First Things First - Patriots Dynasty Already Making A Return? 🚨👀 | BONUS

Episode Date: January 17, 2026

Kevin Wildes breaks down why he thinks his New England Patriots have elements of a future dynasty. He gives real-life examples, like someone opening a pizza store and explains why the Patriots actually have a chance at success this season. Download the FOX Sports App: https://tinyurl.com/y4uouolb ► First Things First’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FirstThingsFirst ► "Outta Pocket w/RGIII" YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OuttaPocketRG3 About First Things First: Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes team up on First Things First. The trio offers their take on a bevy of sports stories alongside special guests from across the sports world. Patriots Dynasty Already Making A Return? 🚨👀 www.youtube.com/@FirstThingsFirst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hi. Welcome to the Kevin Wilde's podcast network. We're debuting a brand new pod today. We canceled our youth culture pod six, seven. It wasn't getting the traction that I really wanted to when Gianna and I crunched the numbers on Spotify. Like no one was like, I don't even think it's top 100. Update on the I read a book podcast and I need to talk about it to somebody. I finished the Michael J. Fox book, which is excellent. And I started the Covenant of Water, which is 700 pages. but I'm doing okay. And so far, excellent.

The new podcast that we are starting is called working title. We have to figure this out, Gianna. I should have told you this before I started a whole new podcast without you.

I think I'm calling it he's got that dog in him. A podcast about my dogs, but one of my dogs is a girl. So it doesn't, she's got that dog, like that dog in him maybe. The other podcast is called

Got that dog in him. It's a podcast about my, two dogs and the hijinks that they get up to. Mostly the puppy. Quick preview of the podcast. Here's something that's going on with the puppy. It's just appearing places. What do you mean? Like in different rooms? No, at different elevations around the house. Go downstairs, flower vase tipped over water everywhere. I said, Billy, why did you spill the water? He said, I didn't spill it. I cleaned it up. I deserved it. credit for this. I'm like, you didn't clean it up because obviously there's water all over the place.

How, why, what did you do? I said, Annie spilled it. I said, that's not, Annie cannot get up here. It's, it's, it's a five feet high and the dog is this, this, this, this, this like this. She didn't, he, she got up there. I walked down and she was just sitting there. I said, I don't believe you. Next day, Annie's chomping on a holiday card. How did she get that? That was over somewhere else. She's like elf on a shelf, but a canine version. She's a weird dog. Very, very cute. You know what she had ultimate pretty privilege, this dog?

But she's so gosh darn cute. Like, oh, what'd you do? Eat another sneaker, ate the mail, ate the bills. She's adorable, though. You should put a picture out there. Like, man, that dog is pretty, pretty. But right now, it's time for the sports podcast called Kevin's Sports Podcast. Okay, listen.

Let me let you behind the curtain. this is a technique called eight-miling. We talk about it on the show. Yes, I think the Patriots currently constructed have elements of a dynasty. This is called eight-mile at night. I know they haven't won the Super Bowl. I know they haven't won the AFC East. I know they haven't won the AFC.

I know they haven't even won 13 games. all I'm saying is there are elements there that I'm recognizing that feel like a dynasty. Okay? The analogy that I'll try to use is there was an old shuttered restaurant. And all of a sudden, you saw some roly-poly gentleman wearing a white apron and a huge chef's hat with a nice mustache. He was bringing in Mozilla cheese He was bringing in a big oven

He was carrying A bunch of cardboard square boxes He was bringing in a bunch of pepperoni And you looked in there One night, like the night before Christmas There's snow covered, but it's yeast flying around And he's up there. I think it's an okay assumption

Looks like that guy's gonna make a pizza looks like this pizza shop's going to be around for a while. And maybe you have your friend say, that place hasn't made one pizza. That's just a bunch of ingredients. I know. But it sure seems like there's a pizza going to be coming out of that place pretty soon. Here are the elements of a dynasty.

This is what the Patriots have. I'll go through a few and then we'll do a little test. And I'd see, just be honest with yourself. if I convince you just a little bit. Do we have the Coach QB combo? Mike Rable and Drake May. The answer is yes. And it's actually more rare than you realize.

Look at the other great quarterbacks. Are we sure Lamar has the coach? They haven't won yet. Are we sure Josh Allen has the coach? They haven't won yet. I think Justin Herbert is the coach quarterback combo, although I've seen Herbert fall apart in the playoffs. I know I haven't seen Drake May in the playoffs yet.

Sean Payton's got a Super Bowl ring. Is Bo Nick's the guy? They've won double-digit game, so I'm going to say yes. Obviously, Andy Reid and Patrick. Maybe D'Amico and CJ. CJ's been to the playoffs every year. So maybe that's the small group we're picking from. Fine.

Do we have the culture? Yes. Everybody likes each other. Everyone's rooting for each other. Everyone who said, oh, Stefan Diggs is going to be a problem, is incorrect. Mack Hollins is an excellent culture setter. He showed up at the last game wearing a mechanics costume, carrying a spare tire, shoeless. I was like, yep, that works because he's a great team and he does a great job blocking.

Currently, we have, I think it was going into week 12, the second most rookies playing. It works. Right up there with like the Browns and the Jets teams that aren't good, but our rookies have already played great, Although Will Campbell and Jerry Wilson are not for it right now. Dynasty DNA. So maybe some random teams like the Chargers. The Chargers are just going to be the Chargers. I'm sorry.

That's not nice to Chargers fans, but I think you got to say the organization of the Patriots has a tradition of winning that the Chargers don't have. Finally, we just have some money. We have this most cap space this year, which seems kind of strange. I would rather we spent some of it. We've got the 10th most next year. This is a common complaint I was reading, Gianna. Wilds, you are actually just being a prisoner of the moment. Lock me up and throw away the key.

Put me in a little striped jumpsuit, a little cute hat. Big cannonball around my leg. I'm into it. Yes, I'm a prisoner of the moment. That's all I got. NFL is a now league. So yes, I'm prisoner of the moment. We won 10 games in a row.

Oh, but Wilds, the schedule is too easy. Oh, yeah? It is easier, you're right. The easiest schedule among teams to start 11 or 2 or better in the last 10 years. Okay. So you got to go 11 or 2 or better, or you can go 13 and 0. Teams that had the easiest schedule. The Patriots at 342 winning percentage of their opponents, TBD of what we're going to do.

Patriots 2016 won the Super Bowl. The Eagles of 2024 won the Super Bowl. The 24 Vikings, they lost. That's the, I think that was, yeah, that was the Sam Darnold. They lost. 2020 Chiefs lost the Super Bowl. A wildcar loss for the Steelers. The Eagles in 2017 won the Super Bowl.

So what this tells me is it's really a shot at Iron Sharpens Iron, Iron, trademark, that the Texans have a very hard schedule. Well, maybe that works, that they were getting better and better and better. And now it's finally all coming to fruition. They're on a winning streak right now. But there is also something to just beaten up on tomato cans like your Mike Tyson in the VHS. And you're just fighting some guy name like, Al. And they're all go look at Mike Tyson's old opponents in VHS.

Just like custom models like, do you have a hairy chest? Yes. Do you have a mustache? Excellent. Are you lumbering? Great. Mike Tyson, who's 16, is going to knock you out in the first round. But Mike Tyson got confidence and confidence and confidence. This dovetails with a theory that I have called the Mount Verde Academy theory.

So I went to see Yukon play at the garden. Was it the Big East tournament? No one cares wilds. I went to see Yukon play at the garden. And it was a time for Liam McNeely to take over. He was Yukon's best player. He got drunk. There's a time for him to take over.

And he was just kind of deferring. And I'm like, oh my gosh. It was an FS1 game, so I had good seats. And I'm like, I think I should not just be like, go. I think I should give real advice right now. Or like the second row because they're Foxy's. I think I should give real encouragement. So I really did this.

I went like this. Liam, you're the best player on the. floor. I thought it was nice. I felt like he needed to be reminded of it. But he was just kind of playing basketball. So I'm like, why isn't this guy playing like he's the best? He's obviously the best, but he's not playing like the best. And this is all I developed the Mount Verdey Academy. He went to high school. He had a regular high school. And then he went to Mount Verdea Academy, which is like super school. And he had Derek Queen and Cooper Flagg on his high school team. So think about the best player at your high school

who didn't do anything in the NBA, unless you're one of the rare guys who had, you know, you went to high school with Alan Iverson. He, Liam McNeely was a first round draft pick and he was the third best player on his high school team.

I think that messes with you. I think you get into like, I'm the third best. Like, no, you're not. Like supermodels. Like, I have low self-esteem. What? You're a supermodel.

You're just hanging out like, I'm not the prettiest superbottle. Like, yes, you are. You're hanging out with other super bottles. Not your fault. You know, it's pretty. Cindy Crawper. You're second prettiest. Don't have low self-esteem.

You got to be in a regular town. If you're in a regular town, you have self-esteem would be through the roof. But you're hanging out with supermodels. I was like, what was me? You don't want to do that. You just want to beat up on some tomato cans, which is the strength of schedule. Maybe it's actually helping. Finally.

This is the other shot that people, will say about the Patriots dynasty. In my dynasty DNA thing, they're like, what has DNA? The logo? The building? Robert Kraft? There's no one there. What?

We have Tom Brady's offensive coordinator. He's got six Super Bowl rings. Head coach has three Super Bowl rings. So there is some dynasty DNA running through. the coaching staff. Going to the Super Bowl in your second year, Dan Marino, Kurt Warner, Big Ben, Colin Kaepernick, Russell Wilson, Joe Burrow, Tom Brady, maybe Drake May. So there is some precedent there. And this is the part that I was going to give you a test. Let's say I looked into a crystal ball and rather like in back to the future too. But, but,

But rather than me getting rich off a sports game, because I would know all the results and the element. I said, ooh, I see a dynasty happening in the NFL. I guarantee you there is going to be a dynasty. Play a game. But it's a new dynasty. It's not the chiefs for the game. Who is it?

Who is your number one draft pick? If I guaranteed you, there would be a dime. Maybe there's not. I don't know. if I guaranteed you there was a dynasty, who would you pick? Be honest. Probably the Patriots. Probably.

Every dynasty needs a little bit of luck. The ball has to bounce your way. You need some calls to go your way. The Patriots dynasty started in the snow game with the tuck rule against the Raiders. That's what kind of launched everything. The Patriots social media team did a fun little video. video about, hey, when is it cold? And everyone said different things, largely on where you either grew up or went to college. Our kicker who went to the University of Miami said anything south of

70 degrees is cold. Negative 20. I'm from Michigan. Don't get cold. Whatever it is right now. I'll tell you that. Under 50. Honestly, I'd say under 72. Andy, please. please when you get home turn off the heat save save money no heat or just bare minimum so the pipes don't burst you have to start living in the cold it's only going to get colder please be outside all the time we are going to need you to make a huge kick in the cold and if you miss it we will bring up that you're you were complaining about it being less than 70 just get used to the cold and the cold. I don't know. I'm so nervous about it. I see it happening. It will ruin the dynasty. Not really shot at Miami, but he did go to the University of Miami. It's nice and toasty there.

Just enjoy the cold. The weather outside is frightful. Enjoy it. Trademark.