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00:00 All
00:02 Right, everyone welcome back into another live edition of the Patriots be podcast here on the CLNS media network
00:09 I am Brian Hines back as always with Alex Barth to break down the Patriots
00:15 2024
00:17 Schedule we have it
00:19 We have the well, we already knew the opponents
00:21 But now we have the order the biweeks the primetime games, which there are many but we have the whole schedule now in front
00:27 Of us to break down but before we get into that very quickly
00:31 We did have a little bit of Patriots news break this afternoon and we have a contract extension for the wonderful
00:38 David Andrews or Barth, I believe you're calling him the logo now. So I it's a pitch
00:44 It's it's it's a working title, but it was the thought I threw out there. I mean, he does look like Pat the Patriot, right?
00:50 so
00:51 He was David Andrews was going to be a free agent at the end of this year
00:56 So now he gets an extension through 2025
00:58 Field gates who broke it said he's do a base value of 12 million over the next two seasons with a maximum value of 13
01:07 Million and 8 million fully guaranteed. So we'll see it the nitty-gritty details how that
01:12 How that works how that affects the cap when it comes out, but David Andrews is now under contract through next season
01:18 Yeah, and you know good signing once again
01:21 The the Patriots continue to reward their own obviously before it was some of their younger players now
01:26 it's a veteran and David Andrews actually the longest tenured player on the team, but
01:31 If he it's kind of funny because we you know at the end of last year
01:36 We were kind of asking about retirement and I don't think this was the thing to like
01:40 Oh, we're gonna add on a dummy year. Even if you don't play it, they don't need the money, right? So
01:45 They're gonna rebuild their offensive line over the next couple years. He's he's the leader of that group
01:50 He's the captain of that group. He's captain the team. He's captain that group. He's a steadying presence
01:54 And so to have him locked up I do think is important
01:57 Yeah, especially when you have a rookie quarterback and Drake May right and maybe now with this new offense. It looks like maybe some of those
02:04 Responsibilities at the line of scrimmage which might fall more in the center, which that's something we talked about with Mac
02:10 You know last year a lot of he was talking about that
02:12 Presnap checklist where there's so much on the quarterback and you want to kind of reel some of that back
02:17 It looks like maybe some of that
02:19 Is gonna lie on more of the center now this year and to have an experienced guy like David Andrews in that role with a young
02:24 quarterback
02:25 Makes Drake May's life a little bit easier there. So nice to see him
02:29 Extended he'll be he'll be staying around
02:32 You hope as long as you know this year goes well, he's not gonna retire and he'll be back for at least two more years
02:39 Here now, so that is David Andrews again extended through
02:43 2025 one more year added on to that deal, but
02:47 Let's get into the schedule. That's that's the big news. We have our schedule
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03:03 Here we go. Again. We knew it was going to be a tough one based off the opponents
03:09 I think it's the second worst strength of schedule
03:11 in terms of win percentage, so
03:16 But I I mean the first thing we all look at is the bye week, which is it it's a late bye
03:21 we have week 14, which
03:23 Coincidentally, it was a week 14 by the head when Mac Jones was a rookie in 2021. So
03:29 It's kind of a tough spot if you were looking maybe, you know
03:34 Wait till the by to put Drake May Drake May and under center there
03:37 Like you're gonna have to wait till week 15 and at that point like is it even worth it?
03:42 Is he gonna be ready?
03:42 So it's a late by and of course with Mac that didn't matter because he ended up starting week one
03:47 But that that's where I think all of our eyes went went immediately
03:51 Yeah, you you know the mini buys early - I'll say first
03:55 I just on the strength of schedule alone what I think people may be missing
03:58 The point of because I've heard people say well, how can a last-place team? How can a team of the third overall pick?
04:04 It's supposed to you know
04:05 adjust
04:05 based on on previous record strength schedule strength of schedule only impacts three games
04:10 Because you're gonna play everybody in your division twice no matter what you're gonna play another full AFC
04:15 Division no matter what you're gonna play another full NFC division no matter what so those have nothing to do with the standings
04:22 the only games that have to do with the standings are
04:25 Your you play two teams in the AFC that finish in the same spot as you and one team in the NFC
04:31 That finished in the same spot as you and the reality is when you look at this for the Patriots
04:37 those three teams the three teams that are dependent on your previous record are two teams that
04:44 Finish last place in large part because they're all pro quarterbacks got hurt in the Bengals and Chargers
04:50 So they're not your typical last place team and the Bears who had the first overall pick and absolutely loaded up
04:55 so it
04:58 It's a little overblown that oh the schedule is reflective of you know
05:02 Who you you know who you have to put who you end up playing?
05:06 It really only impacts three games
05:08 This is the reality of it and they it just so happened that this year
05:12 The last place teams the Patriots are facing weren't your typical last place teams as for the bye week. Yes, but on
05:18 I mean you go right to that
05:20 if so, that's gonna be
05:22 The week of January 8th you about a week left in the sea a month left in the season at that point
05:26 man, if Drake Mays not ready
05:29 He's not ready at that point
05:31 I don't know what would go into him at that point does for you and even off the mini buys you look
05:36 okay earlier, I think you know week four might make some sense about a month into the season, but
05:40 First start on the road at arguably the best defense in the NFL. That's tough tough spot tough spot
05:48 So you got a you know, he's not Drake Mays not gonna have extra time to prepare for his first start
05:53 So, okay, then where do you where do you try to fit him in?
05:56 You know, I've seen some people say maybe that week five game you come back from the West Coast against Miami
06:01 He's had a full month
06:03 You know some people said you get back from London that week eight game at the Jets the Jets defense is good though
06:08 I don't know about that. Maybe it's week nine at the Titans
06:11 Some people put more emphasis on the first start being on the road
06:15 Others don't so depending on how you feel about that that might be the spot you look at and if it really gets pushed
06:21 I I think actually the week before the by
06:23 going into the Colts game is probably the latest you
06:26 Realistically make that change because you're getting a home game against a slightly lesser opponent
06:30 And then you get two weeks to really go over it before you got to go at it again
06:34 But even still you're getting pretty late there. I think the sweet spots here are
06:38 If they're gonna do it now, they may not do it based on the schedule
06:41 They may just shoehorn him in and say it's not the softest landing spot
06:45 But whatever we're making the switch for one reason or the other so this isn't to be all-in doll or maybe he wins the job
06:50 Out of camp. We spent three freaking months doing this Brian
06:53 2021 months of my life. I'll never get back as we were convinced bill was gonna have cam Newton start the season
06:59 I you know, I look at week five. I look at week eight. I look at week nine. I think those are the most realistic
07:06 spots to put him in
07:08 Yeah week fives an interesting one because you know, you have two home games there back-to-back
07:13 Miami is a team you're pretty familiar with so maybe that helps in your game planning there
07:20 After would you do going to I don't know about going to London. It depends how they planning on travel, right?
07:28 Exactly. So last year they did the funky thing where they went out
07:31 They went out Friday or Thursday night. They got there Friday. It was kind of late
07:36 So they only had like two days there one day of practice and a jet lag, but maybe you want to come back and
07:43 Depending on what your record is entering week a maybe your team's a little jet lag
07:48 Maybe that could kind of give you a kickstart going to Drake May at home
07:51 I get you know, the Jets are a good defense, but you but you're at home
07:54 So depending how they do that London travel that could kind of factor into maybe when we see May right around midseason at that point
08:02 Yeah, I think it's somewhere in that run and you're spot-on
08:05 I've seen some people suggest could he make his first start in London one?
08:09 It depends on how they schedule the week, right?
08:12 Are they gonna have a full week of practice?
08:14 Are they gonna go out Tuesday and have the full week?
08:15 Are they gonna travel Friday like they did for Germany? The other thing is and
08:19 And I'm not saying this should be the deciding factor. I'm just didn't bring it up
08:24 Does this team want to do another quarterback change around an international game?
08:28 Because you know, we're all gonna point right back to last year
08:32 And that shouldn't be the deciding factor, but I do think it's something that might be considered. Yeah
08:39 Hopefully this quarterback change is a little bit a little bit better than right
08:44 Different circumstances. I'm not gonna say it's the same circumstances, but it is once again
08:49 Oh, you're coming back from Europe with a new quarterback
08:51 Yeah, although they didn't I guess technically make because they did the split game against the Giants
08:56 Yeah, they came back
08:58 Yeah, because they started max still
09:00 That was the by right they had the by they took the by after the international game, which they're not gonna do this year
09:07 I'm actually okay with that. I it sucks that they should have taken it
09:11 I don't think they would have known that they were gonna have a week 14 by if they didn't take it
09:16 But week 8 is a great spot. Like if week 8 was the by week 9 at Tennessee Drake May here's the keys, right?
09:23 That's like we always talk about Halloween like that is that's like yeah 10 27 is week 8. So that's literally Halloween
09:30 Halloween week that would have been a great spot you go to London you come back
09:34 you have the by that would have been a good time to you know, kind of make that switch there, but
09:38 Yeah
09:41 Maybe I mean you said week 13 maybe like they bump that up week 11 because you know
09:46 You had two home games there then you're going to Miami which again, you know, you're familiar with them
09:51 You obviously haven't played well in Miami, but you get three games there before the by and then four games after
09:57 What do you think about the four games after the by there? Especially the bills?
10:02 Two out of three to end the year they did that with they did that with Miami
10:07 I think a few years ago, right? Yeah, they had a they had a cluster there even
10:11 max rookie
10:13 Max rookie year like it wasn't two and three but they played the you know, the bills like the Monday night. Yeah
10:19 Yeah
10:19 they had like the Monday night win game and then a few weeks after the by and then they ended up having to go there
10:25 again in the wild card, but
10:27 What do you think of those that last month there? Especially Buffalo two out of three to end it?
10:32 Well Cardinals are very winnable game
10:34 so we can it's really those last three and what's interesting to me is let's say that the
10:38 Patriots do kind of punch a little bit above expectations and Drake may does give them a push
10:43 say they're at
10:45 Six wins seven wins coming off that Cardinals game. So that has a Matt
10:49 What would that be at six to seventeen?
10:53 Six and eight. Yeah, let's say they're six and eight seven and not know that would be that's too many games with three
11:02 Well, oh, yeah seven and seven. Yeah. No, you're right. You're right. Don't make me do math seven and seven six and eight
11:06 I'm bad at math
11:08 Let's say there's seven and seven six and eight coming off that Cardinals game
11:11 Which I know not a lot of people are counting on that. I don't think it's the most unrealistic outcome
11:15 You know that
11:18 You finish with nine wins. You're probably in the playoffs in the 17 format. So that Chargers game
11:26 Becomes a potential, you know, essentially playoff game because the Chargers will probably be a 910 win team somewhere in there
11:33 8 9 10 win team. So
11:35 That's a game. I look at like if they make the push
11:38 Could be there and who knows what those bill get bills games at the bills
11:42 Take a step back painters. Take a bigger step forward. Like there's a chance if they kind of
11:47 Hit that rebound smoothly, which again no guarantee
11:51 But if they hit that rebound smoothly like those last three games all have the potential to hold significant weight if they're chasing a wild card
11:58 Now based on the way things have gone in recent years with their luck after Thanksgiving
12:03 They'll be in it and they'll lose all three
12:05 wouldn't rule that out either but
12:08 There is a chance that those three games especially that Chargers game actually have some meaning to them
12:13 Yeah, that was the math path
12:15 They were what first right first in the AFC going in the by then they drop drop three out of the four
12:20 Yeah
12:21 Yeah, and maybe you're looking week 17 week 18. Those are TBD that could become maybe a primetime game
12:28 Saturday afternoon game if it's if it's Patriots Chargers, the loser is eliminated from playoff contention
12:35 That's that could be a Saturday game. Yeah
12:38 What do you think about the one?
12:42 One primetime game. I mean, that's what you get for a four and 13 team
12:46 But you're going to New York early in the season their home opener Aaron Rodgers
12:51 If he's still walking by week three
12:54 You get the Jets there Thursday night football
12:58 short week early in the year
13:01 Well, I mean, what's the draw? I can't say I don't get it
13:05 I and I think there is I think it's undersold a little bit
13:08 I think there is some interest nationally in the post Belichick Patriots
13:12 I thought they might get one I guess it's Thursday night, but I thought they I thought they make it one like real
13:18 primetime game early
13:20 Cuz we know like the Monday night games are kind of mad at this point. I thought maybe you'd get
13:24 Patriots Bears on a Monday night in the first month of the season because hey, it's Drake May it's Caleb Williams
13:30 You have the post bill Belichick Patriots like there's some juice there
13:34 Or maybe you'd get you know paid the bills coming back to Gillette where they lost last year or something like that
13:42 Or something set up but at the end of the day, I think the league
13:45 They don't want to put a Jacoby Bursett nothing against Jacoby Bursett, but they don't want to put a Jacoby Bursett offense
13:53 That's producing the same as it was last year in prime time
13:56 They don't know when Drake May is gonna be the guy so they're hesitant to give the Patriots prime time games
14:00 I think they put the one early. I think that's all about the Jets. It's the Jets home openers
14:04 Aaron Rodgers returned to MetLife first time since he tours Achilles the Patriots are a footnote in that game
14:10 That's not even a prime time because of the Patriots. So I
14:12 Get it. I get why the league doesn't see the Patriot
14:16 I thought they'd seem as a little bit more of a draw than this just because of the post Belichick thing
14:20 But I can't say I'm overly surprised
14:23 when can they
14:26 start
14:27 Flexing games in and out five week five. Yeah, they can
14:32 Make sense
14:35 So, I mean, yeah, maybe if everything goes smoothly for the Patriots and they surprise one of those late games
14:42 Gets flexed but I mean, I'll take the 11 one one o'clock starts
14:49 I will gladly take take all those at one point. I don't love I'm the one person doesn't like the one o'clock. I prefer
14:55 The four four o'clock is the best four o'clock is the best one, but I actually like eight
15:00 I'm a night person, but I prefer eight o'clock to one o'clock
15:04 Yeah, the one thing I don't like, you know
15:06 Covering the one o'clock games as you're just so out of touch with all the other games around the league
15:12 It is going on because you're so just hyper focused on Patriots
15:16 obviously
15:17 Especially if it's a home game and you're at the stadium like you just have no
15:20 Recollection of any of the other one o'clock games where if it's like the four o'clock
15:23 You can watch red zone in the one o'clock window then, you know
15:27 There's only three or four or 4 p.m. Games going on so you can put all your focus on the Patriots there
15:31 They didn't catch the prime time game
15:33 So it makes it a much longer Monday going back through the rest of the league watching a one o'clock game
15:39 Yeah, which I think we have to do all but what three times this year
15:42 Or no, not quite
15:45 one two
15:48 Three yeah five times they're out of the because the two West Coast games
15:52 The London game the Thursday night game in the by so it's five weeks. They're not playing in the one o'clock
15:58 What are the four o'clock just the Niners in the West Coast? Yeah, the four not the 425 like prime time the the hey
16:05 We're not gonna make people get up at 6 a.m. And watch their own team games
16:08 Could those be Brady games? Those would be Fox, right? I'm sure they'll give Brady one of them. There's also usually although I wonder there's usually
16:17 Fox and CBS end up exchanging some games to balance out like Thanksgiving and stuff like one o'clock sometimes
16:24 Yeah, so I I do what if Fox ends up with the game at Gillette. I'd imagine they'd send Brady to that. I
16:30 Mean, it's also he is also the a crew. I don't know. Well
16:34 Pat's Niners four o'clock that could that screams Tom Brady. Well, let's see that it does you're right
16:40 Let's see what else week for NFL. Let's see if there's any other major game on that week. Oh, no. Oh
16:48 No, that's Thursday night. I was gonna say Giants Cowboys
16:52 You can lock in every time it happens, but that is the Thursday night game. So that is actually big
16:58 No, this is week for last year, why do I want that?
17:03 Here we go. Okay week for this year. So yeah Giants Cowboys Thursday night. So that's not for Brady
17:10 Saints Falcons. No
17:13 Bengals Panthers no Rams Bears probably not
17:16 Oh, they actually already haven't decided which games are on CBS which games are on Fox
17:21 Well, really Eagles Bucks they play in the playoffs that year that could be a you know
17:27 Well Fox doesn't have a 425 game this week
17:29 They've commanders Cardinals Patriots Niners. Yeah, I in in less Eagles Bucks becomes like a thing
17:37 Maybe they both start three, you know, yeah, so Fox's other games that week are Saints Falcons
17:44 Bengals Panthers Rams Bears
17:49 And Eagles Bucks those uh in in commanders Cardinals was the only other Fox games that week
17:54 All right
17:57 So that's you could probably pencil Brady in for that one loosely pencil Tom Brady into that
18:01 Yeah, when's the other one again? When's it's week 15. Well, we're here
18:05 week 15, yeah, it would be cruel to send Brady to this game, but
18:09 Week 15 on Fox we have yeah, Pat's card knows week 15 probably isn't gonna be Fox's number one. Let's see
18:19 Cowboys Panthers, it's not a great game. Yeah Panthers, by the way have no primetime games. I did not know that was allowed
18:25 I had always thought there was a rule that you have at least I thought every team had a play on Thursdays
18:30 I don't have it. They don't even have a yeah, I thought everyone had a no-pride. They have a London game. That's it
18:35 That's weird. So only someone does someone have to play Thursday
18:41 Twice or can they manipulate it with like the Christmas games now that I think it has something to do with the Christmas games
18:47 but
18:49 Well, we don't so we didn't need to watch the Panthers on Thursday night anyway, but right although that those bad Thursday night
18:57 Can't remember that Colts Broncos game a couple years ago. Anyway, we're trying to figure out a Brady could call this game
19:02 Cowboys Panthers
19:05 Jets Jaguars
19:07 commanders Saints
19:10 Fox for some reason as a Bengals Titans game. Oh that games on CBS Oh
19:15 That's cool cuz it's by it's by road team I know that I'm an idiot so it's actually week two
19:21 That it's just weird that Niners is on Fox that must be game they traded
19:27 Brady wants it
19:29 wants to call me
19:31 That is on Fox
19:33 Just Fox have 425. They don't the other Fox games are Rams Cardinals
19:38 Giants commanders
19:42 Colts Packers, but Bucks Lions, he'll be at Bucks Lions. That's good
19:46 Nice enough Brady. We'll see what I see. But I think week four that's that's probably the game Brady's calling. It's great
19:54 Talk. All right. Let's take a very quick break
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21:04 All right, so
21:06 What else we got on the schedule open in Cincinnati?
21:09 They've been a team. I mean Joe Burrow is back
21:12 So, you know you assume the Bengals are going to be the top AFC can contender
21:18 But they've been a team that's kind of you know, the tourists started slow with Burrow. So
21:23 Any hope there maybe stealing one in Cincinnati and then like three out of four on the road in in September like that
21:30 That's kind of a tough tough start which could be good if you're starting, you know, Jacoby, right?
21:35 Get those road games out of the way and save the home games for Drake May
21:38 But what do you think about that Bengals and that's kind of start though? Yeah, I mean, so first of all
21:43 It's a weirdly segmented schedule. So then we have one home game in September and only one home game in November
21:48 It's weird
21:50 Bengals is a sneaky. I don't want to say it's an easy game. I'm not even necessarily saying the win it but
21:57 The Bengals historically start slow
21:59 Joe Burrow is coming off of a wrist injury
22:04 We don't know how much T Higgins is gonna practice like that's and the Patriots almost beat him two years ago
22:11 It's like so I'm not saying I'm not saying bet the house on the Bengals or anything, but that's like a sneaky
22:16 We did this on catch-22 earlier today. It's not one of the five toughest games on I think we has the sixth toughest game
22:21 on Patriots schedule all things considered
22:24 But then you've got I mean Seattle, New York, San Francisco
22:29 Really really tough defenses now, maybe there's an advantage that it's all the same base defensive style
22:36 Right. It's all that that that Robert Sala
22:39 you know Niners defense, but
22:42 The the old Seattle cover three, but those are those are three really tough defense off the jump
22:48 You got to get ready for one on a short week
22:50 You got another one where you got to go cross country and just play a really really good freaking team
22:54 It's it's a tough month. It's it's a tough month. I think an own for start is not off the table
22:59 again, Cincinnati
23:02 Maybe win a bowl. I think it will see what the sea ox and I'm doing a quarterback
23:06 That game feels like it could be in play the Jets and Niners games though. We're very very tough
23:12 Especially for that early in the season
23:14 Yeah, then of course, you know come on
23:16 Miami Texans that is going to be a great game with CJ Stroud coming to town raining out into the rookie of the year
23:23 That'll be a game time
23:25 Hot ticket and it's it's funny. You know, we have Drake May number three overall pick
23:29 Patriots play I believe it's four out of the last five
23:35 Quarterbacks who went number one overall in the draft this year and it's Caleb Williams
23:42 Joe Burrow Trevor Lawrence and Kyler Murray and then the one they don't is Bryce young but instead they get the guy who went number
23:50 Two and probably is better in CJ Stroud. So a lot of these
23:54 Kind of young number one pick quarterbacks. I mean they played a lot of good quarterbacks last year. Yeah, just
24:01 Here they come again. It feels like so many like everyone has a good quarterback feels like nowadays, but
24:07 A lot of these top number one overall pick quarterbacks will be a good test kind of for the defense there as well
24:13 well, I I think the
24:15 The the texans game in particular is interesting because we've used the texans as kind of this blueprint
24:21 For the Patriots is kind of the blueprint for the rebuild
24:24 So it really is get ready to hear the phrase measuring stick game a lot this year
24:29 And it that is is among the top ones where all right
24:33 The goal is for them to be built like the texans. Well, let's see what the two look like side to side
24:37 And I think you're gonna hear a lot coming out of that game
24:40 Of you know how close the Patriots are aren't to being where they need to be
24:46 Yep
24:48 Yeah, definitely a lot of comparisons there. Even if drake may
24:51 Isn't on the field at week six
24:54 You can you can see the similarities kind of in the path that the texans took and what the Patriots
24:58 Want to model themselves afterwards, but then you know, london jet's home at tennessee
25:02 You said you did the five hardest games is tennessee the easiest game
25:08 Do you think if you had a look at this? I think we had that second. Arizona is an easier game. I think arizona
25:13 Well, because we factored everything in so you're you're later in the season. You're coming off the bye. Yeah, um, kyle
25:21 Let's be honest. We'll be healthy at that point. Um,
25:23 I mean we can we can do better than that
25:26 um
25:27 I mean we can we can do the exercise too. So we did it all we were just trying to find like where the bangles
25:32 game ranked but
25:33 So, all right here if you want to do it, we can do it. So, all right seahawks easier harder than the bangles
25:38 I'll go easier because the home I agree with you. Uh jets week three easier harder
25:45 Is aaron rogers alive? Yeah
25:47 Uh harder, I think that's harder. That's that's that's one of the harder games on the schedule short week
25:53 That place is going to be a buzzsaw, you know home opener all that. Uh, niners harder, right? I think we both agree
25:58 dolphins at home
26:01 I'll go easier. All right texans at home
26:07 Uh harder, I think they're better than bengal, right? Yeah, I go either way on that
26:13 That one's close, especially because you're home. But I I think they're a little bit better aguas in london
26:18 easier
26:20 Jets at home
26:22 um
26:24 I think it's easier just because it's at home and it's hard to beat a team twice in one season. Yeah
26:29 You've already seen them. Yeah, i'll go easier titans easier airs easier. What about the rams?
26:37 I'll go
26:42 Easier home. They have to travel across country there. I mean the rams are a good team obviously. Yeah
26:49 Dolphins on the road. That's harder. That's yeah, miami late in the year
26:53 Colts I think is easier, right easier
26:57 Cardinals easier at bills. I think is tougher harder chargers at home actually might be one of the easiest that's a top three easiest game
27:05 The chargers it's cold. Yeah coming here late in the year. No moss bills at home
27:11 Is that harder than the bangles on the road?
27:17 No, i'll go no, all right, so that has the bangles is the sixth toughest game, okay
27:22 Which feels like it's about in the middle. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's about in the middle there somewhere. Yeah
27:26 Uh, what about
27:30 Throwbacks you think we're gonna when you think we'll see the throwbacks. I think they tease
27:36 They tease the rams and I can definitely see the rams
27:40 I don't think they're gonna do them too late. Like part of me wants to say the chargers my guess is
27:44 One of weeks five or six
27:46 So either the dolphins or texans and then one of weeks 11 or 13
27:51 So rams or colts
27:54 I think it's going to be those two
27:56 That's how they typically break it up, right that chargers game is super late in the year
28:01 I think they want to do it, you know in case there's not a lot of interest the team late
28:04 I don't think they're going to do it in the home opener
28:06 although remember this is the last year for
28:11 The the current it doesn't have to be but you you're only allowed to change uniforms once every five years at a minimum
28:17 So this is year five of the blueberries. Um, I do think we'll see the silver pants again this year
28:23 Hopefully
28:26 Yeah, I I think throwbacks probably looking at weeks five or six and then week 11 or 13. Yeah. Yeah, they wore them against
28:32 Uh miami last year week two, so maybe they do that. That's a good uniform
28:38 Matchup the whites. Yeah, miami has some pretty clean white jersey
28:41 So you got well miami should because they have throwback home and road. They should have worn their throwback road
28:45 yeah, I don't know why they didn't but uh, and then yeah, maybe the colts, um
28:50 For the rams rams, that'll be another another really good game team. We don't see that often. So
28:57 Uh while they travel to foxborough and gillette you can you know, check out game time. That'll be a hot ticket
29:03 uh on that one as well first year without aaron donald see how that that defense looks but
29:09 Uh, yeah any other last kind of big picture thoughts or any individual game thoughts that we didn't get to kind of on
29:17 on this whole schedule here
29:19 Um again, I think those last games it'll be it'll be interesting to see if they can build up a little momentum
29:25 you know if they they do have a
29:27 I guess a soft-ish spot I would say from weeks like
29:30 seven to ten
29:33 Jaguar, I mean the jets are a tough game, but jaguars jets titans bears
29:37 You'd like to see them go at least two and two through that
29:40 If they can snag
29:43 Two games in the first six weeks
29:46 Okay. Now they're at four wins
29:48 If you beat the colts, that's five if you beat the cardinals coming off the bye
29:52 That's six with two in a row now
29:54 You're probably on the outside looking in but I don't think you're mathematically eliminated going into week 16 against buffalo
30:01 And if they can just get there
30:03 I think that's encouraging. I think in the first year with the rookie quarterback assuming drake may
30:07 Does most of the heavy lifting during that right?
30:10 If drake may gets you to the point where it's week 16, it's christmas. You're still
30:15 Technically in the hunt even if you're not really in the hunt. I think for year one
30:19 That's not a terrible place to be it sucks that we're at that point
30:24 but
30:25 That's kind of what i'll be looking at like can they can they make one of those bills games mean?
30:30 Something yep. Yeah, you want to just see the positive steps in in the right direction. You're building towards something there
30:37 Um a few other notes like i'll just add they didn't get the
30:41 back-to-back west coast trip
30:44 Uh, you know, they're in san francisco
30:46 In week four then they have to travel back out west week 15 for the cardinals
30:50 Uh, so two long trips there paired with the london trip. They have to travel
30:56 Uh the fourth most miles among any team in the league. I think it was like just over 25 000 miles
31:02 total so a lot of travel, but there's also a
31:05 uh chart going out if you want something like beneficial to take away from the schedule is they have a lot of
31:12 it's net rest differential they're one of like
31:15 Uh, they get a lot of extra days rest compared to the opponents. What's happens if you don't have any primetime games?
31:22 Yeah, it's coming off a short week
31:24 You're just going
31:26 Uh, it's like the ravens have this year ravens have like the most all-time or it's been tracked since 2002
31:32 Uh, they have like a 16 net rest day differential and then the patriots are second or like all time
31:39 Uh, or again since 2002 with like 12 or 13
31:42 So that that's one of the benefits if you want to look at you know, a kind of a silver lining here
31:47 Uh again, I know it's a lot of tough opponents. It's a lot of travel. It's a late buy but
31:53 Uh, one of the good things kind of from this is they do get some some extra rest days compared to the uh
31:58 Opponents they're playing against this year
32:01 right
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33:41 Well, the bruins aren't rotating goalies anymore german sweatman has taken over that and that but um, they're also still alive
33:48 Probably the best game of the series
33:51 game five
33:54 Tuesday night, I believe it was down there in florida to keep their season alive
33:59 Um, and now they come back home for game six tomorrow
34:03 They bought us all back in I I was saying before the game tuesday. They're just gonna they're gonna win
34:11 We're gonna win game five and then it's gonna be the perfect setup. They get an extra day rest
34:15 They get to come back home. They're gonna get marshy back
34:17 They're gonna make us all believe
34:19 and then they're probably gonna get their doors blown off at the garden because they can't win a freaking game at home on home ice, so
34:25 I'm ready. I'm still gonna believe but I feel like that's where it's trending. I don't know. Where are you at with the with the bruins?
34:32 I shame on me for getting my hopes up
34:35 I I think some of the sound that came out of practice
34:37 I have to say first off sound like brad marshall like looked good at practice and then his whole thing about yeah
34:42 Sometimes in the playoffs you're trying to hurt people
34:44 I think max struce wearing that panthers jersey last night is bad. Juju. Yeah, like
34:50 Shame on me for getting my hopes up, but you're right that whole game five
34:55 All I was thinking is they're just gonna get this back to the garden of crushes at home
34:58 Aren't they so that's how they roll
35:00 But yeah, I mean it was an encouraging
35:04 Game, it felt like they finally played their their game. They got 13 shots on net in the first period they finished with
35:11 Uh 28 so they were finally getting some shots through charlie mcavoy specifically like after getting shut out in the first four games get six
35:18 shots goal
35:20 Assist he played, you know fantastic. It felt like they were much better in their defensive zone
35:24 You know getting on pucks quicker clearing it out of the d zone and and then just you know
35:29 Tied it all up with swayman who?
35:32 I don't know if he was you know, he only gave up one goal
35:34 I don't know if he was the sharpest he's been at all points like, you know that one goal they scored
35:38 It was in and out of his glove probably one he should have had but now
35:42 You know credit to him like he still only gave up one goal made the huge save at the end of the game to win
35:47 You the game and now you get this extra day of rest. So hopefully
35:50 Uh that that impacts him. Well impacts marshy
35:53 Well, and you know, you can get get this thing rolling. They seem confident. They seem like you know, they believe in themselves
35:59 So it's setting up for heartbreak tomorrow night, but who knows who knows maybe they can maybe they can pull one out
36:06 Pull one more out here and go back to floor for game seven
36:09 Nothing. I'll take a game seven at this point. I'll take another game seven
36:13 Although it is nice tonight. We get a little bit of a break we went
36:16 Uh 11 days in a row with a playoff game before tonight. So i'm an idiot
36:21 I thought about going to the red socks night. No, that's not even a dump on the red socks
36:25 It was just like I need a night off, you know what i'm saying?
36:29 But uh
36:31 Yeah, it'll be fun to watch there's definitely some juice there
36:34 Yeah
36:36 um celtics took care of business just like we wanted to see in five eastern conference finals, hopefully
36:44 The pacers win tonight right there down three two. Yeah. Yeah. So it's tomorrow night
36:50 Days off so we're all pacers fans tomorrow night and then root for whoever you want in game seven
36:55 But the celtics get five days of rest if that series or actually you can root for the timberwolves too. I think that game's tonight
37:01 Um, if either of those series goes seven games because the nba scheduling is weird. Yeah, that's tonight
37:07 Nuggets timberwolves and and the nuggets are up three two in that series. So let's get five days of rest
37:12 I'll say this about the eastern conference finals, brad
37:15 The pacers. Yes, they are not as good of a team. I think celtics would roll over them. I think they would sweep them
37:20 I don't care
37:23 Give me the knicks
37:24 one celtic should beat them anyway
37:26 two
37:28 You want to talk about?
37:30 A series you can sink your teeth into that has some juice that has some storylines
37:36 First off shout out to zach cox who had this it would be the first conference championship
37:41 Between boston and new york since the 04 alcs
37:45 It would be the first time boston and new york have met this late in the playoffs since the second patriots giant superbowl
37:51 So that's just off the top
37:53 Yeah, you have jason tatum versus jalen brunson who the fan bases have been at war over these two players all season
38:00 Brunson had a better year. He did statistically but did so with much less help
38:05 Or not much less help but like there's other guys on the celtics taking up
38:09 Stats for mouse for mouse to feed right?
38:12 And tatum has more impressive a resume than brunson does even though brunson's a year older
38:18 But you know, there's been a lot of talk about oh brunson is really what tatum is just about the the hype or you know
38:24 Why doesn't tatum get the hype brunson does is it just because jaylen brown's there settle it on the court?
38:29 Awesome on top of that
38:31 christoph's portasingus
38:34 Once the franchise savior of the new york knicks the fourth overall pick
38:39 Was essentially run out of town
38:41 four years into his career
38:44 Goes back
38:46 Hopefully hopefully zelda goes back
38:49 And is now in the way of the knicks reaching their first finals in a quarter century
38:55 imagine if like
38:58 Five years from now
39:00 Mack jones was on a team
39:02 Patriots in the afc championship
39:05 That's what we're kind of talking about here with that
39:08 And then you also have the tom tibbittow storyline former celtics assistant who's now the head coach of the knicks
39:13 Which is interesting, but that's kind of a footnote in this whole thing
39:16 with the pacers of aaron neesmith
39:19 You know pascal siakam's been a celtics killer. I guess that's interesting
39:23 For carlisle used to play here. They knocked the celtics out of the in-season tournament. It's just
39:29 Celtics knicks has so much juice. Yeah so much juice. So go pacers tonight
39:35 And or
39:38 timberwolves
39:39 Always go timberwolves because the nuggets are the one team that I think can beat the celtics in the ball
39:43 But go timberwolves no matter what but go pacers tonight
39:46 and then we'll see what happens in game seven, but
39:49 I don't maybe i'll regret it. I don't think I will
39:51 I'm gonna it's gonna be another boring ass series
39:55 If it's celtics pacers, and there's nothing wrong with that is where i'll separate myself from some of my co-workers
40:01 I want to see more title. I don't really care how they do it
40:03 Celtics pacers would be boring
40:06 But because I also think they can beat the knicks
40:09 That's maybe a six game series instead of a four game series or a five game series
40:13 Give me the knicks. Give me something I can sink my teeth into and you know in the in the words of a great clutch game
40:19 pitcher there's nothing better
40:21 Than the sound of 35 000 people from new york shutting the hell up
40:25 And I would love to see the celtics get that opportunity to silence madison square garden. Yeah, that would be a really fun series and
40:33 You know no fault to the celtics because they're a really good team
40:36 You can't pick your opponents and their opponents in the first two rounds have been injured so much
40:41 but it's just been you know, two kind of ho-hum kind of boring series, you know that they
40:46 Have one little blip in the radar in game two and then they just steamroll the rest of the way
40:51 Or I guess they didn't really steamroll the last two games in the calves
40:54 but that you know, they took they took care of business and it's just been kind of lifeless juiceless, so
40:58 Going to the go into madison square garden and you know against that crowd, you know
41:03 New york finally has hope in their basketball team for the first time in years
41:07 It seems like that would that would be a really electric
41:09 Uh kind of series and who knows maybe we can that bruins
41:13 Rangers celtics knicks is it's it's still alive
41:16 So that would be something if we have boston new york in the nhl and nba eastern conference finals there
41:21 That would be a really fun time
41:24 Yeah, that that's a detail what i'm running for. Yeah, that would be all out war
41:28 but
41:29 uh last boston thoughts any quick things on the on the red socks, I don't I don't even know i've been so entrenched with
41:36 Playoffs of the other two i've been falling behind on my red socks watching. I mean
41:41 They're hanging out. They're chilling, you know, it's still kind of same thing. They're beating the
41:45 Beating the bad teams. They're losing the good teams, but they're hanging in there and they might give us a baseball season
41:51 Like you can kind of like we just talked about with the patriots, right?
41:53 If they're at six wins with a month to go they're in playoff contention
41:58 And they may not get there but they're in it if the red socks around 500 at the trade deadline
42:04 They're in playoff contention. They give us a summer. So it seems like they're at least gonna do that
42:09 I don't know how more than that how much more than that they're gonna do
42:11 We'll see when they get some of these guys back like tristan casas
42:13 uh, but
42:15 It's not over. It's not over. They're they're holding water
42:19 Yeah, no, I don't think that's what that means
42:21 Something with water treading water treading water. Yes
42:26 Holding water. I think is bad. That's when the boat is sinking. Yeah. No, you're thinking of carrying water
42:31 That's no, but that's its own thing. Yeah, that's something complete. That's some that's just what idiots love to yell when they're mad
42:38 It's something somebody in the media says yeah
42:40 But uh, yeah, yeah credit to them for you know, going through all these injuries and treading treading water
42:45 but yeah, just give us a season in july and august something that we can look forward to but
42:51 Uh, we will wrap it up there. That is your schedule patriot schedule breakdown a little bit of boston sports. So
42:58 uh, everyone enjoy your
43:00 Sportsless night or playoff sports this night because the red socks they didn't get delayed right? They're still they're still good to go tonight
43:07 I think they're still playing. It's not raining anymore. Yeah, it's not raining. I think it stopped raining. So
43:11 uh
43:12 A stress-free boston sports night just a regular season red socks game
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