Former Patriots guard SB Champ Joe Andruzzi joins the show!
Former Patriots guard SB Champ Joe Andruzzi joins the show! Does he agree with the decision to start Drake Maye Sunday?
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00:00Lived the life that we live every single day when he was teammates with Jermaine Wiggins
00:06That is Joe Andrews each. Oh, good morning
00:10I'm sorry to hear that. Oh, man. I mean it was a long year
00:16Did he how long did it take him to know your name
00:20I mean he we work with a lot of people and he still doesn't know any of their names
00:25Well, it's a problem we have these days you get in the head for 20 years, you know, what's your problem though?
00:31Well, you don't know somebody's name
00:41The Brockton reporter to
00:43Know your name
00:48How you doing Joe
00:50I'm good. How we doing? I'm good doing great. Have you been on I would call it like team Nick Avich team
00:58Chatham
01:00team team tie law
01:04Team what gronk team gronk where you think it was the right thing to do to wait until this Sunday for Drake May
01:13Well, it's just timing I mean
01:15You know
01:17Reset's been in there for a month now and you know, it's they drafted in what number three
01:22I'm gonna stay paying them to sit on the sidelines
01:24I mean, you know
01:25I was once told that you know when I made the Green Bay roster as a rookie free agent in 97 is
01:32That you're not a rookie anymore
01:34You know, you're a part of this team and now you gotta help out and do whatever it's called upon and you know
01:40and I wasn't making a 1% of what he's probably making this year, but
01:46The overall I mean you gotta do when you when you called upon you got the next man up and you know
01:53They went into a little stretch here and now they need that little spark and you know, here we go
01:58New ever starting as an o-line guy how much of Jacoby Brissett struggles?
02:04Do you put on that offensive line so far?
02:08So far I mean, it's
02:10They're not thinking
02:12You know, they got different guys each week. So it gets harder and harder
02:16You know as we use a you know, he's half offensive line and you know
02:20He knows that you know
02:21You guys five six guys and even running back seven sometimes and you gotta be in think you gotta know
02:28You know whether it's a blitz or start. You gotta know what's coming. You got to see it
02:32You know, and you gotta make a quick second decision. Maybe a half a second
02:37so sometimes it just happens on the run and
02:40you know instincts play a lot play a big part and hopefully this line can gel together and
02:46Form behind form in front of me and you know
02:50See how they pull forward and how they protect them Joe
02:53One of the biggest things for me to play Drake may was was you draft them that high?
02:59And he's behind a journeyman always competing with a journeyman backup
03:03You're a team that doesn't have high expectations and I always felt like and you know
03:07You could probably talk about it just as well
03:09The more playing experience you get from actually playing in real football games every Sunday
03:17It it's it's so beneficial to whether or not you're either gonna grow as a player or the coaching staff
03:23Can look at you and go? Okay, it might be really difficult for this guy to play in the NFL
03:30I mean when we were playing we were actually hitting in practice and we were actually, you know doing more than they do nowadays
03:36too bad, we didn't get paid like they did these days wait, but
03:41You know over overall. I think yeah, you're a hundred cent, right?
03:45and but a lot of people still look at the Aaron Rodgers and the
03:50And love and how Green Bay did it and these guys, you know
03:54They said they learned and then they sparked when they had their opportunity
03:59But you know when you get a guy and it's first round and I don't even know what he signed for
04:04But you're paying them millions of dollars and you know, you're part of this team now. It's time to step up
04:09I don't care how young you are. No, it's it's
04:12The next guy up and the old lion has to really come together this week and focus it on what they have to do
04:18It's a team as a unit and help out and keep this guy up, right?
04:22I mean, you don't want him running around, you know biting his fingernails and in the huddle and
04:27You know scared scared to get under the center, so he's got a
04:31He's got a man up and old lion has the man up to and get out there and do their best
04:36Joe when you hear different reports coming out of a potential mutiny in the locker room
04:41Or you have guys calling each other out saying that they're playing selfish. How much do you put that on?
04:47On Gerard Mayo because it feels like we've talked about it on the show that under Bill Belichick
04:52They kept everything really in-house
04:57Very true, I mean, you know, a lot of people's scare tactics
05:01I think and that's how Bill ran ran things and you know, a lot of people were
05:06scared of Bill and
05:08You know, you don't want to be able you don't be that guy. That's
05:12Button heads with coaches or other teammates and pointing fingers because that's not a team player
05:18You know win or lose you you play as a team and you win or lose as a team
05:23So, you know overall you got to go out there and you know play together play, you know
05:30cheer each other up cheer each other on and you know, don't don't blame anybody and but yourself and
05:36That's what I built did a lot of years and I'm sure
05:40Gerard
05:41He knows a lot of that being a player being a coach on the bill
05:46And you know, he understands that aspect but he's you know
05:51Right his ship right now and you know, it's still beginning and still
05:55Growing so hopefully they can get this ship upright and keep going forward
06:00Do you now look back at being scared of bill as being a positive thing?
06:08Well, you look at it now, yeah, you just explain us, you know, it's just ask the question you look at things like that
06:14It's you know, I've seen it throughout my 10-year career
06:18I don't know about you wig, but when you don't get that respect, it's not really scared tactics. It's respect
06:24You need to have that respect in that, you know, it's kind of like a scare tactic where you know
06:29You don't want to do wrong. I mean
06:31Wait, what was Monday morning Monday morning meeting lowlights?
06:35Low light. Yeah, you didn't want to make you didn't want to make the low light
06:39No, you walk out of that you walk out of that room and you feel like you're just a you know
06:43Horrible football player, but you know, it's like you walk out with your head down man. I suck and we just won by 21
06:55Joe what was that? Most angry you ever saw bill Belichick. I
07:02Remember one time I was in the game and I got a response my conduct on
07:08On a guy at like the one yard line and we'll push this back
07:12Thank God we ended up scoring
07:13But I remember walking off the field and I tried to walk away from him
07:18And I saw him at my peripheral vision. I saw him at the corner of my eye
07:22Following me as I'm walking down the sideline
07:25I'm trying to walk the furthest point away and get to the head just get off the field and he keeps following me
07:31I'm like, oh no. Oh, no
07:34Yeah, you got a few choice words for me there
07:36And
07:38That was classic when Bill you Bill loved the f-bomb
07:42He loved loved the f-bomb and Joe Joe will tell you there and in mail
07:47That's why I said males probably taking a page out of his book and maybe it's a little bit different
07:51But it was their respect and like to scare tactics and we would be out on the bus after games
07:58Thinking about how bad some of the plays that we might have made
08:02Individually to see if they were gonna be on the low light and how bad he was gonna embarrass us. Oh
08:08Yeah, wait, you could have scored four touchdowns and then that one miss block that sacked Brady
08:14You know, it was going up first play and you knew as soon as as soon as it comes up
08:18You can see a lot of guys know like this is the play it just goes up on the film and he doesn't press play
08:23Yet and you're like, oh no put your head down. You're like damn here it comes
08:28You know
08:29But you know and Greg that might be to your point of liking and Joe Greg always talks about that
08:34you know the players and
08:36Our time and I hate to go back to like, you know when we played type, you know, oh, yeah, you hate doing that
08:44But like mentally I think we were just
08:48Tougher because there were more old-school coaches back then
08:52Yeah
08:53We're now, you know
08:54The coaches are more of a new school type of coaches all over like even Scott Necker was an old-school mentality
08:59With a lot of these newer coaches even positional coaches. They come from this new age of coaching
09:05Well having played with Tom Brady and the way Tom Brady was inserted into the lineup
09:12I from a when you hear some say that you don't want to ruin Drake May mentally
09:18By putting him in too early. Do you laugh at that Joe?
09:23No, not at all. I mean Brady, you know, he had that one year, but he was also
09:29what basically a free agent about six-round pick and you know, he had
09:34Opportunity to work on his game and whole offseason and then move up in the depth shot and when he had his chance
09:41He stepped in there and he he's a competitor
09:43I don't know Drake May personally, but he seems like a competitor when he gets out there on the field and he's
09:50Hopefully the team can rally around him and you know, we'll see what the future holds but uh, you know
09:56Overall, it's just one of those things where you just got to take a step back to move forward
10:01So hopefully they can step back and slow things up and just take it one play at a time offense defense and special teams
10:09Joe
10:09Expert one of our one of our listeners one of our viewers on twitch would like to plug for your foundation if you could he's been
10:16Waiting for that
10:18Well
10:19This Thursday October 10th. We're going to be at Gillette Stadium not watching the Patriots
10:24But it's my 17th annual Joe Andrews a foundation gala at the new
10:30GP atrium under that big big scoreboard. They got up there a bill, but whatever you want to call it, but uh
10:37You know, it's going to be a great night. We got a lot of great stories to share
10:41We're raising funds to help patients all throughout New England with cancer pay for cancer patients for utilities food
10:49rent transportation treatment, you know, we help with the homeland bills that are sometimes forgotten about and
10:55when you hear that patients
10:57become bankrupt after a
11:0050% of patients become bankrupt after a cancer battle and there's something wrong with our
11:05without health system a health care system because that shouldn't happen somebody battling for their life and
11:11You want to get better at home and you know, you finish your treatment
11:15You're alive and you have no place to live
11:18But you know, it's one of those things that uh, you know has to be looked upon and you know
11:22You know there's money out there and you know, hopefully we're paying your phone
11:26We're helping the biggest thing that we can ever get is a thank you two words
11:31Just that thank you and you know reflects
11:34Myself my wife Jen our whole staff are all about constituents our sponsors that you know
11:39It's one of the things that lifts your spirits and makes you want to do more and you know helped over 50,000
11:47Patients individuals all throughout New England where you know, we brought in since
11:52Since 2008, you know, we give rides we help with food and we help with many different barriers
11:58It's uh, you know, it's amazing. We're hoping to raise some good funds. We got a lot of great prizes a lot of auction items
12:05Good thing is to us that it's sold out, but there is still ways that you can check out Joe Andrews II foundation org
12:14From more information and I yell if you anybody's interested in Celtics fans
12:19We got a great sweepstakes going on right now for two tickets to the Celtics opener on October 22nd
12:26Banner night. So and I want to go see them raise the banner. We also have
12:31Dinner at a the Louie's and a stay at actually a beacon hotel, so
12:36It'll be up until October 14th, and then the winner will be announced. So open the gala, you know goes great this year
12:43I've got a lot of past and a lot of current Patriots coming up to say hi
12:49So looking forward to a great night and hearing a lot of great stories from patients and individuals and raise some funds to help
12:57others that are in need
12:59Joe before you go if you had to be put on the spot right now, what year is the next banner raised at Gillette Stadium?
13:11Let's see, I'm not giving another year or two so maybe 26
13:16Every year is different. They're rebuilding and you never know what that year is. You see what happens this year and
13:23teams come in you think they're gonna be in a top in their division and then all of a sudden oh and four oh and five
13:29Whatever whatever's going on with some of these teams, but you just never know every year is different
13:33especially with free agency nowadays, so we'll see what the
13:38future holds
13:40You know, and I said earlier, you know, they don't have that callus anymore
13:45They formerly you got a form of callus to get you know, when you stop getting hit and
13:50Training camp and you're starting to feel it aches and pains, you know by a second third week
13:55You don't feel it anymore as much unless you know, unless you're hurt but for me, it's you know
14:00I got this experience getting in and training and I was like, I don't feel that
14:05You know, by, uh, second, third week, you don't feel it anymore as much,
14:09unless, you know, unless you're hurt, but there's a difference
14:12between being hurt and injured.
14:14So if you're hurt, you still play what you play for the whole season hurt.
14:18And then if you're injured, that's a different story.
14:21All right.
14:21Joe Andrewsy, great to hear your voice and great work by you and
14:25good luck on Thursday night.
14:26There's Joe Andrewsy.
14:28Yeah.
14:28Good stuff.
14:30And I, like I said, I think the, just even with like a coach, like
14:34who coached Joe for so many years, the old school mentality of coaching
14:41is probably like, you know, almost at the extinct point in the NFL, where
14:49even like some of the, the, the offensive line coach who's left NFL head
14:53coach wise, who has that approach.
14:57The old, I mean, Andy, Andy reads an old school type of coach, but I don't
15:03know if he's like that old school, like, you know, like there's two different
15:07ways that, you know, you thought about old school coaches back in the day.
15:11And we used to say he was the, he was the Victor, he was the victim of
15:15senior violence at the hands of Travis Kelsey during a super bowl.
15:19Yeah.
15:19So I don't think, I don't think he's that kind of guy.
15:22Yeah.
15:22He was more along those, uh, Pete Carroll player coaches, you know?
15:25So I don't know who you would throw in that category.
15:28I mean, who would other like Bill, Bill Belichick, but who, who's
15:32left around, is there anybody?
15:34There's really nobody left.
15:36No.
15:37Do the Harbaugh's count?
15:42They lean more old school than new school, but they're
15:45not necessarily old school.
15:46Yeah.
15:47So maybe I could, I could get on board with, you know, the Harbaugh's, you
15:54know, maybe, but it's just, it's, but even like their positional coaches
15:58is just different, you know?
15:59So
16:00everything changes.
16:01Are they the luckiest family in the world?
16:03The Harbaugh's?
16:03Uh, who has it better than us?
16:05No buddy.
16:07Uh, James says everybody, and it really hurts my heart, but I would say the,
16:12uh, the thing that changed at all is NIL.
16:16Now, how are you going to tell a guy coming to college?
16:18He's already got 6 million bucks in his bank account, but he
16:20has to change to make money.
16:23Yeah.
16:23Right.
16:23It's kind of a tough, tough hill to climb.
16:26Yeah.
16:27All right.