The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 171 - TOM BRADY CONTROLS THE WORLD.. OT Nate Solder Stops By & Incredible Chatter About Life. Let's Have A Thursday

Episode Date: March 5, 2020

On today's show, Pat and the guys react to the news that the 49ers are making a late push to bring Tom Brady to the Bay, a scenario which would see the Patriots trading for Jimmy Garoppolo, and reiterate the fact that Tom Brady has played free agency like an absolute genius. Pat and the guys also look at the plethora of quarterbacks that will be hitting the open market within the next few weeks and try to figure out where some of them will wind up, despite the fact that many teams are waiting for the Tom Brady domino to fall. Also joining the show is 2x Super Bowl Champion, #17 overall pick of the 2011 NFL draft by the New England Patriots and current offensive tackle for the New York Giants, Nate Solder. Pat and Nate talk about his positive thoughts towards the CBA and why he is going to vote yes, and how he is trying to be more of a voice for some of the core players who don't have as big of a social media following as some of the other players who have been vocal. He explains his thoughts on the whole process and what he's been hearing in his locker room. Nate also sheds some light on what it's like to be teammates with both Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo and what their relationship was like, and whether or not he has any clue as to where Brady is going this offseason (34:05-46:16). Also included is News with Nick to round out what else we missed in the sports world. As always, send in the hashtag #ThisIsWhereImAtPat when listening to the show for the chance to win some free merch, and enjoy today's closing song by our very own Boston Connor. Today's a fun one. Come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now that particular story is gaining a lot of steam in the eyes of humans that know stuff. Tom Brady is potentially going, I'm coming home, coming home. Tell the world I'm coming home. Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday. Tom Brady's going to the Niners, they say,

which is his childhood team. The Niners quarterback, Jimmy G, who guided his team to a Super Bowl now granted handed the ball off a lot because they had an incredible run game and a good offensive line and George Kittle was just moving bodies and a defense was incredible but Jimmy G a man who has had a lot of success as the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers a man that when he plays the Niners win when he doesn't the Niners lose when he's not playing they end up the number two overall pick in the NFL draft whenever he is playing they end up in the Super Bowl there is a lot of conversation and a lot of steam generating towards the storyline that Jimmy G

will be traded from the Niners back to the New England Patriots Bill Belichick gets his young handsome up-and-coming quarterback of the future that originally it was said that he wanted to keep in-house. He and Kraft got into a disagreement, so they shipped Jimmy G over to the Niners. He went undefeated that first year. Then he became the starter the next year, obviously early in the season. In the fourth game, he decided to zig instead of zag. The Niners think, get the second overall pick, bring Bosa bang go to the Super Bowl Bill Belichick gets his young pride and joy handsome Italian back in Jimmy G the Patriots

are now set for another 20 years if they would like that in the Niners that have a roster currently that can win a Super Bowl we're in the lead in the fourth quarter against a well-oiled machine in the Kansas City Chiefs they get a quarterback for the next two to three years that is the greatest of all time. This would be a situation where I think Patriots fans wouldn't even be mad at Tom. They would almost thank Tom for setting them up for the next 15, 20 years.

And the Niners fans would be like, all right, we got the goat. We got a guy that wouldn't miss that throw in the fourth quarter. We got a guy that'll come right into a team that he can hand the ball off and do well he'll have a tight end in george kittle he'll have debo on the offensive side of the ball and if the rumors are true that he's keeping in touch with rapper antonio brown even though emmanuel sanders contract might be up you bring in antonio brown

to san francisco great defense still all of a sudden the niners contenders once again obviously the patriots got their quarterback of the future josh mcdaniels has a guy that already knows his system and can play good this seems like a win win win win win and that would be a wild day in sports if this was to happen we're talking about one of the biggest moves in nfl history if this was to happen and everybody who seems to know what's going on is saying hey there's real potential here and just one month ago whenever we said it on this show now granted i guess it was a day after the super bowl and we could have let it simmer for a little bit but whenever i said hey you think tom brady misses that pass for the niners you think there's any thought at all by

john lynch and the boys over there in san francisco that they're like you know what if we get tom brady back in here maybe we send Jimmy G back to New England we win that Super Bowl I'm not saying they're thinking that I'm saying that we had that conversation because that's what we have to do on this show and this is what people told me in the comment section people told me zero chance of that trade ever happened in my opinion says Ray B's Eric Koop says not gonna happen then you go and just keep scrolling through deathly meme obviously a legend on youtube says sigh i hope this was meant as a joke then you go to the next ones it just this one ever happens is ricky williams not the one that smoked and ran

the ball i think this is just a troll i don't care if it's brady or not the dude's washed up it's like all these stupid humans in the comments section jez pat sometimes you just go too far says who and then on twitter it was even worse calling me skip bailiff and saying i'm making things up and then i sold out in in in the likes of clicks and things like that and now here we are about a month later and that conversation is real and once again i will say this tom brady has handled this so perfectly that all options are on the table anybody like that guy that said Brady's washed up you're wrong every single team aside from like five of them if they had a chance to get Tom Brady at the age of 42 about to be 43 going

into next season would take him immediately I don't care if you were in the Super Bowl last year if you get a chance to get Tom Brady you'd say I don't care if you're in the AFC Championship last year I don't care who you are If you get a chance to get the goat in your building You get him And if he goes back to San Francisco And this whole thing comes full circle With Jimmy G going back to New England

And Bill Belichick just sitting there laughing At the top of the mountain Thinking of how stupid everybody is And how smart he is This is going to be a magical day in the football world. I can't wait to see what happens. In the back, a man who I think this particular outcome, if it was to happen to Tom Brady to get Jimmy G in return,

would be the happiest he has been in months, old Connor Campbell from Boston. I would be very happy with Jimmy G, Pat. What happened to you? What did happen to you? It's been a rough couple months here. You're scared to show your face? I'm very happy with Jimmy G, Pat. What happened to you? What did happen to you? What are you talking about? It's been a rough couple months here. You're scared to show your face? No, it's just a new style.

Everyone's doing it, so I'm hopping in. Connor's answering the phones, 1-833-622-3331. They were filled before we even got on air. We appreciate the people that call in here. We'll take some calls, open up some lines, get in on the conversation with us. Connor, out of all the potential scenarios, I think getting Jimmy G back in a Patriots uniform has to be your favorite out of everything that could potentially happen.

Aside from Tom Brady being the quarterback of the Patriots. That's not what he said earlier, by the way. No. That is not what he said. What? Tom Brady's good for two years. Jimmy G's good for the next 10 to 15. That's what Connor said earlier.

We saw it. He said it with his eyes. He said it with his body. Well, I blacked out there because I don't remember it brady for sure is the best case scenario but if it's not tom i mean getting jimmy g back and having a quarterback for the next 15 years is next level patriots reporter tom curran curran curran curran i've also heard curran too he's been there a long time patriots reporter tom curran c-u-r-r-a-n curran he says it's either going to be new england or tennessee which by the way we talked about him going to

tennessee yesterday t's and p's still to nashville more and more reports are coming out of nashville about that tornado that came out of nowhere and devastated a large part of that city t's and p's we are sorry for that to happen it's absolutely terrible uh we have a lot of listeners and followers in nashville we appreciate the hell that to happen. It's absolutely terrible. We have a lot of listeners and followers in Nashville. We appreciate the hell out of you. And, yeah, absolutely hate what happened there. But Tom Caron said it's either going to be New England or Tennessee. We talked about Tom Brady going to Tennessee yesterday.

We talked about the weapons. We talked about them being able to sign Derrick Henry back if they are. I mean, there's a lot of decisions that have to be made. You lose Jack Conklin, right tackle, but you have a good offensive line. You have a young wide receiver in A.J. aj brown you have a running back in derrick henry you have obviously if he's still talking to antonio brown and a defense and a friend playing uh head coach and mike vrabel who has brought a gritness and a toughness and a togetherness to an entire team that hasn't been seen in a long long time ran their way to the afc championship and now the

thought is if you can get tom brady do you get him absolutely and then tom caron went on to say that the 49ers are closing hard on the outside so john lynch with his big stanford brain is over there in san francisco he's over there in both no uh silicon valley i almost said botox same thing he's over there that's a little farther south he's over there in silicon valley and he's watching this entire thing. He probably watched the Super Bowl back a couple times. And then he saw the videos of Tom Brady as a child wearing the 49ers gear, and he's like, you know, if this guy's really going to get into free agency and he's going to really move homes, why don't we just move him home,

John Lynch is thinking. And then Kyle Shanahan's like, it is Tom Brady. I mean, I love Jimmy G g we love jimmy g we're very thankful for jimmy g we're 21 and 6 when jimmy g is our quarterback we just had a super bowl with jimmy g is our quarterback but if the greatest of all time can come home is that something we should think about john lynch is like you're damn right it is i'm gonna go and visit a couple more tech companies so we can afford this guy and then we're gonna come back to it if tom brady ends up back in the 49ers and they go on to win two Super Bowls,

which I think with the way their roster is set up, that is very possible. What a wild, wild story. As Jimmy G and the Patriots now have to build their own era. And the 49ers, the 49ers faithful, get the goat in their building. I mean, this is going to be insane if this happens. And I don't want to say I told you so, but on February 3ary 3rd i told you so i said this was a potential opportunity that is now coming to fruition this has been absolute insanity and when whenever you think about that syracuse basketball game when jimmy fallon with his broken ring finger and uh tom brady and big jewels were

sitting there courtside and julian edelman said, he's coming back. He's coming back. We couldn't get a good read on that video. We didn't have the full sound. Then the audio was lifted, obviously, and we heard that what Tom Brady said was he's got it, which was an answer to somebody saying, what did he say to Jim Boeheim while shaking his head to Julian Edelman? What if Julian Edelman, whenever he said he's coming back, he's coming back, he was talking about Jimmy Garoppolo.

He wasn't talking about Tom Brady. That's what he's coming back. He was talking about Jimmy Garoppolo. He wasn't talking about Tom Brady. That's what he was referring to. So now the entire system is starting to cook together, and this is going to be absolute pandemonium on March 18th. Go ahead. Win, win, win, win, win, win. This is a win-win for everybody. Bill gets what he wanted for the last three years.

He gets Jimmy back. 49ers get a better quarterback than jimmy g for their current super bowl roster they don't have to the 49ers don't have to pay jimmy g 27 million for the next three years when they found out maybe he's not the quarterback that they thought he was whoa whoa whoa i don't i don't know if jimmy g is the quarterback they thought he was jimmy g is a winning quarterback out there if he doesn't miss that one throw, this conversation does not happen. Think about all the things that Jimmy G is. Didn't he go to Delaware or something like that?

Eastern Illinois. Yeah, wherever. Eastern Illinois. Joe Flacco is over. Same. That's on me. But he goes to this tiny school. He works his ass off.

He ends up in the Patriots organization, works his ass off. His entire life, high school football, peewee football, middle school. You're talking about all these things things he works to become a professional quarterback getting the NFL takes his team as a part of a team that goes to the NFL all for one miss one throw the millions of balls that he's thrown into nets into his dad into his friends into his teammates late night at the practice field on the game field everything like that one miss in the fourth quarter to Emmanuel Sanders where he overthrew him by about four yards one miss now this entire future for Jimmy Garoppolo could be

completely different the future of the NFL could be completely different, all because of one ball being off by about 10 feet. Isn't that not an insane thing? That's why football is the greatest sport that's ever existed. Billions and billions of dollars are about to transfer hands, potentially, because of one missed ball. Now, this obviously could be a bunch of BS. But if you're the 49ers, and this is the quarterback of the future for your team, and you want them to have faith, and you're hearing these rumors start to circulate,

wouldn't it be bad to come out and say, Jimmy G is our guy? Now, I think they did say that maybe a month ago. But now that it's kind of starting to cook back up, if you're the 49ers, do you even waste energy saying, we're not doing it? He's our guy? Or do you kind of go, if we can get the goat, I mean, we should definitely think about it. And what if they text Jimmy G? They're like, you're his backup. You get it. We're trying to see if we can get him or not.

I mean, we'll send you back to Bill. I mean, you'll be a great quarterback. You'll do good things. But for us, this is a hometown kid coming back to the faithful. This is a wild scene. If he ends up at Tennessee, Tennessee obviously was a contender last year.

They get better at football, and he doesn't have to be a mobile quarterback with the way that offense is run with Derrick Henry. If he goes to the 49ers, Tom Brady doesn't have to be a mobile quarterback with the 49ers. They've got a great run game and everything else. He can go to two places now that are legitimate contenders that are very good teams that only get better with him going there. The legacy of Tom Brady is going to be one, the guy that can win anywhere.

Will Bill Belichick be able to do it without Tom Brady? That's what we're going to have to find out. I hope him going to the Niners is a smokescreen because with that defense, that running game, and then if all this stuff about him and AB reuniting is true, I just see them being like very, very, very tough to beat.

If he actually goes there. I mean, the NFC is a wrap. I think he was Shanahan. I mean, Hey, by the way, him in the NFC is a wrap, I think. Brady with Shanahan. Hey, by the way, him in the NFC, he doesn't have to deal with Patty Mahomes, doesn't have to deal with Lamar Jackson. Now, granted, he's still going to deal with Aaron Rodgers, who's potentially going to get a big-named weapon in the offseason

is what everybody's thinking. There's a chance that they get a big-name weapon. They need one. They need to shore up that defense. Gave up 186 rush yards before contacting the NFC championship game. Drew Brees is back for the Saints, so they're still going to be good. The NFC is still going to have great teams. But in the AFC, you're looking at a bunch of young gunners

that are not going to get old anytime soon. They're only going to get more wealthy and hopefully better with experience. You go to the NFC, that looks like a much easier path, and you don't have to potentially get knocked out by Bill Belichick. If you go to the Niners and you run into Bill Belichick in the Super Bowl, now that's saying a lot, by the way, because even if Jimmy G is quarterback for the Patriots, he still has no weapons.

So Jimmy G would have to do better than Tom Brady did with no weapons, which I'm not saying he can't. I'm just saying it would be interesting to see. But if Tom Brady goes on this run, what if he creates another dynasty? What if he goes to the 49ers and he plays for another five years and they go to the Super Bowl four out of the five years? What do you do, Tom Brady? Tom Brady just does it.

I mean, this is awesome. And everybody wants him in his building for the reasons that I talked about before, about how it's not just on the field play, where if you look back to last year, he still got some pop on the ball. He can still spin it. He can still hit things. That team just looked bad around him, which for the first time in a long time, I think was a real excuse for Tom Brady and for people people that are talking about him he still makes all the throws

but when he comes into your building he makes everybody better that's just how it goes you want a person that has won six super bowls in your building that's just what you would like to do and if you can get to a team that is obviously going to be a contender which is where tom brady's going to head to like the tennessee titans like the Niners I mean that's a real problem for the rest of the NFL and by the way if you're Tom Brady maybe you're thinking about going back to the Patriots you know maybe you're like maybe there is another place that isn't that good how about the team that was in a Super Bowl that ran the ball for 186 yards before contact in the NFC Championship against against the Green Bay Packers how about the team that has a guy

named King Henry in the backfield that can just run the ball all over the place? How about these other teams where the grass could potentially be greener than it was in New England? Now, granted, you have to learn a new offensive system. You're going to have to learn and adjust at the age of 42. Will he be able to do that? By all accounts, he's a smart man.

This will be fun to watch unfold. Somebody tweeted me. I forget their name. I just read it. I should have got their name because it was a great concept. Signed Tom Brady for two years for the San Francisco 49ers. They probably win two Super Bowls there. Then immediately after that, guess whose contract is up?

Jimmy Cheese? Aaron Rodgers. Oh, man. Oh, they just start signing older. Aaron Rodgers from NorCal, probably a Niners fan. Yep, he was. He felt jaded at the draft because the Niners didn't draft him. He said he was going to make them pay for it.

Maybe the end of his career. I'm coming home. Coming home. That's not going to happen. Tell the world I'm coming home. Hey, Favre can leave. Aaron can leave. Imagine if they get two years with Tom Brady.

Then they get two years with Aaron Rodgers. Then they just can. Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch are just out there like, all right, let's just keep the core of this team together, and then we'll just plug in place with the greatest quarterbacks of all time this will be great they'll want to come to San Fran come home pay 95 percent in taxes they'll love it they'll absolutely love it I was trying to think of who would be up after Aaron like the Patrick Mahomes probably I mean that'd be Patrick Mahomes Cam at that time maybe Cam Newton well Cam Newton we don't know what's going to happen with Cam Newton. We don't.

There's a lot of quarterbacks that are moving. And there's young quarterbacks, obviously, coming into the draft. Joe Burrow, everybody's assuming he's going to Cincinnati. So now what do you do with Andy Dalton? He's been linked to the Chicago Bears, and now people are linking him to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which is wild because can Andy Dalton throw the deep ball? He had A.J. Green for a long time.

A.J. Green can go and get it. I think that is all that matters whenever you're talking about a Bruce Arians-led offense. The quarterback is going to put up yards. I mean, Jameis put up 5,000 last year. Carson Palmer put up a bunch. Andrew Luck put up a bunch. Bruce Arians was with Peyton Manning a long time ago. I mean, anybody that's playing quarterback in a Bruce Arians, big Ben Roethlisberger,

anybody that's playing in a Bruce Arians offense is going to put up big yards because no risk it, no biscuit, they're going to go for it. Can Andy Dalton throw the deep ball? I mean, I guess we'll find out. So let's assume Andy Dalton's going to move because Joe Burrow's going to go. Where's Tua going to end up? If he ends up at the Washington Redskins, that's going to be very tough not to bury them for drafting two quarterbacks in the first round back-to-back years when there's a potential generational

talent like Chase Young sitting there. And if you look what Bosa did for that Niners team, to think that you could just pass up on Chase Young to get another first-round draft pick as a quarterback when you already have two other first-round draft pick quarterbacks in the quarterback room with Alex Smith and Dwayne Haskins, that would be absolute insanity. Then you got Fitzpatrick, Tom Brady, Dak Prescott, Dwayne Haskins,

Alex Smith, Andy Dalton, Trubisky, Stafford, Brissett, Phillip Rivers, Teddy Bridgewater, Tannehill, Cam Newton, Jameis Winston, Derek Card, Tyrod Taylor, now Jimmy G, and Nick Foles. Those are all the quarterbacks who have question marks around where they're going to be and what they're going to do next year. This is absolute insanity. I think the people that are going to get left out, I think Jameis Winston for his incredible year last year, 5,000 plus yards, right? 30 interceptions. I think there's a chance

that he ends up left out with all the quarterbacks that are currently in the market out of a starting job. Now, will he have to compete somewhere? I don't know. Will he go be a backup somewhere? I don't know. But Jameis Winston has not played successful football over the long haul of his first contract to guarantee a massive next contract. Now, if this was another year where there wasn't Tom Brady, Phillip Rivers, all these quarterbacks in the market, I think Jameis Winston would get broken off somewhere. I think he would be able to play somewhere, maybe even stay at Tampa with a good contract. But now everybody's got options. Everybody's got options right now. And Jameis Winston could be in trouble with that. Now, Jameis Winston, great quarterback

can make every single throw. Jameis Winston just got LASIK surgery. So this might be the first time he could see who he's throwing the ball to, which could be quite a benefit to an NFL quarterback. But will somebody pay him premium price to be their quarterback, knowing that all of these other quarterbacks are potentially available to be on the, knowing that all of these other quarterbacks are potentially available to be on their roster, I'm just not 100% sure. I know that Twitter account's not going to be happy with what I just said, but it's 100% real.

How about Nick Foles? $88 million price tag. They're going to have to pay him a lot of money if they move him out of Jacksonville. Who's going to take that payment? Who's going to take a roll of the dice on Nick Foles over all of these other quarterbacks that are potentially on the move? People are saying maybe at the Colts because Frank Reich is here.

Maybe. Phillip Rivers is being linked here. And Jacoby Brissett has played great football in the first half of the year last year. Then some people are saying Nick Foles go back to Philadelphia Eagles. Dan Orlovsky almost lost his mind yesterday when somebody said that. Said that would ruin everything. But I think Nick Foles and Jameis Winston are falling into very interesting situations.

Now, Nick Foles already has his money. That's good for him. Jameis Winston has money, but he hasn't been completely broken off yet. This particular offseason, with all of these free agents, they're saying Dak's going to get tagged in Dallas, so he'll be there for at least another year. Everybody's saying that's a $26.9 million price tag because he'll be on the non-exclusive franchise tag, which I didn't know existed until this morning. And I got franchise tagged. I didn't even know this one one existed but there's just so many moves to be made what if alex smith is playing really good football what if alex smith

comes out and plays really good football and they draft tua or you think they're just gonna have alex smith just hang out and sit around just watch dwayne haskins and tua battle it out for the future no alex smith's gonna be on the move i mean andy dalton's gonna be on the move you name it is trubisky a starter next year? Who knows? Everybody's linking the Bears to a bunch of different quarterbacks. This is insanity. Whenever you're talking about the premier position in the premier league of the premier sport in the America.

It's just, it's an absolute, it's insane to think about what could potentially happen over the next couple months. Yeah, that was the one I was going to think about what could potentially happen over the next couple months yeah that was the one i was gonna ask about of starters or people who were starters last year mitch if they get either philip rivers or andy dalton like they said they want to bring in a veteran quarterback to compete with mitch i think he's losing the job to either of those guys that now i this is me maybe not watching enough mitchell trubisky from two years ago whenever he was in the top three or whatever at QBR and how good they were and how they were a blocked field goal away from making it further in the playoffs and all that stuff they could have went on a run if you look at Mitchell Trubisky last year I mean he was a dog awful football player horrendous horrendous football player and it was I don't know if it was he didn't like what was going on I didn't know if he and Nagy

were on two different pages I don't know if he was he didn't like what was going on. I didn't know if he and Nagy were on two different pages. I don't know if he was set up poorly with an offensive strategy or system. I have no idea what it was, but he looked bad at football last year. And the Chicago Bears fans, they even started turning on him last year. You bring in Andy Dalton, everybody just laughs at Andy Dalton because he's quarterback for the Bengals. Andy Dalton is a good football player. This sounds very bad because how bad the Bengals were last year. And Andy Dalton got benched on his birthday.y dalton there's a lot of things happening andy

dalton but andy dalton has shown through his career that he can win games in a terrible environment which is what the cincinnati bangles organization is or has been i'm not saying it is anymore because i haven't been in there but it has been a terrible organization all the stories that you hear about them not having any scouts and the coaches having to do all the work of what other front offices have to do i mean you just hear no indoor facility i mean you name it about cincinnati bengals the fact that andy dalton was able to win there is something that people were like you know what maybe he still got it and if him and mitch are battling it out for the monster of the midway starting quarterback position now we're talking about must see television and i hope the ginger can go in there and still

sling it a little bit. Andy's nine games over.500 in Cincinnati in his career. They would rattle off 10 straight wins. They would rattle off like 11 straight wins, and who do you have? A.J. Green to throw the ball to? That's it. And Eifer, the tight end, who hurt everyone's wall, but he didn't really have anybody, and Andy Dalton was winning games.

Now, I'm sure somebody's going to come after me that they had another superstar that I'm missing right now, but Andy Dalton really, I mean, they had a good defense. That was back whenever Burfecht was just taking people's heads off. They had Pac-Man locking down a side. They had a great defense. They had good athletes. But they were winning 10 straight games, and they're in the AFC North, which was not easy back in the day.

And then, obviously, they have one terrible year with Zach Taylor, who nobody knows if he's a good coach or not. Nobody knows. If you look by what he did last year when they were trying to win losing more games than the people that were allegedly trying to lose I mean that would say he's not great but Andy Dalton has been in a bad situation for a long time has won a lot of games is Andy Dalton still got it will Andy Dalton be able to show up in Chicago and put out some good football and win some games for the Bears who I think will still have a great defense next year and maybe a defense that will continue to try if they don't watch the other side of the

ball just fail miserably every single time they step on the field everyone go ahead my bad how quickly do you think all of these guys are going to end up like signing somewhere once free agency starts like are a lot of these teams waiting for that brady domino to fall or like do a lot of them know like okay we don't have we're not going to get brady we need to kind of decide who we're going to go after everybody is waiting for tom brady i think everybody's reporting that if you have a chance to get tom brady you're going to try to get tom brady then after that all the other so whenever i went into free agency i was going to go into free agency there was two other punters that were about to be free agents i got texts from them i'd never talked to them before.

They're like, hey, what are you thinking? Because wherever you go is kind of setting the tone for me. Now, I viewed that as a massive compliment. I was very thankful for that. But that's how free agency goes. And I would assume a lot of these quarterbacks, if they're friends with Tom Brady, are potentially talking to Tom Brady. Like, hey, excuse me, is there any way you can give me a heads up? And Tom's probably telling them absolutely nothing because that's good business.

But everybody's waiting on that Tom Brady move to happen once he goes wherever he goes if it's to the Niners which that would be insane if it's to the Titans now where's Tannehill gonna go Tannehill is gonna potentially end up as a starter somewhere if he plays football anywhere like you did last year maybe Tannehill bumps somebody else out of a spot you're gonna have very good quarterbacks potentially playing backup quarterback next year. And that is a good thing for the NFL. Bad thing for a lot of these quarterbacks that this free agency period is about to be absolute

frenzy. Who do you think is the biggest domino? So Tom gets signed somewhere and then Dak gets franchised. Of these quarterbacks, who do you think is the next quarterback that is sought out like is the next domino there? It's got to be Teddy. That's sought out like is the next domino there it's got to be teddy that's what i was thinking in my eyes it's got to be teddy bridgewater just because teddy was able to win in drew breeze offense and drew breeze's

system was built sean payton and drew breeze have been a hell of a tag team hell of a tag team i don't know if deep down sean payton wanted drew breeze to come back or he wanted to move forward with somebody else but that offense has been successful for a long time, and it's completely revolved around Drew Brees. I don't know anything about Drew Brees other than when he was on our show, he's a gentleman, he punked Ty Schmidt. I don't know anything else about Drew Brees. But I do know that if he's anything like Peyton or anything like any of these other quarterbacks,

the backup quarterback's not getting a lot of reps in practice. The backup quarterback, it doesn't – like, hey, we appreciate that you're here. You'll go in and play good football if you need it. But we are banking on our warrior, our gladiator, Drew Brees, playing, and you just kind of got to fit in how you get in. And I think that is the thing that was so impressive with Teddy is the ability to win with a system that was nowhere near based around his strengths. Now, Latavius Murray stepped up and played great football for the Saints,

but I think Teddy Bridgewater is obviously going to be highly sought after. If Alex Smith is healthy, Alex Smith was an MVP football player just a couple years ago. Now, that injury was disgusting. Gross. I don't know how you come back. I rolled my ankle a couple years ago. And I can barely come back. But with modern technology and the amount of millions that he has,

I mean, there's and millions that he has, I mean, there's a chance that he's back. I mean, it's just Philip Rivers. I mean, if he still wants to play, if he doesn't want to retire in Florida with his 90 kids, I mean, there is a treasure trove of quarterbacks right now that need homes, and there's not enough places for them to potentially go. Who are the Chargers going to sign? Nobody knows.

They got Tyrod Taylor. Is Tyrod Taylor going to be a starter again? Last time he was a real starter for the buffalo bills made him to the playoffs bills didn't make the playoffs for like 45 years before that i mean it's just there are so many good quarterbacks out there not a lot of homes only 32 teams and i don't know how everybody's gonna get the money i don't know who's gonna get money i don't know how the money's gonna spread and i think everybody is sitting in their little war rooms just like drawing up like the the the police sketch where you're connecting everybody like all right if Tom goes here then we can potentially move this guy and then they also have to worry about the draft correct and then there's air bear there's the love guy who threw 14 interceptions but you talk to his uh Jordan

Palmer who's training him right now he's like he was on a bad team they're forcing him to make plays if he didn't make any plays they were going to lose games he was throwing things places he shouldn't throw them I mean there's just so much going on in the quarterback market that kind of sets it for everything else that's going on it's all going to be a domino after that i'm just chomping at the bit like i just want it to start by the way can't pay i want to end can't can't pay any other free agents until you pay your quarterback right yeah because that sets the market that then you know exactly what your salary cap is so basically every free agent right now is being held hostage by tom brady and then after tom brady it's like okay after him now we got all these other quarterbacks that we have to figure

out first and then you guys yeah you're a great tight end yeah you're a great running back yeah you're a great offensive lineman d-line and all that we appreciate everything but we have no idea how much money we have because if we can get Tom Brady, we're going to get Tom Brady. And that might mean we can't sign you, pal, so you might have to go somewhere else. And now they've got the extended period there, the two days of tampering or whatever, the 48-hour tampering period. That is going to be lit.

I mean, that is going to be an exciting time if you're Schefter, if you're Florio, if you're any of these insiders that are getting information. That two-day tampering period is going to be a lot of boom these teams are lying about potentially signing this person this team's lying these people are spending those 48 hours are going to be hot on the phones I'm excited for it the Niners coming in hot here obviously changes things a little bit but do you think Brady deep down knows where he's going or where he wants to go yeah yeah Tom knows Tom knows what he wants to do Tom knows what he wants to do i think now granted he probably has a price and in his mind that he wants to get paid he has a situation he wants to go to i would assume in his eyes he's

already figured it out and i would assume even though the nfl can't say it and his agents won't say he won't say it i would assume there's already conversations happening with the teams that he's looking to go to right i mean that that's just i, we can't be that naive to think that that's not happening. Right. But I think Tom knows what he wants to do. All right, we got to get to a break. 41 minutes after the hour here. We'll get some phone calls on the other side to wrap up hour one here.

A lot of Tom talk here in this first hour. Dak Prescott, it is being alleged, is going to be franchise tagged by the Dallas Cowboys. Good for Mike McCarthy getting a chance to run a one-year experiment. Everybody's saying that Dak should not sign that thing. Should not sign it until at least Labor Day. Miss all the OTAs, put a little pressure on the Cowboys to hopefully sign him long-term. You got Amari Cooper that's up too.

They got some people they got to sign there. I don't know how much money they got. It's a wild time in the NFL right now. That's why the CBA is huge for them too because I believe if the CBA gets signed, the transition tag goes away. So they could, if it doesn't get signed, they could franchise Dak and transition Amari Cooper. And then you get a one-year trial with Mike McCarthy.

Whether or not Mike McCarthy has already been promised to basically be the face of the Dallas Cowboys moving forward. If he likes you, cool. Let's stick around. If he doesn't, let's get him out of here. Let's move forward. It's insane time. doesn't let's get him out of here let's move forward it's insane time a lot of conversation about potential free agent quarterbacks but let's pivot to a very important thing the new cba and a man that has come out and said that he thinks this new proposed cba is a great deal is a two-time two-time super bowl champion a man that's listed at 6 foot 14 600 pounds massive tackle for the giants formerly of the new england patriots smart man nate soda what up nate what's up nate uh can't thank you enough for joining us sorry we're late we got caught up in a very bad conversation that's 100

on us i won't let you know that all right no worries no worries i appreciate you joining us the new cba i want to talk about theants and about your time in New England, but the new CBA is something that's very near and dear to your heart and something you want to speak about. You think this is a good deal for the players. Why is that? And why is the narrative almost being tossed that it's a bad deal for the players by a lot of the OGs in the NFL?

Well, first off, guys have been working a long time, months on this deal. It started last year when they started negotiating with the owners. And so the executive committee, the staff of the union, and the board of reps have put in a number of hours to do this. So when people just make comments right off the bat like this is a bad deal, you really got to evaluate the full scope of the deal because no deal is perfect. But this does do a lot of benefits for what we call core players. So you're raising the minimums.

You're getting all total revenues going up, which is good things. And if we have a deal now, we really avoid the possibility of a lockout or something like that that could happen further on down the road. So I don't know all the criticisms. I know having 17 games is something hard to swallow because no one wants that. But when I go to my locker room and I'm their rep, I don't need to make my own opinion. So I ask them, and they say they're willing to play that extra game for more money and more benefits. And that's what they got. So I think for them it's a good deal, and i don't want to take the risk for them and make them have to sacrifice missing out on time if um they got a

good deal in front of them okay a lot was said there uh you're obviously offensive tackle hand to hand combat every single day of your life basically not every single day off season but in practice in games a lot of physical contact and i've told stories about how i've seen a lot of offensive linemen defensive linemenbackers, and things of that nature in a very physical position kind of have to stumble towards the finish line in Week 16. I mean, that's just something when the Thursday night games were introduced, it was tough for a lot of guys because it isn't until Wednesday, Thursday,

that they're even feeling better and even feeling good to walk for games on Sunday. That 17th game was in an overwhelming amount of support from your locker room where guys were like, yeah, if we're going to get more benefits, more money, and it's one more game, we'll be able to do it. And in your mind, how much is this going to affect the amount of great players still playing all 17 games? That's a good question. I think that you're right, that by the end of the season, everyone's just beat down and it's a grind. And no matter what you do, I don't love the idea of 17 games. And mostly because there's that chance of having that extra risk, the exposure that you're putting your body towards. So they made some considerations. They say, hey, we'll cut back on training camp and we're going to have

less time in padded practices. So does that equate? Probably not exactly. And it was kind of overwhelmingly unanimous. The guy said, hey, we'll play 17 games as bad as that stinks. The fact that the cap's going up and I have this opportunity to make more money, I'm willing to do it. And so I think you're right. I think the D line, the O line, those guys that are taking the number of snaps are probably going to pay the highest toll. But that's the group that I spoke to mostly mostly because those the you know those guys i work with every day and and a lot of them um call it naive or whatever but they said they were willing to do it so as their rep i have to you know make my own opinion and inform those things but i also have to listen to what the guys

want and that's what they said how serious are these conversations whenever you're in there as a rep i could imagine that just like in the political world it in i've said this before the united states is supposed to pick one human to be the president and we are basically 50 different countries i mean it and now there's some regions that are their own but we're 50 different countries that are supposed to come together and pick one human to run it all in In the NFL, you got humans from all over. That's what makes the sport so good. You got humans from all walks of life, all body types, all everything,

having to come together to make a decision on something. How serious and contentious do those conversations potentially get? Well, I take it real seriously because I'm thinking of the guys in my locker room, and I'm doing the best that I can do to represent them, as I think all the guys are doing and so that's where they get a little bit heated because in the effort to do the best for our locker rooms I think opinions get strong but we have good meetings productive meetings where we make ground and and I don't get everything I want no one no one else

gets everything they want but we kind of make considerations for each other and so it's difficult because not only are we arguing with the owners, but we're sometimes arguing with each other. So that's why, you know, we all voted. I should say the majority of us voted yes on this one, and I hope that it passes with the players. But if the players don't want it, we're all going to rally together and we're going to fight for what the players want.

I think that's right. It's so interesting because the NFL knows that there's going to be contention. They know that whatever happens, there's going to be disagreements amongst the players, and that's kind of what they're banking on. You mentioned a lockout. Tamori Smith just a couple months ago said player stoppage, a strike, is something that could really contain some leverage. Do you see any chance of a strike happening?

Because I feel like that only benefits the NFL and the deal that could potentially come after a strike could be even worse, I think. That's possible. I mean, that's the risk you have to be willing to take. And historically, strikes have not been great for us, but we have some great leadership. A lot of those guys on the executive committee and the board of reps, they're very strong vocal leaders and they are passionately adamant that they would be able to win the strike and you know what i'd be the first one to print out pamphlets and be there on the front lines whatever it took to get that done um if that's what we choose to do nate you're an offensive lineman that's why you would do that offensive lineman uh it's a position that i would never understand if i just so happened somehow

my lady is like five foot two if we were somehow to give birth to a monster man who could potentially be an offensive lineman i would have to question everything inside i'm like listen you're gonna get no credit for anything you're gonna get no credit for anything you're gonna get beat to hell and back you're gonna make good money but nobody's gonna know you even exist is this something you want to do but it takes a special mindset to be an offensive lineman so whenever you're speaking i take a i hold it in very high regards because the selflessness of offensive lineman is just an innate generic genetic trait that's just the way it goes so i respect you stepping up and saying this because what you're saying is not being heard by a lot of people let's pivot now tom brady i'm sure you have heard is potentially going to be is going to be a free

agent now there's a conversation that's brewing about jimmy g potentially coming back to new england and tom brady going to the niners is any of this true who knows we run a sports talk show though and this sounds beautiful so we're going to talk about it you're a teammate with both of them what is it like to be in a team with two of those guys and what do they like as teammates and in the locker room well it was awesome when we had both those guys. I thought they really had a real camaraderie between the two of them. Tom always used to call him like, hey, he's like my little brother. And I think he meant that in the best way, that they just get along so well

and he's his mentor and he's really felt like he took him under his wing. So if that's something that happened, I would be happy for both of them. I think it would honestly be really good for both of them. But to be honest with you, neither of them have called me and asked my opinion i've said i don't know if they should i've said that if tom brady gets in your building you makes everybody better immediately i had a chance to be on a team with peyton manning his work ethic and i'm a punter made me realize like oh that's what it takes to be great i think anytime you get a chance to be around greatness,

it kind of, by osmosis, it makes other people great. Do you agree with that sentiment that I said there? There's no question. The way that he came to practice every day, the intensity that he brought to meetings and how focused he was and how much information he could retain really raised the bar really high for all of us to meet that standard. So I think it did. I think it made me a better and it made a lot of guys better.

What have you seen from old Danny Dimes that potentially makes you think, hey, this guy has a chance to be a great in the future? None of us knew who he was when he got drafted. I think the world was very surprised by the Giants. And then you see him get in and play and you're like, damn, this guy's athletic. He seems to be very smart. Him and Eli are getting along well, which is not an easy thing to do. And you've got Saquon Barkley in the backfield helping him out, hopefully for the next five, ten years. What have you seen from Danny Dimes that makes you go, you know what,

this guy could be very special moving forward? Well, he jumped right in there. They threw him right into the mouth of the lion this year. And he had some struggles as every rookie quarterback would have, but the guy did not lack for effort in terms of the time that he put in the building, the time that he was trying to get better and the passion and how much he cared for his teammates. He won us all over. You know, you're not going to be perfect. And we all know that, but we totally hope and expect that he'll be great just because of his personality and the

mentality he brings every day. It's not easy to be a rookie quarterback because you're put in a position of being a leader, right? Because you're a quarterback, but you're a rookie and you're looking to figure it out. Yeah. And you're trying to figure it out. So you don't know the right answer, but you're supposed to be a leader. Some guys can obviously get rubbed the wrong way by rookie quarterbacks. The fact that you think you found a good balance there is a real trait of that. That's like a great trait to have. Yeah, he did, and I think it's just going to get better. You know, he didn't have to say a lot.

I think that might have rubbed guys wrong, but the way that he worked and the way he carried out his business I think was impressive. And I think it's – you know, he'll be able to be more vocal. He'll be able to – he'll know his game plan better. He'll know all the stuff better. So I think he's going to be a lot better in the future and to add to that to make it tougher you have a potential hall of fame quarterback as your as your backup what was the locker room like with eli as a backup and then having the rookie as a quarterback well they handled it so well and their personalities are

so similar um it's kind of funny they're almost like twins but you know I was so impressed with Eli I was only with him for two years but the way that he handles the ups and downs of seasons like you can't even crack the guy you know he won't even he won't even complain he won't even he just goes about his business the same way every day so consistent I learned a ton about what it means to be a pro in this league did you see him play flip cup at that bar in New Jersey? I saw the video, yeah. He cheated, which I like, by the way. I like the fact that Eli was willing to do whatever to win that game of flip cup in that little dive bar,

West Virginia dive bar. I loved everything about it. He's competitive. He hasn't lost his edge, yeah. I respect it. Nate, how's the offseason looking for you? What are you up to? When do you start training and getting back into it?

It's been good. I've kind of been training back into it. Today I was doing yoga. I was doing hot yoga. It just about killed me. Have you done that your entire career or is it as you got older? It's a group of stay-at-home moms, but man, I don't know. It beats you up, man.

You're big-ass walking into a yoga. I couldn't even... I was so embarrassed with my yoga mat in my bag Alright Nate Well we appreciate the hell out of you Keep fighting a good fight Excited to see what happens with the CBA And can't wait to see you get back out on the field

Your big hot yoga ass Ladies and gentlemen Two time Super Bowl champion Come back whenever Nate Solder Thank you man Thanks guys Thanks

Cheers man Good guy Smart guy by the way When you see him talking When you watch his face Nate Solder. Thank you, man. Thanks, guys. Thanks. Cheers, man. Good guy. Smart guy, by the way. When you see him talking, when you watch his face, like the brain kind of work, it's like, oh, this guy is a very intelligent human being. It's like when you talk to Andrew Luck and you watch his brain start to go, you're like, oh, this guy's very intelligent. I would assume Nate is a, I don't know anything about what he did education-wise.

I have no idea. I would assume he graduated somewhere near the top with a very good degree and i was looking during the show i probably should have done this before he's walter payton man of the year nominee for the giants too good guy yeah great conversation hot yoga man by the way the man started hot yoga bickham terrible guy i'm sorry for interrupting obviously but boost mobile gives you everything you could want in a wireless carrier so you know exactly what you're getting and exactly what you're paying for. With no annual service contract, Boost Mobile offers a range of unlimited data plans

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We talked about all those stuff. But what are some things that are happening that we didn't cover? New haircut spotlight, Nick Miraldo. Something that's been tossed around as a potential alternative to the instant replay rule from last year in the NFL, which we knew was such a disaster, was not getting rid of the rule, but bringing in someone to correctly implement the rule, such as Dean Blandino the former NFL head of officiating okay so Dean Blandino took over the head of the XFL officiating and the XFL

officiating and review has been revolutionary I mean listening to the guy with his Xbox controller talk to the main ref about why they're calling what and how they see it I think that is all that anybody that's an NFL fan could really ask for. We just want to know why certain calls aren't overturned or why certain rules are standing. And I think with Alberto River on being an absolute stooge in the review booth, it caused quite a problem with the pass interference challenges. This rule was instated because there was such a massive catastrophe down in New Orleans

with the phantom call against the, not called against the Saints. And now whenever it goes into being called, everybody goes like, okay, now Alberto Riveron will be the guy that will have to execute this new replay review. That obviously turned out terribly. Alberto Riveron is a guy that we have called the Grinch that stole football because of how bad he was at potentially overturning calls. Coaches were no longer wanting to challenge pass interference because of how bad Alberto Riveron was at potentially overturning those

because we thought that Alberto Riveron didn't want to call into judgment a judgment call of a referee that's on the field. Didn't want to make them look bad because he's using technology. But that's what the rule was put in for. Once you watch how the XFL operates and once you see that, Oh, technology can not only just help the game, but it makes the game better.

And it also becomes a part of the game. Listening to why they overturn it. That's Dean Blandino's brain working. That's football becoming better with instant replay. And I think that is what the NFL should want to do. Now the NFL has a problem, though, when they lose all their good refs to these TV networks because they pay them a lot more.

You're going to have to pay Dean Blandino to get back in there. Let Alberto Riveron manage the referees on a day-to-day basis and let Dean Blandino handle the reviews. I think that would be a win-win for everybody and make the NFL better. That's good stuff. I'm happy that's happening. To add on to what you talked about earlier with Tom Brady potentially going to the 49ers, Jimmy G going back to the Patriots, Mike Florio recently published an article as of 10 minutes ago,

so we know he's watching the show. Thanks, Mike. He basically doubled down on it with another long article about it saying there are more recent developments. Deion Sanders talking about it on Friday. Florio and Sims talked about it on Monday. Peter King wrote about it on Monday. And Tom Coran wrote about it as well.

So a lot of people are saying that they might be on to something here. And Pat McAfee talks about it on Friday. B Coran wrote about it as well. So a lot of people are saying that they might be onto something here. And Pat McAfee talks better on Facebook. Yep, bingo. You're welcome. It's a done deal. That'd be insane. Start selling the jerseys. It'd be awesome. See, look, New England fans are happy. Niners fans are somehow

mad. You're dumb for that. That's why you lost the Super Bowl. Former Giants punter Steveve weatherford had his 2012 super bowl ring stolen according to weatherford he gave the ring to his wife to put in her purse after speaking engagement the night before it was stolen unfortunately they left the purse in the car and it was broken into you got to go to the pawn stars guy rick in vegas it's going to end up there i've seen the show enough i've been joshua whoever stole it is going to find its way to somebody who's going to find its way to somebody who's going to find its way to the Pawn Stars

guy. Steve Weatherford, friend of mine, obviously a champion, Super Bowl champion, had a record-breaking performance in the Super Bowl here in Indianapolis against the New England Patriots whenever he was on the Giants. Hopefully he gets that back. That's tough stuff, though. That's tough stuff. That's why

I chose not to get a Super Bowl ring because there is so many people that are looking to steal those things, especially in the world that we live in now of a bunch of greedy misfits. Have a little respect, by the way. Steal the purse. At least throw the ring back. You know what I mean? Because you're not going to be able to make any money off of that anyways.

It has Weatherford's name on it. Are they going to melt that? There's no way they're going to take a TIG. Are they going to take a TIG or a FIG? Torch? No, the... Yeah, you get it. What is it called?

The grinder thing? No, whatever you... It's like a torch, but it's... Like a TIG welder, I think. Welder. There, you take a TIG or a FIG welder and kind of weld out his name. What are you going to do?

No. Are you going to wear that around? No. What bum who is a classic pickpocketer is going to wear a Super Bowl ring? Nobody. I'll be excited to see if he gets his back. And also, he asked Mr. Mara to reach out to Mara, to reach out to Tiffany's to see if

they can make another bowl and said, I'll pay for it, which is smart. I hope Weatherford gets his ring back. Guy deserves it. Guy earned it. It's tough. And now he just works out all the time. He's going to give it to his son, he said. And by the way, Ace, his guy Ace, that kid's going to be an animal.

If you follow Steve Weatherford, he wakes Ace up at like 4.30 a.m. Ace has run more steps in his short life than all of us. That kid's going to be a beast. Steve Weatherford, good dude. Hope he gets his ring back. Alex Rodriguez spoke about the Astros situation Tuesday, comparing it to the suspension he served during the 2014 season. A-Rod said he was apologetic and contrite for acting like a buffoon.

He doesn't believe Astro players have shown enough remorse for their actions. He gave a full quote. This is a really cool moment, by the way, last night. Alex Rodriguez, who well regarded as the most hated player in professional sports at one time. A guy who was suspended an entire season. He said it cost him $35 million, that suspension. But it wasn't just the money because he already accrued a lot of money he was 35 million dollars a lot to anybody but it's not just that his name and Legacy and reputation

was talked about as one as being the biggest ass in all professional sports nobody liked them Yankees fans hating them that means if your own fans hate you I don't want Warren came in third in our own state last night but if your own fans you, I would assume that if you're a Yankee, everybody else also hates you. He had to be in a very deep, deep, dark place, I'd assume. And in that moment, Alex Rodriguez, I think, realized that he had to change the way he viewed everything. I think I watched Screwball,

and a lot of people said about Alex Rodriguez, he was kind of a selfish, egotistical prick, I think is the way a lot of people would describe him. But now, he's almost become this humble guy who has kind of owned his mistakes and owned the type of person he was. And I don't think the world has ever seen somebody go from outhouse to penthouse in the PR fashion like Alex Rodriguez. If you're young, you didn't really get a chance to see the Alex Rodriguez that was hated by everybody. People that didn't even like baseball or watch baseball knew that Alex Rodriguez was an ass. That's just the way it went. Now, Alex Rodriguez is a beloved guy. He's commentating games. He's talking about how

other people could potentially do the same things that he did in the face of PR, which is own it and change the way they handle it. And I think he was absolutely spot on. And I don't think there's a better person, by the way, to talk about it than Alex Rodriguez and by the way that's probably the most recent player or team that's been hated as bad as this Houston Astros team has been hated so that's a right statement good for Alex Rodriguez owning it admitting that he was a bad guy and coming full circle and hopefully living a much more fulfilling life with Jennifer Lopez as his his his partner good Alex Rodriguez. We can't thank you enough for listening to our show today. Once again, we have to tell you,

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and hopefully propel you into the weekend in beautiful fashion. Ty Schmidt, please play some of Boston Connnor's newest music this one goes out to thomas edward patrick brady jr for the love of god brady come back you can blame it all on bill we need you tom don't leave us with a massive hole to fill. Brady come back! Dolphins, Jets, and Bills to kill. The Super Bowl's in Tampa Bay. Let's go get our seventh ring, you know the drill. New England's your home, Tom.

Are you too good for your home? I don't think so. But please, for the love of God. Brady, come back! Watching you play is a dream. Please don't leave us, Tom. We can all eat avocado ice cream. Brady, come back! Winning won't feel the same.

Now's the time to sign. It's wicked sick that Brady fit the rhyme. Brady come back. Please.