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Zolak and Bertrand discuss the feud between Stefon Diggs and Phil Perry. What kind of season will the New England Patriots have with Diggs?
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00:00Awful, awful, salacious, out-of-line commentary by Phil Perry.
00:08Wouldn't you agree?
00:09I hope we dumped that.
00:10Did that make it on the air?
00:13I don't think I've ever said posture.
00:16That is.
00:17I'm offended.
00:19I'm offended on Diggs' behalf.
00:21Aren't you?
00:22Aren't you offended?
00:23Yeah.
00:24They went to Maryland.
00:25Boston sports media.
00:27They're bad and nasty.
00:28Always making things up.
00:30Thank God.
00:31Thank God Vrabel called him out that day and demanded to know if Phil Perry was trying to bait him into something.
00:38You remember that?
00:39That happened that day.
00:41He said, Phil, you're a smart guy.
00:42Are you trying to bait me?
00:44That is a disgusting act.
00:47Yes.
00:48Disgusting.
00:49That's the word that comes to mind when I hear that commentary from Phil Perry.
00:53Without a doubt.
00:54Without a doubt.
00:57How dare he launch a personal attack like that one?
01:03Awful.
01:05State of the Patriots beat, isn't it?
01:08Gross.
01:09Yuck.
01:11We need a game.
01:13We need a game.
01:14We need a game badly.
01:17Let's get the show on the road.
01:20It's been a long off.
01:21Spoken like a member of the Patriots media right there.
01:23Speaking like a member of the cartel.
01:25Hey, he and Phil are good now, right?
01:28Because I heard Phil this morning.
01:29He said he actually apologized to Diggs.
01:32As he should.
01:33I know.
01:34Get in place, Phil.
01:36And Diggs said, no, man, we're good.
01:37Smile.
01:38Talk to you next week.
01:39We're good.
01:39And he did.
01:42What was there to...
01:43Seriously, though.
01:44I don't.
01:45And we'll have Phil in here tomorrow.
01:46What was there to apologize for?
01:48Well, I think Phil explained it as, I'm a guy that doesn't really go after a guy's character.
01:52Maybe that was a comment that the player took is, hey, you're sliding my character.
01:56Oh, do we think Diggs had a good offseason?
01:59Do we think his coaches were pleased with how he conducted himself in the offseason?
02:03Do we think, based on the reaction of the head coach of the team, Mike Vrabel, when he snapped out at Phil, now we're being serious.
02:10When he snapped out at Phil and wanted to know if Phil was trying to bait him into something, all he was doing was saying, hey, Diggs said he may not be ready for week one.
02:19Is that the case?
02:21And it led to, like, this weird interaction between Phil and Vrabel.
02:25Vrabel getting all bent out of shape.
02:27My guess is Vrabel didn't know what Diggs had said.
02:30And so he was kind of deflecting and going after Phil for no good reason.
02:34And Phil took that as, well, oh, man, this guy's having to clean up.
02:40Things that Diggs is saying in the media, that's kind of a pain-in-the-butt thing to do.
02:44That's being a pain-in-the-butt, having your coach have to say, yeah, you know what?
02:47Like, deny what he had said.
02:49Coaches never like that when players come out and talk about their status or where they're going to be at in their injury return in the NFL.
02:56Zoe mentioned it yesterday.
02:58Roman Anthony.
02:58Couldn't believe how Roman Anthony just kind of laid it out there.
03:00Because in football, you don't do that.
03:03That's not something you do.
03:05In hockey, you don't do that.
03:07Right.
03:07That's not a thing.
03:08You find out.
03:08We had an operation.
03:09He separated his shoulder.
03:10Lower body.
03:11Right.
03:12Upper body.
03:13Right.
03:13They basically describe one half of you to try and tell you what the injury was.
03:20So, I don't understand.
03:22I don't understand what the problem is.
03:25Do we have to go through this again before we play Diggs from yesterday?
03:28Here's what Diggs said when he talked to Diana Russini.
03:31He said, we'll see about week one.
03:35I don't know how I feel about it.
03:36We'll see.
03:37Coaches aren't too excited.
03:39I'm not too excited.
03:41I'm just trying to take it day by day.
03:43So, we'll see.
03:44It looks like we just don't know where it's going to go.
03:46That doesn't feel to me like when that happened.
03:49And I remember hearing that at that time.
03:50I'm like, felt like there's a little disconnect there.
03:55Like, are we not all on the same page here?
03:57Because he's looked great.
03:59He's looked great in workouts.
04:00He's looked great in running routes.
04:02You saw the way he shook guys in Minnesota during the team joint practices.
04:08He was abusing guys out there.
04:09And it's just saying, like, are we, that was like an odd comment because it felt like we're not on the same page.
04:15Because everything was trending to week one.
04:16It'd be great.
04:17You know, looking good.
04:18He's going to be in the huddle.
04:19And it felt to me like those comments at that time felt like the player was maybe feeling some frustration because he wasn't getting cleared the way he wanted to be cleared.
04:27That's the way I took that.
04:29You know, it's not that like, hey, he and Vrabel have an issue.
04:33No, it's just like, Ike, he's, he's a guy who wants the ball, wants to play, wants to be cleared.
04:38And wants it verbalized out there.
04:40If we're not going to verbalize it out there, I'm going to go and play this little game here with, with Diana Rossini.
04:46Knowing full well, that's a national reporter I'm sitting down with.
04:49And it's going to have some legs to it.
04:52You know, and it got out.
04:54You know, Phil and Tom commented about it.
04:56Everybody did.
04:58Like, that was, that was an odd comment at the time.
05:01I don't know how I feel about it.
05:02Like, everything was feeling great to that point.
05:03Now all of a sudden you don't know how you feel about it.
05:05You could see why people would take it that way.
05:08But, he's an interesting guy.
05:13It's going to be an interesting year as we go through this with him.
05:17Because I do think he's a number one receiver.
05:20I think he's number one.
05:22No, he is this team's number one.
05:23Is he a true number one?
05:24He is this team's number one.
05:25Well, I've got to go with what we have.
05:26And that's, that's it.
05:27I love McCone's takeaway from the press conference yesterday.
05:30Your first comment on it was what?
05:33Do you remember?
05:34For Vrabel?
05:35No, for Diggs yesterday.
05:37No, I don't remember.
05:38What did I say?
05:38He immediately goes, is he really short?
05:42That's the takeaway.
05:43No, no, no.
05:44You were talking about Mark Wahlberg.
05:45I was talking about Wahlberg.
05:46Oh.
05:47Oh, Mark Wahlberg.
05:49I think you're talking about Diggs.
05:50You replied to the Diggs thing.
05:51Mark is short.
05:52Yes.
05:52Oh, no, no, no.
05:53Wahlberg.
05:53Wahlberg.
05:54Is Wahlberg short?
05:56He's a little guy.
05:57Oh, a little guy.
05:58It looked like Zoka put him in his back pocket in that picture.
06:01That's why I was like, man.
06:02I'd say he, Reese, and Sosi had traveled together.
06:04Wow.
06:05He's that.
06:06He's a little guy.
06:07Diminutive, you're saying.
06:08He's not diminutive.
06:09He's more stocky than those guys.
06:10Those guys are like, well, he's like a workout animal, isn't he?
06:14Oh, yeah.
06:14Yeah, he had that schedule.
06:15I was talking about his wake up at three.
06:16I was talking about your whole schedule.
06:19I held the movies.
06:19Like, you like that ice bath that early, huh?
06:22He's like, yeah, get you going, man.
06:24No, thanks.
06:25Did you tell him about the departed?
06:27I got to pull.
06:28No, no, no, no.
06:29I thought you liked Wahlberg in The Departed.
06:31I thought that was one of the guys.
06:32I told you Wahlberg.
06:33I thought we were going to get more.
06:34I think he's one of the best characters in the whole film.
06:35I thought we were going to get more out of him.
06:37I wanted more out of him.
06:38I didn't think he was a predominant character.
06:39He wasn't then.
06:40That's what made him great.
06:43Yeah, it kept you wanting more.
06:46Like, too much Matt Damon.
06:48Yeah.
06:49Play the hits.
06:50Right.
06:53Fear.
06:54Fear was a good movie.
06:55I liked that one.
06:55It was a good movie.
06:58It was.
06:59That thing was badass, man.
07:02Roll coaster scene.
07:04Anyway, we're working.
07:06All right.
07:07I just don't get it.
07:08I don't get what he was so pissed about.
07:11Do you think Vrabel liked that yesterday?
07:13No.
07:14No, because it resurfaced.
07:15No, I don't.
07:16No, you're bringing that up.
07:17You're bringing something up from three weeks ago?
07:19On game week.
07:19And if you had an issue, why don't you just talk to Phil that day?
07:23Or speak and do what you did yesterday, three weeks ago.
07:26Instead of three days before the game.
07:28What are we doing?
07:31Yeah.
07:35Here's what I know.
07:37Here's what I know.
07:37When you told us so, that Diggs was at risk of getting cut.
07:43Not that he was getting cut.
07:44You never said he was getting cut.
07:45You said it was on the table.
07:47Right?
07:47Yeah.
07:48That Diggs getting cut was on the table.
07:51Diggs getting cut was on the table.
07:53Why?
07:54Well, he had the incident in which he was on the boat with the video of the pink substance
08:00in a bag.
08:01No idea what it was.
08:04It was rehabbing in Florida.
08:05And he wasn't here.
08:08And that was part of what you told us at the time, right?
08:11Yeah.
08:11Well, he's not around maybe as much as they would like for him to be around.
08:14The ability to absorb things, even if you're not out there running.
08:17Yeah.
08:18Okay.
08:19Well, if there's a nice, tidy way to just sort of describe that, that's like, oh, being
08:25a diva receiver.
08:26Pain in the butt.
08:27There it is.
08:30But you know what?
08:31It's worth it every time.
08:33What I tell you after that video surfaced, I wouldn't do a damn thing.
08:38I'd say, hey, just don't video it.
08:41Yeah.
08:41Do whatever you're doing.
08:42But just, hey, keep it off Instagram if you could.
08:45That's what we're hoping for.
08:46Do whatever you're doing.
08:47If he never came to Foxborough in the offseason, I'd say, well, price you pay for having a guy
08:53who's this talented.
08:54That's just what it is.
08:55Right?
08:56Because that's not disruptive to your team.
08:59That's not being a jerk.
09:00Look, that's just not doing everything your team wants you to be doing.
09:04And I think there's a difference between the two things.
09:06When he got here, he's been great since he got here.
09:08Great dude once he's here, right?
09:10Great teammate.
09:10Works hard.
09:11Nothing but great stuff.
09:12All right.
09:12So it's like, don't...
09:14That's what they like.
09:15Come here.
09:16Be our team leader, man.
09:17You know?
09:17Like, this...
09:18The problem at the time, the wide receiver room was in disarray.
09:22And this is...
09:23It was a disaster.
09:24This is where I think...
09:24We know how it was structured.
09:26Diggs went wrong yesterday by going from pain in the butt to using a-hole as the two
09:31words.
09:32And I think those are two very different things.
09:34And maybe he was called that somewhere else.
09:36And he's...
09:37I think this is too...
09:38Not by Phil Perry and Tommy Curran.
09:39I understand that.
09:40But I think him and his experiences with other teams and, you know, he's on his fourth team
09:44that some stuff has happened in other places.
09:46And, you know, I just vividly remember the stuff with him and Josh Allen on the sidelines.
09:50Like, you know, was he called something there in Buffalo?
09:53And, like, this is sort of like a trigger for him.
09:55I don't...
09:55You know?
09:58There's a difference between being a pain in the butt or posterior.
10:03And being an a-hole.
10:05Even though they're both in the same region, they are not the same things.
10:09Being an a-hole will get you cut.
10:11Being a pain in the butt and you're a good player and you're a good guy when you're around
10:13and you do put in the work when you're here, that's different.
10:16That's different.
10:17Or when you say something you maybe shouldn't have said.
10:19Yeah.
10:19And your coach snaps out and flips out and accuses a reporter of trying to bait him.
10:24Well, that's just kind of like an annoying little thing.
10:26But that's not the type of thing that leads you to get the boot.
10:29Or leads you to say, this guy is not worth the trouble.
10:32Those are not the things.
10:36But whatever.
10:36He's pissed at Phil and Tom.
10:38He's pissed at Phil.
10:38Phil, disgusting.
10:40Absolutely horrible things he said.
10:42Horrible.
10:42Phil doesn't carry himself well.
10:44He's not a poor dresser.
10:46Not neat and tidy.
10:49If you want to talk about this, you can.
10:52Usage for him.
10:54Usage for Diggs.
10:55Yeah.
10:56This first month.
10:57He's ready to go.
10:59I think he's going to be really good.
11:02I'm excited about it.
11:03I am.
11:04I think people are going to love him.
11:06I think people already do love him.
11:07I know that, but I think you're going to see it and it's going to hit.
11:09He's going to make some plays for you.
11:11All right.
11:11I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:13I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:15I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:16I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:17I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:18I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:19I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:20I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:21I think people are going to see it and it's going to be really good.
11:22I think people are going to see it and it's going to be good.
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