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00:00color commentator extraordinaire
00:02For the Patriots and the Cardinals in Arizona. He's also going to be on this Patriots and Buffalo Bills game in Buffalo
00:09I'm talking of course about the great Ross Tucker who joins us right now here on wei
00:13Afternoons and he's brought to you by Hellman's real mayonnaise mayo game day be delicious Ross Tucker. How we doing, sir? I
00:20Am awesome, but we're starting with some actual
00:24inaccuracies
00:25Again, so what happened? I will I will I will clear things up. I will not
00:31be on the call for
00:33Patriots bills I am doing Titans Colts, but the NFL did
00:40Just announce that I will be in town
00:44Saturday the 28th for Chargers
00:48Patriots
00:49Saturday 1 o'clock on NFL Network. That'd be my first time
00:53Doing a game for NFL Network, so I will be doing another Patriots game. It won't be this weekend
00:59It'll be the following weekend, and I'm looking forward to I'll tell you why I am absolutely
01:05Shocked because after the game I got at least five
01:11tweets
01:12from Patriots fans
01:14saying
01:15We think we're god-awful, but at least you made the game entertaining
01:21We're horrible, but at least you were the broadcaster I gotta tell you guys that never happened
01:26So it's a broadcaster right usually after the game
01:30It's more negative than positive and then if you ever look to see where the people are that are negative
01:38It's always the people whose team lost right like interesting. They're always mad that their team lost
01:43They're mad that you didn't agree with the one call that they thought was a bad call like it's all like
01:50It's all personal usually so for me to get like
01:54five to seven posts from
01:58You know random Patriots fans. I don't even know who they are
02:01Say you made that game enjoyable you made that game tolerable like that
02:05That's like the greatest compliment. I could ever get certainly wasn't from the family of a Darian Lowe the left tackle
02:11Probably not you kind of blow him on national TV
02:16Okay, so let's so let's talk about that first of all
02:20By all accounts. He sounds like he's a great kid very nice, and he's trying his best
02:26Yep, I have no idea why I'm back-to-back plays
02:30He didn't get out of his stance. I don't know if there was noise
02:34I don't think there was noise because I think about a quarter of the fans were Patriots fans
02:40Let me ask you guys this I was curious about this
02:44How many of the Patriots fans that were there do you think live in Arizona?
02:50versus let's say live in New England and chose to travel to go out to Arizona because
02:57Hey, it's nice in Arizona. It'll be warm. We'll go golf for a couple days, and then we'll see the patch play
03:02I would say like 75 25 live there. That's what that would be my guess
03:06I don't think people are traveling to watch this. I might go a little less, but yeah
03:10I know it is popular Miami and Arizona in recent years. They do that or Vegas
03:14There's been a few because most Patriots fans
03:17There's a lot of them that do one trip a year right and that is one they may have circled
03:21I think it was I think that's fair
03:24I think it there was but I would say 25% of the fans in the stadium were probably Patriots fans
03:30I do think a lot of them it seemed like live out there
03:33Just looking at them like going to their cars after the game
03:37And I think what happened is one guy told me that he's a huge Patriots fan since 85
03:45Because when they you know the Phoenix didn't have a team
03:49I don't know what I don't know when the st. Louis Cardinals moved to Phoenix
03:52But when he was growing up out there there was no team and the first game
03:57He was really into was Bears Patriots
04:0085 Super Bowl and he picked the Patriots and like that's why that's his squad
04:04So I thought that was actually kind of cool as for mid-area and low
04:10listen I mean
04:12I
04:13Thought he was okay after that. I it's just they have a really bad roster
04:17I mean, there's there's no way around and and the thing is like I
04:24Would say by far the most disturbing thing to me about the Patriots if I'm a Patriots fan is
04:31That if you went move by move this offseason
04:36The batting average is low very I mean, you know, so
04:42Drake May was a home run. I love the kid talk with him on Saturday. I love him during the game
04:48I love them even more like you have by far
04:52the most important piece
04:55But then the second round pick the receiver has done nothing the third round pick from Penn State to tackle
05:01I don't know. Maybe he will be a good player if he gets a chance to play a couple more games
05:07But he's kind of an unknown the fourth round pick receiver hasn't done anything I mean the draft class has been
05:15bad by any standard
05:17But the big thing to me was football, right?
05:21the most important evaluation is
05:25Evaluating your own players
05:28Self evaluation, right and I don't know. I mean look you guys know better than me, but
05:34They extended Duggar
05:36He has not played. Well, no, okay, they extended Godshaw
05:41He really hasn't done much of anything. Nope. They extended bar more and
05:48You know, he's probably a different category because the blood clot so we'll give him a pass on that one
05:54But he looks like a shell of himself now since he's come back to I mean he hasn't he hasn't come back at 100%
05:58I'm gonna give a little bit of a pat. I've never come back with a blood clot, right? I'll give him a pass
06:04O'Shea, you know, they paid
06:06Didn't go do anything. They traded him for peanuts
06:10Offensively
06:12It's like so disturbing. They gave a lot of money to a winnow and
06:18He has not played. Well
06:21He has not played as well as we need him to play. Oh, I forgot on the fourth round pick
06:27Guard Robinson boys, he's struggling. I mean, he's really struggling the fourth round pick
06:33I think Stevenson is a fine player
06:37But I don't know. I like Ramon Dre. I always have what do you think about the money they gave him?
06:43You know, he's making a lot more money than Antonio Gibson is and I don't I don't know that Ramon Dre is a better player
06:49Than Antonio Gibson or gives them more juice. I think the hunter Henry signing was a good one
06:56Hunters still playing a high level. I think the Austin Hooper
06:59signing was a good one, but then you know the a core for who is supposed to the left tackle and then
07:05Retired or whatever. I mean, I'm not trying to kill
07:10Whoever it is Elliot Wolfe, whatever. I'm just saying
07:15Objectively if you look at the batting average
07:18It's bad. It's a low batting average and
07:22It's in particular
07:25Not nearly high enough with the guys
07:29That were already on the team, you know the guys that they obviously identified. Hey, these are our core guys, you know peppers
07:37They gave him an extension right now. Maybe part of that is the off the field thing
07:42You know, and maybe he was worth the money. I don't know. It's just
07:47Kind of a bad look. Yeah
07:50Really bad look we're talking with Odyssey NFL insider Ross Tucker
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07:55You saw it everybody saw it the crafts up in the owners booth taking notes talking about the plate calling
08:01Generally looking pretty unenthused by what they were seeing
08:04What do you make of that and how serious do you think that's going to get in terms of job security for coaches?
08:10assistants coordinators that type of thing
08:14Yeah, no, we they showed it and I saw it and I saw
08:19Some of you guys were saying on social media
08:21after the game about it, I
08:26Would be surprised if they just brought everyone back
08:29The way the way it's currently constituted the one thing I can tell you because I my first three years in the NFL
08:37That my head coach got fired. So I'm like the original coach killer, you know
08:43The one thing I can tell you is that how you finish
08:48Matters a lot like a lot. So I know everything about 3 and 11, you know, see it doesn't matter anymore
08:55Nope, that is the wrong way to look at it. You know these next three games
09:00Make a big difference
09:02think about how different you feel about the Patriots if they'd won that game against the Colts and
09:07Then put forth a better showing
09:10Against the Cardinals, so I'm not saying they got a win, you know against the bills or the Chargers or whatever
09:17but they certainly
09:19need to play better than they have
09:23because
09:25people usually
09:26Remember the most the thing that they see the last so these next three games matter a lot to everybody, right?
09:33Like if I'm a player, I am fully well aware
09:38That they are looking right now to decide who's going to be back and who's not and that there's going to be a lot of changes
09:45Right, so I've been in that situation
09:47I am playing my you-know-what off and preparing my you-know-what off so that I
09:54Stay when they make these changes or if I'm part of the changes I get picked up somewhere else. I hope these guys
10:02Recognize that because that is absolutely the situation they're in and I would say that's everybody, you know, it's interesting
10:10because
10:12They had over 400 yards of offense and
10:15200 yards rushing against the Colts a couple weeks ago. I just watched the Colts tape
10:22against the Broncos because I'm doing
10:25Broncos Chargers Thursday night radio and then Colts Titan Sunday and
10:30The Broncos did or yeah, the Broncos didn't even have 200 yards of offense against the Colts
10:35So for the Patriots to put up 400 yards of offense, that was highly
10:40Encouraging whereas I thought Sunday was a big step back after the bye and very discouraging
10:48So these next three games that I think these
10:52Performances matter a great deal for everyone involved. I think everyone is being evaluated
10:58I wouldn't put anything off the table. I mean if if the crafts are who I think they are
11:03Which is I think mr. Crafts has been as good of an owner as there is in pro sports
11:07I think he's you know that list I went over with you guys of like the moves
11:12They made this offseason the guys they've resigned
11:15I think he's got a strongly consider who he wants to be making those moves moving forward and
11:21And then where does that put Gerard Mayo? I mean, they probably have the worst roster in the NFL
11:26Yeah, so their record is about what I guess I would have thought it would be
11:32I guess the thing that surprised me was when they beat the Bengals early or even when they beat the Jets
11:37It's almost like them winning those couple games
11:41Early made people forget that they're not good at all
11:45I mean that they have a bad roster has been compounded by some of these injuries and some of these issues that have happened
11:52Ross we stream our show on twitch and some of the twitch chatters are big fans of yours and they had a question they wanted
11:57Me to ask and that is this what was up with the short tie? Yeah, what was the what was with the tie?
12:02What was going what happened?
12:05Yeah
12:06I'm disappointed in that
12:09So, you know, you know, it's funny I do that on purpose
12:15Because you're usually
12:17You know, usually when you're on camera you have your sport coat on right?
12:22I have this CBS blazer on and so I think it's a terrible look
12:29When the tie comes out the bottom of the blazer
12:32You don't I mean like you're standing there and you got the blazer
12:36Even if you have a button when the tie comes out at the bottom of it
12:40I always think that's a bad look so I shortened my tie up a little bit for the on-camera
12:47At the start of the game with the blazer on because I I don't want it sticking out of the tie
12:52Like I'm conscious of that. Well
12:55They had the roof open and it was like hot there
12:58Like it was too hot to wear my blazer the whole game
13:02So I took it off and then we all had it off and then the one time they say hey
13:07We're going on camera here and I forgot I was rocking the shorty ties
13:11And then the second time I didn't even know we were coming on camera and I still had the shorty tie
13:17So that's the answer. The answer is it's actually
13:20intentional because
13:23Nine times out of ten when I'm on television
13:25I have the blazer on and I don't want the tie sticking out the bottom. I think that's a really bad
13:32Look, so I intentionally shorten it and it backfired. And yes, I mean people I've never met before
13:38Emailed me to tell me it's a social faux pas and that the tip of the tie needs to go down to the belt
13:45You know, I think I think everybody needs to get a life
13:49I think
13:52Every week just like a guy with the blazer and the hoodie. I think that should be your look now every week
13:58It should get smaller. Yeah, make it shorter every week
14:01Yeah, here's nothing you guys need to know. I'm almost 6 5 right and my pants are
14:0832 inch inseam
14:11Okay, which means I've got crazy short like like when I was in Washington
14:17Daniels called me torso, man. Yeah, you're a freak
14:22That's weird, I have I have freakishly
14:26Long torso like if I sit down at a movie the people behind me hate me, right?
14:31Like I'm all I'm all torso, but your legs dangles I have
14:36Yeah, even if I have a normal sized
14:40Tie and even if I try to make it long
14:43It still is short on me because my torso is so crazy long, so I'm basically like a real
14:50Messed up. Mr. Potato head. I have short arms. You gotta Google this. I'm not kidding
14:57I didn't realize when I was playing I didn't know it was this big of a deal, right?
15:01My arm length. I went to Penn State recently and they like took me through their recruit thing. Mm-hmm. My arms are
15:07Thirty point seven five inches. Okay. Okay. If you look at the combine the last five years
15:15Only one offensive lineman
15:17Linder bomb from the Ravens the 6-1 center. Yep. He's the only one who's less than 32 inches and he's
15:2631.75 so I don't ever
15:28Hear anyone
15:33They wouldn't even give me a chance to play now, I wouldn't get a shot and I'm almost six five
15:38So now I don't ever want to say can anybody say always a journeyman lineman or he wasn't that great?
15:43I only started playing I get you only play two games at Patriots as far as I'm concerned
15:48Okay, I am in the hall of freakin fame for under 31 inch offensive lineman arm length
15:55Maybe the greatest of all time
15:57I'm on the side greatest offensive lineman with under 31 inch arms who's ever lived
16:03I want some respect for my short-armed accomplishments. I think they should put a new wing in the Hall of Fame in
16:10Ohio, I think they should make that for the short-armed Kings like you Ross Tucker. Thanks so much for the time today
16:14We appreciate it. We look forward to hearing your call of not Patriots bills, but Patriots chargers in two weeks. Thanks rush
16:20Yeah, I'm coming to Foxboro. You got to give me some restaurant recommendations and at the whole job
16:26I'm doing it up Thursday night Friday night for that game. You got it. Yeah. Yeah, we'll make that happen now Ross Tucker
16:31Thanks so much for joining us here. That was odyssey NFL insider Ross Tucker insider calls are brought to you by Hellman's real mayonnaise
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