BILL BELICHICK JOINS THE PAT MCAFEE SHOW 👀 Co-hosting the NFL Draft, Tom Brady as the GOAT & more 🏈

BILL BELICHICK JOINS THE PAT MCAFEE SHOW 👀 Co-hosting the NFL Draft, Tom Brady as the GOAT & more 🏈

Bill Belichick joins The Pat McAfee Show to discuss:

0:00 2024 NFL Draft prep
6:25 Co-hosting duties
13:17 Boston Connor’s special tattoo
17:07 No coffee for Belichick
19:49 Drafting for your division?
24:44 What is a successful draft?

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ladies and gentlemen this man Bill
bellich all right bet coach uh hey you
got some stuff behind you coach there
some things behind you there I don’t
know if you knew that that that’s my
bling okay my fingers that’s I blink uh
coach I just announced to the world
something that we’ve been chatting about
for like the last month and a half or so
so incredibly pumped and thankful that
you’ll be joining us next Thursday night
in Detroit for the countdown and for the
draft In Your Wildest Dream could you
imagine your first live event post
coaching maybe you know in the year off
of coaching being with a bunch of idiots
uh like our particular show and why did
you agree to do this with us we are so
incredibly
thankful yeah well I’m looking forward
to it uh it’s always a draft day draft
weekend is always an exciting time uh
for everybody for the teams that are
building their teams and for the fans
and for everybody involved in it so uh
you know it’s a it’s a great event and
uh yeah I’m looking forward to seeing it
you know from the other side it’ be fun
to be in Detroit you know be with you
guys and uh and get your expertise oh
who you don’t need that now okay we
don’t need that type of chatter now um
yesterday was your birthday happy
birthdayy birth Happy Birthday coach we
called the fire department to put out
the
candles a lot of them obviously a lot of
them you’ve done great in this entire
thing I chatted with you yesterday and
uh I said what are you doing and you
said I’m watching film what do you think
this entire thing is this draft year are
are you still studying all the uh draft
prospects are you watching what is what
is life like for you right now and what
has it been like for the first time in
49 years not in an NFL building and for
first time in 48 years uh not a part of
the draft in the
NFL yeah well sort of like what I’ve
been doing you know watching watching
The Players uh you know specifically the
ones that might be involved in our uh in
our show so the guys in the top you know
top part of the draft um but the first
round leads into the second round and
and there’s a lot of correlation there
so uh we’ll talk about that next
Thursday night but uh yeah just trying
to just trying to do some preparation
and um you know follow I watched a lot
of these guys in the fall and and uh
even some from last year when they were
Juniors or when they were under they
weren’t coming out but they were still
factors in evaluating the players uh in
the in the 23 draft so it’s just kind of
an ongoing process and uh yeah it’s fun
to keep up with I always enjoy the this
part of part of the Season well we’ll be
thankful for it uh next Thursday as
we’re getting Intel from a man who’s
obviously done everything in the NFL and
had success at all different levels
they’re chitchatting about you know o
tackle draft uh deep wide receiver deep
a lot of these mocks are coming out
right now and I know that there’s a lot
of different thoughts about it all
especially from the media world how much
should we be paying attention to all
these people in the next week and a half
leading up to this thing and is the OT
tackle wide receiver the group that is
going to be stealing the show whenever
we come to next week’s first
round well I definitely think there’s a
lot of depth at those two positions um
you know they they should go quite deep
into the first round and probably um
carry over into the second round I
imagine there are teams near the top of
the draft that are uh looking at uh
filling one position in the first round
and then either coming back and getting
a wide receiver or tackle in the second
round you know assuming that somebody
will be left but you never know draft’s
always full of surprises it could go a
lot of different directions but uh you
know doesn’t look like uh you know a lot
of tight ends are running backs at the
top of the draft then defensively uh
probably not the same depth on the board
that there was uh last year the last
couple of years at least not at the top
so um but it it’ll always be interesting
to see how things work out and And
Trades can you know that can skew it a
little bit but um overall you know a lot
of as usual a lot of good young
prospects and uh I would say that you
know just at this point in time a little
over a week from from the first round um
I think teams are probably starting to
really get things pulled together now
there’s just a ton of information that
comes in there in March and April when
all your Scouts are out probably at
least a dozen Scouts on every team uh so
multiply all the information times you
know times 12 or so of reports coming in
new information then on top of that
you’ve got the medical you’ve got the
security um you’ve got the um you know
all the scouts reports all being
compiled and accumulated and now this
last week or 10 days or so is where you
really sit uh as an organization and
sort through it and sift it out and um
there’s always a little bit of
contradiction but you got to figure out
where you’re going to you know where
you’re going to place your chips uh what
you’re going to believe what you’re not
going to believe and um I’d say the
biggest the the biggest newsmakers here
quietly are the agents uh nobody wants
their player to get picked higher than
them so uh a lot of the information I
think that comes to the media about um
you know who who’s going to draft who
how high they’re going to go um is uh
you know a lot of media driven so you
know when the agent hears well you know
my player could go anywhere from uh you
know the second or the third round uh
you add one to that and say well you
know these GMS or these teams are
talking about taking my guy in the first
round I’ve never done that I’ve never
told an agent I’ve never told an agent
hey we’re going to take your guy in this
round we’re going to take your guy with
this you know with the 27th pick or the
31st pick or whatever pick it is we have
um I I don’t think there’s too many
teams that do that but I think the
agents will say hey my guy’s going to go
at 31 to this team my team guy is going
to go at 17 to that team uh that type of
thing and then that just generates
interest in their players so uh think
you got to sort sift that out uh but as
you get closer to Draft Day sometimes uh
teams get closer to figuring out what
they’re going to do there is information
that can leak out of the organizations
in one way or another
uh that can give you some insight into
what they’re going to do I think it’s a
little early for that but when you get
into the last you know I’d say
12 uh 12 or less hours before the draft
uh sometimes that information can be
very very accurate and uh and helpful
yeah there was a lot of stuff you know
that leaked out of your organizations
that was what you guys were known for
leakers everywhere everybody’s leaking
leaking leaking we’ll talk about a lot
of the you know the draft myths like are
they drafting for needs or best
available and how about like narratives
that we heard going into it and we’ll
debunk uh what an actual draft board
looks like in the countdown to the draft
spectacular with Bill starting at 7:30
on Thursday and then he’ll co-host the
entire draft spectacular with us on
Thursday night I assume what’s going to
happen in his first 30 minutes is
there’s going to be a human that is
going to point some things out that has
maybe taken uh place over the last
couple weeks and then we’re going to
watch it unfold in real time for the
next 10 hour are you ready hey I know
you and Nike are hanging out most times
during this draft this first round is
like 45 hours long Bill 45 you I don’t
want you have to go to the bathroom in
the middle of this thing you know what I
mean yeah trust me I sat through a few
of them I’ll be uh yeah I’ll be ready to
go it’s uh it’ll be interesting to you
know talk about you know we’ll have our
own kind of draft room set up as if we
were you know the 33rd team and uh kind
of watch the guys come off the board and
talk about what other teams needs are
and uh potentially if they trade
conversations and that type of thing
going on I I think I can you know give a
little insight into maybe what the
conversations will be in those rooms
made a few trades yeah I think yeah I I
think you will go ahead AJ maybe Andy
and I can maybe Andy and I can work up a
trade somehow this year oh I like that
news when Andy and I Andy Andy Reid and
I switch spots in the seventh round to
keep our streak
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going just digging
around Andy we need to do this go ahead
AJ coach when uh when talk to these
prospects at the combine when you get
those 15minute interviews and when you
bring them in for the uh the visits that
you can as a team what are you looking
for like what are you asking the guys
and can you really like how much
information can you
gather well I think the 30 visits AJ are
a lot more valuable than the 15 minute
ones um you know those 15 minute ones
can be misleading uh they could be real
good or real bad and that may not may or
may not be indicative of the what the
player’s real personality and and um
interaction is with the with the you
know from that time uh because it’s very
it’s very artificial he’ll probably
never be in that setting again where
he’s you know in front of a dozen
Executives and coaches from a team but
the 30 visits are great um you know
15minute visits there give you a little
bit of a chance to get to know the kid
but the when you spend a whole day with
them now those 30 visits could be uh for
a lot of different reasons they could be
uh you know you really want to dig more
into the person uh his football
knowledge his background uh medical is a
part of that uh sometimes it’s for free
agents guys that you think aren’t going
to get drafted but you want to recruit
and of course when you sign a college
free agent right after the draft which
there’ll be you know several hundred of
those signed uh a lot of those kids you
won’t have physicals on the ones that
didn’t go to the combine uh unless you
bring him in and do your own physical so
if you if you were you know have an
interest in a guy uh who’s maybe a
little under the radar maybe a small
school player or somebody like that and
you don’t do the physical on them and
then you bring them in after the draft
and you’ve already signed them and you
can’t P your physical or you find out he
has an issue that uh you weren’t
expecting then you know you’ve kind of
lost a spot there and um so uh there are
a lot of different reasons for those 30
visits uh I’d say the guys that you feel
like you know a lot about uh I’m not
sure that there’s a big reason to visit
them and I’d say uh generally speaking
that’s not a high priority so just
because the guy doesn’t visit a team
doesn’t mean that team’s not interested
in them they may know all they need to
know about him and feel like they want
to spend that visit on something that
would be more productive I don’t know if
you heard this or not the commanders
actually hosted 20 guys for uh 20 of
their 30 visits 20 at the same time went
to Top Golf last night Top Golf last
night had have you have you ever done
any of that you take them to Top Golf
maybe a little roller
skating yeah no our no that wasn’t we
weren’t real big on that the it wasn’t
more of a recruiting for us it was
informational Gathering but I think we
had maybe as many as a dozen come in on
the same day and a lot of times we’d
combine the the group so uh quarterbacks
tight ends receivers uh so that we could
interact and and work with them uh
individually but also collectively uh
see them you know work together with
each other the quarterback call play and
a receiver talk about what he do on it
and things like that or you know four
five six linemen at the same time so he
could kind of uh you know be a little
more efficient in terms of uh the staff
time spending with them but uh sometimes
that’s just dependent upon what the
player schedule is and so some guys you
know we’ll take 20 or visits and other
guys will have two or three uh so
scheduling sometimes becomes a you know
a difficult part of those 30 visits but
yeah I can see bringing in a lot of guys
at one time it is an efficient way to to
you know use the use the visit time for
your staff because uh the more you tie
your staff up on those visits and the
less productive you can do be doing
other things yeah and that makes sense
you know I uh in the college world I’ve
gotten dropped in there they have those
recruiting weekends you know some of
these schools and it’s like every
weekend it’s a recruiting weekend and
these coaches like you got to recruit
via phone all week you got to prepare
for a team and then you got a recruiting
weekend and then I talked to Oregon
coach Dan Lanning and you know
Washington’s probably going to be pretty
similar with your your son in the entire
uh crew up there with fish they schedule
like one weekend because it’s such a far
trip and it’s like we have our
recruiting weekend with a lot of our
recruits and then it also frees up us
for football for all the other times not
a bad concept I don’t think i’ heard of
20 visits but if you’re doing 12 okay
commanders look at you guys look at the
commanders they got to feel good about
that now a lot of those TR well you know
one thing Pat uh you know when we look
at our draft board on Thursday night I
think the one thing that everybody has
to understand is our draft board will
look different than every other draft
board in the league just like every
team’s draft board will look different
than every other draft board in the
league not any of them are the same even
at the very top they won’t be the same
so um what you’re looking at is what you
feel like is going to help your team and
how you’ve got them organized and and
everybody else has that same view so you
can kind of think well this is what some
other people are thinking but you never
really know that and so uh the
recruiting things is a little bit the
same thing I’m sure uh you know I
haven’t done college recruiting but I
can imagine that yeah it’d be great to
bring 20 guys in but if you got a top
prospect and he can’t come in that
weekend you’re not going to drop him
you’re going to find another time when
he can visit when he can you know do
whatever he does bring his parents or or
girlfriend or whatever you can fit into
his schedule if he’s good enough you’ll
make room for him so uh you know a lot
of that just depends on uh you know how
schedules work out in in players that
are in high demand hey be who you can
afford to be coach and uh those those
trophies behind you right there provide
a lot of happiness for this man that has
a question for you he actually has how
about including the Emy yeah top 100 oh
yeah 100 years loved it all Boston uh
New England Patriot Die Hard a man who
has we’re on to Cincinnati tattooed on
his bicep Boston Connor has a question
for you coach yeah coach it is an
absolute honor first of all thank you
for all the happiness and joy you have
brought to me and all of New England
throughout you know my entire life and
Pat is telling me to put my arm up right
now so I mean I’ll show is it’s got you
it’s got your full name it doesn’t say
Bill bich it says William Steven bich
and yeah my triceps do touch my butt
cheeks but uh coach one thing that
always happened for New England
especially around this draft time was
you know we didn’t get very excited as
fans just because when you’re picking so
late in the draft you know first of all
Pat mentioned that you got to wait 45
hours to get to the pick and then a lot
of the times you know you would trade
back or trade out of the first round
because you know you you just didn’t
have anything to really take what is the
mindset going into a draft when you are
picking that late cuz you know this is
something that your your buddy Andy Reed
has to deal with now cuz they’re going
to be you know 28 and up going forward
for the next you know 10 15 years who
knows but what is kind of the thought
process around that and when do you know
like during that first round hey we’re
trading out there’s there’s no point to
stay
here right that’s a great question um
and the answer is every year is
different and you really don’t know um
when you’re picking at the end of the
draft and I got this question you know
from people in organization and so forth
a lot uh you know what are we going to
do we’re picking 28th we’re picking
32nd you tell me who’s going to be there
and then I can tell you what we’re going
to do but you just really don’t know
there’s so many teams in front of you
it’s just impossible to predict so uh
did I think we would ever draft Vince
Wilfork I thought there was no chance he
would be on the board when we picked uh
I didn’t think Hightower would be there
so we traded up and got him I didn’t
think Chandler Jones would be there so
we traded up and got him um you know
Logan manins was there and and we waited
it out and took bankin at 32 but you
just don’t know what’s going to be at
the end of the draft when you’re picking
there so sometimes you see somebody
fallen and say okay I’ll I’ll it’s worth
it to trade and get up and get the guy
other times you kind of wait and see who
slides through sometimes uh you feel
like I’m taking this guy you know
there’s not much there at the end of the
first round let me move back uh you know
a few spots and try to either you know
accumulate some capital or um you know
take the same player or the same quality
of player that you’re going to take you
got two or three guys you like there uh
just back up and take a little bit more
for it I think the fifth year option is
is an issue at the end of the first
round for the high priced positions so
obviously quarterback uh which is what
the Ravens did when they took Lamar
Jackson they traded in our spot at 32 to
take Jackson and got the fifth year
option on him or cornerback offensive
tackle uh you know maybe even pass
rusher but when you talk about the
tackles and the pass rushers and the
receivers at that point you’re probably
talking about the fifth or sixth guy um
but you know look if it’s a guy who’s
going to end up making a lot of money at
that at one of those high quality
positions then it’s worth it probably to
be up in the first round and potentially
have a fifth year option um so that’s
sometimes a factor too of there’s a
little bit of savings from the first
round to the second round because that
fifth year option is included in the
first round now coach I heard you’re a
bad drafter that’s what they say I heard
you’re a bad drafter you know it would
be nice to maybe get a top 10 pi every
once in a while but then the season
would be terrible so what do we what do
we want to have what do we not want to
have uh I love hearing you break I’ve
gotten a chance to chat with coach now a
few times over the last few weeks had a
great dinner last Thursday night I went
to the bathroom four times he didn’t go
to the bathroom once jeez do you
remember that coach you well you you
were drinking more than I
was I was hammering some Jack and D I
tried to get him an espresso Martini
found out he hates coffee okay fair
enough no idea right is that real AB
absolutely never had a cup of coffee in
my life leg awesome this at the
beginning of the dinner first time eat
them face to face waiter comes in will
you guys be having drinks you go sure do
you have any specialty drinks I’m like
we’ll take two espresso martinis and I
was about to give you the full speech
about hey you got to get past you got to
get past the name you got to get past
the cup the whole thing and you go
absolutely not I this is going to be a
bad night this I thought this was going
to win the evening and then you told me
I don’t drink coffee ever never I don’t
do it I’m like you don’t drink coffee
cuz tea and other things you do not a
coffee guy I think we all just assume
because from the legendary tales that
we’ve heard about the amount of film
study that you had to be just you know
douch douch espresso espresso coffee
complete opposite that was a bad start
but I appreciate you taking time to kind
of learn about me through this entire
process and our show and our show a lot
yeah well Pat I enjoyed being with you
on with you in game Bay I mean that was
awesome you and Coach corso and and uh
you Army Navy setting you know nothing
better than that but um yeah you know
the the draft is a it’s a fascinating uh
event especially the first day and and
uh for the most part teams have one pick
they have you know one choice there on
Thursday night to you know do the best
they can to improve their team whatever
that is whether it’s trade up trade down
take a guy whatever and so it’s um you
know it’s an exciting day you want to
try to make the most of it um and and
honestly you know there are teams that
look at it as they’re willing to take
more risk for more upside and then other
times you you want the conservative pick
and you want us you know I want to know
that I got a good player uh maybe
there’s another guy on the board that
could be you know great but maybe
there’s more of a chance that he could
also not work out so no no these are all
all Pros Hall of Famers no matter what
all of them well that look we know
historically the wide receivers and
quarterbacks in the first round are are
really a 5050 proposition in the long
run and so you know that’s that’s what
the stats will tell you uh each year
could be different you know it could be
83 and and you could have you know five
five franchise quarterbacks or you can
end up with none and so you know time
will tell on that but you know at this
point everybody’s optimistic that the
player will reach his potential and
that’s why they’re being picked they’re
being picked because the teams want them
okay well I can’t wait to experience an
entire draft with you we have a
Pittsburgh Steeler fan who wants to ask
you a question before we let you go
we’re thankful for you yeah bill I
assume on next Thursday you’re going to
spell a lot of uh myths and theories for
us but one of them is we always say like
let’s just say like the Raiders draft a
DN and we say oh well that’s because
they have to get to Patrick Mahomes
they’re drafting for their division is
that actually a thing with teams in the
draft room where you think about your
Division and draft for your division or
is that total and last year you
know when the Steelers traded up uh with
you guys to get in front of the Jets to
take a tackle was that to screw the Jets
over in the division uh and does that
does stuff like that happen in the
draft right well um well let me take the
first qu the second question first the
Pittsburgh trade uh we only traded back
a couple of spots uh we were pretty
confident that the Steelers were looking
for a tackle and we were pretty
confident that the Jets weren’t going to
take a corner because they had taken
Garder uh the year before and so we kind
of thought that both teams were looking
for the same thing so uh in end of jets
ended up taking a pass rusher but um we
were really interested in the corner we
probably would have stayed there and
taken Gonzalez if there hadn’t been a
trade available um well we would have
done that that’s not probably we would
have done that um but we know the option
to move back a couple spots and um of
course we didn’t know the Steelers were
going to take the guy the Jets wanted I
mean I would say we weren’t heartbroken
that that happened but that’s the way it
goes um but you know in the end we ended
up getting the guy that we wanted with
Gonzalez and um so that was so that was
good I would say the the first question
you asked is part of a much bigger
question and I think that’s the question
that you each organization is talking
about right now what helps our team the
most um sure part of it is your division
part of it is your team part of it is
the complimentary parts of your team
part of it the salary cap uh if you have
somebody who’s making a lot of money
that you know you’re going to have to
replace for one reason or another
whether uh you know they’re nearing the
end of the career or maybe their um
their contract’s going to be up next
year and you’re not sure if you’re going
to be able to resign them and if you do
it’s going to cost a lot of money that
sometimes you draft players at that
position that give you depth you know a
year ahead of when you really need it so
that you know financially you can you
know maintain a competitive team during
that time you put all those factors in
there together and maybe there’s an
overriding factor maybe it’s you know we
got a I know with Coach barcels uh you
know one of the big things again this is
a while back but you know when we were
playing everybody was playing a 434 you
know one of Big Bill’s things was you
got to have a center you got to have a
good Center you know all the teams in
our division were you know were playing
three four at one point and you know we
felt like we had to have a good Center
so uh sometimes that the the division
thing is overriding but I’d say there
are a lot of factors that come into play
in an organizational use have to decide
you know what how it all fits together I
would say the draft I would say the
draft in the end is really uh is really
it look out it like a jigsaw puzzle that
there’s not one piece that puts the
puzzle together you look at everything
you look at the players’s character his
mental his intelligence his work ethic
uh his upside his you know everything
his all the things that factor into his
leadership his you know what type of a
teammate’s he going to be all those
things and you have it and then you put
it all together and then that’s the
picture you have on the player whatever
that is and then you give it a great
it’s worth a certain value to you um you
know there’s not many perfect players
out there and and all the best ones you
know go in a first handful of picks and
then after that there’s always something
with everybody that’s you know but he
might fit perfectly for your system and
not as well for another team’s system so
so that’s why I say the grades up there
for each individual team are are not the
same uh but it’s it’s a mosaic it’s a
jigsaw puzzle Co coach the day after the
first round though yeah great we judged
the draft
immedi the losers coach right away what
are you talking about yeah but you know
as well as I do that that the players
that are there in the second round a lot
of those players were there on team’s
boards in the first round they didn’t
think they’d be there they didn’t think
they’d make it till the second round uh
and so then all of a sudden that’s great
voutes I guess yeah but you don’t know
coach no way you don’t know that’s the
fun thing about us covering the draft as
a as a part of the media you know it’s
like the day after round one the experts
are all out and the experts are all out
just trying to figure out who was
closest to what they were predicting to
happen and if they were far for them
happening and then all a sudden you get
entire team’s fan base is pissed because
of what the actual general manager did
versus what a mock drafter did on the
internet and it’s like a
show you’re like you can say now
we’re off ESPN but it is a show in
this entire if you you don’t you won’t
but if if you if you want to let you
just let you know it does slot it will
fly right now but it’s like how quickly
you think you can judge a draft like
when do you think is the pro is it like
if a second contract comes whether
somebody’s a buster if if they play
immediately if it ends up working out
what are your thoughts on that entire
thing like of a successful draft for
your team or 4 a
team well I’d say uh for in my
experience I think we’ve always drafted
we’ve always graded a player for really
what what we what we think they’ll be in
year two what will the player be in year
two now year two could be halfway
through his rookie year year two could
be you know a year and a half it might
not you know it might not be year two it
might be almost year or three I would
say but there’s a point where the player
figures things out he gets in he
understand stands professional football
he’s had a chance to train to you know
physically develop to a point where he
can be at a very high competitive point
and then what do you have um and I could
cite a lot of different examples but
just going back to the Giants uh you
know Phil Sims everybody talked about
Phil Sims what a bust he was uh and and
he was a great great player but he
played uh you know in some tough
circumstances his rookie in second year
um had a couple unfortunate injuries but
Phil’s a tough guy he was a tough player
there was no softness in him he was as
competitive as they get but the fans
were on him and we blew it on Phil Sims
we blew it on Mark Haynes there’s
another guy who turned out to be an
allpro cornerback who didn’t play his
rookie year Brady didn’t play his rookie
year and you know we have Tom Brady so
uh you judge Tom Brady after his first
year and you know you have literally
nothing you know we’re talking about the
greatest player that’s that’s ever
played so uh Lawrence Taylor was a
different story Lawrence Taylor from day
one impacted the team shy was the best
player on the field way better than
everybody else and built the defense
around him from that point going forward
so it’s different with different players
and but I’d say once the player figures
it out once he’s had a chance to
physically develop and again especially
for linemen sometimes those guys need a
little bit of time or the technique on
the offensive line in particular is
something that can take a little bit
time quarterback’s another position uh
but once they figure it out once they
get then that’s when you know what you
have and it it’s usually not day one of
his rookie year I would say Lawrence
Taylor would be the you know kind of the
one exception to that rule but there’s
not too many guys maybe you know like
gos Kowski a kicker could come in Pat
you know you come in and kick from day
one uh you know if your skills are at a
high enough level you can see the impact
already but at a lot of other positions
it just takes a little bit more time AJ
you know that your your experiencing the
guys you played with Co coach you’re so
wrong I I mean you’re so wrong what are
we supposed to do on Friday told that a
lot especially as of late bunch of
y AJ has a question for you
coach yeah coach talking about the
quarterbacks why does it seem just so
difficult to evaluate these guys and see
success in college will it translate to
the NFL like I know there’s a lot of
factors but what do you think makes that
so difficult I think that’s what we’re
going to talk about in the pregame show
because we got those quarterbacks coming
up and I and I think we’ll see uh some
video of what do well what they have
trouble with what they need to work on
uh and what are NFL plays and what
really aren’t NFL plays I’d say there’s
a lot of plays these quarterbacks make
they’re just not going to make in the
National Football League like they’re
just not going to make what kind of play
and then the ones that they will make if
you see them make those over and over
again I think that’s a pretty good sign
uh that they can do it and then I’d say
there’s other there’s other examples of
players that if they can figure out how
they need to play in a National Football
League they’ll be really good but it’s
not the way they played in college it’s
just a different game yeah everything’s
faster bigger stronger and a lot of guys
you know whenever you’re talking like I
guess second on and for you guys you had
starters in there and I know Sabin
believes in this but like special teams
in is a way how a lot of people are
going to make the team and a lot of
rookies don’t know that it’s their first
time taking a punt protection it’s like
yeah you’re going to be in the NFL
because of this well no I just LED my
college in tackles yeah so did the
that’s starting in front of
you yeah he he did that as well so it’s
like that old Pac-Man Jones obvously
special teams all pro has a question for
you Bill coach you was big in special
teams how do you feel that the new
special team rules will affect the
game well first of all Pacman I want to
tell you that that punt you returned
against us with the Titans was total
BS oh that was it was third down and I
was standing there on the sideline and I
said look these guys can’t move the ball
the only way they can score is if we
punt at the Pacman and he returns it so
we are going out of bounds with this
balls right before the half there’s a
minute to go in a half I said we are
going out of bounds with this ball and
we’re going to make them drive it as
they can’t score on our defense and we
punt it right down the middle and you go
85
yards and I I tell you I can’t remember
a situation I have been more upset
about and you killed us on that just
like I knew you were going to do
and I before we even went on the field
it was third down we started talking
about that so I didn’t get a chance to
see after the game you know because that
was a tough game there you know a lot of
things happened to that game but you
killed us on that play So they killed a
lot of people say okay so how’s that
going to affect us I would say a couple
things number one it looks like it’s
going to include like another I don’t
know whatever the number is called 1500
plays in the game that we didn’t have in
the last League wide right that we have
Haven had in the last you know couple
years so um I think that there’s more
opportunity for players to play on
special teams than there have been the
last couple years when literally 90% of
the kickoffs are going out of the end
zone so I think that might affect the
bottom part of the roster and I would
say with the new kickoff rules because
there’s really no running involved uh
the kicking team’s already down there
the return team’s already set up uh that
there’ll be more of an emphasis on size
players in the return game than speed uh
where you know a lot of teams would
cover with you know six or seven DB wide
receiver types uh you know with their
kickoff unit uh and and play with the
same type of players on the kickoff
return play with a couple corners couple
wide receivers on the front line that
could run and get back and set up well
now uh there’s no need for that you just
need guys who can play at the point of
attack shed blocks and and defend their
space uh because of the new alignment so
I think it’ll uh increase the size of
the players that are on the field and I
do think
that because everybody is spread across
the field that if these returners uh and
I think these returners if they hit a
little bit of space they’re gone because
it’s just going to be a lot harder to
overlap than what it was in the past I I
don’t like that they took the surprise
onsite kick out of it although I wish
that rule had been out when we played
against upat because we always had to
put another two guys over there to
handle the spike kick even though you
never did it against us but you did it
against other teams and and that always
screwed up our kickoff returns so I wish
that rule had been in place and we
played against you but it wasn’t
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