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What did Esiason see/like from Maye against the Dolphins? Esiason: "Using his legs to make explosive plays". "Hard part of their schedule is coming now"
CRUISE CONTROL? Were the Patriots READY for this game? Boomer Esiason joins! "Whatever Mike Vrabel said at halftime, obviously struck a nerve"
What did Esiason see/like from Maye against the Dolphins? Esiason: "Using his legs to make explosive plays". "Hard part of their schedule is coming now"
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00:00hey boomer hey good morning victory monday once again and i guess happy birthday is in order for
00:06you too greg is that right we're not we're not talking about that boomer why not because it's
00:1060 years and gone in the blink of an eye you know i was told this the other day that
00:17you were six i
00:17thought you were older than me i don't know why but i thought i mean i'm five years older than
00:24you
00:24and i'm thinking damn i thought he was 70 well you for for many of those years you were on
00:30the
00:30performing uh performance enhancement stuff so i think you're uh you're better off than i am
00:37yeah by the way i got i did get a skin tightener last week for my face so okay it
00:42looks good back
00:43isn't that what they call it courtney is that what it is yes yeah a little face okay a little
00:46nip and
00:47tuck yeah a little pull back whatever you want to call it well something happened uh when when this
00:53team came out for the second half yesterday boomer yeah well listen uh drake may happened uh he had a
00:59terrific second half and you know this is using his legs to make explosive plays and you know this
01:06this team's been beat up there's no question about it i thought their defense uh played exceptionally
01:10well in the second half is as as on top of all of that and uh when drake plays like
01:15this and you
01:16could tell yesterday there were a couple times he wanted to throw the ball and he pulled it back
01:21and then threw it to somebody else's second or third receiver as he was stepping up through the
01:25pocket so he's very aware of some of the mistakes he's made this year and i you can see it
01:31you can
01:31see it in the game so when he plays like this and you know they get the explosive plays that
01:36they got
01:36yesterday they're going to be they're going to be tough to beat but i will say and i will just
01:40caution
01:41that you know the hard part of their schedule is coming now and i think like five out of the
01:46next six
01:47games they're going to be playing potentially playoff teams themselves and you know they have
01:52to take that trip i think to munich in a couple weeks against the lions so it's going to be
01:56it's
01:57this is where the season's real is going to get real now for them and and we'll find out after
02:01these
02:02next six games where they sit and just how good they are mike rabel continues to seem to be very
02:08willing to go for it on fourth down yes he does uh he's kind of like dan campbell i think
02:14you know
02:15it was it was interesting i was actually at the bengal uh tennessee titan game yesterday for the
02:20ring of honor ceremony i had one of my former teammates went into the ring of honor for the
02:24bengals james brooks and it was amazing just watching the game and watching how these coaches
02:30manage these games now and you know back in my day third and two fourth and two you were either
02:37punting or kicking a field goal and the first guy that really was the aggressive guy on fourth down
02:43from my recollection was bill parcells when he was with the giants he would always go for it on fourth
02:48down or it seemed like he would go for it a lot on fourth down nowadays it's just a part
02:53of the game
02:53it's a part of being aggressive it's a part of keeping the ball away from uh the opposing team's
02:58offense you're playing defense with your offense under those circumstances and i just you know the way
03:04the rules are guys everything is skewed offensively everything so whether it be a legal contact
03:12uh defensive holding interference uh you know any sort of play like that by the defense is going to
03:19lead to an offensive first down so i do think coaches take that into account and why wouldn't
03:25you especially if you're the better team and you feel like you can move off their defensive line
03:30boom after watching that game yesterday and wrote it i was like all right this is a game that it
03:35looks
03:35like the the patriots team and i don't like this but i can understand that uh coming being in that
03:40position they just went out there and kind of were on cruise control going like all right we're
03:45playing against a team that has one win and um it almost bit them in the ass but i felt
03:50like
03:50mentally they just weren't ready for this game well isn't like miami i it's always been a tough place
03:57for them to play for some reason no matter who's playing quarterback no matter who's coaching
04:01and i think that kind of showed itself in the first half yesterday so whatever mike
04:06frable said at halftime obviously struck a nerve because it looked like a completely different team
04:10and the only thing that really pisses me off is i actually had the patriots plus you know and i
04:15and
04:16i laid the seven points and we got a backdoor cover here and that's this thing that really ticks me
04:20off
04:21but um at the at the end of the day they don't care about that they just care about wins
04:25and their
04:25second half was i i think indicative of whatever the coach said at halftime or somebody said
04:31something i don't know if it was one of the team leaders i doubt it was drake but somebody said
04:36something because they were completely different team in the second half so uh they're going to need
04:40to play that that way for four quarters now over the next five to six games and their defense has
04:46got
04:46to get healthy uh they need to get a full complement of their offensive players i mean you know to
04:52be at
04:52this point right now at five and three and essentially we're halfway through the season um now comes the real
04:58part of that season really where you want to pick up your game and you want to take the momentum
05:03into
05:03the playoffs so um i mean you got the packers the lions the chargers are you know basically done
05:09the bills the vikings and the chiefs that's not that's not an easy run here for the next five to
05:15six
05:15weeks boomer you bring up health it seems like the injuries just continue to hit this patriots team
05:20how impressed have you been with drake and his ability to adjust with guys coming in and going out
05:25and how hard is it for a quarterback to have to do that great quarterbacks are players uh who make
05:31other players better and i think jermaine wiggins can tell you that if you play with a great quarterback
05:37he'll make you into an all pro well you know i made brady so if you play with a stiff
05:42back there
05:43you're screaming and yelling that you're not getting the ball so uh that's that's really what drake is
05:48supposed to do when you're that high of a draft pick and you had the season you had last year
05:52and now
05:52all of a sudden you started to come back into your own this year and by the way i was
05:55thinking about
05:56this and i don't know if you guys think the same way courtney i i think the lack of preparation
06:01in
06:02the preseason the lack of playing games in the preseason ends up biting a lot of these guys in
06:07the butt because they just don't get into any sort of rhythm and now it's taken a while for drake
06:11to
06:12get here where he is now but that's the true mark of a great quarterback is making players around you
06:18great and i think he's on his well on his way of doing that of course and we've seen that
06:23so the
06:24injuries you know hit him he doesn't really have a.j brown uh for for this entire season and demario
06:30douglas comes out of nowhere and that's exactly the type of player or quarterback that you're hoping
06:35for a.j brown played a bunch of snaps against the jets four weeks out of the high ankle sprain
06:43then he had the thursday night game against the bears and now he's out for the foreseeable future
06:48at least this past game and i don't think it sounds great we'll talk you know we'll figure out what
06:52happens going forward but did they mismanage a.j brown and his return for that high ankle sprain
06:57i don't think so i mean i i had high ankle sprains when i played i'm sure jermaine did too
07:03they
07:03probably treated us a little bit different than they treat the players today they are so careful
07:07about these players especially the high priced wide receivers and the the real talented defensive
07:13backs if there's anything wrong with them they usually don't put them on the field and it really
07:18comes down to the player and whether or not he feels like he can go and he can give it
07:21a hundred
07:22percent and i would imagine that a.j is feeling a ton of pressure to play because of you know
07:28all
07:28the hoopla surrounding the trade and getting him here and his relationship with mike ravel so maybe he
07:35didn't help himself by making the decision to put him out there but high uncle sprains are really hard
07:39to come back from i mean they're usually eight to ten week kind of injuries and he tried to i
07:45think he
07:45tried to push it myself so again i don't go and say that it's the patriots issue i think it's
07:50more of a
07:51player issue that probably put pressure on himself to get back out on the field boomer speaking of the
07:56players today what do you what did you make of ollie gordon yelling at his head coach and others yesterday
08:02it's not a good look man it's just not a good look i mean players did this all the time
08:06and we we had
08:08garrett wilson here at the jets do it last week to rex ryan's son who's the wide receiver coach for
08:13the jets and you know everybody's frustrated especially when your team is losing and you know
08:19people just basically kind of just lose it on the sidelines so it's not like it hasn't happened before
08:25it will continue to happen i don't necessarily know the players are much different today than
08:29when i was playing simply because everybody is so ratcheted up and everybody's emotions are running
08:35so high that when they are frustrated they usually have to take it out on somebody and unfortunately
08:40if it's a head coach that player may not find himself on the field now the interesting thing
08:44yesterday is that clink kubiak for the raiders actually pulled a john harbaugh so john harbaugh a
08:51couple weeks ago did not give the ball to cam scadaboo because he kept fumbling so he wanted to make
08:56a
08:56point and he didn't end up giving him the ball fans were ticked off the giants lost the tune to
09:01new orleans the next week they go out and cam scadaboo is the lead running back he has all the
09:06carries and they go out and beat a houston team that nobody expected them to beat i think clink kubiak
09:10did that with ashton jenty yesterday because ashton jenty during the week was talking all sorts of smack
09:16against the jet defense so yesterday he sets the tone doesn't give him the ball at all he makes a
09:21couple
09:21plays but doesn't have any running or rushing attempts or maybe one or two of them and that's
09:26a that's how coaches can hold players accountable by making examples out of them so i wouldn't i
09:33wouldn't i wouldn't be shocked if jeff halfley did that uh to the miami running back question of the
09:39week for boomers brought to you by mcfarland energy rob gronkowski will be inducted into the
09:44patriots hall of fame here at gillette this upcoming weekend where do you rank him all time
09:49at the position oh my god his size and his ability to to make the catches he made i i
09:57think he's
09:57probably he would go down in the tight end world as the most difficult cover in the history of the
10:03nfl uh you know he and brady had so many special games together and had a special relationship on the
10:09field you could see it um i who've ever seen a six foot seven guy running down the field and
10:15and
10:16twisting and turning his body so by far the most difficult cover i believe at the tight end
10:22position uh would i say he's the number one tight end of all time i i you could make an
10:27argument for
10:27that he's definitely a top three tight end of all time and uh nobody does it better the patriots when
10:33they when they put somebody into that hall of fame and that red jacket looks pretty sweet and he's
10:37certainly deserving of it wait you'll get it one day one day we'll keep wishing uh the game of the
10:43week was that chiefs broncos game incredible ending it at mile high uh harrison butker missed
10:49the kick they obviously brought in justin tucker what do you what did you make of the chiefs decision
10:54to bring justin tucker in and will the drumbeat grow to have him replace butker as the kicker of
10:59the chiefs going forward i i think at the end of the day all anybody wants to do is win
11:03and they'll
11:03put anybody out there no matter what the allegations are against them i mean we've seen that with green
11:08bay and josh jacobs and now we see more allegations coming out against him uh you know justin tucker
11:14has basically paid a significant price both in reputation and in financial uh stake he's one of
11:20the greatest kickers of all time i just goes to show you just how competitive these teams are and just
11:27how you know maybe maybe it was something to help harrison butker get better but yesterday he misses an
11:33easy kick that ends up costing the the chiefs the game and that game was an amazing game because
11:38you know in the division denver's trying to get over the hump and in order to for them to get
11:43over
11:43the hump they have to beat patrick mahomes and andy reed and they did that and they did that by
11:48keeping them out of the end zone at the end of the game so i i wouldn't be surprised if
11:52they activate
11:53uh justin tucker it depends on how he's kicking obviously we don't know that we're not in practice
11:58but uh i think there is a short fuse right now for harrison butker and it's unfortunate because he
12:04like adam beneterry for you guys is one of their if not be their their best kicker in the history
12:10of
12:10their franchise so i know they had jan center root out there but man harrison's kicked so many good
12:15kicks or big kicks for them that if they decide to make a change you know it's going to reverberate
12:20throughout the nfl the fan bases and everybody's going to have a obviously a most likely a negative
12:26opinion about it you brought up the chargers is justin herbert falling in love a real problem
12:31uh it must have been something's going on there i can't just i can't blame it all on him i
12:36just can't
12:37because he gets the crap beat out of him every week um and i you know i put that on
12:41the coach's
12:42feet and you know i like jim harbaugh as a coach and as a former quarterback i can't even imagine
12:47what
12:48he must think of justin herbert privately you know you're not you're not going to hear anything
12:53negatively uh in in the public domain in regards to the comments coming from jim harbaugh regarding
12:59his quarterback but there are things that quarterbacks can do and that have to overcome
13:04and you know justin is just not overcoming any of it and which is really sad because they're paying
13:09him so much money to be able to overcome some of the shortcomings kind of like we were just
13:13talking about drake may and i i don't know what the chargers are going to do what's going to be
13:18really interesting now is the next week the final week before the trade deadline we've already had
13:22seven trades a lot of big ones i wouldn't be surprised if we see four or five you know in
13:27the next couple days here uh i know wide receivers are on the dock i know that there are offensive
13:32linemen that potentially could be traded so keep your eyes open for guys like you know coming from
13:39from the chargers you know from miami from a lot of these teams with losing records and of course
13:44the jets here in new york all right boom i'm going to put you on the spot a little bit
13:48because i know
13:49how important this next you know six week stretches but it's really five games that we're looking at
13:54with those five games green bay the lions the bills the vikings and the chiefs where do you see the
14:01patriots after it's all said and done after those games um and record wise all right so the chargers
14:08are in the middle of that too so let's go to the next six games so let's go to the
14:12next six games
14:12if they can go four and two that would be huge and you know i i think they're a thorn
14:18in the bill
14:18side i really do i think if they can beat the bills and knock them off twice this season they
14:23can win the division if the playoff started today the patriots i think would be in the seventh spot
14:27which mean they would have to go to denver in the first round of the playoff so i i think
14:32four and two
14:33in these next six and remember you know at the beginning of the year i told you guys i thought
14:36they
14:36were a 10 to 11 win seat a team um these are really tough teams you know the vikings are
14:41are going to be
14:42a pain in the ass that the chiefs at the chiefs that's not going to be easy they got a
14:46lot of
14:46prime time games coming up they have so they got they have to go they have to go to munich
14:51that's a
14:51prime time game although it's 9 30 a.m in the morning and then they have a 4 25 game
14:57against the
14:57bills and then an 8 15 game against the vikings and then an 8 15 game against the chiefs we're
15:02going
15:02to see a lot of the patriots and you know in the one game window so i think four and
15:09two over the next
15:10six would be realistic because i think their defense should be able to keep them in all these
15:14games and the fact that they have the packers and lions at home is going to be a huge boom
15:18for them
15:18because the lions outside are a little bit different and the packers you know while they're getting
15:23healthy i don't know if michael parsons will be playing yet that that should be like next week
15:28should really be an interesting game um with jordan love playing the way he's playing and drake may the
15:33way he's playing all right boomer great job as always you've earned yourself a handcuffed selly on the way
15:38out if you'd like to do it all right well you and i can laugh about it but a couple
15:42other people can't
15:43so anyway that's right have a great week guys and i'll see you next week