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Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn joins the show to take a big-picture look at the offseason, then dive into Super Bowl LIX from Patriots and broadcast perspectives. Will this be Tom Brady's last game as a broadcaster? Did he live up to expectations? Later, the guys take turns building out a drinking game based on what Brady will say during the Super Bowl broadcast Sunday.  0:00 - Intro 1:48 - Looking Back on Comments 2:23 - How Patient Should Patriots Be? 12:28 - Anxiety About Chiefs? 15:20 - Gametime 16:53 - Reid vs. Belichick 24:15 - Most Interesting Aspect of Super Bowl 29:12 - PrizePicks 30:07 - Last Game Announcing for Brady? 39:12 - Brady Hiring Pete Carroll 41:12 - Predictions For Brady on Sunday 46:25 - Brady Broadcast Drinking Game   ************************************************ Patriots Content Brought to you by.... 💰 Prize Picks - https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CLNS Download the app today and use Code CLNS at PrizePicks.com/CLNS & Get $50 instantly when you play $5!  🎫 Gametime - https://gametime.co Take the guesswork out of buying NFL tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code CLNS for $20 off your first purchase. Download Gametime today. Terms apply. What time is it? Gametime!  Merch Store - https://shop.clnsmedia.com  Social Media!!!! 🏈 Patriots Twitter- https://twitter.com/patriotsclns 🏈 Patriots Instagram-  https://www.instagram.com/patriotsclns/ 🔵 Facebook- https://facebook.com/clnsmedia 🔵 LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/company/clnsmedia/about/ 💟 Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@clnsmedia ********************************************************* 🏈 ABOUT PATRIOTS COVERAGE ON CLNS: 🏈  Welcome to the CLNS Media Network’s YouTube channel for New England Patriots 🏈 football.  CLNS Media is the leading online provider of audio/video coverage for the 6X Super Bowl Champions.  Get complete inside access to the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro and everywhere on the road. CLNS Patriots credentialed insiders Greg Bedard, Andrew Callahan, Tayler Kyles, John Zannis, Alex Barth and Mike Kadlick provide instantaneous news and analysis all in real time, as well as full access to complete videos from the players, coaches, ownership and everyone else inside Patriots Place.  If you enjoy CLNS’ Celtics 🍀 All Access and are craving more Boston sports content, you head over to CLNS’ Patriots 🏈 Press Pass at  🔴 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqX7G3pEDTseNxtoDU27PEg?sub_confirmations=1 🔴  __________________________________________________________________________ 🍀 For Celtics Content:  🔴  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmp3kivpOg3lzoJC7yV7VjQ?sub_confirmations=1 🔴 🔴 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmp3kivpOg3lzoJC7yV7VjQ?sub_confirmations=1 🔴 🏀 🍀 Celtics Twitter - https://twitter.com/CelticsCLNS 📸 🏀 Celtics Instagram - https://instagram.com/celticsCLNS 🔵 Twitter Main- - https://twitter.com/clnsmediaCLNS

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00:00All right, a crossover event that would have some of our newspaper ancestors rolling over

00:17in their crusty graves.

00:18The great Chad Finn of the Boston Globe is here.

00:21Chad, have we gone soft, like the NBA here, you know, the way that like people, media

00:26just want to play with and podcast with their friends as opposed to the 1980s when this

00:30never would have happened, this podcast?

00:32Yeah, completely soft, for sure.

00:35But you know what it is?

00:36I blame it on like sports radio and TV, where it's all intertwined.

00:40You turn on, I see you on NBC Sports Boston, you turn on NBC Sports Boston, and it's an

00:45EEI host with a 98.5, the sports hub host.

00:49So and you're all kind of in the same boat these days anyway.

00:52So might as well talk to your friends, right?

00:55Yeah, fair enough.

00:56And honestly, you know, look, I think that's another thing newspaper guys do is blame the

01:00TV and radio folks for asking the dumb questions or giving me interviews.

01:03So like, we're still aligned there in an old sense and an old spirit.

01:07You and I are gonna talk some Patriots here today, and then we're gonna get into Tom Brady

01:09when I've teased now a couple episodes ago, the Tom Brady drinking game as we all eagerly

01:13await Super Bowl 50.

01:15I don't even know what it is.

01:16Chiefs Eagles is coming up.

01:17It's gonna be a great game on Sunday, and Tom is going to broadcast this.

01:20But I want to do the best thing we can do here in the media, which is, of course, under

01:25promise and over deliver.

01:26Let's go back to May 25th, 2022.

01:30Last time you were on this podcast, there were some comments left at a time where I

01:33didn't know what I was doing, hosting, recording here.

01:36Let's just revisit how that one went.

01:37And we were talking about how the Patriots could improve in 2022, doing a big solid to

01:41them, layout, areas, optimism, and then we did some media stuff.

01:45Here were some of the comments, just a sampling.

01:47Well, what was the point of this quote?

01:51There's nothing more New England sports than half a podcast of New England sports writers

01:56patting New England sports writers on the back.

01:59This podcast sucked.

02:01Great job, gents.

02:02You think we can do better this time around?

02:06Those are my fans, not yours.

02:08No, no, no, no, no.

02:09That was that was a haphazard operation.

02:11I was lucky just to get a signal and to record.

02:13I think we'll be much better.

02:15And I'm looking forward because look, everyone could do the podcast on the 2025 Patriots could

02:19get better, which is just, I don't know, play, play football as opposed to last year.

02:24But but let's look at the offseason because I think also before we get granular in the

02:28Super Bowl or the teams or any broadcasting stuff, I think it's important just to get

02:31some perspective.

02:32And we look at this offseason and everyone talks about the cap space and the coaching

02:35staff has been finalized and the draft will come up later.

02:38How patient should they be?

02:39This is a rebuild.

02:40We know it's a rebuild, but the more hope, you know, grows, it could affect our expectations.

02:46Do you want this at as much talent as soon as possible?

02:50Or just understand this is where you are.

02:52This takes two to three years and follow the traditional rebuild path.

02:55Yeah, more the latter there.

02:57I think you you can be selective about it.

02:59I can see a world where they trade for Cooper Cup if the price is OK and they feel like

03:07it fits financially, which it should.

03:10And, you know, they get a sense that maybe some receivers that others anticipate coming

03:16here or hope come here won't, T. Higgins or somebody like that, you know, everything

03:21you read from Bengals players and personnel is that they absolutely love the guy and really,

03:26really want him to stay there.

03:28And it's hard to leave Joe Burrow.

03:29So we'll see how that shakes out.

03:31But I think that makes sense.

03:34I don't just can't see them, not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but I can't see them

03:41giving up what they would need to give up to get Myles Garrett.

03:45Ideally, you'd love to have him.

03:47He's one of the best defensive players in the NFL.

03:50He's a one man wrecking ball.

03:52But this is a team that needs so much.

03:55The most important thing for them is to get the draft right and to get a string of drafts

04:00right and get that influx of talent on the roster.

04:04Because, you know, we saw we saw every game all year.

04:09They were devoid at a lot of positions.

04:11And you look at them doing that assessment now.

04:13I think there are players that are going to be much better for Mike Vrabel than they

04:18were for Gerard Mayo.

04:19I think some of those players that regressed under Mayo that had success for Bill Belichick

04:23will be better with Vrabel.

04:26But you just look at Drake May, you look at Christian Gonzalez, and you wonder where else

04:30the core players are.

04:31And so you got to get those guys in on rookie contracts and just hit the draft right.

04:36And if they were a team that was on the thought they had a real shot at the playoffs next

04:41year, maybe winning a round or two and getting Myles Garrett would take them further.

04:46It would make a lot of sense.

04:48But just the condition they're in right now, they've just got to build up and build up

04:52and build up.

04:53And that's free agency, too.

04:54That's you're not going to be like the offseason of 2020, 2021, where you sign 20 free agents

05:01and it seemed like every single one of them helped them in 21, including Mike Vrabel is

05:05probably arguably the best free agent signing in Patriots history.

05:11But you need to hit those mid-level guys, too.

05:14You can't allot all of that for a Myles Garrett or somebody else, even with the money that

05:20they have to spend.

05:21They're just too far away.

05:22Arguably best in Patriots history.

05:24I never considered Mike Vrabel in that category, which, of course, just like I did trade value

05:29earlier this week, and you're taking into consideration age and the contract and the

05:33position they play.

05:34Mike Vrabel, if you were going to make that case, which I don't know if you are, and I'll

05:37give you time in a second to do it or not.

05:39You would say, OK, you got eight great years leader, played a bunch of positions, then

05:44came back and saved you as a head coach, which he's not coming back unless he had played

05:48in the first place and established that relationship with the crafts who say, fine, here are the

05:52keys.

05:53Just kind of come back.

05:54Rodney Harrison was always the top this list, in my opinion, without reaching out for a

05:58while.

05:59Yeah.

06:00Is that are you going to make the case now?

06:01Is Mike Vrabel best free agent signing ever considered what's happened, especially now

06:05lately?

06:06In context, I'd put him in the conversation.

06:08I think I'd go Rodney, but they spent money on Rodney and Roosevelt Colvin that same offseason.

06:15Got hurt.

06:16Wasn't the same player, but good free agent signing still good, good Patriot.

06:19But that that offseason and after the 2020 season, they brought in so many guys that

06:26ended up being really helpful here.

06:27I think one of the most underrated Patriots of all time is Roman Pfeiffer, who is just

06:32solid.

06:33He was just good at everything.

06:34And you don't see guys like that on the roster right now.

06:37There aren't a lot of those guys where you can just say, that's a really dependable guy.

06:40And that was.

06:44With Vrabel, you know, he was a backup a little with the Steelers.

06:48They bring him in and he ends up being a core guy for eight years.

06:52He ends up being a culture setter, a guy who made a heck of a tight end in the playoffs,

06:58touchdown scoring tight end.

07:00And I, you could argue that he helped get the dynasty started by hitting Kurt Warner,

07:05but threw it right to Ty Law, who went right down the sideline.

07:09And then all of a sudden you're saying, wait, do the Patriots have a chance against the

07:12Rams here?

07:13So I would put Vrabel based on expectations, based on what they paid him that first contract

07:19and based on what he ultimately ended up being as in the conversation for the best

07:24in franchise history.

07:25All right.

07:26We would have loved to have pushed you over the top there, gotten the headline, the YouTube

07:30clip and put it all over social, greatest free agent signing ever in the conversation.

07:33Congrats.

07:34It's like the extension of getting MVP votes, right?

07:36Like Tatum's in the conversation, he's not going to win MVP, like it's a good place to

07:40be, but that's, that's how that hit my ear.

07:45I'd put it more like, uh, yeah, more like, uh, maybe, maybe a little higher ballot.

07:50Maybe like, um, I don't know who would finish second or third this year, but I'd put variable

07:55second or third.

07:56I, I, I think Shay's going to win the NBA MVP, maybe Jokic cause his numbers are crazy.

08:02So whoever's behind those two guys, that's who variable is.

08:05All right.

08:06Uh, to answer my own question, I think you can have a framework, right?

08:10Of what we want to do, where we think we're going to go.

08:12And obviously you want to map out how we get there.

08:15But I would say is you want to take that two to three year timeline, but not use it as

08:18an excuse to overlook any potential opportunities.

08:22Like I've been pro trade for miles Garrett, because I think when you take a look at that

08:25two to three year timeline, when can we commit, be competitive?

08:28How can we do this?

08:30He threads every single needle, like a, it's just a generational pass rusher.

08:35Okay.

08:36Physical freak, former number one, overall pick 15 sacks per season, each of the last

08:39four years.

08:40He's only 29.

08:41People knows him.

08:42He can fit in that two to three year window.

08:44Why I've been more reluctant on the Cooper cup stuff is I go, okay, he'll probably have

08:47a decent season coming up, but then he's 33 trying to downward.

08:51Yeah.

08:52Right.

08:53Like he doesn't fit the window here.

08:54So I just don't, all teams make calls.

08:56Some of them leak out and then it gets to be this aggregated story bigger than it was.

08:59I want the Patriots to turn over every single stone and look at this with the urgency of

09:04getting better.

09:05But within a two to three year timeframe, which isn't always, you know, stockpile draft

09:10picks and have the rookies all get better at the same time, you need adults in the room,

09:14but be patient with the understanding that that doesn't mean we need to ignore things

09:18that might fall into our lap.

09:19Yeah.

09:20I mean the, the, the one case I think that if I were making the case to bring Garrett

09:25here, um, you know, not knowing what the cost is, I mean, you gotta figure it's multiple

09:29first round picks.

09:30And do you think they're going to be a better team next year where that next year's first

09:33rounder is lower down.

09:35Uh, but if I were making that case, I would say, uh, it's not the most enviable year to

09:41be in the number four spot in the draft, depending on where those quarterbacks shake out, um,

09:47whether shit or Sanders ends up being somebody that goes in that top four or falls a little

09:51bit lower.

09:52Um, I think Kim Ward's probably going to be in there, but, uh, you're looking at a situation

09:58where maybe you, you don't get Carter, Abdul Carter, you don't get, um, Travis Hunter.

10:03And then suddenly you're saying, Oh, well, Campbell could be a left tackle if his really

10:08good left tackle, if his arms are long enough.

10:11Um, so if you're looking at this draft and looking at a number four pick and saying that

10:16in a really good year, it's the guy you're taking, there would be the 10th pick.

10:20Then maybe you can rationalize it rationalizes too strong of a word because it's miles Garrett.

10:25So if you do trade for the downside is, uh, the worst case scenarios, Oh, we gave up a

10:30bunch of draft picks to get one of the best defensive players in the NFL.

10:33Yeah.

10:34A guy who you also don't have to worry about off the field.

10:36Like he's, he's healthy.

10:38Um, so that's on the field, but he's only missed two games in the last four years.

10:42Rable knows more helmet swinging.

10:43He's done with that.

10:44Yeah.

10:45Yeah.

10:46Yeah.

10:47For sure.

10:48Uh, what's a, what's a successful off season to me?

10:49This is short, like the best offensive tackles and I'm talking two or three in the best receiver

10:53right now.

10:54It's not on the roster.

10:55If that changes by May to me, like to put it in simplest terms, you need better depth

10:59and this and that and better defense or players, the Adiata, but like those positions have

11:02been black holes for so long.

11:03I look at it that way.

11:04What would be a successful off season for the Patriots here?

11:07February six as we record.

11:09Yeah.

11:10Repairing the offensive line would be, uh, at the top of the list to the point where

11:15you're going into the, uh, going into the season, being confident about it, which nobody

11:21was last year for good reason, as it turned out.

11:25Um, I'm really interested to see if any of the guys they have on the roster that they've

11:29drafted last year, the last couple of years that the variable and the coaching staff believes

11:35in.

11:36Do they, do they like Leighton Robinson?

11:37Do they like, uh, Wallace?

11:39Um, you know, do they think Jake Andrews is going to be a guy who's a part of this thing

11:44down the road?

11:45Does David Andrews still have enough left to be a starting center?

11:48I have much more faith in their assessments and what they have on the line now than I

11:53do.

11:54It did with the staff that was here before.

11:56Um, but they obviously need multiple additions to the, the let you, you cannot have a Darian

12:02Lowe playing meaningful snaps next year.

12:04There are who, um, probably don't belong in the NFL, so yeah, yeah.

12:15So remedy that and go into the season feeling good about that.

12:19And, and that, that counts as major progress to me is if, uh, if you can see clear repair

12:24marks on that offensive line before the season begins.

12:27Yeah.

12:28All right.

12:29Let's go for some potential feel good to some anxiety because I think a lot of folks in

12:33our position here, and I've done this on radio and talk about on TV, you know, the, the starting

12:39point, the premise is, Oh, Patriots fans are getting very anxious about the chief success

12:43and they're mad.

12:44And I don't know how we measure that.

12:45Like I can check my mentions.

12:47I can listen to people who call into the radio.

12:49I don't think people who respond to me on Twitter, uh, or, or call in two to six, whatever,

12:54maybe a representative of the whole fan base, but that's what we've got to go with is this

12:57kind of sample.

12:58Do you think that folks are anxious about if the chiefs win Sunday, they've repeated

13:03something never done in the Superbowl era of NFL history, something the Patriots never

13:07did and are encroaching on the Patriots territory.

13:10And are you personally a little, please don't.

13:14When you look ahead to this game, uh, I think people, people are Patriots fans are probably

13:21anxious about it, but, uh, they can, they've got a card that they can pull, I think, which

13:28is a Brady beat my homes, uh, to get to, you know, to get to the Patriots, uh, Superbowl

13:35victory in 2018 over the Rams and six is more than four.

13:39Even if you get to four, congrats are still two years away, you know, when it gets, uh,

13:43and you know, there's anxiety when Patriots fans start counting the seventh that Brady

13:47won with the Buccaneers as one in his favor, uh, that's seven rings like bills does, you

13:52know, or like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

13:56But yeah, I, I think, uh, actively probably the majority are rooting against the chiefs

14:02this week.

14:03It's the, the Eagles aren't exactly the most lovable fan base either.

14:06And they, you know, they stuck a knife in your side and the Superbowl, uh, what, uh,

14:11two that, uh, I guess it was seven years ago, seven seasons ago, 2017 season.

14:17Um, so, uh, there's no one to root for here for Patriots fan, but, uh, if the chiefs do

14:24win, you, you look at it and say, ah, too bad Patriots lost to Jake Plummer and the

14:29Broncos in oh five and didn't get that third in a row.

14:32But you also say, well, let's see my homes do this for a nearly 20 years.

14:36Like Tom Brady did.

14:37Let's see them win six.

14:38It's hard to win one, you know, they'll have, uh, they'll have a

14:41nice little stack of them, but it's, uh, I think we forget how hard it is just to win

14:47one Superbowl.

14:48And at some point the chiefs are going to realize that too.

14:51Yeah.

14:52Look, the Eagles spoiled.

14:53What would have been a three Pete for the Patriots 2016, 2017, 2018, who's to say they

14:57can't do it again.

14:58And I think the analysis of, oh, Ken Mahomes, the greatest quarterback in the league, even

15:03though he didn't play like it this year, overcome the most talented team in the league, which

15:07was the kind of trite analysis two years ago when these two teams met, you know, it

15:11diminishes, uh, how the Eagles are built.

15:13I, I think they can win in multiple ways now.

15:15And I'm just super excited about this game.

15:17I've talked about this before in this podcast.

15:18Okay.

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16:53But the other part, when you talk about Brady versus Palms that I think is being overlooked

16:57because this is a storyline that has to keep coming up.

17:00How much longer is Andy Reid going to coach because his replacement matters a whole heck

17:04of a lot.

17:05And you could give like the examples, oh, Barry Switzer still won, you know, when he

17:08took over for Jimmy Johnson with the Cowboys and Aikman got another ring and George Seifer

17:12after Bill Walsh left in the Niners.

17:14But after that went downhill, yeah, I don't know how much longer read is going to coach.

17:18But as it stands right now, again, let's say that they win.

17:21Who is closer to catching who is at Andy Reid looking up at Bill Belichick being considered

17:26the greatest coach ever?

17:28Or is it my homes before ring is the greatest start to quarterback career ever?

17:32Looking up at Brady still under 30 with four.

17:35Who's closer to catching the greatest Patriot coach of all time?

17:38I think read is in terms of total wins when you have the playoffs and you know how close

17:43he is in the regular season to I think that's probably going to happen unless he stuns us

17:49out of, you know, stuns us and retires in the next two seasons.

17:52But you know, like I said before, the quarterback Mahomes Mahomes is ahead of Brady's pace,

17:58but that pace is so hard to keep.

18:02Nobody is going to sustain what the Patriots sustained.

18:05I think again in NFL history, even with the nine year gap where they didn't want a Super

18:09Bowl, they were contending for them.

18:12And then you have the bookends of the dynasty where they won three on each end of it with

18:16the same quarterback in the same coach.

18:18That's not going to be repeated.

18:20The real question is how long does this last from a homes when you know Fandy reads no

18:25longer the coach?

18:26I don't know if there's a successor even that they've thought about when Travis Kelsey who

18:31You know, who knows?

18:32Maybe this is his last game.

18:33We'll see when he's gone and you know, they run into what the Patriots ran into after

18:3920 years with a roster just wasn't replenished through the draft anymore.

18:43So I feel like the shelf life for this Chiefs team is going to be shorter at the dynasty

18:51level than it was for the Patriots who sustained it in a way that nobody will ever do again.

18:56So I think for me, I see it the other way in terms of Mahomes again, the consideration

19:01this is like the public perception not actually in terms of numbers though, obviously that

19:04drives a lot of the argument.

19:06I think people already want to make the case now unfoundedly my opinion that Mahomes is

19:11as good as Brady with three rings versus seven and you can do different measurements.

19:14Obviously, I think we should more than Super Bowls because wins are not a quarterback stat.

19:18But the point is he's done things and played the game in a way that Brady never did.

19:22It doesn't make him greater all time.

19:24But what it does is if you get another ring and you say, you know, he escapes better creates

19:30better is playing in this era and has done all these things.

19:33You could make a case like I think some folks do for LeBron over MJ if he gets at least

19:39in the neighborhood with the championships to say he's my as a kid would say go which

19:44to me does not make any sense.

19:46But we're not going to debate the kids in this podcast because you always lose against

19:49the kids whenever you want to argue against them.

19:51But it's the perception part where he started was so hot and he's only continued to ascend.

19:56Whereas Andy Reid, I think we still picture that guy who just can never get over the hump

19:59Philadelphia and he's been great.

20:00He's an all-time coach, but there's just a gap.

20:03I don't know if he ever gets to close with Belichick who yes Duncan Cleveland, but immediately

20:07erased that stink and deodorize what happened with the Browns by winning a Super Bowl in

20:11his second season in New England not to mention having the mastermind reputation when he was

20:15with the Giants.

20:16Yeah.

20:17Oh, yeah.

20:18No, I think Belichick is a better coach.

20:19Just in terms of, you know, counting stats or whatever you want to call him.

20:23I think Reid probably catches them, you know, Andrew the really thing that has kind of caught

20:29me by surprise with the Chiefs and watching this happen again with them and the phase

20:34that they're in where you watch the way they won this year at least until their receiver

20:39core got healthy and added some acquisitions and was much better at the end of the year

20:45than it was at the start of the year.

20:46But I felt like watching my homes this year was like watching early Brady in a way where

20:51it was just not caretaker or game manager anything like that, but just super efficient

20:57and taking what's there and not being the freewheeling the homes that came into the

21:01league and you know, lit everything up right away.

21:05I'm really interested to see where his career goes from here in terms of what kind of quarterback

21:11he is five years from now, but watching this Chiefs team just makes me appreciate the way

21:19they win makes me appreciate more the way the Patriots won and the reminders of that

21:26and I know people think Kansas City gets all the calls.

21:30I think it feels it does feel that way sometimes there are certainly situations where you feel

21:37like they got a break.

21:38Maybe they didn't deserve a spot like against Buffalo, but you know that stuff happens happens

21:43with the Patriots when you're there all the time and just watching them make the right

21:48play over and over rise in the biggest moment over and over.

21:52It's really reminiscent of what the Patriots did at their best in that way.

21:55And so you're watching a team challenge them and trying to come for their crown and it

22:01has this nice ancillary effect of just refreshing your memories about how great it was to watch

22:06the team that you cared about or covered do that over and over again.

22:10This podcast is already so soaked syrupy nostalgia all over the place.

22:14I love so much Roman 500 references and I'm with you though because you think about the

22:19way that they won and everyone's like the Chiefs continue to find a new way to win.

22:23They can bank on their defense in a way that the early 2000s Patriots could bank on their

22:27defense case always there and it's a matter of what edges are you being provided offensively

22:31into special teams.

22:32They blocked a kick to preserve a win.

22:34They had a game-winning field goal go off the upright and fall in and the way that you

22:38could have watched that game and gone that wasn't the Chargers that was the Jets who

22:42were across and Brady and you just kind of get that bounce because as the Chiefs on the

22:45Chargers the Patriots on the Jets and the other thing I would say is the problem solving

22:49is really impressed me with Kansas City right the ability to win in different ways and not

22:52just the luck of a field goal or a field goal block but in the way that he for the first

22:57half of the season was lowest in the league and average depth of target.

23:01This is a guy whose career took off throwing bombs to Tyree kill come back in the Super

23:06Bowl just chucking it from whatever angle he wanted and finding Hill downfield now he's

23:10dinking dunking and just winning by a little bit because you know, we can do this at the

23:14end.

23:15We've done it in the end and that kind of confidence and that kind of inevitability

23:18which is finally consumed everyone.

23:19I think picking this game even says well, they're going to win in the end same way we

23:23felt 20 years ago.

23:24Yeah, I wonder if that's the case with every team that gets that level where not just one

23:29Super Bowl but like the early 90s Cowboys of those great Niners teams who have a pretty

23:33sustained run with two quarterbacks where they they feel that same way in those situations

23:41where all right, nothing's gone right today, but this is where we go out and win it and

23:45then they do and maybe that's a characteristic of all great teams, but just watching it and

23:51you know, the current context over this century essentially, there's just so much familiarity

23:57with what the Chiefs are doing and what the Patriots did for so long.

24:00Yeah, they're well-rounded.

24:01You know, those first really Chiefs teams were great, but their defense stunk.

24:05And so if it wasn't Mahomes powering with this all-time offense, they didn't have really

24:08have a plan B now the way they play you got a plan B C D E and F. All right, one quick

24:13thing on the field then we'll get to Brady.

24:16What's the most interesting thing to you about this game?

24:19Just anything around or involving the Super Bowl and what we could see on Sunday.

24:27The Saquon effect because I can't tell you how many times I've gone back, you know, when

24:32he goes out and you like runs for three times runs breaks on 68 yards on a playoff game

24:36or whatever.

24:38My immediate reaction is to go to YouTube and watch the hard knocks with the Giants

24:44when they're rationalizing to John Mara about why they're not going to let him go and and

24:49why they're going to let him go and don't want to pay him and their director of pro

24:55scouting trying to subtly say maybe we're making a mistake here and just seeing how

25:01it all played out and Saquon ending up in the absolute best situation for him.

25:08I feel like there's a culmination coming Sunday where you know, he just rips through that

25:13Chiefs defense a possible culmination coming Sunday and rips through that Chiefs defense

25:17and puts the ultimate exclamation mark on a season that began with one of the worst

25:22teams in the NFL letting him go to arrival, right?

25:26Yeah, I love Saquon.

25:27I've made no I've not been quiet about that covered him for a bit in college.

25:33He's a legitimately good dude in addition to a freak on the field and I think as I've

25:37said before this is the first good offensive line he's played with since at least high

25:42school and I can't even speak to those days at Whitehall Pennsylvania, but I know they

25:45stunk at Penn State.

25:46I know they stunk with the Giants and granted this is not just a good offensive line.

25:50It's a great one, but that's the kind of player at this stage that can kind of cement

25:55a legacy immediately like he might be tracking for the Hall of Fame might not be you win

25:58a Super Bowl.

25:59He's gone.

26:00So yes, I'm interested in seeing what Saquon does and what he looks like.

26:04I'm also curious chat if there's any kind of creative desperation on either side like,

26:09you know, we've seen this before fake punts and onside kicks probably off the table.

26:13But if the Eagles get down do they feel the need to do this is a team that very often

26:17has just gotten a lead and just run you over or do the Chiefs come in saying this is a

26:23close enough and talent gap.

26:24I think they're one and a half point favorites or something.

26:26Do we have something up our sleeve for you?

26:28Because we know Andy Reed is plenty daring spags is plenty daring Sirianni just embodies

26:32Philadelphia in a way.

26:33I don't think any coach has for a city in a really long time and effort attitude who's

26:37fighting with his own fans.

26:39Does he go?

26:40Yeah, we're going to pull one over on you.

26:42Like where does that come in?

26:43I just I just hope we get a little wrinkle here and there because I know that the standard

26:46regular plays given how good these teams are and how talented Saquon Holmes and Kelsey

26:52yada yada are going to be great on their own the standard stuff.

26:56Is there something beyond that?

26:57Like I I hope so.

26:59Yeah.

27:00Yeah.

27:01It's interesting.

27:02I don't think they called a lot of that stuff this year, you know, the perception is that

27:05both teams do it a lot.

27:08It seems like if they have wrinkles to use that they've hidden them pretty well, at least

27:13in terms of the really tricky stuff.

27:15I don't know.

27:16Do they throw a touchdown pass in tribute to Nick Foles to Jalen Hurts or you know,

27:21Sirianni seems like the kind of guy who would have been climbing a grease pole in downtown

27:25Philly after they beat the Patriots.

27:27So he he see I would not put it past him to pay homage to the last Eagle Super Bowl win

27:34in some sort of way with with a little bit of trickeration like they use in the Peterson

27:39use in that game, but I've had a hard time getting to read on this game whether it's

27:45going to be high scoring or not because a lot of respect for both defenses, but you

27:52look at Kansas City's offense kind of coming to life here later in the season and all the

27:58things that the Eagles can do just incredibly talented roster.

28:01But the questions about what hurts is gonna be able to do as a passer against Steve Spagnuolo.

28:07I have a tough time getting a read on like what the over-under would be on this game

28:12should be.

28:13So for a game, that's essentially a rematch from a few years ago, there's a lot of mystery

28:19to it.

28:20And I think I think that's kind of a pleasant surprise because when these two teams got

28:23here was like God this again and as we built up to it, it really feels like it could be

28:28a classic.

28:29I think so.

28:30I think people are sick of hearing me say that on here, but I will say this that image

28:34you put in my head of Nick Sirianni the top the grease light pole.

28:37He's not only up there and bare-chested and swinging something around over his head.

28:42He's looking at the other guys at the light poles around them being like I will stay up

28:46here longer than you.

28:47I will outlast you.

28:48I will not be the first one down.

28:50The cops may or may not have to drag him down to go back and coaches on football team.

28:53I may have been anyway.

28:55Yeah, if they win look out in New Orleans.

28:58God, I was I was longing for Bill's mafia to get the chance to descend on Vernon Street

29:02and you know what?

29:03I don't see drunk Philly fans in a very different way from the beloved very loving, you know

29:07universally cared for fan base in Buffalo, but could do similar similar damage.

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30:06So off air you were telling me you think this is going to be it for Tom Brady.

30:11Yes, I'm going I've gone out on a limb of that and print a couple of times well.

30:18You there's just a lot of little fires with this.

30:23I can't remember which player it was who visited the Raiders may have signed with the Raiders,

30:29but he said Tom Brady was the one doing everything there in terms of talking to the players

30:35negotiation whatever so he's more deeply involved than he's letting on and he did

30:41a media conference call Wednesday with sports media writers is maybe like 10 or 12 of us on

30:47the call did it for 45 minutes and he he really downplayed what his role the Raiders is Mark

30:54Davis's team limited partnership. He reiterated again again, which he said a couple of times

31:02in the last month that he plans to do this for nine more years and maybe even more than that.

31:10That's the standard line the broadcasting gig. Nobody believes that nobody believes

31:15he's doing it for 10 years. So why is he telling us he's doing it for 10 years?

31:20There's the conflict of interest stuff. There's the fact that the

31:24Chiefs are all right with him talking to their personnel this week, which kind of threw me off

31:30a little bit. Why is Clark Hunt letting him do that? I think he thinks that he's just going to

31:33be gone to the Raiders and not a broadcaster anymore after this. I don't think it's gone that

31:40well for him, you know, it's been ups and downs and we can get into that but I think I think he

31:47thought it was going to be he's put the work in for sure, but I think he thought it was going to

31:50go a bit smoother than I did and he didn't have this opportunity to be involved with the team,

31:54which clearly I think is far more fulfilling to him than being in a broadcast booth.

32:02So he is really hammering that he's going to be back. Fox is hammering that he's going to be back.

32:10They sent around these golden microphones with Tom Brady's voice if you press a button about

32:15how excited he is to be calling the Super Bowl, which is a little much.

32:18We need to hit pause for the YouTube audience. Please bring that back

32:21and can you hit play are you you literally have it looks like a I don't know. They should give

32:25those out at the Emmys or something but only for radio broadcasters. And I know families are better

32:31quality. Yeah. Well, that's very it's the shiniest gold fake or real that I've ever seen. As you

32:36hold this up, it's maybe like four or five inches tall on top of a black base like you would have

32:40most awards. There's a button. There's a button you press. It goes forever. You want to hear it?

32:46Well, 30 seconds, probably. Yeah, I mean, we got to have now I can get Tom Brady's been

32:50on past interference. I couldn't be more excited to join Kevin, Aaron and Tom to call my first

32:57Super Bowl from the Superdome. Come to think of it, the big game and I have some pretty good

33:02memories together down in New Orleans. Our team has been hard at work all season long. And it

33:06seems like just yesterday I picked up a mic from my first game. The Super Bowl is upon us and our

33:13Fox crew is ready. See you February 9th. Let's go. How about that? Go. I don't what

33:22I hope you hold on to that 40 years from now if any of us are still here. And eBay is still in

33:28use that you you get some good run out of that because I don't know what purpose that serves

33:33to set up recording of Tom Brady and this big cold mic. I'll tell you, Tom's really excited

33:39about this. We're going to hold him hostage and make him take this audio. And then he's going to

33:43go work with Pete Carroll for the next few years. That's my hunch in theory. And I like it. He also

33:52Don Yee, his agent has gone out of his way to say, oh, Tom's going to do this forever. And it just

33:57makes me think the how over the top they've been and talking about how how much Brady loves this

34:04when the evidence in front of our eyes every Sunday is that it hasn't been that great. It's

34:08been fine. He's been good at times. But no, he's not Tony Romo. He's not ever going to be Chris

34:13Collinsworth or Troy Aikman who had a fantastic year as a broadcaster because he just stopped

34:19giving a damn about anything and just said what he thought. I don't think Tom can ever get to that

34:24level. And I don't think he wants to. I think he wants to go run the Las Vegas Raiders and

34:30put together a football team because it's the closest thing he's ever going to come to

34:34fulfilling the great joy of his life, which is playing quarterback. So,

34:40you know, we'll see. He's got three hundred and seventy five million dollars, a million reasons

34:44to stay with Fox. But I see a pathway out of this. And if he's in a booth next September,

34:52I'll admit I'm wrong. But let's wait and see. So I'm with you. And I think if anything,

34:59this is a case where, you know, you can try to convince yourself of something and really,

35:03truly want to believe it. But then you get exposed to whether it's your old life,

35:06old habits or people used to be with their old job. And there is that kind of joy that you're

35:10talking about that returns to you. And in this case, Brady's case, you know, without being in

35:15the room, obviously, that would be the competitive nature of winning a coaching search, getting your

35:21guys, being part of a team, help rooting out loud for the people that you want to win,

35:25which in this case, obviously, is no longer the Patriots. It's not even the Bucs. It is the

35:29Raiders. And once you get that kind of partial attitude back in your life, as opposed to the,

35:33you know, sometimes pseudo objectivity, the staleness and the, you know, the being a broadcast

35:38booth, you're like, why would I ever want to go back? I've had these thoughts walking through

35:41tailgates to Patriots games being like, you know, today would be fun to have a beer in my hand and

35:46be in Section 210 row 36 CF, as opposed to the press box, which sounds insane to people listening

35:52and watching this. But I'm telling you, there's something to be said about the community and the

35:57emotion of it, which is not, it doesn't reach you in that space. And I'm convinced I wasn't there

36:05because now what he said, I just think he wants to get better at this, but I think there's a clear

36:10ceiling, whether it was just speaking on behalf of the Patriots and the way Bill Belichick wanted

36:14him for years and years and years, which I didn't, why I didn't think it would be successful.

36:18You were just geared to speak in this very boring, cliche way to protect the team.

36:21In this case, your team is the audience and it just hasn't connected in this kind of way. So you,

36:26the question of, did he meet your expectations or underwhelm? It sounds like, did he,

36:29did he underwhelm you or did he meet lower expectations that you had as I did in my case?

36:35I think he was about what I expected, which was very guarded and cliche written early, but you

36:43could tell he was, he was putting the work in. He was, he tried to be good at it. And he took that

36:48year off that gap year to study up on all these different broadcasters, which I think was part

36:56of the issue. He had too many voices in his ear, too many people he was trying to take something

37:02from. And so he just couldn't be himself. That's come out a little bit more recently. I thought

37:08the Bill's Rams game was that week 14, that fantastic game. He was, he was into that game

37:16and he was telling you what he saw. He, he, one of the things I really liked I've written this,

37:21but I'll reiterate it was he lit up AJ Upanessa because the Rams were just attacking him. And

37:27that's the kind of stuff he wasn't really saying, but you almost felt like he was talking about it

37:31from what he saw as a Patriots quarterback with that kind of ruthlessness. You know what I mean?

37:37Like, all right, this is the guy we're going after. He can't stop the run. He told us that,

37:43and those aren't the kind of things that he's been that great on informing us about through

37:47the season. But, you know, just going to run, going to run the Raiders. The thing we know about

37:53Tom Brady throws himself full throttle into everything. It's one of the things we know about

37:57him. One of the reasons he became the greatest quarterback in NFL history was because of that

38:01commitment. Even when nobody believed in him, he's got two things on his plate now that demand

38:08full commitment, being the number one broadcaster in the number one booth for Fox, and then his role

38:15with the Raiders, which he's trying to downplay and clearly is bigger than he's letting on.

38:20And Tom Brady is not somebody who's going to split his time. Just from what we know about him,

38:24it doesn't make sense. It doesn't check out, it doesn't register. And so you think about,

38:30you think about, you know, what's more appealing to him. Of course,

38:33that job with the Raiders is going to be more appealing. The only,

38:36the wild card that I just have to keep coming back to the, the, the, you know, the,

38:42the barrier is the salary he's getting from Fox. But I feel like there's ways around that,

38:48that they can work out. He does appearances for Fox, does some glad handings, something like that,

38:53and makes a little bit less money, but we'll see. We'll see.

38:57Well, we know he took less money to stick around here and that was for the sake of the team. You

39:00know, if he, if he makes the same comparison, granted, it's a very loose analogy that needs

39:05all of the scotch tape that you have to take less money to still be part of the Raiders.

39:09He just, he just might do it. Did you make anything of the fact that, and I'm not saying

39:14this to pit Brady versus Belichick. Clearly there are good terms. Now I've done podcasts

39:18together, hung out, said nice things. And I don't think it's all just for appearances,

39:22but the coach he picked in a coaching search, he led, led him into the warm,

39:26smiley bosom of Pete Carroll, the opposite of the coaching you for 20 years here in new England.

39:32Like that's the guy that Brady hired is anti-bill anything there. Is it just comedic? Obviously

39:37it's making me laugh. Yeah. I wonder if Marshawn Lynch, his name came up in the interview.

39:42You know what? Probably not Malcolm Butler, but Marshawn Lynch maybe might've been a good,

39:49good icebreaker with Pete, or maybe not a good icebreaker, but I think it's just a respect thing

39:54that he, he has a lot of respect for Pete Carroll's accomplishments, football knowledge,

40:00way he's still at what 73 years old is able to communicate with younger players. You know,

40:06I know he kind of got tired there in Seattle and the breakup seemed pretty inevitable by the end,

40:12not unlike how it was here with Bill, but I think it's just a guy he's respected over 20 years as an

40:19NFL player and no Seahawks teams gave, gave Brady some hard times. You remember Richard Sherman

40:25getting in his face back before we really knew who Richard Sherman was. And so I think it stems

40:32from that, that respect and interested in hiring on the market. Yeah. And I think to the advice

40:41he got from Belichick, we're being completely fair here, not just for giggles, you know,

40:44would have led him to Pete Carroll anyway. So many was a vision program experience,

40:48whatever that philosophy is, doesn't have to be the same as Brady experience in new England.

40:52Obviously you won under a different style of coaching in Tampa Bay. And that went just fine.

40:57Pete knows what he wants. He knows how to get there, what it looks like. And their hirings

41:00of chip Kelly and offense and Patrick Graham on defense. Like this is a Raiders franchise that if

41:05they're allowed to work in coaches, they are, I think has got a higher level of competency

41:10ever since they moved to Vegas, maybe even before, like that's, that's a well-run franchise.

41:13Brady's a part of it, but I think Pete was, I've come around. I don't think it's a good

41:17long-term hire, but they'll be at a higher level with the coaches they have in place now than,

41:22than I would have expected or even thought a couple of weeks ago. All right. So Brady,

41:27yeah. Yeah. I mentioned that not the Raiders. Yeah. The, uh, the thing about Brady, we also

41:33know is he plays his best when his best was needed typically a super bowl. So even if I

41:38agree with you that I think Brady has underwhelmed or just not been to the caliber of your number one

41:44color commentator on these Fox teams, I think Chad, we get the best out of him.

41:49And it's not only the experience that he's had now with a full season under his belt,

41:53cause I don't think he was good in that NFC championship game, but I think it's his ability

41:56now to finally check in and visit with teams like the chiefs that he, which he could not do.

42:00And also the fact that he might know, as you just said, Hey, this is my last game.

42:04What do I have to lose? If I get a little aggressive in my assessment or negative or

42:09this and that, I think we get the best out of Brady. What do you think we get from him on Sunday?

42:13I do too. I think there might be some nerves early. Um,

42:15probably maybe the first time Tom Brady was ever nervous in a super bowl, but, uh, yeah,

42:21he's been, he mentioned yesterday, I mentioned Wednesday that, uh, everybody's been reaching

42:27out to him saying, go have a great game, Tom, you know, Chris Collinsworth, Al Michaels,

42:32Jim Nance, you know, all these people saying, yeah, it's a super bowl, go have fun.

42:37And, uh, that probably that's great, but it's probably helping him, uh, think about the

42:43magnitude of how many people are going to be listening to him, watching him's fine.

42:48He's used to that, but listening to his words, uh, with some of the blowback he's gotten this

42:52year, um, I think he might be hesitant early. And then as the game gets going and it's

42:57anticipate a great game, he'll get into that. Um, just, uh, you know, over the course of the

43:04season, I think, uh, I think he did get better as, um, you know, as he began to recognize what

43:14people really wanted, which was, um, you know, his expertise on having been through all of this

43:19and having been in every single situation, basically that any quarterback could ever face

43:24and, um, telling us what he would do in this situation or being anecdotal about and saying,

43:29I was in a situation, this is how this worked out. Um, and I, I think he got a better,

43:34better read on that as the season went on. I also think he was overproduced early that too

43:39many people were in his ear telling him who he had to be. And, uh, you know, Tom Brady,

43:45he's going to take all that information and run it through his brain. And, um, I don't know if

43:50all, I think too much stock, too much stuck in his head and, and didn't allow him to be at ease in

43:56the broadcast booth as, as much as probably he wanted. But, um, I think he's much better at the

44:02end of the game than he is at the beginning. Come Sunday, just like I would say he was for the most

44:08part during the course of the season. Yeah, I think that's fair. I am curious to whether he

44:15acknowledges what that energy is going to be like and anticipates pregame first quarter. Okay. I

44:21don't want to be too over the top, much like when he came back, his only game is a Buccaneer in

44:24Foxborough in that first half. Do you know what I mean? It's a little bit too high. It's a little

44:28bit too hard. And whether the Patriots anticipated that or not, like, you know, that's Brady a little

44:32bit too much juice. And I've heard players and coaches in super bowls who played participated

44:37competing say they did that same thing, but then we're almost like comatose and someone had to be

44:41like, Hey, it's the super bowl. Let's go to steal a phrase. So I, I don't, I don't know exactly what

44:49to expect, but I I'm with you. I think we will get the best of Brady and the criticism I've

44:53led because I have not listened to him to be, to be frank. I listened, um, the NFC championship

44:57game, the game with, uh, in the divisional round in Detroit and some other games and refreshed

45:01with some highlights before we did this podcast is for a guy who claimed after the fifth super

45:06bowl, I finally have all the answers. Okay. I know the answers to the test. We'll share them.

45:12Tell us like the alignment and the leverage, the tiny little things that separated you.

45:16In addition to the mental fortitude that you recognize and diagnose the defenses,

45:20cut it loose. That's the stuff we want, not just the nerds, but people are going to be

45:23tuning in for their only game of the season to know this is how granular this game gets.

45:28That's why so many of us love it. Share that with us. And I think he will just,

45:32we'll take some time, whether he's too little, too low or too high, but he'll,

45:35he'll find it right. I think maybe even just second quarter,

45:38his voice might crack a few times early. It gets a little squeaky. Um, yeah, but I I've noticed as

45:44the season has gone on that he, uh, he makes, he, he does say those things almost matter of factly

45:50now where, uh, you know, he'll make a quick line on the telestrator and say, you know,

45:54it's tight ends doing this. This is what they're going to do. And

46:01you know, inevitably it's correct. Inevitably it's what happens. And I, I think he's recognized that,

46:07uh, not overdoing it with that sort of thing, but, but cluing you in exactly on what he sees

46:12before it happens is, um, you know, it's a way to get, uh, even more credibility.

46:17Now, Chad, would you be willing to wager on the voice cracking? Because this leads us into

46:21the most anticipated segment of this podcast, a long time, the Tom Brady broadcasting drinking

46:26game, which is I laid out in our shared rundown and I will do now for the folks.

46:30You and I have both brought three things. Uh, I have a fourth is backup just in case there's

46:34overlap. If you are listening and watching the super bowl, specifically when Tom Brady speaks,

46:39we are going to give you these things and assign them a number of sips. If you would like to play

46:43at home, this is not to encourage anyone to pass out or miss any of the kind of games, obviously

46:47drink responsibly. But if you want to have a little bit of fun, I'm going to study, didn't

46:50listen to him. And I've caught up. I have certain habits. It's not to make fun of Tom. It's just to

46:55say we're all doing stupid little games around the super bowl. Here's another one. So did his voice

47:00cracking make your list? I'd like to start with whatever item you started. Just the one sip,

47:04the most common thing you think we'll hear from, hear this, toss a little back.

47:09The most common thing. Uh, it did, I did not include the voice cracking, but I think that is

47:14a safe bet. Um, especially early as he gets amped up, his voice has become better over the course

47:19of the season. He's probably taking voice lessons or something. Um, uh, this, so one sip is the one

47:28we see most, most comments. Yes. Okay. I don't know how you like to party chat. If you want to

47:33do three and just get the people raring to come, maybe you do the year in Maine, the higher North

47:37you go, the better drinkers there are. This is true of anywhere place you've ever traveled or

47:41ever been. And you're farther North than I am. So you, you pick, those are just the, we have one

47:45for three sips, two sips, one sip, assign whatever frequency you want to these comments and what you

47:50think will happen. All right. We'll do the, we'll do one sip for this one, but it's something we

47:55may either hear a bunch or we won't hear it at all because he's been corrected on it. He called

48:00players studs last week, at least five times I lost count, but it was five different players

48:04were studs in that game. I'm really curious to see if he talks about any studs this week,

48:09because I feel like it's something that maybe his producer said overuse that word a little bit. And

48:13so Tom just throws it out of his lexicon completely. All right. So three sips for stud.

48:20Yeah. Three sips for stud. Okay. I've already said this phrase. I think it slips in either

48:26after a big play or right before they get from the pregame broadcast to the game, let's go.

48:34The man is no more associated with that phrase than any other that we've come to know. Maybe

48:39any person in phrase, I take that back. Uh, Caesar and you're crossing the Rubicon would

48:43probably want something, but he's not here to argue Tom Brady. If he says, let's go at home,

48:48three sips, just as if he says stud, I think that will slip in either a moment of excitement or just

48:53to sign off because look, he loves throwing touchdown passes and winning super bowls.

48:56The man loves to say, let's go. Yeah. That would have been one of mine too. That, that they're,

49:02they're trying to last game of season, obviously with this little microphone thing, closing out

49:07the audio on that with, with let's go. They're trying to make it more of a Brady catchphrase

49:12than ever. Um, my, this one's broad, I'll say two sips on this one, but it's a broad thing,

49:19not a very specific big Brady tick, but it's when he's doing the breakdown of a play and

49:27they're showing a replay and he's not giving you specifics. He's just doing play by play.

49:34So, uh, uh, Barkley runs in from four yards out. Um, they show the replay, uh,

49:43here's Hertz handing off to Barkley runs left behind the left tackle and in the end zone.

49:48Let's go. Um, then that's five sips right there. Yeah. Right. Doubling up. But, uh, he's,

49:56he falls into that habit, not every time, but sometimes where he just tells you what your eyes

50:01are seeing rather than, uh, you know, like the left tackle blowing up, uh, uh, defensive tackles,

50:07you know, trying to make the play or something like that. He just, he tells you, uh, he tells

50:11you what Kevin Burkhart told you 10 seconds before. Yeah. This is, uh, as I was watching

50:16the TNT version of the Celtics casualty game on Tuesday, grand Hill special. Oh, just splits the

50:21defense here. Gets in for a layup and the ball goes off the backboard through the net two points.

50:28Yeah. Yeah. On top of that. It's a, yeah, it's, it's a crutch. It is. It is funny to hear that

50:33because the, the sound makes you think they believe they're explaining something profound

50:39as opposed to just parody. Um, but it, but it does happen often enough. I, I, I might send

50:44you the hospital bill if I played by those rules. Cause I do think that will happen a lot.

50:49Like light beer, maybe to NA to get a certain type of buzz. I'm going to give you one word

50:53for my two sip choice. Cause he said this nine times in one quarter of the NFC championship game

51:00juice. Okay. A lot of juice for the players. A lot of juice in this game. Need a little bit

51:06more juice here to get this drive going. It's going to be plenty of juice as there always is

51:10in and around the world. Okay. I don't think this game is going to lack for juice,

51:14but Tom Brady is going to make sure that you do not lack for juice at home with the way he uses

51:19that word. I think probably, like you said, the producers probably say, Hey, can we back off the

51:23stud juice? Like just, you know, find a, find a synonym. Okay. The source is your friend as it

51:28was a mine as it is any media person, but he's, it's going to be a couple of times. Anytime you

51:33hear juice, that's two. Yeah, that's a good one. Juice. He's, you know, that makes me think he's

51:41going to have a whole new word here that he overuses that we haven't even heard yet. Um,

51:46my, my other one, I guess this is my one sip one, but let's say we see it four times. Anyway,

51:52maybe more than that is when they show those two guys in the booth at the start of the game,

51:57start of second half, uh, various other points in the game. And Brady is staring

52:03at the camera, like an alien. Who's about to dissect you. Um, that is freaky.

52:11And we're going to see that he just doesn't, he, he doesn't look casual when he's on camera yet.

52:16And, uh, you know, he's Tom Brady. So he, he's, he's a pretty familiar face and yet he's kind of

52:21aging a little bit weird. Um, so, uh, I, I think that one's going to be disconcerting for people

52:28when, when Tom Brady is staring into their soul from their television set, it just doesn't know

52:33where to put that, you know, stare anywhere. Cause on the field, that's at the pole. It's

52:38at your teammates. Like they know what's going on here at home. You're just like,

52:42hello, an alien about to dissect you, take you to a different planet. It's just a great intensity

52:47with those eyes, which reminds me, uh, I don't break my mother's heart very often chat,

52:51but the last time I did was when I informed her that her beloved Tom Brady,

52:56she waves at from home sometimes when she sees them on the TV did even when I was rooting for

53:01the team myself, since covered the team that he may may probably did have some plastic surgery

53:09that would explain how the man ages better than any other person on planet earth. No, Tom wouldn't

53:18there's a clip. It was like three years ago. You remember every single headshot for the media guy?

53:22How did we go from here in 2002 with the hair part and this and that to the most handsome man

53:26on the planet now, 10 years running. It's not by accident. He, no, no. Okay. Okay. So I don't

53:34know. I'll keep you posted on that as well as everyone who's obviously very entertained my one

53:38sip. And I think people will enjoy this one because we did it 20 times already. Any mention

53:46of Patriot Superbowls. Okay. All right. Put it right down. This could be Tom Brady playing. It

53:51could be Belichick. It could be a memory. It could be a call. It could be Mike Vrabel. If it's Mike

53:54Vrabel, actually that's a fiver. Okay. But just get any mention of a Patriot Superbowl in this

54:00broadcast and Brady reminiscing. That's that's one sip for me. What if he calls him Braves?

54:07Oh, that, uh, see, I don't, I don't know how he would come up unless they showed the clips

54:13of Brady or Brady Vrabel catching a touchdown pass, which you want to know sign of the times

54:19the Patriots tweeted today and said Vrabel anytime touchdown was cash automatic money.

54:23This is the official team account suggesting betting in the head coach and touchdowns. No,

54:27anyway, I, if he does call him Braves, we can do 10, but I just, the most, I think this is

54:32going to happen a lot and deservedly. So the man played in 10, 11 Superbowls. Um,

54:38it's just one sip. Any, any Patriots mentioned Brady back in the day, et cetera, et cetera.

54:42That's the one. So there we go. We got our Brady drinking game. How many, how many drinks do you

54:46think this is going to, uh, we'll, we'll put in beers. You think people are going to down as a

54:50result? It's a very dangerous game. I think it's very dangerous. Yeah. You know what? We'll put

54:56them over the top as a, if they take a sip for every, uh, every time he calls Kevin Burkhart KB.

55:02Oh my. That, that puts you in the emergency room. Yes. Yes, it does. All right. We'll drink

55:07responsibly. Enjoy the Superbowl. Uh, this has been a lot of fun, Chad. I think the comments

55:11will be better than when I had just started this podcast three years ago and you were very

55:15gracious to spend part of your time. Anything we should look for from you in the next coming days

55:19and weeks? Um, no, writing about Brady on Sunday. That's my assignment. And, uh, some Celtics stuff

55:25later in this week. But, uh, um, yeah, it's all Superbowl around here for the most part.

55:32Awesome. Any books. I hear you had one or two that might be out. I'm using it as a computer

55:38stand right now. Boston Globe story, the Celtics available in all fine bookstores. We had a Red

55:42Sox one a couple of years ago too. Also by that. All right. Very good. All right. Here's Chad Finn

55:46of the Boston Globe. Read him wherever you can. And sometimes watch him on a Nesson where they've

55:51got a show going on with all the Boston Globe folks and our friend, Chris Gasper. Thank you, sir.

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