Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Locked On Patriots October 23, 2018 - Tape Tuesday

Episode Date: October 23, 2018

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello everybody and welcome on in to a tape Tuesday edition of Locked On Patriot. Mark Schofield in the big chair on this Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018. Got a locked and loaded show for you today. We're going to talk a little JC Jackson, put him under the microscope. A little bit later in the show, we're going to do some news and notes, talk about Sonny Michel, Rob Gronkowski, Amari Cooper on the move, some interesting PFF numbers on the Chicago Bears-New England Patriots game. We also got a listener request for our opening segment, which I'm really excited about. But before we dive into that, reminder to follow me on Twitter at Mark Schofield. Check out the work at places like insidethepylon.com,

Pro Football Weekly, The Score, Matt Waldman's Rookie Scouting Portfolio, Big Blue View, part of the SB Nation family of websites. As I said, though, we're going to start this off on our offensive tape portion of the show, offensive portion of the Tape Tuesday show, with an actual listener request. I love this.

I absolutely love this. When somebody gets so hyped up about a Tape Tuesday show, about some of the odes that I've been doing that they put in a request, I could not say no. And this comes to us from Canada, from our great friend Erica Prohl, at Erica Holmes4U on Twitter. Excuse me.

I think I get that wrong. I got to double check that. It's at Erica's, E-R-I-C-A-S, Holmes4U, the number 4U on Twitter. And she put in a request, I think you need to do an ode to SweetFeet underscore White, who is James White on Twitter, this week. Can't wait to listen to the latest glorious victory episode of Locked on Patriots. Also on Pins and Needles, waiting for the news on Sony's Neat, which we'll get to a little bit later.

But Erica put in a request for an ode to James White. And how could I say no to that? You know, James White stepped up in a huge way for the New England Patriots on Sunday against the Chicago Bears. And so I'm going to dive into his film right now. And since Erica was kind enough to send in the request, it gives me a chance to say, look, if you want a similar type of situation, you want me to focus on somebody on this tape Tuesday show, I am happy to do it. Just hit me up on Twitter at Mark Schofield or via the email machine,

mark.schofield, that insidethepylon.com. I will say that when the coaches tape comes out, it's usually a pretty fun thing to do to get through, re-watching the game when you get to see everything from the two different angles, and it's always a lot of fun, unless you have to watch the Soldier Field All-22. For those of you that might be active on Twitter, on football Twitter, or the Locked on Patriots Slack channel,

you probably have seen some references to how bad the quote-unquote All-22 is from Soldier Field, from home games for the Bears. It's basically the broadcast tape. It's bad. It's really sort of hard to see things. It's barely different than the broadcast tape. When I was talking to Loren Cox last week, the host of Locked on Bears, he was telling me that after Chicago's game against Tampa Bay, the Mitchell Trubisky six touchdown pass game, he found that somebody like sitting in the upper deck at Soldier Field was like tweeting out some videos of plays.

And he said it was better from some random dude's iPhone. And that's true. I can completely understand why. So if you see on Twitter people griping about the Soldier Field All-22, there's a reason why. But let's dive into some Sweet Feet White here, cover him in the start. I want to talk opening drive. I talked in the Glorious Victory episode about the opening drive. They did some fantastic things.

There was a play of first and 10. New England has the ball to Chicago 44 at the 1342 mark. And they run this little slip screen to White, where he's in the backfield next to Brady, who's in the shotgun. And he simply is going to sort of release to the left, not even get that far away from Brady. And you've got guys pulling in front of him. It's sort of that slip screen design.

But what I loved about this play, and it's something the Patriots did often, and I didn't notice it watching the broadcast game live or re-watching it later Sunday night, he fakes a chip on Khalil Mack. Now Mack is aligned in that sort of wide nine alignment well outside left tackle Trent Brown. And obviously White's behind Trent Brown.

So when White starts the play, he starts to square up on Mack. Mack is rushing to the outside. White starts to square up on him and lunges at him for just a second like he's going to chip him. And that sort of forces Mack away a bit and more into the path of Trent Brown. It's just this subtle little move. I saw it on this play, and then you started to see it throughout the course of the game. They were showing this little fake chip on Mack to get him more into the body of Trent Brown. And then from there, he just picks up a block from Joe Thune picks up a block from

David Andrews and he's off for a 14-yard gain it's just a simple little play but I love the way it came together second quarter 903 mark of the second quarter the Patriots you know this is as they're coming out of that sort of you know they had gotten the Patterson return for the touchdown, so they're starting to get back into the flow of the game. They face a third and four, though, on their latest possession. You know, they're still trailing 17-14. They come out with that two-running back look where they have White on one side,

they have Kenyon Barner on the other, and both running backs sort of chip and release so they sort of like chip to the edges and then run that little sort of curl route and white is wide open and this is one of those plays we're going to talk about a little bit later where they drop khalil mac into coverage over barner but they've also got you know a safety which is via corner who's down in the slot over edelman edelman releases vertically that pulls away that player for a second because it's a zone coverage look and as that defender drops number 37 on the bears in response to edelman's vertical release that

creates space underneath and so with mac dropping over kenyan barner and nothing to influence him in this zone coverage look the release by Edelman creates a vertical threat that that underneath defender number 37 has to carry for a bit freeing up space for James White and what was interesting about that play they returned to it later in the game in the fourth quarter as we're to talk about let's talk about his first touchdown pass first touchdown reception and when I watched it again live and on the broadcast angle yeah i didn't really get the full appreciation for how the patriots got white open here and this is an example of them creating mismatches as an offense because they

come out it's third and five third and goal at the five yard line they have a two by two formation where they've got both dorsett and Hogan split wide to the right Hogan comes in sort of short motion by doing that they force defensive backs to the outside when I first saw this play live and then sort of on the rewatch again I don't know if the broadcast angle sort of cut it out or what but when I first saw it it looked like they were sort of at a y isotype situation where there wasn't really a threat to the outside. It's more creative what McDaniels does here because by having those two receivers to the outside, you force them to sort of put corners to the outside, linebacker matched up aligned across from white pre-snap, and that's

exactly what happens. But what McDaniels does then brings both Dorsett and Hogan on routes over the middle, and White runs an option route. So now those guys come to the inside. It pulls those cornerbacks towards the middle of the field, and now White has this option route against Leonard Floyd, the linebacker, the mismatch they want to exploit. And the entire outside is now clear. So by the formation and the personnel, McDaniels dictates to the Bears,

you might have to put some corners out there. That's what they do. He then brings them over to the middle of the field, and by putting those guys outside, you get White matched up on Floyd in that sort of mismatch situation. This is an offense that wants to create and exploit mismatches, and that's exactly what they do here. Now White has the entire outside free and clear, a lot of green grass,

puts a great move on Leonard Floyd. Easy throw, easy catch, touchdown. Speaking of Floyd, he dropped into coverage a lot, as we're going to talk about in a minute. They got him again in the third quarter at the 10-24 mark. It's another third down situation. They would look to James White on a lot of third downs. We've already talked about two.

Here's another one. This is a third and two with a Chicago 24-yard line. It's another sort of two-by-two formation. Actually, no, this is a three-by-one bunch. But again, you've got James Gordon as the single receiver to the right, James White in the backfield next to Brady who's in the shotgun, again to the right. So you've got James Gordon as the single receiver to the right. James White in the backfield next to Brady who's in the shotgun. Again, to the right. So you've got Gordon outside, James White there.

You're not going to put the corner over James White. You're going to get him matched up again on the linebacker. That's exactly what happens. Now, Gordon runs a slant route, and this is sort of a follow concept. Gordon runs that slant route from the outside, work it over the middle, brings the cornerback with him. White releases to the outside.

Typically what you see when you see that outside receiver come inside on the slant and that running back release to the outside, you typically expect what? Slant flat, right? Slant route from the outside guy, flat route from the inside guy. Floyd sees that, starts to widen, expecting that route to the flat guy flat route from the inside guy floyd sees that starts to widen

expecting that route to the flat white just hits the brakes cuts on a dime and then breaks back on that angle route so instead of it being slant flat it's more of a follow concept where he's following gordon's path floyd's expecting him to go to the outside instead he comes inside gets easy separation such a quick easy throw for Brady. Easy throw, easy catch, 8-yard gain, and they get 1st and 10 at the Chicago 16. Just a beautiful design and an example of an offense showing you one look, giving you something on film, and then playing to what you anticipate as a defender because Floyd just widens and almost starts to turn and run to the flat like he's going to run with him on a flat route,

and that's when White anticipates it so well and breaks to the inside. Fourth quarter, 11-56 mark. We return to that two-runner-back design we started with for another third down conversion. It's a third and two New England on their own 12. And this is a situation where you've got the 31-24 lead. You're backed up early fourth quarter. You'd love a nice drive here to put some points on the board and sort of try to salt this game away you go to that two running back

look again once more White's wide open on that sort of curl route this time he's running it more towards Khalil Mack's side but Mack comes on the blitz what does he do he sort of fakes that little chip again doesn't chip him but it's enough to get Mack off of his track into the body of Trent Brown, and then he releases on that little circle route. Easy throw, easy catch. Eight-yard gain, another first down for the Patriots. Finally, fourth quarter, 245 mark.

The Patriots were good on and score on that drive that we just talked about, but the 245 mark, now you're talking we need to run the ball a bit. We need to work some clock here. We need to, if nothing else, if we can't fully salt this game away, we've got to make sure they burn the rest of their timeouts. My favorite run of White's during this sequence is a first and 10 of Chicago's 48-yard line. They line up with Brady under center.

White is the single back, bunch look to the right with Dwayne Allen. They run a with Brady under center. White as the single back. Bunch look to the right with Dwayne Allen. They run a little crack toss type play here. Allen comes in short motion. He cracks the defensive end. Adrian Waddell, he pulls, tries to get in front of this. Now what happens is there's a defender that runs with Waddell. Waddell's trying to get the edge, but the defender does a great job of setting the edge and white faces a decision he can either bounce it to the outside of him and give up some ground in the process or just cut it immediately upfield and get what he can and that's exactly what it does it's a great split second reading decision from white something you might expect from more

you know experienced running backs in terms of getting carries. White's used more as a receiver. But this was a great move by him because if you bounce it, you might get strung out. You might lose yardage. You might end up going out of bounds. Instead, what he does, he cuts inside, gets north-south,

ends up picking eight yards. You get down inbounds. You get tackled inbounds. You force the Chicago to burn their second timeout. So just a tremendous, tremendous play from White. And it was so much fun to go back with this All-22, as bad as the Soldier Bear, Soldier Field, Chicago Bears All-22 is, and get another look at James White.

So, you know, huge shout-out to Erica for the suggestion. Again, give her a follow on Twitter, at Erica's Homes for you, and for all of you listeners to the show, if you've got somebody you want to revisit, if you're seeing something on Sunday during a game or after next Monday night's game and you're like, yeah, man, I want to go into that a little bit more,

hit me up on Twitter, at Mark Scovid. Always happy to serve the listeners because, as I've said, this is your show. I'm just currently keeping the big chair warm. Up next, we're going to talk about JC Jackson. I was curious to go back and look at the day that he had some good, some bad, including some stuff that you probably missed on the broadcast tape without the chance to see it sort of all coming together on the Soldier Field All-22. That's ahead.

But first, I want to remind everybody about our great friends over at Swap.com. And listen, isn't it crazy how much we pay for new brand-name clothes? Why don't we buy new kids' clothes all the time when they're just going to outgrow them in the next couple of weeks? My son is going through. We got him his Carson Wentz costume, it's ready to go, it's all put together. I'm worried he's gonna outgrow by the time Halloween rolls around. Wouldn't it be great if there was a place to discover awesome discounts on gently used

clothes? There is at Swap.com. Stop driving to store after store, sifting through racks. You can easily sift through millions of clothes in seconds on Swap.com with easy-to-use filters to find just what you need. They have over 14 million tons of textiles are wasted each year. Shopping secondhand at Swap.com helps prevent textile waste from polluting the environment, which is something you can feel good about too. So with Swap.com, you can save up to 90% off retail price on your favorite brands, such as Carter's, Nike, J.Crew, and Swap.com, you can save up to 90% off retail price on your favorite brands,

such as Carter's, Nike, J.Crew, and Gap. If something doesn't fit, you can enjoy hassle-free returns within 30 days. Their items are quality, hand-inspected, and they're added daily. Swap.com is the world's largest consignment and thrift store online. They have a special offer for Locked On Patriots listeners. You get 35% off select items for your first order with promo code LOCKEDON. Plus, you can find new deals every day on Swap.com's homepage. So check them out.

Use that promo code LOCKEDON when you do. Mark Schofield back with you on this Tape Tuesday installment of Locked On Patriots. And switching gears to the defensive side of the ball, I'm going to quickly talk about some J.C. Jackson stuff. And I was very curious. I know I talked about it in the glorious Victory Edition episode of Locked on Patriots, sort of his competitive toughness, battling through some mistakes, some mishaps, some penalties, and working back, getting the interception.

I wanted to take another look at his game because sometimes, you know, when you're talking about defensive backs, you might miss some stuff on the broadcast angle. Now, again, working with the Soldier Field All-22, so it's not quite pristine, but I still came away impressed at times with what Jackson was able to do on coverage, including being into some bad situations, which we're going to talk about. Now, let's go to the second quarter this is the 12 18 mark this is the play right after he was flagged for that illegal use of hands that was not called it was called but it was declined because it was a fourth and four play. A pass over the middle to Trey Burton. He was flagged for the illegal use of hands. This is where they get him sort of matched on the outside in man coverage against Anthony Miller. And he has to trail him across the formation in motion. Miller aligns on the left. He comes in motion all the way from left to right, and he has to trail him. And what happens is you get a vertical release from the inside receiver and

then a post route from the outside receiver. The inside receiver ends up breaking over the middle, and that pulls the safety down. So now JC Jackson has no help. They run sort of a mini Mills concept with a dig and a post and Jackson has no help to the middle of the field because Devin McCourty now has to break down on that dig route. Patriots look to be basically a man, almost a zero man look

with an underneath hold defender because they bring some pressure and Jackson gets beat. This should be a touchdown. Trubisky kind of just throws it too high. Miller gets up, asking for that ball to be down. He was definitively, demonstrably pointing towards the ground. He wants that throw to be much lower from Trubisky.

So Jackson gets beat there. A little bit later in the drive, you get another illegal use of hands penalty on him. That was the play where they throw the fade rod to Kevin White. And again, I'm, you know, watching this play, I'm not so sure about this one. He gets, he tries to jam him,

and I don't know if that's what they really called was the initial jam, because his initial jam on him is a bit high. This is a third and five at the 11-18 mark. And when White goes to release off the line of scrimmage, Jackson's first move is to jam him, and it does look like he gets a little bit of the face there. Then there's some hand check, and he goes up again,

and he might clip his chin again but you know i really think that this was pretty good coverage i wasn't sure that this should have been flagged let's go second quarter 154 mark of the second quarter this is where he's covering a bunch concept here the bears line up up. They've got a three-receiver bunch to the left. They empty the backfield. They've got two receivers to the right, three-receiver bunch to the left. He ends up covering a corner route here from Anthony Miller,

and he stays with it stride for stride. This is a spot concept. You've got a flat route, sort of that snag, that little slant and sit route, and then the deep route on that concept is the corner but he's with it step for step right in his back pocket terrific coverage this is a play where trabisky actually ends up going to the right throws a vertical route to tarik cohen that goes out of bounds and they're forced to punt but i thought

this was tremendous coverage here from jc jackson one of those plays that you don't get to see because the ball goes elsewhere, but sometimes when you're studying defensive backs, when you get that full all 22 angle, you're going to see the times when the ball's not thrown in his direction and what he's doing. I thought that was a great play from him. Let's go to another play. This is that double move from Taylor Gabriel that he gets flagged for defensive pass interference on. And happening live, I think I noticed, I did notice it live. I jotted it down. I didn't really talk about it too much in the Glorious Victory episode,

so I wanted to make sure I revisited this play. And I'm completely fine with the penalty he draws here. Patriots are on a cover two look. Basically end up running cover four where he's not expecting any help deep or anything like that. So he's going to really sort of be wary on vertical routes, on double moves. He sees the stutter, he breaks on it, and he knows he gets beat. As he's breaking down and Taylor Gabriel starts vertically again, he knows he's beat. So what does he do? He grabs him. And it's an actual, you can tell it's a conscious decision by him to grab him, to basically impede his progress. And I'm fine with it because I'd rather him get flagged for a DPI than have him give up six. So I'm actually okay with it. I'm completely

fine with it. And I think that was actually a good, smart, heads-up play. That's a veteran-savvy move where you know you beat, draw the DPI, you know, give up the spot foul. You know, it's a 16-yard penalty. If he doesn't and he just tries to play it straight there, he might not recover. And if Trubisky actually hits it, you're giving up six. So, rather, you know, give up the 16 yards. You know, I'm completely fine with him giving that up because you know what happens? They have to try to punt. And you know what happens on that punt? It's blocked in return for a touchdown. And so it's the process that you're worried about. It's the process you're concerned with. I'm fine with the process and

it led to a great result here. So I'm completely fine with him committing that penalty. Let's talk briefly now about the interception, which I thought was a good play live. It was even better sort of watching it in the moment. This comes in the third quarter at about the 347 mark. On the previous play, Trubisky tries to hit Anthony Miller up the seam with Eric Rowe in coverage. Rowe is beat. This was a bad throw. And when the play ends, Rowe is immediately signaling to the sideline that he's hurt, that he needs somebody to come in.

And so in comes JC Jackson, who was not on the field on the previous down. Now, he might have been coming in anyway, you know, with a third and 10 situation. He might bring extra defensive backs in. And he gets matched up against Miller again on the outside. Actually, excuse me, he's matched up against Josh Bellamy. Doesn't even have the mouthpiece in. I mean, he's just basically running off the field, running in, wasn't expecting to be there because of the row injury.

And it's one of those scrabble drill situations. Bellamy runs a vertical route. He stays with him, has great field form, and when Trubisky breaks the pocket, he does a great job maintaining contact with the receiver because now Bellamy is working back towards him. He breaks with him. He's step for step with him.

Trubisky throws that sort of 50-50 ball and it's an effort play from there because it's a low throw. Receiver probably has the advantage given where the throw is placed and that he's working back towards the ball. But he's with him step for step and just makes the play, rips it away from him. A tremendous effort play. And so obviously I wanted to sort of finish there. I thought overall I was pretty

impressed with what he did. And again, you have two penalties on a drive, those two illegal use of hands penalties, but he comes back, he battles back, commits the defensive pass interference, which I think was a heady play. and I'm completely fine with how he handled himself this afternoon. And so, just wanted to break down his game quickly. Up next, we're going to talk, like I said, we got some news on Sonny Michel, we got some news on Gronkowski, Amari Cooper gets traded, some PFF numbers. That's ahead on this tape Tuesday installment of Locked On Patriots.

But first, look, friends, we got games going on tonight. As I'm sitting here right now, Atlanta and New York are set to go. We've got a Thursday night with the Texans. You know, they're going to set the battle on Thursday night.

We've got college football action. You've been listening to shows like this and some of those shows on the Locked On Podcast Network. You might think you've got a good idea for an angle on a game. That's great

because who you're betting on, it's important. Where you're betting, more important. That's why I always tell everybody, go to my bookie. Trust me, guys and girls, they're your best bet this season. They've been in business for years. They have great reviews online and their mobile site is so easy to use. So lay down some cash and win big today. Now, I would only recommend a service to my listeners that's been good to me and that's why I'm urging you to make your way to my bookie. You win, they pay. They have in-game live betting, the most rewarding player perks in the business.

And for you fantasy men and women out there, you can bet the over-under on how many fantasy points a player will score each game. So join now, and my bookie will match your deposit dollar for dollar, 100% up to $1,000, up to $1,000 for first-time deposits. Use promo code LOCKEDON to activate that offer. Visit MyBookie online today. That's M-Y-B-O-O-K-I-E. And don't forget to use promo code LOCKEDON when creating your account to claim the bonus.

MyBookie. You play, you win, you get paid. Mark Schofield back with you now to quickly close out this Tape Tuesday installment of Locked On Patriots. Going to do some news and notes here. First, we've got some good news on Sonny Michel. According to Adam Schefter, among others, the MRI on Patriots' Sonny Michel revealed no structural damage per source. Michel will be considered weak to weak per source. Best case scenario for Michel and the Patriots. Ian Rappaport, sort of in that same vein.

The runner-back's knee injury is not considered serious following the MRI. His timetable isn't clear, but this is pretty good news for their impressive rookie runner. He could still miss time, but if he does, it may not be much. So good news on the injury front from Sonia Michelle. Also some good news of a sort with the injury front and Rob Gronkowski.

According to Michael Giardi, formerly of NBC's Comcast in New England, now with the NFL Network, he reported that Gronkowski suffered from severe back spasms on Friday. That was the sort of injury that put him on the injury list and put him on the injury report, made it so he couldn't go on Sunday. But they don't expect it to be a long-term thing or anything like that. So with an extra day, he's been shut down over the weekend or so. I'd expect to see him, if things return to form, back in the lineup on Monday night.

Also, we're starting to see some trades getting made. The big one, obviously, Amari Cooper, talented wide receiver from Alabama. He gets sent to the Dallas Cowboys for a first-round pick. And if you remember when I talked about some potential trades that the Patriots might have made, I put Amari Cooper on that list, and I said, look, for a second-rounder, I'd totally be fine with it. Instead, they got Dallas to bite on a first-round pick.

And what was interesting about that, Benjamin Albright, who's definitely worth a follow on Twitter, he pointed out that according to some of the information and the sources that he has, they were a bit in against themselves, Dallas was. No other team was offering anything more than a third rounder. And so it looked like Dallas maybe offered too much. Who knows? We'll wait to see. But that's a team that was in serious need of some help

at the wide receiver position. And wide receiver is a question mark in the next draft. You can listen to the Locked On NFL Draft, Trevor Sikama, John Ledyard. They would tell you next wide receiver is a question mark in the next draft you can listen to a locked on NFL draft Trevor Sikama John led you they would tell you next wide receiver group got some question marks to it Dane Brugler over at the Athletic for example he's got his top 50 big board right now you don't see any wide receivers on there I don't think you know he was talking about that Dallas Cowboys trade and saying look this next wide receiver class a lot of question marks so maybe Dallas looked ahead and said, look, we're not going to find anybody better.

They're waiting on Michael Gallup to become what they hope he can be. In the meantime, they want to be competitive in that NFC East. They needed to make a move, and so they did that. Let's talk about now this Bears-Patriots game from a PFF perspective. They had some interesting numbers. For example, New England blitzed Mitchell Trubisky on 21 of his 58 drops on Sunday. Trubisky, when pressured, was 5 of 20 for 36 yards and a touchdown when he was pressured. By contrast, he completed 70% of his passes for 9.9 yards per attempt when he was not pressured. So that might have played into how that game ended up turning out.

Chicago just had two drops in the game. A lot of people pointed to the figures, the wide receivers. According to the PFF's chart, they just had two drops. But on the flip side, Trubisky, only 64.4% of his passes were deemed catchable. Other than to consider, Khalil Mack, I talked about a couple times him dropping into coverage when we're going through James White, how he wasn't much of a factor. He was dropped into coverage 18 times,

a career high for him. And you want to talk about that offensive line? Two pressures on 16 rushes. Leonard Floyd, 13 coverage snaps for him. Also a high number for him. And just zero pressures on 13 rushes. So I thought those were some interesting PFF numbers to point out to you. Finally, looking ahead now, it is now October 23rd. We are officially, officially, and this is more of a non-football note here. This is more of a real world note. We are officially two weeks away, excuse me, for midterm elections here in the United States. And there are places

that are voted right now as we speak down in Texas, down in Florida and other places. Maybe you live in a state where you can vote early. If so, do it, get it done. I know this is a football show. It is not a news show. It is not a politics show. Although there have been times, Parkland, for example, when I've talked about some real world things because I just felt like I needed to.

And for those of you that appreciated that and reached out, great. For those of you that might've been turned off by it, I do apologize. Sometimes life just takes on something bigger outside of football. We are two weeks away from midterms and I'm not going to sit here and pontificate about who you should vote for, what you should vote for, what referendums you should vote for, or anything like that. If you do want to know about my

political leanings, they're probably not too hard to find. You can probably piece them together pretty easily. But I will say this. I will say this. I just want you to go vote. I want you to get involved, to be involved, and to be part of the process. Maybe there's a referendum. Maybe there's a local candidate. Maybe there's something that you believe in. Maybe you're happy with the way things are going. If so, great. Go make sure that it continues that way if that's what you believe in if you're not happy with then go vote go get involved be part of the process because we are so lucky to live in this country where every couple of years we get a chance to have what some have called a peaceful revolution a non-violent revolution where we get to choose our leaders but the people that choose them are the people that show up and And so we're two weeks

out, make a plan, bring some friends, go vote, get it done, vote early if you can, and then be part of this great American experiment. And I'm going to keep reminding you, I'm going to keep telling you, I'm going to keep harping on it that I want you guys to go out there and vote. If you want to have a little extra incentive, if you want a little shout on on Twitter, show me that little I voted sticker, tweet it to me at Mark Schofield. If you vote early, show me you at the voting station, getting that sticker, mailing in your ballot, whatever you want to do, at Mark Schofield on Twitter. I'll happily retweet it. Again, I just want you to go vote. I want you to be part of the process. Voter apathy, more than anything, is one of the more frustrating things to see the older I get, where 20% of people vote, 30% of people vote. In presidential

elections, you see other countries where it's 60, 70, 80, 90% of the people. You got to go do your part. It's just an hour out of your day. Maybe it's more dependent on where you live. Then vote early if you can. But go vote. I'm going to keep reminding you about it. We're two weeks out from midterms now. If you want to show me proof, if you want a little shout out on social media, get some people to follow you. Tweet me your pictures at Mark Schofield. Show me the sticker. Show me whatever. Happy to retweet it. Spread the news. Get out there and vote. Get it done. And then plus, here's the thing about voting. If you don't, and you don't like the way things are, you can't really gripe too much because you didn't vote. If you vote, you at least get to, you know, say, look, I voted, you know, I voted for Toto. A little Simpsons joke there. Kang, Toto, whatever,

whatever. Regardless, go vote, get it done, make me happy. Show me the pictures at Mark Schofield on Twitter. I'm going to keep reminding you guys and girls out there to go do it. That will do it for today. I will be back Wednesday, the crossover show. Thursday, we're going to do Take Thursday. Some takes from the timeline. Get in some questions. At Mark Schofield on Twitter.

Football. Toto. Life. Whatever. Law. Cooking. Whatever you want me to talk about, happy to do it. At Mark Schofield on Twitter.

At Mark.Schofield. At InsideThePylon.com. Friday, it's going to be a little bit different since the Patriots are playing on Monday. Friday's not going to be your game day show. Piecing together what I might do for that episode. And then, look, we'll be back. Monday will be your game day edition. And then tape Tuesday slash hopefully a glorious victory edition of Locked on Patriots.

So that's the plan for the next couple days. Oh, and of course, Sunday morning tailgate. Although, you know, the schedule is going to be a little bit different. But I's the plan for the next couple days. Oh, and of course, Sunday morning tailgate, although the schedule was going to be a little bit different, but I'll get you guys something. Go vote. That will do it for today.

I will be back tomorrow. Until then, keep it locked right here to me, Mark Schofield, and Locked on Patriots.