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J M talking about Job BR said getting it done they and look the Bengals notoriously start slowly Joe burrow is now one and8 in week one and week two of the regular season it really is amazing when we had that stat yesterday I couldn't believe it I didn't realize that they struggle that much and that consistent but still to go into Cincinnati with a team that from a talent standpoint was regarded as one of the bottom two or three in the league and just work the plan have the right blue print be physical and beat the Bengals a team that some Envision getting very deep into the postseason some like Chris Sims predicting to win it all and maybe they will because Joe burrow knows how to finish may not know how to start but he knows how to finish that was impressive by the Patriots that probably was one of the most impressive and unexpected wins of the weekend yeah and I got to start off with this because soon as I I had already saw jacobe come out and say he cried before the game so I was already planning to to get on him in a little group chat we have but then Gerard Mayo goes out absolutely crushes him about being slow so I send it to jacobe I'm like so you're over here crying for this man before the game and he's over here clowning you after the game and we had a good laugh with a couple of us in the group chat but and I will I've been heavy on getting on the Bengals because I thought like it you just can't you can't perform that way when you have those expectations but I I I I have to say I will give credit to the Bengals about progressing through a season and finishing the right way that is that is the most important thing about being in a season that you have to get better but I do think they can't start this way but to get to the Patriots I got a lot of backlash when I picked the Patriots last and I stand by picking them last but I people have to know because I pick somebody last doesn't change where I am as a fan I am a Patriots fan so I'm in the game Sunday I'm rooting for these guys to go win I hope they win I told David Andrews I said I hope y'all hung what I said on bulletin board material and you go win every game and you're like f dead mordi I said I'm all for that I hope you guys go and win and do well but I think it showed and we talked about a little bit in the last segment I think it showed what these guys think of Gerard Mayo how they feel about him as a coach you saw so many of these guys walking back to the lock room screaming oh what y'all thought what do you think was going to happen What you going to show them of like this team has been built up all of this energy and anger of everybody saying all these bad things about them and me included in that same Circle and they're like everyone thinks this way but they don't know what we have here and I think that starts with gerro mayo of being a coach that not only is going to get the ex and O and you know a lot of people walked away from this game was like this is an old school Bill bellich game plan like I was trying to tell people that from the whole time like J Mayo played for Bill bellich he coached under Bill bich yes this player's coach and him you know the Boston media was killing him oh he wants to have a good relationship with Guy at his core he is a hard noosed middle linebacker who wants to work his butt off to try to win and that's what this team look like they look like they were going to outwork Cincinnati for however long it was going to take and it was it was fun to see as a patriot fan them go to Cincinnati and do what they did because it it lets you know this team is going to fight all year and try to figure out ways to go win one of the things that happens in the NFL Devon when a team fires a head coach a team finds a replacement who is the exact opposite of the last coach in all ways personality approach everything and I thought it went so badly last year for the Patriots that they would have scrapped the pre-existing plan for Gerard Mayo to be the successor everybody's gone we got to clean the decks we got to start from scratch they didn't go exact opposite but I think gerro Mayo is different enough from Bill bellich it's it's kind of like a Best of Both Worlds we got some continuity with our approach given the roster that we have but the personality and the approach is different enough that it's the kick in the ass that maybe the organization needed yeah and I think you know from my relationship with with Mr C Robert Craft the CEO of the Patriots he tells you right away what bill bich was able to do there is unprecedent like they respect and love everything he was able to do for the organization and he changed the organization totally like turned them into a dynasty all of those good things so the ability and availability to have a guy that Mr Kraft was a part of drafting in 2008 he's gotten to know gerro not only as a player but when Gerard walked away from football and retired in 2015 it his next job started with a relationship he got and built through Mr craft so it's not like these guys stopped being friends they continue to be around each other then when gerro came back in the building Mr craft used to come to all the different meetings and I remember sitting by him in meetings and he would come in a meeting and you know Bill would start off the meeting and then you know sometimes he would be in there a little after and we would jump right to defense and gerro would now be up there talking and you know Mr craft would turn to me go how do how do guys like Gerard what do you think about Gerard so this was a guy that they knew in the building hey it's going to be fun and cool to see how he grows and I think that was a unique chance that the Patriots had of having a guy homegrown that they watch grow up learn under what they consider the greatest coach of all time but also be a different person and you see that with this team they still have the bill bich Foundation of fundamentals hardos tough football team but just a little different approach on how Jon Mayo is I hope that in response to the question from Mr craft you praise gerod mayo and will hold over him for his entire career with the Patriots you had the chance to torpedo everything and you didn't so he owes you bigly I mean honestly probably owes me a little percent of that coaching contract and I am all for it like I'm different I'm different this up hey his first contract do what you got to do I don't need anything when he gets that extension over there that's when I'm going to come back and say hey I'm just saying guy asked me a lot of questions I could have said I have no idea why you're back in this building you're really just a businessman but I didn't I praised him and look where he is now so that's a good point I'll probably hire you as my lawyer to get that done by the way uh the word bigly uh possibly re-entering the Lexicon tonight that's maybe why it re-entered my brain this morning hi it's Mike Florio 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