Patriots Hall of Famer Matt Light calls in! #nfl Real or fake tree? Light weighs in on Tavai interview! What's his thoughts on "effort"?
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00:00Now, I wanted to combine these two
00:01is because, A, I'm a fake tree guy.
00:04You can tackle a fake tree over and over again, right?
00:07You can spruce it up.
00:08For all of you people that know about fake trees,
00:10you know the worst part about it is
00:12when you have to fluff up all the individual branches
00:15to make them look lifelike.
00:16There is an art to it.
00:18It's scientific.
00:19And all I'm saying is, maybe that
00:21could be the new tackling aid.
00:22Maybe that's how we get these guys to perform better
00:26on the field.
00:26I don't know.
00:27I'm just spitballing here.
00:28The new tackling dummies, the Christmas trees.
00:31I guess I would be sensitive to it.
00:35Somehow, he took it as it was an attack on the effort.
00:40It wasn't meant to be an attack on the effort.
00:43You called him soft, so I can get it.
00:45No, I did not call him soft.
00:48You said it was the effort.
00:50I said this.
00:51Usually, three things, Matt.
00:52Effort, technique, and focus.
00:55I think effort was said three times.
00:56Oh, yeah.
00:58Yeah, but you know, so here's what I would say, though.
01:01And I think, seriously, it's something
01:04that has been brought up a lot.
01:06And I think everybody kind of understands it.
01:08But for whatever reason, it does fall on deaf ears.
01:10And it's hard to put yourself, as a fan,
01:14into the mindset of what it takes
01:18to perform at a very high level.
01:20Because look, you get to see training camp.
01:23If you go to training camp, you get to see little windows,
01:26little pockets of the commitment and the repetition
01:31and all the things that you do to get ready.
01:34And as I've said ad nauseum, I'm sure you guys
01:37talk about this a lot, is they don't have that anymore.
01:40They just don't have the time.
01:42So it's not about effort.
01:44It's not about their intelligence.
01:47It's not insulting any of that stuff.
01:49It's just the mere fact that we had 50 times
01:53to run through one particular play or one idea or a concept
01:59that we wanted to try to implement.
02:00They've got maybe two opportunities
02:03to rep that in practice.
02:05And they don't even do it at real speed
02:07anymore because we don't put pads on, right?
02:09I mean, it's like the pads come off.
02:11And now everything is kind of virtual.
02:14We're going to virtually go through this.
02:16Well, I'm going to tell you right now,
02:17it leads to very sloppy football.