Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Locked On Patriots - September 20, 2019: Pats-Jets Chat with Chatham

Episode Date: September 20, 2019

The New England Patriots will host the New York Jets on Sunday at Gillette Stadium. To  help preview this contest, Matt Chatham stops by Locked On Patriots to offer his insight of the Pats offensive and defensive game plans, as well as his prediction for this AFC-East matchup.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

and hello to all you foxborough faithful and welcome to it's your almost game day friday edition of locked on patriots your daily home for news notes analysis and the occasional opinion on your six-time super bowl champions the new england patriots locked on patriots as always as a part of the locked on podcast network i am your host mike debate and i cover the patriots for fullpresscoverage.com, which is where you can always find my written work, and you can always reach out to me on Twitter at M-D-A-B-A-T-E-F-P-C, and be sure to follow Locked On Patriots on Twitter at well at L-O underscore Patriots.

As I said in my opening, it's almost game day, and the Pats are back home in the familiar confines of Gillette Stadium this weekend as they host the New York Jets on Sunday. The Pats are a heavy favorite in this one, and with due cause, they come into this game having outscored their opponents 76-3, dominant on offense, dominant on defense, and they face a Jets team that has been decimated by injury. So this one has the makings of being a pretty one-sided affair benefiting the hometown team. And joining me today to break it all down for you is someone that, as a player, spent time in both the Patriots and Jets locker rooms. And now he covers the Patriots for both the Athletic Boston and Nessun. Does an amazing job, amazing Twitter follow, and just a great guy to learn so much football from. Matt Chatham is today's guest on Locked On Patriots,

and Matt's insight and analysis to me is second to none. So stay tuned, folks. This is going to be a good one. And I'm going to welcome Matt to the show in just a moment. But first, I have a question for you. Yes, you, listening out there. Do your weekend plans involve watching football? What a ridiculous question, right?

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And in Super Bowl XXXVIII, he provided one of my favorite moments when he tackled streaker Mark Roberts, who would come onto the field just before the second half kickoff. Definitely out there, you want to see that. It was absolutely entertaining and still one of my favorite moments to this day. But he also spent two seasons with the New York Jets, so he brings some duality to our show today. He is an on-camera analyst for Nesson, brilliant columnist for The Athletic Boston,

and the co-host of The Razor Show, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite podcasts. It is my honor to have Matt Chatham join me today. Matt, welcome to Locked On Patriots. Thanks, Mike. Appreciate you having me on. Oh, anytime, anytime. Pleasure is all ours. And, you know, Matt, there is a football game to be played on Sunday in Foxborough, regardless of all of the extracurricular news, I guess is the best way to put it,

surrounding the Patriots. There is a football game on Sunday. And our mutual friend Thomas Murphy was a guest of mine earlier this week, and he said that he called his broker to invest in body bags for this weekend's contest, which goes to show you what the pulse of Patriots Nation is experiencing now. But, you know, that's Murph being Murph. We love the guy. But you've been on both sides of this rivalry, and you know how it's approached by both teams. For the most part, the Patriots have been clicking on all cylinders throughout the first two games of the season. Offensively, they already look sharp. I think they have the potential to be

explosive. They are facing a Jets defense that is pretty stout up front, but relatively weak in the secondary. So I open it up to you with two questions. One, do you believe that the Jets front seven has what it takes to stifle the Pats run game? And if so, should Patriots fans expect a heavy dose of Tom Brady in this wide receiving core? And that's assuming, of course, that Antonio Brown is among those on the field this Sunday. Yeah, I think to your first question, Mike, we can kind of answer it. It sort of answers itself, let's put it that way. I mean, when you talk about, you look at any group on the other side of the ball, you find out what their strength is, presumably even with Quinn and Williams returning, we're all

kind of under the impression that he'll be back. He was hobbled with an ankle, has missed time in the past. That's the third overall pick there from Alabama. You add him in with the other Williams there on the inside, and, you know, a relatively inexperienced linebacker group because we're not expecting C.J. Mosley. So it's sort of a blend of could be a strength, but it's a bit weakened. But when we talk about front sevens, obviously we're using the number seven. The way to make sure that's not seven or it's not seven is to spread them out.

So if you feel like that's their best chance to pack things in and that's at least where their best healthy players reside, well, then you'll just stay in something that keeps them off or at least allows them to not do their sort of core function. So I think in that environment, you know, I would obviously be of the mind, I'd love to see Sonny Michel get going, and I'd love to see him have an 150-yard game and just pound it because of the flux going on with the Patriots' offensive line. But in saying that, you do have to take into consideration what's across from you.

And I would kind of, usually I love Murph joking about the body bag thing, and I would say that this is one of those weeks where I'm obviously, by reputation, not a hot taker guy, and I don't love the hyperbole and over-the-top stuff. But I don't think he's far off, I mean, obviously, the metaphor. But the idea here that this could even be close is pretty far-fetched to me. And if you're a wagerer, this just feels like a game where there's so few ways, if you're a Jets fan, that they could slow them or, you know, much less stop them.

And I think, again, to the original point, if the best chance they have is to pack tight and make Leonard Williams a big part of the game and make Quinnen, you know, not have to cover a lot of ground side to side and sort of like a wider, you know, six-man box kind of thing where you have to cover more ground. You help them by packing in. So spread them out and go to the depth of your team, which is right now the wide receiver group and the back group. So spread them out, spread them out, make them work.

And I think, you know, you get one play touchdowns against the Browns with that OBJ thing. You saw that the vulnerability is there. And it's really those kind of plays where you're also doing a service to Tom Brady because he's got two new tackles. We kind of go into this game a little uncertain if Marcus Cannon could possibly, you know, with a pregame workout or some work today, get himself on the field. We don't quite yet know that.

But just because of the uncertainty there and sort of the big hitter one play ability the Patriots themselves have, whether it's A.B. if he gets to play or not, or if it's, you know, Dorsett on a quick slant or Josh Gordon on a quick slant or even Jules. So they have that explosiveness, I think, spaces to their favor. So go find some and don't pack it in on this particular week because it's a Jets offense on the other side that's probably not going to be able to counterpunch with you.

Yeah, I completely agree with you on so many aspects on that, and I thank you for that insight, and I agree. I think that especially on the offensive side of the ball when the Patriots do have it, if Tom Brady is going to be able to start picking apart the secondary, and by all accounts it looks like he probably will be. I know Daryl Roberts is their penciled-in starter. We're not completely 100% sure what's even going to happen with Tremaine Johnson. He was scratched last week.

There's a chance, I guess, that he might play. It sounds like he was giving soundbites to the media this week. He sounds like he's planning on being in there, but we haven't heard Adam Gaze's official word as to whether or not he'll be a part of this. So if Tom Brady can start picking apart the secondary, it could be interesting, and it could end up being a long day for the Jets in Foxborough this weekend. One thing that I did want to pick your brain on was special teams, and I know a lot of times people will say that there's really no Achilles heel when it comes to the New

England Patriots this year. And I still don't think this is one of them. But Steven Gostowski is coming off of a shaky performance in Miami. He missed a pair of points after, as well as the 48-yarder. He's had some difficulties in Miami. That's well documented. He's returning to the friendly confines of Gillette Stadium. He's generally been very good in Gillette. I know it's early, but is there a possibility that if we do see Stephen miss one or two kicks this weekend, could he really start to feel some serious heat regarding his job if those struggles continue into the coming weeks?

I tend to look at Stephen, really any kicker that would happen to be going through this, I think the way an organization would best handle this, and I can't obviously guarantee that this is the way Bill's thinking, but you want him performing at or near his best through most of the season, but you understand that's a job where there are going to be some swoons. You're pleased, not pleased, but

you're more relieved, I guess, that the swoon happened in this particular example in a 43-0 game. So, you know, with him, he has a long history of fixing these things. I think we can, you know, if you really track any of the kickers throughout the league, there's a game or two or three where they miss one, you know, and occasionally they'll miss a couple. And in those days, it's a lot like any of us who golf, amateur golfers.

You go out and you can't find a fairway on one day. You just can't figure out why it is. And you hope that it's not in a moment where – I'm sorry. You hope it's not in a game. You just say you hope that it's not in a game where you needed it, right? And in this instance, it wasn't. So I think with Steven, there's a very personal relationship there between himself and the team. And there's a general faith in the way that he works through things

because that's kind of the job. You know, guys on average I think are hitting the really good ones or hitting at the high 80s by the end of the year, which means that there are weeks where they miss them. And, you know, I just think that Steven is the kind of guy who, if he's hooking something, he knows the fix to it. He has to rep the hell out of it this week. He'll probably be fine this week.

In the event that he misses another, unless we're talking about, you know, like a game losingkick kind of situation, I would imagine they'd let him work it through. Fortunately, you're not on a team. Say if Stephen were going through this on another team that's now 0-2 and had lost a couple games where those kicks were needed,

I think it would be in a different environment. I think he's going to be provided the grace to work through it because when he's on, he's as good as there is out there. So you don't want to give away something that's potentially better than almost everything else out there because of a tough stretch and games that are not that close. Yeah, and I'm glad that you were able to at least kind of give some insight

to our listeners, myself included, to help talk everybody off the ledge. Skostowski is someone I've been a fan of for a long time, and I've watched him emerge as a kicker that can be relied upon so often. And sometimes I don't think he gets enough credit for being as reliable and as great as he was. Being in the shadow of a guy like Adam Vinatieri, who kicked so many indelible kicks for this team, it's always been a difficulty. And every time he struggles, one of the first things, and you still hear it, even all these

years later and Adam's actually been a cult longer than he was a patriot but people still identify that and they still say oh Adam would have made it so it's it's a difficult situation for him I'm sure whenever he struggles but I do believe that he will work through this as well and I look for him to have a rebound game and I think this might be just what the doctor ordered having the Jets come in knowing that that he's home, get back on track, and then be able to go up to Buffalo next week and put it all together. Once again, I am speaking with former Jet, but most importantly former Patriot Matt Chatham,

who has graciously offered his wisdom and counsel on the Pat strategy when they have the football. But he's about to give us some insight on the Patriots' defense, which many are heralding as the best in the league, and right now it's hard to argue with that. However, before I do proceed, I wanted to take a minute to address all you guys out there. And ladies, you'll appreciate this too. Now, this is a topic that's often taboo but always commands your attention, and that is performance in the bedroom.

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They've been outstanding against the run. They've allowed just 37 yards per game. Danny Shelton, who you recently chronicled in a great piece for The Athletic, along with Lawrence Guy and Michael Bennett, they've really stuffed the opposition, I think, at the point of attack, which really has allowed the linebackers to keep the rest of the field clean. And this is a great linebacking course, so I do want you to pontificate a little bit on the position that you played so well

and that you see what this team is being able to do on the field. But my question to you is, can Le'Veon Bell and the Jets get the running game going this week, or is it going to be simply that they're running into Bill Belichick, Gerard Mayo, and a Pats defensive coaching staff that's just going to be ready at all costs to stop it? I would say this is as daunting a proposition as anyone has in the league this week, and that's just not coming from a pro-Patriots perspective. I would say as a captain on those Jets teams, and I's just not coming from a pro-Patriots perspective. I mean, I would say I was a captain on those Jets teams, and I recall the big mountain you have to game plan against whatever it is

they've got going on the other side. And I think the biggest issue the Jets are dealing with this week is the lack of not necessarily talent, but just proven production that would have to counter any idea other than the bell thing being your leading, sort of tip of the spear kind of thing. So the problem is Robbie Anderson is a solid pro. It's not a problem, but I shouldn't use that word, but he's a solid pro. He's a vertical receiver.

He's someone, if you let him get behind you, you've got issues. But if you top him, if you put a guy like Gilmore on him who is really heavily playing over the top of routes and saying we're just not going to give up one-play drives today, we're not going to give up shots, we're going to make this young quarterback and a depleted receiving core. Nunez was down for the season, and Demarius Thomas pulled his hamstring last week. So that's two solid pros out of their lineup who's also missing their starting tight end. Chris Herndon, a really, really effective guy for them. And then an offensive line that struggled for two weeks.

So, you know, that's a formula that anyone would struggle with. Sam Darnold would struggle with. And, you know, he's a young guy himself. I mean, you'd put Tom behind that, and it would be – it's not a great formula for any quarterback back there, quite frankly. I mean, obviously Tom would do markedly better than anyone else that's going to be in that situation for New York this week, but it's still not a great spot to be in.

So I think when you're game planning, you know that Jamison Crowder is a catch gobbler type from them. He's getting maybe five or six or seven yards a catch. It's short stuff, and they'll send it to him ten times. But if you can cover up that as far as getting conversions, not get topped with a Robbie Anderson go-route or something like that or just a shot play that ends up opening the field up, you take those two basic things away.

And I think Le'Veon Bell just becomes one of the easier game plan focuses that you'll ever have on the schedule because it's just so glaringly obvious that that needs to happen. And I think from a linebacker crew group, they're fun, and they're exciting to watch because they're so versatile and they can do so many different things. Shalee Calhoun led the team in reps, I believe it was, for snap count in week one, which was nuts.

I mean, it's not what we came in expecting, and he's been a very, very nice addition to the group. Chase Winovich has been sort of a – they subbed him in really early in the Dolphins game last week for a unique package where they're running their base 3-4, but they actually played him at defensive end, not outside linebacker. So it was like a smaller base 3-4 defense kind of idea. But in mentioning those two guys, those are two new faces.

Jamie Collins is sort of a new old face. You add him in there, and then you still have the stellar production from guys like John Simon, who was there a year ago, and then Kyle Vannoy and Dante Hightower and Alandon Roberts. I mean, it's just really, really deep. And Alandon, I think, is really having a resurgent kind of year. He did it maybe the last half of last season, played really, really well. And now that they're gravitating, at least early in some of these games

while they're close, to more of the base defense stuff, that really allows guys like Alandon to shine, guys like Danny Shelton that you mentioned from my athletic pieces this week, to shine because it's back to the base defense stuff. It's not nickel, but, you know, where there's more space on the field and things like that. And Danny's an absolute monster in those situations. Same with the Landon.

But once it transitions to the other stage of the game, they've just got so many guys that can play really any spot. You know, Calvin Noy can play on the edge and inside. He can play either the two inside spots or either the two outside spots, and often does. And you can say the same with Dante Hightower. And then you've got Jamie Collins, who I don't even know what position he plays. I mean, he left here as a little linebacker.

He's played edge. Once you get into nickel stuff, he could be the Mac. He could be the middle guy. Or he's just a piece, and he's a really good player. So I just love the way they've built their roster because, you know, injuries are going to happen. You almost half expect, and it's a really good player. So I just love the way they built their roster because injuries are going to happen. You almost half expect, and it's not to wish it upon them. It happened to our group. It happens to every group. You might lose a

guy or two during portions of the season, but they built it to really weather that. The quality doesn't change between the first wave and the second wave, and that's really an important attribute to have. Absolutely, and you's really an important attribute to have. Absolutely. And you mentioned the linebacking core

and everything that they bring to the table, and it's true. The versatility of this group is so amazing, and the depth of this group is amazing as well. Take a look at a guy like Juwan Bentley, for example, who had the green dot on his helmet for a little while last year, calling plays back there, being a director. To have that faith put in a rookie was something that is uncharacteristic of a Bill Belichick defense, but it shows the

faith they have in him. So it's a great and very deep unit and an exciting unit to watch. Staying on that side of the football, another very deep and very entertaining group to watch is this Patriots secondary. I think one of the deepest they've had in quite some time, absolutely led by Stephon Gilmore. I think either at or near they've had in quite some time. Absolutely led by Stephon Gilmore. I think either at or near the top of the best corners in the league. Well deserved, and he's playing at that level. The emergence of Jonathan Jones, however, to me has really been a great story in this secondary. Him coming in in the slot, you've seen progression from him every year. Last year, I thought he played great, and this year, he's really playing at an elite level.

Also talking about the safety position, and guys like Pat Chung and even Terrence Brooks who bring a little bit to the table that maybe they haven't had that depth in years past. Bringing it back to the Jets for a second, because you did allude to this with Robbie Anderson and Crowder and Falk's inexperience, he's a smart kid, but he does have inexperience, again, and he's not known for his great arm strength. Is this a game where you might see the Jets shy away from trying to test that secondary completely, or do you think there is a possibility that the secondary could make some big plays here and put this one away early? Yeah, I think that's exactly what they do, Mike.

I mean, if you have an issue offensively with your own receiver depth, the last thing you want to do is put yourself in situations that forces you to put your third, fourth, and fifth pass-catching options on the field against their third, fourth, and fifth defensive backs to cover them who are much stronger. I think

you look at their strength, you look at your weakness, and you try your best not to accentuate that. The event that you do and you put yourself out there in that spot, you mentioned Jonathan Jones. It's a perfect matchup for him. Crowder kills a lot of people because he's such a good underneath guy who can run option routes and get open for short change. But Jonathan's one of the best in the business now at taking that away.

So when you're that good at your third, okay, well, then you advance to your fourth. How do you feel about that? I believe it's Bellamy for them, a nice pro, but I don't think the Patriots are going to look at this and say we have some sort of mismatch once we get into that spot. And I think for them it's probably best, they're probably best served, the Jets are, to keep their best packages on the field, pack it in, keep the quarterback safe, keep the ball out of Brady's hands.

If you start getting into, hey, let's spread it out, and you take four, five, six seconds of play and end up with incompletions and, you know, series that last 18 to 25 seconds or something like that, that's toast. That's going to be a problem. It will remind me a little bit of the – we saw Bryce Petty. Bryce Petty got some of his first action ever, what was, three-ish years ago in New England in Foxborough.

And I felt like the poor guy was unsafe. He dropped back for his first three snaps, almost looked like he was going to get killed. And he just didn't look like he was quite ready for it. And I think if you're going to try to protect Falk, the last thing you want to do is spread him out and have three of the options that he's going to be looking to into his progressions be completely wiped off the board. It's not a great recipe for success. There's not a real

clear path home for those guys other than if they can figure out a way to get Bell going. Yeah, I agree. And in a lot of ways, that kind of leads me into my last question for you today, Matt. And it's a pretty easy one in terms of leads me into my last question for you today, Matt, and it's a pretty easy one in terms of what you brought to the table today and some of the insight that you lent. Basic predictions on the game. What do you see happening? Who do you see coming out on top?

I think we all know that, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt to answer the question anyway. And is there a surprise lurking anywhere in here that we may look after the game and say, wow, we never saw that coming? Not necessarily on the outcome or anything, but is there anything that you have your eye on in this game that our average listener, like myself, would probably not see early on? I compare this game a little bit. Clearly not the same sort of level of, I don't know, accomplishment or productivity or whatever as you would have seen for, like, say, the Chargers game or, say, even the Rams game in the Super Bowl.

But there are elements when this team is so reliant on Bell that if that's not a part of the formula, I mean, if it's just gone. And I think we saw that even with John Connor in week one, where you come into the game saying, okay, that guy catches three or four balls out of the backfield. That guy gets going at five, six, seven yards a clip in regular defense, not draws on third and 18. But regular runs that give short series, well, then now we have something.

I think this is really back to sort of the old formula, the thing that worked for them so good down that December stretch and playoff run where, you know, you just dissuade them. You know, you go through two, three, four series into the game, and if the run clips are two yards, you know, maybe you start throwing screen passes, maybe you get the ball to the back some other way. But if there's nothing there, I think it ends any hope for them to,

you know, have 10, 12, 14 play drives to go the length of the field. That, unfortunately, stresses a young quarterback, and you end up with multiple picks. You end up with two, three, and four type kind of games because they're just forced to press it to places that they'd much rather not be doing. So I looked at the Miami game a week ago and thought, like a lot of people did, the conditions were sort of an unknown

and crazy things happened down there, and you're facing a staff that knows you really well and maybe they're able to put a stall on a couple quarters in the game and really pull it back to be something more modest as far as deficit. I don't see any of those factors at play here. You're in Foxborough. You're at home. It's your third-string quarterback who's just inexperienced.

I'm not saying he's bad. He just hasn't played a lot yet. And you're not giving him a lot to work with either with an offensive line that has had two down weeks and is missing a lot of weapons. That's a formula for Murph's word, body packs, I guess. I feel like this, even independent of the A.B. stuff, and we're sitting here on a Friday morning recording, this could possibly – I won't be surprised if for some reason he's not involved this weekend. And even with that, I think we'll have a very, very difficult time

keeping this to a less than 30 kind of deficit. This might be a fun matchup later in the year. If you get Chris Herndon back, if you get Darnold back, if you get healthy Demarius, you get healthy – you get their whole crew that they expect to be out there, C.J. Mosley. Then we've got a game. This weekend, it's hard to see one. Yeah, and I completely agree with you.

Earlier in the week, I spoke with John Butchko of Locked on Jets and gave my prediction. I predicted a 30-14 victory for the Patriots, which he kind of laughed at and said, I think you're giving the Jets too much credit. But, you know, there's always a chance that garbage time, you know, touchdowns and whatnot can happen. And I do. I don't see this being a very competitive game. I see it being more of a one-sided affair.

The next time these two teams face off, maybe it will be a little bit more competitive at that point. And, again, I'm glad that you did briefly touch on the Antonio Brown situation. Wanted to keep the focus on football today, but there's always a chance that something could happen, and it seems like new details come out on that every single day. So whether he's there, whether he's not, the Patriots are always going to game plan for every possible scenario.

They'll have a plan in place just in case he's not able to go as well, but I don't think that'll be the deciding factor in this one either. I think the Patriots take this, whether A.B. is on the field or not. Matt, thank you so much for taking this time out of your busy schedule again today. I appreciate it very much, as do our listeners here at Locked On Patriots. The insight

that you're able to provide, again, like I said before, is second to none. Before you leave today, please remind everyone once again, if they don't know already, and if you don't know, I don't know what you're doing, but in any case you should know. But if you don today, please remind everyone once again, if they don't know already, and if you don't know, I don't know what you're doing, but in any case you should know. But if you don't, please let everybody know where they can find your

great work and where they might follow you on social media. You are too kind, Mike. I'll do that, though. Thank you. So I'm at Chatham58 on Twitter. I understand I have an Instagram account, but I don't think I've ever actually sent something from that. I think that got set up for me

while I was at Babson when they were signing up for social accounts. People follow me a few times and I swear to God, I'm not even aware of it. Obviously, I'm an analyst for Nessun and I'm a writer for The Athletic Boston. I've got a Danny Shelton piece that's up

there today that I threw five videos in, so it's sort of a blend of text and video. The other thing we're doing is at Nessun, we do something called the pregame chat, so the Nessun pregame chat. Typically, two hours, two and a half hours before kickoff, you'll see our Twitter account, the big old Nessun Twitter account, go crazy and start to push market when and where that's going to go up. Myself, Doug Kite, and Zach Cox go on in pregame of every single one of these games

with a little pregame show that's very football-focused and won't be a lot of this off-field nonsense. So that's where I'm at. Oh, yeah, I guess I also still do the Patriots This Week stuff. Patriots This Week is the show done by Craft Sports Productions that you can find there on Patriots.com. And I almost forgot it. Yeah, the final one, the new addition for this season is the Razor Show.

So the Razor Show is our podcast on the athletic, and it's myself and Jeff Howe and Nick Underhill. And this particular week, Connor Hughes from New York did a crossover with myself. And we're trying to look to do that throughout the rest of the season, do crossovers with the other market, the writers from the athletic at other places, and do it that way. So it's fun. Enjoy it. As you mentioned, I'm slammed.

So kids hockey, kids football, my daughter in soccer, and then all this stuff. Can't wait until February. Absolutely. And like I said before, anything and everything that this guy does is top-notch, folks. And thank you for the compliment about being too kind, but I don't think so.

I think I'm being absolutely spot on. I like to call Matt my Twitter social media conscience. Anytime I need to get some Twitter common sense, I go to his feed and I find it simply because he's able to put people in their place and do it in a respectful way, but also let them know who's in charge. So Matt, once again, thank you very much from everything from Nesson to the Athletic to the Patriots chats, everything that he mentioned. Definitely follow it, folks. You will not be disappointed, and I'm sure most of you already are,

but if you're not, please do that right away. As for me, I will be back on Monday to recap Sunday's Pats-Jets matchup in Foxborough. I'll break it all down for you, and as the week progresses, I'll start to look ahead to the Pats Week 4 matchup with the Buffalo Bills while speaking with some special guests along the way. And this could be a battle of the unbeaten.

Time will only tell. As always, make sure to join me each and every day on the Locked On Patriots podcast and subscribe to Locked On Patriots via your favorite podcast provider. Once again, I'm Mike DeBate. Thanks again to Matt Chatham for his time and insight today. But most of all, I thank you so much for listening today.

Have a great weekend, everybody, and enjoy the game on Sunday.