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The Dan Patrick Show
"mccourty" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"I think he'll be moving pretty well. Explain to me why Travis Kelce is always open. Well, I will say watching the Jaguar game. Once mahomes got hurt, I would have changed my whole game playing up and we would have doubled Kelsey every play. I don't care. I don't care if we would have had a gaping hole in the coverage somewhere else. We would have doubled them. But I think he's such a mismatch. You know, you try to put a corner on them or a smaller safety that can run with them. He does a good job using his length, his strength. And if you put a linebacker on him, he's just too athletic and then I think the biggest thing he does is like you said, if he plays zone, he understands how to get in the gaps, how to get open. Don't run the coverage. I'm mahomes knows him. So I think you put those two guys together. You have a guy that is a big target and he got a quarterback that understands where he's going to be. You're in for a long day and he continues to do that in the playoffs throughout the regular season. But what's the difference between trying to cover Kelsey and trying to cover Gronk in practice? Gronk just was, I mean, he's humongous. You know, I think, you know, I think Kelsey naturally is a better route runner at a different things. He was able to do it when he first got in the league. For me, I came in with Gronk as a rookie. So the evolution of Gronk of being able to think brilliant has prime when he was really killing. He was a good route runner. He understood how to run right up on defenders tools. But I just think Gronk is just so big. It was always tough to even get past breakups to reach around him and get to the ball on Tommy's to put the ball only where you couldn't get it. It was almost an impossible cover. He's Devin McCourty, the patriot safety, won three super bowls. Your favorite Brady story. Is what? Favorite Brady story. I'll probably say obviously a lot of stories playing with them and winning games, but it was fun competing against them back last year and we played Tampa. I think early in October, later in the game, you know, when you play gravy, you gotta be, you gotta be on it and you gotta be smart and your strategy has to be, you know, on point. So at some point later, and again, we finally decided to go on all our blitz. And he got us a little bit with the snap count. So as he's sitting there smiles at us, knowing knowing what's coming, and he completes the past to break and I'm running down on him.
The Dan Patrick Show
"mccourty" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Figure skating championships January 26th through the 29th on NBC and peacock that carries our program. Here's a stat for you. Dak Prescott's record 25 or less pass attempts is 16 and one. His record when he throws more than 26 passes, 45 and 35, including two and four in the postseason. Style of the day started the day sky of the day this is the state of the day. He's the better looking of the McCourty brothers he's Devin McCourty to patriot safety won three super bowls and he joins us on the program. I thought that'd bring a smile to your face. I called you the better looking McCourty brother. It's been a rough man everywhere I've gone so far all I keep hearing about is how great he's doing on TV. He's this. He's there. I just don't see it. Why is he not playing? Or why are you still playing? Well, he started a year before me. So I had to make sure I caught up to him. But you know, he got an old and slow, so the other time. All right, we're going to play the Devin McCourty game and Pauly, would you give the official rules here? Devin camp play, but he can listen to this. So Devin started his career as a cornerback, then switched to safety in year three. So he has played 205 career games at cornerback, basically at the end of how many games. 205. He started every game of his career. So I got me thinking, that seems like a lot of games for a safety. Wow. Over 200. Okay, how many safeties in NFL history have started 205 games or more like Devin mccordy hits? And can you name any of them? Can we name it? Did one play for the Steelers? No, I'll give you the teams. There's only three all time. One was a patriot quite a while. One was an eagle forever. One was mostly in Atlanta.
The Dan Patrick Show
"mccourty" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"I mean, they had to win, so they would win the division. But I think him missing those games, you saw the value of him not being able to play in those games. It was just, I think, I think he had to look closer Jalen hurts his season. I think when you look at his season, you look at his stats and you go, oh wow. So he was top 5 passer and top 5 and rushing touchdowns. Didn't have many turnovers. How many turnovers did he have? Just a couple this year. He did exactly what you want him to do. You got a talented team. He took advantage of that. They run the football. That's what I'm curious about with the offensive philosophy, the eagles against the niners. Are they going to be able to rush for a 152 hundred yards in this game? As a passer hurts went from 16 touchdowns last year to 22, three fewer interceptions, his quarterback rating went from 87 to one O 1.5. Yeah. He's most improved, but he's not going to be most valuable. And Joe burrow with what Joe burrow did towards the end of the year when they won ten games in a row, if you include the postseason, he was as valuable as anybody in the NFL. Bob stern is a co host of the hard line. It's an afternoon drive show on the ticket in Dallas and bob kind enough to join us. Bob, you got 5 assistant coaches who were fired. Or they were let go or not brought back whatever the semantics are with this. So what is the message that's being sent here by Jerry Jones? Well, you know, that's always the $1 million question, Dan. And I think to a certain extent, it starts with who's coming back from the coordinator position. But in general, the idea that you're losing Dan Quinn feels relatively assured, Kellen Moore feels like a coin flip and I suppose the opportunity, if you will, or at least the obligation to kind of reimagine your coaching staff and maybe even your offensive scheme, which I would be all for is clear and present. And I guess they're getting out ahead of that with guys with expiring deals, maybe allowing them to go pursue other possibilities. That's fine. I expect we're not just talking about tier three assistant coaches being allowed to expire. I assume there's more sweeping changes, afoot. But again, with Jerry, he's pretty good about protecting his cards until he has to tell the world. But you were talking about offensive philosophy, maybe changing that offensive philosophy. Go into detail about that. Well, in general, and this is a sweeping generalization, but allow me that in the sense that Jason Garrett and Scotland installed an offense that was either for Tony Romo or for very, very young dak Prescott. And very, very young deck Prescott wasn't making a lot of money, but he was also definitely driving the bus. And as this thing has evolved and as Mike McCarthy has taken over, I was under the impression that McCarthy was going to bring in a lot of the stuff that he likes to do.
SI Media Podcast
"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
SI Media Podcast
"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.
SI Media Podcast
"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
SI Media Podcast
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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
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"mccourty" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"If you're at Wrigley tonight too, by the way, and you see Joey chest, not just start filming. Just take your phone out, just do the thing. Just give video of them. He said he's engaged again is what he said. Do you think it's the same person or different individual? I did hear that again and there. Sounded like a different person. He kind of laughed at me. Oh, you think so? It was kind of like a yeah. You've done a lot of weird things in real life. Have you ever been engaged? I thought so once. I woke up next to someone and we had rings on our last calls. I've been to some chapels, they didn't answer, luckily. Who the chapel didn't answer? Chappell didn't answer, so was that in Las Vegas, Nevada? It was in Tahoe. Okay? Answer your question. Very good. A lot of beer straws that night. Yep. Hot dog beer straw, hashtag it. Oh baby. That is tonight. So you'll be on the lookout for that, right, TJ? No. What do you mean no? Mets are off tonight. I know. So I got to take a day off myself. Last night, this last couple of days were stressful baseball. I know that lead over the braves down to Sarah's very happy. Down to two, was she rooting for the Yankees actually the last couple of nights for the first time in a long time? Yeah. Something happened in the game where I was just like, please get a hit here or something. And it might have been for Alonso, and she's like, what are you talking about? I'm like, I don't want the Yankees to win ever. I mean, with all due respect to your team. And I respect you, sir. I wrote for two teams, the red Sox, and it was ever playing the Yankees. I respect I respect you on that front. And that sort of spite will help keep you warm in October as you watch other people play baseball. That would be great. I'm already looking at the 2023 schedule that's out. Is that right? Yeah. Who's going to be your starting pitcher? First week? No idea. Nick pavetta. As dever is going to be paid or not. I mean, honestly, I have no idea. Nick pavetta. That's who you want to be your opening day starter. He's our best pitcher right now. Guys, that's a horse. Oh, he turned it around because it was coop and I dropped him a few weeks ago. Oh, he's been great. Yeah, he's been great. I don't know. It's going to be great though. Aaron judges return to Yankee Stadium as June 9th. Are you saying what's up with the San Francisco Giants are in? That's when the Red Sox play, though. Yeah, right. That will happen when a spot very warm spot freezes over. You keep on warming your heart by that fire, sir. I saw people tweeting out the Giants like JoJo's return to Yankee Stadium. Got it. Got it. 48 and counting for 99. Is he going to get 61, do you think? I don't know. It's been a rough goal. He's only one off. We've got four against the a's and then three against the arty morenos. So we'll see. But he tells us a week left in August and he's got like the third or fourth most home runs ever before. Well, that'll wrap it up for this edition of the rich eyes and show we greatly appreciate it. We'll see you right back here on our YouTube stream on Thursday. Once again, once again, we're on YouTube until the Roku channel
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"mccourty" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Well, the only thing that really changed in the last few years was a rival of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. So I don't know how those two guys took it, but that was something that did occur. And then I think you have to look at the Kyrie Irving extension negotiations. And the fact that both sides were not able to get a deal done, Kevin Durant has vocally supported privately supported Kyrie Irving over the last 6 to 8 months while I think a lot of people have come down on Kyrie Irving. And so I think you cobble those two things in the situation. Adam Harrington and assistant on the nest staff who was very close with Kevin Durant a guy that's known throughout the league as a Durant confidant, he was fired at the end of the season. And so you take all those things to account and just a lack of communication that existed between both sides and again that's something on both sides, right? That's something on the player side. It's something on the team side, because at the end of the day, the only way you're going to get resolutions, the only way you're going to get past moments in life that are tough is through conversation and through a real relationship and through an open form and it took these guys rich two months to get in the same room in a meeting together. Well, actually, more than that, it made June, July, August 4 months to get in the same room. And two months into trade requests. So that tells you everything you need to know about where this gulf existed. Here on the rich eisen show, the athletic and stadium senior NBA insider, look, I mean, I'm sure you've been involved in negotiations in your career, doing what you do. I have as well. Anytime you agree to something based on the fact that management doesn't give you what you want and presents the reality as a theta, it doesn't really sit in well with the person who accepts the fed accompli and that's Durant, the fed accomplishes that we're not getting the value that we place on you. You should take that as a compliment, although that prevents you from getting the exit Visa you want. And you don't want to hold out. We don't want you to hold out. So let's just, you know, let's just go back together again and let bygones be bygones. Is that really the way it's going to be? Is that the way they're entering the season with this still bubbling beneath the surface? Or was this conversation in Los Angeles airing things out? And they really have come to an agreement. And it's all hunky Dory. What do you got for me? I think it's a little bit of both. And that's why these things are complex. It's not just a black and white situation. I think this is very, very complex. It could be both things. Now, in a perfect world, in a perfect life, I think Kevin Durant clearly would have loved to get traded. And I think the nets in a perfect world, they wouldn't have had the restrictions of The Rookie designated extension rule that didn't allow them to get a guy like bam adebayo or Donovan Mitchell on the roster because they had been Simmons on the team. And in a perfect world, the nets would have gotten teams gutting their roster and giving every last asset like Joe sci and Sean marks had wanted in any type of Kevin Durant trade. So that's in a perfect world. But as we know, rich, the world and life just isn't perfect, especially for a guy like he's got four years left on his deal. So trade like this, if this was going to go down during training camp before training camp during the season, it was going to get uglier than what it already was. And that might be tough for the listeners to believe and tough for people to believe, but that's a business. And in the NBA, if a guy wants to trade, it's going to get ugly. If a guy on a four year deal wants to trade, we saw what happened with Ben Simmons, we saw the side of that took place. And I think both sides at the end of the day, Kevin Durant, 33, going on 34, the legacy at the end of the day that he's built the stature that he's built in this league. He's going to go down as a top ten to 20 player of all time. Do you want to put yourself in a position where you're holding out of games and clearly he did not want to go down that route, including the nets didn't want him to go down that route. So and on the same token, I do think this opportunity from everything I've been told, they left that meeting energized and ready for next season. I don't think this meeting was Kevin Durant left and he's like, man, I still want to get traded like what the hell. I don't think that's the tenor. I know that's not how the tenor of that conversation ended. Best you can tell her he and Kyrie Kool, because again, he Kyrie returns, and Durant, in rich climate, are very astute. He had a no, like I'm going to ask for a trade, and I know that in this day and age, those people like Durant are accommodated because they're Durant. But they had to know that they could end like this as well. So why would he opt out after Kyrie opt in? Why would that happen? Yeah, I think a couple of things. One, I think, yes, I mean, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, they continued their relationship. You know, the one guy since the NBA since the next season ended on April 23rd, the one guy with the nets that Kevin Durant had remaining communication with from everything I've been told was Kyrie Irving. That will go one guy that he was communicating with on a regular basis. But their friendship, that relationship goes beyond just basketball.
The Rich Eisen Show
"mccourty" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"You want to be the you want to be the parka salesman to USC athletics. Yeah. Yes. Yes, there will now be winter clothing at USC might not need in previous years. But how does it work? What are you hearing? Well, they will probably play 9 games. They'll have three so let's take your beloved Michigan. Yes, right. You want to have your three rivalry games that you must play every year. Because you have to have Michigan play Ohio State, right? You're going to have to have Michigan play Michigan state. Correct? And maybe they play Minnesota because they got that little Brown jug trophy or somebody else, whatever it is. And then you cycle through the rest of the teams and you should be able to get to everybody home and away. So you would maybe play a USC every other year in every four years you would either travel there or they would you would travel there. So you play home and away, but you could stack it up that way. So there is a way to kind of cycle it through where you get to play everybody fairly often. But you do not lose the big television draws and the hardcore rivalries that you that you need such as there's no way you're not having Michigan and Ohio State play every year because they get kind of the biggest game of the year that is 10 million people to watch. So we're not expanding to lose 10 million person games. You get more of them. But for UCLA and USC, extremely challenging, lane kiffin the other day was talking. I remember he coached USC. And he talked about when they would go play Notre-Dame every other year. And it was a big deal of when do you leave because you got to get acclimated? And so they would leave on Thursdays for a Saturday game. And get in early and it's a grind and they would always play that thing in the middle of the season they play at Notre-Dame in mid October when the games in LA they do it at the end of the year. Now you're going to have to do that like week after week after week. Because there's certainly two road games in a row is not uncommon. So you might be USC or UCLA saying, hey, we're going to fly to Illinois and we're going to come back and then we're going to go play over at Rutgers. The next week and we got to go. So the travel for USC football and UCLA football is enormous and same thing for obviously not just basketball, which people will care about. Those are long road trips and all that and you're going get time zones. But then how do you like to be a baseball team or a softball team or the soccer team? You signed a play at UCLA, you think you're playing in warm weather or not like that. A winter spring baseball game in east Lansing. You were signing up for something else. So for these non revenue sports that's even harder. They'll make it work for football, but it will be a challenge. As you see in the NFL, when you're going west to east, it's a challenge for that team in the west. Well, it's a perpetual challenge now. For UCLA and USC competitively. Dan, thanks for the time, man. Look for my call as the season approaches more. Thanks for the thanks for the two cents. Greatly appreciate it. Anytime we're actually talking to him. Right back at you, Dan wetzel, one of the best and finest right here on the rich eisen show from Yahoo, sports. Let us take a break beyond time relatively for Jason McCourty about to join the good morning football breakfast table, but he will join our program next on the rich eisen show. Having just spoken with Dan wetzel of Yahoo sports about the college football world and diving into him his knowledge about that world and the Big Ten scheduling that's coming. I'm going to say something that definitely backs up from so many other Big Ten fans that Michigan, Wolverine, alums like myself, are arrogant and put our program on a pedestal. I know I know TJ up what I'm about to say will upset Penn State country where you're from, I get it. But with all of the additions with UCLA and USC and Dan wetzel saying, well, they're going to they're not going to take away rivalry games with the additions of these new two new teams. The whole idea is to create more watchable games. And they're not going to take away the rivalry games. So you're going to still have those and then you'll figure out what he said they'll still play 9 games, but they're not going to take away the rivalry games. Naming another Big Ten rivalry game that does not include Michigan. Name me one. Name me one. Iowa state. Iowa state is not in the Big Ten. State's not a Big Ten team. Oh yeah. The rich history of that. I mean, it doesn't have the 100 year history, like Michigan. Who is Wisconsin's rival? Great. Ask them. You know who it is? Michigan. Name the one ask any badger, the one team they want to beat the most in the Big Ten. Us, name Michigan state, us, name Ohio State. Us. Now, got broad shoulders. You got broad shoulders, but now you see coming in USC coming in or you want to see UFC play hole Pence to all those great USC Penn State matchups, right? Now you were going to want to see him play Michigan. There's controversy where USC beat us on a phantom touchdown. In a rose bowl, during the years. So it's just going to be another layer of got to play Michigan. Michigan's irrelevant. I hear that all the time. I just want to know. That's why I want to know. How are we going to schedule these things? Michigan,
Patriots Beat
"mccourty" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"They have half their roster, right? I mean, they have a big hole to fill there. So I actually think that they could draft over that quite easily and be able to just make sure that this team not only has some plug and play guys for 2022 is obviously the main goal. But looking ahead to 2023, there's going to be a lot of turnover again. And at some point, we're going to start talking about some of these other Devin McCourty, for example, and Matthew slater said this to us this morning. There was a conversation there between those two guys like, are we going to come back? Are we going to do this again? And if we are, we're doing it together at some point they're going to look at each other and say we're done, right? So you start looking ahead at some of these needs in 2023 too, which I know the Patriots are going to do in the draft. They're not just looking at it as a one year prism..
AP News Radio
Bill Belichick has his most minority coaches this season
"The the NFL NFL is is America's America's most most popular popular sport sport dominating dominating television television ratings ratings and and playing playing to to packed packed stadiums stadiums but but it it has has a a problem problem while while nearly nearly seventy seventy percent percent of of the the league's league's players players are are black black only only three three of of the the league's league's thirty thirty two two head head coaches coaches are are black black and and minorities minorities account account for for fewer fewer than than thirty thirty six six percent percent of of the the league's league's assistant assistant coaches coaches but but the the NFL NFL is is working working to to change change that that dynamic dynamic in in New New England England where where coach coach bill bill Belichick Belichick has has won won six six super super bowls bowls the the twenty twenty twenty twenty one one season season began began with with eight eight minority minority assistance assistance the the most most ever ever for for a a Belichick Belichick led led team team four four of of those those assistants assistants are are alums alums of of NFL NFL sponsored sponsored fellowship fellowship programs programs yeah yeah these these are are great great programs programs for for an an opportunity opportunity for for both both teams teams and and the the distances distances and and make make connections connections more more than than half half of of those those places places and and on on the the job job better better in in patriots patriots safety safety Devin Devin McCourty McCourty applauds applauds the the NFL's NFL's efforts efforts to to help help teams teams diversify diversify on on the the sidelines sidelines and and in in the the front front offices offices I I think think it it is is time time to to start start seeing seeing a a year year in in and and year year out out because because it's it's the the right right thing thing to to do do you you know know I I think think a a lot lot of of highly highly qualified qualified people people haven't haven't been been given given the the chance chance and and a a little little be be great great to to see see you you know know when when people people are are given given a a chance chance to to see see what what they they do do with with it it it's it's worth worth noting noting that that two two former former Belichick Belichick assistants assistants who who are are black black went went on on to to head head coaching coaching positions positions in in the the NFL NFL Romeo Romeo Cornell Cornell guided guided the the Cleveland Cleveland Browns Browns the the Kansas Kansas City City Chiefs Chiefs and and on on an an interim interim basis basis the the Houston Houston Texans Texans Brian Brian Flores Flores is is currently currently head head coach coach of of the the Miami Miami Dolphins Dolphins I I might might cross cross yeah yeah
Just Getting Started with Rich Eisen
"mccourty" Discussed on Just Getting Started with Rich Eisen
"He doesn't feel like a rookie when it comes to the preparation for talking about the game. I think he's come with that and I think part of that is what he did at Alabama those guys are always playing for championships. The other guys that play a quarterback in front of them are all in the NFL right now. So I don't think anything is new to him. What we're trying to do as a team and I think that's really paid off for us and I think he's just a focus a lot on what he needs to do on himself and I think a lot of us as older guys kind of told him I don't change that. That's how you become a good player in this league, keep doing those things. All right, and a couple of minutes I have left with you, Devin McCourty. First one, I got two more questions for you. First one, I'm going to go in that third rail direction, which is making you talk about your coach Bill Belichick, but you've been around. You've been there for 12 years. Do you think he's got a little bit of a reinvigoration because of what's happening this year after last year that Mac Jones is there that you seem to be back on the patriot way track based on somebody who's just watching it. Do you see Belichick in any different way this year, Devin? I want to say different, but I would say last year, less of that face that everybody mouth thought. It was it wasn't what we wanted. It wasn't an expectation that wasn't the standard. And I think all of us kind of walked out of here last year after that last game against the jets. I'm happy that we won the game, but also that feeling of like, well, we don't want to be living this way again..
Just Getting Started with Rich Eisen
"mccourty" Discussed on Just Getting Started with Rich Eisen
"The New England Patriots getting set to play Monday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills to wrap up week number 13 in the NFL is none other than a longtime pro and it's 12th season out of Rutgers right now for the New England Patriots Devin McCourty. How are you doing, Devin? I'm doing all right. How you doing? I'm doing fine. I appreciate you just joining us fresh off the practice field right now. You've been around some championship teams. They're sir, and you've been around some teams that have gotten hot and then made the Super Bowl. Is this one of those teams? Do you think? I don't know, man. I would say all those teams are not at all. I would say in the process we didn't know. And I would say some of those teams, we have some tough times on adversity that hit where if you look back there were a lot of people down in the sand, there was no chance of that. So I think all those teams don't have one thing about it, they were willing to work hard and not worry about everything else that was going on outside but just kind of focused on the team and that's what we've been appreciating here all year. Obviously starting two or four was an idea, but I think the mentality of all the guys in this locker room almost staying focused on each other staying focused on the team has enabled us to go on a little bit of a Wall Street and I think you've heard it in the last few weeks from a lot of different players. We want to keep that mentality and we want to keep that going for us to play. So then what I have seen, this isn't my first rodeo at the NFL, as you know. I have seen many patriots teams certainly on defense play this way before, but it usually it's right around now when it begins to gel because so many guys who come in new don't understand or conceive of what the do your job mentality is and how this defense works, but you guys have been balling out for weeks. Why? Would you say, Devin? I think it's just a combination of guys understanding their roles, guys going out there and doing it. And I think the biggest part we've done a better job at comparative beginners is situational football. And all of a key situations call it two minute where we know they're passed and they have to pass..
Vegas Nation - Raiders Football
Belichick reaches milestone as Patriots top Raiders 36-20
"Everyone is time for the bonus episode postgame recap for Vegas Nation podcast. I'm your host Heidi Fang and I'm joined with our readers writers, Ed Greenie, Adam. Hill we're going to break down what happened here in the Raiders Lost Thirty six to twenty against the New England Patriots here Gillette Stadium in Foxborough at an ir up in the press box Adam back in Vegas a from my vantage point it was. A lot of mistakes made by the raiders, which is something you can't do against the bill belichick coach team. So we're GONNA get all into that here but I I want to remind everybody that we are brought to you by Salmon Ash, indeed visa and also favor. So make sure to subscribe wherever you're listening and what was your first take on what you saw out in the field today with the raiders. You're right. They did everything you can't do and win on the road or anywhere turn the ball over three times. Once rent on. Didn't protect car when they were driving. Me fumbled the Fumble Alina Game Matter Games already overby fumbled the end zone. In the second half, they just wore down defensively I actually done the first thirty minutes be interested at him. I think thought the first thirty minutes they played. As good. A defense as they haven't a while let's be honest. Thirteen points here cam help them a lot. He wasn't any third, but they were down on the second Apple Sikhism Derek. Carr in the offense couldn't stand field. He gave up two hundred and fifty yards total rushing late Sony Michelle when expert in its players per talking, you know these of League so they were down and they just couldn't match. Match up. So a bad game they printed everything you can do and what on the road so Adam how much in fact that these running bags like just through the defense offered their game because I don't think they were looking to contain the likes of three different running backs in this one I think they prepared to contain Cam Newton? What was your thoughts on the running game? I think I was definitely a part of it and I think there was definitely adjustments made. By the Patriots coaching staff because as as ED put out for the first half of the, Patriots were able to run the ball somewhat. But I thought a it wasn't. There wasn't those explosive plays. There wasn't those big plays downfield and it was a kind of picking up some yards here. They're moving the ball effectively but not really gashing the raiders defense and then. They figured out something in the run game after halftime and I'll be interested to find out the later in the week. Interested to get the the all twenty two film comes out like Tuesday. Look a little what happened but I think just at first glance without really looking into what they were doing on the line maybe differently. They definitely started to go to some more cutback plays where they I thought really were able to take advantage of some over pursuit of the writer side in particular from Jonathan Abram, who you know, we know what he can do. In terms just flying around offensively and having people would kind of sending a message for that defense but at the same time. You can use that aggression against him and I think the Patriots kind of figure that out a little bit and it really hit him with a big plays on a place where he got into the gap, he was near the bulk area but just couldn't make up Adams exactly right and and they're going to have to here's the thing about a player John Neighbor might think they love is aggressiveness in his hitting all that he's got a swagger Jim and I. Hate to say this, but sometimes, you just have to you have to balance that it's hard to tell a guy like that. Don't play this way but Adams wait we should for resod against Christian McCaffrey, over pursues too much when you take the battling new pursue Sunny Michelle Christian McCaffrey, they're gonNA come back will go so Yeah. They just didn't play the run wellness second atoms right they adjusted and you have to give Michelle credit like I said when you go For, an average of thirteen yards of Kerry and I don't know if he's ever average per carry more than seven in a games and you also have saved in job I am. But they did they didn't play offensively were out of rhythm Waller. We'll talk about that I know atoms writing thoughts. Darren WELLM was non factor when you get a lot of good at the bill Belgium at he talked about. How good daring waller as well. Guess what he must have died because they ran every defense coverage double team run in stem and stopped him. So atom I know you you wrote about this mean, what did you hear the game to her? How they? You know bottle up there wall I thought it was a group effort I. think that's what of expected to hear from the Patriots Bill. Belichick obviously didn't go into detail about what he did. I think it was just a lot of deception what they were doing offensively disguising it and Bella check pointed out. Hey, it wasn't somebody covering him necessarily a lot of zone. We played a lot of you know bracket coverage a lot of. Men under there was a lot of different things. Defensively. On Waller but I think it was more just about the looks of they're giving up the line and never letting the raiders. No. Before the play what kind of coverage is GonNa be on Waller? Want Credit Anybody I. Think mccourty would be the one that you would like added. Say. Devin mccourty that Dinnie. Tremendous job on him but it was a little bit of everybody kind of in the mixer.
WBZ Afternoon News
Patriots' Jason McCourty recovering from groin surgery
"Patriots quarterback choose from recordings recovery from growing surgery tight end Ben Watson says he played the season with a torn Achilles Watson who's one year contract expires in March says will
The NFL Show
Let's overreact to Week 8: The 49ers are the NFL's best team
"I think that what we want to talk about our vise lows the NFL season so far and highs at this point are the Sansko forty niners it's the New England patriots to undefeated teams and then we want to get into Adam gays who want to get into Freddie Kitchens in WanNa get into the Chicago bears those I probably don't need to say are the lows of the nfl let's start with the great teams the teams that are that are undefeated mic Bosa and San Francisco Forty niners so this was so we talked about this last week where essentially both of the undefeated teams have been dogged by this Weirdo they haven't played anybody and eventually as maze I talked about last week eventually you know this is just the NFL they're beating up on these bad teams because there's just too many bad NFL team that's sort of the way things are going right now there's like five good teams that are quote unquote nice schedule winds and then there's twenty-seven teams who are who everyone considers inferior one AA competition Ravin said that the forty niners host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday they win fifty one to thirteen the panthers where the fifth ranked offense in the NFL all fifteen th ranked defense Nick Bosa three sacks three tackles for loss one pass break up and one interception return for forty six yards the forty niners I I I don't feel the need to say there will jit because we already knew their religion you've written about this this was the type of win that I August isn't very analytical this shuts people up oh yeah I mean this is this is what they call a statement when I think the most points they've scored since ninety three or something like that I saw that today Yup yeah type of win where if there was college they would get like twenty more first place votes this week exactly kind of win they wouldn't jump over the Patriots but it'd be getting close yeah I mean this what stood out to you when you just looked at I mean it was as complete performance you can get it turning that stood out that maybe I mentioned already I mean yeah obviously the defense I think has been the foundation that they've been operating on this year they've -pletely remade that front seven I should say the front the Front Line Nick Bosa you know changes everything default has been good deforest buckner is just playing out in elite level still Eric Armstead has been playing really really well as you know two and then I actually saw Solomon Thomas make a really good play today too I mean they've got guys they've got it reminds me a little bit of the rams of old in one sense that they spent several years of like accumulating talent and it's finding all starting to kind of click together her and their defense is looks like a juggernaut and then on the other side of the ball run game is just so dominant You know we saw we saw what they could do today. Seven Coleman really really good they've got like woman baby yeah they've got like four backs that could that could be their starter yeah they're just really really good so they they control the clock they it's such an old school method in you know it's it's funny because in the in the stage when passing is so much more efficient they're kind of breaking that rule that passing more efficient because when you can run with that level of efficiency in that level of explosiveness I mean it just you don't Oh you don't actually really need to pass that much because they've just been doing it sufficiently my favorite maybe event of twenty nineteen so far is field yates tweeted out most pass attempts prior to first career interception history number one is Dak Prescott number three was Kyle Allen after the game yeah Richard Sherman Seen this yet Richard Sherman quote tweeted that tweet which is I'm so happy to have Richard Sherman back in our lives I talked with a couple of weeks ago but just like the thing where he may be made up that thing with Baker Mayfield I'm fine with it leveraged do whatever he wants he's back in the spotlight he's GonNa Talk unquote tweet field Yates tweets about say element Mayo hundred percent on the rich German experience back to hit a piano yeah I know this is a pro Richard Sherman podcast now I think it's really interesting what happens now in the NFC obviously the Green Bay packers won tonight there are no drew breeze comes back with the saints and they look like they didn't miss a beat obviously you know teddy bridgewater is a very good quarterback while he was aperture breezes he's wearing your mind is the pecking order in the NFC and are the niners significantly above those other two teams man that's such a good question I really like The saints still I think the fact that they were able to do what they did go five zero at bridgewater and just Kinda keep going you know keep them momentum going forward I think they are still one of the favorites I would say you know it San Francisco New Orleans one and the packers just slightly below that but with the way that Aaron Rodgers has been playing last couple of weeks there certainly scary I think their defense has taken a little bit of a step back so there may be not quite as balanced as we thought they were but yeah I mean I think those are clear top three teams there's no question about that and then you could you know make arguments for the vikings or whoever but yeah I think those are like the like the cream of the crop for share in then there's a bunch of other teams speaking of the cream of the Crop New England patriots okay so the stats from the NFL the browns I can barely get throughout the browns had turnovers on three consecutive offensive plays against the Patriots that is the first time any team has done so since week one twenty twelve only the seventh time it's been done since two thousand this is not good if you're the browns we're GonNa get to the browns and are very robust stocks downs section a little bit but this patriots team unfortunately this is not kind of the schedule will win that we thought it was going to be you know the niners get there's the browns are not as good as the panthers the browns have been kind of a disaster but this was just another performance Devin mccourty looks like maybe defensive player of the year candidate the defense he just unbelievable in Baker Mayfield after the game said that the Patriots didn't do anything confuse them they were just playing really well yeah and you you kinda wonder like isn't that the worst case scenario for a team is the they're not doing anything new there just being the crap out of you I mean it was amazing when you think about this patriots defense what comes to mind yeah I think a couple of things going to mind number one discipline that's kind of a hallmark of the belichick teams is just being really disciplined like you know obviously Cliche do your job or whatever that's the first thing versatility you know they're able to play it's
Atlanta's Morning News
Devin Mccourty, WSB And Jason discussed on Atlanta's Morning News
"A set of twins will make history at the Super Bowl. It's the first time. This has happened. Devin mccourty tells WSB the best part is. Jason pushes him to be better worst part is he kind of knows I am. He gets on my nerves. They play for the