opposite of what people think, which is rule
against the rule against the Patriots. What I say our
river run, what I say, ed River run, ed al
tato potato. But the the confidence that you have in
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the Patriots is the same confidence they have in themselves,
and it goes counter to how the game was being played.
The Jaguars looked younger, looked more athletic, rallied to the
football On defense, there was no reasonable explanation for their
ability to come from ten down in the a f
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C Championship game against one of the best defenses in football,
with the exception of the Patriots. Some of it is
neck up confidence. Everybody pulled in the same direction, understanding, Okay,
we don't have Rob Gronkowski, so what's our second best weapon,
right Brandon Cooks speedster. They're playing way off of him.
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Let's just keep running hits routes to him. How many
of those do we see? And Romo is up there
going like you might want to challenge him a little bit.
The only problem with Romo is saying that is that
sounds really good from the booth, but then you get
close to that dude, and beet beep, he's gone a J. Boullier.
The refs are against this other not the Patriots were
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against you. I've always thought this. I always thought this.
They understand the rules, understand the game, understand reading how
somebody is reacting and playing, and read it and and adjust.
That game was a very loosely officiated game, and they
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took advantage of it. When you have a quarterback playing
very loosely on a wide receiver, they take advantage of.
When they sense that you don't have confidence in your quarterback,
they take advantage of it. Whatever the Jacksonville Jaguars game
plan was, it was good, it was working. Then they
get tied at the end of the the first half, and
then the second half just too many wasted possessions to
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which they couldn't figure out exactly what they want to
do or how they wanted to do it. No, Patriots
defense is not that good. But when you get to uh,
when you get two situations which you have to throw
the football now a sudden. They got a little bit
of pass rush, and what do they do better than
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anybody else? Right, waiver wire James Harrison plays really really well.
A guy who could not get on the field for
the Steelers. Turns out they didn't need him to break
down the Steelers game plan. They just needed him to
get after the quarterback, and he did it enough to
get some happy defeat from a quarterback who end up
a kind of regressing towards the mean in many ways.
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Here's Doug Morone in the game. You know, it was
a hard fought game by both teams in all three phases. Um,
you know, we're able to get I want to say momentum,
but we're able to get the lead. And you know
then we we didn't make enough place to keep the
lead or we had an opportunity to end of the
game to win it, we weren't able to do that. Yeah,
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I mean, like, look, dude, you you can't drive with
the parking break on mine. Excuse me, I said, fifty three,
fifty five seconds to go, Patriot score a touchdown on
a six play eighty five yard drive, you get the
ball back, full boat of touchdown for full boat of
timeouts in the first half, two kneel downs? Are you
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doing saying you want to you you're right? You you
you didn't you. All you were trying to do is
hold on to lead. You weren't trying to extend the
lead to expand the lead. And that's not how you
run a good business, and that's definitely not how you
run a good team. Um and you know, look, they
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did get the ball to start in the second half
and march down, get a field goal, up seventeen to ten,
get another stop. But then you know that they had
no creativity in their play calling. They they seem they
seem to go, I cannot believe we're leading this game.
What do we do next? Well, we just hold on
to the lead. That's exactly what they did. They tried
to hold on, try to hold on. So I look,
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I use lots of horse riding analogies, like my girls
ride horses, right, you don't, You don't hold on. You
happen to hold on while you're riding. Just happens to
be something you do. But I would love to say
that I was sitting here, I'm shocked. I'm stunned. But
like I've seen this movie, I know how it ends,
right Tom Brady being interviewed and the ah shucks, this
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one was really hard, and yeah, we overcame adversity. I
love this team. We're going to the super Bowl. I
know exactly how this one ended. Here's a here's a
great line. Here's Bill Belichick on Brady's hand. Son did
a great job, and he's a tough guy. We all
know that, all right. But I'm not talking about open
heart surgery here. Yes, we're not talking about open erge
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for surgery here. That's amazing, right, Like Tom Brady just
wins him another a f C championship game. They're going
to another Super Bowl, and like, look, God bless him.
I think he's right. I think it is getting a
little bit overdone and it was a little bit crazy,
and it's not open heart surgery. But I mean, he
had to go full Belichick, didn't He Be sure to
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Doug Gottlieb Show. Um, were you at at even modestly
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surprised that without Rob Grenkowski downtown the fourth quarter that
the Patriots came back and won that game? No, I
was not surprised. I think the big thing that I
look at is I'm hearing myself back. Do you guys
hear me twice? We'll make an adjustment here we were
not but that okay, okay, good Now actually it went away,
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so I think we're good. I think the thing I
was gonna say too though, with Rob Gronkowski, No, I'm
not shocked. I mean, this is the New England Patriots
who came back from three down last year in the
Super Bowl without Rob Gronkowski, so I knew they were
capable of that. I honestly what had happened to a degree, said,
you know, this could be a semi blessing in disguise,
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because Brady at times can latch onto Gronk too much
as the game goes on. This kind of forced him
to spread the wealth and beat the Jaguars great defense
with an array of different weapons and different guys. Um, okay,
let's let's get to let's let's let's backtrack a little bit.
We're actually Gronk went out in the first half fifty
five seconds ago. In the first half, isn't that really telling?
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When the Jaguars decided to take a knee Bortles are
playing good. Patriots defense is not great. Pat's just score
and I know the Jacks are gonna get the ball. Uh,
we're gonna get the ball after halftime. But to not
even attempt to get a first down to see if
they wanted to take a knee in that telling of
the Jaguars trying to hold on the lead, next in
the lead, Yeah, I mean, I think it's telling for
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a lot of things. Yes, certainly they're going, hey, we're
up fourteen to ten, it's a new England Patriots. Let's
just you know, let's go in, make adjustments, come out
and try to play the same way in the second half.
The other thing it does is Doug, it just says
what we've already known. They don't trust Blake Bortles in
those situations. This is why they are a better team
this year. You know, Gus Bradley got fired at three
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and thirteen because he asked Blake Bortles to do normal
quarterback stuff. Drop back, roll the ball thirty times a game,
try to find open receivers within the pocket, all those things.
And Doug moron Tom Coughlin, they're smart enough to go, no,
we've seen this guy burn us in these situations before,
So you would have done the same thing. I would have, Yes,
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I would have. I am not. I would have not
at that situation. Gone, Okay, here we go, Blake Bortles.
We're gonna drop back in a situation where we know
we're gonna throw the football and New England's gonna be
expecting us to throw the football. And he throws an
interception and New England goes down and gets a field
go to our touchdown before the half, and now the
whole momentum of the game has changed. So you would
do nothing differently if you're the if you're the Jaguars, No,
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I really won't. I mean, and I know it's easy
to second guess them, but I also believe this is
the reason why they're in the playoffs this year, because
Marone and Coughin figured out how to manage Blake Bortles
and play the game differently. And this is what got
them there to this point, to where they were in
the NFC Championship game, and there was no reason to
abandon that plan as of yesterday. How's Brady keep doing it?
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Explain it? Yeah? I mean, he's first of all, he's
amazing let's just say that he's got a great arm.
He has an arm and emotion that that lasts the
test of time. It's not like Peyton Manning where he
gets his arm way up over his head. Brady can
still throw the hundred mile pro fastball. He can still
paint the corners. And then, let's not forget it's one
of the best offenses in football. The system, the attention
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to detail, Belichick knowing how to attack other defenses, all
that together makes the greatness of Brady in the New
England Patriots. And then the m and Dola catch. I mean, like, look,
Julio jones Is catch in the Super Bowl when they
were up twenty eight to three. Uh is the best
catch in a big game I can remember, Like that
was a but m and Dola's catches is at least
in the conversation he was over his head. He catches it,
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gets his right foot down, falling down on his right side,
but then taps the left foot and takes the football
away so it doesn't hit the ground first, you know,
which of course, would have been ruled in complete even
if he really caught the football. Like the m and
Dola catch was as much as the Brady throw was spectacular.
The catch was a better part of it. It was
amazing And you're right, it was a great blow by Brady.
And and again you know everyone out there at all
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the Patriots get lucky. You know what, The Patriots don't
get lucky. They just work harder and practice harder and
pay attention to detail. Is more than everybody else. And
I could tell you, having played for Josh McDaniels and
having worked up in New England, they practice those type
of throws at the end of practice every day. The
philosophy in the red zone is throw it low in
the front of the end zone, throw it high in
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the back of the end zone. Why because if you
throw it low in the front of the end zone,
the ball doesn't get tipped up. It just goes in
the ground. You throw it high in the back of
the end zone, it gets tipped up, it goes into
the stands, it goes out of bounds. It takes away
the risk factor. Um. But just an amazing game because
you saw it, Doug. The Jaguars were clearly the better
football team on that field, and New England and Brady
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and Belichick overcame it once again. Amazing so they're gonna
face the Philadelphia Eagles. How did the Vikings defense looks
so ordinary where it looks so extraordinary most of the year, Yeah,
I think. I mean, first of all, the Eagles defense
getting that pick six. I don't think I can remember
one play changing the momentum of the game more than that,
just at least in recent history the Vikings. The Vikings defense,
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I think the biggest is you is it's a really
thin defense. If you look at the numbers. They don't
play a lot of guys, especially on the front floor,
and they've been worn out. They haven't been as productive
rushing the passer towards the second half of the season,
and they ran into a team that's one of the biggest,
most physical teams in all in all of football with
the Philadelphia Eagles, and they had no answer for the
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run pass option. Uh, they had no answer for the
downhill run game. And then Nick Foles got on fire
and they just stomped them out. But this Eagles team,
they real I mean, this is the biggest, baddest team
in football as far as just size is concerned. And
that's why they have a chance to go in there
and hang in with new England and maybe even beat him.
I know that the pick six wasn't necessarily his fault, right,
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I mean, like Keenom could have stepped up in the
pocket a little bit more and so maybe his arm.
But his arm was hit as he's throwing the football
that caused the pick six. But very similar to to
last week really when there was there's an interception and
and he seemed to lose his confidence, they seemed to
lose their their confidence in him. It did have dramatic
change momentum um. But the the other part that was
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that was obvious to me is like, look, he just
doesn't have the arm and and he doesn't have the
one He's not You have to be so spectacularly talented
running the football if you don't have the arm. But
even then this is a tangible thing. Whereas folds, his
flaws were never necessarily arm strength. A lot of it
was confidence and Keenum looked like a backup for the
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for maybe the second time in two weeks. That is
that a fair assessment of why he was so limited yesterday,
you know, I mean to a degree, I mean you're right,
I mean he's not the most physically gifted special quarterback
in football certainly, But I do think he's starting quarterback
caliber material. I do, even if it may be low end.
I still you know he is capable. If you put
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a team around him and weapons around him, he can
go out and win football games. And you know yesterday, yes,
he had three turnovers, but like you said, the first interception,
I'm not putting that on him. The fumble, I'm definitely
not putting on him. Did you see the past protection
on that. I mean they had the tight end on
the right side of the formation trying to come across
and block the first round pass rushing defense end Barnett
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one on one, he gets hit from behind. The games
fourteen to seven, they're still in it at that point.
That completely closed the door. So listen. I still think
he's seen him as a good priyer, and I think
he deserves to be a starting quarterback somewhere next year.
And see the guy that's gonna make you feel warm
and cozy, that's gonna bring you back from twenty one
point deficits and things like that in the fourth quarter. No,
I don't think he's that type of talent, but you
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could certainly win football games with him. Would you have
considered pulling him for Bradford when they needed a spark,
you know, probably not, No, just away the game unfolded.
It just got out of hand in such a hurry.
I think that's the thing that's just amazing. I mean
it was. It was a fourteen seven game. He fumbles, Okay,
they go down to the score and make it twenty
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one to seven. They go three and out, they get
a field goal before the half. It's to seven. The
Eagles get the ball to start the second half. Its
thirty one to seven. So the game was over at
that point. And Case Kingdom got there, and I'm glad
that Zimmer kept him in. He earned it, he earned
the right to maybe bring the team back, even though
it was it was far fetched. Okay, we have foals
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against the Patriots, and that defense of the Eagles is
real and it will be fast on that surface. The
Patriots or five and a half point favorites. It feels
like a lot when you look at how dominant the
Eagles defense has been all season long, and how this
Patriots team has not been nearly as dominant on the
defensive side. I know they haven't allowed a lot of points,
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but they have allowed a ton of yards. What's your
sense on how we should look at this matchup. Yeah,
I think it's gonna be a great matchup. I mean,
Philadelphia is big and physical, just like Jacksonville, but they're
more creative on the offense and defensive side of the ball.
So I think they can stress New England schematically a
little bit more than maybe Jacksonville did. Jacksonville just kind
of lines up and says, hey, here we are. This
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is what we do. See if you can beat us,
and I love to watch that, but this Eagles team would.
But they have a huge offensive line. They're gonna be
able to run the football. I do believe that. And
like we said, with their defensive line, their front four,
they have a ton of depth on their defensive line.
These are the kind of teams we talk about, like
Jacksonville last week, like the Giants that upset them in
the Super Bowl, where we go, they can get to
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the quarterback with their front four. They can make Brady
and company uncomfortable. Yeah, it's five and a half points.
That seems a lot, but you know, I certainly could
see the Eagles up by one or two points late
in the game and then Brady goes down and throws
a touchdown pass and they win by six points and cover,
so that that, you know, would still be a good
football game. That's close. But it's New England as Brady,
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and I expect them to pull it out some way.
It's been really really crimazing, right, I mean, I just
you can't a sport that's supposed to give us new
blood in the playoffs every year has with the exception
of the Patriots, and and in life, you know, we
we hear, you know, the Rulers Father Time is undefeated.
And yet here Brady is in the fourth quarter against
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a more athletic team without his two weapons entering the year,
and yet he does it again. It defies it defies logic,
it really, it really does. And you know, for all
those people out there that want to hate against the
New England Patriots, I would just say this, just embrace it.
They're not going anywhere anytime soon. This is special what
we're seeing. It's one of the greatest dynasties in the
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history of American sports. And like you said, the rules
are set up to be even, and the one thing
they haven't been is even. Because New England is unbelievable.
I tell people this all the time, Doug. With my
experience working in New England, I always have coaches and
people from over the organizations ask me about New England
and they usually don't like my first answer because it's
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a little too detailed and it means there was a
lot of work done to get there, and they don't
ask a follow up question. New England coaches they outcompete you, Brady,
outcompete you seven three sixty five, and that's why they're
the New England Patriots. Awesome stuff. Chris Hie to the family,
thanks so much for joining us Man. Thanks Buddy, be
good a good week. That's Chris Sims. Fox Sports Radio
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After three and a half seasons, Bucks right now dropping
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nine games. It is three and a half seasons in Milwaukee,
but a winning percentage under five hundred. Despite leading the
team to the playoffs twice during those three and a
half seasons. Jason kidd Out today is the Bucks head coach?
Will they go and get that's fascinating. The guys that
own the Bucks now used to run Madison Square Garden,
used to be there, New Yorker, New York guys. They
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have a new arena that's set to open I think
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Um hmm. By the way, they get Eric Bledsoe and
they've gotten worse, right, shock of that happened? Not not
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bad has their effort been? Oh my god, More on
NBA stuff to come. We'll get you more insight as
to what it means who replaces him. The Bucks are
not interesting, um, if not for the fact that they
have Janis into the coopo right, if not for having
one of the young burgeoning stars, albeit one who can't
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shoot at all. And maybe it was his success early
in the season which ended up kind of making the
Bucks think they were better because if you actually look
at the Bucks record's like, okay, they're a little bit
about five hundred. Like it's a little bit lower than
I thought. I guess he couldn't throw Lawrence Frank under
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three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the I Heart Radio app. Look, everybody likes Mike Zimmer, right,
Mike Zimmer is like an old time kind of grinder
defensive coordinator lifer, all right, And I mean I fell
in love with Zimmer. First time I remember seeing was
hard Knocks with the Cincinnati Bengals. You're like, man, I
like that guy. Why can't I gotta be a head coach?
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But Mike Zimmer's old school ties did not allow him
to think in a new school way, which is, how
do we win this damn game? The Vikings were down
thirty seven really after the half and after the first possession,
and it was bad. And I don't know if the
Vikings would have come back and win the game. But
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I do know that one of the things the Vikings
have that no one else has currently in the NFL
is not one, not two, but three starting quarterbacks. They
got three Teddy Bridge Water not active, Sam brad from
the backup case. Keenum, the former third stringer, became backup
became starter, right, And I'm not blaming it all on Keenum.
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Why no, first interception wasn't his fault, fumble probably wasn't
his fault. But you have Sam Bradford over there, why
not use him? Why not pull the nick saban? Why?
Just thought we had to throw the ball in a game,
and I thought he could do it better. Um, you
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know so? And he did. He did a good job.
He makes some plays in a passing game. So it's
just a great win. Man. I'm so happy for all
Alabama fans, right, for our players. Unbelievable. Right, Remember remember
he made made the call at halftime. He's like, you
know what, we gotta throw the ball better and I
have a backup quarter And you're like, well that's college, Doug.
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You can't do that in the pros. Why not? And
before you're hesitant, you're like, well sam Bradford sucks. No, No, Okay,
now sam Bradford, is he as good as the number
one overall pick? Maybe not? But why do you dislike
Sam Bradford? Because he got fifty one million guaranteed out
of college. Because when the Goals drafted him, when the
Eagles drafted Carson went he was like, m hmm, I
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want out. Okay, well, obviously he knew the handwriting was
on the wall. He made the right decision. Oh it's
because he always gets hurt. Okay, Like these are all
fair valid criticism. They have nothing to do with whether
or not he gives you a better opportunity to win
one half one game. Here's all you need to know. Okay,
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they will both be on the market this summer. Sam Bradford,
case Keenum, maybe Teddy Bridgewater. They may all be on
the market. And the guy that people would if you said, hey,
I only need him for one game, it's not close.
It's not close, It would be Sam Bradford. It is
not even close. The Cowboys did the same thing last year. Okay,
(27:51):
they went down with Dak Prescott, and you know what
they're like, Oh, well we started him, so he's going
like Dak Prescott in five years. Might be better than
tun Rome. I might have better health than Tony Romo,
not might not get hurt when the wind blows wrong
like Tony Romo. But to win the Super Bowl. Tony
Romo last year gave you a better shot. You know why,
because he's got better quarterback. And Sam Bradford might not
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have won the game, but in one game, you know, like, look,
he like the likely that he gets hurt doesn't matter
if he get hurt. You put case Keena back in.
You were gonna win anyway. Case Keenum didn't have it.
Nobody thought he had it. He doesn't have the arm
for that. Can't play outdoors. There's a reason he's up
back and be like, man, why is he that you
see him throw those lollipops even indoors in Minnesota, the
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one that uh Stefan Diggs Cotton ran back. It was
a miracle. Why was the miracles a miracle? The ball
even got there? Like, man, that ball is hanging in
the air a little bit too long. You don't like
Bradford because he got he was the last signing boastpin it.
That's fine. You don't like Bradford because he wanted in Philadelphia,
That's fine. You don't want Bradford because he always gets hurt,
also fine, But she actually had a shot to invigorate
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your team. And oh yeah, by the way, it's the Eagles. Hey,
who was it? Who remind me? Hold on, let me
think here. There was a team that signed Sam Bradford
to a contract, promised him that he was going to
be their quarterback and he was gonna have a home
and then like a month later, made a trade and
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drafted Carson Wentz in the draft. Was that? Holy hell?
That was the Eagles. So you have a motivated, healthy
Sam Bradford. Oh yeah, By the way, best game Sam
Bradford has ever played in the NFL was Week one
of this season. And ain't like he's new to the team.
Nick Saban made the play, made the change because he's
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got some nuts and zimmer And just like the Cowboys
last year, they went down with hey, he got us here. Great.
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I needed I need a day, I need a couple
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of days. I don't. I don't like it, Teddy Um,
I don't. I don't like it. And look and I understand.
I totally understand. Teddy Bridge Arter wants to be a starter.
What he probably should have said is I want to
be a starter here. There's a there's a way in
which you can. Hey, look, I want to be a
starter here. This team drafted me, this team we took that,
we went to the playoffs two years ago. They stood
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by me when I tore my knee. Would be really
it would be especially to be a starter, even more
special to be a starter here, But they just lost.
Take a breath, Like, I understand. There's the I'm a
too soon guy a lot of times on Twitter or
on radio, like I don't care. I don't have the
emotional ties to any of these teams, so I don't
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I have no problem blaming last week's loss on was
that Marcus Williams right like, yeah, everybody else said all
these nice things about Marcus Wain's not his fault. I'm like,
yeah it was, But that's because I don't play for
the team. I don't represent the organization, I don't live
and work in the city. It really is, and Teddy
Bridge was not wrong for wanting to All these things
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are right. You can want to be a starter. You
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(31:31):
place for everything, and I just I think, yeah, I
I mean the day after. And it's one of those
things done too. It's a no brainer. No. Do you
want to start? Yeah? Who doesn't like? Yeah, we're gonna
win this game? Who doesn't? But yeah, I'm fine with that. Um,
And look, and I think Keena wants to start, and
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they may both be else looking elsewhere. And then there's
the Bradford thing and that the whole thing. You know,
it's only one guy can start. All three want to start,
but he really wants to leave because they know they
got a good team. They know thealen And and Digs
are two good wide receivers. Uh, we don't know who
the offensive coordinator is gonna because Sherman's leaving for the Giants.
One would think that if the Giants trade Eli Manning
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that one or all three, you know, I would wouldn't
stun me. By the way, if Shermer goes to the
Giants and Eli gets traded and they draft a quarterback,
if Bradford's brought in to be the starter until he
hands it up, because the problem with Bradford is going
to be finding a team that will outside of Minnesota,
that will start him and believe that he can be
healthy for seventeen games. Bradford's the best of the three Bridgewaters,
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one that people thought could take the next step, but
you know they he really just managed the game when
he was the starting quarterback his first two years there.
And you know, Keenum is what he is, is what
he is, so um, look, it's it's it's what's called
an embarrassment of riches. It's what the the Patriots really
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had an embarrassment of riches with Garoppolo and Brissette and Brady.
But it's a little bit of embarrassment of riches. You've
got three guys that can all play at some level,
that will get it, all, will get a chance to
the will all start a game next year in the NFL.
I don't think they're all starters, but I think they'll
probably all start a game. Problem with Bridgewater is I
wasn't sold on him before he got hurt and he
had this massive injury. We haven't seen him since. His
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best chance of getting another chance is in Minnesota. And
you hurt your chance of staying in Minnesota when you
say something the day after you lose. Just not that,
not the time. And I'm bad at time and place.
I just am. I'll admit it. I'm bad at time place.
So what maybe Yeah, it's like the old takes one
and no one. I know when something's bad time and place.
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That one's bad at time, place,
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look we can get to the falls. Uh. Incredible performance
against the Minnesota Vikings, the battle of the backups. In Philadelphia,
Eagles fans are still a bunch of schmucks, even though
um they get the win. Just you enough video, you
talk to enough people who went to the game were
treated poorly by Eagles fans and congrats you one. Nobody
(01:06):
likes you like no, No, we're Philadelphia, We're like city.
Everybody like no, you're a bunch of a holes the
way you treat people. Okay, you're not kidding anybody. Reputation
earned over time, over time, people fall back on the
they threw snowballs at Santa Right, what kind of a
hole would throws snowball at Santa an Eagle fan? Uh?
(01:31):
But and which also proves the no one actually people
don't like fans don't actually get what they deserve. Oh,
we get what we just say, like, hey, don't you
get what the team on the field does. That's it
you have. There is no connection between team on the
field and players on the team on the field and
people in the stands um anyway. But I do think
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there is something too, the fact that Folds was able
to produce and Um and his fellow former backup case
Keenum was not all right. I'm gonna get to the
Patriots in one second, but let me just start with this.
We're getting ready for the NFL Draft, and there will
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always be discussion about intangibles and how quarterback is a
neck up position, and it is, okay, there's a lot
of neck up. You gotta be able to handle the media.
You gotta be able to hand the wide receivers. You
gotta be able to handle the coaches, the offens according
to the quarterback coach, the offensive line. You have to
get those guys to compete for you. You have to
get everybody pulling in the same direction, even when their agents,
(02:39):
their wives, their common sense is telling them to pull
in their own direction. You cannot. It is a neck
up position. But you know what else it is. It's
a neck down position. Right case, Keenum is not a
starter in this league. And it's not because of anything
neck up. It's because of shoulder out. It just doesn't
have He doesn't have the size and doesn't have the
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arm strength and isn't a freak athlete to make up
for not having the size and the arm strength, and
doesn't have the arm strength to make up for not
having the size or as foals, a lot of his
issues were neck up, finding a system that worked for him,
finding the confidence in himself, and having a coach that
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would call flee flickers and letting him throw the ball
down the football field. Keenom didn't throw it down the
field because he couldn't Bulls, wouldn't throw the ball down
the field because he was limited by his own mind
and by the play calling. And the play calling is
how we find a bridge to the Patriots just being better.
Here's the question I have for you. Is there even
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one of you that, at any point in time in
the fourth quarter, thought the Patriots are gonna lose that game. Nope,
And he knew who else thought the Patriots would not
lose that game, the New England Patriots. Right, there's no
bad body language. There was a three and out early
in the fourth quarter and they're downturn. You're like, wow,
(04:05):
this doesn't look good. But then you're like, yeah, they're
getting back. And the telltale sign that they would get
it back that the Jaguars were not ready for this
moment was at the end of the first half, at
the end of the first half. Do you guys remember
what happened at the end of the first half. If not,
(04:25):
I'll tell you, Okay. At the end of the one
first half in the second game, the Eagles got the
ball and drove down and kicked the field goal and
added to their lead. At the end of the other
first half, the Jacksonville Jaguars got the ball and chose
to take a knee rank because the Jaguars were they
(04:47):
were fat girls at the prom. They were just happy
to be there. Right, it's fourteen ten at the half
fifty three seconds ago, and you're like, yeah, we're good here,
We're okay with the three point lead, which signals to
everybody in America, we don't believe in our quarterback. The
narrative of nobody believes in Blake Bortles is in fact accurate,
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because the guys in the sideline and in their own
coaches box didn't believe in him, didn't trust him even
though he was dominating the game and playing a damn
good football game. Didn't trust him to make the right
reads and the right throws even against one of the
worst statistically worst defenses in the NFL. One they were
in the second quarter marching up and down the field
(05:30):
against Whereas the Patriots they have confidence, they have arrogance.
They did not have Rob Gronkowski, and the last time
we saw them without Rob Gronkowski, they were awful looking, right,
They're like, what do you mean? They play the Miami
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Dolphins and couldn't move the ball and couldn't protect Brady.
But you know what, they've been there before, and they
acted like they've been there before, and look are going
crazy over Brady's throw to Mundola Ago was the catch,
catches it one ft down, going down lean left foot down,
but then moves the ball so that it doesn't hit
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the ground first, because we know at River Run will
do the opposite of what people think, which is rule
against the rule against the Patriots. What I say our
river run, what I say, ed River run, ed al
tato potato. But the the confidence that you have in
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the Patriots is the same confidence they have in themselves,
and it goes counter to how the game was being played.
The Jaguars looked younger, looked more athletic, rallied to the
football On defense, there was no reasonable explanation for their
ability to come from ten down in the a f
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C Championship game against one of the best defenses in football,
with the exception of the Patriots. Some of it is
neck up confidence. Everybody pulled in the same direction, understanding, Okay,
we don't have Rob Gronkowski, so what's our second best weapon,
right Brandon Cooks speedster. They're playing way off of him.
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Let's just keep running hits routes to him. How many
of those do we see? And Romo is up there
going like you might want to challenge him a little bit.
The only problem with Romo is saying that is that
sounds really good from the booth, but then you get
close to that dude, and beet beep, he's gone a J. Boullier.
The refs are against this other not the Patriots were
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against you. I've always thought this. I always thought this.
They understand the rules, understand the game, understand reading how
somebody is reacting and playing, and read it and and adjust.
That game was a very loosely officiated game, and they
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took advantage of it. When you have a quarterback playing
very loosely on a wide receiver, they take advantage of.
When they sense that you don't have confidence in your quarterback,
they take advantage of it. Whatever the Jacksonville Jaguars game
plan was, it was good, it was working. Then they
get tied at the end of the the first half, and
then the second half just too many wasted possessions to
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which they couldn't figure out exactly what they want to
do or how they wanted to do it. No, Patriots
defense is not that good. But when you get to uh,
when you get two situations which you have to throw
the football now a sudden. They got a little bit
of pass rush, and what do they do better than
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anybody else? Right, waiver wire James Harrison plays really really well.
A guy who could not get on the field for
the Steelers. Turns out they didn't need him to break
down the Steelers game plan. They just needed him to
get after the quarterback, and he did it enough to
get some happy defeat from a quarterback who end up
a kind of regressing towards the mean in many ways.
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Here's Doug Morone in the game. You know, it was
a hard fought game by both teams in all three phases. Um,
you know, we're able to get I want to say momentum,
but we're able to get the lead. And you know
then we we didn't make enough place to keep the
lead or we had an opportunity to end of the
game to win it, we weren't able to do that. Yeah,
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I mean, like, look, dude, you you can't drive with
the parking break on mine. Excuse me, I said, fifty three,
fifty five seconds to go, Patriot score a touchdown on
a six play eighty five yard drive, you get the
ball back, full boat of touchdown for full boat of
timeouts in the first half, two kneel downs? Are you
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doing saying you want to you you're right? You you
you didn't you. All you were trying to do is
hold on to lead. You weren't trying to extend the
lead to expand the lead. And that's not how you
run a good business, and that's definitely not how you
run a good team. Um and you know, look, they
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did get the ball to start in the second half
and march down, get a field goal, up seventeen to ten,
get another stop. But then you know that they had
no creativity in their play calling. They they seem they
seem to go, I cannot believe we're leading this game.
What do we do next? Well, we just hold on
to the lead. That's exactly what they did. They tried
to hold on, try to hold on. So I look,
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I use lots of horse riding analogies, like my girls
ride horses, right, you don't, You don't hold on. You
happen to hold on while you're riding. Just happens to
be something you do. But I would love to say
that I was sitting here, I'm shocked. I'm stunned. But
like I've seen this movie, I know how it ends,
right Tom Brady being interviewed and the ah shucks, this
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one was really hard, and yeah, we overcame adversity. I
love this team. We're going to the super Bowl. I
know exactly how this one ended. Here's a here's a
great line. Here's Bill Belichick on Brady's hand. Son did
a great job, and he's a tough guy. We all
know that, all right. But I'm not talking about open
heart surgery here. Yes, we're not talking about open erge
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for surgery here. That's amazing, right, Like Tom Brady just
wins him another a f C championship game. They're going
to another Super Bowl, and like, look, God bless him.
I think he's right. I think it is getting a
little bit overdone and it was a little bit crazy,
and it's not open heart surgery. But I mean, he
had to go full Belichick, didn't He Be sure to
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surprised that without Rob Grenkowski downtown the fourth quarter that
the Patriots came back and won that game? No, I
was not surprised. I think the big thing that I
look at is I'm hearing myself back. Do you guys
hear me twice? We'll make an adjustment here we were
not but that okay, okay, good Now actually it went away,
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so I think we're good. I think the thing I
was gonna say too though, with Rob Gronkowski, No, I'm
not shocked. I mean, this is the New England Patriots
who came back from three down last year in the
Super Bowl without Rob Gronkowski, so I knew they were
capable of that. I honestly what had happened to a degree, said,
you know, this could be a semi blessing in disguise,
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because Brady at times can latch onto Gronk too much
as the game goes on. This kind of forced him
to spread the wealth and beat the Jaguars great defense
with an array of different weapons and different guys. Um, okay,
let's let's get to let's let's let's backtrack a little bit.
We're actually Gronk went out in the first half fifty
five seconds ago. In the first half, isn't that really telling?
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When the Jaguars decided to take a knee Bortles are
playing good. Patriots defense is not great. Pat's just score
and I know the Jacks are gonna get the ball. Uh,
we're gonna get the ball after halftime. But to not
even attempt to get a first down to see if
they wanted to take a knee in that telling of
the Jaguars trying to hold on the lead, next in
the lead, Yeah, I mean, I think it's telling for
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a lot of things. Yes, certainly they're going, hey, we're
up fourteen to ten, it's a new England Patriots. Let's
just you know, let's go in, make adjustments, come out
and try to play the same way in the second half.
The other thing it does is Doug, it just says
what we've already known. They don't trust Blake Bortles in
those situations. This is why they are a better team
this year. You know, Gus Bradley got fired at three
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and thirteen because he asked Blake Bortles to do normal
quarterback stuff. Drop back, roll the ball thirty times a game,
try to find open receivers within the pocket, all those things.
And Doug moron Tom Coughlin, they're smart enough to go, no,
we've seen this guy burn us in these situations before,
So you would have done the same thing. I would have, Yes,
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I would have. I am not. I would have not
at that situation. Gone, Okay, here we go, Blake Bortles.
We're gonna drop back in a situation where we know
we're gonna throw the football and New England's gonna be
expecting us to throw the football. And he throws an
interception and New England goes down and gets a field
go to our touchdown before the half, and now the
whole momentum of the game has changed. So you would
do nothing differently if you're the if you're the Jaguars, No,
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I really won't. I mean, and I know it's easy
to second guess them, but I also believe this is
the reason why they're in the playoffs this year, because
Marone and Coughin figured out how to manage Blake Bortles
and play the game differently. And this is what got
them there to this point, to where they were in
the NFC Championship game, and there was no reason to
abandon that plan as of yesterday. How's Brady keep doing it?
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Explain it? Yeah? I mean, he's first of all, he's
amazing let's just say that he's got a great arm.
He has an arm and emotion that that lasts the
test of time. It's not like Peyton Manning where he
gets his arm way up over his head. Brady can
still throw the hundred mile pro fastball. He can still
paint the corners. And then, let's not forget it's one
of the best offenses in football. The system, the attention
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to detail, Belichick knowing how to attack other defenses, all
that together makes the greatness of Brady in the New
England Patriots. And then the m and Dola catch. I mean, like, look,
Julio jones Is catch in the Super Bowl when they
were up twenty eight to three. Uh is the best
catch in a big game I can remember, Like that
was a but m and Dola's catches is at least
in the conversation he was over his head. He catches it,
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gets his right foot down, falling down on his right side,
but then taps the left foot and takes the football
away so it doesn't hit the ground first, you know,
which of course, would have been ruled in complete even
if he really caught the football. Like the m and
Dola catch was as much as the Brady throw was spectacular.
The catch was a better part of it. It was
amazing And you're right, it was a great blow by Brady.
And and again you know everyone out there at all
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the Patriots get lucky. You know what, The Patriots don't
get lucky. They just work harder and practice harder and
pay attention to detail. Is more than everybody else. And
I could tell you, having played for Josh McDaniels and
having worked up in New England, they practice those type
of throws at the end of practice every day. The
philosophy in the red zone is throw it low in
the front of the end zone, throw it high in
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the back of the end zone. Why because if you
throw it low in the front of the end zone,
the ball doesn't get tipped up. It just goes in
the ground. You throw it high in the back of
the end zone, it gets tipped up, it goes into
the stands, it goes out of bounds. It takes away
the risk factor. Um. But just an amazing game because
you saw it, Doug. The Jaguars were clearly the better
football team on that field, and New England and Brady
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and Belichick overcame it once again. Amazing so they're gonna
face the Philadelphia Eagles. How did the Vikings defense looks
so ordinary where it looks so extraordinary most of the year, Yeah,
I think. I mean, first of all, the Eagles defense
getting that pick six. I don't think I can remember
one play changing the momentum of the game more than that,
just at least in recent history the Vikings. The Vikings defense,
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I think the biggest is you is it's a really
thin defense. If you look at the numbers. They don't
play a lot of guys, especially on the front floor,
and they've been worn out. They haven't been as productive
rushing the passer towards the second half of the season,
and they ran into a team that's one of the biggest,
most physical teams in all in all of football with
the Philadelphia Eagles, and they had no answer for the
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run pass option. Uh, they had no answer for the
downhill run game. And then Nick Foles got on fire
and they just stomped them out. But this Eagles team,
they real I mean, this is the biggest, baddest team
in football as far as just size is concerned. And
that's why they have a chance to go in there
and hang in with new England and maybe even beat him.
I know that the pick six wasn't necessarily his fault, right,
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I mean, like Keenom could have stepped up in the
pocket a little bit more and so maybe his arm.
But his arm was hit as he's throwing the football
that caused the pick six. But very similar to to
last week really when there was there's an interception and
and he seemed to lose his confidence, they seemed to
lose their their confidence in him. It did have dramatic
change momentum um. But the the other part that was
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that was obvious to me is like, look, he just
doesn't have the arm and and he doesn't have the
one He's not You have to be so spectacularly talented
running the football if you don't have the arm. But
even then this is a tangible thing. Whereas folds, his
flaws were never necessarily arm strength. A lot of it
was confidence and Keenum looked like a backup for the
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for maybe the second time in two weeks. That is
that a fair assessment of why he was so limited yesterday,
you know, I mean to a degree, I mean you're right,
I mean he's not the most physically gifted special quarterback
in football certainly, But I do think he's starting quarterback
caliber material. I do, even if it may be low end.
I still you know he is capable. If you put
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a team around him and weapons around him, he can
go out and win football games. And you know yesterday, yes,
he had three turnovers, but like you said, the first interception,
I'm not putting that on him. The fumble, I'm definitely
not putting on him. Did you see the past protection
on that. I mean they had the tight end on
the right side of the formation trying to come across
and block the first round pass rushing defense end Barnett
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one on one, he gets hit from behind. The games
fourteen to seven, they're still in it at that point.
That completely closed the door. So listen. I still think
he's seen him as a good priyer, and I think
he deserves to be a starting quarterback somewhere next year.
And see the guy that's gonna make you feel warm
and cozy, that's gonna bring you back from twenty one
point deficits and things like that in the fourth quarter. No,
I don't think he's that type of talent, but you
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could certainly win football games with him. Would you have
considered pulling him for Bradford when they needed a spark,
you know, probably not, No, just away the game unfolded.
It just got out of hand in such a hurry.
I think that's the thing that's just amazing. I mean
it was. It was a fourteen seven game. He fumbles, Okay,
they go down to the score and make it twenty
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one to seven. They go three and out, they get
a field goal before the half. It's to seven. The
Eagles get the ball to start the second half. Its
thirty one to seven. So the game was over at
that point. And Case Kingdom got there, and I'm glad
that Zimmer kept him in. He earned it, he earned
the right to maybe bring the team back, even though
it was it was far fetched. Okay, we have foals
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against the Patriots, and that defense of the Eagles is
real and it will be fast on that surface. The
Patriots or five and a half point favorites. It feels
like a lot when you look at how dominant the
Eagles defense has been all season long, and how this
Patriots team has not been nearly as dominant on the
defensive side. I know they haven't allowed a lot of points,
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but they have allowed a ton of yards. What's your
sense on how we should look at this matchup. Yeah,
I think it's gonna be a great matchup. I mean,
Philadelphia is big and physical, just like Jacksonville, but they're
more creative on the offense and defensive side of the ball.
So I think they can stress New England schematically a
little bit more than maybe Jacksonville did. Jacksonville just kind
of lines up and says, hey, here we are. This
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is what we do. See if you can beat us,
and I love to watch that, but this Eagles team would.
But they have a huge offensive line. They're gonna be
able to run the football. I do believe that. And
like we said, with their defensive line, their front four,
they have a ton of depth on their defensive line.
These are the kind of teams we talk about, like
Jacksonville last week, like the Giants that upset them in
the Super Bowl, where we go, they can get to
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the quarterback with their front four. They can make Brady
and company uncomfortable. Yeah, it's five and a half points.
That seems a lot, but you know, I certainly could
see the Eagles up by one or two points late
in the game and then Brady goes down and throws
a touchdown pass and they win by six points and cover,
so that that, you know, would still be a good
football game. That's close. But it's New England as Brady,
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and I expect them to pull it out some way.
It's been really really crimazing, right, I mean, I just
you can't a sport that's supposed to give us new
blood in the playoffs every year has with the exception
of the Patriots, and and in life, you know, we
we hear, you know, the Rulers Father Time is undefeated.
And yet here Brady is in the fourth quarter against
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a more athletic team without his two weapons entering the year,
and yet he does it again. It defies it defies logic,
it really, it really does. And you know, for all
those people out there that want to hate against the
New England Patriots, I would just say this, just embrace it.
They're not going anywhere anytime soon. This is special what
we're seeing. It's one of the greatest dynasties in the
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history of American sports. And like you said, the rules
are set up to be even, and the one thing
they haven't been is even. Because New England is unbelievable.
I tell people this all the time, Doug. With my
experience working in New England, I always have coaches and
people from over the organizations ask me about New England
and they usually don't like my first answer because it's
(22:38):
a little too detailed and it means there was a
lot of work done to get there, and they don't
ask a follow up question. New England coaches they outcompete you, Brady,
outcompete you seven three sixty five, and that's why they're
the New England Patriots. Awesome stuff. Chris Hie to the family,
thanks so much for joining us Man. Thanks Buddy, be
good a good week. That's Chris Sims. Fox Sports Radio
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After three and a half seasons, Bucks right now dropping
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and twenty two on the season, one d and thirty
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nine games. It is three and a half seasons in Milwaukee,
but a winning percentage under five hundred. Despite leading the
team to the playoffs twice during those three and a
half seasons. Jason kidd Out today is the Bucks head coach?
Will they go and get that's fascinating. The guys that
own the Bucks now used to run Madison Square Garden,
used to be there, New Yorker, New York guys. They
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have a new arena that's set to open I think
next year. And they they have Giannice and to Dakompo.
Um hmm. By the way, they get Eric Bledsoe and
they've gotten worse, right, shock of that happened? Not not
shocked at all anyway, fascinating stuff in the NBA Tyron
is Now does Tyron Luke get fired? I mean, how
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bad has their effort been? Oh my god, More on
NBA stuff to come. We'll get you more insight as
to what it means who replaces him. The Bucks are
not interesting, um, if not for the fact that they
have Janis into the coopo right, if not for having
one of the young burgeoning stars, albeit one who can't
(24:27):
shoot at all. And maybe it was his success early
in the season which ended up kind of making the
Bucks think they were better because if you actually look
at the Bucks record's like, okay, they're a little bit
about five hundred. Like it's a little bit lower than
I thought. I guess he couldn't throw Lawrence Frank under
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three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the I Heart Radio app. Look, everybody likes Mike Zimmer, right,
Mike Zimmer is like an old time kind of grinder
defensive coordinator lifer, all right, And I mean I fell
in love with Zimmer. First time I remember seeing was
hard Knocks with the Cincinnati Bengals. You're like, man, I
like that guy. Why can't I gotta be a head coach?
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But Mike Zimmer's old school ties did not allow him
to think in a new school way, which is, how
do we win this damn game? The Vikings were down
thirty seven really after the half and after the first possession,
and it was bad. And I don't know if the
Vikings would have come back and win the game. But
(25:34):
I do know that one of the things the Vikings
have that no one else has currently in the NFL
is not one, not two, but three starting quarterbacks. They
got three Teddy Bridge Water not active, Sam brad from
the backup case. Keenum, the former third stringer, became backup
became starter, right, And I'm not blaming it all on Keenum.
(25:59):
Why no, first interception wasn't his fault, fumble probably wasn't
his fault. But you have Sam Bradford over there, why
not use him? Why not pull the nick saban? Why?
Just thought we had to throw the ball in a game,
and I thought he could do it better. Um, you
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know so? And he did. He did a good job.
He makes some plays in a passing game. So it's
just a great win. Man. I'm so happy for all
Alabama fans, right, for our players. Unbelievable. Right, Remember remember
he made made the call at halftime. He's like, you
know what, we gotta throw the ball better and I
have a backup quarter And you're like, well that's college, Doug.
(26:42):
You can't do that in the pros. Why not? And
before you're hesitant, you're like, well sam Bradford sucks. No, No, Okay,
now sam Bradford, is he as good as the number
one overall pick? Maybe not? But why do you dislike
Sam Bradford? Because he got fifty one million guaranteed out
of college. Because when the Goals drafted him, when the
Eagles drafted Carson went he was like, m hmm, I
(27:04):
want out. Okay, well, obviously he knew the handwriting was
on the wall. He made the right decision. Oh it's
because he always gets hurt. Okay, Like these are all
fair valid criticism. They have nothing to do with whether
or not he gives you a better opportunity to win
one half one game. Here's all you need to know. Okay,
(27:26):
they will both be on the market this summer. Sam Bradford,
case Keenum, maybe Teddy Bridgewater. They may all be on
the market. And the guy that people would if you said, hey,
I only need him for one game, it's not close.
It's not close, It would be Sam Bradford. It is
not even close. The Cowboys did the same thing last year. Okay,
(27:51):
they went down with Dak Prescott, and you know what
they're like, Oh, well we started him, so he's going
like Dak Prescott in five years. Might be better than
tun Rome. I might have better health than Tony Romo,
not might not get hurt when the wind blows wrong
like Tony Romo. But to win the Super Bowl. Tony
Romo last year gave you a better shot. You know why,
because he's got better quarterback. And Sam Bradford might not
(28:15):
have won the game, but in one game, you know, like, look,
he like the likely that he gets hurt doesn't matter
if he get hurt. You put case Keena back in.
You were gonna win anyway. Case Keenum didn't have it.
Nobody thought he had it. He doesn't have the arm
for that. Can't play outdoors. There's a reason he's up
back and be like, man, why is he that you
see him throw those lollipops even indoors in Minnesota, the
(28:38):
one that uh Stefan Diggs Cotton ran back. It was
a miracle. Why was the miracles a miracle? The ball
even got there? Like, man, that ball is hanging in
the air a little bit too long. You don't like
Bradford because he got he was the last signing boastpin it.
That's fine. You don't like Bradford because he wanted in Philadelphia,
That's fine. You don't want Bradford because he always gets hurt,
also fine, But she actually had a shot to invigorate
(29:03):
your team. And oh yeah, by the way, it's the Eagles. Hey,
who was it? Who remind me? Hold on, let me
think here. There was a team that signed Sam Bradford
to a contract, promised him that he was going to
be their quarterback and he was gonna have a home
and then like a month later, made a trade and
(29:23):
drafted Carson Wentz in the draft. Was that? Holy hell?
That was the Eagles. So you have a motivated, healthy
Sam Bradford. Oh yeah, By the way, best game Sam
Bradford has ever played in the NFL was Week one
of this season. And ain't like he's new to the team.
Nick Saban made the play, made the change because he's
(29:44):
got some nuts and zimmer And just like the Cowboys
last year, they went down with hey, he got us here. Great.
You want to win the game. You want win the game.
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I needed I need a day, I need a couple
(30:05):
of days. I don't. I don't like it, Teddy Um,
I don't. I don't like it. And look and I understand.
I totally understand. Teddy Bridge Arter wants to be a starter.
What he probably should have said is I want to
be a starter here. There's a there's a way in
which you can. Hey, look, I want to be a
starter here. This team drafted me, this team we took that,
we went to the playoffs two years ago. They stood
(30:25):
by me when I tore my knee. Would be really
it would be especially to be a starter, even more
special to be a starter here, But they just lost.
Take a breath, Like, I understand. There's the I'm a
too soon guy a lot of times on Twitter or
on radio, like I don't care. I don't have the
emotional ties to any of these teams, so I don't
(30:47):
I have no problem blaming last week's loss on was
that Marcus Williams right like, yeah, everybody else said all
these nice things about Marcus Wain's not his fault. I'm like,
yeah it was, But that's because I don't play for
the team. I don't represent the organization, I don't live
and work in the city. It really is, and Teddy
Bridge was not wrong for wanting to All these things
(31:09):
are right. You can want to be a starter. You
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(31:31):
place for everything, and I just I think, yeah, I
I mean the day after. And it's one of those
things done too. It's a no brainer. No. Do you
want to start? Yeah? Who doesn't like? Yeah, we're gonna
win this game? Who doesn't? But yeah, I'm fine with that. Um,
And look, and I think Keena wants to start, and
(31:52):
they may both be else looking elsewhere. And then there's
the Bradford thing and that the whole thing. You know,
it's only one guy can start. All three want to start,
but he really wants to leave because they know they
got a good team. They know thealen And and Digs
are two good wide receivers. Uh, we don't know who
the offensive coordinator is gonna because Sherman's leaving for the Giants.
One would think that if the Giants trade Eli Manning
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that one or all three, you know, I would wouldn't
stun me. By the way, if Shermer goes to the
Giants and Eli gets traded and they draft a quarterback,
if Bradford's brought in to be the starter until he
hands it up, because the problem with Bradford is going
to be finding a team that will outside of Minnesota,
that will start him and believe that he can be
healthy for seventeen games. Bradford's the best of the three Bridgewaters,
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one that people thought could take the next step, but
you know they he really just managed the game when
he was the starting quarterback his first two years there.
And you know, Keenum is what he is, is what
he is, so um, look, it's it's it's what's called
an embarrassment of riches. It's what the the Patriots really
(33:03):
had an embarrassment of riches with Garoppolo and Brissette and Brady.
But it's a little bit of embarrassment of riches. You've
got three guys that can all play at some level,
that will get it, all, will get a chance to
the will all start a game next year in the NFL.
I don't think they're all starters, but I think they'll
probably all start a game. Problem with Bridgewater is I
wasn't sold on him before he got hurt and he
had this massive injury. We haven't seen him since. His
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best chance of getting another chance is in Minnesota. And
you hurt your chance of staying in Minnesota when you
say something the day after you lose. Just not that,
not the time. And I'm bad at time and place.
I just am. I'll admit it. I'm bad at time place.
So what maybe Yeah, it's like the old takes one
and no one. I know when something's bad time and place.
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That one's bad at time, place,
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