00:00I was thinking about this earlier.
00:03So we know who the Red Sox are.
00:05The Red Sox are going to be a team that next season is going to make the playoffs
00:09and lose in the first round.
00:10That's just who they are.
00:11It's in their DNA.
00:12That's now like nothing that they said in that press conference made me think
00:15that they're going to do anything different than what they got.
00:18They're going to be just good enough.
00:19Asterisk, depending salary cap.
00:22If there's a salary cap, I believe that's good for the team,
00:25and they may rise a level to a limited second round.
00:28You know what?
00:29Somehow they're still going to find a way to just make the playoffs
00:32and then lose in an embarrassing fashion.
00:35But when I look at the other three teams, think about it.
00:38Back when Tom Brady was here, Ted, you knew who the Patriots were.
00:42They were a team that was always in it.
00:44That team was every single year you knew that they had a chance to win a Super Bowl.
00:49When David Ortiz was a member of the Boston Red Sox,
00:53you looked at that team and you're like, dude, every year you knew that your team
00:57had a chance.
00:57Yeah, the regular season was like, eh, it's the regular season.
01:00Let's see what they do in the playoffs, because you knew they were going to the playoffs every year.
01:02Even the Bruins.
01:04Like when you had Chara and you had Patrice Bergeron, they had championship DNA there,
01:09and you knew that they had a fighting chance to do something in the playoffs.
01:13I don't know who any of those three teams are right now.
01:16Like, could any of you with 100% certainty predict the outcome of the season for the Patriots this year,
01:25the Celtics for this year, or the Bruins for this year?
01:29I think the Celtics and Bruins, we can fairly well say how it's going to go.
01:33Both, to me, are playoff teams that are not going to end in championships.
01:36Do you hold out some kind of different opinion?
01:39The Bruins are confusing, because it's like there's a whole new youth movement.
01:44They can't score.
01:45I know it's only a couple games.
01:47I don't know how good of a leader David Posternak is.
01:50I still have questions about Marco Sturm.
01:53But you know what?
01:54On paper, they got a bunch of decent...
01:57I mean, Posternak's one of the best scorers in the game.
01:58He's just not scoring right now.
02:00Maybe he could all of a sudden turn on.
02:03And there's a decent chance that they could turn into something.
02:06But right now, they don't look like anything.
02:07So I don't know what they are.
02:08I have no clue.
02:10You could tell me that they were going to be five, ten points out of the playoffs,
02:15or you could tell me that they're going to go to the second or third round.
02:17And I go, okay.
02:18I don't know.
02:19The Celtics, that's a huge question mark.
02:22I think we...
02:23Okay.
02:23They could either be the fourth or fifth best team in the East,
02:28or Jason Tatum could ascend and be an MVP candidate.
02:34And by the way, I think that there's a chance that he could be up for MVP
02:36because that's what happens when you're the lone star on your team.
02:39So there's a chance that he might end up taking that team.
02:42And they could end up being the best team in the East.
02:45Because I don't believe in the Sixers anymore.
02:47I think there's too much chaos there already with LeBron James.
02:50And the Knicks, listen, who knows?
02:53Who knows what's going to happen?
02:54Knicks have some chaos.
02:55They do have some chaos.
02:55Some legit, like, contract future chaos.
02:57And even the Sixers.
02:58Do you hear some of the scuttlebutt with the Sixers?
03:01Yeah.
03:02LeBron's not...
03:02Joel Embiid shows up late for a practice.
03:04Oh, did he?
03:05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:06I guess he has a history of showing up late.
03:07And LeBron got...
03:08Just to your point about LeBron, he's called him out for that.
03:12Now, when they asked LeBron, they say,
03:14oh, no, no, we don't have a problem.
03:15But the report was that Embiid was late and that LeBron got all over him.
03:19So, you know.
03:20But here's what I think.
03:21I think the Red Sox and the Celtics, I think I know exactly what they are.
03:26They are a team that's going to get into the playoffs.
03:30You know, maybe the Celtics not barely because the East, I don't think,
03:34is as strong as the West.
03:36But they're both driven by analytics.
03:38So they're going to be good regular season teams.
03:41And they get to the playoffs.
03:42And what have they done in the playoffs?
03:43Missing that feel for the playoffs.
03:45They just can't...
03:46The analytics don't transfer to the playoffs.
03:47And both teams rely heavily on the analytics,
03:50both in the regular season and stupidly in the postseason.
03:54That's a good point.
03:54I mean, there is a little bit of a comparison between the two.
03:57The only thing I will say is that the Celtics have more legitimate talent
03:59than the Red Sox.
04:01That can ascend them a little bit over.
04:02I keep using the word ascend.
04:03It's a stupid word.
04:04It's kind of a douchey word.
04:05And then they let the analytics get in the way.
04:06You're probably right.
04:07You're probably right.
04:08Whereas if you let these guys just play,
04:12maybe, just maybe,
04:13they would end up giving you a better result.
04:15Now, that's a great point.
04:18The Patriots, I don't know what they are.
04:20Do any of us know what they are this season?
04:22We just saw three most dog crap games that you could see a team play.
04:26And then one game where they looked like they could win a Super Bowl.
04:29And people are downplaying that win.
04:31A lot of people.
04:31The national media is very confused.
04:32It's crazy.
04:33So it's hard.
04:34So now it's all the coaches suck for the Bills.
04:36They didn't even game plan for the Patriots.
04:38So we're not supposed to take anything away from this Bills victory,
04:43which I feel like the defense is close to being as legit as the stats would indicate.
04:51I still am a little bit nervous about that.
04:54And I just, can we see some consistent play out of the quarterback
04:58before we start saying they're totally back?
05:02I would say the Patriots are legit contenders.
05:04I believe they have righted the ship.
05:07It feels very much like last year.
05:08I feel like maybe it's just coincidence it was the Bills both times that kind of jump-started them.
05:13And last year they did have that Carolina win to kind of really kick it off, the blowout.
05:17The week before they played the Bills.
05:18Yeah, doesn't it feel just like last year?
05:20And I feel like that's going to come right back.
05:22That win Sunday was so huge.
05:24I think the Patriots are legit contenders.
05:26Celtics are very fringe contenders.
05:30Bruins are just not really contenders.
05:32I mean, they're just hanging around.
05:33They're like ACDC.
05:34They're just kind of, they're solid.
05:36You know, they're tough.
05:36They're old.
05:37They're like ACDC.
05:37They're like, all right.
05:38Yeah.
05:38I don't mind seeing them, but we know they're limited at this point.
05:41If I had to give you like my confidence level in all three, if I had to rank my confidence
05:46level,
05:46I would put my confidence actually number one with the Celtics.
05:49Really?
05:49Yep.
05:50I do.
05:50Because I, listen, I think that Jason Tatum is-
05:53They have two stars.
05:54Now they have one star.
05:55I just think simplifying the offense.
05:57They're close.
05:57They're bonded.
05:58They've been hanging out.
05:59They're best friends now.
06:00They're all the same thing.
06:02There's alignment.
06:03Is there a little ex-girlfriend thing going on with the Celtics?
06:07Like, you know, like you break up with your girlfriend and like, you know, Jalen Brown's
06:10over here.
06:10And all of a sudden you got revenge bod.
06:12Look at how great things are now.
06:14You're posting things on Instagram.
06:15You're going on vacations to the Citadel together and you're hanging out.
06:18This is what real leadership and friendship is like.
06:21I mean, the Celtics-
06:22They're doing things they had never done before.
06:24Never.
06:24And they're doing it publicly and it's for one.
06:27It's almost for an audience of one.
06:28It's for Jalen Brown.
06:30Look at you, Jalen Brown.
06:32You are the turd in the punch bowl.
06:33And now all of a sudden we're sitting here having the best time and we're friends and
06:37everyone's getting along.
06:38And I just think that it's like, it just feels like an ex-girlfriend posting on Instagram
06:43the way the Celtics are going about themselves.
06:45But it doesn't mean that they're not going to be a very good team.
06:48I think that you're going to simplify the offense.
06:50I think it's all going to run through.
06:52You may be right.
06:53Celtics are kind of like Journey without Steve Perry.
06:56They're just, you know, they're the Filipino Journey.
06:58Did you just feel a Steve Perry, Jalen Brown?
07:01Yes.
07:02Yes.
07:02They lost a Finals MVP.
07:05Now you still want to see Journey.
07:06They're still quality.
07:07But they're just not quite what they were.
07:09Jalen Brown is a better basketball player than Jason Tatum.
07:11I didn't say that.
07:11That's what Ken is saying.
07:12I said 1A and 1B.
07:13Steve Perry is legitimately one of the greatest singers in all of rock music.
07:18Yeah.
07:18And you are saying that that's Jalen Brown.
07:20Wow.
07:22I don't know about that.
07:23Patriots are like Foo Fighters.
07:24They're really good.
07:25They're still Blue Blood's good.
07:27Dave Grohl had some off-field drama like Vrabel did.
07:30But they're fine.
07:30They're still really good.
07:32The Patriots are the Foo Fighters.
07:33Yeah.
07:33That's my band comment.
07:35Okay.
07:35You know what?
07:36The David Grohl, Mike Vrabel thing does actually compare.
07:39It does.
07:40There's a good comment.
07:41They're still legit.
07:42But the Foo Fighters.
07:42Still in their prime.
07:43No, they're not.
07:44They haven't made a good album in years.
07:47Foo Fighters.
07:47It doesn't matter.
07:48There's still a lot of hits.
07:49Since the color and the shape, they really haven't done much.
07:51They made one album that's like the greatest.
07:54And then the rest of us is kind of all right.
07:55All right to bad, to be quite honest.
07:58So maybe I'll give them a little bit of a bounce up.
08:00But I do like the Dave Grohl comparison.
08:02All right.
08:02It just occurred to me.
08:04There's three teams I have no idea where they're going.
08:05You're right.
08:06About the Patriots, you hear it like the national press.
08:08And it's just every – you'd have one guy say they're back,
08:11and then somebody else says, no, I don't believe it.
08:13So they're very confusing right now.
08:14No doubt.
08:15All right, 617-779-7937.
08:17By the way, someone said they're all young teams.
08:19Genius.
08:19Celtics aren't young.
08:20That's not a young team.
08:22They got one of the oldest guys in the league playing on their team right now.
08:24I mean, they have Ugo, who they kept around because Giannis,
08:28you know, they didn't want to give him up for Giannis.
08:30They got old man Mike Conley over there.
08:31I mean, listen, they got old dudes.
08:33They got Paul Jordan.
08:34That's not an old team.
08:35That's not a young team.
08:37Bruins are.
08:37All right, 617-779-7937.
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