Ah, whole lot, because the loss would be a disaster for them.

And let me explain, um, the Patriots pretty good this year, right?

They have a quality win against the Dolphins.

Is that turned out?

That's a quality win and against the Raiders, and that is that.

Turns out that's a really good win and can did not play well against the Raiders.

And in terms of their losses, they have a couple of quality ones to barely against the Seahawks and a great game.

The best game I've seen in a while and to the Chiefs without Cam Cole's going against them the whole thing.

So two and two, they were all right.

Then they lost to the Broncos and they were off for a while.

And Cam was rusty.

I get it now.

They have the Niners Niners coming off Goodwin.

You're gonna go to two and four.

Think about when you had Tom Brady has.

Quarterback is whatever the excuses.

You were never two and four when you were struggling.

Maybe you were 500 whatever, and you ended the season with double digit wins every year on.

And as I keep saying, Brady left the covered bear for Belichick because a lot of this is obviously like because that's not really the way the work this works.

It's exactly the way it works.

Belichick and Brady have enormous egos or they wouldn't be the goats.

You can't get to where they were without enormous egos where they are.

Who was it more Belichick or Brady?

That's the argument in sports.

It's one of the great ones of all time in American sports, really, At this point, Who was it more Belichick or Brady?

Brady made sure.

By the time he was gone, Belichick didn't have a quarterback.

He had to scramble in.

Luckily, Cam Newton was available, right?

Ready.

Also made sure he went to a lovely situation in Tampa Bay, where he would get the most credit possible.

Just don't turn the ball over and they would have.

James hadn't turned the ball over.

They'd won nine, maybe 10 games last year, Right?

It doesn't matter.

No one wants to hear the excuses.

We are watching Belichick and Brady, and we want to see who does better.

My prediction is Belichick don't look so good if they go to two and four while Brady's riding High does it.

And two and four, Considering the Bills, who are maybe not all, we crack them up to be early on.

But that's a good team, considering the Dolphins, who were at 500 already pretty tough to be.

And now they're going to start to, uh, and they feel that that's because that's an improvement, not just for the future, but right now over Fitzpatrick.

Imagine if the Patriots wind up with six or seven wins this year and Brady goes to the NFC championship game or something.

This is a huge game for the Patriots.

No excuses, Cam Rusty, the defense hurt or defecting before the season because of covert opting out.

No one wants to hear it, because when Brady was there, the excuses didn't matter.

They didn't need them because you were always winning.

What are the Patriots now?

Are they one close play away from beating the Seahawks?

An excuse about a call going against them against the Chiefs or they a winning franchise?

We're about to find out.

Let me say this to you, Max.

Usually, obviously, is that the base show.

We need to disagree, but we don't for the most part with this.

I think you're right.

But I also think that it's really you're really mawr correct because of this particular game coming up, not this particular season.

This game coming up right now is Jimmy Garoppolo on the other side, that was supposed to be the successor to Tom Brady.

Tom Brady didn't wanna leave.

He wanted to stay.

I supported that.

Mr Kraft obviously supported that.

As a result, Bill Belichick ends up trading him for a second round pick.

I don't think there's any doubt that it was out of frustration, because the bottom line is, in the end, you wanted.

You only want to do that.

But Jimmy Garoppolo is on the other side.

That's why this your points are very valid.

If it were not for this game, I'm thinking covert 19.

I'm thinking Cam Cam testing positive for it.

I'm thinking about him having to miss a game.

I'm thinking about McKeel Harry, who can't get open.

I'm thinking about Bill Belichick's history of not being able to draft good at the wide receiver spot.

I'm thinking about all of those things, and I would say We ain't never had a season like this.

Normally, I would give them a pass.

But this game right here can better not get outplayed by Garoppolo or Boston is not gonna be kind to him.

I don't I don't think that I don't think that's even it.

Here's here's why it's big and it's Mauritz.

A Max Point.

Tampa Bay saw its first adversity this year.

They didn't play well.

Tom Brady blows up on the sideline against Chicago.

Tom Brady forgets what down it is and they lose a game.

It's It's all falling down in Tampa Bay.

They go back to work.

Tom Brady gets that team focused.

They come out and play the Green Bay Packers, which they weren't favorite to win, and they blow them up.

They have no penalties.

They play discipline.

Tom Brady plays well.

He doesn't turn the ball over.

They win the football game.

This is This is now Bill Belichick's adversity without Tom Brady, with the new quarterback with the new team, Rob Ninkovich said they normally go back to basics in these in these times.

Well, for the last two decades, going back to basics has been going back to Tom Brady.

And what works?

This is Bill Belichick's first chance at that this season.

With the new team and a new quarterback, this game is more than important.

This game is everything.

This game sets a tone for the rest of the season.

They have to win this game, and it's all on Bill Belichick.

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