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Drake Maye... does NOT win NFL MVP. Maye falls just 5 points shy, to MVP winner, Matthew Stafford. Maye snubbed? Super Bowl just 2 sleeps away- SIlver lining for Maye?
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00:00From the MVP by one vote, five points.
00:03Shyam, are you in mourning here today as Matt Stafford takes the stage last night as your AP NFL MVP?
00:10No, I'm just frustrated with the three individuals who decided to give first place votes not to Matthew Stafford or Drake May,
00:16who are clearly the two most deserving candidates.
00:19So those three deciding votes, you guys can buzz off.
00:23Well, not only three non-May candidates, Sam Monson, the Irish guy,
00:28voted for Justin Herbert, went totally off the board, and gave him the first place vote.
00:33And he is, I mean, try to get him on, please, but he is getting assailed on social media.
00:38He is going back and forth as best he can.
00:40I give him credit, at least he is defending his vote, and he's admitted it, unlike Tony Dungy.
00:45But he had a bad night. He had a rough night.
00:48There used to be a saying by a guy we worked with, Jerry, who said for decades, he said this about the Patriots,
00:54whatever the best thing to happen is for the Patriots, it will happen.
00:58And this continues. This is the best possible scenario.
01:02Drake May feeding off the back of, I'm sure we'll hear from the linebacker talking about Brady making him sick to his stomach and all this.
01:09It is a great outcome if you are a Patriots fan that wants them to win the Super Bowl.
01:16And isn't that worked up about individual honors?
01:18Because you know that Vrabel is just putting this into the cocktail that he's giving the guys about why nobody believes him.
01:25I'll also say, while it was great that Vrabel won Coach of the Year, it did suck that it was like a pre-recorded video.
01:31Like, I was really hoping that maybe he – I don't know what I was thinking.
01:36I was hoping that maybe he was going to be able to be there and accept just because I think he's so great off the cuff.
01:42And the recording was nice.
01:44He's like, you know, while my name will be on this, it was everybody that, you know, gave to it.
01:49You mean Mike Verbal?
01:50I've said it twice.
01:51My wife loves Tiffany Haddish, too.
01:53Me, too.
01:53I don't know what she's been in, but she talks about her all the time.
01:55She's in a lot.
01:56She's a comedian.
01:57So she's the one who introduced the –
02:00Verbal?
02:00Is that like – she thought it was like the Airbnb rival?
02:03Yeah, Verbal.
02:05Mike Verbal!
02:06It's right there on the iPad.
02:08But, I mean, if you do not follow football at all, and I don't know if Tiffany Haddish does, but I don't know.
02:15I wish somebody had said to her before, hey, here's pronunciation.
02:18Mike Verbal!
02:19Nice job, Mike Verbal.
02:20I mean, Drewski even butchered Jackson Smith and Jigba's name as well.
02:24Quick note, since I mentioned my wife.
02:25Yesterday, she's asking how Courtney's doing.
02:27She said, how's Courtney feeling?
02:28I said, well, she's hanging in there.
02:29She's, you know, starting to get to that phase where she's got the acid reflux.
02:32She says, why don't you let her come in later than she – it's got to be tough to get up that early.
02:36It's really nice.
02:37What is this, like, sentiment?
02:38You can just, like, come in too well.
02:40Your wife is the nicest person on the planet.
02:42And that's a great point.
02:43I mean, it's kind of chauvinistic that Ken didn't think of that.
02:45Yeah, no, no, no, no.
02:46I said, you can't just – you don't go to a Broadway play and, you know, Bette Midler shows up halfway through the show.
02:52So then she said, why don't you put her on another show?
02:54Bette Midler?
02:55No, I do not want to be put on another show.
02:57I enjoy this show.
02:57But I will say it is getting more – that's been the hardest part is waking up.
03:03But what can I complain about?
03:04I'm off in four hours, and I'm able to go nap after that.
03:07It's just, you know –
03:09Okay, good.
03:09It's just – it gets to a difficult point.
03:12I did get an unbelievable prenatal massage yesterday, you guys.
03:14And let me tell you, please, men, never take for granted the fact that you can sleep on your stomach because I miss sleeping on my stomach so badly.
03:25And yesterday, the bed gave this little, like, area for my belly to just fall, and I was able to lie on my stomach, and it was pure bliss.
03:34There's a Greg joke in here somewhere.
03:36Curtis is digging for that one.
03:37No, I was going to say you could just – next to Lynn's, if that hasn't already happened, it's a natural crease.
03:42Nice job by Greg back out on the circuit last night.
03:46It's great.
03:47Got high law.
03:47Yeah, but I thought that Greg did a phenomenal job in both the Malcolm Butler interview and the Cam Newton interview.
03:52He was – with Cam, I was so happy that it wasn't just one question and they moved on.
03:57Like, Greg kept at him, but in his Greg playful way.
04:01It wasn't combative at all.
04:03And the same thing with Malcolm Butler.
04:04I mean, Malcolm Butler and the Ben Shigg is – just gets more confusing.
04:09We have a lot to get to from yesterday's Radio Row.
04:11Cam Newton, Malcolm Butler, Ryan Leaf, your guy, who was calling out Dr. Chow.
04:16Vaughn Miller.
04:16Did you hear that before then?
04:17I didn't know those facts about Junior Seau.
04:20Like, that guy –
04:22What are they?
04:22So Junior Seau shot himself and took his life, sadly.
04:29And it's believed – I don't know, did he have CTE?
04:32There was – he didn't shoot himself in the head because he didn't want his brain to be disturbed so that if he did have it, they would know.
04:40But so Ryan Leaf – if you don't know who Ryan Leaf is, he was the second pick of the draft after Peyton Manning, and he has serious addiction issues.
04:46He was in jail.
04:47He's now turned his life around, and he's a really strong advocate for those facing addiction.
04:51And he was talking about the relationship between Dr. Chow and Junior Seau, and that Dr. Chow and – both, obviously, San Diego Chargers and –
05:03Former team physician, right?
05:04Former team physician, and that Dr. Chow was, like, trying to be buddies with Junior, and he was prescribing him pain medicine, and he was one of his biggest drinking buddies.
05:15And Ryan Leaf's point was, like, here's a guy that's suicidal. You're a doctor. At the bare minimum, you should not be enabling that lifestyle by writing him prescriptions.
05:24According to Ryan Leaf. I mean, if that's true.
05:26If true.
05:27I have no idea what happened. This is what was relayed from Ryan Leaf, and that would be – if that's anywhere near true, there really isn't much worse you can do as a physician than to knowingly give something to someone who is suffering an addiction like that.
05:41That is as low as it gets.
05:43Isn't that kind of the Matthew Perry part, too? Like, Matthew Perry was being prescribed?
05:47Dr. Death. They talked about the ketamine. Yep, that's exactly right. These – it's a – it's sadly, in Hollywood, among rich people, that's, like, this elite group where you get doctors, quote-unquote, that give the people that don't need it the medicine that they want.
05:59We'll replay Cam Newton at 8 and part of the Ryan Leaf and Malcolm Butler at 9. Radio Rewind this morning, two days from the Super Bowl.
06:06Back to what's fueling the Patriots and their fans, though, Curtis. Do you think the Drake MVP snub –
06:11is anywhere near – will generate the – anywhere near the anger of the Brady, no dog in the fight, or Belichick not getting in the hall, or Kraft to a lesser extent not getting in the hall?
06:21It's like those four things are the out there as fuel for the fan base.
06:25Well –
06:25I don't know if players care.
06:26No, I don't think that the – the Drake May snub is much more impactful for the messaging from Vrabel, where it's – you stand in front and you talk about how, like, look,
06:41we got one game, we got 60 minutes to prove to everybody that they're all idiots, like, that we're not – because whenever I mentioned to Mike Vrabel or Robert Spillane or anybody,
06:50when you mentioned that they are soft or when Courtney said that people in the national media think you're soft and Vrabel immediately said,
06:55Courtney, we're in the Super Bowl.
06:56Like, it is something that immediately gets under their skin, and you know that that's what he's utilizing.
07:01So I think it's not as – the disparity talent-wise is not as massive as the rest of the country would have you believe.
07:07I do think the Seahawks are a more talented team, but it's not – it's negligible, and I think the – all the intangibles are on the side of the Patriots.
07:15Shyam, are you, like, angered by the MVP vote?
07:17I mean, if you're Drake May, it does suck.
07:19You're five points in this ballot.
07:21One vote away.
07:22This is an award that will – for the rest – you know, MVP – it's just an award.
07:26But for 20 years, 30 years, whatever, people will talk about the year he missed out.
07:30Stafford beat him out.
07:31Yeah, MVPs matter, as much as people don't tell you they do.
07:34When it comes to your actual legacy in the sport, they absolutely matter.
07:38And so, yeah, I'm pissed, but at the same time, it's not nearly the same as, like, Belichick getting snubbed from the Hall of Fame
07:44because he lost – yeah, but he at least lost to a deserving contestant, right?
07:48Like, Matthew Stafford wasn't some schmuck that got the award.
07:51He was really good this year, to his credit, and he deserved being recognized.
07:56In that way, whereas, you know, Belichick losing to Kenny Anderson and L.C. Greenwood is ridiculous.
08:03The only one that got in on that list was Roger Craig.
08:05Okay, so he lost to Roger Craig.
08:07Well, right.
08:08Not only that, he didn't really lose to them.
08:10He's the only one of the five that got in off that list.
08:13And they could take two to three, correct?
08:14They could take up to three.
08:15Minimum of one, maximum of three.
08:16So people just voted Roger Craig and did not vote Belichick or Kraft.
08:19No, it's so dumb.
08:21And they look more dumb this morning than they even did before that.
08:25But, Shyam, I agree with you when it comes to Drake May.
08:28And the thing – the best part about this is something that Drake May could get that Matthew Stafford can't this season
08:32is if they win the Super Bowl and he gets Super Bowl MVP.
08:35Like, that's still on the table.
08:36Yeah, maybe that'll help him win that award, actually.
08:38And this is a fitting because it all comes back to the Patriots because the last time there was a MVP vote in the NFL that was this close was 2003.
08:44And that Patriots team beat both Steve McNair in the divisional round, Peyton Manning in the AFC Championship.
08:50They beat both co-MVPs en route to a Super Bowl.
08:54This year, maybe they'll do the same thing.
08:55We voted Cam Newton for MVP both years.
08:57Yes, he sure did.
08:58We got the selfie with Cam.
08:59Yep.
09:00He got the selfie.
09:00Greg got the hat, which was a nice look on Greg.
09:02Tried to put the hat on.
09:03He tried to go sideways at the beginning.
09:05I said, please, God.
09:07Classic.
09:07We also got Von Miller to face on his kids.
09:09I enjoyed yesterday immensely.
09:10I thought the guests were great.
09:11And I thought – I talked to Greg last night, by the way.
09:14And I was explaining to him the bizarre neediness of Ken where, like, at the randomly yesterday, Ken's like, should I be here tomorrow?
09:22Well, I'm back.
09:23And I did not get one official nobody – you shouldn't come back.
09:26My gosh.
09:27Happy birthday, Maya.
09:28Thank you very much.
09:28Happy birthday, Maya.
09:29Happy birthday, Maya.
09:30Good kid.
09:31She's probably still sleeping.
09:32The sweetest.
09:33Absolute sweetest.
09:33Happy ninth.
09:34It's unbelievable how fast it's gone, especially from four to nine.
09:38I feel like that has just – the first four years, I think you're like – you have a lot of time.
09:43I'm sure you and James spend a lot of time together.
09:45We sure do.
09:45Sometimes you're like, boy, this day's not going to end.
09:47Did you see the beautiful photos of them yesterday?
09:49Absolutely, yeah.
09:49With the flower crowns?
09:50That was a blast.
09:52I could – the photo booth is going to bankrupt me.
09:54We can't – we walk by anyone, and it's like screaming, dad, we're doing the – and then it's eight bucks?
09:59Yeah.
10:00But once they hit elementary school, it just is gone.
10:03I mean, five years in a blink.
10:05But anyway, happy birthday, Maya.
10:07She'll be getting married before you know it.
10:08Jeez.
10:09Having a baby of her own.
10:10God.
10:11Wee's dealing with that too, right?
10:12So he and Talena have that going on.
10:14Yeah.
10:15Do you want to hear Vrabel's acceptance speech?
10:16You mentioned that.
10:17I thought it was good.
10:18It was as good as it could be recorded.
10:20He thanked a lot of the right people.
10:21Stretch.
10:22Stretch, really, I mean –
10:23Really went in for him.
10:25That's a growing story.
10:26Do you think Stretch is really that important?
10:28Is he the Ernie Adams of our time?
10:30Is he the – you know?
10:31I think in Vrabel's mind, like, Stretch is the guy.
10:35Like, that is his right-hand man, and he gives a lot of credit to him.
10:39So –
10:39I heard Zoe talk to him across the street briefly this week, and he – I was so impressed.
10:45He was – you know, there was a lot of things that I think that were previously to the –
10:53there was stipulations in place that you can't talk about X, Y, or Z.
10:56But he seemed really – I don't know what I expected.
11:00He's certainly not Ernie Adams.
11:01He's not, like, this, like, goofy old guy.
11:04He's young.
11:04He's gregarious.
11:06And he is as powerful as anybody in that building outside of Vrabel.
11:09John Stryker is listed as the VP of Football Operations and Strategy officially.
11:13Did you know that Luke Fickle – you know Luke Fickle?
11:15Yep.
11:15So, he and Vrabel were roommates in college at Ohio State.
11:19Fickle went to go to – he was the interim coach at Ohio State.
11:23And then Vrabel didn't get a job in the NFL, and so Fickle called him and asked him to be his linebacker coach.
11:30So, that's how Vrabel really got into coaching.
11:34I heard Stryker describe this.
11:35And so, that they were at the Ohio State, and those guys are thickest –
11:39But he basically is, like, Vrabel just – it's loyalty.
11:41It's people that you've known.
11:42Like, he wants to be around people he trusts.
11:44And really impressive guy.
11:45Even McVay raved about Stretch for the year he was with L.A.
11:50while Vrabel was being an assistant with Cleveland.
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