00:00Been out on Radio Row this week with Greg, Ted, and Wiggy.
00:02Good get by Wiggy.
00:03Cam Newton to start the show yesterday.
00:05Awesome get.
00:06Courtney, why don't you set this up?
00:07How do you think the mood was when Cam sat down?
00:10Was Cam expecting to be challenged?
00:11He must have been, right?
00:12It's a Boston radio station, and he's been calling them fool's gold on ESPN.
00:16Yeah, there were some people in the Twitch chat that were talking about
00:18because we posted videos of when Cam arrived on set
00:21and kind of like a hot mic moments where it was like Cam basically is like,
00:26oh, I don't know what I'm talking about, you know, whatever, whatever.
00:29And then he goes on to just like double down on his feelings on Drake May.
00:33And it was, he talks in circles.
00:37Like the guy just has decided to call them fool's gold, decided to come at Drake May.
00:43He's talking about how it's like the left side of your brain that he is talking for.
00:49That was the least intelligent thing I had heard the entire day.
00:53And I listened to myself.
00:54The other thing is, is that I would have, if I were there, one quick critique.
00:59Uh-oh.
00:59I would have said, oh, Cam, okay, which one of us is Mike?
01:02They did bring up the Mike, and he defended that decision, but in a different way.
01:07But here's some of the exchange.
01:08Greg and Cam Newton on set yesterday.
01:11Cam, Mr. Newton.
01:13Yes, sir.
01:14What's wrong with you?
01:16I don't know what's wrong, but I can tell you a lot what's right.
01:19Can you show us on the doll where Drake May and the Patriots hurt you?
01:25Never.
01:25What?
01:26Never.
01:27I can show you that experience will tell you that I know a little bit about the game of football.
01:33A little bit, yeah.
01:34More than me.
01:34And what happens is honesty offends people, and I'm not trying to be liked.
01:43I just want to be respected and understand that every take doesn't require a career jab
01:50from their receiver of what I talked about, and I think that's so easy for people to do.
01:56Nobody says, hey, what does Tom Brady know about football?
01:59He wasn't really successful at Michigan.
02:03They all of a sudden just go straight to the successes.
02:07Yeah.
02:07As if to say anybody that has made it to the National Football League as a professional,
02:14they're not an expert in talking about football.
02:17So I love it.
02:18I enjoy it.
02:19You know, this is something that I really did not envision me to be doing now,
02:24and I will always be grateful to, you know, the city of Foxboro, Boston, and Massachusetts
02:33as a whole because during that time, I was so wounded.
02:37And, yeah, so.
02:41I don't understand what he calls him unsuccessful at Michigan.
02:44I mean, if he didn't follow along, I mean, the coach has since said he was an idiot
02:49for wanting to get Drew Henson in the games.
02:51Brady actually had to keep winning the job over and over again, starting and then coming
02:55out for a quarter, then coming back for the second half, usually at a deficit.
02:59Yeah.
02:59Was he taking – which receiver is he upset that called him out?
03:02Is it Diggs or something?
03:03He said every jab doesn't deserve a career criticism or something like that.
03:07I didn't quite get that.
03:09What's that reference to, Shine?
03:10I'm not sure.
03:11I'm not aware of any Patriots receiver specifically talking about Cam.
03:16But I think Drake and some of his receivers were, like, ripping Cam pregame right once
03:20for – they did the Superman thing.
03:21It wasn't really ripping him.
03:22It was just more so, like, Diggs told him to do the Superman and Drake said no.
03:27Right.
03:28Like, brushed it off.
03:29He seemed very – like, he's the victim there all of a sudden.
03:31He's not the victim.
03:32I mean, Cam – I mean, Drake May has completely changed his outlook on who he looked up to.
03:38Like, earlier this week, he's like, oh, yeah, my idol growing up was Aaron Rodgers.
03:42Like, completely changed.
03:44Amazing.
03:44But the other thing with Cam Newton is, like, there's no self-awareness.
03:48Like, he was so bad here.
03:51Like, and we tried.
03:52Great interview, though.
03:53Great interview.
03:54He couldn't have been nicer to everybody.
03:55Played along.
03:56Like, it was awesome.
03:58But to have that be your lasting legacy with the Patriots, and then this guy comes in,
04:05and he's spectacular, grew up a fan of yours, and he just, like, you can't accept it.
04:11I don't understand – because it's not, like – Max Kellerman's kind of a talking head boob.
04:17So, like, you say fall off a cliff, you get the clicks, mission accomplished.
04:21Cam Newton is a former MVP.
04:22He's a former first pick of the draft.
04:24He won the Heisman.
04:24He won a national championship at Auburn.
04:26Like, this is not a guy without success in the NFL or in college, and he just sounds so petty.
04:31Let's listen to a little more, Cam and Greg.
04:33So, yeah, some people have felt like, personally, I've been like,
04:38why is Cam Newton going out of his way week after week to diminish the accomplishments of this football team and Drake May?
04:47It's never to diminish.
04:48It's to give you the left side of your brain thought processes of where most people aren't talking about, right?
04:55Now, if you give me an example, I will give you the merit and logic about why and the reason of what I said and why I said it.
05:02I think oftentimes it's not the message, it's the messenger.
05:06Yeah.
05:06And, needless to say, what some may deem as hate, bitterness, or ignorance, it's the complete opposite.
05:15It's well thought out.
05:16It's very strategized in a way to say, okay, I know this is going to rile the people up, but once again, I'm not trying to be liked.
05:25I'm just trying to get you to understand that football has so many different determining factors.
05:31Yeah.
05:31And, whether you're a beneficiary of those determining factors, it just depends on the situation.
05:39All right.
05:39Well, the audience is a little jumpy there.
05:41It's the fat figures again.
05:42And then, Greg follows up with like, okay, let's start with fool's gold.
05:46Because he's like, if you give me an example, then I'll explain it.
05:50But him saying strategize to rile the people up, I think that's the catchphrase where it's like, oh, he's doing it for clicks.
05:55Rage bait.
05:55He's just trying to, so that's not great, although he's done a good job of that.
06:01Do you want one more, Sean?
06:03Well, the example to start with would be fool's gold.
06:06You were saying pretty early on that this football team was not, fool's gold to me is, it's not real.
06:13Yes.
06:13Now, fool's gold now comes out to, what if I said they had the easiest way to.
06:20The easiest regular season schedule.
06:22I'll give you that.
06:22Ever.
06:23And out of the teams that they've played, eight of those teams fired their coaches.
06:30Yeah.
06:30What if I give you that type of perspective?
06:32But then I would turn back and say to you that seven of the last ten teams to win a Super Bowl have been in the top ten of easiest schedules.
06:42That's just the way it goes.
06:44But my question in layman's term as a fan or as a critic of football, I would say, could you honestly say that the New England Patriots in the last five games played those five games versus teams at their best?
06:59And then they get into the defenses and the counterpoint there.
07:03But I don't know.
07:04Overall assessment, Curtis, is he going to be a Kettleman type for the next few years?
07:09That's what he wants to be.
07:10He's just a Stephen A. Smith button pusher approach.
07:14It is a, I think, a cognitive, he's doing this purposefully to help his career.
07:21I just don't know if there's a second act.
07:23Like, I think we react the way we do to what he's saying for two reasons.
07:27One, he was here and he played, like, complete crap.
07:31And two, the quarterback he's discussing grew up idolizing him.
07:34Right.
07:34I don't think if Cam Newton comes on next year and is like, Josh Allen stinks, that, like, the world's going to stop on its axis.
07:40Yeah, I just wonder if he can keep up the shtick.
07:42I think we are in a bubble here where we care about what Cam Newton is saying right now because he's talking about our team specifically.
07:49But I couldn't tell you one other thing that Cam Newton has said about another football franchise in the NFL this year.
07:55Right.
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