Head Coach of BC football Bill O'Brien joins! Did O'Brien ever go to the Patriots' Halloween parties?

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Head Coach of BC football Bill O'Brien joins! Did O'Brien ever go to the Patriots' Halloween parties? Here's the story!

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00:00Hey, Coach.

00:01Hey, Greg.

00:02Hey, guys.

00:03How we doing?

00:04Are you somebody who likes to dress up for Halloween or not?

00:09You know, it's been a long time since I

00:11dressed up for Halloween.

00:13So I would say yes when I was younger, but not right now.

00:18No, not looking at Halloween right now.

00:21Did you ever end up going when the Patriots guys would have

00:26the traditional Halloween party?

00:28Did you ever end up going in costume?

00:31Oh, I'm so glad you asked me about that.

00:34I was hoping you would ask me about that.

00:36Because that's that scene, right,

00:38where Randy Moss is talking to Bill about Halloween

00:40and all that?

00:41Yeah.

00:42Remember that scene?

00:43Yeah.

00:44Well, I don't, my recollection is the assistant coaches

00:48were not invited to that party.

00:49So we had to work.

00:50We were working.

00:50We had a game that week.

00:51And I don't think we, that was like a roller blade.

00:54I don't know.

00:54Bill went as a pirate.

00:56Randy went as whatever.

00:58I was in the office trying to game plan for whoever

01:01we were playing.

01:03So what you're saying is that there was a party

01:07and your hard-o boss wouldn't let you go to it,

01:10is what you're saying.

01:11Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying, I just remember that,

01:14I don't know if the boss ever said anything about, hey,

01:17you guys can't go.

01:18It's just like the invitation, I don't think,

01:20was extended to me and Dante and all the other guys

01:24that were hiding here.

01:26I don't know.

01:27Maybe my memory is wrong about that.

01:29So when they said no days off, they

01:30meant the assistant coaches.

01:33Yeah, exactly.

01:34Yeah, there's no doubt that there

01:36were no days off for the assistant coaches,

01:38no doubt about it.

01:39Well, Bill, last Friday, not the outcome I'm sure you wanted.

01:43You guys started off so hot, up 20-0 to kick things off.

01:47What happened when you came out in that second half?

01:51Yeah, we just, we have trouble sustaining 60 minutes.

01:56We have to figure that out.

01:57That's my job.

01:58I mean, I have to do a better job of getting these guys

02:01to understand how we have to play a full game.

02:03Like, we play a half a game.

02:05We play three quarters.

02:06We play one quarter.

02:07We never play 60 minutes.

02:10And so I think that's a big thing that we've

02:12been working on this week.

02:14We struggle to throw the ball right now.

02:16We've got to improve our passing game.

02:18And it's just something that we're working on.

02:20We're working very hard on it.

02:22Look, I feel really good about the future of this program.

02:26I like where these guys are at relative to their work ethic

02:29and how they're trying to learn, how we're

02:32trying to get them to play.

02:34But in the end, we have to win.

02:36And if we don't win, then that's not really good.

02:38So we have to figure out how to get them to play 60

02:41minutes as a coaching staff.

02:43Does it worry you that you guys now have a bye week?

02:46I know you don't control that.

02:47But to have a loss, a bye week, then another loss,

02:50and then another, or two losses, then another bye week,

02:53does that worry you that there's too much time

02:55in between your last win?

02:57Not really, just because I like the way these guys have

03:00approached this week.

03:01I feel that the energy in the team meeting room

03:05the last few days has been really good.

03:07I mean, these guys have come out and practiced

03:09well the last few days.

03:11We practiced three days.

03:13We'll scrimmage today, and then we'll give them

03:15Friday and Saturday off.

03:16So I don't really think it's a bad thing to have a bye.

03:21In this program right now, we're in the first year

03:25of this program.

03:26I think we need all the extra practices, the extra scrimmage

03:30situations, the extra drills that we can get.

03:32So I think it kind of helps us.

03:34Hopefully that shows up next week.

03:37Bill, what's that dynamic like now

03:39that you go from the professional to college

03:42and trying to be able to get these young kids to not get

03:48so excited where they feel like the game is over

03:51because they're up at halftime to be able to sustain

03:54that for 60 minutes, when a lot of them are younger

03:57and maybe never had dealt with adversity,

03:59where it's like different versus dealing with NFL players

04:02who might've seen that stuff.

04:03What's that dynamic like for you now juggling a lot

04:06of some of these younger guys and having to teach them

04:09dealing with the adversity?

04:11Yeah, there's no doubt.

04:12It's very, very different.

04:13In the National Football League, as you know, Wig,

04:16those guys are very, you know, for the most part,

04:19those guys are very mentally tough.

04:20That's why they're at that level.

04:22I think we have a very physically tough team.

04:24I think we really try to play hard.

04:27We don't, you know, there's never been a time

04:29where I've said, you know, hey, this guy,

04:31this is a lack of effort or we're not playing tough.

04:34We play hard, but we don't have the mental discipline

04:38right now to lock in on what we have to do

04:41or to understand that the game is a game of momentum

04:45and we have to understand, hey, you know,

04:47Louisville goes down and scores.

04:49Now we need to answer that.

04:51You know, in the NFL, when you're on a good NFL team,

04:54you know, those scoring drives are answered by the offense.

04:57And we don't do that and it's vice versa.

04:59You know, we go down and score

05:00and then Louisville comes back and scores.

05:02You know, we have to do a good job of getting off the field.

05:05It takes a lot of mental preparation,

05:08a lot of mental focus, mental toughness

05:10to be able to play 60 minutes

05:12and that's what we're still working on.

05:14Speaking of the NFL, as a guy who coached there

05:16for a long time, Bill, what did you think

05:20when Anthony Richardson took himself out of that game

05:22because he was gassed?

05:25Yeah, I've never seen that.

05:28I think like, you know what,

05:30the first thing that came to mind, Greg,

05:32when I saw that was, and I actually talked

05:35to our quarterbacks about this a little bit,

05:37is, you know, the quarterback position

05:39is really different than any position on the field,

05:42meaning like, they have to be out there.

05:45They're the one position that everyone is counting on.

05:48Like, you don't take it for granted,

05:50but you almost take it for granted.

05:51They're like, oh, this guy's gonna be there for us.

05:53Like, we don't have to worry about this guy.

05:55Like, he'll, you know, if you think back

05:56to the greatest guy that ever played the position

05:58that we had here in New England, Tom Brady,

06:01like he played through so many injuries,

06:03a lot of them that people don't even know about

06:05and was always out there for his team,

06:08except for one year where he blew his knee out.

06:11And so like, you know, the quarterback position

06:13has to be out there.

06:14And I'm sure Coach Steichen is telling, you know,

06:18Anthony that, and, you know, he's a young player.

06:20You know, he'll learn from it.

06:21It's never over.

06:22Like, you know, he'll come back for it, I'm sure.

06:24But that's the one thing about that position.

06:26You've got to be out there every day for your team.

06:29Your team needs to be knowing that,

06:31hey, we can depend on this guy, no question about it.

06:34It sounds like they must be taking what he did seriously

06:39because they're going with Flacco

06:41for the rest of the season.

06:42Like, they're essentially saying that.

06:43Am I right about that, Chad?

06:45I think Steichen said yesterday,

06:48his words were going forward.

06:49We're going with Joe Flacco.

06:51Interesting.

06:52Curtis?

06:53Billy, I just, on the quarterback topic,

06:55I watch Aaron Rodgers and I know I'm a jaded Brady guy,

06:59but like, what is it about guys like Brady and Mahomes?

07:03And then you look at someone, Aaron Rodgers,

07:05who's as physically gifted, if not more,

07:08and yet has struggled so much to repeat,

07:11get back to the Super Bowl, to have players around him

07:15elevated by his performance

07:16instead of him always blaming someone else.

07:20I don't have any personal knowledge of Aaron,

07:23but I actually have, you know,

07:25obviously personal knowledge of Tom and Mahomes.

07:28We spent a lot of time when I was in Houston

07:30on Mahomes and that draft process.

07:33You know, Aaron Rodgers is an incredible player.

07:35I mean, when we were in the NFL,

07:36we would always watch him and see what they were doing,

07:38especially in Green Bay, you know,

07:40obviously like what they were doing offensively

07:42and how he played, an incredible player.

07:44But, you know, one of the most important parts

07:46about that position is, you know,

07:48not only the talent that you have,

07:49but the personality, the type of teammate you are.

07:52Like, you know, I can remember Tom

07:54and then, you know, working with Mahomes

07:57pre-draft and all that.

07:58Like, these guys were like great guys.

08:00You know, they were guys that had a, you know,

08:03a vibe around them that, you know,

08:05you wanted to be around them.

08:06And then coaching Tom and the way he, you know,

08:09his sense of humor with his teammates.

08:12I can remember like his back and forth with Matt Castle.

08:15I mean, those are some of the funniest stories

08:16I've ever had that, you know,

08:18think about it when I was in New England.

08:20And, you know, the type of teammate he was with,

08:23you know, Matt Light and, you know,

08:24the other side of the ball, like Mike Vrabel

08:26and the type of back and forth.

08:28There was just a great personality.

08:30And I said that to you guys a few weeks ago

08:32about that retirement deal.

08:34You know, you could just see, like,

08:35there were so many great people during those years

08:37that the Patriots, people that had intelligence

08:40and compassion and senses of humor.

08:43And, you know, they understood their roles on the team.

08:45I think, you know, that's very hard to put together.

08:47That's actually what we're trying to do here at BC

08:50because I think in the end, that's what wins.

08:52You got to have talent.

08:52You got to have talent,

08:53but you have to have the right mixture of people

08:56to go out there and win.

08:58Well, you got some time to work on it.

09:00So, yes.

09:02I was just going to say, speaking of quarterbacks,

09:03is Castellanos okay?

09:05Did he get banged up during that game?

09:06Is he hurt at all?

09:08He did.

09:09He did get a little banged up, Courtney.

09:11You know, he plays very hard.

09:12He plays a different style of game that, you know,

09:15than a lot of quarterbacks play.

09:16He really does, you know,

09:20have a dynamic playing style that can, you know,

09:23he gets hit, he gets hit.

09:25And I think he's going to be fine.

09:28It's nothing, you know, serious,

09:31but yeah, he is a little banged up,

09:33but he'll be ready to go for Syracuse.

09:35Lane Kiffin this week was talking about

09:37what an advantage it is to play at home on Friday nights

09:40as opposed to Saturdays.

09:41Do you agree?

09:47I don't know.

09:47I think these weeks, like I'm more, Greg,

09:50I'm more into the traditional week, right?

09:52Like in the NFL playing on Sundays

09:54than in college football playing on Saturdays.

09:56I think these weeks,

09:58I actually have to do a better job next year of,

10:01you know, making sure that I map out these weeks better

10:03to get us in the prime position to be ready to play.

10:06We played on Thursdays, we played on Friday.

10:09You know what I mean?

10:09Like, it's just, it's a little bit up and down.

10:12The rest of these games are all normal.

10:14They're all on Saturdays.

10:15So, you know, it shakes out to a normal schedule

10:18the rest of the way.

10:19Well, Courtney at least said you did a better job

10:20with the music on Friday night.

10:22She was pretty happy with it.

10:23Wasn't the music, the music was good, right, Courtney?

10:25It was loud too.

10:28Right, yeah, crank it up and let's go, right?

10:31And little mixture of, you know, some ACDC,

10:34some rap, some country, right?

10:36Like, let's go.

10:37Very good.

10:38All right, Bill O'Brien.

10:39Yeah, all right, guys.

10:40Happy Halloween.

10:41Thanks, we'll talk to you again next week.

10:43Thank you guys, appreciate it.

10:45That is Bill O'Brien on this show every Thursday

10:48during the college football season.

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