Will the run game be sustainable for a 17-game season?

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Will the run game be sustainable for a 17-game season? Is Brissett having trouble throwing the ball downfield? Would Maye fix the deep ball issue?

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00:00This is, this is Cotto from Boston.

00:03Cotto.

00:04Good morning.

00:05Morning, how's it going guys?

00:06What's up?

00:07Hey, so I called in a few days ago about how I thought that

00:11obviously like over 17 or 18 games,

00:14the run game wasn't going to be sustainable with injuries coming up

00:17and whatnot.

00:18And, you know, it's just something you, you know,

00:20that ends up happening.

00:22And to Wiggy and Chimes' point is I do think that Drake Mays should be

00:26starting because I think he'd give us more, more for our receivers.

00:31But at the same time, you know,

00:33we've talked all off season about how the offensive line is a problem.

00:37And no, I don't think that they're great,

00:39but if they're giving a quarterback six seconds to throw the ball,

00:42I think the quarterback should be finding a target.

00:44And I do, just to play devil's advocate for everybody saying that,

00:49what makes you think Drake Mays is able to do it?

00:52Well, what makes you think that Drake Mays isn't able to,

00:55to do the same as Brissette, if not better?

00:59And wouldn't it?

01:00The answer to that is we haven't seen Drake Mays do it.

01:03So we haven't seen Jacoby Brissette do it either.

01:06So what the hell's the difference?

01:07I know.

01:08Listen, to me,

01:09the strength of the run game that you bring up is another reason why you can

01:15put Drake Mays in there and not worry about it as much.

01:20Exactly.

01:21But if you have receivers that are getting open consistently,

01:25and, you know,

01:26Shine brought up the point the other day about Jalen Polk being a top

01:30receiver to get separation.

01:32It's, you know,

01:33you need somebody in there if you want to win games because this season,

01:37you know, a lot of people are saying that it's a rebuild year,

01:39but in reality, we have a good enough team to make, you know,

01:43make the playoffs.

01:44We have a good enough team to,

01:45I'm not saying we're going to win the Superbowl,

01:47but we have a good enough team to compete.

01:48And they showed that against the Bengals.

01:50They showed that last week.

01:51And if you get a better option at quarterback who can get it to your

01:55receivers, then you have even more of a chance to win.

01:58So I just,

01:59I don't see the negative in bringing in Drake Mays,

02:02giving them the experience and in the long run as a Patriots fan,

02:06it should be what you want because he is our number three pick and he's

02:10going to be our quarterback for a while.

02:11So get them in now,

02:13get them used to our young receivers.

02:15All of our receivers are young, except for, you know, Hunter Henry.

02:18It's just Curtis and Wiggy can relate to this,

02:23maybe more so than, than Courtney and chime.

02:27But we are in like,

02:30we have somehow arrived at a point where we are like Carolina,

02:36where we are hoping and praying that we made a pick in the draft,

02:42that quarterback that is somehow going to lead this franchise.

02:45Yeah.

02:46But we didn't leverage our future in order to do it back to glory.

02:49Like it is.

02:50It's it's bizarro world.

02:52Like when you think about the 20 years of incredible success here,

02:55but Greg removing my emotion and the bitterness of the past.

02:59Okay.

03:00When you have a quarterback that can win championships,

03:05the onus is on the coach and Robert craft specifically to maximize that

03:11window, not to find a way to shove him out the door.

03:14And that's what was so frustrating about the end here in new England,

03:20where they didn't maximize it because the odds that Drake may is anywhere

03:24near what you had is slim to none.

03:26See, I don't even really trip about that.

03:29It's like, you're, it's like, you're 16 years old and your crush,

03:32all of a sudden you live in Boston, your crush moves to California.

03:35It's like, yeah, your heart might be broken, but it's time to move on.

03:39I'm in the world of time to move on. I love what Brady did.

03:43I love what the organization was able to do in the time him and bill was

03:47there the same way I've moved on.

03:48Do you want to waste a whole nother season without knowing what Drake may?

03:52I don't, I think that's what they're going to do.

03:55I think it's stupid the same way.

03:57I think the Carolina Panthers are stupid for sitting Bryce young play

04:01Bryce young, see if he can get any better.

04:04And then after the season, you re you reevaluate.

04:07If it's time for us to look to see if we can get a free agent quarterback

04:10or maybe have to trade them.

04:11The Panthers are too trigger happy.

04:13Like they, they just flip on the dime immediately.

04:16Yeah.

04:17They just do not let things play out.

04:19If things don't go right, then they immediately switch.

04:21I, I think this team is good enough.

04:24I think they have a good enough coach.

04:26They have a good enough tap talent on the defensive side of the football.

04:29I think they can run the football.

04:31Well, I don't know what these wide receivers are because.

04:34Your passing game is anemic.

04:36Now I will say that you drafted one overall and then fired the head coach

04:4110 games into the season.

04:43Like you didn't even give them an opportunity.

04:45Like you didn't even,

04:46you barely gave them a chance on a roster you knew was devoid of talent.

04:49This is because David Tepper is a horrendously bad owner.

04:53That's why bad owners create bad environments,

04:56create bad teams and bad things happen to bad teams.

04:59And Courtney said it,

05:01he has no patience and it's all about hiring.

05:03The right guy has nothing to do with his size.

05:05Cause guess what?

05:06Kyler Murray's small.

05:07They, I mean, looks fine to me.

05:09You look at Baker Mayfield, he's small, fine.

05:12Drew Brees was small, fine.

05:14There's plenty of quarterbacks that are on the size that are able to get it

05:19done in the national football league.

05:21I think it's about, and I, we, we said this all the time.

05:24If you don't have the right coach in place to give that quarterback

05:30some stability.

05:31If the quarterback just doesn't have that it factor,

05:34then it's very difficult to go from one year, one system,

05:39another year, another system.

05:41And that's kind of what's happened.

05:43You did not put the right offensive line in place in front of a potential

05:48break may start like you screwed that up.

05:52But if you look at the all 22 breakdown from chime and your dating site,

05:57the line has given him time.

06:00No, a lot of it.

06:01Like if you go back and look at every single play,

06:04I'm at a stat of what,

06:06what was the middle of the league when it comes to time to throw the

06:09football? Yes. Yeah. All right.

06:11So like Greg and a lot of those pressure numbers can be misconstrued

06:15because Jacoby presets holding onto the ball so long that he's creating

06:19his own pressure.

06:20And outside of Drew Brees who won a super bowl,

06:23how many small quarterbacks have years and years of success in the NFL?

06:26We're also Wilson. Yeah. Russell Wilson won a super bowl. Yeah.

06:30Yeah. It's a bunch. Okay.

06:31With one of the great defenses in NFL history.

06:33I mean, he still had years of success. He said, yes. Okay.

06:36So to, uh, well now we got to go through the list of small quarterbacks.

06:40All right. Let me try to think. I mean, I, I just think, I mean,

06:44Doug Flutie had success. Oh, come on. He did. He was 70. Yeah.

06:49But he had success when he played in the NFL.

06:51Twitch chat says Fran Tarkenton Curtis.

06:56Superstar Fran Tarkenton, the original scrambling quarterback, right? Yep.

07:01One of the original, uh,

07:03endorsers of products, uh, on commercial television, Fran Tarkenton.

07:07Fran Tarkenton underrated could succeed in today's NFL.

07:10And I got to tell you, Russell Wilson is how old? Uh, he's got to be 35.

07:14Boy, he looks good. Better than ever. It doesn't look good now.

07:18Uh, Michael Vick was success. Michael Vick was not under six feet tall.

07:22He was like six feet.

07:24And generally when they say you're six feet, you're smaller than that.

07:27That is true. You know? So let let's, I mean, let's be honest.

07:30I'm just trying to go through the list.

07:32He's not under six feet. He is six feet.

07:34And we're going by what everybody's listed as everybody lies.

07:36It's all the same. So let's say Bryce is what's the difference between five,

07:4011 and six feet, an inch, but an inch means nothing.

07:43It's not like you watch any given Sunday.

07:46The inches are everywhere. I can see if you're going.

07:49All right. Bryce young is five, 11 in this quarterback, six, three.

07:52There's no, there's no Curtis. Do you buy into the Baker Mayfield?

07:55Yes. I'm buying a Baker Mayfield.

07:57You see Baker ripping Brady, by the way.

08:00He said they're finally happy now that he was gone, that they were,

08:03all the players were too stressed around Tom.

08:05Two is short to two is another one.

08:07I mean, the days of the short quarterback are long gone out the window.

08:11The prototype being the drew blood. So six, one for two.

08:14The six, five Curtis well aware of how helpful it can be to get an extra inch.

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