00:00Ali, what's up, buddy?
00:02What's going on, man?
00:03I'm out of pressure because I'm from Boston, and I'm a Dolphin, a real diehard, I believe.
00:09Squish the fish.
00:10John Shuler is the king of Miami in sports.
00:13Then it's Dan Marino and Dwayne Wade.
00:16I'm a real Dolphin.
00:18The Dolphin organization, we suffered, man, through Tom Brady for 17 years.
00:22I lost a lot of money, almost my house.
00:26Now, I'm trying to understand how you guys get this Drake made, dude.
00:30And our organization, we gave up on Tyreek Hill, and we've given up this tanning hand for five years.
00:36How do we get a South Florida sexy vibe back in Miami?
00:40Well, don't hire Jeff Halfley.
00:42That's the first thing.
00:42What was that about?
00:44Why?
00:45They said he looked like Pat Riley.
00:47I don't know.
00:48Oh, man, Ali.
00:49Because he looked like Pat Riley.
00:51That's what it happened.
00:51Just the looks, yeah.
00:53You know what?
00:53It's funny, Ali.
00:54I understand what you're saying.
00:56There was a comedian.
00:57Do you know Stavros is a halkiest?
00:59He's great.
01:00Very funny.
01:01He came to Boston a couple of months ago, and the first thing he said on stage was like,
01:05F Drake May.
01:06It was literally the first thing he said, and the crowd started booing him.
01:09And he said, he goes, how dare you?
01:12You guys were, Patriots were so effing good for so long.
01:16And what did you have, like three years where you weren't good?
01:20F, G, and F Drake.
01:20You were going to be stronger for another decade.
01:24Right.
01:24Don't let Booneau.
01:26I know.
01:27Well, Arch Manning, there's always Arch Manning.
01:29There is.
01:29There is.
01:30Ali, thanks for calling, man.
01:31I appreciate it.
01:32It's got to be, it really has got to be tough to be a Dolphins fan right now.
01:34Yeah.
01:35I mean, it's got to suck.
01:36I was thinking ahead to our next pick for the weekend, which is, oh, they think they
01:39have a bye week.
01:40But would you just bet against the Dolphins each week or the Titans?
01:43I mean, some of these spreads are balloony now.
01:45The Titans are really bad.
01:46I mean, the Dolphins are bad.
01:49But, man, if I had to pick which one to go 0-4, I'd probably go Titans.
01:54Titans look like they're a disaster.
01:55They do.
01:56They do like a, they look like an absolute, they're like, it's a folly every week with
02:00those guys.
02:00I think that the Dolphins are a bad team.
02:02I think that it's a mix.
02:03I think that the Titans are a bad team and they're poorly coached.
02:07By the way, if you like power and you like rankings, well, then how about the power rankings
02:11all over the place?
02:12The Patriots just kind of, I mean, they've pressed the NOS button over the last couple
02:17of weeks.
02:17Even NFL.com?
02:18Even NFL.com.
02:20NFL.com who had them at 31st two weeks ago.
02:24After week three, had them at 31st.
02:27And I didn't even know that until Kevin Byard came on our show.
02:30Byard was like, that's on our bulletin board.
02:31Yeah, but like Byard's a guy who says, and I sometimes believe these guys, sometimes
02:36I don't, but with Byard I do.
02:37And he said, you know, I usually don't pay attention to this stuff because it's not good
02:40for us.
02:40And he goes, but I did see that the NFL's official website, like NFL.com had us second
02:47to last.
02:48I believe it was only the Titans that were below them.
02:50And he goes, and it's like, we'd already, we'd won, like we'd beaten the Steelers and
02:56it was just a huge disrespect that we had.
02:59And that was after, of course, they came back against the Bills.
03:02He told us that they have shot from number 32.
03:04And now this week they are at number 10.
03:06They've entered the top 10 after two games.
03:08And where are the Bills?
03:10You know what?
03:10I'll have to take a look, but it says that, I think they're like five or like five or four
03:15somewhere around there.
03:16But it said it took one wild win over the Bills to return the Patriots to excellent.
03:20They detonated the Raiders on Sunday with fantastic performances by Drake Mayf from Chisholm.
03:24Heck, they just throw in every skill position player and they all feasted in a game that
03:28saw New England finish with 536 yards on offense.
03:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:31Too late NFL.com.
03:32Yeah.
03:33Stop kissing ass.
03:34Bills are sixth.
03:35Bills are sixth.
03:36Teams ahead of the Patriots on the NFL rankings in the AFC are the Chiefs at two, Ravens at
03:41four, Jags at five, Bills at six.
03:44Well, yeah.
03:44I mean, Denver at eight.
03:45And all the rest of the power rankings.
03:47ESPN, they went up from a 14 to a nine.
03:49Pro football went from a 19 to a nine.
03:53Sharp just stayed at nine.
03:55A pro football talk went from 13 to nine.
03:59And then the athletic up three spots to number eight.
04:02So, you know, after watching what happened this weekend and feeling pretty good, this
04:07was kind of the confirmation that Drake May is back.
04:12After the Bills, you're like, man, did they just get really lucky and just everything
04:15worked?
04:15But no, watching two games in a row, you know that this offense.
04:19And to be honest, it's more about Josh McDaniels than I think it is Drake May.
04:23I think the play calling as suited his.
04:25And by the way, Drake May has done everything perfectly that he's asked.
04:28Some of those passes.
04:29I rewatched some of it last night.
04:30I mean, like just perfect or right in the hands.
04:33Almost the perfect game.
04:33It was almost an immaculate, totally inning.
04:35Yeah, it felt like it.
04:36It felt like it.
04:37Was Maz ripping the performance?
04:38I'm sure he probably was.
04:40Man knows no joy.
04:41But the one thing that I was looking at with this is I was thinking, all right, where are
04:45the Patriots now in the AFC?
04:47Because the AFC is very strange this year.
04:49You've got two 0-4 teams right now.
04:52You've got like, you know, three 0-4 teams.
04:54Oh, that's right.
04:55Because the Chargers.
04:56So you've got the Chargers, the Dolphins, and the Titans.
04:59So, yeah, you've got that.
05:01And then you take a look at the teams that maybe you didn't think were going to be that
05:04great, like the Chiefs, and now all of a sudden they're great.
05:06I mean, Kenneth Walker III has really been, that was a master stroke getting him on that
05:10team.
05:11He has been so freaking good this season.
05:13So, if I was to look at the AFC, I would put the Patriots only behind the Chiefs.
05:23Put them ahead of the Bills, despite?
05:25I'm going to put them ahead of the Bills just because they beat them.
05:27Okay.
05:28I'm going to put them ahead of the Ravens because they've got a backup right now, quarterback.
05:35Snoop Puntley actually looked pretty good.
05:36He got them to a win.
05:37But you've got to put them behind Jacksonville.
05:38I mean, they kicked your ass.
05:39Okay, there you go.
05:40So, they're third.
05:41So, I would go Chiefs, Jacksonville, and the Patriots.
05:45The other in question would be Cincinnati or Denver.
05:47I've never believed in Cincinnati.
05:49I don't believe in Cincinnati.
05:50And Denver, I still think Bo Nix has a lot to prove.
05:54I think they're a very good team.
05:56And that game is going to be tough.
05:57And I know because he's my fantasy quarterback and he mostly stinks.
06:01Denver is not as good as I thought they would be.
06:04The Bengals lost to Pittsburgh, which was weird, but I do fear them.
06:07Like, if you played them, I feel like their offense is capable of putting up some major
06:11points on you.
06:12Yeah, no question.
06:12But you're in the mix.
06:13I think you have an 80% playoff chance right now, which seems about right.
06:17Yeah.
06:17And a puncher's chance at the division, which maybe it should be higher than that.
06:21I mean, because the Bills' schedule coming up, they do have the Raiders on the road this
06:24week.
06:24They're favored to win, but it's, you know, maybe not an easy game.
06:27Yeah.
06:27People think the Raiders will bounce back after the long West Coast to East Coast trip.
06:31Then they still have the Ravens at the Vikings and the Chiefs at home before they play New
06:36England again.
06:36Well, if you want to just say to yourself, I don't really want to smell my own farts right
06:41now when it comes to the Patriots and you don't want to get too excited.
06:44All right.
06:44I'll pee in your cornflakes right now.
06:46If you take a look at the defenses that Drake May has carved up, we were just talking about
06:51how the Bills right now are 30th.
06:54And if you take a look at the Las Vegas Raiders, you know what they're ranked?
06:5827th.
06:58Yeah.
06:58So you have two of the worst defenses, the teams that you lost to the team, the defenses
07:03that were able to stifle Drake May were, I'm sorry, you, you beat Pittsburgh, but they're
07:0813th.
07:09But the teams that you lost to are the Seahawks at one and the Jaguars at 18.
07:14So you've got Jaguars two with points, 18th and yards.
07:18Oh, okay.
07:18So two in points.
07:19For some reason they give up a lot of yards, but not a lot of points.
07:22Okay.
07:22So, so, so basically you could look at that and just, if you're just standing far away and
07:26you didn't watch any of the games and you're just kind of just looking at the numbers and
07:30say that, all right, Drake May went off, but it was against two of literally the worst
07:34defenses in the league.
07:35That's true.
07:36That's a fact.
07:37Now the Jets are weird because they do grade.
07:39They're statistically not bad defensively.
07:41Their first round pick, Bailey had three sacks this weekend.
07:44So he's obviously pretty good top five pick.
07:48But do you really fear the Jets?
07:50Like, will they get respect if they put up points on the Jets?
07:53People would just say it's the Jets.
07:54It's going to be fun to see what Drake May can do because the Jets, when it comes to yards
07:58allowed, they're fourth.
07:59Like they're fourth in the league.
08:00They're one of the better defenses in the league.
08:02So you're going up against a very tough defense.
08:04I just don't think they can score.
08:06So I mean, listen, it's going to be, if you want to see them play like a world-class
08:12defense right now, the Jets are playing like it.
08:14So I don't think in any way, shape or form that the Patriots are going to lose that game.
08:19But I don't want to hear anybody after the Patriots win this weekend say, well, who have
08:25they gone up against defense-wise?
08:27Like, you know, Drake's like, this is the number four defense in the league.
08:30Right now, you're free to kind of rip on it because to be quite honest, the numbers are
08:34on your side.
08:35But the 30th best and the 27th best, that's who Drake May has gone off on.
08:39I just feel like even if you blow out the Jets, you're not going to get respect just
08:43because they're the Jets.
08:44I know what you're saying.
08:45Statistically, they're good.
08:46It's built on the strength of wins over.
08:48So who do they?
08:49The Jets had, they held Tennessee to 10 points.
08:52So that helped.
08:53Okay, well, I thought they held Cleveland to 12 points in the rain.
08:56And that doesn't help.
08:57They did hold the Bears to 12 on the road, but I think it was a backup quarterback.
09:01All right.
09:01So I don't know.
09:03Well, people are going to make excuses.
09:05You know what I mean?
09:05You're going to come out of this Monday and be like, ah, it's the Jets.
09:07Once again, it's going to be another Patriots win that people discount.
09:10Because they, I mean, just, it's because, and these are the same people who before the
09:12games are just like, oh man, it's going to be a tough, it's going to be a tough one
09:15against the Bills.
09:16And then afterwards, like, ah, yeah, but the Bills defense sucks.
09:19Oh, Raiders, man.
09:20Kirk Cousins is a 3-1.
09:21It's like, oh yeah, but their defense sucks.
09:23It's a good point.
09:23You know, your next chance at respect is when then?
09:26The Bears, I guess.
09:27That Bears game, Bears defense is good.
09:29If Caleb is playing.
09:31No, but their defense is solid.
09:32Ben Johnson, people respect.
09:33I think if you go on a Thursday on the road to Chicago and put up points, that would get
09:37you some final respect.
09:38It has fool's gold written all over.
09:41Oh yeah, where's Cam?
09:42He'd be all about it right now.
09:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:44Rich, you show some impartiality.
09:46I'm talking facts here.
09:47These are facts.
09:48These are numbers.
09:49Yep.
09:49Right in front of us.
09:50I mean, listen, if you want to complain, I know what I'm seeing.
09:54I know that it looks like Drake May is back, and I know that it looks like he's got nobody's
09:57catching, like stepping up.
09:59That's true, too.
10:00You should factor that in.
10:01Yep.
10:02A.J. Brown's out, and you've put together these two weeks.
10:05That deserves your curve to go in the other way.
10:08Yep.
10:08Maybe your defenses, your plans suck, but your offense and people you're missing have been
10:12significant.
