The Patriots Are Back, & Maybe Better Than Ever… | Pat McAfee Show

The Patriots Are Back, & Maybe Better Than Ever… | Pat McAfee Show

We have to talk about a big bad wolf being all the way back. And we have to talk about a dynasty, an empire that was hated by the world, but obviously respected by all in professional sports. This New England Patriots team is such a fascinating story because obviously once they were in the dumps, and then they hired a man named Bill Bich and then he turned that place into an absolute powerhouse. The greatest dynasty in the history of professional sports over a 20-year span in a league that promotes parody. We’re dominating everybody. Obviously, whenever you do that, you’re going to have a lot of other fan bases hate you. Those are at the top of the mountain are obviously going to be judged. And people always throw rocks at things that shine. And boy, a lot of cities that are football cities that are shit-talking cities that are passionate cities that will certainly hate you cities hated the New England Patriots. So whenever they had their downfall and an ugliness in the breakup and the split between Tom Brady and Bill Bich and then they went down into the dumps of being an ass program, everybody was excited to watch the mass holes kind of deal with not being able to be braggadocious about their football team almost guaranteeing a parade every other year for 20 years. Then they hire a coach, former player. Did not go well at all. We’re laughing in their face. Haha. You guys had a good time there for a while. Now you guys are ass. And then somehow a guy is on the free agency block as a coach who was able to win and get coach of the year places and he’s just hanging in Cleveland not getting paid anything in a uh closet basic office in the back corner. They don’t have it figured out there either. He’s just hanging. He comes back and he turns the place into an absolute powerhouse. The number one team in the NFL. First team to 11 wins. They’re heading into a buy with a young squad in an ass beating against the New York Giants on Monday Night Football and the New England Patriots are all the way back. So, everybody that thought, myself included, that we can maybe dance on them for the foreseeable future when the times are bad over the last couple years, well, we can’t and they’re back on top and they know it. Their fans know it. Not only is obviously special teams backto-back weeks for Marcus Jones taking a punt return to the crib, he’s unbelievable. He is a stud. Is he a defensive player on a special teams play scoring a touchdown? That’s certainly up for conversation I think in some people’s pockets. But on that note, special teams they’re great. Defense they’re incredible. And offensive wise they got the guy in Drake May 6’4 225 lbs. He can run, he can move. And when he was coming out of college, you know, the people that were around him, Clyde Christensen, more specifically, a man who would coach Andrew Luck, Pton Manning, and Tom Brady, uh, he was back at UNCC where he went to school coaching Drake May, his final year there, and he said, “He’s Payton Manning. He’s Andrew Luck, right? He’s this guy’s everything. He can shoot. He’s got a jumper. He’s This guy’s every smart. Super smart. He’s athlete. He led our team in rushing and in passing. Obviously, he’s a quarterback. This guy is the guy. If I was to draft somebody, he’s what Clyde Christensen told us. And then here we are fast forwarding just two years in. All the concerns about him were his footwork. Remember his technique. He’s too athletic. Actually, his feet get too far away. His arms doing too much. Now he’s like a picture perfect form quarterback. Everything’s on the money. Everything’s on time. And everything is seemingly coming so damn easy to this guy who’s just in his second year, first year in the McDaniels offense. And oh yeah, McDaniels, he’s going to be around for the long haul as well. Loves Vrabel. did not love being a head coach back at home up there. So, they have Rael in the building for the long haul. McDaniel’s in the building for the long haul. This guy is only in his second year and I think he’s 23 years old. They got him for another 15 years. And New England Patriots fans are saying it’s our league once again. Let’s go to the toxic table at Ty Schmidt and at Boston Connor. It has to feel good to really feel like that cuz you know a lot of people are saying who they played who they played. Not your fault. Everybody you guys have played you’ve dominated. In every single game, you’ve gotten clearly better. Monday Night Football is just a showcase of that against the New York Giants, I think. And for the rest of us, we’re going to have to deal with you for the foreseeable future. Yeah, you said 15 years, probably 20. Especially because they’re going to draft O line going forward and protect Drake May like their life depends on it. Will Campbell already said, “I’m a fight and die for this guy.” And he’s going to continue to do that cuz keep in mind, he’s a 21-year-old franchise left tackle. But, I mean, let’s start at the top and go down. Bob Craft needs to be in the Hall of Fame. won. He he to your point with Gerrod Mayo went through the Bellich era. It ended how it ended. We’re kind of seeing what’s happening in Pittsburgh right now. That’s exactly what the Patriots had to go through a couple years ago. A little different, but still very similar. Then you go to Gerard Mayo and Bob Craft makes the very difficult decision to say, you know what, it’s not right after one year. He could have continued to let Gerrod Mayo do what Gerard Mayo is doing or he could have cut bait after one year and hired Mike Frabel. That’s what he did. Bob Craft Hall of Famer. Mike Vrabel, I mean, changed the entire game. He’s the head coach. The entire reason this team is who they are is because of Mike Vrabel. There was a great one clap if you hear me. Yeah. There’s a great little speech about them in training camp and OTAAS about how Mike Vrabel one time walked into the cafeteria and everybody was kind of quiet, a little nervous. And he immediately said like, “No, no, no. This is not how this works. I don’t want you uncomfortable around me. If I’m here, I am just part of this team.” Comfortability is a huge thing. You see it kind of transferring to the entire team. And then the other coaches, too. Uh, unfortunately, Terrell Williams, our defensive coordinator coming in the year has pro prostate cancer. So, he hasn’t been able to be with the team. Tong, I believe, is the thing that stands for him on there. You know, vest and everything like that. So, Zack Cerr, linebacker’s coach, him stepping up. Linebacker is also one of our best units on our entire team. Him stepping up, being the DC. Josh McDaniels, you mentioned it. We always talk about Andy Reed and Spags. He is our Spags, but it’s on offense, so it’s even cooler and better. And then Drake May, I mean, there’s really not much you can say about him. You mentioned a lot of guys. He’s mobile Dan Marino. He’s taller Dan Marino. He is the best quarterback in the NFL. He is the MVP. I mean, there’s no question about it. And we can go to Stafford and I love Stafford. And I think last week, this exact same time, I was saying Stafford deserves the MVP. But Drake May’s doing it with a bunch of guys that for the most part were written off. Like no one was coming into the season saying Stefon Diggs is great. Nope. They were saying this is going to go terribly. He’s a diva. Hunter Henry, a lot of people were saying he’s injuryprone. He is his uh I don’t want to say blanket, but he’s his security. He’s the guy on third down he’s going to he knows where he is. And Kyle Williams, we’re just getting started with him. He’s a rookie. He doesn’t get as many snaps just yet cuz Kahan Booty, another guy people thought was a bum, was written off. Uh he’s unbelievable. He’s typically the deep threat. He’s always there. The running backs from Andre Stevenson, Trevian Henderson, he’s also just getting going. You mentioned that we uh have the a very young team. Second most snaps across the board in the entire NFL behind the Cleveland Browns in front of the New York Football Jets. Something’s a little different between those two teams. It’s probably the 11 wins for the New England Patriots. It’s incredible. It really is. I was basically cackling the whole entire game. It was one of those situations where you really are just giddy like the whole game. And I was doing that because it’s amazing. You really didn’t expect to be here. It’s house money up until last night. It’s no longer house money. We are the best team in the NFL. We’re the most complete team and we hit the hardest. So, I’m sorry for all the fans out there that were complaining about this. That’s an illegal hit. That that hurts. Shut up. Jackson Dart, the fart gets the start. He stinks. He’s an idiot. He needs to change how he plays. Boom. Sorry about it. Christian Ellis, fantastic player. And then they can’t even get him down on the ground. I forget what his name is. John Michael Schmidz or something. He stinks as well. He plays offensive line for the Giants. Guy can’t even tackle a linebacker. Get out of bounds, dart, you fool. Christian Ellis brings the wood. Not to mention Bob Spalain. And that was my favorite play of the entire game. We don’t even have to, you know, talk about their offense. Young O’K was staring down Bob Spalain on the other side of the field. And Bob Spalain just mentally. Well, either way, he’s not playing in the NFL anymore. He’s young Wade his way out of the NFL. What a fool. But Bob Spalain staring at him. Hey, hey, go ahead, kick it. you know, Tacuz kind of credit. I’d ship my pants, too, if I was staring down the barrel of Bob’s Bully. Remember that was a conversation. Out of all these quarterbacks, the ceiling might be the highest for Drake because of how athletic he is, but he has the longest runway to get there. It’s going to take a long time. Well, feels like one off seasonason, he’s figured it all out. What like what what has Drake May done last year versus this year or this year versus last year? Uh, and what have you seen out of this guy who’s an MVP favorite in his first year in an offensive system in his second year uh in the NFL? Yeah, he was my number one guy coming out that year because he had he had all the measurables. He could do it all. And obviously Clyde and I have been together a long long time, but uh yeah, he he is uh he’s in a different system. He’s got Josh McDaniels uh not be belittling the other guys that coached him the year before, but none are more quarterback people. And uh he’s got a great system now. He’s got players around him. And Ves is the guy that’s going to get in his ear and say, “Hey, we need you for the long haul. We know you’re tough. Stop it. And Ves is the kind of guy to get that done. I think Ves and him are like a perfect match. Legit, it feels like Ves and him are a perfect match. And you talk about uh Ves walking into the cafeteria and be like, “Nah, no, this ain’t going to be uptight. I’m part of the team.” It does feel like Vabe’s leadership style is I’m in the locker room, but I am I have 10 vote. If we’re voting on things, I have 10 votes, but I am certainly in here with you. I appreciated the fact that he grew the mustache out for Movember and then he said definitely go and get all Monday Night Football. I mean, I didn’t do all this for not. So, he’ll have a clean shave through December, I guess, as they head into the playoff time. We all assume Flames can coach a Super Bowl winning team. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we saw him overachieve in Tennessee. What we saw down there for sure, but yeah, that as soon as he got hired, we thought that, right? That pairing has been perfect. and something that they said on the broadcast uh last night was obviously there’s similarities between him and Bill, but much different as as far as how personable he is. And one of the things that he kind of wanted to drive home is like, hey, don’t take yourself too serious. And when you’re a professional, you can come in there and you just kind of play, you know, your coach had your back. You could tell this close team. You could you could tell by how they play football. You can tell by how listening to them talk about each other. And then I felt like Drake May was kind of the perfect quarterback to go into this team and go into this locker room kind of help galvanize the guys. Now, the Josh McDaniels team because when you get in there, we saw last year, we saw he had the skill set. We saw he was competitive. Uh we saw he had confidence. That’s what you want to see as a rookie. Then you just got to learn how to play the game. And when you get a coach like Josh McDaniels, like this guy is obviously brilliant when it comes to calling offenses and you can just watch Drake make like a lot of times when I watch especially on the TV copy when I watch quarterbacks and I said this about Carson Wentz a couple years ago when he was our quarterback here. Like if I just pause it on like an ISO cam in the quarterback. A lot of times I can tell if it’s a good throw, if they were confident in the coverage, if they were confident in the read. What’s going to be on the other side of that? When you pay Carson Wentz a couple years ago, terrified. I didn’t have a clue. With this guy, you could it looked like I couldn’t tell if he was in an individual drill or if it’s a fourth quarter two-minute drive. Just how calm and composed he is with every throw, the reads, uh pockets, even when they’re breaking down, how he climbs the pocket and keeps his eyes down. feel like he’s doing that 10 year uh veterans are doing. You only do that. You only make that type of jump if you’re getting coached great obviously has good plays around good players around him. But the job that Mike has done, Josh has done Drake and then the personnel department like all these guys like all the money they spent well spent. They they invested in the trenches. They got young guys that they shifting and got playing. Like it’s it’s just they’re doing everything right. Just kind of like Chicago on the other side. You talk about h spending the right money. They also have the most coming up. Yeah, they have the most money. top by a lot. They’re going into buy they’re going into a by-week right now. Yep. Okay. So, whenever they come out, it’s going to be week 15. So, it’s like, hey, actual final stretch, everybody locked in, hopefully a little bit healthier. What a perfect timing for a young team’s by- week, okay, at this late of the game and being where they’re at. And then also after whatever this season is, let’s say they don’t win the Super Bowl this year. Okay, looks like they might, but very well in the race. Looks like they might. Looks like they might win the Super Bowl. Let’s say they don’t win the Super Bowl. Okay, Coach Ribs, how would you judge your first shoe? Yeah, we got a lot to work on. We’re gonna figure that out. And oh yeah, we got the biggest bank in the entire NFL. It’s like what a position for the Patriots to be in going forward.

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