Patriots Opener Sunday against Seahawks. Will Crowd be invested? Bill Belichick on media avoiding Patriots questions?
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00:00the Seattle Seahawks at Gillette Stadium and I'm guessing that the crowd will be pretty good
00:05I think. Yeah I don't think, I think they'll they'll be interested in what this team looks
00:11like in person. More so than if they had lost that game on Sunday. I can't think of a game,
00:18Ken and I were talking yesterday because he was asking about Florida State victory for BC versus
00:22the Bengals victory for the Patriots. The Patriots win was so massive I, it cannot be overstated how
00:32that shifts everything. Where if they lose that game you know 31-16 the conversation is immediately
00:41about Drake May although Wiggy already started it anyway and you're looking at a must win Sunday to
00:47avoid going 0-4 and if Gerard Mayo starts 0-4 and Bill Belichick and he's on tv everywhere
00:54you're seeing the status of the situation it changes everything to win that game now
01:01when one of the next two you're two and one heading to San Francisco playing with house
01:04money before coming back for week five against the Dolphins. Everything shifted with that game
01:09everything the whole mood of the city improved. Speaking of Bill on tv you see that 6-1-7 text
01:15on the on the Subaru of New England text line I will read it verbatim. Oh dear. Listening late
01:21on the app which you can do by the way you wake up late you can listen to this entire show
01:27in uh in consecutive order or however you would say that on the Odyssey app so download it if you
01:33haven't yet and I just heard Curtis's lead why is he obsessed with hating Bill Belichick?
01:41um I mean I feel I feel like he explained it during his lead yeah I mean I majored in it but
01:45I I would say it's a desire to correct the record a guy that we were told was all about team
01:56has now added two championships to his total on his weekly spot with Pat McAfee
02:02and he goes on yesterday we all agree the biggest story of the weekend was the Patriots winning
02:08over the Bengals non Tyreek related on-field activity was the Patriots beating the Bengals
02:14agreed yeah yes okay so Bill Belichick goes on with Pat McAfee for 40 minutes
02:22and these are the questions he was asked by Pat McAfee yeah let's take the football
02:29uh COVID game in Carolina there was no fans at the end of the year they obviously come in laying
02:33egg Bryce Young now the whole conversation's gonna be about him let's move to some other games
02:37is there anything to gain if you're MCDC to be like yeah we can win the Super Bowl this year or
02:42does it legitimize any of these big wins what the thought of you just being a DC again and getting
02:46back in that thing was wild is this natural for these rookies we will talk about Kyle Shanahan's
02:51offense later in this discussion because massive Monday night football game vertical T's uh yeah
02:58so not a question your issue is not a single question about that Patriots win to Bill Belichick
03:04from Pat McAfee what's the one thing you tuned in for if you're seeing Bill Belichick join Pat
03:09McAfee how did the Patriots and he could have even taken a victory lap he could have said it was
03:15great to see Gerard Mayo you know he worked under me if he didn't want to talk about Mayo he could
03:19talk about Keon Smith uh he could talk about Keon White he could talk about Jacoby Brissett who he
03:26drafted he could talk about Christian Gonzalez who he drafted he drafted half the defense he could
03:30talk about his son coaching the secondary he didn't say a word about it because he is petty
03:38so you think he goes all year without talking about the Patriots oh no if they lose he'll be
03:42all over it you heard him with Matt Patricia the people saying that he signed an NDA like open up
03:48your ears am I petty you hear Bill Belichick and Matt Patricia do a 40-minute segment
03:54ripping the Patriots for doing everything Bill had already done there is no non-disclosure
03:59agreement 978 text Curtis it's not Bill's team anymore why does he care to talk about it he was
04:05fired I wouldn't want to talk about it either. He talks about them he's talked about them several
04:11times and that's what is most uh infuriating about this is that this is a guy who's being
04:21paid 30 million dollars to do nothing this year and the team clearly tuned him out at the end
04:29and that happens to everyone it'll happen to Mayo at some point but when you just state obvious facts
04:35it irritates people the Patriots played better for Gerard Mayo than they did for Bill Belichick
04:41even though Gerard Mayo did things differently in training camp it's okay and the the other thing
04:47Greg you and others were salivating for Monday morning when the Patriots get blown out by the
04:54Bengals to talk about well I guess mental reps don't really prepare you oh I guess they missed
05:00the greatest coach of all time so don't tell me this why are you talking about Bill when all of
05:05you people were ready to throw Bill down our throats when the Patriots lost yeah I underestimated
05:11I guess it's only one week but I will say that I underestimated the importance to today's player
05:19of the vibe and the coach who can relate to you when it comes to social media and the coach who
05:27can uh take it easy on you and in the case of Jacoby Brissett the coach who comes to you
05:34before the game starts and says you're going to win this one for us and then you start to
05:38cry over it I I just comply I may have underestimated how important that is
05:44it works for Mayo right that's who he is that worked this week yeah this week it's only one
05:49week because let's be honest if they come and they lose in week two against Seattle and with
05:55the one week though Greg if they lost last night or two nights ago 31 17 yeah the people here that
06:03were mocking Gerard Mayo's training camp and the manner in which he was coaching would not be
06:10waiting a couple weeks there was the pile on in training camp yeah but I don't think Mayo's
06:14getting piled on I don't either and I think it's going to take them losing for us to see how the
06:19players react with Gerard Mayo like that's right we can't really do the comparison game between
06:24Belichick and Mayo between last season and this season until we see them facing some adversity
06:29during the season and I would say Mayo is already tied Belichick in Belichick's first year they won
06:36five games which was three games fewer than Pete Carroll won the year before Gerard Mayo's got one
06:41win three games fewer than Bill had all last year so he's already tied what Bill did in his rookie
06:45year but don't you agree that you need to wait and see for them to lose to see how players react
06:49to Gerard Mayo before you go on this rampage about how much better he is than Bill Belichick
06:53no I would just say that obviously adversity will hit but I think adversity hit in training camp but
06:58I'm saying during the season like yeah it won't really matter it's not going to matter until they
07:01go Courtney all right until they go on a two three game losing streaks and things kind of get
07:06a little bit you know so last year this same team didn't respond to adversity so if it doesn't
07:12respond to adversity this year how's that any different than when Bill was the coach no no
07:16we're just saying how they deal with Mayo versus how they dealt with Bill right when the adversity
07:22hits right but if they don't hit it if they don't handle adversity well this year it's no different
07:26than the same team did last okay but then I don't think that you can be like oh look at this you
07:30guys all told me that Bill was the greatest of all time and blah blah blah like you can't go on
07:34that because it's the same exact situation that Gerard's dealing with well that was my point all
07:39along is that Bill Belichick wasn't the answer so this is an opportunity for a new coach to show
07:47that he can be it and I think it's refreshing that this approach has yielded results this early see
07:53I think see that's why I disagree with you Curtis I don't think that Bill wasn't the answer I think
07:58the biggest issue with them last year if we're just specifically talking about last year was the
08:04player your quarterback yeah it was it was and it was the issues between Bill and the quarterback
08:08right but it was the player your quarterback right the issues between Bill and the quarterback
08:12are issues because of your quarterback if your quarterback is a team player then there's probably
08:18no issues so now it'll be if he wasn't a dink yeah it'll be now it'll be looked at like okay
08:26Mayo really you know he he loves Brissette he speaks highly of him but once Brissette starts
08:32to put if he performs poorly then the question's gonna be okay Mayo it's now time for you to put
08:39Drake May in and if the offense struggles it won't be on Mayo what we'll criticize Mayo for
08:45is his in-game adjustments thinking things in the game where he does wrong where maybe there's
08:52multiple delay of game penalties guys not lining up right you know 10 guys on the the punt team
08:59when there should be 11 we'll criticize him for those things the operation like we criticized Bill
09:07for the operation so don't that's where the comparison is going to be as far as the vibe
09:12and how things go Mayo did it does it his way Bill did it his way his way and if the quarterback played
09:19better there'd be no issue it'd be like 2021 right there was no issue in 2021 when they made
09:24the playoffs and they lost I don't think the team felt like oh Bill's doing us like we hate the way
09:30Bill is doing things and that's kind of how we'll look at it and judge it so it's still like you
09:36said it's one game but if they lose against Seattle yeah we were told in training camp they
09:42couldn't line up right the offensive line was a joke the team was lazy there wasn't the proper
09:47practice time the way Gerard Mayo started practice an hour later was coddling all those things were
09:54just a waste of air yeah that was a stupid narrative being pushed by people that it made
09:59no sense right and so we're going to talk about how stupid that narrative was at least let's correct
10:04elements of it early which is that the team was what what's your biggest concern if you have a
10:09lazy training camp that you won't be ready to start the year right well they they were ready
10:14we at least know that or at least more ready than the Bengals so it's just about turning the boat
10:20into a slightly different direction than the narratives that were leading it all the year
10:23right and I just think it's I think it's early to determine that Gerard Mayo is a more effective
10:28head coach than Bill Belichick was no I mean I I just we've all had just like it was early
10:34to mock him when you hadn't seen the the team actually play a regular season game but we did
10:39that routinely I need a season where he makes the playoffs or a season where they are an AFC
10:45championship team or I do you think you were quick to mock the way he was coaching the summer
10:50well no because I mock everything but I I I thought that uh I didn't think his approach
10:56was uh going to be uh as successful as Bill's was right and the whole reason he's here is
11:03because he's not Bill because Bill's approach didn't work with this team okay but you're going
11:07off of one on game okay let's talk baseball I don't care we can do anything we're just reacting
11:12to what happened but do you think he'll get more wins this season than Bill got last season yes
11:16I already said that I have you over four and a half yeah but even if he gets one that's the
11:20same as Bill did when he came in after Pete Carroll Pete Carroll won eight and 99 Bill came
11:25in in 2000 and won five right I mean the approach is is we know it's different right we understand
11:31that but it and he knows it's different he's gonna do it his way and it's gonna be like last
11:35year when you looked at those first two games last year they lost to Philadelphia and Miami
11:40both at home we weren't complaining about Bill's approach we were complaining about oh did Mac do
11:48enough Mac Mcmiss did miss this play oh I think it was the um Keyshawn Booty play on the sidelines
11:55it was a catch or something like that I I can't really recall but it wasn't about Bill's approach
12:00it was more about the performance of the quarterback that we were questioning right
12:05and obviously there was there was no real better answer to go to other than really zappy at the
12:11time so now when we're looking at this season great job by Mayo goes down there beats a good
12:17team at on the road the quarterback is fine doesn't make any mistakes does what he's supposed
12:24to do we give Mayo praise but I'm not gonna knock Bill because of last year when it to me it wasn't
12:32that the team didn't buy in I think they got tired after losing and they were like all right we're
12:39kind of tired of this message or the packaging all right well certainly the Gerard Mayo era
12:45off to a great start it is with a win in week one and we'll see what happens this