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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Adding to Brady’s Legacy. Plus: Defending Mahomes and Rodgers’s Last Packers Season? With Wade Phillips and Mike Sando.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts about Tom Brady making his way to his 10th Super Bowl, this time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1:45), before he is joined by The Athletic’s Mike Sando to discuss Aaron Rodgers’s vague postgame comments about the offseason, hypothetical Deshaun Watson trade packages, Matt Stafford’s next team, the lack of diversity in NFL front offices and head coaching positions, and more (13:00). Then Ryen talks with longtime coach Wade Phillips about Packers-Buccaneers, Chiefs-Bills, preparing a defensive game plan for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs as well as Brady and the Buccaneers, and more (35:30). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (53:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? It's Ryan Wersillo. Thank you for listening to my podcast. We're gonna go over all the quarterback carousel stuff for the off season, Rogers.

0:17.0

Not only taking the loss, but also people hinting at him moving on. Some like Santa's gonna do that. Wait, Phillips stops by a talk a little ball. We got the life advice.

0:26.0

Lonely hearts edition on this one. I'm not sure if one of guys get an incredible story, but I'm not quite sure where that one's gonna go.

0:32.0

And then I want to put the Tom Brady conversation in perspective, which feels impossible when someone does the impossible. So that's the plan.

0:39.0

The conversation starts with Tom Brady today. Okay, that's not breaking news. We know that and we have to run through all the different stuff.

0:46.0

We'll get to a little Rogers and I know of course everybody's patiently waiting for the new updated Tom and Bill rankings. All right, we'll do those a little bit later.

0:54.0

Let's start at least with two things. Reasonsy bias exists. That's not all that insightful. I've pointed it out at times. You're like, oh, yeah, great take.

1:02.0

That's not why you subscribe to the podcast you're listening today. They were like, hey, man, the day after all of these games, we have these results and takes and all this stuff.

1:08.0

And then more remove from it. We have more perspective and all of our commentary changes rarely in the moment. Do we feel the same way? Remove from it.

1:16.0

Okay, so we already understand that. But something we don't talk about that much is in the moment bias where something can be so great that maybe we don't really know what to do with it.

1:23.0

Or we've lost perspective where we've run out of things to say. And that's definitely the case with Brady because in the moment bias, a Monday where Brady's headed to his tenth Super Bowl.

1:32.0

First season with a new team as the ultimate like, you know what? Anybody that had any of these doubts about me, which is crazy that it even exists. But that sports is what we do.

1:41.0

We like to talk about it compared say what's really what really matters. How much of it was Bella check and really Brady was kind of in a spot where I thought he could only lose because the bucks went eight and eight.

1:50.0

There were going to be people saying like, I mean, look at Bill, where you know, Bill, I wouldn't even use this season against Bella check all that much as much as I look at the Brady part of it going.

1:59.0

It makes sense that he was like, look, I'm not really enjoying this that much anymore. I don't feel appreciated. You don't have enough weapons. I'm bouncing.

2:06.0

You know, this contract negotiations completely disrespectful. I'm not a defensive end that you can replace for a draft pick.

2:13.0

And Brady bounces and does this. So ultimately in that divorce, we're left with like, now what do we do? And even though you get paid for a living to talk about this stuff, sometimes things are so monumental.

2:26.0

And that's what this is. Brady's resume is this continues that you're like, what what can I actually say? What can I say where you go? Oh, yeah, you know what?

2:34.0

That's really interesting. I hadn't thought about how amazing Brady is because most people get it. But if you were to sit here 100 years from now and people are still talking about the NFL.

2:46.0

There's a really good chance like almost like a certainty that a people 100 years from now talking about NFL history will say, what did that guy do? What did he want to?

2:57.0

He went to a super bowl every other season. He was in the league on average. He played in 14 conference championship games.

3:07.0

Like what did people freak out? Did they take a year off? Did everybody just need a breath? Like how was that covered? And because we're so conditioned to it, it actually can kind of again that in the moment bias, mute the whole not excitement.

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