welcome to the program thanks things are going your way more or less aren't they
we're off to a good start 8-1 uh the top of the league yeah 8-1 let's talk about the one let's not
that brought the streak to a halt how many games was the streak i think it was 21. 21. and it did
at any time did the streak become a burden in any sense were you thinking about it were you
not thinking about it people wouldn't stop asking you about it was a factor was it not a factor
well we certainly we certainly had a lot of questions as players uh i think the way you
finished last year 15-0 right 15-15 wins to end the season and win the super bowl and then six
wins to start season it was a great accomplishment but at the same time we really didn't do much uh
going into pittsburgh that we can get our getting our butts handed to us oh yes now uh let's talk
about the pittsburgh game and uh ben you want to bring that one out i want your now here's
a guy who's uh uh he he he he just went to like junior high and then turned pro wasn't that it
he's he's like about 15 years old and uh he's now well i think he's won eight in a row hasn't
he as a starter yeah he's done a great job yeah and what is your assessment when you see that
guy what is what i mean he really looks like he's the real deal doesn't he he certainly does
he's a big strong guy um seems like he's a great leader and the team really plays hard for him
it's they've got a great team and i think the way he's been playing um he gives them a great
chance to win every week right and what about this nonsense it was uh uh last sunday or this sunday
with uh cleveland and pittsburgh when the guys at cleveland were talking about they were going to
knock his head off now is there a place is there a place for that kind of thing in football well
i tell you if they're not trying to knock your head off then then you got a problem and they're
they're coming hard every week and the problem is the more they hit us the more they get paid
so it's pretty good incentive for those guys come tear our heads off yeah um so how are things what
is the what's what's to do with belichick i have a theory about belichick that he's nuts is he nuts
i know you had him on your show he he kind of you looked right into your eyes and i
thought i saw a nut guy in there you know he seems like he's one of these guys he's so transfixed
by football and he seems to know everything doesn't he he does he does most of the time
comes in every week and he really says guys this is what we need to do to win
and uh when we usually do those things we do win he's he's a great coach he's obviously proven
himself to be one of the best of all time but he's a stickler for details does he scream a lot
when he's mad yeah when he's mad and what will make him mad what kind of things will do that
to him when something's not perfect right it's usually the way it goes so he's a perfectionist
very much so yeah is it possible to play the game of football without being angry
or are you always angry or is is angry the enemy of a football player he's pretty much always angry
i'd say for us um there's a certain sense of that goes into it from my standpoint playing
quarterback you probably need to be a bit more poised than uh under control but right
those defensive players they're all pretty nuts yeah and and they're just getting beat
up every single uh snap of the ball aren't they every play they're getting knocked
around yeah the offensive defensive line is so that would make me angry after a while
you'd have to be all those bumps and bruises do you have uh the thing in your helmet where
you're listening to the sidelines are people talking to you in your helmet yeah unfortunately
sometimes too much yeah and and is is that uh is that the way you would like it to be
it's the way it is now it's such a different game now than it was you know even 10 or
15 years ago where i mean now we go into each game with 150 plays so you need somehow for the
coaches to communicate that to the players on the field and that's by way of uh the coach in
the helmet now what happens if uh is it belichick you're listening to your offensive coordinated
elephants coordinator offensive coordinator and he suggests you hear belichick from
it's going to be fun going home isn't it
okay so they give you a play they call a play for example what's a play give me the how would it
come over the headset uh zero out slot right 335 max based throwback chip flare holy crap are you
kidding me that's why we needed you know oh my god i had no idea i thought it was just like go down
20 yards and head to the sidelines oh just make it right at the fire hydrant yeah that's unbelievable
yeah and each play the coordinates for each play are are that complicated pretty much pretty much
you need to be i mean it's uh we're spending a lot of time in meetings each week trying to trying to
get this thing right so it tends to be much more detailed than what the casual fan probably sees do
you have the power to override what is sent into your helmet that's usually when coach belichick
joseph said what are you doing yeah now what about this scenario what about they give you that play
and you see something on the field and you think to yourself that play ain't going to work now
because there's a shift here you go ahead and run the play and it doesn't work then do you get it
the other way what's the matter with you didn't you see what they were doing that play was never
going to work sometimes indirectly i'll walk to the sideline and look at my coach with this look
that just says what were we doing right there but not too often they're usually pretty good about
getting us the right plays and doing the right thing is is football as difficult a sport as
it seems to be or is it just that belichick and you guys are so much better than everybody else
it's pretty tough it's it's tough each week i think that the thing is is it's so competitive
now with with the rules of football and the way that the league has has made professional football
with each team spending the same amount of money and the players change the team every team is
so talented so i think when you have a coach like ours and a team that plays as hard as ours does it
i think in a lot of ways we feel very confident that that is going to be the best way for us to
go out and win these games do you does a guy like you uh do you have trouble getting dates
i used to you used to before i started playing quarterback now something serious i want to touch
on do you know paul tagliabue i do know who he is i got this idea maybe you heard about this earlier
don't you think that would be tremendous run two plays simultaneously i say i i was listening and
it seems like you put a lot of thought into this i have put a lot yes you just don't enjoy the game
that much as it is well there is no off position on the genius switch but it would you are right
what about when you see a guy like peyton manning and and again
they were they were playing the houston texans and and the score was like 107 to 14 or something
and he passed for 20 more touchdowns uh but the the the the colts defense oh my god come on get
a defense don't you well you don't you don't want them to get a defense no we certainly don't
yeah we played them uh to start the year i know you did yeah i know you did
you're bringing that one out yes yes trying to get away from that steelers that's right
uh and then pretty much the same thing happened in the regular season when you played them last year
it came down to like a gold line thing at the end of thing but all of that dancing around that
peyton manning does does that mean anything is that useful probably he's he's a being a
first-round pick and he's really lived up to that billing he's just a tremendous player
i think i watch him and he's one guy that i really look up to as a as a quarterback he's always doing
the right things make great decisions so so when you guys are going head to head who's what is
the record the patriots up on the colts i think so i don't think they beat us yet oh how about
that not that i'm counting right yeah of course not uh well uh later i'll uh you know i'd be a
colts fan right well sure the indianapolis colts my god what else would i be thank you very much
i have some diagrams of my two-play simultaneous double quarterback system that i'd like you to
take a look at and when we come back i guess you're going to heave balls into taxi cabs is
that what they told you i'm doing something this will be very exciting okay here we are we're at
under the marquis of the broadway the ed sullivan theater tom brady it's the late
show quarterback challenge cabs all right send in the cats anytime you want to go tom
here comes the first cab put it in there oh that's that's easy
wow you got it in there for one all right here we go
take it again it's better when these guys have arms
here we go this time for sure
all right
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