Flores help in that situation
obviously but it's been a little bit since he's been
there but he understands the system things like that. Is he
someone that you can go to this week? Yeah, definitely. And not
just this week all the
time I mean having coached flow
in our meetings and just having him to ask about defenses and
what he sees from his perspectives has been huge.
I've been talking to him throughout OTAs and turn
the cam. Just get his perspective on defense to
like what's hard to cover. What I see from a quarterback
perspective and I think him being there
gives us. A good Insight, it kind of like what they may be
talking about and how they may be gained planning for us. So
if we just keep those things in mind and have a good work week,
I think it's could be a good Advantage for us
Mitchell. True Biscay quarterback and the Steelers
home opener coming up. New England,
they were a two-point. Favorite 21-point, favorite either way?
Why are they favored? They looked not very good in Miami
last week even though they went five days, early to get ready
for that game. It's Berg typically plays the Patriots.
Well at home in the regular season playoffs, a different
story. But Peter, the Brian Flores Angela guy
who spent so many years
with Bill, Belichick Flores now, part of that Brain. Trust
in Pittsburgh, just another Edge. Just another advantage to
help the Steelers, stay a step ahead of the Patriots,
and I think we're both on the same page. We both think
the Steelers are going to win this game.
Yeah, you know, probably one of the most significant points
that shocked me after I wrote my preseason prediction column
on Labor Day was I said I thought the Patriots were going
to go 7 and 10 and the amount of Gulf.
Let's just say that I got from people in the sixth state
region in the northeastern part of the United States was quite
substantial. And
I just, I just haven't seen it in New England.
I haven't seen it through training camp.
I haven't seen it in the first game of the season.
I don't love the Steelers necessarily
especially without TJ W,
but to me, I look at this game
and I say, what is there to love about New England?
Hey, look, they could win the game. The Steelers are not
the classic, great Steelers but I just don't know what. There is
to love about New England right now.
Mac Jones was out of practice on Thursday with an illness. He
had the back injury on Sunday against the Miami, Dolphins
X-rays were negative. He fully participated in practice on
Wednesday despite the injury
Thursday, unable to practice due to an illness, it's not
expected to affect him when Sunday
rolls around and that crowd at Pittsburgh raucous and loud and
they play Renegade in the fourth quarter at the right
time and I'd good luck Bill. Belichick,
Good luck. What a way to start the season at Miami
at Pittsburgh and it may be owing to. Let me ask you this
question because I've been wondering about this. And I'm
not going to pose it from the perspective of the Patriot
organization because I think Bill Belichick is one enough
Super Bowls
that
he's never going to be on the hot seat. When did the fans
of the Patriots?
Get to the point where
what he's done is far enough in the rearview mirror that it no
longer.
Anger factors into how they view where the team is now and
they become restless and frustrated and start whispering
about a possible change. How long does that last for him
into the future?
At least
through this season, at least he's got at least
20 22. And I think well into 2023 as well
and I think he should have that. I mean, people might say
well now he's under 500 since Tom Brady walked off campus
which he is,
and you just start to say to yourself, okay.
How much longer does Belichick have
look, you know, everyone.
New when Tom Brady left and when they drafted Mac Jones,
nobody thought they were going to continue as an eleven
twelve. Thirteen wind Team every year they've got to build
it back up.
And the fact is that Bill Belichick, the general manager
has done Bill, Belichick the coach very few favors in
the last few years and we'll see if the recent couple of drafts are
better
than the ones right before then, but Mike,
that is his biggest problem, right? Right now,
the Personnel on this team.
It's a mediocre
base of talent right now on this team
and I see more and more people pulling it. The thread that
I've raised and I brought it up primarily as it relates to
their inability
to have young receivers, become good receivers. Is it
a drafting problem is a development problem. Is he
a guy that is more comfortable with veterans? Who can get up
to speed more quickly? Who know what R
is? Expected of them
as opposed to the young guys.
You don't have the patience for. I don't know. I don't know. But
look.
If we apply to Bill Belichick the same standard that he
applies to all of his players and has always applied to his
players. We're getting to a point where we just have to
have some hard conversations.
It's not what have you done for me lately. It's, what are you
doing for me right now? And what can I expect you to do for
me tomorrow? And it's fair. We're developing
gradually and systematically a body of evidence
that allows an evaluation to be made based upon everything since
Super Bowl 53. And when Robert Kraft the owner, the It comes
out and publicly laments. The fact that they haven't won
a playoff game for three seasons
that just gets you paying attention.
And if the fans start to check out and if the fan start to not
show up
I just I'm not saying he should be on the hot seat all I'm
saying this is just as unprecedented as Tom Brady at
this point in his career
we've never seen a coach with this many pelts on the wall
start to slide into mediocrity.
How do you judge him
under what standard do you
Hold him. How many years do you give him to turn it around
when it seems to be going in the wrong direction?
Mike, you know, you mentioned veteran receivers. And I think
this is, this is part of the issue.
By the time Mahal, the Mohamed Sanu News of the World,
get to New England,
most of the time,
they're there on the there
on the border of being finished,
you know, but if you rely on getting veteran receivers
You know who were 30 or 31 years old, by the time they get
to you. And I'm not saying this is going to be the case with
DeVante Parker, we'll see. Okay.
But you've got to be able to draft and develop
your players and not rely on, you know,
always thinking that. Well, we can fix this by going out and
trading for somebody who another team wants to get rid
of.
You've got to be able to say, okay,
we gotta find the next. Julian Edelman from Kent State, in
the seventh round.
We need to find more people like him
and that's what Belichick really just is not done,
particularly if the receiver position
before we go to break. The biggest question I have about
this game by far,
if Brian Flores with his inside information, as it relates to
All Things, Patriots is able to help the Steelers beat. New
England
will Bill. Belichick
accidentally text. Congratulations to
Bryan table. That's the question to which I must
know the answer.