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"Monkey off of their back" Patriots finally win in the heat of Miami. #NFL legend Boomer Esiason joins!
What did Boomer think of the win? What did he make of the penalties?
Drake Maye getting more comfortable using legs or is Josh McDaniels letting Maye run more? #NFL legend Boomer Esiason joins!
Could Mike McDaniel soon be on the hot seat?
What did Boomer think of the win? What did he make of the penalties?
Drake Maye getting more comfortable using legs or is Josh McDaniels letting Maye run more? #NFL legend Boomer Esiason joins!
Could Mike McDaniel soon be on the hot seat?
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00:00Hey Boomer. Hey, good morning, man. It sounds like everybody's a little happier this morning.
00:04Victory Monday. Mike Rabel said the most important thing he took from the win yesterday
00:10is that this team are not frontrunners. No, they're not frontrunners, but thinking about
00:18how long it's been since they won in Miami and how long it's taken for them to score 30 or more
00:23points in a game, they've gotten the monkey off of their back. And I actually thought,
00:27you know, thinking about this game yesterday, I played in week two down in Miami one year when
00:32I was with the Jets and it had to be like 95 to 100 degrees. And it's just, to me, at least in the
00:37fourth quarter, it looked like both teams were gassed, but New England must be in better shape
00:42because you win a game like that just simply because you are in better shape. So at least
00:47that's something that Mike could take out of the game as well. Does that, does the heat excuse any
00:53of the penalties, like maybe the offensive line penalties? Cause those guys, I can relate to
00:58the big guys. Yeah. Okay. Um, so, so can Jermaine too, by the way, I'm sure he was, uh, you know,
01:05slamming some chicken wings yesterday. Drinking a few beers. I'm sure. I mean, we all, as we get
01:15older, we all get in a little bit less of a shape that we need. You know, I will say that there were
01:21penalties all over the league yesterday. I mean, insane penalties, insane amount of penalties
01:25yesterday. I think there were a number of bad calls all across the league as well.
01:29I don't want to blame the heat on too much, but yeah, I mean, it does get to be pretty dicey
01:34down there and Miami uses that as a major advantage. Cause obviously living in it, you know, you get
01:39used to it a little bit easier, but I can't, you know, Miami's in, they, they have problems.
01:45They have major problems. You know, they, they've allowed points on their first 10 drives this
01:50season. That that's, that's insane. Their defense stinks, I guess. So, uh, you got teams slicing and
01:56dicing them, Daniel Jones and Drake may, but nonetheless, you got to play who's on your,
02:00on your, uh, on your schedule. And I thought Drake was a little bit more compact this week.
02:05He only attempted 23 passes, which is probably the way it's going to be if they can keep it this way
02:10and try to run the ball effectively. But you know, this was crazy yesterday, you know, punt return for
02:15a touchdown, kickoff return for a touchdown. That's the only second time that's happened
02:20in the NFL where one happened and then the other happened right after it. So it was an amazing game
02:26and it was a great win. When it comes to Drake may boomer and, and, and using his legs, there was a
02:31difference between week one and week two. Do you think that is Josh McDaniel saying to him, Hey, we can
02:36open it up a little bit when it comes to you using your best quality, or do you think it was Drake may
02:40becoming more comfortable, um, against the dolphins? I think it's probably a little bit of both, but I also
02:45would say, I really don't want Drake may doing that that much. I want him standing in the pocket
02:49and reading the defense. And, you know, he threw that beautiful pass down the right sideline to
02:54Ramondre Stevenson. And if you watch him in the pocket, that that's how you're supposed to operate.
02:59And when you have arms and legs and everything around you and you step up and you still have
03:03the presence of mind of putting the ball right on the, on the, on the money and Stevenson makes a
03:08great catch. It's a really perfect pass. I mean, that that's the silver lining part of it.
03:13That's the thing that I see that I want to see more of. And I want to see, you know,
03:17him be more consistent. And yesterday was, was his best game. They won, they were on the road,
03:23they were doing it down in Miami. Um, so hopefully, you know, he gains more and more confidence. Like
03:28I thought when you go back and you look at the Vegas game, there were times where he was just
03:32like going so fast and maybe he'll calm down a little bit and everything will slow down for him.
03:39He's still only in his second year and he's got a, he's got a real offensive coordinator. They're
03:44talking about real things that are happening on the field in real time. So all of that is great
03:49for him. And hopefully he can build on this now. You brought up the back big, uh, back-to-back
03:54returns for TDs last season or sorry, last week, 75% were returned as opposed to last season, 35%.
04:04Yep. You'll, you'll like that rule change. I do. Cause I like to play, you know, I don't like,
04:09I don't like the way it is. I like the old way, but you know, you have to adjust. You have to try to
04:14limit as many injuries as you can, which is one of the reasons why the NFL has done this. And the NFL
04:19also wanted to increase kickoff returns. And you hope that your kickoff returner, you know,
04:25understands the rules as opposed to what happened in Pittsburgh yesterday, where Caleb Johnson,
04:30the rookie, just, I don't, he, he didn't know the rules or maybe he thought the ball was going
04:35to go out of the end zone. I didn't see any of his comments after the game, but you know,
04:39that it's on the player for sure, but it's on the special teams coach. And Jermaine will tell you this,
04:44you know, these coaches go over time and again, the rules, and especially how these rules have
04:50changed in this regard, uh, that we finally had our first mistake, but that will be a teaching
04:55point for every single special teams coach this morning in the NFL, letting everybody know guys,
05:01this is the rules. The ball hits in this part of the, uh, in this part of the, uh, the field,
05:06you got to play it and you got to run it back and you can't just assume that it's going to go through
05:10the end zone. Boom. A great win for the Pats, but it looks like Miami imploded in front of us,
05:16having penalties back to back. How long before Mike McDaniel gets fired? Yeah, well, he's got a very,
05:24uh, Oh, I say, I'm sure. Um, he's got, he's got an owner that's got some pride. He's got an ego.
05:32Um, I don't necessarily know how much he's, how much more he's going to want to put up with this.
05:36It's kind of a weird, you know, that they've, they've kept their GM through all of this, by the
05:40way, and they haven't gone to the playoffs or maybe once under him. And for some reason,
05:45he's been there for, it seems like ever. I mean, maybe since 2010. So I, I don't know what the heck
05:51Steven Ross is going to do, but I gotta, I gotta believe that he is really frustrated.
05:56He wants wins, but you know, when your team has given up points on every single driver,
06:01the first 10 drives of the season, I mean, that doesn't go over well in the building.
06:05So I think most of us realize that Mike McDaniel is on the short list of guys to be relieved of
06:12his job. I never really liked talking about this because I know how hard this job is,
06:15is, but given all the things that have gone on around them over the last couple of weeks,
06:21I would think it's getting pretty dicey down there.
06:24Buber, with the Chiefs falling to 0-2, I thought for sure that obviously Mahomes is going after
06:32Tom Brady. That's his goal to be the GOAT. That the Chiefs would see how the Patriots concluded
06:36things with Tom Brady and do more to make sure they maximize the window of Patrick Mahomes.
06:42That offense looks awful. I know they've had injuries at the receiver position, but
06:47whether it's the offensive line, they just look nothing like the Chiefs that we've gotten used to.
06:51They may be exhausted. You know, all this winning, um, you know, it happens. I'm not,
06:55I'm not, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm, I'm being real. I mean, and they are the hunted.
06:59Everybody goes after them. And, you know, Travis Kelsey had a case of the dropsies yesterday
07:04that basically cost their team. Um, there's a lot swirling around that team. I still believe in
07:09Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, the combination, um, they, they've got to get some guys back.
07:14They got to get guys healthy. Um, they're not creating any big plays whatsoever. And that's
07:19two weeks in a row now. Uh, you know, the interesting thing from the Patriots perspective,
07:23when you think about this is that, you know, now the Bengals have lost Joe Burrow. It looks
07:27like for an extended period of time, I don't know if he's going to have surgery or not, or he's
07:31going to try to fight through this injury, but if he has surgery, he's going to be out for three
07:34months. And with, uh, with, uh, Kansas city getting off to the start that they're, they've
07:39gotten off to now. Um, you know, they're going to be fighting for a wild card most likely in that
07:43division if everything stays the way it is. But yeah, I would, I would certainly be worried
07:48about that team offensively defensively. They're good. They're going to be solid and they play the
07:52giants this week. So maybe they'll get on, you know, get on the, uh, the winning side of things.
07:57I caught some of your extraordinary, uh, national show on the radio station Sunday. Excellent show,
08:02by the way, boomer. Uh, and you brought up that my homes has yet to lose three in a row in his NFL
08:10career. And now he has, which is amazing. Uh, I, I never thought that they would lose this game.
08:16And of course, Travis Kelsey helped, helped that out there towards the end. But, um, yeah, it's an
08:21amazing statistic, you know, and there's a lot, there's a lot to love about, you know, Patrick and
08:25everything that he's accomplished, the way he carries himself. I just, I just think that he is a,
08:30he's a tremendous player, but I think they think that he can do it all on offense, which is
08:35ridiculous. I mean, you gotta have players. And even though they won games and got to Super Bowls
08:40without Tyree kill, when he had Tyree kill on the field with him, you know, that was the big
08:45difference maker. That was the one that stretched the defense. That's the one that put the fear
08:49of God in opposing defensive coordinators. And if you don't have a guy like that on your team,
08:53which he doesn't, uh, you know, he's going to suffer like every other quarterback that's ever
08:57played the game. Boomer, a question from a non-football player here, because you bring
09:01up Joe Burrow, turf toe, I'm seeing grade three, but when I see toe injury, and then I see out for
09:07the season, that doesn't compute for me as a former quarterback. How difficult is it to play through
09:15something like that? You bring up surgery, you play or, or playing through, what does that injury
09:20look like and feel like for a quarterback? All right. So he's right handed. That's his
09:24left foot. So, uh, you know, to me, you know, that's, that's his front foot and he's going to
09:30have to, you know, lean forward and try to throw on it. So it's not very easy. I don't necessarily
09:36know that they would give him a cortisone shot or numb it up or shoot it up as they say,
09:40you know, off the field. Uh, but it is a very difficult injury to deal with. The only thing I can
09:45say is that the end of my career in 1997, I played five games with double plantar fasciitis in both
09:52feet. Um, there really was no remedy for it. Uh, they could give me a little bit of quarter zone,
09:58uh, before the game, but by the third quarter, both feet were killing me. And it's one of the
10:02reasons why I ended up retiring two years early, but, um, anything that has to do with your feet and
10:08you are a quarter, any, any athlete for that matter, it's, it's very delicate and it does have a
10:13profound effect. And the other thing too, is you got to remember the most important
10:17thing for an athlete on the, on the field or on the court or on the ice is can they protect
10:22themselves naturally without thinking about an injury that they may be playing with.
10:28And I think that would be the big thing that I would ask Joe Burrow. Is there any way that
10:32he could go out on the field and play the game naturally and not worry about that foot and be
10:37able to protect himself. And the way he was injured yesterday, somebody fell on him.
10:41That thing got driven into the ground and I could imagine he probably heard it pop.
10:46And if that's the case, then I would think that surgery is going to be in the offing.
10:50With Hugh Boomer, wasn't that originally misdiagnosed as the gout?
10:55That's what I have now.
10:58All right. Um, let's get this week's Drake take from Boomer Esiason, which is presented by
11:03your new England Chevy dealers together. Let's drive. Drake was pressured on, uh, 19.4% of drop
11:11backs yesterday. First time in his NFL career, it was under 20%. How big of a factor was that in,
11:18in, uh, the way he looked at his success yesterday?
11:20Well, you complete 82% of your passes. It's a huge factor. And like, again,
11:25it really comes down to his confidence. Now you guys were asking me about false start penalties
11:29and things of that nature. You know, that really goes back to the quarterback. It goes back to his
11:33cadence. It goes back to the offensive line, feeling comfortable with the quarterback,
11:38knowing what he's seeing. You know what I would suggest that I don't know if he does this,
11:42but what he should do, he should take time and maybe he does. And maybe you guys can ask him this.
11:47He should take time somewhere during the week and sit in with the offensive lineman,
11:53watch the end zone film and go over all the checks, go over all the things that he might go through,
11:58especially when they go on the road and they play in a very noisy stadium. Because the one thing you
12:04want is you want your offensive lineman to feel really confident about the guy behind them and
12:09where he's going to be and what he sees is what they see. So I would suggest if he, if he doesn't
12:15do that, that he should, maybe he does. And maybe that will help him get even more confident and less
12:20penalties. Cause that's something that everybody would be driving for.
12:23Well, when you look at this Patriots team, I think one thing we, as fans expected coming into it,
12:29that the defense was going to be better. If you look at this defense, they lead the league
12:34and giving up explosive plays. What is it? Just the fact that they don't have Christian
12:40Gonzalez. I know they get after the quarterback, they lead the league in sacks, but what can they
12:44do to help them eliminate those explosive plays? Well, they need Christian Gonzalez back. You know,
12:49you're talking about a shutdown corner and that guy takes away half the field and the opposing
12:54team's best player. And we have seen both Geno Smith and Tua put the ball down the field and
13:00creates a big place. You know, if Devin A. Chan doesn't step out of bounds, I don't know,
13:04maybe we're talking about a different set of circumstances here. Yeah. From yesterday's game,
13:07that's how close this game was. And you're talking about the difference between one turnover. And when
13:13these games are close like this and when they're one score games, that's ultimately what it comes down
13:17to. And that, that interception was huge. I don't, I don't know what Tua Tungabailoa was looking at,
13:23but once you get one of those, you know, that's the things, that's the type of big plays you want
13:27on defense. So maybe when Christian gets back, uh, they'll be okay. But the fact that they're
13:32leading the league in sacks is pretty good. Jermaine, that's, that's something that every
13:36team would love to be able to say, because, you know, when you get to that fourth quarter and you
13:40get the big sack, like they did yesterday, that, that, that's what you want from your defensive
13:45lineman. So I'm sure as this defense grows and Mike Brable still is tweaking it and finding out
13:51different players, who's the better player, what position should they be playing? I mean,
13:55all that stuff is being evaluated as we speak by the coaching staff. So that's a good thing to have.
14:00But unfortunately they're giving up too many plays down the field, which they realize that they have
14:05to do something about, but certainly hopefully when Christian comes back, he'll be able to be a big
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14:22at McFarlandEnergy.com. Lions put up 52 on the Bears. I want to know what you made of Caleb Williams
14:29post-game saying that it wasn't surprising to him because it's a new coach, new offense, and new players.
14:38I, I, I have to see it. This is the first I'm hearing of it. I have to see how he delivers that. I
14:43mean, the, the biggest problem with Caleb right now is I don't believe that his team believes in
14:48him. And that's a real problem for quarterbacks. Like I could say that the Patriot players believe
14:55in, you know, Drake may, I do believe that the Viking players, even though they didn't win last
14:59night, still believe in JJ McCarthy. Seattle certainly believes in Sam Donald after yesterday's
15:04performance. That's the biggest thing is that the quarterback is got to get his guys on his side.
15:10And there can't be any question as to who the leader is and how they react and what they say
15:15after games. And I remember being very, very sensitive, especially when I was on a losing team
15:20to say the right thing post-game, because I knew that everybody's family was watching. Every player's
15:26watching every player's buddy or agent is watching. And if you don't say the right things, uh, then it
15:32comes back to haunt you. So to me, it doesn't sound like, uh, Caleb Williams understands that aspect
15:39of it yet. And it's part of maturing and growing up and understanding what your responsibilities are.
15:44So depending on how he said that Greg, uh, would lead me to be concerned about what kind of leader
15:51he is and, and how the team feels about him, um, personally.
15:57Boomer, thanks. As always, we will talk to you again next week.
15:59All right, guys, have a great week. Enjoy the win.
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