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"And Amira, played by Lauren London, are forced to navigate Ezra pseudo woke parents, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny in a mirror's unyielding and concerned parents, played by Eddie Murphy and Nia long. You people was written by Jonah Hill in Kenya barris and directed by Kenya bears. You people is rated R and is now playing only on Netflix. Welcome everyone to the SI media podcast. I'm your host, Jimmy trainer. Thanks so much for listening. Podcast is actually going to be called SI media with Jimmy trainer going forward. You may see that switch when you're listening to this, you may not, we're trying to get it all settled, so a little tweak of the name, new logo. Hope you like it. Send me some feedback. I like the logo a lot. So hopefully you guys do too. And a new era here as we go forward. And we have a great, great show to kick off here with the new title and logo, Chris Berman, the legend from ESPN, joins the SI media with Jimmy trainer podcast to discuss Super Bowl NFL NFL prime time Swami and a bunch of other stuff, really fun interview with Berman, then we have Sal la cata and train of thoughts following Berman. Get into a lot of stuff about the NFC and AFC title games. Super Bowl stuff, just usual banter with Sal in train of thoughts. Before we get to it, I had a great interview last week with good morning football, Jason McCourty got a lot of good feedback on that. A lot of people like the interview. So if you missed it, check that out in the archives. Chris long was on the pod two weeks ago, Troy Aikman three weeks ago. So going to the archives, check those out, subscribe to the podcast as well. Leave a review on Apple. We have a giveaway with Brady brand in the train of thought segment and if you leave a review, you can win some Brady brand underwear. So a lot going on this week. We got a name change. We got a logo change. We're doing a giveaway. And we've got a legend in Chris Berman on the pod, followed by train of thoughts. We kick it off all right here. On SI media with Jimmy trainer. All right, joining me now, very excited to have him back on the SI media podcast. He was one of my first guests when I took over. A while ago and it's great to have him back. The legendary. Icon from ESPN, they call him boomer, Chris Berman, Chris, how are they? Hi, Julie. Legendary is kind, but you got my chapter, thank you. Listen, you know, I'll start here by doing a little kissing of the butt. You know, Sunday after those two games, flip on ESPN and there you were. And I'm a very, very big nostalgia guy. And I grew up in the 80s. I think the 80s is the greatest decade and I'm all about the 80s. So when I see you on my television, not a streaming service, not my iPad sorry ESPN PR is probably flipping out. When I see you on my TV after a big football game on a Sunday Night, it just feels right and takes me back to a
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Old are you? Because you know why I grew up in the 80s? And I saw the original Lady Gaga act. Her name was Madonna. She's just copying everything she does. So she's Lady Gaga's got a real voice. Madonna doesn't have that. Right. But Madonna was around for like 30 years before Lady Gaga. Did you watch A Star Is Born or no? No. you gotta see it. First of all, if I watched it, I'd watch the original. Yeah, I know I want to go back and do that. But this was a great one. This was a great one. At least you put The Karate Kid song on the list. As long as that's on the list you're okay. Both of those. You're the best. Young hearts, which is fantastic. I don't like you. I don't like doing the movie rocky. Yeah, all of them. I've only seen I definitely seem three, maybe four. You don't know the rocky movies? I just said I've seen I've seen three. Which is the one with the Russian. Four. Then I've seen four. Four. Yeah. Are there only 5? No, there's rocky Balboa, and then there's creed that company. Those are the new focal ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no. I'm talking about good movies. I'm not talking about you'll like rocky Balboa, it's a good one. Let me be clear let me be clear. I'm not saying they're not good movies, but excuse me. The real rocky movies are the ones with Sylvester Stallone is fighting, not where he's a hundred years old. So for me, 5 rockies, I don't think, what was the 5th one? What's this? Tommy gone in the street, my rings outside. Tommy gone in the streets, you know what Tommy Morrison? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I probably saw that one. Yeah. I definitely saw the first four. Probably so 5. Yeah. All right. That list was better than the soundtrack list. Yeah. What's another less you got another list coming up? No, I noticed all that I did this two years ago during the pandemic. It's like the Olympics with me. Every two years I watched the rocky movies in order and rank them. Here's what I find funny about this. There's no one I've said this before. There's no one I know. That hates Twitter or has more bigger or has bigger issues with Twitter than you. And then you're out there putting out lists, which is literally the number one thing to put on Twitter if you want people to come back and attack you. Yeah, I don't even read. To me, it's fun. At that point, that's where I do it to it's a good format to put that stuff out there, but it's also trolling. You know going in, nobody is going to like your list. Simple as that. No, the majority of people can have something to say. How could you put this one over that one? After you put this song on the list. That's my point. And you did it anyway, despite the fact that you say you hate Twitter. But I did it with a smile as opposed to a shock that I'm getting. That's good. Yeah, you seem very zen about it. I'm happy about it. Usually, you're all riled up. You seem about it. I'm glad. That's your friend. I'm in a good spot. Maybe next week we'll read some apple reviews. So enjoy Sunday AFC NFC title games. I'm gonna bet Philly minus two and a half and I'll probably bet over 47 and a half in the Bengals cheesecake. I'll bet Philly and probably the Bengals, not sure. All right, be well. Talk to you later. Bye. All right, my thanks to Jason McCourty and Sal la cotta if you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple. We'll read it during a train of thought segment and one of the near episodes and make sure you subscribe to the SI media podcast. Most important thing is to subscribe if you're not a subscriber, you enjoyed the show, hit the subscribe button and check out some past episodes. Chris long was on the pod last week, trajectory in two weeks ago, Jim Miller, three weeks ago, check those out in the archives and again, subscribe to the SI media podcast. All right, appreciate you guys listening, enjoy the NFC and AFC title games. We'll see you next week. Right here on the SI media podcast. Stay safe and
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Of New York. Tell me you mentioned the 5 30 meetings and someone may be in a, who's pissy at that time, the most often. One of your co hosts. Peter akal, it goes back and forth. I'm the most pleasant one. So Jamie can have her days to, but as going to be Peter or Kyle, and I'm the pleasant one, the peacemaker song. One of those two know that you can count and bank it of which one it is going to be. I will say it always comes from a good place. Those two worked her ass off to make sure that it's a very good show each and every day. That from both of them will say how hard they go to make sure we put a good product on air. What was it like for you the first time you're in the studio and Kyle did angry runs? Is not only doing it, is him trying to catch his breath as he's finishing. I get legitimately nervous. I'm like, he's coming to the table and he's like, Peter, you start. We got it. We got Derrick Henry. I'm just like, is he a pass out? Do we need to go, so it is so impressive. People don't realize as Kyle's doing angry ones. There's no prompter that he's reading from. He has a card with maybe 5 words written down. And he's able to reference things and go from this to that. That was the biggest thing I took away of coming and working with these three every single day of seeing how talented they each are at whatever it is they're crafted. Peter's relationship building, his reporter and journalist I, like, we'll have a discussion and I'll say something. And before I can finish, he's already thrown a question back at me to challenge whatever it is that I'm coming up with. And then Jamie's ability to just keep it all under control and for her that prompter is going a mile a minute of getting it all in and making sure everybody's on the same point. She said she's like the point guard where it's around the back pass is no and everything. So I think as a player you go in and you're just like, these people just sit in front of a camera and just mix stuff up and then you get in there and you get to see the nuances and how talented each member is really cool to see. Before I let you go, give me a Super Bowl prediction. Super Bowl prediction. I am going with the San Francisco forty-niners against the Kansas City Chiefs going to be a rematch of a few years ago and I am going to say Shanahan finally gets his Super Bowl. I just came up with that. You put me on the spot so I may change it tomorrow on the show and we'll see. You know, what I like about this year is I feel like these are the four best teams. I mean, the sort of always rises to the top. And it's crazy. I don't know if you pay attention to the betting odds at all and the betting world, but the odds right now for those four teams to win the Super Bowl. There's not a big difference between one through four. So it tells you how close everything is, which I think is great. For the next couple of weeks, four juggernauts. Yeah, for sure. Jason really appreciate it, enjoy the conversation. And will you do any, do you have any more radio games or you done for this season? The wild card was my last month's call. Join the games for my couch. All right, and we'll be watching you on good morning football every morning Monday through Friday on the NFL network. Jason McCourty, thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Take care. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. Stevenson university online is a leader in advanced technology education with masters and certificate programs in cybersecurity. Digital forensics and digital transformation and innovation. No GRE required, and new online sessions start every 8 weeks, taking your career to the next level, let's Stevenson university, be your partner for professional success. Visit online Stevenson dot EDU. 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My buddy saw the as we prepare for the last real weekend of the football season before the fake game for the fake fans. Sal, how's it going? I always say the same thing. It's a glorified exhibition games. It means the most, but it's a glorified exhibition. Essentially, football season's over. I mean, that's it. There's three games left. It's over. Yeah, to me it's over after Sunday, so. We have a lot. I have a lot of topics here. I'm gonna start with the dumbest topic first because it's so ridiculous. It's not even with disgusting. But for you, you'll get riled up and I might say something, but I'm just gonna say two words. I'm just gonna say two words and I'll let you go and then I'll go. Scott rolling? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? I love it, but I hate it. It's the same thing every year. But it's fun. It's fun to discuss everything. He shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. You and I know it, you know, you can talk about who's in. It's twofold, right? It's who's been getting in and who's not getting in. But it's at least fun, I guess, to vent at least once a year on it. I'm a hypocrite because I've always said, I always say the same thing every year. If you get worked up about the Hall of Fame, you're an idiot. At this point now, it's like it's a fake thing. It's ridiculous. It's a museum. Don't get worked. Don't get worked up over who is in and out. What does piss me off though is because we're in this ridiculous time where you're not allowed to say anything and Twitter and this and that. If you say that Scott, you don't think Scott Roland should be in the Hall of Fame. And forget not he shouldn't be anywhere and he shouldn't be allowed to see if Cooper's town. Then it's, oh, you're raining on his parade. You're shitting on his moment who are you to say, why? Listen, this is sports. We're allowed to analyze sports. We're allowed to say this was a good game. This was a bad game. This was a good play. This was a bad play. So if you have this building that has become completely meaningless and a complete joke, you're allowed to say whether you think the guy should be in. So, you know, I get a God forbid you say anything negative about everyone sensitive and all that. But I mean, what are we doing?
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Now he's built up his reputation. Well, you're not even playing in the game. He's somebody see them talking about Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen. And now you have randomly adjusting Herbert who gets pissed off and Keenan Allen and they want to jump in. I think that's what makes it so much fun. And I just strictly now as a fan of the game. You look forward to this Sunday watching to interaction between an Eli Apple and a guy on those side maybe whether it's juju whethers, NBS, while the kids in Kelsey space. You look forward to that and it's trash talking all of his antics. The last thing I want to talk about in terms of the playoffs and current teams, this goes, this is overall for the holy, does every player and every team feel disrespected no matter what. I feel like this is like, I've read so many things about Joe burrow's been disrespected because people don't put them. No one's disrespecting Joe borrow. I've read mahomes as disrespected because people talk about Allen and burrow and they don't talk about mahomes. You know, Aaron Rodgers even, you know, he's like, oh, you know, the packers drafted my backup, and they thought I was done. And then I went to no one, I feel like 95% of either they don't get talked about enough or they're disrespected, is the player using it for their own motivation. What's am I wrong on that? No, there's been a fun part of these last several months of now. Now I'm in your world and you realize that no matter what I say, like somebody's gonna find something. So I was just like, going in, you just said, Cincinnati was the underdog. Whether it was a coin, where there was a neutral site game, whatever it was, people lost line, and there's so much doubt on us. And it was just like now going into this week, Kansas City fans, Dirk pistols are just like, now everybody's saying a borough is the best quarterback in the AFC. Oh, don't you remember? In the summer, you guys all picked the Raiders and the Broncos and the charges. Well, look, we're still here. No matter what you say, you're doubting somebody's franchise and you're doubting this quarterback. But as a player, of course, you always found a reason to put a chip on your shoulder and attack whether it's the off season, whether it's darn season. I remember our Super Bowl run in 2018, we lost, we won our first game against Houston, then we lose the Jackson on a roll, and we lose to the lines on a roll. Then we would go on a little bit of a win string, and then we get to the end of the year, we lose to the dolphins and the Miami miracle with a chance to win a division. And we lose on the role to Pittsburgh with a chance to win the division. And throughout that week, the following weeks and especially once we entered the playoffs, we want our last two games against the jets and the bills, but there were all the articles of what everybody was saying about us when we had lost those two straight games earlier in the season. And at the end of the season, the dumbest news over this day and the third and we use that as our motivation and it was just like, well, no, we've lost those two straight games. We look trash. Everybody that was analyzed in the game. It was just calling what they saw on film. So it's not really attacking us or disrespecting us. You lay an egg out there and I have to talk about that game. I have to talk about the fact that you late in a. So I think we all do it when we're playing. Even individually, you'll still get mad at the little league coach that benched you and your first game as you're getting ready to play in the Super Bowl. I wish I wish I wish I remember the details. This happened in college too, because Georgia, which just won the national title. It's one of the national title last year, went undefeated this year. After the game, players were saying like, oh, people picked us to finish. No one did that. You're just making it up. And I guess, you know, I've heard athletes over the years of all told me, like they'll do anything they can to get any sort of motivation and any edge going into a game. It's almost in the NFC eagles niners. I'm just, you know, obviously the story here is Brock purdy. And it's a great story. You don't want to be the one to sort of throw cold water on it. But his two road wins would games have been at Seattle and at the Raiders at Las Vegas. Now, just as a fan, to me, going into Philly with those fans is going to be like nothing he's ever experienced. Is this going to be a challenge? He's not going to really, you know, I feel like he's not ready for that challenge because he hasn't had to go through anything like that. Or am I not giving him enough credit? I will lean on not giving him enough credit. And I will say because of this going into Vegas is different. You're going into a beautiful stadium. There's a club in the background. That's a whole vibe in itself against a struggling team. We're actually a writer's play well in that game, but going into Seattle like Seattle is one of the loudest stadiums I've ever played and put our head obviously right next to that. Now head into Philly is a different atmosphere because now you're entering the northeast where people are just upset. They're mad that they woke up and their local coffee shop the coffee wasn't as hot as it was the day before. And the northeast we just find reasons to be mad. We don't talk to people when we pass them on the street. So there's a different atmosphere in that where you're going to be riding up on the bus and there's going to be a lot of choice boards and gestures for them as he's getting there because that's just filling us just the northeast. But I think as far as atmospheres, obviously a conference championship is something that he's never played in, which is a different level in itself. But I think that rolled presence. I think what he probably saw in Seattle a Thursday night game prime time Seattle still had a ton to play for as we saw they were able to creep into the playoffs and late in the season playing him. I think as a vision opponent, it gives a lot of those playoff vibes of course you get towards the end of the season. But I keep saying this about Brock Brody, we keep waiting for the shooter to fall off and for him to make this crazy mistake that cost and it keeps looking and you're just like, I don't know what you guys are waiting for. That's just not me. You can say I didn't throw any touchdown pass this down to third. This guy's been in control of the office since he's been out there. He's made enough place each and every week and obviously they're Ross and being loaded is very helpful as well. I don't want to talk about football anymore because you're a Jersey guy and you just talk about how we're angry here on the east coast. Give me something you got angry about in the last like something in the last couple of days that made you angry on you said the coffee is not hot enough, give me give me something. Oh man I don't know if there's a specific man. You got to think about we do a show where our morning meeting happens at 5 30 in the morning. So I think upset is just those morning meetings like who's going to be in a pissy mood today because somebody didn't get enough sleep and we're going to talk Aaron Rodgers there. Somebody's going to be pissed that we're talking Aaron Rodgers all right, we'll change the subject. Then we'll talk Tom Brady. I did something that's going to be pissed that we're talking Tom Brady. So I think all of us kind of coming from different areas, but doing something at 5 30 in the morning. We did the worst of each and every person. It's just like it takes turns every morning, but my take on the northeast, I lived in Nashville for ten years and while I was down there, one of my mentors was a guy Chris holt that I played with. He's pumped Rock Hill, South Carolina. We trained together in the off season, and we'd all go to lunch or whatever the case may be and we're walking down the street and this dude is saying hi to everybody we crossed paths with. And I'm like, he looks at me and he's just like, what's wrong with you? Like, say hi, talk to people. So then I got in the habit of doing that. And next, you know, I'm having a conversation with somebody's grandmother and Walmart and heritage about her babies and all of that. And then I come back home and I'll be walking and I'm trying to make eye contact with somebody I was walking past me so I can give a head and out of something and like don't pull out the phone or to look the other way and it's just like as a reminder like you're no longer in the south. So I've had to get used to the warmth of the people of the northeast again. I wear these things. I'm pointing if you're listening and not on YouTube. My AirPods. I wear these in every store I go.
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Just being so good after a job over the years I went on the show went in person would come out via remote through Zoom and stuff and I got a chance to interact with them with all being on there and they just so good at what he does. Now he's doing a for CBS mornings is on NFL Sundays on Nickelodeon. He's all over the place so you're trying to fill those shoes and my one thing I did was I was like I'm not going to go back and study Nate. I want to make sure when I'm starting to show like I'm just being Hawaiian but that's good enough and great. I'll have a nice long run right here on a good morning football by going there and I suck and they're just like, what the heck we need Nate back then I won't be there long and my TV career would be very short. So I think that was kind of how I dealt with it just dive in, head first, give it your best shot and see where it puts you, but it's been really cool even throughout our weeks Nate usually comes on the show once or twice a week and he'll come on just for his one segment and I'll leave that segment on like dang now. Now I see why people miss Nate but this is delivery to things he said. It's quick with it. And so good at being able to come up with stuff and his answers and his knowledge on football and everything in between. I'm one of those guys that I hate change, especially with shows I like and I watch you guys every day and I have to say you and Jamie though I felt like it was pretty seamless and you guys really fit in well. It wasn't jarring at all. I think maybe what maybe ended up helping you a little bit is that they sort of went a year without replacing name. I don't know, I feel like maybe from like you mentioned those quote unquote fans who said, you know, bring back Nate I think a year of rotating hosts probably when you came in then it's not like you're immediately replacing him. So maybe that helped. But as far as from what I've seen in television shows sports TV, this transition or change has been as smooth as I think I've ever seen. Yeah, we felt that way too, and I think me and Jamie talked about it all the time. We were so fortunate to have each other starting to show at the same time opposed and maybe a year ago, all was starting to show as Nate went to CBS more and now I'm the one new person on the show with three of the veteran veteran holson not only better, but they started the show and now I'm starting to know the next thing you know I get comfortable and now we got to do it together and lean on each other and it wasn't just one new kid on a block. So I do think that was helpful. And I will say just from the beginning there's been chemistry. We talked about it. It was in the summer. I did a two day audition and in between those two days, Jamie had fluent from Minnesota and off air the four of us did a show just to see what it felt like and this was the first time we all were meeting each other and getting to know one another and it was really cool and it was kind of a vibe and chemistry early on and the one thing about the show you're going to get better right away because it's every single day. So the more reps you do together the more time you spend together, you start to see the chemistry and the bonds and all this kind of poking fun at each other. It kind of happens right away and I will say the two things that helped it a lot was we traveled to London together and then we traveled to Germany together and when you do that it's a ton of time not only doing our show but going out to eat and waking up together traveling to and from the site together all of that time spent. It helps to develop the relationships and the chemistry. Give me have you had a most memorable moment on the show in your first years or something. If I said, what's a day what's something that happened that sticks out in your mind? Because you guys do some really wacky stuff on that show. I mean, Wall Street is in and of itself, we can get into. But there's always something going on that's, you know, a little off the beaten path on that show, so I'm just curious. One of them would be the first trip to London. That was the first time that I got a chance to do the show with her. It's actually people lined up outside. We're doing a live show from remote and there's an audience there who are energizing us asking questions. We're going out there and interacting with them. That was such a different experience that that was very memorable because it was just like, wow, I'm here on in London. I was just here last year playing in a game. And now I'm here to host the TV show throughout the course of the week. And I would say, probably another one, I don't remember specifically what it was, but anybody that watches our show knows you can never anticipate or know what Kyle grant is going to say or do next. And I won't be time, especially in the summer when I first started to show he would say something and I would kind of look at the camera and the producers would be laughing at my hair because I'm just like, is there like a sensor is he allowed to say some of the things that he's saying? So I think those aspects start to show definitely stand out to me and it happens every single day where you don't know what Kyle or Peter or somebody is going to do and what they're going to come up with. Two weeks ago, Jamie was riding around in the studio in a scooter after she saw Pete Carroll do it down in Seattle. So that's the fun thing about our show that keeps it lively. You never know what the next person's going to do. And tell me, you played in the NFL for 13 seasons. When did you sort of get the sort of bug that you would be in media or wanted to get into TV? Was it something you had thought about for years? Was it something that came up when you retired? How did it go from right from the field onto a daily NFL show? Yeah, I can't say that I'll force all that comment of just from one to the other, literally within a week, but throughout my career, I always had something going on in Tennessee. I remember a guy Joel fan was working for the Tennessee Titans now. I believe it was in Seattle or San Francisco now writing for the beat reporter, but he was there and we would do a little show in between writing our players lounge. We would talk about the team in different things and then from that I had a radio show that Jay Mac show when I was with the Titans. So always kind of doing small things here and there. And then finally at 2018 when I ended up joining New England Patriots, my brother and myself started a podcast double coverage with the McCourty twins that we did for the three or four years there. So I think it was kind of a growing interest as I continue to go through the league and it was something that I started to develop skills and being uncomfortable being behind a microphone or in front of a camera of doing those types of things and then in April last year have gone out the NFL did a broadcast boot camp and went out there was 24 of us and you go out there for about three days and the last day is basically an audition for everybody. What we want from radials there, compass, Fox, CBS, ESPN, NFL network, everybody's there and ended up doing that studio stuff called the game, radio stuff, everything you can think of in the sports media industry. And next thing you knew from there, job opportunity started popping up. I think that's when it really hit me my no, you really have an opportunity to do some things. And that kind of helped push to retirement. No one was there and probably the right move, having something to walk into is a big part of all of us as players we
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"For listening. Got a great show this week. We have Jason McCourty from the NFL network's good morning football first time. He's on the SI media podcast and we talk about his first year good morning football and replacing Nate burleson and he gets into some stories when he played for the Patriots, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, a little NFL playoff talks, and overall career sort of interview and play a football interview with Jason. And then following mccordy, we have for our weekly train of thought segment, a bunch of topics this week that Sal and I got into Scott Roland making the Hall of Fame, Shannon Sharpe, a Tom Brady, and a lot of bedding talk for the AFC and NFC title games, also some movie soundtrack talks, some rocky talk. So a lot of topics covered with both Jason and Sal. So hopefully you enjoy it. If you do leave a review on Apple, and if you're not a subscriber to the SI media podcast, hit the subscribe button and make sure you check out past episodes if you missed any. Chris long was on the podcast last week. Tri Aikman two weeks ago, Jim Miller three weeks ago, and at the end of the year we had some young review episodes with Peter schrager, Andrew perloff and Brian Curtis. All right, let's get to this week's episode. Jason McCourty from good morning football, followed by Sal hakata and our weekly train of thought segment all right here. On the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now from good morning, football, former Super Bowl champion, played in the league for many seasons. Jason McCourty, Jason. How's it going? Going well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. I'm a big fan of good morning football and you've been a great addition to the show, so I thank you for coming on. I appreciate that. I appreciate mission as well, has been a lot of fun. It's kind of been a whirlwind of these last few months retiring and going right into the show. Give me a little give me a little recap and taste of what your first full season on good morning football has been like for you. I'll start, I'll say it's a growing up every morning, at least by 5 a.m. to get into the city where obviously we do a live taping of the show, 7 to ten, I guess what I've been surprised about is how much fun we have throughout those three hours that we're on the air, whether it's in the commercial breaks of laughing or just things that happen throughout the course of the show that we maybe didn't expect. I didn't know what to think going in. I think when you have three co hosts that are so much fun and we all get along well, you're able to really enjoy talking football, I thought I was retiring, but having another job. This is just as much of a grind during the season as it was playing. I've become tight with Kyle and schrager over the years. And when the show first started, when I first got to know them, I probably annoyed them to know and about the hours. I was always fascinated. I'd be like, Kyle, what do you wake up? And I know he says the car comes and what fascinates me about the gig, you guys have. Is that on Sundays and Mondays? And Thursdays, this games that go on until 11 o'clock midnight and you were on the air at 7 in the morning and, you know, it blows me away that you gotta try to watch the game and then be on the air a few hours after it's over. That's the toughest thing and you kind of enjoy now this would be championship week and or even last week and during the divisionals because you get to go to bed a little earlier that last game started at 6 30 on Sunday I was thankful for that because by the time I finished the game I saw with enough time to get enough sleep to wake up, but that is the hardest part. Those Thursday night games, especially someone was games throughout the year just like you're watching and the score is three to 6 and a fourth quarter and it's just a brutal watch at time. They're like, nope, I gotta stay up. I gotta talk about this game tomorrow. So it's definitely 100% ground, but I will say everybody behind the scenes on the show tries to make it as seamless as possible. We do our morning start production so when we're talking about it in the car ride into the city and then we do a quick 15 minute zone call after so they make it as easy as possible for us to be able to get on and get out and actually have a good product and we're putting it on the Internet every day. How long would you say it took you to sort of get used to the schedule and the grind from week one when you get those initial the Monday night games that Thursday night games did it take you a little while to get used to this schedule or do you sort of never get used to it? What's that been like? It definitely took a while. I think even before the game started starting to show in the summer, I took at least probably about a month to two months, just getting used to waking up that early and having to go to work. I come home and the kids want to play. I'm just I'm a zombie walking around the house in a bad mood. It's like those old Snickers commercials where you're hungry and you're just snapping at everybody. So I had to figure out I'm not an early sleeper so I had to figure that schedule out and it once the game started. I was thinking probably the most difficult thing for me came on Sundays where I'm used to playing or focusing on whatever one game I was preparing for. Now it's just like Sunday to come and you're trying your hardest to watch every single game at the same time knowing those kind of prime time matchup it may spend a little bit more time on those games versus other games or that was the toughest challenge. I've never done that as a fan of truly sit down and just enjoy watching football and getting into all the teams or Ross was in all of that. It took a while of just I would have on the TV screen I'd have games going on to kind of four box going on didn't have red zone on an iPad, another game on the laptop. So it's a whole production come Sunday. Yeah. I always watch games like that and then I got rid of direct TV and I couldn't I can't wait to do it again with whatever YouTube or whatever because I got really good at watching multiple games. You know this is what I found from one to one 30. It's crazy. But then by one 30 you can sort of weed out a game or two and then it becomes a little easier to focus on multiple games. Exactly and then the longer to show when I started to get I started to understand that of getting an idea. We're going to talk about this game more than that game. And then just understanding TV where you do a show and each hour is kind of its own individual. So and then you have the show open and we go by blocks so we have the a blog blog through E and then realizing that, hey, by the time we get to the end of the show the evil Bella segments only a few minutes, I was like, you don't need to empty the bag and do a ton of research on whatever we're talking about the topic in that last segment because you could probably have 45 seconds to talk. So figuring out all the old things we laughed about it when I started to show certain terms would be used while there were strengths or college or Jamie to all producers and all that and I'd be sitting I have no idea what you guys are talking about just from not having that TV experience so everybody has done a good job of bringing me up to speed and being patient with me. Yeah. And you came in and filled the seat that was occupied by Nate burleson for many years before Nate went over to CBS mornings. And Nate was very popular on the show. Did you feel any pressure in replacing Nate or was it just, you felt pressure just 'cause you're doing TV, you've never done it. Like you said, it's a grind, Monday through Friday. Was the Nate thing a factor as well in terms of maybe nerves or pressure when you first started? Oh, for sure. I think the TV part of it as pressure and then you're kind of used to pressure all your playing games for so many years with 50, 60,000 fans watching this pressure that comes along with that, trying to perform for your team. But starting to show the social media following is big and all me and Jamie were here is that these two start Nate, we wish Nate and Kate was there like that was the added pressure that comes along with it and both of them May and K
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Doing the movie rocky. Yeah, all of them. I've only seen I definitely seem three, maybe four. You don't know the rocky movies? I just said. I've seen, I've seen three. Which is the one with the Russian. Four. That I've seen for. Four. Yeah. Are there only 5? No, there's rocky Balboa, and then there's creed that comes in. Those are the new focal ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no. I'm talking about good movies. You'll like rocky Balboa, it's a good one. Let me be clear let me be clear. I'm not saying they're not good movies, but excuse me. The real rocky movies are the ones with Sylvester Stallone is fighting, not where he's a hundred years old. So for me, 5 rockies, I don't think, what was the 5th one? What's this? Tommy gone in the street, my rings outside. Tommy's gone in the streets. You know Tommy Morrison? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I probably saw that one. Yeah. I definitely saw the first four, probably so 5. Yeah, all right. That list was better than the soundtrack list. Yeah. What's another less you got another list coming up? No, I noticed all that I did this two years ago during the pandemic. It's like the Olympics with me. Every two years I watched the rocky movies in order and rank them. Here's what I find funny about this. There's no one I said this before. There's no one I know. That hates Twitter or has more bigger or has bigger issues with Twitter than you. And then you're out there putting out lists, which is literally the number one thing to put on Twitter if you want people to come back and attack you. Yeah, I don't even read. To me, it's fun. At that point, that's where I do it to it's a good format to put that stuff out there, but it's also trolling. You know going in, nobody is going to like your list. Simple as that. No, the majority of people can have something to say, how could you put this one over that one after you put this song on the list? That's my point. And you did it anyway, despite the fact that you say you hate Twitter. But I did it with a smile as opposed to a shock that I'm getting. That's good. Yeah, you seem very zen about it. I'm happy about it. Usually, you're all riled up. You seem about it. I'm glad. That's your friend. I'm in a good spot. Maybe next week we'll read some apple reviews. So enjoy Sunday AFC NFC title games. I'm gonna bet Philly minus two and a half and I'll probably bet over 47 and a half in the Bengals cheesecake. I'll bet Philly and probably the bangles. Not sure. All right. All right, be well. Talk to you later. Bye. All right, my thanks to Jason McCourty and Sal la cotta if you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple. We'll read it during a train of thought segment and one of the near episodes and make sure you subscribe to the SI media podcast. Most important thing is to subscribe if you're not a subscriber, you enjoyed the show, hit the subscribe button and check out some past episodes. Chris long was on the pod last week, trach in two weeks ago, Jim Miller, three weeks ago, check those out in the archives and again, subscribe to the SI media podcast. All right, I appreciate you guys listening, enjoy the NFC and AFC title games. We'll see you next week. Right here on the SI media podcast. Stay safe and take
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"I agree. It's too funny. You can control your electric bills from Novak without hibernating. Simple actions can put those savings in motion. Set your thermostat at 60 8° or lower. Layer clothing at blankets to stay cozy. Replace baths with short showers. As a not for profit cooperative, novec is here to help. Visit Novak dot com forward slash save. Novak, offering simple ways to save. At the intersection of sports, community and media. You will find the future and to play it forward foundation is paving the way to that future through building, educating and exposing youth to opportunities to play it forward foundation or pith elevates and equips elite young athletes through NIL branding to support their development and secure their future. Learn more at PIF foundation dot org. That's PIF foundation dot org. Playing forward foundation, creating opportunities. Stock up on everything you need to conquer cold and flu season at your local Safeway. They have everything you need for any coffin flu needs this season. Get cold and flu relief from products like vicks NyQuil or dayquil. Tylenol cold and flu, alka seltzer, mucinex, and Bigelow T's. When you're feeling under the weather, Safeway has everything you need to get feeling better fast. Find everything you need at your local Safeway and feel better fast. All right, let's talk about that NFL playoffs here for a little bit. I had said last week, I just want to, you know, I always like to give myself credit when I'm right and then not mention it when I'm wrong. I had said last week I liked the three underdogs and the niners and only the Giants screwed that up for me. So three and one was a nice weekend. It was a bloodbath for me on Sunday. I like both the bills and cowboys. It was ugly. The bills game is still to me a complete mystery. hit the over with the bills for the year, by the way? Yeah. You must have, right? Yeah. The bills gave on something was a mystery because if you're the Buffalo Bills, how are you just scoring ten points? People making it like the snow. And how about the fact that the bangles offensive line? See, that line to me made no sense. That's why it was all over the bills because it just did not add up. If it were four, if it were three, maybe I'd feel differently, but the fact that there was a public push to where that line went to 6 plus points and you heard about the offensive line, anything bought, that was one of the greatest offensive line performances I've ever seen, borrowed and get taught she was carving them up all day long. They couldn't stop them. And then you had the cowboys? Yeah, I like the cowboys. And then once dac throws that first horrible pick and it should have been worse, you just knew. And even ma her missing the frig extra point. I know it didn't end up costing them, but it just said a bad tone. Yeah, we're at Paul getting hurt. They couldn't stop him in the end. They just ran the ball down their throat. They scored the difference making touchdown. And then that was that. But the bills won't bothered me because I thought that the real bills would show up. Not that I was like everybody else picking them the one the Super Bowl, but I was you know what I came away from that game saying the bangles were by far the better team. Like by far, not even close. Yeah. The Bengals and chiefs think to me is so weird because I feel like it keeps shifting. People don't talk enough about the chiefs and borough wasn't getting enough credit. He keeps going back and forth. I do think it's interesting. The line opened with the chiefs minus one or minus one and a half. It went to Bengals minus one. Then it went to Bengals minus two. And then today on Wednesday, all the reports were that mahomes practice he seems fine. Now the line's down to Bengals minus one. This is a big theme with you with the respect. I do think it's a little disrespectful that the chiefs are underdogs at home winning 13 games and being in the title games in super bowls every year. I feel like everybody, myself included after watching the bangles just dominate buffalo, said at that moment, this team is winning the Super Bowl. Now, that may be the case, but everybody's feeling that way. That means I would probably lean the other way and you're right. It's fuel point now. How the hell is Kansas City? You could say it's a pickup. You want to give me Kansas City minus one. You can not have the bangles as a favorite on the road in the championship game against Kansas City. Well, that's the thing. I think it's the mahomes ankle is really what it's all about. To me, I look at it like I'd be curious for you to take on this. Like to me, that game is going to start Sunday and the average Joe schmo sports fan like me and you sitting at home watching that game on TV. We're not going to really know what his ankles like. We don't know what you mean. The pain can he plant his foot. Throw straying. But did he get worse? I mean, because we did see him perform, it was a little limited, but he was still basically Patrick Mahomes. I didn't think he was in that second. If you watch, if you watch, he throws a touchdown pass and it falls to the ground because he's in pain. And he had a very long time planning. Well, he was definitely in pain. I remember he couldn't drop back three steps or whatever to hand it off. And the palming of it was messed up. He was hopping around. He was definitely hampered, but he was still effective. Let's put it that way. Oh yeah, yeah. He can be effective. Home 50% is almost a 100% better than everybody else. Right, my point is he can be effective. I don't think he's gonna be I'm gonna be a 100%. I mean, this may shock you, I'm not a doctor, but I can't see how you hurt your ankle that badly, and then a week later, you're a 100%. I mean, that's my point. When that game starts, is he 90%? Is he 70%? That 50%. We're not going to know that. I mean, we'll know it once the game starts, but going into it. In my mind, as of now, I have been let that factor in how I view that game, because if I'm thinking that he's at all limited, then I think that's why people are going to be on the bangles, thinking that mahomes, mahomes effect. So we're taping this on Wednesday night. As of now, Bengals minus one total 47 and a half. What do you like? God. You could say nothing. You don't have to be an animal. If you don't like the line, you say you don't like a line. I don't do the over unders. Honestly, these games this week, a, I haven't given it too much thought yet on Wednesday. B, I'm still shell shocked from the bath. I took on Sunday. I'm going to do something because I want to have action on these games. I just don't know what yet. And I think I want to root for Cincinnati the win at all. My gut would be saying Cincinnati, if not for now, the overwhelming flip in the public. So push comes to shove I'll probably end up with Cincinnati, but maybe I'll take them as a future to win the Super Bowl as opposed to just in this game. Yeah, I hate the game from the standpoint of I love both mahomes and borrow. I don't want to, you know, I want to see both of them. So I'm touring from that standpoint. Do you have a magic that you want to see? Super Bowl matchup? Do you like weed versus the eagles? I think that's cool. I'm not sure if you get the little history. The Bengals deserve a title. I'd like to see my homes win
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Peter akal, it goes back and forth. I'm the most pleasant one. So Jamie can have her days to, but as Peter a Kyle, and I'm the pleasant one, the peacemaker solved. One of those two know that you can count and bank it of which one is going to be. I will say it always comes from a good place. Those two work their ass off to make sure that it's a very good show each and every day. Abbott Meyer that both of them will say how hard they go to make sure we put a good product on air. What was it like for you the first time you're in the studio and Kyle did angry runs? It's not only doing it as him trying to catch his breath as he's finishing. I get legitimately nervous. I'm like, he's coming to the table and he's like, Peter, you got it. We got Derrick Henry. I'm just like, is he a pass out? Do we need to go? So it is so impressive. People don't realize as Kyle's doing angry ones. There's no prompter that he's reading from. He has a card with maybe 5 words written down. And he's able to reference things and go from this to that. That was the biggest thing I took away of coming and working with these three every single day of seeing how talented they each are at whatever it is they're crafted as Peters or relationship building, has reporter and journalist I like we'll have a discussion and I'll say something. And before I can finish, he's already thrown a question back at me to challenge whatever it is that I'm coming up with. And then Jamie's ability to just keep it all under control for hard appropriate is going a mile a minute of getting it all in and make sure everybody's on the same point. Like she said, she's like the point guard where it's around the back pass is no votes and everything. So I think as a player you go in and you're just like, these people just sit in front of a camera and just make stuff up and then you get in there and you get to see the nuances and how talented each member is really cool to see. Before I let you go, give me a Super Bowl prediction. Super Bowl projection. I am going with the San Francisco forty-niners against the Kansas City Chiefs going to be a rematch of a few years ago and I am going to say Shanahan finally gets his Super Bowl. I just came up with that and you put me on the spot so I may change it tomorrow on the show and we'll see. You know what I like about this year is I feel like these are the four best teams. Sort of always rises to the top. And it's crazy. I don't know if you pay attention to the betting odds at all and the betting world, but the odds right now for those four teams to win the Super Bowl. There's not a big difference between one through four. So it tells you how close everything is, which I think is great. For the next couple of weeks. Yeah, for sure. Jason really appreciate it. Enjoy the conversation. And now will you do any do you have any more radio games or you're done for this season? The wild card was my last month. He had joined the games from my couch. All right, and we'll be watching you on good morning football every morning Monday through Friday on the NFL network. Jason McCourty, thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Take care. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. You can control your electric bills from Novak without hibernating. Simple actions can put those savings in motion. Set your thermostat at 68° or lower. Layer clothing at blankets to stay cozy. Replace baths with short showers. As a not for profit cooperative, novec is here to help. Visit Novak dot com forward slash save Novak, offering simple ways to save. At the intersection of sports, community and media. You'll find the future and to play it forward foundation is paving the way to that future through building, educating and exposing youth to opportunities to play it forward foundation or pith elevates and equips elite young athletes through NIL branding to support their development and secure their future. Learn more at PIF foundation dot org. That's VIF foundation dot org. Play it forward foundation, creating opportunities. Stock up on everything you need to conquer cold and flu season at your local Safeway. They have everything you need for any coffin flu needs this season. Get cold and flu relief from products like vicks NyQuil or dayquil. Tylenol cold and flu, alka seltzer, mucinex, and Bigelow teas. When you're feeling under the weather, Safeway has everything you need to get feeling better fast. Find everything you need at your local Safeway and feel better fast. All right, joining me now as he does every week for our train of thought segment from WFAN radio and S and Y TV in New York. My buddy saw the as we prepare for the last real weekend of the football season before the fake game for the fake fans. Sal, how's it going? I always say the same thing. It's a glorified exhibition game. It means the most, but it's a glorified exhibition. Essentially football season's over. I mean, that's it. There's three games left. It's over. Yeah, to me it's over after Sunday, so. We have a lot. I have a lot of topics here. I'm gonna start with the dumbest topic first because it's so ridiculous, it's not even with disgusting but for you, you'll get rolled up and I might say something, but I'm just gonna say two words. I'm just gonna say two words and I'll let you go and then I'll go. Scott rolling? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? I love it, but I hate it. It's the same thing every year. But it's fun. It's fun to discuss everything. He shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. You want to know it, you know, you can talk about who's in. It's twofold, right? It's who's been getting in and who's not getting in. But it's at least fun, I guess, to vent at least once a year on it. I'm a hypocrite because I've always said, I always say the same thing every year. If you get worked up about the Hall of Fame, you're an idiot. At this point now, it's like it's a fake thing. It's ridiculous. It's a museum. Don't get worked. Don't get worked up over who is in and out. What does piss me off though is because we're in this ridiculous time where you're not allowed to say anything and Twitter and this and that. Like if you say that Scott, you don't think Scott Roland should be in the Hall of Fame. And forget not he shouldn't be anywhere and he shouldn't be allowed to see if Cooper's town. Brennan, oh, you're raining on his parade. You're shitting on his moment who are you to say, why? Listen, this is sports. We're allowed to analyze sports. We're allowed to say this was a good game. This was a bad game. This was a good play. This was a bad play. So if you have this building that has become completely meaningless and a complete joke, you're allowed to say whether you think the guy should be in. So, you know, I get a God forbid you say anything negative about it. Everyone sensitive and all that. But I mean, what are we doing? Yeah, he was a good player for a long period of time. He's not Hall of Fame. But it's not him. He's not the problem. It's the people who are voting that are the problem. It's the whole process that is a problem. The idea that's got roll on his first ballot can be a 10% guy and then all of a sudden get in years later, it just does not make any sense. There's no logic to it. I don't want to hear about the different stats that they use, the different writers, the different people on the ballot, the whole thing is flawed. And the reason why we care is because that was the one sport that we gave a crap about their Hall of Fame. For years, going up. That's why it matters. I don't care about the football Hall of Fame or the best. It can say anything about it. Baseball used to mean something and it said that year after year it continues to be a problem.
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"That, I mean, Brett Favre left rebate, even went to the New York Jets, like now is Aaron Rodgers going to leave Green Bay and go to the New York Jets. I think from a media standpoint, I don't know. Maybe Rogers would enjoy that. We've seen him. I mean, he does a weekly show with pat Macbeth he doesn't have to do a weekly show. Maybe he would love to have the eyes and the ears of some New York sports media's best of the best every single day listening to every single word he's given whether it's about the game plan is upcoming week or philosophy on life as he's sitting there just talking to everybody and maybe he'd go home and go on Twitter or go on different websites and just read at all the stuff that everybody's talking about just because he might have said 5 words about a certain topic. I don't know, it would be to your point for the sake of doing it so every day, as if we don't talk enough Rogers, I would thoroughly enjoy him being in our back in my being right there with the New York Jets. But yeah, I mean, I would love it because the first time something bad happens and he blames the media. The media is going to eat him up and this is in Green Bay where the Washington gazette and that's it. Attention bet MGM customers have a friend who loves sports as much as you do, here's the chance for both of you to earn a $50 bonus when you sign up through bet MGM's refer a friend program. Just sign into your bed MGM account and click on the refer a friend program to send your friend a message inviting them to register a new account in the same state you use bet MGM in. Once your friend signs up and makes a deposit, they'll receive a $50 bonus and once your friend places a bet with their bonus and the wager is settled, you'll receive a $50 bonus as well. 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You will find the future and to play it forward foundation is paving the way to that future through building, educating and exposing youth to opportunities to play it forward foundation or pith elevates and equips elite young athletes through NIL branding to support their development and secure their future. Learn more at PIF foundation dot org. That's PIF foundation dot org. Play it forward foundation, creating opportunities. Let me ask you a couple of questions sort of playoff related here. I want to get your perspective as someone who was in the league for 13 years and just got off the field. Give me and my listeners a little, some thoughts on what you think mahomes will go through, will he be a 100% with the high ankle sprain as a quarterback, how much it will affect him. I mean, to me, that's the number one story as we head into Sunday is mahomes ankle and how much he's affected by that. Tell me as a player what we should expect and what do you think about that? Yeah, I can't imagine him being 100% a high ankle sprain. You typically see as a mop entry. At least four weeks dies are out with that injury and we saw how hard it was for him. Mahomes is a tough dude. He gets hurt and right away. He's like, I'm good. I'm good. And then we're watching him jump on one leg to hand the ball. So I do think it's going to have a huge impact. I mean, even when he came back in the second half against Jacksonville, he didn't make a throw outside the pocket in a second half. I do think though the thing with my whole team is just that good. That he can sit in the pocket and still be able to beat you. I'm fascinated by this game. I went back and watched a film of the Bengals game against the Buffalo Bills. I went back to the Bengals game versus Patton Holmes early this year because with the bangles and Lou Adam Romo defensive coordinate what they've been able to do and stop some of these high powered almonds and some of the best quarterbacks in the league as fascinating to me. And then you couple it with what you just said, mahomes is injury is how do they attack that, watching that first game, they blitzed some, but a lot of it was playing coverage and when they did blitz mahomes was getting the ball out quick or fading back and being able to throw the deep shot. Now with the ankle, do they get a feel for them early on in the game? And they say, you know what? He's not mobile. Less than a house Adam and get up and see if he can hold the ball long enough or fade back on that ankle and be able to make something that throws that he can make. So this one is going to be a lot of fun to me there's no way he's 100% on a vision and being able to have a full week of practice this week, which I don't think he needs. If he can get out there a little bit on Friday, I think that would even be enough that if I'm a Kansas City chief band, I'm totally comfortable. He's Patrick Mahomes. He's proven year after year since he's been in there. What he can do. Yeah. And sticking with chiefs Bengals. If you were if you were on the Bengals right now, would you tell Eli Apple to cut back on the trash talking or you got to let him be who he is? I love Eli Apple. You associated Peter and Shrek, he said that this morning. I mean, you have pat Beverly and the NBA who's kind of that agonist that gets under the skin of people. That's going to do all the trash talking. And they don't have to be the best player on the court on the field and be liable is not claiming to be the best corner in the NFL. But the one thing we can say about Eli Apple is he's been able to somewhat back up his trash talk that he's given. He was in the Super Bowl last year. They wanted against mahomes and Tyree ill. Torched by Cooper Cup, but by the way. But the guys he was talking about trash to get enough do you watch them this past week? And against buffalo, Eli had a good game in that game as a secondary and as a unit, they played really well against Josh Allen Buffalo Bills. And I think Eli he had something to it. Those guys on the team, you can talk to them. I know they're DB culture. I was wondering in Miami. It was just like, yeah, Eli is a crazy dude. We love having them. And I think that's the perception. It's even last year as he was talking trash, whether it was Jesse phase, whether it was von bell, is just like, no, Eli talks that he knows we have his back. So those guys may not be saying it, but they kind of expect that from Eli puffing a cigar and a locker room after winning the division around knowing that there hadn't been he was calling the burrows head stadium after the game. The problem he has is that, I mean, from what I've seen on Twitter the last two days, you don't see players going after other current players going after current players that much. And car and players are going after him. And what they're going after him about is like, you know, you're doing all the trash talking, you're not that good. Travis, Kelsey, or mahomes he's trash talking. It's one thing. Eli Apple, people are like, you mentioned the pat Beverly. I mean, that was such a great tweet by sus Garner. But that's what makes it that's what makes it so much fun that it's coming. That's true. That's true. And it's like everybody. Eli. So it was like, now he's built up his reputation. Well, you're not even playing in the game. He's somebody see them talking about Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen. And now you have randomly adjusted Herbert who gets pissed off and Keenan Allen and they want to jump in. I think that's what makes it so much fun. And I was just strictly now as a fan of the game. You look forward to this Sunday watching the interaction between an Eli Apple and a guy on this side maybe whether it's Julie, whether it's NBS, while they get to Kelsey's space. You look forward to that and it's trash
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Got a great show this week. We have Jason McCourty from the NFL network's good morning football first time he's on the SI media podcast and we talk about his first year good morning football and replacing Nate burleson and he gets into some stories when he played for the Patriots, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, a little NFL playoff talks, and overall career sort of interview and play a football interview with Jason. And then following mccordy, we have for our weekly train of thought segment, a bunch of topics this week that Sal and I got into Scott Roland making the Hall of Fame, Shannon Sharpe, a Tom Brady, and a lot of bedding talk for the AFC and NFC title games, also some movie soundtrack talks, some rocky talk. So a lot of topics covered with both Jason and Sal. So hopefully you enjoy it. If you do leave a review on Apple, and if you're not a subscriber to the SI media podcast, hit the subscribe button and make sure you check out past episodes if you missed any. Chris long was on the podcast last week. Tri Aikman two weeks ago, Jim Miller three weeks ago, and at the end of the year, we had some here in review episodes with Peter schrager, Andrew perloff and Brian Curtis. All right, let's get to this week's show, Jason McCourty from good morning football followed by train of thoughts and our weekly, I'm just gonna pick that up right here. Because I said the wrong thing. All right, let's get to this week's episode. Jason McCourty from good morning football followed by Sal hakata and our weekly train of thought segment all right here. On the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now from good morning, football, former Super Bowl champion, played in the league for many seasons. Jason McCourty, Jason. How's it going? Going well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. I'm a big fan of good morning football and you've been a great addition to the show, so I thank you for coming on. I appreciate that. I appreciate mission as well, has been a lot of fun. It's kind of been a whirlwind of these last few months retiring and going right into the show. Give me a little give me a little recap and taste of what your first full season on good morning football has been like for you. I'll start, I'll say it's a growing up every morning at least by 5 a.m. to get into the city where obviously we do a live taping of the show 7 to ten, I guess what I've been surprised about is how much fun we have throughout those three hours that we're on the air, whether it's in the commercial breaks of laughing or just things that happen throughout the course of the show that we maybe didn't expect. I didn't know what to think going in. I think when you have three co hosts that are so much fun and we all get along well, you're able to really enjoy talking football. I thought I was retiring, but having another job. This is just as much of a grind during the season as it was playing. I've become tight with Kyle and Trey grow over the years. And when the show first started, and I first got to know them. I probably annoyed them to know I'm about the hours. I was always fascinated. I'd be like, Kyle, what do you wake up? And I know he says the car comes and, you know, what fascinates me about the gig you guys have? Is that on Sundays and Mondays? And Thursdays, this games that go on until 11 o'clock midnight and you are on the air at 7 in the morning and you know it blows me away that you gotta try to watch the game and then be on the air a few hours after it's over. That's the toughest thing and you kind of enjoy now this would be championship week and or even last week and during the divisionals because you get to go to bed a little earlier that last game started at 6 30 on Sunday I was thankful for that because by the time I finished the game I sat with enough time to get enough sleep to wake up but that is the hardest part. Those Thursday night games, especially someone who's games throughout the year just like you're watching and the score is three to 6 and a fourth quarter and it's just a brutal watch at time. Nope, I gotta stay up. I gotta talk about this game tomorrow. So it's definitely 100% grind, but I will say everybody behind the scenes on the show tries to make it as seamless as possible. We do our morning start production so when we're talking about it in the car ride into the city and then we do a quick 15 minutes zone call after so they make it as easy as possible for us to be able to get on and get out and actually have a good product and we're putting on it every day. How long would you say it took you to sort of get used to the schedule and the grind from week one when you get those initial the Monday night games that Thursday night games did it take you a little while to get used to this schedule or do you sort of never get used to it? What's that been like? It definitely took a while. I think even before the game started starting to show in the summer, it took at least probably about a month to two months. Just getting used to waking up that early and having to go to work. I come home and the kids want to play. I'm just I'm a zombie walking around the house in a bad mood. It's like those old Snickers commercials where you're hungry and you're just snapping at everybody. So I had to figure out I'm not an early sleeper. So I had to figure that schedule out. And then once the game started, I was thinking probably the most difficult thing for me came on Sundays where I'm used to playing or focusing on whatever one game I was preparing for. Now it's just like Sunday comes and you're trying your hardest to watch every single game at the same time knowing those kind of prime time matchup it may spend a little bit more time on those game versus other games or that was the toughest challenge. I've never done that as a fan of truly sit down and just enjoy watching football and getting into all the teams of Ross was in all of that. It took a while of just I would have on the TV screen, I'd have games going on, the kind of four box going on didn't have red zone on an iPad, another game on the laptop. So it's a whole production come Sunday. Yeah. I always watch games like that and then I got rid of direct TV and I couldn't I can't wait to do it again with whatever YouTube or whatever because I got really good at watching multiple games. You know, this is what I found from one to one 30. It's crazy. But then by one 30, you could sort of weed out a game or two and then it becomes a little easier to focus on multiple games. Exactly. And then the longer to show when I started to get I started to understand that of getting an idea. We're going to talk about this game more than that game. And then just understanding TV where you do a show and each hour is kind of its own individual. So and then you have the show open and we go by blocks so you have the a blog B block through E and then realizing that, hey, by the time we get to the end of the show the Bella segments only a few minutes, you don't need to empty the bag and do a ton of research on whatever we're talking about the topic in that last segment because you could probably have 45 seconds to talk. So figuring out all the old things we laughed about it when I started to show certain terms would be used while there were strengths or college or Jamie to all producers and all that and I'd be sitting I have no idea what you guys are talking about just from not having that TV experience so everybody has done a good job of bringing me up to speed and being patient with yeah. And you came in and filled the seat that was occupied by Nate barlos and for many years before Nate went over to CBS mornings and Nate was very popular on the show. Did you feel any pressure in replacing Nate or was it just you felt pressure just because you're doing TV? You've never done it. Like you said it's a grind Monday through Friday. Was the Nate thing a factor as well in terms of maybe nerves or pressure
The MMQB NFL Podcast
"jason mccourty" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"They're going to make them very exciting. Rohan super jacked about a left tackle that has played zero full seasons in the NFL. But no, I am with you. I want to believe I like Mike mcdaniel. I met Mike mcdaniel at the combine and he shook my hand and he said, Conor orr, what is your favorite boat propulsion device? And then because my last name is fantastic. Yeah, I love it. So from that moment, I was like, sold. This guy is very cool. I hope he was by far the number one interaction that I've ever had from meeting a new head coach, which is great. My concern, I think, so I think that Mike mcdaniel was sort of the, what's the completion of the metaphor I'm looking for here? Who is the best kind of pop culture man behind the man? You know, like the guy behind the curtain pulling all this through. Kris Jenner? What's that? Yes. Okay, yes. So he is the Kris Jenner of the Kyle Shanahan offense. I think that he is the mastermind of how all of this fits together. My hope is that he can make that work in Miami long enough to kind of solidify himself there before the outside zone gets stoppable. You know what I'm saying? Does that make sense? Because now 40%, I think, was the estimate I heard the other day of the NFL is running some version of this offense. And I know that's offensive. That would be like the number one psychology professor at Yale and the psychology professor Pomona community college being like, yeah, we both teach psychology. It's like, no, I don't, you know, what Arthur Smith is doing. I mean, Atlanta. I laughed at that joke, but I just like to say I'm not condoning an shout out to Pomona. I'm sure it's a great Pomona is great. I'm not condoning the shade goner has been throwing. Yeah, what's a college I could actually share? Just make fun of northwestern. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, be like northwestern being like, we have a journalism school. Okay guys, yeah. Hilarious. But yeah, that would be like Arthur Smith saying I run outside zone and Mike mcdaniel saying I run outside zone. Two very different things. One guy kind of copied the system and cribbed it. One guy sort of invented the modern version of the system, right? So I have faith, my hope is that it comes to fruition. I think we need more head coaches like Mike mcdaniel, who are personality forward who are not afraid to say things, yes. Yeah. It's all good. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's great. Just the organization needed a vibe shift. And I'm not saying that that's, but again, tua is going to have to prove it this year. Everyone's in agreement on that. They've obviously even stockpiling lots of draft picks. I think frankly, in the event that they need to move on from two, I don't think that's a secret, but the fact that they've given him a coach that actually wants to play him a competent offensive line, competent weapons, those are things that he did not have. And I just want to double down on something I saw, shout out to Jason McCourty, who I think said this on NFL network the other day, but, you know, I've seen people say, you know, this quarterback doesn't need that or, you know, how many years did Russell Wilson complain about his offensive coordinator in Seattle or he had someone like Doug Baldwin not to mention the defense he had early in his career. How much more did Josh Allen improve once the bills got Stefon Diggs? I think Anthony Lynn gets criticized for maybe some of the in game management. He had in San Diego, but was an up and coming offensive mind when Justin Herbert was drafted. There are ecosystems that young quarterbacks need. And I think it's long overdue for two and a half this kind of support system around him in Miami. You wanted to see me miss swinton? Have you been hearing about the new government modernization efforts? AI, RPA's data science, things are changing at this agency, and people will need new skills. 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Top Gun: Maverick is one of the greatest movies ever made, see it on the biggest screen possible. You got yourself a deal. Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick. What's your Russell Wilson take? I think this looks like it's going to be a disaster. It's like wow. It's just like an uncanny valley situation. It doesn't look right when he's in the uniform. Why is he so thick now? Like, when did he get so thick? A little bit on the heavy side. A little bit on the heavy side. I'm getting just veered very weird off putting just feelings coming off from that entire situation. I don't know what he was thinking. I mean, not that Pete Carroll is like Don Shula or something, but I don't know why it didn't work out there and I'm not getting a good feeling about this Bronco situation. Interesting. Wow. What's the conventional do people? I understand that he's I think he's a fantastic quarterback in the level of consistency he's obviously had for a long time is remarkable. At the same time, he has struggled now for stretches of the last couple seasons of the United States at the injuries, but I'm curious what the conventional wisdom is about him these days. I would say, I'm excited the Broncos new head coach Nathaniel Hackett was, I guess I can say Sports Illustrated's number one head coach in candidate last year and we profiled him before the season. I have a lot of that's another one that's curious to me. He was the guy who he was in Jacksonville for a little bit, right? And brought Blake bortles to the brink of a Super Bowl, which is like, did he really do that? I have some doubts about a guy who I don't think that Jaguar's offense was ultimately very good. And now he's like, it's like when the dolphins hired Joe philbin and it's like, let's go get the guy who co chair and Rogers. And then maybe you find out that Aaron Rodgers, maybe you find out that Aaron Rodgers had a little bit more to do with it. I'm not saying that Hackett can't be successful and it helps to have Russell Wilson in place already. I'm just I'm not sold on a guy with his resume. Man, we got the dean of Pomona college put us on a list now Nathaniel Hackett's gonna put us on a list. And this is like those Jaguars, that Jaguar seem ultimately proved to be very bad, like it was clearly a fluke playoff run. So how do we really judge his quote.
The Phinsider
"jason mccourty" Discussed on The Phinsider
"Grade zero targets in sixteen coverage snaps so he clamped down and then he has the highest grade. Dolphins defensive players minimum twenty snaps in manual has an eighty six point one at the top of that list not to get too far into a jakpa. Jason mccourty played seventy four out of seventy five snaps back there so you know we all thought that maybe it was going to be von job right away but mccourty that veteran presence in that lineup knows speaks volumes. Brian floors once back there. And you know. Maybe he's doing some of that communicating pre snap. The giovane haunt isn't quite caught up with so I think it was interesting. The way these safeties were used and also interesting the way You know new england went out there and it seemed to attack them. I mean they know issue going after air fro the no issue going after some of those other guys. So i'm something that we have to keep an eye on moving forward because the buffalo bills are going to be a lot tougher of a task in that new england patriots offense yet Spend a little frustrating. It seems like most the news on again hollow it felt like to meet performance. You didn't really score a lot of points. those drives on turnovers. And i'm gonna keep being that home us. That victor monday barak bulls oregon with three super bowl rings. In the guy's name played three full fricking games. I mean i don't understand it. Goes back to the you know the media saying each shown more in the media where the meetings over tweeting that stuff and yelling about it. You should be re tweeted stuff about how the dolphins played incredibly well at bryant floors executed game. plan perfectly. Bad stuff you should be re tweeting. Obviously and josh work early. This was the radar date. You know this was the game. That like i said i listened to six podcast saying they barely talked about the dolphins. But the people do those podcast. They notice the dolphins winning the dolphins went against off. though everyone's gonna jump right on this bandwagon. I don't necessarily know if. I want that but i mean talk about setting the tone early in the season men looking ahead. It's going to be exciting. Normally one of the first people that loves to you know sign or a different account or even just my own and just bash some of these median. Say something ignorant. But you're right. I think i'd much rather be scooting onto the radar then having these guys. You know all fans the miami dolphins because you know it's us against the world and so far it's worked out pretty well like jake said guys we it's usually against us to. You're right civil war. I mean even right now twitter. It's victory monday. Just beat the new england patriots. And somehow you know. Twitter is up in arms and finding this that nealer thing to nitpick about and i mean it's week one. I mean you shouldn't put too much stock into it. Like jake said guys instead of re tweet in the media every all those pundits add negative things to say about the dolphins. Follow us you know. Subscribe to the podcast libra review. If you're something you don't like feel free to reach out to us again on twitter at haus h. o. U. t. z. At his jake mendel his add his at j. m. e. and eel ninety four light. Jake mentioned we will be back on wednesday. Hopefully the all twenty two will drop by. Then so jacob i can do a deeper dive into this victory over the new england patriots. But thank you guys. So much for listening to this episode of the jake and josh show part of espy nations. Finsider radio. i'm josh. How's that jake mental. We'll talk to you next on. Radio insider.
The MMQB NFL Podcast
"jason mccourty" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"If any of us had any money shelby would be a rich man quietly. The most powerful person illustrated true true. Oh patriots dolphins was. I'll i'll i'll say two things about this game to set off he was. It's super with the teams play. Because it's just they're the same team. They just wear different uniforms. Same schematically the same approach that stuff this one particularly with with kyle noise being back on the patriots and now like guys like jason mccourty being on on the dolphins you know like i have a lot of games going at once on sunday afternoon. And you're kind of like. I'm listening versa. And when i hear like oh jason mccourty with the past break up. And i'm like oh. This is so disorienting. Wait what team was that good for. I don't know anymore but that's kind of what this was. And we got a game. That was just a back and forth sort of conservative I don't low scoring. i don't wanna quit. Call the slogs. I think it was a little bit crisper the nap but this was a very patriots. Dolphins game and for a be decided essentially on a patriots. Mistake is not the kind of thing that goes overwhelmed foxborough. Obviously because they're known as a team that generally likes to avoid or tries to minimize those mistakes probably better than anyone else in the league but if you are a patriots fan or a person who works in the patriots organization. You do have to feel good about the way mack jones played. I mean gary you just mentioned with. Trevor lawrence the bizarre rep mismanagement by the jaguars throughout the preseason and it was the opposite right even though mack jones was competing with cam newton. Mack jones was steadily getting more and more wraps even though they weren't sure he was going to be the day one starter and they made sure he had enough reps to be ready for the game and i think you have to be excited about the way. He threw the ball. I mean first of all. He threw an excellent wheel route to james white. Which is pretty much. The i throw. You need to master if you're going to be the patriots. Starting quarterback didn't excellent job with that but just really was in commands. Didn't seem flustered of the five rookie. Quarterbacks i mean a lot of them didn't play much so well two of them didn't play much. We saw brief appearance of trae lance. We were recording this part before the night game is over but we saw just fields for a brief play in the first half and who knows what will happen the rest of the game but regardless he was the best rookie quarterback appearance from this year's class. And of course. It's just one. But i think there was my take away from that game. Was that mack. Jones looks like the real deal for anybody. That's trying to still make sweeping conclusions about the the patriots. I mean you know the the mistakes were things like running back. Fumbles where you know. The patriots had the same running backs coach for twenty five years. It's not like anything has changed..
The Phinsider
"jason mccourty" Discussed on The Phinsider
"Safety out of oregon. You know high draft. Pick a gun. The dolphins brought in here got rid of bobby mccain. How is he going to handle. You knew that game situation because what we've heard all these long you know throughout training camp. I mean we heard what three interceptions and four practices think he picked off any for pick six also. I won't justin feels reportedly. So i mean how devan holland gonna go out there. How's he going to get those. The rest of that secondary in place. And you know do some of those things that have veteran linked bobby mccain did and then you also have here brandon jones. I mean again. A young safety started four games last year against the patriots chargers denver and the patriots again played thirty eight percent of teams snaps. And you also have your jason mccourty is currently has started and i think you know a lot of that is because he is a veteran presence. He has got it understands. His defense can get those you know the corners and the rest of that defense align a little bit better than obviously a rookie but again if giovane holland do half the things that we continue to hear that. He's doing a camp. I mean that just seems like a homerun cy a homerun draft pick and you know when so many people wanted to running back. It was like so against the grain for the dolphins to go that route again. We're already hearing. That's paying dividends. All bite in practice yet just. I wanted to bear. Branded joins me by him. In different players the vet that jones started or played thirty eight percents snaps last season. Just kinda gave me the idea of. What can we expect from. How how'd you know have written down here. How long japan. How would be held out. We don't know how much is going to be eased in the system. We don't know of brantford. Simply just trust a veteran jason mccranie back there on the secondary so if he keeps making these blaze we know he's going to be out there quite a bit Is it only a matter of time. Before he takes over that starting gig or he becomes. Maybe that third safety does or do you think it's a situation where these according brandon jones are going to have have this role until holland you know. It's those thirty percents. Nassar's starts random game because of injury where he can really grabble of position. Where where do you see him. Really starting to make it impacts this here. Yeah that's the million dollar question. Probably one that. Only brian floors and josh boyer knows. I mean. if there's any you know defense that evolves around versatility no getting these different guys in situations. I mean that's prime floors defense. So i can't sit here and truly say i do think he's going to be that. Starting you know quote unquote free safety sooner or later but a mile down here and i brought it up before you know in two thousand nine hundred and played five hundred ninety one snaps at nickel corner in the slot. So you know. How much of that does brian. Flora's you know. Try to implement this year so a lot of different things. Yeah a lot of different things you can do there and i even joke you know. He's the anti mix. Patrick you know some of the knox against winker. I guess the whole reason. He's no longer here is because you know he didn't want to drop down the box. Go against a run and take on some of those blocks. I mean that's what you see. Which von hahn on tape so I do think this is going to be a guy that again no disrespect to bobby mccain. But i think which von holland bruce on tape. You know the range from silent silent. I think this is going to be that. Ball hawking free safety. And i'm pretty damn excited jake. I have no idea how this secondary is gonna shape out especially with those safeties. 'cause i mean we got mccourty got row. We got jones. You know and now we've got holland. I mean you name them. Even byron jones complacent safety right. It got got a great point there. Josh moving on it is the free season. The preseason to panic. That's what we're here for to get a little excited fantasy a sprinkle on some panicking and a little layer of doubt in how good your team's gonna be many really. Have the preseason. Bundle up for you. So josh i gotta ask win. Can we start panicking about the offensive line because you have leave. I can guilt with injuries. the dj fluker thing. I mean we've talked. We've talked about that to her balloon. The face That probably have been the miami dolphins two biggest injuries so far this season and everyone's kind of been under the impression that the dolphins are struggling a little bit. Brexit's the baker's but the bears have one of the better front sub into the league not necessarily trying to doubt that but when you look at their numbers last year they sacked opposing quarterbacks thirty times thirty five times Last year right in the middle of the pack leaks meanwhile khalil. Mack is one of the greatest edge rushers in the league outside linebacker. I mean the dolphins offensive line. Tomorrow night should be able to manage absolves right. There should be like the first team should be taken up field because offensive line gave up two false starts. And there's a fumbled snap as it. Right what is our standard for the offensive line when they play the bears. Yeah i mean. I really wish i could sit here and talk us off a ledge and say that everything's gonna be okay but i don't know that i can't jake. I mean you ask. When time to panic. I mean it is time to start feeling a little bit uneasy because again we mentioned is a lot of young players but nfl. You know it's one loss in the trenches and and this offensive line can't go out there and open up some of those holes can't protect to. It's going to be a long season. But i'm glad you brought up blankenburg because i think i alluded to it on the last podcast. No he was demoted. Is actually an injury. So now you have him yet believe. Jessie davis banged up. You know i heard some people say panky was taken reps or right tackle. I mean. I don't know what the dolphins had planned. In mind. You know when they obviously. Dj fluker obviously. They had to like jesse davis. If the worst case scenario. So i i do understand their plan but at the same time you know to think that you're gonna be able to go out there. And that is your best bet to protect. In your franchise quarterback that does make me feel a little bit uneasy and then you mentioned the center position. I mean that is up in arms. We brought him matt scurr. You know michael dealers taken over that role again. I don't know if that's good or bad. So i wanna see how they handle the defensive line for sure but I'm not going to say that you know i mean. I think you're trying to say that it shouldn't be as bad as you know it could be. But if we've learned anything in the past you know it's definitely going all inspire and it's gonna look you know doom and gloom and it's going to be all we're talking about is horrid offensive line day long for weeks. Can we named this episode. It shouldn't be as bad as it could be because that is sixty really is. It's our story of her life. That is incredible. Kind of the point. You know. I just don't wanna be setting year later tonight. I don't wanna be sitting here waiting till next week's game saying that. Well the offensive line. Excuse x. y. and z. I think that if the dolphins are showing concerns here week. One of the preseason. It doesn't mean they won't fix it. It doesn't mean they didn't have a plan in place Plan doesn't work in those. Are the doubt start tab and just these two are linked here so switching over. Can we see any big plays from the running back group and this one. I found myself into a little whole job so you may get a little mad with me. The listeners might get a little bit of me year. Specifically we we know of miles. Gas in canada brings to the table each week. And you know having been fantasy. Add just see those stats. We know the numbers you're gonna get every week. It's somewhere around. Like eight carries for forty three yards and the fiber such as for for sixty seven yard touchdown. And that's great that's exactly what the delta z. For miles gas. They need that consistency. Need those yards. They can take. He can really get the outside. I don't think that even if the dolphins whatever their plan is at offensive line works out..
Patriots Beat
"jason mccourty" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Then I, I've talked about this since back to free agency since the draft, they don't have enough outside corners. If Gilmore walks, when you face the bills, one of your, you know, one of your starting outside corners is dead. Either Chauhan Williams. Jalen Mills, or Michael Jackson. And I'm not saying those guys can't be good players. I'm saying, we don't know if they are and I said the bills. The Dolphins are weak one. So when you go up against that receive or yeah, DeVante Parker you got Jaylen waddle, you got these guys coming out. You, we want you want. You want you on Williams on Davante? Parker week? One, that's the question, right? And I know they have Joe Jackson. We're going to get to him in a second to hang on. Cuz somebody in the chat said we saw the Patriots Malcolm Moore last year, they had Jason McCourty. If they still got Jason McCourty, it's another conversation. Jason McCourty played 65% of the Patriots defensive snaps last year. He has gone. They didn't bring anybody else in. That's a true outside corner. So that's 65% of snaps. You have to replace in house and I just went off in house options. There is no Jason McCourty in those options. There is no sure thing in those options, you can like, John Williams upside and there is something to like there, but he's unproven, you don't know for sure. And you don't Reserve. I have an insurance plan. The Patriots needs to find Gilmore more than he needs the Patriots, right? So I put up the stat on Twitter earlier today of the Patriots defense with, and without Stephon Gilmore in 2012. And I know that there are some sort of caveats of this, right? First of all, much different front, seven this year compared to last year. So that's going to make life easier on the secondary. I get all that, but last year with Stephon Gilmore, the Patriots allowed, a passer rating of 80.2, which would have been top ten if that had been the entire year. Without Stephon Gilmore, their passer rating, clamp to over a hundred, right. So you're also seeing last year they gave up a touchdown rate of a TD, every six point, like five, percentage of points of throws without with life on Gilmore that dropped 3%. So this is a player that statistically makes a huge impact on this defense. And furthermore, when you watch the tape of this team, You see in Devin McCourty, said this in 2019, when Gilmore was having his Defensive Player of the Year campaign, it all starts with death and what he meant by that was sung, watch the way that they play. They play so much single Hai man-to-man. They play more single Hai man-to-man than just about any team in the league. And if you're going to only play with one deep safety, in the middle of the page, you are going to have to live with the fact that you're outside corners are more or less on the island you have posed, safety help. But for the most part, your one-on-one with your guy out there, and as we walk through the gauntlet of the season and starting a week long with DeVante Parker and Jaylen waddle, if you don't have a lockdown, number one corner in that type of coverage system. Your quarters are going to get exposed, so yeah, the Patriots can change the way that they play. Maybe they play a little bit more off manners, do nor too deep or something like that. To mitigate the fat to Stephon Gilmore is not out there, but if they want to play a game Our bread-and-butter cover one Robber with a one high safety, put another guy in the Box to stop the run, or rush the passer, or do whatever they want to do with them..
Nickel Package
"jason mccourty" Discussed on Nickel Package
"In the same way that i said jalen phillips might have to step up contribute immediately. I actually think john holland. The safety drafted out of oregon. He might actually have to step up pretty quickly with bobby mccain guns so this corners assuming saving howard stays or doesn't hold out that's a weird one because why talked about it with greg is like he's got so many years left you know it's complicated. And but yeah. There's eric rowe who converted safety and in his played well but like in the they brought in jason mccourty but i think i really liked holland before he opted out in two thousand nineteen when he played. I don't know if he's ready to step into this defense immediately but he might have to. He very well might have to. Because who else is going to you. i don't know if you're throwing. I don't know if you're ready to start mccourty up out there. I don't know if you know. Nee highly or tre williams if we're going to be naming we're speaking of great names in this past draft like there's there aren't a lot of their on a lot of other guys who are built for that that starting role right away but that's the that's kind of the the burden you carry when you go early in the draft when you go in the second round you very well might have to fill a an immediate role but it makes sense for them to run so much covers zero. That's why you put so much money into your defensive. Backfield specifically corner obviously with howard. I'm byron jones. And and noah i am not going to disrespect the man by mispronouncing his last name. Egg benign a believes ig monogamy. I mean so mad. If i'm messing up because i have actually. I have practiced this. I wished i he great name not great play last year by the way big manado and i know he ig monogamy sounds about right but i do know he got his welcome to the. Nfl moment against the bills and week to byron joan leaves with a hamstring injury. And he said okay. Go covers the on again. Yes that is tough to bounce back from and but it's a it's a valuable lesson that you know. This is not the sec anymore. Like you you're going to have to come bring it. But so i think the secondary is again turnover forcing i want to say that they led the league and turnovers last year. But i could be wrong. Which by the way. Because did the dolphins have a lot of things where you're like. Oh that really broke like they had a lot of weird special teams stuff turnovers and those are things. When you're looking to next year over. Your lincoln might not happen again. I mean i think their corners are really really good so and we'd discuss their aggressive. So they're they're probably going to get a fair amount of turnovers but a little bit concerned about some regression they're exactly like unsustainable figures just like you. We thought in a couple years ago with the with the patriots defense leading the league in intercepts and he figured they're not gonna get forty interceptions again. I know it's not forty. But you know i'm trying to say here. You figure they're not going to do that. So there's gotta be some room for regression but You know when you are a fringe. Playoff team last year in That's not really what you want to hear that you don't wanna hear about you know possible. Regressions are not being able to not being able to displace. What you're what you're getting from that from that russian I just can't i wanna do. I do want to take this opportunity to bring that little tidbit of history. Backup that this team needed to win one game against the bills. Who sat several starters. Not all of them. But several starters and lost by thirty. And i i'm curious. How much that motivates you going forward. Especially if you're too who played a horrendous game without ryan fitzpatrick available. I'm curious how much how much do you replay that. How much does that kind of. Burn into you as you prepare for the coming season man. That was i think that the optimists case for miami is that even if the dolphins defense regresses a little bit or many things don't go their way to a with a full off season in an offense a new offense in this great compliment skill players that he takes enough of a leap forward to where they go from being a fringe playoff team to an actual wildcard team. And it's totally possible. I'm the so wait and see on this team. I just got to see. Do you know what i mean like. I feel like i got a pretty good handle on like the bills. And you know the pats to some degree the defense but but the miami's a real wild card for me the final team. I actually on the jets. I i feel like the jets last. I have been asking people. I'm not gonna ask. You just probably looked at the depth chart so this isn't that fun. But i have been asking people who cover football for a living all morning. Can you name to jets cornerbacks and none of them could wow is. It is a problem for this team. I could name one before. I went and looked at the depth chart and then i looked at the other names. I was like damn i did not know this man the kiki palmer meam. I not know this. That is how i like the i feel. They drafted somebody. I really liked a couple years ago. I is the name i guess. That's the one i knew. Marcel.
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