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NFL legend Boomer Esiason joins! Esiason: "What a dud of a second half" What exactly happened with the offense in the 2nd half?
Did Carroll and Geno simply outcoach and outplay Vrabel and Maye?
Will Campbell seemed to have some highs/lows against LV's pass rush- What did Boomer Esiason think of Campbell's debut? Silver lining to the loss?
Did Carroll and Geno simply outcoach and outplay Vrabel and Maye?
Will Campbell seemed to have some highs/lows against LV's pass rush- What did Boomer Esiason think of Campbell's debut? Silver lining to the loss?
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00:00hey boomer hey good morning man sorry about yesterday's loss man what a dud of a second
00:04half huh there was so much promise so much hope and so and so much anticipation and unfortunately
00:12it uh it didn't go so well when it comes to mike rabel's debut as a head coach of the new
00:17england patriots yeah well i will say this uh remember it's the opposite of last year everybody
00:22uh got all excited about beating the bengals and then all of a sudden that went off the rails i
00:28don't necessarily know this is going to be the case for the patriots it was uh really disappointing
00:32second half especially from the offensive standpoint i mean and even drake may said it after the game
00:37he's you know they got they got to generate more offense the quarterback's job is to put points on
00:41the board and create plays and it's almost like they forgot that there was a second half to be played
00:47and just watching it was like a slog they couldn't get anything right and there was a little bit of
00:53pressure and he throws the interception and all of a sudden the game turns and it was a tight
00:58game it wasn't a great uh football game for any uh by any stretch of the imagination but
01:02i did mike rabel will have to do something just to kind of get these guys juiced up at halftime and
01:08get them ready to play in the second half especially the offense well i was uh when you look at halftime
01:13did pete carroll adjust better than mick rabel adjusted you know i i just think uh pete carroll and
01:20gino smith uh know each other really well uh gino is not afraid to throw the ball down the field
01:25um i i just i don't know about adjustments i just i just always wonder in the first month of the
01:32season how teams handle coming out at halftime because they're not used to it especially in game
01:37one and game two now some teams do it better than others some teams uh you know have a i guess a level
01:43of confidence and experience like the buffalo bills did last night which was amazing what they did
01:48but i i just think that it looked to me like the offense never got on a roll in the second half
01:54and it's almost like they were like i get a fog or i can't explain it other than you know they maybe
02:01the red bull at halftime or five hour energy or something at halftime uh to wake them up to start
02:07playing boomer an issue that drake may had last season was the fact that he tried to force plays
02:12try to make something happen and that's where his mistakes came into is that what we're seeing now once
02:17again i don't know about that i mean you know the interception that he threw i mean he had i think
02:21was max crosby right in his face and you know those guys are there to disrupt the quarterback much like
02:26michael parsons did yesterday to uh matthew stafford so i it's one game i'm not gonna overreact to it i'm
02:32just gonna say that in the second half next week against miami they need to come out with more of a
02:38purpose and more of an understanding a better game plan i just think that uh you know the experience
02:43of geno smith and p carroll won out over the inexperience of drake may that's the way i would
02:49look at it especially in the second half like i said it wasn't a great offensively played game by
02:55either side if you ask me who had the slight edge of course it would be geno smith simply because he
03:01threw for over 300 yards but you know the fact that the score was as low as it was uh you know that
03:06doesn't surprise me simply because i think both offenses are obviously a work in progress boomer you said
03:12you're not going to overreact we'll talk some of my friends off the ledge who were saying it's time
03:16for tommy cutlets um what what does drake may need to do as a starting quarterback in his second year
03:25or his first starting season to show that he can be consistent throughout the game all right so too
03:32well you said the word consistent you know you you got to have more first downs you can't be so bad
03:36on third down the other thing too and it's uh it's simple for me to say but when i when i watch
03:42quarterbacks around the league what do they they have to generate points they have to put points
03:46on the board it's something that uh both justin fields and aaron rogers did yesterday daniel jones
03:52did it yesterday against a flat miami team i mean that's their job their job is to get their team
03:58in the end zone and i don't know if there's a uh i wouldn't say a disconnect that because i don't
04:04think there's a disconnect i think it's one game i think it was a very flat second half performance
04:09and i think that that consistent word is probably the most important thing i mean that that's how
04:15you generate points you generate uh conversions on third down uh you're not sloppy there's no penalties
04:21uh there's no false starts uh and that's a guy that has to really take charge i i always believe that
04:28these quarterbacks are better um after they you know have a some teaching moments and i think there's
04:34going to be quite a few teaching moments that josh mcdaniels is going to have at his finger as at
04:39his fingertips you know you know it was amazing to me i saw a stat and i i believe this is a a true
04:45stat something about the the uh the patriots have lost 21 games in the last four years and i guess
04:54at home and i think that i want to say that the the patriots didn't lose 21 games at home with tom
05:00brady as a quarterback is that right it was 24 games at home since 2021 and so yeah and uh tom brady
05:08was 141 and 24 at home in the regular season that is that is insane but again it goes back to the
05:16brilliance of the quarterback you know we can talk about the coach we can talk about all the good
05:20players around him but ultimately you know that is the pinnacle of success when you think about it
05:26and it's one of the reasons why fans get so frustrated with the quarterbacks that have tried
05:31to replace tom brady they don't have they don't have that a lot of eyes yesterday on will campbell
05:37obviously and gave up the strip sack and then uh when they when they were there trying to get the
05:44the fourth and four the procedure penalty what what do you what do you look at when it comes to
05:49to that rookie uh you know he's a rookie and he's learning and he'll get better i thought he
05:55had a really good training camp i think he's going to be fine i think he's a kid that really cares
06:00i'm sure this is one of the kids that uh after the game was over and last night he was home thinking
06:05about it was probably having nightmares um you know they they have a pretty good damn defense over
06:10there in um in las vegas you don't really think of it much because of all the changes that they've
06:14gone through and the losing that they've done but they do have a very good pass rush and for the
06:19most part if you're going to drop back 46 times which to me is a little bit of a silver lining
06:24you know i want i don't as much as i would love to have a much more balanced offense by the the
06:30patriots throwing 46 times is not really going to be the way that they're going to want to go forward
06:36i do think however that's the silver lining the more drake may throws the more comfortable he'll
06:43become so i know if it weren't for that last drive of the game their offense was just horrendous in
06:50the second half so they're going to have to figure out a way to come out of that second half next
06:55week against miami and you know play a full four-quarter game as opposed to a half of a game
07:00if so uh when it comes to throwing 46 passes or somewhere around 50 passes uh is that a recipe
07:07for disaster when you're asking that of your your second year quarterback uh yeah yes you know it was
07:14it was interesting uh watching some of the games yesterday and looking at some of the offensive
07:18i i guess would you say theories or what they wanted to do with their teams like justin fields
07:23threw the ball i believe 22 times and you know he ran the ball probably another half a dozen times
07:30and he didn't turn the ball over and i thought tanner engstrom their offensive coordinator that came
07:35from detroit uh had a hell of a game i gave him an a plus as a as a play caller because he actually set
07:42what the jets wanted to be and that is a run run team first play action team second
07:47and keep the uh decision making uh to a minimum for his quarterback who's learning his fourth uh you
07:54know fourth uh offense in in four years so that that's what you want you want balance you want to
08:00be able to set the tone for your team and i don't think josh mcdaniels and drake may did that at all
08:05yesterday the biggest uh blunder to me yesterday was by coach mike rabel with the decision to punt
08:12down 10 at midfield with less than five minutes left in the game i just thought that was an awful
08:17weak decision by a guy that i thought was going to be a little more aggressive how did you do how did
08:23you view that i i would i would think that he'd be more aggressive also early on in his tenure here
08:28with new england and he'll learn as well you know he's six and 19 in his last 25 games as a head
08:33coach so there's been a lot of losing going on for him um but again it's one game it's a game that
08:40i don't want to overreact to i mean if they come back this week and they drill miami which you know
08:45looks like miami is just i don't know what's going on down there i mean this is this is a game where
08:51they have to win i mean mike frable's got to figure out a way to get one more point than miami this
08:56week and i can't even believe i'm saying this in week two but given the fact that mike mcdaniel's team
09:01looked awful yesterday it looked like they were completely out of sync and let daniel jones
09:05and the indianapolis colts score on every single possession is insane so uh like you're walking
09:14into probably a hornet's nest that's probably how uh rabel and the patriots are probably going to look
09:19at this going into miami but i think you know you got miami down right now you got to put your heel
09:24right on your throat and you got to set it and you got to leave it there for four freaking quarters
09:28among the guys who didn't look happy on the sidelines yesterday would not only tyree kill
09:34but malik neighbors yelling at his head coach on the sidelines week one is that is that an issue
09:39for the giants oh yeah let me tell you a wide receiver having drama fits on the sideline how
09:44about that jermaine right now who used to that jesus um yeah i mean like uh i think i think brian
09:50davo's got he's you know he's hearing it now um instead of the same old jets you're hearing the
09:57same old giants now and uh i mean you could have predicted that russell wilson was going to get
10:03off to a start like this just simply because he's so careful and he doesn't create and generate the
10:08plays that he used to when he was younger i mean he could still play and he could still play at a
10:12pretty good level but this is not what the giants need nor what the giant fan wants and you know it's
10:18interesting we haven't heard from ownership at all in regards to like what's going on here in terms of
10:25the quarterback situation and whether or not they're going to force him to go to jackson dart
10:29i would not be surprised if he makes a decision in the middle of this week or somewhere along the line
10:35that jackson dart is going to be the starting quarterback because if if uh russell wilson
10:40continues to play this way and that offense looks as flat as it did yesterday and malik neighbors is
10:46doing what he's doing giant fans have seen enough already boom i think the biggest thing watching this
10:51patriots game you tell me from your former player perspective is who's the guy on offense that
10:57scares you at least the rate is they have a guy like brock bowers it seems like every team has that
11:03guy who is the guy for new england because i feel like if you're a defensive coordinator there's nobody
11:08that concerns you like that very well uh very well said jermaine i i just think you have a lot of
11:14really good football players i don't think you have game breaking game changing players that's the
11:20problem and i think they tried to uh deal with that with steph diggs and you know he's just try to
11:27still trying to figure it out i mean you look around a league and you look at all these teams and you
11:32look at how many great players and how many like explosive players there are and when you when you
11:38look at a game you say okay who had the most explosive plays and geno smith created more explosive
11:44plays than drake may did drake may supposed to be that guy i mean let's face it tom brady
11:49had great players around him didn't have always the greatest players around him but of course
11:54gronkowski and randy moss and julian edelman and wes welker and on and on and on became great players
12:00you know because tom brady made him into great players i think randy moss was already a great
12:05player just needed a little bit refinement and he got that with bill belichick and tom brady but
12:09there's nobody like that uh on the new england roster as we speak right now at least hasn't shown
12:15themselves to be that kind of player question of the week for boomer is brought to you by
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12:32like aaron rogers may have unfollowed the jets on social media yes he got the last laugh though i'll tell
12:41you that i mean although one of those touchdown passes was one of those little pop passes which
12:46i don't think should count for god's sake i don't think i ever had one of those in my career so
12:51i was actually happy for him because he went through a lot of hell here um he tried to do everything he
12:56possibly could to help the team win and uh unfortunately it didn't work out but i will
13:01also say there is a silver lining for the jets the jets actually look like a real football team again
13:06under aaron glenn and like i said their offensive coordinator tanner tanner ingstrom did a hell of a
13:11job with justin fields yesterday so i'm pretty bullish on aaron glenn right now and i feel like
13:16his team looks like the real deal that looks like they are different from where they were last year but
13:21certainly very happy for aaron rogers to be able to do what he did yesterday is the league ever going
13:26to do anything to stop patrick mahomes from using the sideline to his advantage i think i think more and
13:33more people are aware of it and what he did uh against the chargers was should have been should
13:38have been a penalty i mean it really should have been once the quarterback they they and under the
13:42words the competition committee has got to look at this once the quarterback gets to the sideline and
13:47it looks like he's giving himself up then all of a sudden he should have the same protections as if
13:52he's in the pocket but what patrick does it looks like he's giving himself up and then lowers his
13:59shoulder that should be a penalty against him yeah absolutely and i do you think other defensive
14:04players are going to see that and be more incentivized to maybe not be uh gentle to mahomes
14:11on the sideline next week or down down the road this season i i still think defensive players are
14:15worried about getting fined and penalized i think it's it's it's until they throw the flag on a
14:22quarterback that does that i i still think players are going to be very very careful because they they
14:28don't want to be penalized but they certainly don't want to be fined either treat it like the
14:31fake slide if a quarterback fake slides it's a penalty so you treat it the same way as that
14:35yeah that's that's that that would be the easiest way to do it now i don't know
14:39how would you interpret what he did against the chargers i mean i don't could an official actually
14:45make that call you think yeah because he looked like he was going out of bounds you could tell the
14:50difference boomer and you've been there before as a guy who is like all right i'm trying to get out
14:54of bounds to get hit versus a guy who's trying to lower lower his shoulder yeah and the difference
14:59was is that they actually did hit a set of bounds and did not have a flag i mean part of me said part
15:07of me says really good by patrick bones but the other part of me sees a very a different side of
15:12it from a frustrating uh i anti-chief fan perspective so i i totally get what we're talking about here
15:19well they got to get him to the super bowl if taylor swift is playing halftime they have they
15:24just they can't have that super bowl if she's there without them there so well you guys know
15:28it's super bowl 60 right so she's got to be playing am i right yes yes was this a numerology
15:36thing that i don't get but it was a 13 13 13 times 7 or what her new album has the same color scheme
15:44as super bowl yeah this year oh no it's courtney's all over and she knows it oh yeah she knows it
15:50she's the adam schefter of taylor swift truly all right boomer thank you we'll talk to you again
15:56next week okay guys look forward to it
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